#lol i should replay bws

[longer-than-i-should-admit]

Well. I made myself as a Rook (and threw together my first Lavellan Vunlean this time as a Cullenmance on a whim), I’m really pleased with how she turned out, and I want to share her but…I have a crippling anxiety about showing my face online so nevermind 🙃it’s that accurate lol

[cyberdragoninfinity]

What do you think about the mainline Pokemon games (RBY, GSC, etc.)?

LIKE...... IN GENERAL, OR..?????

ok well. let's see. there's ones I like and ones I don't, naturally. I said this in another ask but imo Pokemon design gets cooler and stronger with each passing generation, even if the games themselves weren't that good. LOVE Galar's designs for the most part, but good god Sword and Shield were not. good games. >__>

I'm eternally partial to RSE (Ruby was my first pkmn game, Hoenn's still one of my favorite regions, the Gen 3 era soundtrack is so nostalgic to me.) Gen 4 was a monumental generation for so many reasons, Platinum is a just a goddamn good game, and BDSP is a fucking embarassment lol. I love Gen 5's games, I've been wanting to replay Black sometime, I miss her. White 2 I think my be my favorite mainline Pokemon game of all time (though I have to be real, Violet is up there now too--warts (and bugs) and all, Scarvio was the most fun I've had in a mainline pokemon game in YEARS, and the story knocked my ass clean into the street. I just like it! I love Paldea!!)

I love Alola's Dex, I love so much of Sun and Moon's story and characters, and I fucking wish they were better games, I wish USUM wasn't a letdown (as much as Necrozma's everything makes me insane.) I didn't grow up with RBY or GSC so I don't really have any nostalgic attachment to them at all lol--in RBY's case I played the virtual console DS version and kind of. did not enjoy myself at all HHSGGDFG i would be perfectly content never going to Kanto in a pokemon game ever again.

Legends Arceus also kicked ass and I genuinely hope they do more games like that in the future. If they do Legends Unova I'll go absolutely ape, slash pos. (or whatever it is it seems like they're lurking towards with whatever the next 'big' game is, Unova wise--I genuinely dont think it's BW remakes (which also I don't think they should even make in the first place; the games look FINE, just PORT THEM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.))

Scarlet and Violet's soundtrack goes so fucking hard.

And. um. X and Y's graphics aged like murky dogshit 🥴

[namuda]

First drawing was done three years after the second drawing.

I just want to (I guess?) state that there is always room for improvement, and the only way to improve is to put in effort. (most) Everyone sucks at first. You practice to get better.

I look forward to the future when I look back at the work I did today, and laugh about how many mistakes I made :D

[rainbow-dot]

Fighting scenes in Black Widow

I need to talk about these cause i have been replaying these fight scenes over and over and over again.

These are the coolest fight scenes that I have seen from Black Widow/Nat.

I always thought that the fight scene in the hallway in IM2 it was the best and coolest.

But i was like what? 10/11 when I saw that?

I knew absolutely NOTHING about sexualisation of women in the daily life.

Now i know and i think that even tho that fight scene is cool, is too “pretty”

A fight should get nasty, dirty

while i get that Nat is a super spy with a great agility, that fight scene was too “be a lady they said”

To put it like this.

All the prior fights were too sexualised.

The fights from BW are exactly what i expected (even tho i wanted just a little more of blood cause i’m gore af lol)

She got dirty, she got really dirty and she didn’t stop in a mirror to fix her hair. her hair got hella messy,

while in the other movies her hair was -somehow- always pretty. that’s weird, that’s suspicious.

Now, i loved everything about her fights.

Also, loved Yelena’s fights scenes and her dirty look. (I loved everything about Yelena bro i just OMG)

Melina’s little fight scenes were amazing. Not to mention that her way of fighting shows how smart she truly is.

Instead of trying to fight all of those bitches she took the smarter way. They were there to destroy the red room so she did it while avoiding a whole 20 minutes fight lmao. I love her.

The nameless widows also were AMAZING, even tho they hang up on Nat i just can’t help but say that the way they fight is amazing.

But now, what bothers me a lot, –and it shouldn’t be bothering me cause this is MARVEL, were you get hit 400 times and you can go for a swim 2 seconds later–

are the falls that Nat kept having and the way that she kept surviving lmao.

Let’s remember that she is a human being, with bones and all of that. She ain’t the god of hammers, she ain’t a super soldier, she doesn’t have a metal armor.

She has only a piece of clothe on her that it almost doesn’t protect her.

When she fell from the tower-thingy that in budapest she hit her head, you can clearly see it.

And somehow she just got up like nothing happened.

In that moment she should have gotten a concussion or she should have literally DIE lmao (girl stop falling for my sake)

Again, when she jumped for yelena and she hit her spine in the helicopters she should have had her entire body non-functioning lmao.

And all she got was several purple spots on her back? nah, her body is half dead bro

I know i should be getting too worked up about it, but if Marvel is saying that Nat can get hit so many times and still be okay,

then for me it means that she would have survived vormir lmaooo idk

also, it kinda breaks every other canon thing in marvel/shows like daredevil were he kept falling over and over and having his body in a really bad condition after the fights.

Maybe don’t make my girl hit her head and other vital parts so many times lmao then i wouldn’t be getting too analytical about it 😂

let’s remember she is a human with almost zero protection.

Also, Nat please, stop being so confident while falling, everytime you fall in getting a heart attack, thanks.

Now this goes for the people that says that they love the CA:TWS fights better than these ones.

I genuinely wanna know why?

or how?

but mostly why?

yeah, they were cool you know, but like not truly that impactful.

Maybe for me it wasn’t that impactful bc of the cinematography,

i think that cinematography should play a big part in the fighting scenes

and they did that in BW.

Anyways, that’s all, thanks.

[andromedarune]

Dream ball, Great ball, level ball??

Ooo, these’ll be fun! Thank you, and here I go~! [ooh, lord, get ready cuz I'm gonna write A LOT]

Dream Ball (dream pkmn team)

This is my dream team! I should prob mention that while I love all these pokies, they aren’t my top six favorites. I picked this team for its variety of types and their usefulness in a competition match - it’s a pretty solid team, I figure, but I can’t say for certain as I’ve never actually gotten to use it in game, lol! But I do adore these babies in a competitive sense, and they’re all such great designs to me, oof. 

Great Ball (fav pkmn game)

Ooo, this is a hard one! I’ve played most all the Pokemon main games (a few spin-offs too, namely PKMN Pinball for GBA - so fun!), so it’s kind of a struggle to choose just one when they all have their pros and cons. But some stick out to me more than others.

For nostalgia reasons, I’d say Diamond/Pearl/Platinum (namely Platinum). This was the game that I remember clear as day from my childhood, and it was kind of the one that really began my giant fascination with the franchise despite having played prior games. When I was young, I didn’t personally get my own video games - they were all hand-me-downs or borrowed copies from either my sister or step-brother. But Pokemon was one of the only games we all got together, and we all played together, too. It began the tradition of me always picking the fire-type starter, since we each wanted different starters as to complete our dexes (my bro was grass, my sis was water). I still remember the team that I used to first beat the elite four, and I used that very same team to beat the elite four and Cynthia again in Platinum (as I first played through Pearl bc my sis wanted Diamond). Infernape, Vaporeon, Staraptor, Lucario, Gardevoir, Giratina/Palkia... Ah, man, my babies... And the music??? Oh, the jazzy influences of the region stuck out to my little musician heart so much - sometimes I still go back and listen to my fav themes from that game whenever I need a pick-me-up. I especially love the Twinleaf Town theme - the whole thing conveys a sort of homesickness yet overwhelming desire to see the world, a melody very nostalgic to me personally, as it was played during a very odd time in my life. I also remember the game having so much extra content and lore - from the main game story, to the Great Chateau, and the legendary special events - every single one never failing to excite my childhood imagination. It was so much fun for me, and I adored the story aspect of the game with how effortlessly it seemed to mix together with the gameplay. But I will say upon replaying it several years later, it’s quite challenging! A lot of times, you don’t know where to go, or you know where to go but not how to get there. But maybe that’s because I’ve lost a few braincells along the way, lol. Still makes for a wonderful, breathtaking experience that reminds me of the innocence that the early 2000′s brought me.

For gameplay reasons, I’d have to go with Sun and Moon / USUM. Bare with me here lol. For a while, I had kinda grown a bit bored with the later PKMN games; I didn’t particularly enjoy BW/BW2, and only really liked XY for its new format and introduction of new battle mechanics (and it had a fire-type starter that WASN’T a fighting type!). So, when SM came out, I was understandably skeptical, but it wasn’t like I was just gonna ignore a PKMN game. So I bought it, hoping it’d be a stress reliever during my first year of college. OMG it was FANTASTIC! It brought a breath of fresh air to the franchise to me - inspired music that no longer felt like the same pandering to nostalgia, a bit more charismatic characters that brought a frivolous curiosity to their unique personalities, AND the integration of Hawaiian culture within the very heart and soul of the game embedded even in the battle mechanics. I loved the idea of Z-Moves - I thought it was cute and clever, a cheery nod to the significance of dance in the culture of its real-life counterpart. I loved the mini-games, like the Pyuku(whatever it is) chucking and the Mantine surfing - I can’t tell you how many hours I have of me literally just surfing in that damn game. I liked the legendaries, I liked the story, I liked the characters, I liked the music - overall, such a fun game to play that wasn’t a drag to play through a second time when I got USUM. While the story followed the now traditional PKMN script of “power hungry villain tries to do something stupid with only a 11yo child to save the world”, I found myself far more interested in the actual gameplay than the story or whatever. I couldn’t wait to get into another battle, or find another Pokemon via inter-dimensional travel, or what-have-you. Just.... FUN!

Level Ball (highest lvl pkmn personally raised)

OMG, I hate to say that this also comes with a long-winded story, lololol.

Okay, so remember that Platinum game I spend 30 minutes writing an IGN-esk review on? Yeah, same game. So, I had that game for a couple years at this particular point in my life. I used to go to a dance studio at the time, and I would bring my DS and play it late Tuesday nights bc my sister had a 8-9pm class and my parents would make me wait in the lobby before picking us both up at 9. There were a couple other little sisters that would wait with me, and we all would play PKMN together or watch TV. Normal stuff.

So one day, this girl (don’t remember her name) says something like “Hey, I need to beat the Elite Four, but my team isn’t strong enough - do you have some Pokemon I can borrow?” Now, she knew that I had probably 1000 hours logged into this damn game - my Infernape was like a lvl 83, my Gardevoir in the 90′s, but my Vaporeon - my secret weapon thanks to its stupid strong special attack and infamous Hydro Pump - my Vaporeon was a lvl 100. My ONLY lvl 100. That’s what this girl wants. But I’m like 9 or whatever, so I’m like, “ya man, just give him back to me next week”. So I trade, get her shitty Mankey or something, and go home, patiently waiting for next Tuesday to get my beloved Vaporeon back. 

I never got him back. She avoided me like the plague for the rest of the year, and then I never saw her again. The little shit up and STOLE my lvl 100 Vaporeon!!! I was so heartbroken - truly a tragedy caused by my own stupidity, lolol

[tumblunni]

Wooooooo finally getting back to playing BW2 after ages Cmon game plz let me trade over my sinnoh mons soon! Don’t tell me I need to beat the elite four! I’m only on two badges! VARIOUS THOUGHTS

it kinda has a similar feeling to fangames? Like.. Not all fangames but just stuff like reborn and other competitive type ones. I dunno, they have that sort of feeling. I guess its how the game isn’t as focused on discovering the region, and doesn’t really have a goal for a long time. And how it seems like its aimed at people who already know pokemon and all, whereas every main series pokemon game tends to add stuff just in case its your first generation. Except BW2 is like.. Also a tutorial, almost?? Its got that expansion pack feel without actually having challenging difficulty or doing cool new things with the system. It feels way more easy than BW1 and everyone’s giving you free items everywhere and all the towns just feel so empty except for Gimmick Of The Day. I mean they’re still the same size but they somehow feel like the scaled down kanto from gsc?? I guess its just cos they didn’t do enough with the sequel concept. Its disappointing. Whereas kanto was disappointing from smallness, not lack of cool continuity changes. Oh and seriously 90% of the game so far has just been introducing Gimmicks Of The Day! It really does feel like an expansion pack! Its like they stitched together a threadbare super similar over world just as a container for all these bonus features and one new plot kinda, which isn’t really gonna show up til endgame. Its like if platinum was a new game just to introduce the gts, rotom forms, and the two extra team galactic confrontations. Its like if they made a new protagonist and made you get all the badges again just for that! Well, I mean, you still had to replay the third versions but at least they were just repetitive, not empty and weak. Also it SUCKS that most of the gimmicks were just various extra forms of multiplayer internet connectivity, which I can’t even try! So my playthru is even emptier than it should be… Ehh well at least they fleshed out the pokedex with some mons from other generations, tho really BW should have had that from the beginning. My main Mon rright now is a flaafy called Deckard and I love him! I will feed him all 100 lemonades I got from finishing polestar studios! Lol its SUCH a game breaker early on. Sucks that now I’ve got no more fun gimmicks I can do until I reach the city with musicals. Why u taunt me with internet only questionnaires and proto-festival plaza!!! Sophocles thanks for rescuing join avenue so I could actually experience it, yo! AAAA I need to feed deckard more lemonades and stop being salty I’m not hating this game, its a fun distraction even if it doesn’t hold my attention like alola did.