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  1. Pahrak Model ZX
    Sun and Moon are legit, and on 3DS (thank God!)! And judging by how the video was only citing games which began a new Generation when it was leading up to the announcement, it sounds like it really is Gen VII! This adds new questions, but hey, new Pokemon! This year! On a system I have!!
     
    Not only that, but the Virtual Console games will be compatible with Pokemon Bank! It only mentioned moving the Pokemon from the VC games into Sun and Moon, so I don't think they'll be able to get to your Gen VI games, but that's still really good news! I think I'm actually going to play one now!
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    Nevermind

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    Good news: we had an Office disk and I set that up with little issue.
     
    Bad news: the computer just crashed again.
     
    But I got about 24 hours out of it. I guess I can just reboot it every single day, it's better than nothing and it's not like I can actually afford a new computer.
     
    I'm completely fine with this series of events.
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    Tournament Tales

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    Technic Tournament 3 & Knuckles is on its Title Match right now, and I’m laughing.
     
    Partly out of rage at how the RNG seems to highly favor that wretched, boring, Sue-like shark over our challenger, I’ll admit.
     
    But mostly over this other thing.
     
    So, this time around, each player only gets one attempt at promotion during the Title Match—that’s it. You have one chance to bring in money for your fighter, and after that, all you can do is wait. Most people are doing what they’ve been doing even before this rule went into effect: throwing all their money in at once. Because of the additional multipliers I’m using on Title Match rolls, nearly every attempt is bringing in millions—Lucina brought in over 21 million alone.
     
    And then there’s this post, and the fact that it resulted in a whopping 4 W.
     
    Keep in mind, Luroka is the entire reason Pridak is in Technic Tournament, requesting the fighter when I announced the first tournament even though I had already decided on the roster so I decided to put him in Tournament 2. (A mistake, I now realize, but that’s neither here nor there.)
     
    So I can only envision all these investors meeting up at the Tournament facility, waving around giant wads of cash, and then Luroka walks in—Pridak’s number one fan, they think, the one who will ensure the shark’s victory. And he just pulls out one dollar. Sets it down on the table. We all stare at him as the ad airs, and we find out that it has sold almost half a ticket.
     
    And it gets better, because this is actually a great tactic! Because if Pridak wins, then all 50 million-ish Widgets this match has made is going to get divided up equally amongst Pridak’s supporters, most of whom currently have no money to their name and will be tied. But Luroka, who only sold half a ticket, has a 700,000 W lead on them.
     
    I’m not kidding when I say this has renewed my passion for running this game. Technic Tournament 4 in 3D just got moved up.
  5. Pahrak Model ZX

    Picking a Title

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    So I mentioned I was writing a new fanfic. I’ve made some progress, but I’d like to settle on a title for it, and I’m not 100% sure about anything I’ve managed to come up with.
     
    It takes place on Spherus Magna 100,000 years after the reformation and the Great Beings’ civil war. Society is still struggling to recover, the feeling of hopelessness is all anyone knows, and the Toa, now all products of the Red Star, are too ashamed of what they’ve become to inspire anyone. A small team sets off to investigate a strange temple, discovering a crystal tied to one of the Principles followed by the Matoran in ancient times—and are told they must seek out the rest, for Velika’s final experiment has awakened at last, his sights set on reducing the broken remains of the world to absolute nothing.
     
    Every title I’m kicking around at the moment involves two of “Inika”, “Crystal”, and “Renaissance”/”Rebirth”, and that alone has a lot of possibilities. But I’m not totally sold on any of them and am open to other suggestions. Some of the titles I’m giving the most consideration to are:
     
    -Crystal Renaissance
    -Renaissance Inika
    -Crystalline Rebirth
     
    So I don’t know. Does anyone have any thoughts?
  6. Pahrak Model ZX
    To be more accurate, I reset the entire computer. Took about seven hours in all, so I'm glad I didn't have anything to do today!
     
    But I backed everything up on a USB and things seems to be running faster now, so hopefully this is all over, thank you God. Only things I've lost are my saved passwords (most of which I remember), my bookmarks (eh), my save data for Steins;Gate (I still have the physical copy so I can just replay it), a few fonts (like anybody could read my Matoran documents anyway), and, the one that really sucks, Microsoft Office. Hopefully we still have a disk lying around somewhere, but if not, buying a new Office is far cheaper than buying a whole new computer.
     
    Hopefully this won't affect anything, but who knows what else could go wrong. The only foreseeable issue is that I'm afraid to try editing my documents, it says it might not save correctly, but I'm sure I can work around this and finish up Technic Tournament 3.
     
    Fingers crossed.
  8. Pahrak Model ZX
    A brand new Pokemon has been revealed!!
     

     
    "Magiana" is said to be a Pokemon created by humans 500 years ago, and is set to debut alongside Volcanion in this year's movie! We've yet to be given any information on its type or ability or anything like that, but still, this is huge! (My money's on Bug/Steel)
     
    It's looking like Gen VII might begin as soon as next year! Which also means that Pokemon Z is almost definitely releasing this year! And might mean Sinnoh remakes as early as 2018!!
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    Unity Mode

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    Rising Wing is the best Link Style
     
    Also Ikir is the best Creature
     
    And Riku is the best childhood rival/love interest
     
    (The sad thing is this is the biggest accomplishment I've made this month so far.}
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    Technic Tournament 3 & Knuckles has officially begun!
     
    Players can join whenever, but it’ll only get harder to catch up with each round that passes! Round 1 will last for one week, and then all following rounds will last only four days at most. Your best shot at ending up with the highest profit is by joining before the first round ends!
  12. Pahrak Model ZX
    I feel like the next anime I watch should be a mecha series, since it’s been a while since I really enjoyed a mecha series. Gurren Lagann was overhyped, and even if you count Robotics;Notes it was disappointing, just so, so disappointing.
     
    Anywho.
     
    Does anyone have mecha anime recommendations? And if you recommend something big like Gundam please also recommend a starting point, I get overwhelmed easily and require directions.
  13. Pahrak Model ZX
    Well, it’s February. You know what that means!
     
    But for the sake of having a long blog post I’m going to pretend you don’t.
     
    It means that if you go to GameStop you can get a Mew. I believe this one is a serial code distribution, so you’ll need to ask at the counter.
     
    Also someone should set the serial code card under a truck and take a picture, it would be funny. Just remember to pick it up afterwards, littering is bad.
     
    Now go get Mew.
     
    721 HERE WE COME!
  14. Pahrak Model ZX
    TECHNIC TOURNAMENT 3 & KNUCKLES will launch Tuesday, February 2nd!
     
    Make sure you collect enough rings before then so you can enter the Special Stage, we need those Chaos Emeralds!
     
    Also you can reserve a spot in the comments if you want. You can even put together a profile now if you’d like, or you can just put down your name and wait until the topic is live to do the profile.
     
    For the profile: you have 13 points to distribute between the four methods of promotion, and each line has a bonus for certain promotions. If you promote a fighter using the method their line is tied to with the below affinities, you will have a greater chance of success, but if you use a different method, you’ll make more Widgets if you do succeed.
     
    -TV Commercial works best for Bionicle (both G1 and G2)
    -Radio Ad works best for Hero Factory and Knights Kingdom
    -Internet Campaign works best for RoboRiders and Exo-Force
    -Magazine Ad works best for Slizers and Galidor
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    I can't believe it...it's...
     

     
    Handles, the greatest companion in the entire Doctor Who franchise!
     
    (The weird thing is I don't even have Lego Dimensions. God bless the kind soul who put the Dalek's instructions on YouTube, since they weren't in the glorified catalog they call a manual, grumble grumble...)
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    Movies?

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    Obviously the only movie that's going to be worth seeing this year is Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions
     
    I'm not sure why you would bother wasting time on anything else
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    HEART OF THE CAAAAAAAAARDS
     
     
     
    OR WHATEVER THE HECK THEY SAY NOWADAYS, ISN'T IT SOMETHING ABOUT THE SKY?
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    I'm kidding of course, that point has to be made absolutely clear
  18. Pahrak Model ZX
    So Technic Tournament 3 & Knuckles should be good to go, and I guess I'm just about ready to host it.
     
    I'll make another post with the official date once I pick it, but for now, does first week of February sound like a good time to shoot for?
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    I don't know why I don't see more people excited for this game, just look at the roster we've got so far:
     
    -Charizard
    -Pikachu (and Pikachu Libre)
    -Machamp
    -Gengar
    -Mewtwo (and Shadow Mewtwo)
    -Suicune
    -Sceptile
    -Blaziken
    -Gardevoir
    -Garchomp
    -Lucario
    -Weavile
    -Chandelure
    -Braixen
     
    And you get to control them all directly. To beat the poffins out of each other. With their fists (or whatever they have in place of fists).
     
    Like forget Pokemon Go I just want Pokken Tournament.
  20. Pahrak Model ZX
    So in case you didn't know, 2016 is Pokemon's 20th anniversary.
     
    Turns out one of the things they're doing to celebrate is, throughout the year, have official distributions for every Mythical Pokemon from Gens I through V.
     
    That's Mew, Celebi, Jirachi, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Keldeo, Genesect, and Meloetta.
     
    (And of course Volcanion's probably going to be distributed this year too.)
     
    So yeah. Get your Pokedexes ready.
     
    721 HERE WE COME!
  23. Pahrak Model ZX
    Okay, if I’m going to rework Divine Strength, the backstory’s probably a good place to start.
     
    Now, the idea had always been that the Queens didn’t always exist. I mean, their goddess forms more or less always did, but they lived in an ethereal realm separate from the material one, and humans knew about them through occasional visions and such. At some point the two realms started to merge, bringing magic to the material realm. Eventually, this process resulted in the goddesses appearing in the material realm, but since they had no material bodies they would have dissipated and died if not for being placed within the Crowns. This is where the age of the Queens began.
     
    I was also going with the idea that the Queens initially waged frequent wars with each other, leaving the land in a very chaotic state and possibly leaving much of the landscape devastated. At some point, they came together and established a truce which has persisted up to the time the story is set to start. But, I guess I never really put much thought into why they made such a huge change…so, combining this with a desire to try out some other non-Queen related magical creatures, I have an idea.
     
    What seems most logical is that there was something so dangerous that the Queens knew they had to work together to defeat it, and the age of peace arose in the wake of that. So, some sort of magical creature was unleashed! The idea right now is that four terrible creatures appeared: one from the north, one from the south, one from the west, and one from the east. (Not entirely sure what kind of creature…my first thought was serpents, but that might be a bit too obvious. Now I’m tossing together weird hybrids and seeing how that goes.) These creatures thrived on the chaos the Queens were engulfing the world in, and so they advanced upon this land and turned chaos into utter ruin. Now, this could range from just destroying things to literally consuming reality as they advanced, I haven’t decided yet. The Queens are unable to stop the creatures on their own, and so decide the only way they can prevail is by working together. Luring the four monsters to one spot at the center of the region ruled by Queens, the monarchs combined their powers in a fateful battle, eventually slaying the creatures!
     
    …But, for a little more intrigue, maybe the Queens weren’t able to totally kill the creatures, probably because they were born from the primal force of destruction that can never be truly destroyed or something. (“You cannot destroy me, for I am nothing” and all that.) So the Queens dragged the fallen creatures back to the four edges of their region and sealed them away—the Queen of the Sea trapped the western creature at the bottom of the ocean; the Queen of Fire plunged the creature from the east into a massive volcano; the Queen of Ice froze the northern creature in a mountain cave so cold that only those born of magic could endure it; and the fourth creature was lost to the southern forests, its location known only by the Queen of Nature. The Queens agreed that they must cease their senseless violence, knowing it would only give new life to the four wretched creatures. (They need a group name…The Ruinous?) A truce was called, symbolized by a neutral meeting place being built on the grounds where the creatures were slain—the Hall of Ether, a place filled with magic that made violence within its walls totally impossible. The Queens began to rebuild the world, and the creatures passed into legend.
     
    Now, a concern of mine here is that, if these super evil creatures are around, I feel like there will be an expectation that they’ll all be revived or something for the plot/climax. And, I don’t want them to totally override the plot, though they’ll probably become relevant somehow. Plus the abomination-sounding names I’m coming up with at the moment might be a little too silly. (Norsklantal, Sojethalat, Esvayila, Wezgyan…it’s hard coming up with something that has few/no Google results…)
     
    I am starting to like the sound of “The Ruinous”, though…
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    100%...ish?

    By Pahrak Model ZX,

    You remember Bionicle Heroes? That was fun. I mean, it’s kind of a terrible game, sure, but it was still fun to explore Voya Nui and blow it up and stuff.
     
    After I beat the game I put it down for a while, until a few years later I picked it up again in a quest for 100% completion. I emptied out the shop, upgraded all the Toa, and combed through every zone, smashing tons of enemies and collecting every canister I could find. It was magnificent…until I couldn’t figure out how to get the last Golden Canister in the second jungle level. I triggered the black constraction with Vezon, but I couldn’t figure out what it unlocked. I looked at the 99% on my file, sighed, and moved on.
     
    But recently, I was perusing some videos of the game on YouTube, and the truth was discovered! This particular player was replaying the levels as well, and this was one of the few canisters they hadn’t gotten and they too had difficulty finding the path, so I feel much better about the whole thing. Anyway, I dug out my PS2 on Christmas and finally captured that final Canister! (Sidenote: I am way too accustomed to HD, I could barely see a thing.) It was the absolute last thing I needed, so 100% achieved, right?
     
    …No, the 100% achievement wasn’t given to me. So, I replayed the Vezon battle! The results screen initially showed the achievement as unlocked, then produced a locked icon that it then threw onto the board where that particular achievement was. Wow.
     
    So I’m not really sure what happened, I guess I’ve encountered a glitch or something, but I know in my heart that, after nine years, I’ve finally 100% completed this game, even if the game itself refuses to admit it.
  25. Pahrak Model ZX
    This year freaking sucked.
     
    But, the real point of this entry is to catalogue which new series I started following this year, so let’s just get on with that.
     
     
    -Bionicle Generation 2: Surprise surprise. I mean, sure I have some complaints, but I like the general feel and am optimistic about the future.
     
    -Fire Emblem: I played Awakening early this year and could not put it down. We’ll see what happens with Fates I guess.
     
    -Cromartie High School: My sister had been telling me to watch this for about a year, and I finally felt like sitting down and marathoning it. (Each episode is about 11 minutes, there are 26 total, it’s an easy one-sitting anime). My gosh. It took me quite a while to get acclimated since the whole point of the show is totally absurd humor—it has the strangest opening of anything I’ve ever seen, and I play Kingdom Hearts! Once I was warmed up, though, I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was definitely worth the time.
     
    -Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun: This one I came to like much more quickly since I enjoy seeing tropes called out and made fun of, and possibly because I related to the characters a bit more. The super-catchy opening certainly helps.
     
    -One-Punch Man: Everyone kept singing its praises and I thought it might be nice to watch something popular while it’s airing, so I caught up about half-way through the season. (Of course, I still need to catch up on the rest…) There are some funny bits, some cool stuff…I’m definitely invested, but with how popular it is I can’t help but feel like I was supposed to be more into it than I currently am. Might just be a case of overhype setting my expectations too high, so I’m trying not to be too hard on it. I really should finish it.
     
    -Dragon Ball Super: Yes, at the moment it’s just rewriting the past two movies, but it’s still been a lot of fun to watch, even with only minimal changes. Also my parakeet really enjoys the opening. I’m really looking forward to the next arc when we get totally new material—what we’ve been told about it so far is looking interesting.
     
    -While I technically started watching Steven Universe last year, it was this year that I really got into it. It’s a good show. Lots of super cool magical people with interesting powers, and it does subtle foreshadowing in a masterful way. (Though, after the plot twisting nonsense I’m used to I might just be easily impressed when things actually make sense.)
     
    -It’s kind of cheating but I have to mention Star Wars Episode VII because my gosh I love it. I got a ways into the movie before deciding whether I liked it or not, but I like it, I definitely like it. I’m sure it’s still too soon to go into the details, but…go see it.
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