Still hyperfixating on Pokemon and Sims 2

Sideblog for sharing stuff from games I'm playing. 95% chance it's gonna be Pokemon, Sims 2, or something farming sim-like, and then a bit of RPGing.

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Also doing a for-funsies playthrough of FireRed Expired and so far the expanded catch pools are pretty charming and the "undead Pokemon" bit isn't cringe yet, plus I do quite like the sprites and puns

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Apparently he works for Friendly Shop (denin=shop clerk seems like useful vocab to remember) that has convenient items from... Tokyo City?? (Tokio Shiti, am I reading that right??) This was just straight up Japan in the original versions huh?

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Route 1 is full of Koratta and Poppo... fuckin hell those names are SO CUTE

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I landed a critical hit and was looking up the exact phrasing and started ugly laughing

I know it's not the primary reading I know I KNOW but I am also every time gonna think of that time my Zenigame kicked my rival's Fushigadane in the dick

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And there's Fushigadane! God he's so fckin cute

And here we can see that taiatari is a noomaru type attack! alright you all know how ti goes from here

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Oh of course he's an "ore" kinda boy

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Getting a Pombon and naming him Missile

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Usually Hitokage is my boy, but I wanna swap around party members a lot in this playthrough so I can see a lot of different names, so I'm going with Zenigame this time since he learns two main TMs and can carry you pretty solid through almost the entire game. From reading aloud Hitokage's entry, I've learned that "shippo" means "tail" and thus a pun in InuYasha that's flown over my head for twenty years has been revealed, and that "kyouryoku" means "powerful", which seems like a useful piece of vocab to keep on hand for this game.

"Kono Pokemon wa honto ni genki ga iizo!" Genki mention! Ah, of course that's what got translated to "this Pokemon is really energetic!" in English. I'm not familiar with "iizo" but apparently it's an "attaboy!" kinda enthusiastic encouragement, which is very sweet.

My new son boy! Not giving him a nickname because I'm giving myself enough challenge reading names. So... Kougeki=attack, bougyo=defense, subayasa=speed (the number of times I mix up chi and sa....) and tokushu=special. Mizu=water is one of the few words I know already. He knows taiatari (ramming attack) and shippo wo furu (which I can now guess is tail whip). Important to remember which is which here.

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I found my screenshots from the end of our BG3 run, where OBVIOUSLY I chose my wife over the world

She's so fucking cool

LET'S GO LESBIANS

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new favorite tweet

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Boss edition

This one's really sad...

Besties <3

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Speaking of blood, this is Eat the Reich (2023).

I love conventional campaign play, but more and more, the things that get me really, really excited to read and play are short run games that are attempting to convey a specific experience. The cinematic scenarios for Alien and the SMS RPG Alice is Missing both come to mind. But now, holy cow, Eat the Reich.

You’re vampires. That’s a broader umbrella than you might expect but, you’re all monsters that eat people. And you’re air-dropped into Paris with one mission: to drink all of Hitler’s blood. Bonus: you get to carve your way through ranks of nazis in the ulta-est ultraviolent way possible on your way from Point A to Point B. Characters are pre-generated and aim to satisfy a range of individual play styles. The system is a fast, hard-hitting, high-powered dice-pool system designed make players feel incredibly strong and the nazis extremely squishy as they traverse (and destroy) points of interest on the way to their goal. And that’s the entire experience; three two-hour sessions of glorious nazi annihilation. Inglorious Basterds wishes it was this good.

Yes, it’s bombastic, cathartic wish-fulfillment and self-described propaganda and I have zero problem with it. It’s a joy to read — Grant Howitt’s prose makes the act of reading rules bizarrely entertaining. Few, if any, RPGs have this amount of zip. Will Kirby’s consciously excessive art ties it all together. There’s heaps of personality in every portrait, more than enough to fuel play for a pre-gen for a couple sessions. The book practically glows with an unholy magenta radiation.

And I know, they set out to deliver this very specific experience, and I shouldn’t expect more. But in the back, Howitt suggests several ways to hack the game. Go after Mussolini and Hirohito (the latter suggestion bears the header “HiroEATo”)! Team up with George Orwell against Franco! End the war, go back to the UK and drink Winston Churchill! I would pay good money for all these books.

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"Sanbiki" oh this is my new favourite vocab of the day, "-biki" is the counting suffix for small animals. Nibiki neko iru <3

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I will say, playing Pokemon in Japanese is making me take it more seriously than I usually do when playing for funsies

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Theeere's the zukan... of course there's real Pokemon zukan (picture books) aplenty, but there's "shiroi peeji" (white/blank pages" in these ones... :3

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"Oosoriti" Authority? Using the English word for authority to convey that he's an authority on something fantastical?

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"Ookido no Jiisan" I can't determine if this is familiar or just rude, and I'm also curious if there's a specific determiner in Japanese speech to make it clear whether you're just calling someone an old man or referring to them as your grandpa