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Me and my friend Luke from Wavedash played a lot of Pokemon Nuzlocke runs in the green room on tour. A Nuzlocke run is essentially just a custom ruleset intended to make the pokemon game series harder. You can alter the code of your game file, using a ROM hack on your computer, and you can make it so every single encounter with a pokemon is completely randomized. So you might be just starting the run leaving littleroot town or whatever and you might see a Rayquaza or something as one of the first pokemon you encounter. Every pokemon is randomized so even like other trainer battles you have no idea what you’re up against. And there’s a bunch of house rules that you follow while playing so like whenever your pokemon faints in battle, you can’t use them anymore so they’re essentially dead for good hahaha. Super good way to pass the time.
Aug 9, 2023
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The best part of the game was never the Pokémon themselves, but the schoolyard lies about the game that you & your friends would tell each other at recess. For example:
“Dude. If you manage to walk on every space in the game just once without repeating a step, you get deoxys at level 100 instantly.“
”you can get a shiny starter if you release your actual starter into the wild & complete battle frontier with completely involved Pokémon“
and then theyd show you their gamesharked cheat code pokemon & youd believe them & let your blaziken go.
I think my favorite is rayquaza. i Just remember thinking he was sick as hell.
Jan 5, 2025
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I'm playing Pokémon ultra violet and it's amazing -- basically a hacked version of fire red so you can do a bunch of extra stuff (including catch mew)
Apr 22, 2024
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Wow I think this one from Pokémon Red/Blue era will forever be engraved in my memory.
1. Talk to that boring guy in Veridian City
2. Immediately fly to Cinnabar Island and surf the cost, catch a Missingno Pokémon
3. ??????
4. Profit from wild duplication of whatever item is in your 7th position. Say hello to an unlimited supply of rare candy/master balls/whatever floats your boat.
Man I need to see if I can boot this up again next time I’m at my parents’ house.
Mar 18, 2024
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It used to be chopped cheese but I had one the other night and it made me feel ill for some reason. I’ve graduated to a spicy chicken cutlet on a roll with lettuce, tomato, chipotle mayo & banana peppers.
Aug 9, 2023
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My favorite manga I’ve ever read. Last summer I pulled an all-nighter and binged the entire thing in one go. Such a brutal read. Love exists in many forms and the way the manga explores this concept is so so stellar. Definitely a big inspo for me and a must read in my eyes. Whether you like shonen or not, it's undeniably great.
Aug 9, 2023
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My mom used to always shit on Billy Joel when I was little if he was playing on the radio. I think it was just a thing where all the mom’s in the area I grew up in New Jersey stanned Billy Joel and my mom, in a reactionary sort of way, was like “fuuuck that music.” But I'm going through a phase right now where I'm listening to a lot of pop rock from the late 70’s and early 80’s and was listening to “The Stranger” and it clicked so hard for me. I think Movin’ Out (Anthony’s Song) is like a near-perfect song.
Aug 9, 2023