1) Bon-Bon: Oh it was fine. Despite anything Lyra might say. It’s not like they even stayed here at night.
2) Lyra: Weather has been pretty nice lately, same as you. And from what I’ve heard it’s about to be not-so-nice, same as you. I wonder if there’s a correlation.
Bon-Bon: I guess it did impact sales. Didn’t really think about it when it was going on. When stocking up on the necessities, candy isn’t really high on the list. Probably why there was so much left over.
3) How about Friday? If that’s too soon Tuesday would be fine too.
4) S-sorry, Grey. I didn’t mean to upset you.
Doug was pretty cool! I think that was the first show where I liked the side characters more than the main character.
5) You know what surprised me? I saw most of The Croods during a sort-of school party for the foals and it wound up being pretty good! Somehow. I mean, from the commercials it looked abyssal! But there was no unnecessary villain wasting screentime and as a result you got to know the characters well and they all had a lot of heart.
1) Ha ha! I don’t remember that! Though that does leave one wondering what sort of contorted position the bear would have to be in for them to be exposed.
2) Sure, Strawberry. Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. Some of Bon-Bon’s family was in town.
3) Well if you don’t know, I don’t know. I sort of live somewhere else, you know?
All I see are all the internet jokes and memes. I just didn’t care for the series much. The first movie was alright. That’s about it. Oh, dig this Wikipedia quote though:
“Shrek established DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in the field of feature film animation, particularly in computer animation.”
PFFFFFT! Pixar has no competition!
1) Since I use the same team through the whole game, it has to be picked carefully. Though I am basically picking cool Pokemon too. Just cool Pokemon that I’ve also researched and that are powerful/diverse.
I love Beedrill, but I haven’t used it since Blue. Its statistics just aren’t there. I would love for them to add in some kind of equalizer system where weaker Pokemon could have their base stats brought up to par with the 500-600 range (in addition to EVs).
2) I miss Rocko’s Modern Life. I was just getting old enough to understand some of the… special jokes when they stopped airing it.
3) Aw. What’s wrong? Don’t like Shrek? I bet you wish it was ogre.
Nothing comes to mind, no.
Well, once I heard about Protean, I knew I wanted a Greninja. While I was breeding starters with their hiddens, I found Iron Fist on Infernape and that it could be tutored Thunder Punch. Knew I wanted that. And when I found out Golurk could still fly, I was all “Oh I gotta have that!”
While still breeding starters, I found out that a Snivy with it’s hidden doesn’t exist. So I looked up the ability, Contrary, and found something that does. Then I recalled fighting a Malamar with it using Superpower to boost its attack and defense (instead of lowering it) and I said “I want it!” I later discovered that the point of Inkay/Malamar is actually Topsy-Turvy, and to that end it would have been better if mine had it’s hidden ability Infiltrator. But I had already restarted so it was too late.
I never used a Fairy-Type Pokemon or move so I wanted a fairy of some kind. Originally it was going to be Sylveon, but while looking through the list I remembered that Clefairy could learn Cosmic Power; which is a move I’ve been wanting to use. While researching it, I found that it also learns the most powerful fairy attack, a heal, and Stored Power (which grows stronger the more buffs you have). On top of all that, when it evolves into Clefable it’s hidden ability becomes Unaware, which ignores enemy buffs. So, since it has a baby form, I grabbed that.
The last one was tough. I wanted something that could Mega Evolve. I wanted a Poison-Type, since I almost never use Poison-Types, but I already have a ghost, so I didn’t want Gengar. That just left Venusaur. And no offense to Venusaur, but I used it a lot back in Red/Blue/Yellow. So I went in another direction with one of the other Mega Evolutions that had caught my eye: Ampharos. A slow, but bulky Electric-Type that not only gains a dragon attack, when it Mega Evolves it gains STAB toward its dragon attack.
Notable mentions to Kangaskhan: who has a great Mega Evolution, and Celebi with Hold Back: who was cut once I realized I didn’t have a Pokemon that could Mega Evolve.
1) Bon-Bon: It’s just nice to be able to cook what I want. Even things that aren’t candy!
2) Oh yeah. There aren’t that many new Pokemon, but there’s more in this game than any other.
Generally you specialize in two stats to max them out, then put the last few points in a third stat. But which stats depends on the Pokemon, the moves, the ability, and the strategy.
Unless you meant tips on the super training mini-game itself. Though the different soccer icons mean different things, I’ve found the best strategy overall is to fire three or four times, then do a charge shot while your energy (the little colored circle) is building back up.
Alright now this is starting to cheese me off.
We just had a gorgeous weekend for the Breezie migration, and then it snowed 8 centimeters.
Supposed to get down to -13 Celsius tonight.
There is no way this is necessary!
1) Wow! You’re some kinda fast! Just let me know when you’re on and I’ll come play! Can’t wait to relearn how to Warrior!
2) That’s very thoughtful of you!
Oh, and the stuff you sent… well… they weren’t really any good.
But hey! If you get to level 55 I have some blue-tier plate gauntlets you can have! The only interest I have in playing Lancer is how cool the female Amani look in their combat stance, and my Berserker is on another server.
All the female Amani combat stances are cool. They’re my favorite.
1) Yeah… If City of Heroes was still around it wouldn’t matter what level either of us were. That was a great hang-out game.
To be honest, it might be easier for you to keep going until you hit around 40 or so and I just switch to my Warrior. If you can, that is. I can still try to catch up, but I’m sort of dividing my time right now.
2) Bon-Bon: Ah-ha. I find that a little hard to swallow.
Bon-Bon: But yes, busy season is over. Just about finished cleaning up the leftover Hearts and Hooves stock. It’s so unpredictable. You stock up heavy on one thing because it sold out early last year, and you wind up with more left over than if you’d got the same amount as before. Meanwhile something that almost never sells explodes and I’m struggling to keep up before February even starts!
1) I’ve heard nothing but good things, but…
I’m just a po~or ma~re! I ain’t got no money!
2) So… what you’re saying is… Fluttershy sent the top one and you sent the bottom one.
3) You do realize I’m publishing these as revenge for Thanksgiving, right? Just want to make sure you know why.
4) Not to spoil anything, but “that one guy and his group are traitors” doesn’t really mean much in that game.
I think I know where you are. Not sure how fast I can catch up, though. Don’t wait for me if you can manage without. Don’t want to slow you down.
5) The reason Golurk can fly is probably because it’s a ghost. That’d be another cool Eevee; ghost-type.
I’ve seen the still artwork of each Mega Evolution, but I’ve only seen a hoofful in motion.
Oh! Speaking of, thanks to the help of Grey, I’ve restarted my file with some carry over items and my new team is ready! This time I’ve got Protean Froakie, Iron Fist Chimchar, Golett, Inkay, Cleffa, and Mareep.
Still need to EV train them all first, though.
1) So is this, like, our special inside joke?
Hey! How’s it going?! Haven’t heard from you in a while.
2) This is clearly Sexxi Bbz.
3) And this is clearly Fluttershy.
Another inside joke.
4) Well, if you say so.
Oh! But I finished! I got the three legendaries (Mewtwo was as much of a pain as I remember from Gen 1) and have all my items I want to keep held by a few Pokemon. Came out to eleven total, if that’s still alright with you. That would be eleven trades to and eleven trades back. Plenty of other stuff I’d like to have, but these are the things I’ll need on a second cycle if I want a shot at getting all the Mega Stones/Legendaries.
Edit: Oh! Big thing! That means you’ll need eleven pokemon that you don’t mind losing when my file gets restarted to trade me.
1) Hmm. I’ll have to check. I’m not sure where you are either. Level thirty-five? Wow! Eventually you’ll catch up to my warrior! Still some ten or so levels away but you keep up a pretty good pace!
I’ll see what I can do about catching up myself.
2) As a social experiment, it’s playing out about like you’d expect. Terribly, but given enough time even a wall will crumble.
I wish everybody would stop talking about the bird. Everypony already knows the bird is the word.
3) I saw the one where [I’ve been told I should have marked this as spoilers]. I kinda don’t like Pearl’s voice. Love her attitude and demeanor, but that voice sort of throws me off.
4) I had to reverse these three in my inbox. Everypony needed to see this in order.
5) [Omitted]-talking mushrooms. Wow.
Although I am sort of touched that you show some concern for swearing in an ask to me when you know I have to censer it.
1) Oh! I didn’t know you were still playing! How much further have you got? I loved playing with you and would like to do it again. Of course, if I got on your nerves by killing everything I’d understand if you’d rather go without.
And yeah, the slot increases are pretty steep. I think after the 80 Gold one it goes up to like 300, and then 1,600 or something ridiculous. Still, huge inventory for what you can just carry around with you. Speaking of which, since we’re on my main server, I have some gold. I could toss you 80 if you want. I know you only have one bank slot.
2) According to this, that’s a human country. Never heard of it before. Don’t know why. Seems pretty big. Looks like things aren’t going so well over there right now. Evidently revolutionaries just chased the former president of the country out of office. Lots of riots.
3) Well. Love might be a strong word. I certainly have noticed that I don’t get very many anymore.
4) Ponies would get completely buried in snow that deep!
Well, there’s always been other Lyras in the same dimension as me, so Lyras in other dimensions isn’t such a big deal.
I’ve thought about the Eevee thing before. Just seems a little too specific for me. Plus none of them can learn Fly. There should really be a flying-type Eeveelution. That’d be wicked awesome.
5) You’re already going to be helping me plenty by letting me trade Pokemon with items to you and trade back!
6) And thanks for the Froakie! Not only do I have it, I got lucky and already managed to get a female with Protean! Evidently Ditto/Male Hidden breeding yields much higher chances of passing the ability than just the 20% I read about.
With my full team now ready for the next cycle, I just need to get all the version exclusives for Grey, set up the pokemon I’m temporarily trading with the proper items, and grab the three legendaries I’m missing from this playthrough.
You’re kidding! Gray has one too!
A new feature in X and Y is that male parents have a 20% chance of passing their hidden ability to a child. But because the offspring is always the same species as the female, the two pokemon have to be the same thing. In short, you’d have to have a second Froakie/Frogadier/Greninja that’s female (themselves having a low chance of being born, which is supposed to play into Pokemon canon of why the starters live on a nature preserve and not in the wild) and after that play against a 20% chance of the hidden being passed on.
On the other hoof-! If the Froakie you got is already female (with X and Y marking the first time that female starters can have their hidden due to previous limited distribution), then you’d just need to breed that a few times to get a Protean Froakie, since females have a much larger 60% chance of passing on their hidden! And if both male and female have their hidden the chance jumps to like 80% or higher!
… I probably know too much about this stuff.
Anyway, if you don’t already have a female, it would probably be easier for Fuse to trade. But I can still get you both an Iron Fist Chimchar with Thunder Punch! Very powerful counter against water-types!
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1) Thanks! And I love my background! It was made by a filly named Applebloom quite a while ago! She was gone for a while but lately there’s been some suspicious numbers popping up on her tumblr page!
2) Oh it’s a huge game changer! I managed to beat the regular singles battle sequence in the Battle Mansion in one try and almost using only one Pokemon! I like a lot of different Pokemon too. That’s why I wanted to play through the game three times! So I can use different teams!
Yep. Pretty much gone now. I can’t even imagine two feet of snow! I’ve never seen that much!
3) Bon-Bon: Nah. Forcing your eye to stay open while you shove a piece of plastic in there isn’t so bad. It’s when something else gets in there that you want to tear your eyes out. But hey! Glasses that tint in sunlight sound pretty snazzy!
4) Thanks! That’d be great! Bearing in mind we’d probably have to trade like ten times, and then trade back. But I can search around X and find all the version exclusives for you to keep if you want!
Also, if no one told you yet, your Pokemon Safari is Ghost-type. You’ve got Phantump and Shuppet. I can’t tell what your third is because we haven’t been on at the same time.
Edit: Oh, one big thing. Before I start over I want to get my hooves on a Protean Froakie/Frogadier. And that might take a while.