Man, the backstory in Pokemon Y (and presumably X but I don't know for sure) is surprisingly dark. Openly mentioning war and death and such. Things have changed quite a bit from the old days, apparently.

Not the part about your young trainer single handedly kicking the hell out of anyone and anything that gets in their way though, of course.

Holy cow did they make the newest incarnation of the EXP share nice. Key Item, doesn't have to be held, gives experience to the whole team if you have it active. That combined with any and all pokemon that actively participate in the battle getting full XP amounts instead of splitting it has made level grinding a far less annoying experience ( Read more... )

I suppose I've become a proper member of the QA team now, as people don't stop by to see if I need anything all the time anymore. In fact, I've sort of become the go to guy for one of the tool we use now due to my previous experiences in Operations giving me a much broader background with it than most other people have. My development team is very ( Read more... )

I think I've finally managed to break out of the Night Shift schedule and get myself fully integrated into a normal sleep cycle again. I miss having 4 days off, but the time at work is so much less bad now that I can deal with it. Also the fact that sleeping until like 8am feels like sleeping in now helps make those two days off last a lot more ( Read more... )

The new QA job is surprisingly demanding, but I think I'm keeping up with it alright. Several other life changes have all happened all at once and I haven't had a whole lot of free time to do much of my own stuff. Just writing a quick little entry to note that I didn't die or anything. Yet ( Read more... )

Well, it took about half the year but I suppose I actually managed to follow up on my New Years Resolution sort of thing for once! Next weekend will officially be my last overnight stint in Operations. As of 6/10 (well, really 6/14 but they want me to come in early to start training) I will be transferred over to the Quality Assurance department of ( Read more... )

Short little post because I haven't made one in a while and have a sort of amusing work story that I wasn't actually present for ( Read more... )

It's a pretty good game. If you liked the other Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games you'll probably like it...

...but dirty pool hiding a Braviary in a locked treasure room while my characters are only level 13, game. Dirty pool. Especially since my partner is a Grass type.

So, how's 2013 treating you all? Haven't really been doing a whole lot other than going to work and messing around with various video games lately, but figured I should check in anyway. Since going to work is boring, I suppose I'll talk about video games instead! Here are some things I've been playing recently ( Read more... )

So I've always heard that one of the more important steps involved in dealing with a problem you have is being able to admit to it head on. As I have a terrible memory and will likely forget if I don't have somewhere I can look to see it again... through firm but guiding words, cessball has forced me to accept that something I've known about myself is more ( Read more... )