Icelandic Water Dragon: “Unsolicited fact: the Johtonian Sneasel is the only Pokémon not native to Hisui that can be legitimately caught as an alpha. This thing’s gotta be pretty valuable!”
Icelandic Waters #1: “And then Z-A is going to bring a whole new region’s worth of alphas into circulation, and this thing’s value is gonna tank. That sucks.”
Icelandic Waters #2: Speaking of which, how are alpha Pokémon spawns going to work in Z-A? With wild zones the size of your living room, static spawns couldn’t sustainably work, and the 0.2-2% random alpha chance is too little to work with.“
Icelandic Waters #3: “But didn’t we get static alphas confirmed? In the trailers, I remember seeing an alpha Houndoom surrounded by Houndour, similar to the static spawning conventions we saw in LA. That thing is gonna massacre an entire generation of Mabostiff . . . or, in this case, Furfrou.“
If you have any more technical difficulties, I suggest that you ask @PkmnQ to get the cat out of the fridge. They're known to do things to your computer…
My friend’s cat is… special. She’s not the brightest. However, she LOVES her human dad and will do ANYTHING to get his attention. And I mean: anything.
One evening, we’re hanging out, watching TV. Human Dad’s laptop is open, on the coffee table. The cat decides that this! THIS is her chance to get her dad’s attention! So she leaps on the keyboard to sit there and stare at him.
He’s not paying attention, so she moves a little to get into a more comfortable position, and I eventually notice her little kitty butt is actually doing something. Windows are opening on his screen.
I point out that his cat is trying to get his attention, and he immediately peels her off the keyboard. He glances at the screen to make sure she didn’t break anything, before asking her:
Friend: “Wait…did you just update my audio drivers?!”
Cat: “Meow?” *Starts purring.*
Me: “Maybe she’s NOT so stupid after all!”
Friend: “I think I’m going to keep my electronics away from her, just in case she decides to update other things…”
~ The Opposite Of A Cat-astrophic Failure from Not Always Right
added a sound card on the VM and it “works”:
yeah there’s no sound, the xbox recorder thing doesn’t record it for some reason
Icelandic Waters #1: “I think I struck me some more gold, Pa.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: “. . . First of all, why is the Coyland map a partial screenshot? I really wanted to see the part where a stream of molten lava casually gradient-merges with the river. Second, why are the screenshots so high-contrast? (I manually retouched them, but it isn't perfect…)”
Icelandic Waters #2: *sees Mega Pack on the map; frantically tries to make up some dumb joke about Mega Evolution*
Pariki: “‘Die-hard fans adored your hands; they loved your throat and quote-unquote, “you”.’ This is the perfect sentiment to describe what has befallen
<272387>,<837272467>, the<367378-774748>, and now<63276962>. From my perspective, the line is a sentiment that says ‘we don't value you for who you are; we value you for what you are’.”Icelandic Waters #3: “I wonder how move fixation is going to work in Legends Z-A. In Arceus, they increased the move’s power when used consecutively, at the cost of decreasing defense. What if Z-A gave fixated moves a decreased cooldown? That would be awesome. And don't get me started on how useful Quick Attack will become…”
Absol gave us a warning we couldn't ignore.
Icelandic Waters #1: “I fully expect the ol’ ‘Tubers to have an exhaustive analysis of all the fresh gameplay footage ready by the time I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe I'll suffer insomnia again and get to watch the videos as they release. It is a Friday, after all…”
Icelandic Waters #2: “August and September span the annoying, dull twilight zone between summer and winter that we call autumn. And in Florida, it isn't even cold. I could really benefit from moving to a temperate climate where I actually need a sleeping bag to stay warm. Or maybe I could just get a better bedding arrangement . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Waters #1: “I fully expect the ol’ ‘Tubers to have an exhaustive analysis of all the fresh gameplay footage ready by the time I wake up tomorrow. Or maybe I'll suffer insomnia again and get to watch the videos as they release. It is a Friday, after all…”
Icelandic Waters #2: “August and September span the annoying, dull twilight zone between summer and winter that we call autumn. And in Florida, it isn't even cold. I could really benefit from moving to a temperate climate where I actually need a sleeping bag to stay warm. Or maybe I could just get a better bedding arrangement . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: *suffering insomnia*
Icelandic Waters #1: “‘Which legendary Pokémon would serve well as a pirate?’ If you hear anyone try to crack this joke, beat it to the nearest trebuchet. You do not want to know the answer.”
Icelandic Waters #2: “I know that the thermal overload strategy is what I'm supposed to be doing, but . . . it's really uncomfortable. Maybe we should invest in a better bedding solution . . . or some Stantler stuff.”
Icelandic Waters #3: “You can't control chaos with chaos. . . . uhh, no follow-up statement. Just a random thought. The garden is the Serpent’s place, I think.”
Icelandic Waters #4: “I can still smell seasoned meat on my breath. We’ll get there eventually; mark my words. We won't know what hit us, but we'll be glad that it did.”
FACT: Nintendo made a keyboard controller for the GameCube, which apparently worked. And now that we have the Nintendo Switch 2 charging grip with GL/GR buttons as a proof of concept, there is nothing stopping them from making a keyboard grip accessory. If that isn't enough to sell you, you could snap one Joy-Con to the keyboard to connect it to the Switch, then use the other as a mouse. Boom, you've reinvented PC gaming.
Icelandic Waters: *while browsing the RFCell* “I think I struck me some gold, Pa.”
Icelandic Water Dragon: “What a beautiful record of the Stick Pet Thread. A map complete with light fixtures, motion sensor nodes, and power-operated tunnels. And what was in the Room of Amazement? If my memory serves me well, I do believe it had something to do with . . . optics? Or perhaps magnetic machinery? Perhaps I can recycle this in some capacity…”
Icelandic Water Dragon: “Nighty morning! What's the best thing to do when you're having trouble sleeping? I can't be sure, but the best strategy might just be to get in sleeping conditions and artificially keep yourself awake until your body wants to go to sleep.”
Icelandic Waters: “I think we've found the spiritual successor to xkcd’s ‘You're out of ointment and out of time!’.”
Just as I’ve convinced myself that nobody is watching my inbox, and that it’s completely safe to hand out my email address for website registration . . . life throws me yet another curveball.
I would like to report that I sincerely hate this website even more. Not only does it hold your request ransom until you register or accept defeat, but it does actually process your request and display it behind a blurwall that can't be removed through HTML amputation. The result can be retrieved through an element inspector, but that can't be done on browsers that don't have one.
. . . heh, sorry; I'm just a little too worked up about the mechanical injustice of this website. Had to vent it somewhere.
I sincerely hate services that claim you don't need an account to use them, present you with forms to submit a request, then backstab you when you submit the form.
Nobody:
The Tesla app, when you let the nice people in suits and bowties babysit your car:
I seem to have the latent ability to crack innocent jokes that end up blowing up into a running gag. This afternoon, while playing in a Rain Meadow arena lobby, I pointed out that everyone was playing as Rivulet, and . . . let’s just say that things went a little overboard. The Chain Chomps biting their tongues joke and the entire Mineral Fish fandom are also in my ability’s portfolio.
This classified advertisement in a magazine is what I believe to have been my first encounter with the Pokémon franchise, and one of the reasons why I chose Pokémon Legends: Arceus as my entry point into the fandom. The copyright notice at the bottom of the page is dated 2009, and the other advertisements in the magazine, both classified and integrated, suggest that it was from the transition between the 3DS and the Wii. And after searching up this card collection, its release date aligns with the copyright year. My consensus is that these magazines were outdated by almost a decade when I first read them. Unless . . ?
It would be awesome if there were a device that could mimic a Nintendo Switch dock. Yes, I know that dockless docks are a thing, but this one would do so much more that just being a dock. It would connect to a computer running companion software, displaying full-quality, high-speed video that a capture card can’t match. It would be able to simulate a controller plugged into a dock’s USB ports, allowing you to use third-party controllers. If you connected it to Steam, you could configure controller inputs using the more advanced Steam Input system. And if you connect the client to Steam Link, multiple people would be able to play a local multiplayer game over the internet.