One lunatic's love-hate relationship with the Pokémon franchise, and his addled musings on its rights, wrongs, ins and outs. Come one, come all, and indulge my delusions of grandeur as I inflict my opinions on anyone within shouting distance.
Are you ever going to release part 3 of your Uranium nuzlocke, or did you forget you started that?
Oh, I 100% forgot I started that and am 100% not going to continue it. Honestly it was a mistake to start a Nuzlocke when what I was really interested in was exploring the new Pokémon. And there were external factors, like the game basically didn’t function on Mac OS when it was released (not sure if that’s changed) and it was a hassle to change operating systems whenever I wanted to play it.
Do you ever do play-throughs where you have to stick to particular rules? Like the Nuzlocke challenge? If so, what are your favourites and what are the ones you vow never to do again?
I’ve done a few Nuzlockes. They have… ended poorly. One of them featured an Illumise spontaneously exploding. Sometimes Jim the Editor will pick teams of terrible Pokémon for me (honestly, though, I don’t think I’ve yet had a Pokémon challenge experience that made me really firmly swear “never again”). Once I even wrote a Nuzlocke story, which I never finished, and honestly I don’t know if I’m ever going to have time to finish it (maybe I should just tell everyone what I had in mind for the rest of the story, I don’t know). But anyway, if you don’t mind that it cuts off about 3/4 of the way through the story, or think you might want to start bugging me to finish it instead of the other things I have in mind to do, you can read it here.
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So… we meet again.
8:45
NOOOOOOO! NOT EVIL STEVE! HE- wait, he was a mob boss who smuggled illegal weaponry, bought and sold slaves, and has literally threatened to kill us a dozen times.
Nonetheless… true evil never dies, and his spirit shall have revenge…
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January 2
12:17
We have travelled across the world to find a new Pokémon to fill the gaping void left in our hearts by the Fat Controller.
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12:05
Behold the glory of Legatron, Bionic Hitmonlee!
12:09
Time for Gym Number 3!
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4:37
Thanks to the secret chemical compounds obtained/stolen from Team Rocket by Evil Steve, Dr. Chrim’s experiments on Specimen X have been successful. Soon his true power shall be unleashed!
4:44
Side effects may include dry mouth, nausea, sore throat, vomiting, psychosis, and transformation into a gigantic sea dragon.
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New Year’s Day
1:16
A haggling dispute with Slippery Sue’s contact at the other end of Rock Tunnel has led to bloodshed. She and Evil Steve will need to find somewhere else to offload our stolen goods. Meanwhile, Detective Doug thinks this was all a clever sting operation.
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1:08
Though Slippery Sue’s numerous contacts, an independent contractor has been hired to deal with the trees in our path – paid in cash and onions.
1:21
Hmm…
We could go fight a difficult battle against a master of Electric Pokémon to win a shiny bit of plastic and permission to fly in Kanto…
…or we could take a lucrative contract smuggling goods through Rock Tunnel.
…
Laters!
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11:47
…if it couldn’t survive, it didn’t deserve to join us.
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7:47
Okay Jim, you take over!
7:57
Jim: This is so depressing.
Chris: What are you talking about? We have a BADASS SUPER RAT! The greatest lab rat of all time!
Jim [sobbing]: Where’s our starter?
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