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  1. Driz

    [Gaming] I Caught 'Em All

    By Driz,

    That's waaaaaay too much free time on my hands, I'll tell you that.
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    Hi.
    So yeah, I finally did it... I caught 'em all... And when I say "all", I mean just the original 150 ones. Honest to God, I wouldn't even dare to try and catch all of the recent Pokémon (what are they, like, 800+ now? I don't even know, dude).
    Basically, I've taken upon myself the "challenge", as one could say, of playing through the first Generation of the Pokémon games and actually capturing every single pocket monster possible. I used an emulator on the computer to do that: the Visual Boy Advanced, I think it's one of the most famous GBA emulators out there. And, I played through the FireRed & LeafGreen games. Which are technically Generation III, but more into that later.
    Here's what a month's worth of progress resulted in:
          
    Aside from the obvious fact that I was using an emulator to do that as previously stated, I actually didn't make use of any sort of hack, GameShark codes, or anything of the sorts. Each of the Pokémon, I manually searched for and caught in a legal manner, per say. I used the two games - FireRed and LeafGreen - to trade with myself some of the trade-only evolutions and exclusive version Pokémon as well. But that was pretty much it.
    This is technically Gen III, so all of the Pokémon from the Gold & Silver and Ruby & Sapphire games are there, but I didn't bother with them. I just aimed at the original 150 ones. Yes, the original 150 ones. There were only a hundred and fifty original Pokémon. I don't know any "Mew", do you know any "Mew"? Never heard of it. Yup. Only 150. Yessir.
    And at the end of the day, I gained absolutely nothing from performing this tiresome task. Except for some sweet, sweet bragging rights, which is really all I aimed for.
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    All jokes aside, though, this was only a nifty way I found to kill the time. It's also been one of my childhood dreams, and I never actually got around to do it. I know it won't amount to anything in my life except for a ton of precious time wasted, but it's one of those "useless life achievements" that sound pretty cool to me. I also streamed a portion of this journey of mine to some of my close friends and we had some fun together.
    So yeah... Cool beans.
  2. Driz
    *looks at past blog entries from 4 years ago*
    *cringes to infinity and beyond*
    I guess I'll just ignore them and pretend they don't exist?... Idk. Feels wrong to delete everything, being part of "my personal history" and all... Meh. Whatever.
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    Hi. I'm using the internet.
    To start this off, a little bit of background is in order.
    A couple of years ago, when I first became a part of the whole MLP community, I used to play a lot of Team Fortress 2 on the computer. And I mean, a lot of Team Fortress 2. For that reason, obviously I tried searching for some good ol' brony servers to play in. I found many, and stuck to some I found to be the most fun. In one of those servers, I made some of my best online friends that I still keep in contact to this day. We don't play TF2 much anymore, but we do play a bunch of other online games together (LoL, Smite, Overwatch, Minecraft, Terraria, etc.), just hang out and have a great time.
    As a group (say, we used to be 6 or 7 in total), nowadays we don't talk as much as we used to and sorta kinda drifted away from one another. But back then, when we did hang out a bunch, well... heh... hilarity ensued. These past few days I was speaking with one of these friends and we were reminiscing about the fun times we've had. We used to keep pages and pages of quotes and funny moments in our Skype group so we could always go back and have a laugh. Under this spoiler tab are some of my personal favorites, out of probably 100+ like these:
    They even have titles and everything!... How rad is that??...
    Some of these might not make a lot of sense and might seem to be just completely random and stupid. But - prepare for cheesiness - they do hold a special place in my heart. Those short strings of online texting remind me the times when our friendship was unbreakable. That a simple computer monitor and an internet connection were everything we needed to make our days brighter. It didn't matter that we never even saw each other in person, or that we live thousands of miles away from each other. We had fun. And when I look back at it, it was all thanks to the MLP community. We all met there and remained friends ever since. Who'd guess, huh?
    So yeah... here ya go.
    Here's a picture of someone's cat having a sandwich:

    Go away now.
  3. Driz
    It has been another long time without much activity on my part on the forums... I really gotta get back to normal. Anyway, how's it going, beautiful people?~
     

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    Recently, I've been thinking to myself a lot about this subject due to something that happened a few weeks ago while I was playing an online game, using my dandy Pinkie Pie avatar. As usual, a player tried to get on my nerves with the good ol' "gay brony" argument, only this time, I answered.
     
     
    I failed to take a screenshot of the chat box at the time, but it went something like this:
     
     
     
     
    This moment reminded me of how much I hate when the word "normal" is used in this context of judging the others. I honestly don't understand how one can have the right to say if someone is "normal" or not based on something so silly such as a certain passion towards a TV show, or even based on anything else for that matter. It's just stupid.
     
    What does it mean to be "normal" for a teenager like me anyway? It most likely means that I'm forced to like cars, sports, pop culture, InsertGenericTeenagerPassionHere, and all of the mainstream stuff in order to be accepted by my teenager buddies and by the society as a whole... WHY!? I didn't want to be afraid of saying that I like My Little Pony, but I am afraid, because I know I will be cruelly judged by the others if I do, because apparently it's something not considered normal!!
     
    At the same time though, I really don't mind being called weird since I would much more hate being called normal. I despise when this word is used to describe someone because It's just so wrong. Being normal means that you've fallen victim of the mainstream media just like most people. It means that you like and dislike things never based on your own opinion, but on the majority's opinion.
     
    Our society has built over the years this oh-so-dumb rule that decides what is normal and what is weird depending on your age and sex. It's true that we've been breaking those taboos little by little, such as "blue is a boy's color and pink is a girl's color", but we still have very much to learn about accepting the other's tastes and choices.
     
    I don't know if I will live to see the day when people are free to enjoy whatever they want without going through such prejudice...
  4. Driz
    I think one of the most important achievements for any Pokéfan in the world is to find a legit shiny wild Pokémon. Many people were already lucky enough to find theirs, so it's not really anything that biggie. For me it was though.
     
    After playing each of the Pokémon games throughout my entire life, not even once I was able to encounter a shiny. But finally, yesterday I did.
     
    While playing Pokémon White on an emulator, I bumped into this little dandy fella:
     
     
     
     
    I took a while to unpause the game after encountering it because I was way too scared of accidentally scoring a critical hit or something and kill it. But thankfully, my luck turned out strangely well and I was able to capture the Shiny Tympole.
     
     
     
     
    2013's gonna be a good year. :3
  5. Driz

    New personal record!

    By Driz,

    I managed to remember and write down the name of 144 Pokémon of the 1st generation out of the 151, without looking up anywhere. This beats my old record of 109! :3
     
     
     
     
    The only 7 Pokémon I somehow couldn't remember before I gave up were:
    Psyduck, Golduck, Krabby, Kingler, Tangela, Schyter and Pinsir.
     
    I may try with the other generations as well and see how far I can go~
     
    By the way, yes. I was bored. Very.
  6. Driz
    I want to share with you all a funny, yet embarrassing moment that I unconsciously got myself into last friday during my english class... *sigh*
     

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    We were doing a vocabulary exercise when we came across the word 'spread'. Of course I knew what it
    meant, but the teacher asked us - the students - to give examples of that verb in a phrase. The teacher pointed at me, and I accidentally said the first thing that, somehow, came into my mind:
     
     
    The entire class silenced and stared at me. I immediately realized what I had just said out loud and blushed like a tomato, looking away like nothing happened. After a few seconds of stuffed background laughs and face-palms, we resumed with the exercise.
     
    And now I ask... Why? Why did my perverted teenager brain had to be activated in that situation? I could have given any other example rather than that extremely awkward one! D:
  7. Driz

    Overcoming my shyness.

    By Driz,

    It's been a while since I last blogged... How's it going, everyone? :3

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    I'm usually a very, very shy guy. I lack confidence and I'm always worried about what others will think of me after every single word I say. Because of that, I hardly go out with friends. In fact, I hardly have any true friends with who I can spend most of the time together. This has been bothering me for years now, but I feel like I'm slowly fighting back my oh-so-strong shyness. Today was a bright example of it.
     
    There is this Japanese guy in my English class. He must be around 20 years old. In class, I rarely ever start a conversation with the other students. Whenever I have to work in pairs, for instance, I speak, but without making any eye contact - I just keep staring at my notebook like the introvert I am. But today I somehow managed to build the guts to talk to this guy.
     
    I really like Japan: the music, the technology, the anime, et cetera. During our five-minutes break, I started a conversation with a very usual question: Where exactly in Japan are you from. He answered Osaka, and I mentioned that I had heard about the city. I then proceeded to talk about everything I knew and loved about Japan, like Pokemon and Vocaloid, and we ended up spending the whole break talking and discussing and laughing - the teacher had to interrupt us in order to resume the class. I was just so happy proud of myself.

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    During my second class, which is way more crowded than my first one, I happened to notice that the new girl sitting in front of me had a Soul Eater necklace, which is one of the anime's main icons and also resembles the character Shinigami. Hell, it felt like I'd just met a fellow brony - in that case, a fellow otaku.
     
    Hands sweating, it took a while for me to think of something to say without sounding like a creeper of some sort. A few minutes before the class finished, I swallowed my 'fears', glanced over at her necklace and said: "Soul Eater, eh?". She stared at me for a second, then at her necklace, then back at me. She then grinned and said "yeah" - she seemed to be as shy as me. The conversation stopped there, but now I feel like we can talk more about it next time.

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    It may sound silly, but I feel like I've opened a few doors today. I've managed to start a conversation with some people I found interesting and it feels like we're not strangers to each other anymore - we're friendly and have a few things in common. Nothing big happened yet, like exchanging Facebook or anything like that. But as I said, we're not stranger to each other anymore. I'll make sure to smile at them everyday and talk to them until we build a true bond of friendship.
     
     
     

    Until the next time,



    "Your faithful member" Driz the Star.


  8. Driz
    Welcome to my very first blog entry. This certainly won't be anything daily, but I'll try and post as often as I can depending on the feedback and the happenings during my day.

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    So... Today I went for a walk after school - something I rarely do. There were two guys in the house reforming the bathroom and the living room, so going out was something smart to do. I took off my jacket, grabbed my phone, iPod, keys and wallet and went out.
     
    It was sunny, and much warmer than the morning of that same day. I was heading to the town square, where I would chill a bit and think about my next stops. But right after my first turn down the street, I was already approached by a random guy. He looked like a salesman of some sort and I wouldn't ignore him regardless, so I took off my earbuds to listen to what he had to say.
     
    He came to me and asked if I was 21. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I said no. He then asked me how old I was, and again without thinking straight, I replied 17. The guy then lifted his fist and said "Okay man, have a nice day!". I bumped fists with him, still a bit astonished by the sudden weird questions. I replied with a "thanks, you too" and went back to my walk. I still had no idea what were those questions about, so the only thing I did afterwards was laugh and think: what a nice guy. He brofisted a complete stranger, and that somehow made my day brighter. I wish I had the guts to go around greeting everyone like this, because these are the little things that make you smile during your ordinary and boring everyday routine.

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    When I arrived the square, there was a group performing. They were from Zimbabue, and they were singing and dancing to various songs from their home country. It was somehow fantastic. You could feel the energy and happiness from their dances, and you could only imagine a party in Zimbabue, where everybody gets around and dances like that. It was really fun. Again, if I had the guts, I would join them right there. But the only thing I could do was put the few pennies I had in my pocket into their basket and continue my walk.
     
    I was getting hungry, so I thought for a moment and decided to go have lunch at McDonald's. Afterwards, I went to the grocery store to buy some stuff my sister had asked me to. These were eggs and bread. I searched for a while, and soon found the groceries I needed and took the smaller queue I could find. The cashier lady looked really happy. She greeted me, I greeted her back and put my items on the counter. After paying, she smiled warmly at me and said "Thank you very much! Have a nice day!". Again, I replied with a nervous "thanks, you too". At that point, I already had the biggest smile pasted on my face. Two people had already wished me a nice day, so the least I could do was have one. I stopped to watch the dancers in the square one more time, and went back home.

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    Before going back, I looked at the clock. I had been in the streets for roughly one hour and a half only, so I decided to chill a bit more. I took a seat on one of the various benches that were placed in front of a mini-mall, and faced a woman who was also sitten. I stared at her for a moment, expecting her to notice me, so I could give her a big and warm smile, but she was too busy texting on her phone to look around. After a few minutes, she stood up and walked past me, still texting and still ignoring me. Too bad I couldn't share my nice day with her. Soon after, I stood up as well and resumed my walk back home.

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    And that was my experience!
     
    I noticed how small and harmless acts of sympathy and happiness can interfere positively in one's day. The least people can do is smile.
    It may sound kinda dumb and rather childish, but it works. Just try sharing your happiness with every and anybody and you'll see what I mean. 
     

    Until the next time,



    "Your faithful member" Driz the Star.


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