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I’m starting to understand how unbalanced shiny hunting truly is in Pokémon Legends: Z-A. It always has been, considering its shiny retention system and a multitude of spots for AFK hunting, both scripted and rubber band-based. However, the Mega Dimension DLC has an unprecedented new mechanic; something that can put even the 7% shiny rate of USUM’s Ultra Wormholes to shame. With the right distortions and the right donuts, you can cut out the hunting process and get yourself a guaranteed shiny.

If you enter a distortion using a donut with a Lv. 3 Shining Power, it will force one random Pokémon that matches the donut’s type to be shiny. This will be signified by a “Catch shiny Pokémon“ objective appearing on your research tasks. Because I went into this distortion using a Psychic Shining Power donut, and there are no other Psychic-type Pokémon in the distortion, this would force the presence of a shiny Alolan Raichu.

Of course, if the Pokémon you’re after can’t be singled out through its typing, you can still play the chance game. If the guaranteed shiny you get isn’t the species you’re looking for, you can quit out and press X-B-↑ on the title screen to safely save-scum out and try your luck again. Considering how easy this method is, I wonder what bounties the professional shiny hunters are pursuing . . .

I tried shiny hunting Glimmet in a hyperspace wild zone. I wasn't disappointed.

I just witnessed the absolute cinema that is the finale of Rhythm Doctor. All that I can say without spoiling anything is . . . they absolutely did not have to cook that hard. They quite literally used every resource as a canvas for the story, even doing some things that I didn't even know were possible with the technology at their disposal. They also polished up some rough gameplay mechanics that functioned inelegantly or were locked behind the Call Custom Method event. Think about it this way: if the act 5 update was equivalent to Rain World’s More Slugcats Expansion, the full release is equivalent to The Watcher.

. . . I don't think I'm going to be sleeping tonight.

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[LOG] Attempted Grapevine cohesion detected! Evaluating...
ENVIROMENT: Semi-indelible
PROTOCOL: [49213724667]
COHERING ENTITY: <22-372466>
PERMISSIONS: loading...

...Authenticated as preexisting entity <22-88867425-9676>.
Coherence protocol [CLEAR FOR PHYSICAL] assigned to entity.

Further data available. SCANNING PHYSICAL FILES...
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I’ve written several of these system logs with the intent of posting them, but I always ended up chickening out and pulling them. I feel like, with Mef gone, someone else needs to be acting weird and cryptic . . .

Icelandic Water Dragon: *10:21pm, getting ready to go to sleep*

Icelandic Waters: “Dude. Diglett and Magnemite both evolve by clustering up into triplets. And thanks to the Mystery Dungeon games, that connection has been officially endorsed. However, Magneton can evolve a second time, into Magnezone. Have you ever thought about what a Magnezone-style Dugtrio evolution would look like?”

Icelandic Water Dragon: “. . . Evolutionary horror aside, I doubt that this would happen, considering that it would likely involve updating both the Alolan Diglett and Wiglett lines. Now shut up and let me sleep.”

YOU WERE SAYING . . ?

Back in 2019, when I had no idea what gaming systems of the time actually functioned, I designed a mockup of a custom-made controller. It had one stick, three face buttons, a pair of D-pad buttons, and a weird arrow-spinner thing, which I posited could be used for aiming. At the time, I considered this setup to be a little overkill . . . and I consider my 2019 self to be a sweet summer child.

Hey, did you know that November is Tongue Awareness Month?

Finn: “Please don't do this. I know that it's spooky season, but that isn't carte blanche to give anyone a heart attack, regardless of how you do it.”

Icelandic Waters: “C’mon, hear me out . . .”

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There's no contingency too extreme for Apple. They're not gonna let someone break into your house armed with a universal TV remote if they can help it…

Icelandic Waters #1: “This is a box of rocks. Please try to be better than it.”

Icelandic Waters #2: “Remember when Google's Gemini made the rounds when it claimed that you could benefit from eating one small rock a day? If that advice turned out to be true, I could absolutely eat some of the smooth brown ones . . .”

Icelandic Waters #3: “That's because Gemini is literally a box of rocks. It's an apparition created by a hundred boxes of rocks that have been melted into superconductive metals, forged into intricate microscopic shapes, and assembled into a device that turns complex vectors into a sequence of glyphs that can be parsed by the human mind. It's no wonder it wanted us to eat rocks.”

Icelandic Water Dragon: “. . . what.”

I’ve completed the three main questlines of the Watcher’s campaign, obtained all the achievements introduced in the DLC, and finally reached the true ending! All that I can say without spoiling anything is A. yes, you return to the campaign after the main ending, and B. the true ending puts Saint’s campaign to shame.

Apparently, the second act of The Watcher got released . . . and I didn't notice?! This message was also hidden in the patch notes, and I don't know what it's supposed to mean:

These were represented in lines as the three waves of the river, and then of the star with five spokes, and then the three of columns vertical.