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  1. Ektris
    Nintendo Amiibo Rosalina & Luma
    Nintendo Amiibo Lucario
    Nintendo Amiibo Ike
    Nintendo Amiibo Link
    Nintendo Amiibo Mario
    Nintendo Amiibo Pikachu
    Transformer Generations Arcee
    Nintendo Amiibo Shulk
    BIONICLE Lewa - Master of Jungle
    BIONICLE Protector of Jungle
    Transformers Generations Tankor
    BIONICLE White Metal Krana-Kal
    Nintendo Amiibo Wii Fit Trainer
    Nintendo Amiibo Sheik
    Nintendo Amiibo Toon Link
    Nintendo Amiibo Meta Knight
    Nintendo Amiibo Sonic
    Nintendo Amiibo Mega Man
    S.H. Figuarts Blue Rose
    So... Amiibo. I got a lot of Amiibo this month. Mostly thanks to wave 3 being so large (and its last member was supposed to arrive today but he didn't), but I did a lot of catching up too. And the best part is I only overpaid on two of them. (And WFT wasn't one of them! She was MSRP from Amazon.de.) And even then it wasn't that much. So I'm down to just three missing from the Smash line and I sure hope Nintendo sees the benefit to them in doing additional runs, although I highly, highly doubt it.
     
    Transformers were light this month, which is fine. Although wave 2 of Combiner Wars is starting to trickle in, wave 1 is only just hitting saturation here. So no big deal. Arcee finally arrived and I love her, and Tankor was an impulse buy after having to deal with seeing him and him alone on the shelves here for three months lol.
     
    Lastly, the BIONICLE additions. Lewa and Protector of Jungle were happening eventually and I picked them up now for BBCC #69. (And oh yeah... one of the reasons I got disinterested in MOCing besides being away from my collection for 75% of the year for the past four years... No feedback... Ever. Good or bad, I'd like any at all. Silence is the worst.) Unfortunately they didn't help with my original plan, but I still ended up using quite a lot of their parts in the final product. So far my experience with the Protectors is pretty darn good, since I have no problems with Mr. Jungle. Lewa does have some neck issues, but he's not my least favorite Toa at the very least heh. And finally - a true grail piece, a White Metal Krana-Kal. Thank you, TLH. Despite any misgivings, I am truly happy to have such a piece in my collection at all. So thank you very much!
     
    ~|ET|~
  2. Ektris
    Uh, hey guys. Totally didn't forget to post this last week. Nope, not at all!
     
    Games






    So this... Grew a lot, in large part to McFarlane and Nintendo. Nintendo stuff is now solely occupying the bottom row, and with all those Amiibo, it's already full. Will probably be moving them up to the middle row in front of my books where nothing else is just to have a better view of all of them. Those things are so cool.
     
    I hadn't even realized how many AC figures I got until taking these pictures. Talk about catch up. My PAK, NECA, and Jazzwares stuff are also there just because they don't really have anywhere else to go heh. Just random cool stuff. Oh and Figma Captain America because why not? You can really see here just how big Roxas is though. I totally would have gotten a Riku and Sora to go with him by now so he doesn't stand out so much if they weren't so expensive lol.
     
    Toku


    The fruity Riders are the big addition here. And Godzilla, chilling out being all cool and not photogenic.
     
    Splitting these to two shelves was absolutely disastrous. I wanted to maintain their position on the top, but didn't think of just how dumb that was given one of the shelves is angled into the corner with plenty of free space behind it. So of course I knocked them down after pulling some things out of the lower shelves. And had to take them all down and move it out and the fully, heavy BIONICLE shelf next to it away from the wall just to get a sword that I wasn't able to reach because it bounced underneath the shelf! >_< That wasn't fun. And now I'll have to be suuuuper careful.
     
    But yeah, Riders man! Godzilla might find his way back out with Figma Cap and the other randoms to keep room for expansion here, which I did need. I'm glad to be able to have them spaced out more now.
     
    BIONICLE




    Finally, the second reason for the new bookshelves. Besides Transformers, I had absolutely run out of room to place any BIONICLE sets. I was literally just stacking thing haphazardly to get them off the floor.
     
    I'm much more pleased with how things look now, even if they'll probably be full by the end of the year again. There's still more catching up with older years to be had too. Fortunately, there is room room to re-condense the shelves once needed. But for now, you can just see so much more of the big guys, and I like that.
     
    ~|ET|~
  4. Ektris
    It has been far, far too longs since I tried my hand at building something. It was still pretty fun to get at it.
     
    Unfortunately, the deplorable state of my CCBS supplies made this particular build a bit of a task. It also took some getting used to just as a medium to craft with. Hewkii wasn't my first choice for the contest, but at least I was able to pull him off to my satisfaction. It's definitely Hewkii.
     
    If there's one thing I don't like, it's the quality of my pictures, but I've complained about that plenty heh. Just couldn't afford to keep waiting and find a better place.
     
    ~|ET|~
     
     
    Source: Hewkii Mahri (BBCC #69)
  5. Ektris
    Alrighty, here it is! The first half of my collection update. They're not the best pictures, just really aiming to highlight differences and growth. Had a few disasters in the rearrangement of shelves thanks to some poor decisions I'll touch more on in the next part, but thankfully nothing is broken and I'm happy with the end result.
     
    Star Wars



    The Star Wars shelves have actually grown the least, I believe. More books supplanted space that was occupied by movies, but figures... not so much. And I'm a little bummed by that. I almost entirely blame Hasbro's horrendous distribution of the Black Series for not helping (my stores, and most, are stuck on wave 3 clogging shelves still... we just hit wave 7... and the past few ones have only shown up in drug stores... so it's partly on stores too of course). A few of the releases I've missed out on I'm not too considered about, though, thanks to Bandai Tamashii Nations and their S.H. Figuarts line now tackling Star Wars in what should be a pretty appropriate scale to mesh well with Hasbro's efforts.
     
    Transformers






    Oh goodness, Transformers. One of the two reasons I had to buy new bookshelves and they're taking up literally half of the new ones. Even then... I ran out of room on one already. I was aiming for a split of "Generations" Bots and Cons to one side and miscellaneous on the other, but that may have to be changed very shortly. Although I guess I do need to find a use for those short bottom shelves I didn't quite figure out what to do with. Because of the combiners, I needed a lot of space (and as that line just started and is continuing for two years... haha I'll be needing more.), yet didn't think much looked very good in the short bottom shelf that left. They'll probably expand in greater quantity there soon.
     
    I did a lot of catching up last year that caused this growth. A lot. I have been pretty pleased with most things I picked up at least.
     
    My four Masterpiece figures are a literally huge addition as well. In fact, they're currently on my mantle in the living room to themselves. Granted, not like in the picture as I moved stuff around to isolate them, but they're there. Oh how I wish I had been able to start collecting them sooner. They're just so fantastic.
     
    Anime


    Lastly, we have the anime shelves. In general, this one hasn't expanded too much either, but I'm fine with that. Definitely still cherry picking what I pick up here.
     
    A benefit of the expansion was allowing these guys to be spread out more across two shelves. So I also threw in the Digimon there - who were with game characters before given they were of the D-arts line. I decided that, as I see them as their anime counterparts, they belonged here more. There's not really any rhyme nor reason to who went where; I wish I had been able to come up with some better display for them.
     
    ~|ET|~
  7. Ektris

    Oh My - January Haul

    By Ektris,

    Yeah... I spent a lot...
     



    S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Duke Lemon Energy Arms
    Figma Kirito
    BIONICLE Tahu - Master of Fire
    Nintendo Amiibo Diddy Kong
    Transformers Combiner Wars Alpha Bravo
    Transformers Combiner Wars Firefly
    Transformers Masterpiece Ultra Magnus
    Transformers Generations Skrapnel & Reflector
    Transformers Combiner Wars Silverbolt
    Star Wars: The Lando Calrissian Adventures
    Star Wars: The Han Solo Adventures
    BIONICLE Onua - Master of Earth
    BIONICLE Protector of Earth
    Transformers Generations Cosmos & Payload
    Nintendo Amiibo Samus
    Nintendo Amiibo Yoshi
    Nintendo Amiibo Peach
    Nintendo Amiibo Kirby
    Transformers Generations Brainstorm
    Figma Saber 2.0
    BIONICLE Pohatu - Master of Stone
    BIONICLE Gali - Master of Water
    Transformers Generations Chromia
    S.H. Figuarts Luigi
    S.H. Figuarts Super Mario Diorama Playset C
    Nintendo Amiibo Bowser
    Transformers Combiner Wars Bombshell
    Transformers Combiner Wars Dragstrip
    Transformers Combiner Wars Skydive
    Nintendo Amiibo Donkey Kong
    So much came out this month that I had my eyes on. Wow. And circumstances had me able to get a lot of it right away that I probably would have waited for honestly.
     
    Transformers: Combiner Wars, man. So freaking awesome. And except for Powerglide, I got all I want from the first wave already! Thank you, for once, HasbroToyShop. I also snagged Chromia and Brainstorm from there, since they were completely skipped over (as the last wave of 2014) by stores here. And cemented my interesting in Masterpiece, we also have Ultra Magnus. This guy is huge and incredible and I love him.
     
    I finally got hardcore into Amiibo... Yeahhh... I really hate Nintendo for how they're handling these. Pretty much going to preorder from overseas starting with wave 4 just to make sure I actually get everything. But hey, some of these are pretty darn cool - like Bowser. That guy has some nice heft to him and the detail and paint work is incredible. By far my favorite so far.
     
    Duke and Kirito actually arrived at the end of December, but, well, I wasn't here to pick them up, so here they are now. Kirito looks great, but man is getting his swords into his hands just an absolute pain in the butt. Duke is yet another addition to my growing cast of Gaim and... eh yeah, wasn't too excited for him, but I do love his yellow lemony self in hand. Saber 2.0 finally also saw release after a couple delays and while I haven't messed with her too much yet, she's also a fine addition and Archer won't look so odd on the shelf by himself anymore heh. Luigi is... eh. What I expected based on Mario and looks good, but definitely not the best that Figuarts has to offer. Oh, and I picked up some more Star Wars books to add to the backlog while looking for calendars. I hate seeing that Legends banner. Hate it so much. But dang, those are some nice new covers they made for them!
     
    What's left... Hmm... I don't...
     
    Oh yeah! BIONICLE, baby! I meant to go slow with them, since they should last until the summer wave, but just a few weeks after their release and I already have 5/13. Oops? Ah well, when LEGO offers you free shipping, why not take advantage of it haha. It feels so great to have new BIONICLE sets in hand and all of the ones I have really impress me. Can't wait to finish off the wave, but that'll probably take some time.
     
    I also did buy a pair of bookshelves and finished putting them together yesterday. About half of the rearranging is done now. So some time in early February will be a new collection update.
     
    ~|ET|~
  8. Ektris

    Name change?

    By Ektris,

    Oh yeah, I can change it back now!
     
    Should I? :/
     
    I did it half as an experiment, and the results were kind of what I expected - don't feel like I'm so readily recognized now. Whether that's good or bad...
     
    ~|ET|~
  10. Ektris

    2014

    By Ektris,

    Yeah I'm a few days late, but I'm also sitting here unable to sleep when I have to get up in 3.5 hours to go to the airport, so I wanted to find something to do.
     
    I want to keep this short. It feels like for the first time, I can confidently say that a year was good to me. I graduated college, I got a job, I'm comfortable where I'm at despite living truly alone for the first time, I got engaged... There were still some bumps along the way (still have some anxiety and other episodes), but as a whole package it was pretty good.
     
    I've walked into 2015 feeling confident, and it's a great feeling.
     
    So happy belated new year, everybody. May it be good to us all.
     
    ~|ET|~
  11. Ektris
    Non-Christmas edition.
     


    S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Gaim Kiwami Arms
    Play Arts Kai Kingdom Hearts II Roxas
    Transformers Generations Skids
    Nintendo Amiibo Little Mac
    Nintendo Amiibo Fox
    Transformers Age of Extinction Snarl
    BIONICLE Transparent Clear Mask of Fire
    BIONICLE Transparent Orange Mask of Fire
    Nintendo Amiibo Luigi
    Nintendo Amiibo Zelda
    Nendoroid Red
    Month started off on a mixed bag. I got Roxas and Gaim Kiwami Arms at the same time, and while Roxas I couldn't put down, Gaim... Well Gaim is a literal lemon amongst his fruit brethren (not to be confused with Duke Lemon Energy Arms coming next month though ). He's such a disappointing figure and fraught with issues. Luckily mine escaped having a shattered chest, but the chest sticker is still wrinkled and a little ugly. But again, at least Roxas is awesome.
     
    Skids was an impulse buy because I saw him. Then I got Snarl shortly after just to complete the movie Dinobots (which I'm not even sure anymore I should have ever started...). So Transformers this month were kinda meh .. It's the last wave of 2014 I really wanted but could never find, and with Combiner Wars showing up now (and I'll probably never see some of the ones I want most there too *sigh*), who knows if I will?
     
    Fox was also on impluse, but he's definitely at the low end of "hard to find" Amiibos, so I still didn't want to miss him. He was found during my hunt for a Little Mac, which was actually successful. The Gamestop I got it from had just one. So personal experience is definitely backing up the prevailing trend and I feel pretty confident blaming Nintendo for the intentional wretched distribution and intentional scarcity of these. Just not pleased with them. Zelda and Luigi I really did want and only did see that one time too. Unfortunately I never saw their other wave mates, so probably won't now. And the incredibly common 8 from the first wave I still haven't gone after, but probably will soon. With my luck I'll start after they're now hard to find lol.
     
    Red magically and randomly got listed on Amazon just a few days before I was flying home for the holidays. I couldn't pass on him though. Just look at how cute the starters are! So he got shipped to PA instead of TX and didn't get in the group picture heh. I can't help but love the little guy.
     
    Last but absolutely not least, my first little foray into BIONICLE 2015. Sets didn't show up in any of my stores before I left and I wasn't about to hunt while on vacation, so I'll be late to the party in getting sets proper unfortunately. But this start is incredible and half of it completely unexpected. Thank you, DV. Thank you. They've really got me excited for the new line and getting back into constraction.
     
    Not going to do a big end of the year update on the collection this year since, well, I'm just not with it heh. Still on holiday. But I want to do a beginning of the year one... after buying a new bookshelf or two... so be on the lookout for that.
     
    ~|ET|~
  12. Ektris
    Hope everybody who celebrates had a wonderful day.
     
    So amidst the mountain of clothes and treats and literal large empty boxes with names written on the side for things to buy soon and ship directly to Texas instead of doing it ourselves (those were fun to open ), I think I did get some haul-worthy stuff heh.
     

     
    LEGO Movie and GTAV from the fiancée, books and Wolf Among Us from parents, and Xbox Live cards from future in-laws.
     
    Overall I think I had a pretty enjoyable Christmas (and Eve). Spent a lot of time with family and ate way too much.
     
    ~|ET|~
  13. Ektris

    Pokemon Omega Ruby: Day 13

    By Ektris,

    One ball.
     
    One turn.
     
    One attempt.
     
    And a Jolly Rayquaza is mine!!
     
    But before I got to that wonderful event... First, that rematch against Wallace was totally him as Champion (as implied in one of the scenes at the end of Episode Delta as well). And that was cool. After that, though... what did they do to Sky Pillar?! Where was the challenge? Where were the bike puzzles? Where was anything interesting about climbing it? This redesign was horrendous.
     
    After catching the glorious Rayquaza before he could even Mega Evolve once, I proceeded to crush Zinnia (who I've somewhat regretted calling a creep after the realization of what her tragic past is implied to be) and OHKO Deoxys. I wish I had paid more attention during all of the cutscenes during and after this, since I expected to be trying it again for a different Rayquaza. Oops...
     
    I've since resumed my Mega Stone hunt. Hello Sharpedonite! <3 Still haven't attempted going through any of Hoopa's portals to get extra Legendaries. Not sure when I will. I'm also trying to grind to get prepared for the Elite Four rematch (I was horribly underleveled), but there are seriously no good grinding spots. Y had no wild spots, but at least there were the restaurants and chateau. Nothing here but the Elite Four. Which I'm not ready for. (And want to use my in-game team for, otherwise I do indeed have dozens and dozens of level 100 'Mons I could withdraw lol.) So It's going to take some time.
     
    So following the post-game and a bit of grinding, here's where we're ending:
     
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 68
    Glalie, Lv. 68
    Sigurd, Flygon Lv. 66
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 66
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 64
    Latios, Lv. 64
     
    ~|ET|~
  14. Ektris

    Pokemon Omega Ruby: Day 12

    By Ektris,

    Yessss! I got an Eon Ticket! My game wasn't glitched! Found one while doing some holiday shopping at a mall (and oddly just got Pokémon data; no people for my Streetpass plaza disappointingly lol).
     
    Made a little more progress through Episode Delta today. I stormed Team Magam's hideout once more, which didn't explode. Huh. A part of me really, really does still wish it did. Now I'm ready to enter Sky Pillar once I withdraw my Jolly Synchronizer.
     
    Which I now have. Because I also transferred my living Dex and got the Shiny Charm. This also prompted me to check out my Pokedex, which I actually never did before in this game! Weird. I really should have sooner, because it's a really cool one this time.
     
    The rest of my playtime today was spent Mega Stone hunting. What I could, anyways. A very disappointingly large amount aren't available until after Episode Delta, one of which of course I very much wish I could have already. Ah well...
     
    So with that, I'm going to go get me a Rayquaza and save the world! Not necessarily tomorrow, but soon heh.
     
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 62
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 60
    Sigurd, Flygon Lv. 60
    Glalie, Lv. 60
    Altair, Lv. 56
    Latios, Lv. 56
     
    ~|ET|~
  15. Ektris

    Pokemon Omega Ruby: Day 11

    By Ektris,

    I'm back, baby! (Although technically I came back yesterday, I just forgot to blog about it.)
     
    I literally have not touched Omega Ruby since I left off. The first thing I did to prepare for it wasn't even in that game - I fired up Y again (and did some training for Pokémon I forgot about first) and bred a Jolly Synchronizer. I am not going through that again for Rayquaza. Deoxys I'll just beat and attempt again later. I also bought another year of Bank, but haven't done any of the transferring yet. That'll be done before I'm actually ready to catch him.
     
    So I had some more air travel to get through. This time, fortunately, I actually did more than soft reset heh. I did a lot of travelling through the water routes I ignored before, which was kind of fun (game still has too much though). That included rediscovering the Sea Mauville, which I had completely forgotten existed. Shame I can't get Lugia in this game, though.
     
    But most importantly, I did a lot of Episode Delta. I think. And man, Zinnia is just a massive creep. I'm totally more on her side of things than Steven's... But she comes across as a huge creep spying on you though. I also really don't like that they made Steven's character mindlessly follow the scientists... whose grand scheme appears to be something so dumb as "Hey remember that weapon that killed a ton of Pokémon? Let's make it again but instead fuel it by humans. Seems better right??" At least that's how I've interpreted it. We're getting the full story scattered through different conversations filling in each other's blanks, which doesn't seem like great storytelling in my opinion, so maybe I misinterpreted something... But at least the big picture is clear. Big meteor. Want warp away. (To the original Hoenn??? Sweet reference.) Big dragon. Summon instead.
     
    Regardless, it's a much, much more interesting postgame than the Looker one from X and Y. Still doesn't make up for also cutting what I'd have really liked to have included (*coughcoughBattleFrontiercoughcough*), but it's something.
     
    I left off about to go into Team Magma's base again. Guess that's why it didn't blow up the first time lol. Or maybe it won't at all so as to not punish those who missed the Master Ball like the originals... That was kind of harsh.
     
    Team:
     
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 62
    Sigurd, Flygon Lv. 60
    Glalie, Lv. 60
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 58
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 56
    Latios, Lv. 55
     
    Oh, and I only passed one person who had Streetpass enabled for the game, but I didn't get an Eon Ticket from them. Little worried still my game did glitch and I might not get it again.
     
    And! I caught my first shiny in Omega Ruby! Found a shiny Zubat in Granite Cave while coming out from getting Steelixite and the meteor shards.
     
    ~|ET|~
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    RROD & Other Gaming Stuff

    By Ektris,

    (Pokémon blogs generally on hiatus until I start Episode Delta, which probably won't be for a few weeks when I'm home for the holidays and have no access to my consoles. For now I suppose I'll be resuming Unity, maybe some MCC or Smash WiiU.)
     
    Wow. After 7 years, my Xbox 360 Elite finally received the Red Ring of Death. I was well under way in Assassin's Creed: Rogue, likely to be the last game I got for the system (and why my fiancé thinks I shouldn't bother with it anymore *sigh*), when it suddenly shorted. Sort of ironic given the first game to grace its disk drive was the original Assassin's Creed game shortly after its release, one cold December 25, 2007 morning.
     
    I spent so, so many countless hours on her. The first console I could call my own. The device that took a childhood passing interest into a real hobby.
     
    Now I must decide her fate. Do I purchase a new 360, with necessary hard drive transfer cable and sufficient space on the console itself, at a considerable price? Or risk sending it in for repair, which I am somewhat nervous about doing? It would still cost a pretty penny, but not a few pennies like the other option.
     
    Part of my concern is mostly anxiety induced as I've actually never mailed a package shockingly, don't even know where I would mail from here (haven't a clue where the nearest post office, FedEx office, UPS office, or whatever option they would require is), plus how do I know I've properly secured it if I can even find a box that it will fit in comfortably (actually might have a perfectly sized one right behind me from some goods received the other day...). So all generally irrational, but nonetheless make me nervous.
     
    And if I do opt for a repair, I'd probably have to wait until the start of the year, as timing makes me even more nervous - what if it got back while I was out of town for the holidays? That's two weeks it could either be sitting outside my apartment or end up who knows where if it ends up in the office (where packages are supposed to, but sometimes inexplicably get dropped off at doors, like the one I got over Thanksgiving...) since they're only willing to hold things for 2 days over the holidays. And that wait would drive me even crazier...
     
    *sigh*
     
    ~|ET|~
  20. Ektris
    I beat the game!
     
    The Elite Four was awesome. The scenery, that is. Really do love the changes they made there.
     
    The Elite Four themselves were just boring. So boring. I beat them all with absolute ease and the incredible repetition amongst their teams sucked (all but one were different from the originals anyways, so why couldn't they have been changed bore?) as it just made them even more of a cakewalk.
     
    Steven though... Oh man, Steven was tough. My first real challenging opponent in the game and it was totally worth it. I used multiple revives and narrowly beat him with just Sigurd left. And it was only his Mega Metagross that swept me! That thing truly packed a punch. But it made the victory (and I only challenged them once) that much sweeter.
     
    Even the credits wowed me. All of those events with your Pokémon used at the time highlighted was an incredible touch and really helped personalize this as your journey. The ending fight with May I should have expected after what was done with AZ in XY, but after the harrowing fight I had just experienced, how I breezed past her was a little underwhelming.
     
    Finally there was that tease for Episode Delta, which I'll be starting sometime soon. I'll resume the blogging whenever that is. But all the tease left me feeling was an even stronger disdain for Norman as a character, as it kind of just reinforced him being a pretty deadbeat husband and father, which was an agenda I felt throughout it really. The actual start of it after restarting was... interesting. At least the black haired girl we inexplicably saw highlighted during the cutscene after beating/catching the mascot Legendary will seemingly matter now. It was still kind of out of place before, though, since we hadn't met her yet.
     
    My final team was:
     
    Glalie, Lv. 60
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 57
    Sigurd, Flygon Lv. 57
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 56
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 54
    Latios, Lv. 54
     
    ~|ET|~
  21. Ektris
    Let me start off by saying, yes, I misspoke yesterday - Flash was not an HM. But I still would have been helpful for Victory Road. I ended up not using it of course and it did strain my eyes to see where I was going... but at least it wasn't a lot I had to get through.
     
    The ending of Victory Road was fantastic. The changes to its scenery were beautiful, the music awesome, and fighting Wally felt important. It was a good fight too. He only managed to take out Hashirama (unfortunately), but sill wasn't boring.
     
    The rest of Victory Road kind of was, though. The wild Pokémon's levels just seem super low in the game. The trainers are higher and closer to mine (I don't think I overleveled that much...), but fighting any wild encounters just didn't seem worth it.
     
    Afterward I immediately set out to fix my Pokémon's moves, but remembered I now have the Eon Flute. So naturally I had to use that. Found what is probably where I can catch Cresselia, but didn't want to bother with it right now. Then removed all of their annoying HMs.
     
    So I didn't make too much progress, but it was some. I'll be trying out the Elite Four tomorrow.
     
    Glalie, Lv. 56
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 54
    Sigurd, Flygon Lv. 54 (Settled on this because seriously nothing else could come to mind acceptable... red bug eyes and green horns adorn both, so close enough?)
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 52
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 51
    Latios, Lv. 51
     
    ~|ET|~
  22. Ektris
    (Yes, Day 8 because I really didn't play for the past two days.)
     
    I have good news and I have bad news.
     
    First...
     
    I DID IT!!
     
    After SO MANY HOURS soft resetting, I caught an Adamant Groudon!! That took soooooooo long ugh. I literally got it as my 3DS was about to die too; it was my last attempt whilst flying today. I almost want to take back what I said about the difficult battle and the cutscenes. They're still awesome, but seriously Gamefreak... You know people care about natures. You wouldn't have introduced them in the original Ruby and Sapphire, ironically enough, if you didn't want people to care. Why do you have to keep making it progressively harder to get good ones on Legendaries though?
     
    But the real bad news... And it's going to start off not seeming so bad. Because I got an Eon Ticket! Almost... I did get an Eon Ticket in the Chicago airport..... buuuut.... I checked if I did while still checking for Groudon and didn't save, thinking I just could sync again or it would remember..... and I couldn't..... and when I went to the delivery lady at the Poke Center, all she had was Beldum, and no Eon Ticket......
     
    Oops. Hopefully I can still get it somehow...
     
    Ooooh! Also! How long has their been a Mega Stone in Littleroot? XD I saw that cutscene sooo many times and it just kept taunting me. But heyyy, got a Mewtonite X for the first time.
     
    I also beat Wallace! Mega Glalie + Freeze Dry = Beast. I stopped once I got to Victory Road. Seriously, I need Flash now too? :| NOPE. I wasted so many slots already on HMs that will need cleared, but I'm not touching that stupid one.
     
    Glalie, Lv. 53
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 52
    Flygon, Lv. 51
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 50
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 49
    Latios, Lv. 49
     
    ~|ET|~
  23. Ektris
    Bought a biiiit more than I was realizing I was doing this month. On top of the engagement ring heh. Oops.
     



     
    Ah, Assassin's Creed... Found the next wave of figures except Ah Tabai, strangely, who will now probably become my Haytham in that I'll keep telling myself I need to get him, but just won't. Speaking of, I finally got Haytham! xP They definitely are still far from perfect, but having Haytham right there next to them I can definitely see the improvements at least. Also, Rogue and Unity. Haven't played Unity much, but I honestly hadn't seen any of the major bugs plaguing it anyways. I've played much more Rogue and it's been great fun. Also fun, the music box that I go with Unity. Enjoying playing that way too much hehe.
     
    At long last I have a Masterpiece Optimus Prime. And got the Vector Sigma bonus item unexpectedly. That thing's cool. Prime himself is also pretty great and is even fun to play with for a Masterpiece. Plus Slog, so my team of Dinobot Bayrangers is nearly complete. SHF Blade King Form is also there just because he didn't fit in anywhere else lol. But he's one I've been after for a while and he looks gorgeous.
     
    Then there's the rest my games. Woah. Didn't realize I was getting so many this month. I already finished the two Walking Dead games (and blogged about it, but nobody seemed to care). And of course I'm still playing Omega Ruby (haven't in a few days for reasons, but my blogged journey will resume tonight). Smash WiiU I haven't even opened and MCC was only barely touched before I had to leave for a week... Also, I got a Marth Amiibo. Because Gamestop had a cancelled order so it was there, I used my PowerUp Rewards point finally to get $50 off on my order anyways, and why not? Apparently a hard one to come by. Looks cool. Now I want them all ha.
     
    ~|ET|~
  24. Ektris

    Engaged!

    By Ektris,

    Little busy from my usual loafing around today...
     
    Chose to finally ask my long-time girlfriend to marry me.
     
    She did indeed say yes!
     
    Soooo... yeah haha. Wow.
     
    ~|ET|~
  25. Ektris

    Pokemon Omega Ruby: Day 7

    By Ektris,

    I really did not play much today on account of Thanksgiving. Barely any progress was made as a result. One interesting note is I did finally find my first new Mega Stone with Sableite (not that it was hidden that well heh).
     
    The rest of my time was spent trying to get a good (read: Adamant) Groudon. Ohhhh boyyyyy... Mascot Legendaries are actually hard to catch! I am genuinely surprised but also please. Unfortunately the silly long cutscenes (only thought of as such since I have to keep doing it heh, otherwise they are cool) are not helping. So far I've not gotten one. And I'm going to keep doing it until I get the right nature, so... Next few days may be a bit boring heh.
     
    Team has not changed:
     
    Hashirama, Sceptile Lv. 49
    Glalie, Lv. 48
    Flygon, Lv. 48
    Latios, Lv. 47
    Altair, Swellow Lv. 47
    Abyss, Sharpedo Lv. 46
     
    ~|ET|~
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