#Screenshot let's play

[beckkeep]

Zinc Plays Let’s Go Pikachu!

Episode 1: I AM NOT IN CONTROL OF MY LIFE PLEASE HELP

Alright, so I know what some of you are thinking.

"He’s doing this again? Why bother?”

That’s a fair question.

Anyway.

My name is Riley Zinc and I’m a college dropout and genuine disappointment.

I hope you enjoy as I flounder through the land of Pokemon and yearn for real, intimate relationships in my actual life.

Oh. Uh. I overshared again, didn’t I? Didn’t even wait for you to ask.

Ah, thank you. He annoys me already and I can’t explain why.

I understand now. Carry on.

I hope it doesn’t land me in crippling debt in the end!

So am I playing a game, or is this a game within a game? Or was that introduction a game and now I’m out of the game in the—

Nevermind.

That’s just my face.

Ooh, the outdoors. Haven’t been out here in... months. It’s so cheery, it makes it hard to wallow in my own self-pity.

I suppose I should speak with the professor first, right? Or am I wrong? Am I making the right choice?

I see I chose poorly.

Ditching Flint, I wandered to the north to find Professor Oak, practicing his Snow White lines for the yearly Pallet Town Play.

He always gets to be the main star. I’m usually a shrub.

I’m not bitter.

: o

Is it really that strange? The Viridian Forest isn’t too far away. Wait, it’s not stalking me, is it?

Just to be safe, allow me to stuff it into this tiny, magical container.

Has a human being ever been caught in a Pokeball? Did the person come back out intact, or were its bones and organs crushed into a little sphere?

You know this is a video game and not the real Flint because doesn’t give me mocking nicknames. I kind of prefer this Flint now.

What are you plotting? Why would you smile at me as if you were happy?

This Pikachu is about to regret wanting to come with me. ... Though I suppose a cute nickname wouldn’t hurt, right?

"So cute!” said Flint, “No one will suspect it if I taught this tiny bastard Covet and stole their shit!”

Um. Thanks? I threw a ball at it. Do you lack depth perception?

Am I being insensitive?

Please don’t ask us to scatter your ashes across Kanto. That’s... awkward.

Have you ever heard of Bulbapedia?

Oh. Did I... just negate your life’s work?

I’m so sorry please pretend I didn’t say that.

Are you ready to be let down, Chupin?

"Through some mysterious force”? It’s native to Kanto.

I have a mom who’s not dead?!

Wait! Please, don’t go...!

She locked the door.

Alright.

Hello?

Oh god, what happens when you mow the lawn and it’s in the ground?

May as well give it an appropriate name for this run.

For having an entire musical number about traveling to Viridian City, it’s not all that hard to get to.

The mart man then gave me a package to give to Professor Oak because I can’t say no without wilting.

Hm. I’m pretty sure I already got a sunburn just from being outside for ten minutes. It’s not great.

No.

I know you taught that thing to pickpocket! I don’t want to see it!

Uh, electrocute it, I suppose.

Chupin doesn’t have pockets to pick.

Yes, I felt that second-hand embarrassment. You don’t have to bring it up.

I think Chupin enjoyed that Eevee touching his butt.

I knew it.

Your head is so large. How do you pull your shirt over it?

Hm. What to do?

Yes, that’s a good idea.

Wait WAIT I DON’T WANT TO MUG THE CHILD. CAN I GIVE THE MONEY BACK?

No one can find out we mugged that child. Speak of this to no one.

How is this even a certified gym if it’s always closed? Isn’t a gym leader’s job to stand there and take challengers? What kind of business would someone like this be involved in that would take them away from this responsibility?

Nevermind. Let’s just go to the next gym.

Is that a weed?

No, but it is phallic. Shouldn’t take too long to defeat, at least.

Is it... going to do anything...? Um.

When in doubt, sprint away from socially awkward situations and hope you will never face that person again during your lifetime!

[the-book-in-the-mirror]

Mary Plays Pokemon Gaia - Part V: A bit more of earthquake plot, Ranger town, fourth gym and big city gangs

More Twitter archiving. I'll be honest, I'm not too satisfied with this later-half of Gaia twitter liveblogging and there's not much I can do to improve it considering the lack of screenshots, but I think it still has its value.

Just to give a clearer timeframe of how much I dragged my feet with this game: the stuff in this part was originally posted June 2022, while the update before this was October 2021.

[Previous Post]

[Original Twitter Thread]

Alright. this update might be a little shallow cause I played this stuff and screenshotted it but since I wasn't feeling too well I didn't comment at the time and took a break from the game. But I think I can still do a satisfactory short rundown:

Before I get back, a short summary of Pokemon Gaia: it's a FRLG romhack which aims to reproduce the feeling of official games rather than trying to do something "darker"/"maturer". Difficulty is slightly harder than an official game at some points.

It's a straightforward pokemon adventure to beat gyms, the league and some ecofascist villains. It features a whole new region, a pokedex up to gen 6 mons, XY mechanics (fairy type + mega evos) and some QoL updates (ex. skipping backtracking at certain plot points).

Last time I posted I had finished the third gym and did a short training session since gyms started getting a little rough. After that, I arrived on Valoon Town and immediately a tremor was felt, which prompts the local Rangers to investigate it.

You go to the area north, to a place called Nemesis Cave, and find another of those big painted ancient walls. The plot is still moving pretty slowly at this point.

The best part of this area gameplay-wise though is that it got a ton of Durants and is really fucking good to train. There is my Excadrill (...still crying over that calm nature) and a good level bump to Charmeleon.

Back to Valoon Town, some of the things the place offers:

- a blue shard move tutor; - a ranger base; - a bug catching contest where you can win even mega stones!!

And then there's the bug type gym. I'll be honest with y'all, I don't remember much how this fight went but I'm guessing Mega Beedrill as rough enough I had to resort to paralyzing. 😬 Mega evos should probably be expected in every gym too.

To get to the next town you need to cross a marsh and OOOOHHH LOOK AT THIS LUCKY EGG

There was a rival fight which I also don't remember well lol sorry. But maybe the lack of screenshots indicates this wasn't too hard. Feel sorry for the guy though. (The building above is a Battle Marsh - more on it later.)

Past the marsh, you get into Telmurk City where you have to deal with a small subplot involving a gang which threatens warehouse employees and whatnot. After beating them you get the Fly HM.

And this is where I'm at. This is the current team. Now that I have Fly I'll probably do some backtracking before exploring Telmurk and moving with the plot.

[lunian]

made a couple of posts about Astarion being hilarious gremlin but never made a collection of Gale's silly talks?? I should've fixed it

[simmir99]

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[cheekylittlepupp]

The chokehold he still has on me is vile.

[annasiims]

POV: You follow Penny Pizzazz on IG

On the latest episode of Spotted, Penny attended to a private dinner hosted by Izzy Fabulous.

[simminmybestlife]

NEW TS4 RELEASE: PAINT IT UP MOD VOL.2

THE PAINT IT UP MOD IS BACK!

Enjoy over 100+ new paintings for your creative sims in game! I think you are ALL going to LOVE these! More culture, more realism, MORE FUN! Enjoy!

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[jreamsims]

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[dooblebugss]

Important Hollow Fables Question!

Does Seer ever make it to the surface to see the other moths??

idk shes kinda old and frail-

[mapplestrudel]

[amanda-plays]

The Aspiring Artist Episode 21

Oceana finally tells Taylor a secret that she's been keeping right before they have to go to a bridal boutique with Taylor's judgmental mother. Linnea receives a lead on how she can get in touch with Maeva. Carlo meets up with Liana and his family to discuss Mae's upcoming gallery show. Finally, Laina visits Mae to discuss some things that have been bothering her.♥

Watch Here

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old friends - while spending sunday morning getting some fresh air in the bluffs, rowan ran into her childhood friend alice martin! it’s been so long since they’ve seen each other, since rowan’s family moved from windenburg to copperdale when she was a child and the two lost touch. the pair have so many memories together at the bluffs, and it’s so sweet that they both go back there every now and then in their adulthood - and that the bluffs brought them back to each other all these years later! 🌾

pose pack by @starrysimsie

gshade preset by @glimersims

[the-book-in-the-mirror]

Mary Plays Pokemon Gaia - Part IV: ecofascists on the snow, third gym and mega evolutions (reposted from Twitter)

I am finally back after *checks notes* almost six months. Sorry, life is still sorting itself out. The prospect of organizing all those screenshots on Photoshop so I could "cheat" tumblr's picture limit wasn't exciting for a while either, but I have sorted most of that already. But enough of that!

[Previous Post]

[Original Twitter thread]

After I beat Chatot Girl, the next step is an ice path to the next town where the villain team is doing their thing. The big rock on the 2nd screenshot is likely where you evolve Glaceon.

I regret to inform you the villains in this game are ecofascists

After fighting a few grunts and finding an Itemfinder (bless!) you finally get to fight a team admin, after they say something about catching Regice...

...and it's not too hard of a fight but other than the lv. 24 Noctowl and lv. 26 Amaura she also has a lv. 24 Froslass (forgot to screenshot - yah I'm still getting the hang of this) so I had to use a few super potions.

Again, this game isn't as difficult as, say, Vega Minus but it can be a little tough at times. Next town is a snowy place with some shop that sells neat stuff like lava cookies and fresh water, some plot hints and holy shit a Choice Scarf this early in the game??

There's a fire gym to do now but before that I take a look at the path to Mt. Ignis (where's the temple you're supposed to visit) and I get a Sneasel. Oh and Swellow evolved back in the cave which is a very needed improvement

Soooo I thought I'd need to go through the gym first but it's locked. Anyway, one last detour before I move the plot: this town is where you get the cable car that goes back to the starting town. After you go down, a worker has a Stealth Rock TM for you

South of the starting town there's that area full of totems where [on the beginning of the game] you talk to the old lady who asks for her book back. There are two grass areas you need rock smash to access and they have a bunch of psychic-type mons - Natu, Elgyem, Chimecho etc.

I even managed to find a Sigilyph, whose dex entry was clearly updated for this game specifically. Not sure there are other cases of Pokemon Gaia exclusive entries, but unless it's very blatant like this I probably won't be able to catch them lol.

(for clarification: this was a bit vague when I originally posted it, but after exploring the rock smash areas, I went to the temple to the north of the region to progress the plot.)

I really like how this stuff looks. and yeah, cult-ish group is trying to imitate the old civilization so I wonder how they compare in their goals

This fire gym curiously has ice puzzles. Also the leader's most levelled mon is a lv. 28 Camerupt but the biggest hassle is this Magmar with Thunderpunch. Almost blew Prinplup away

And another neat thing about this game is how occasionally you're offered an option to skip manual backtracking. The map is neatly-designed enough that backtracking isn't that big of a deal but this is still nice.

Alright here are some updates from last night that I forgot to post cause it was a bit. whew

So, when you get to the island you must go through a tower to get the Mega Ring - the final opponent has a mega evolution, though not a particularly tough one

So it's a difficult match but not too unreasonable. My problem is what comes right after.

Once you leave the tower you're locked in a plot sequence where the cultists want to grab Regirock and you have to fight two grunts + one admin in sequence. I wasn't a fan.

Both grunts have Noctowl and Diggersby that aren't too much of a hassle but can still leave a bit of a mark, but the admin had stuff like... mons all lv. 30-32, including a Tyrantrum, Aerodactyl and a Diggersby with Swords Dance + Quick Attack. Really.

Frankly I thought this was a bit overdone. Like you can access the pokemart to replenish items and the pokemon center before the match, but it took a while to crack the right strategy for this.

The good part is that you're rewarded with a kanto mon w/ a mega stone.

According to the pokemon list from the wikia, the Kanto starter varies according to the starter you picked - in my case, Charmeleon for Piplup starter. It also comes with its species' hidden ability. Guess I'll scrap my plan to grab a Chandelure for a while

Anyway after that I decided to grind a bit for a few levels (honestly, this kinda contradicts what people were saying about this game being closer to a offiial pokemon experience) and explored some Surf bits (at least the map is still easy to navigate).

Oh and the Marowak above? comes right off the bat with Thick Club. and Thunderpunch. Could be pretty damn useful but I'm determined to keep pushing with Drilbur and eventually Excadrill.

YES BABY LET'S GO LET'S BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THIS GAME

[simstoryu]

out and about

yaeka’s been making pretty good money for her games in addition to the profit her start-up’s been generating. she finally got recognized too

💡max out video game career

💡complete computer whiz aspiration

[simmir99]

Welcome to The Loft!

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i absolutely ADORE this area, very picturesque !!!!!! nilou is so beautiful in this place im gonna tear up