#or ekans! I somehow still don't have an ekans

[nauticalmyles]

January 4, 2024

Pokemon Sleep

Got Spheal's 3* sleep so now have 4/4 sleep styles.

Got another Shiny Ekans. Such a weird disappointment getting a shiny you already have. Like sure it's a shiny but couldn't it be a different one? At least it has better subskills than my other one.

Pokemon GO

New hatch: Riolu

New avatar item: FENDI collab hoodie. Found out that same hoodie would be $1250 irl. A shirt with the same design is $850. A handbag in the same line is $4000. Who buys these things?

Binding of Isaac: Repentance

No luck with more Keeper - Mother runs today. Most ended even before the Mom fights.

Keeper + Ipecac + Monstro's Lung isn't a great combo but somehow was my farthest run, dying to Mother.

Spoilers for Breaker of Horizons and Octopath Traveler II below

Breaker of Horizons: A LitRPG Adventure

Nic risks his life trying to kill a group of people that were already wounded. After almost dying, he gains a companion AI called Sophia. After playing around with Sophia's abilities for a bit he starts climbing a huge tree. Partway up he makes a map and meets a friendly spider. Even further up he is attacked by and kills a mantis-person. Even further up he finds a group of Mantis-people led by a Mantis-princess. They talk about her bowl that has a tiny world and creates treasure after putting treasure in. Then he jumps off the tree, vowing to come back when he's stronger.

Pathos and Logos are really cool names for what I assume to be god-like figures. Wonder if Ethos and Kairos make an appearance too.

Don't really get why some people seem to retain their previous form and some don't.

I know I'm still early in the book but I feel like I haven't connected with Nic yet.

Octopath Traveler II

Throné - Episode 2: Father's Route

Throné finds Father and does a job with him intending to betray him as soon as an opportunity arises. Turns out Father knew and sorta betrays Throné, sorta not. Tells her to meet him in another place. Oh yeah, and the job was to kill some sex traffickers.

It's always so weird when a cutscene says "Oh you came alone" and then out of the cutscene there's like 6 people (party + recruits).

Permanently having Ochette and her being kinda dumb is great for these banter sections.

In a game with great VAs, the VA for the captured girl was especially good.

Was way over-leveled for the boss fight (level 30) but doing max damage with Ochette's latent power feels good.

I think Throné's story might be the least interesting to me so far.

[brockachu]

bolts anon here again 👋🏻 scrolling through your posts i noticed that you see more flames inclined on the battle of alberta series, but if you don't mind, i'm here to rant about the oilers 😹 i used to (occasionally) follow edmonton because i am huge mcdavid-draisaitl fan, but since e. kane has joined the team i can't stand their games, i feel sick watching him score. i know a lot of dude bros argue that every team has questionable players, but kane has a list of public allegations against him and no one seems to care!!! last night, the espn broadcast was praising him for producing on the first line and asking for a long haul contract, and i'm just so upset about it 😐

hiiii~~

lol totally ok to rant about the oilers. i actually had a short oilers phase b/c their farm team was in my hometown for a while, but then i realized i didn't like the oilers themselves, just the ahl team + the ahl team moved so i fell off entirely. nuggy is still one of my favs tho <3

oof yeah the ekane situation is just horrible. like nothing i can say would be enough to make up for how much that sucks, how unfair it is to fans of the team who want to enjoy hockey without supporting an abuser or potentially triggering their own traumas, or without having to watch & hear people (teammates, media members, coaches, etc) have praise for this man or to discuss his history as something he's "overcome". or even the people who rightfully criticize him fall into harmful rhetoric as well (i'm very tired of the way i've seen gambling addiction discussed. i don't like gambling & i have major concerns about the way gambling is being marketed in greater culture rn. blaming someone with a potential gambling addiction for that is not going to improve anyone's situation. but that's my aside about the punitive culture around addiction). it's just. hard. and it sucks. sportsnet shouldn't be falling over their own asses every other night to praise him so fervently or to weirdly and pointedly mention his custody of his daughter (that segment still sits so wrong in my chest). i won't even get into the player statements supporting or praising him it's painful. the entire system of hockey is complicit and it's not just the oilers org itself, but this moment is particularly egregious and painful.

i wish i had a reassurance for you, but i've been hearing the rumors he'll get re-signed since before the playoffs even started, tbh. at most, i can always offer my inbox up for some ranting <3 i've got an open ear most of the time and i'm glad you're comfortable coming to me :) of course, i've still got fingers crossed that the flames pull this off somehow *knock on wood*