Lurker > Grimlyn

only realizing the other day that animating my existing L2D works perfectly fine for emotes

https://streamable.com/8irogl

not that I can use it for everything but heyyyy easy animated emotes!

mrehehe thanks lensyyyy

going online for some FFXI Returners Campaign in a bit!

Mega_Mana posted...

Congratulated an old coworker on a graduation snap she took.

"Thank you my little sister!! So proud lol"

And those two seconds where I didn't realize she was talking about who was actually graduating.....

But that totally means nothing st sll :p

much like the ex, they're all in the same absolutely abhorrent circle tied together

he's also in hatemonger discord groups I've definitely glanced the n-word on

I do wish he'd just get his own place again and everything can be his own problem but he blows all his money on his friends and has no concept of paying bills, which is why our mom was on the hook for much of his rent in the last place until she had enough. and now he hasn't been paying any rent to our dad since like january

pokemon progress woah I totally did not remember Poison is weak to Bug in gen 1 (and apparently vice-versa here too oops)

currently going through Route 3 to Cerulean marking ever dialogue so I can convert it to sim

gbro update

you might remember a few nights ago he came back after like a 5-6 night stay in toronto that ended up with a hospital visit as he came back bloodied & beaten

4 days later, this thursday night, he leaves again lol despite having an appointment with our family doctor tomorrow we're expecting a call for in the morning

literally just left ~11:15 (note yes he's still under curfew bail conditions to be here by 11) so gdad's a nervous wreck about it now realizing what he just did. he's apparently back with his ex, who literally has multiple ongoing charges against him (one of which being a breach of bail condition not to see her anymore that she reported him on last year, a bail condition for a different charge she put on him late 2022) so yeah gdad is furious - not just as a dad who doesn't wanna see their son go to jail, but also on the hook as gbro's surety who is actually supposed to report lest he forfeit I think it was a 10k bond to keep him from jail during the court process

also yeah as much as I say gbro is a horrible horrible person, he very much picks his girls to match because this "ex" has some sorta stabbing fetish, she's a russian white nationalist afraid of CRT infecting Russia. gbro's been stabbed numerous times from her already, even learning how to stitch himself up for it, so it's very much likely his recent bloody incident over the weekend was from her, and yeah she actually has charged him starting this whole situation and she already did the thing where she says it's okay and forgives him and then calls the cops that he broke his no-contact agreement so like uh obviously that'll just happen again and this time gbro would be entirely out of rope to keep himself from prison

meanwhile me and gsis are of course just of the feeling like yeah he's gonna do what he wants to do, our parents should understand it's already a foregone conclusion. there is absolutely no scenario in which he reigns himself in from this shit

*edit* lmao minutes after I hit post he's back?? I couldn't hear what he went out to do but he was gone for an hour and it's not like there's anything to do around here

sigh

*edit* .... after I post that update gdad comes in and asks if I heard any of that, then informs that uh he just left again. the fuck? I asked if he knows what he left for or why he had to leave again and gdad doesn't know

all I could hear in the short period he was back was gbro saying "I just got the time wrong"

... partnership? lmao

definitely relate to just wanting to use later movepools because that's what I did lmao, the original games are just so lacking in the options - like I said holy wow that Mankey's only fighting move is Seismic Toss which only does set damage

trainer & partner editing all set now! lmao okay yes I added partner changing to anyone in your party because it's so funny how I have it - if your Partner is changed, the old one fades away and the new one drops in, running until it catches up to their trainer (within 75 pixels difference)

!pkmn sprite check
!pkmn sprite list
!pkmn sprite list 2
!pkmn sprite set rocket_lyra
!pkmn partner check
!pkmn partner set 2

Brock's gym is wild for Charmander trainers, particularly in Red/Blue since like the only thing you can catch that isn't resisted is Butterfree's Confusion

Yellow at least gives the Nidos Double Kick muuuch sooner (from lv43 down to lv12) and puts Mankey in Route 22 (... also uh giving it a Fighting move, because in R/B it only learns Seismic Toss lv33 lol).

at least tho Let's Go games Rattata learns Bite which is now Dark as well so that's another. FRLG Charmander getting Metal Claw at 13 is also crazy.

my poke command I'm using the HGSS movepools, so you get the Double Kicks lv9 + Rattata Bite lv10

... tonight I gotta finally add content past Pewter City because omg this region of Pokemon is burned in my skull rn

you can pick from currently 37 sprites

red blue gold silver crystal ruby sapphire leaf diamond pearl platinum lyra black white blake whitley, retro red, retro gold, retro silver, rocket gold, rocket lyra, then all the multiplayer avatars from DP (ace m, karate guy, psychic guy, schoolboy, roughian, maniac, bug catcher, rich boy, ace f, battle girl, beauty, lass, cowgirl, idol, socialite, lady)

partners can only be your starters, pika/raichu, eevee/lutiuons, legendary birds, or mew(two)... although I have a back-up that if your partner somehow isn't one of them, it's the RBY rhyodon sprite

next up tho I still gotta input a command to select your sprite, and set it so your starter choice becomes your partner (not concerned about choosing your partner pokemon atm, although I guess pikachus could be used if I did)

pokemon commands update - players popping up with partner pokemon when using the command, will stop and idle when their battles pop up

https://streamable.com/ou8lo6

the players should last 5 minutes from spawn, reset every time a command is used

technically only the overlay programming is done I still gotta actually send the responses from the python script

Horizons dub (ep28), aka all of Pokemon, all caught up. It's getting kinda better, still frustrating how crowded it is, the protagonists aren't getting much progression (at least Liko finally caught her first, Hatenna

Just now went back to dug up the last Journeys special tho, Distant Blue Sky... and oh wow it's an incredibly heartwarming episode. Like this is probably my favourite Special? Man, jI feel like I'm being too down on Horizons maybe from watching so much but then I see this and I'm just like nah this here is a good episode.

also has a tease of Ash seeing his dad lol, and a nice gag about a Mankey stealing a hat again. But overall this ep's a tearjerker, Ash even really nails the emotions which is pretty rare with him kinda being an aloof Goku all the time. This is such a better send-off to Ash than the Journeys finale was, even nudged his design juuuust a bit closer to his original which I wasn't expecting for a one-off special

still gotta watch Twilight Wings, Hisuian Snow, Paldean Winds, then I guess Concierge tho

my twitter account was almost entirely Switch uploads but yeah I've phased off if it long ago so I'm ready

wifi transfer is frustrating tho

bit confused, Bulbapedia says eps 13+ aren't dub broadcast yet but I've finished that and now see there's at least 28 episodes dubbed *shrug* googling I guess the issue is Bulbapedia specifically lists it as "US broadcast" and I guess that's specifically meaning Netflix batches? if so wow Netflix sucks why is it so far behind, even the next batch in a couple days won't catch up to what's actually broadcast in English

as for the show ehhhhhh disappointed so far tbh. it really doesn't feel like much of a Pokemon show, I DESPERATELY miss journeys with a goal and this many episodes in there really isn't any. I didn't expect the show to be so spread out across a bunch of characters, not even just Roy but a whole ass team of the Rising Volt Tacklers, 6 whole ass people with varied levels of engagement, but Friede is certainly a big player and it's like wtf you're an adult

I wish they'd just cut it to the trio of starter kids - Liko, Roy & Dot

and yeah so far I don't really get anyone's goal. what are the Rising Volt Tacklers... for? there's a few mysteries about the Ancient Pokeballs and Liko's pendant but it doesn't seem to be what they're actually about, Liko & Roy are stumbling more into it on their own like oh Liko's dad made an art book of a black Rayquaza he heard in tales and that's what came out of Roy's mysterious Ancient Pokeball or whatever

seriously tho fuck off Friede why are you so prominent oh right because you have a Pikachu & Charizard, of course

also Roy is just an Ash clone, while the Evil Team is uh bizarrely serious, it's like a staggering contrast of Team Rocket actually being fun/likeable

when the ending of an episode completely wins me over the rest of it - 2nd last episode of Journeys, the Latias that's been following Ash/Misty/Brock during this mini-arc comes out and saved him last episode, and this episode shows a Latios in trouble the gang go save

anyways, the ending, the Latias & Latios fly away somewhere and Ash & the game talk about it, "I wonder where they're going", "somewhere safe", then we get a scene of the Latis flying away to their home in Pokemon Movie 5 (Heroes), with the girl that Latias likes to transform into, Bianca, is waiting there

soooo this Latias was the Latias that kissed Ash in the movie, wish Ash recognized her earlier! always happy to get movie connections, which the show has definitely given up for forever by now lol

annnd held off on posting til I watched the final ep as well - I'M DONE! Jan 13th to May 8th to watch Ash's entire journeyyy. actually I may be able to finish what's available of Horizons too brb

but finale episode itself eh it's fine, doesn't really feel like a big fanfare. Team Rocket snags Pikachu, Ash doesn't have anyone else with him, Pidgeot returns to save the day which oh hey buddy nice. Gary asks Ash what he needs to do to become a Pokemon Master now that he's become Champion and Ash wonders the same thing. Episode ends with Ash's mom going to wake him up and he's already left for an unknown new journey.

furious that Serena only had ONE episode in Journeys (they showered her one other time cheering for Ash's championship match with no lines). just that one episode I mentioned earlier where they don't even meet up until the very end as Ash goes. BULLSHIT. Every other partner across Ash's journey has had an episode with him but Serena's the one they skimp out on? booooooo. When I saw that episode I thought okay there's many more to come surely they'll bring Serena back for more but NOPE and I hate it

okay one last xiv stream for a while for manny to sleep to but that should be it til the end of the month!

XI free returners campaign starts on the 10th and I'm definitely gonna wanna return that for the first time since before I went on hiatus (same with TotK I gotta come back to oop). After that it'll soon be Anime North time, maybe fit in one stream between then for something else.................... glaring back at TotK rn

but um i'll have to refresh my memories on what I did on my XI stream account, I know I left off in Bastok, I think still doing Windurst ambassador missions

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/15692af1.png

the right was just a base I made to then use as a reference for the left

since I have the space to put it up too why not, for now

tournament beated

overall I prefer Ash vs Cynthia, but the final attack is definitely epic af - preceded by Pikachu getting knocked down, having like a dream of all the Pokemon Ash caught over the journey cheering him on (grouped by series they were caught in), and then up comes the final face-off Ash's Pikachu vs Leon's Charizard with the original Pokmon Theme playing to build-up

A++ end

fight yeah eh, Cynthia brought more strategy that kept me engaged with. kinda um "odd" that Ash's final champ battle bends the rules - the announcer is saying okay trainers have a choice of 1 Mega, Z-Move, or Dynamax to use and Leon's just like laaaame let's have it all!

which like yeah cool to do one of each of the final battle.... but Leon is only capable of Dynamaxing. Go in thinking hey maybe he can use multiple Dynmaxes... and he does, technically. Two. Eternatus comes and lets everyone Dynamax a 2nd time...... so uh so does Ash, a second time. It just feels like Ash's big win is with a handicap - Gigantamax Gengar, Mega Lucario, 10 Million Volt Thunderbolt, and Gigantamax Pikachu vs Gigantamax Charizard & Gigantamax Cinderace

ftr Ash's other pokemon were Dracovish, Dragonite, & Sirfetch'd, all Pokemon he caught this series only. Leon: Cinderace, Inteleon, Mr. Rhyme, Dragapult, Rillaboom, Charizard

honestly could not give a rat's ass about Dracovish

also also - the battle started Pikachu vs Cinderace, with Leon using a Ground attack then mentioning Cinderace's ability Libero turning its typing into Ground with that attack. Ash switches out, so does Leon, so you kinda right away figure it's gonna come down to Pikachu vs Cinderace in the end with that in effect.

It kinda does, Ash's Pikachu is last standing against Charizard & Cinderace. Cinderace comes out and... doesn't do it again. y'know that dangerous anti-Pikachu technique that forced him to switch out at the start. it really feels like Leon handed this match to Ash

oh god how many full streams of people dedicated to farming in chat would that take to find one shiny

I've implemented shiny pokemon in the simulator

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/f49e60ca.jpg

to see it on stream I've also personally edited every r/b sprite to have a basic hue of their shiny colours. and it works!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/2/239bd2f0.jpg

... so far I just have shiny odds at the original 1/4096 but uh that is probably insane for something like this. I could add a shiny charm item somewhere, definitely would have to think about where (gambling prize?). Could make a Shiny Sandwich channel points redeem. Outbreaks / Encounter chains would be way more work than I'm interested in. Masuda Method for sure but honestly just any trade not specifically foreign trades

but still I feel like I should definitely bump the base rate up. for the record so far there's been 555 Pokemon spawned out of all on-stream gameplay or personal bug testing gameplay

(1) Leon vs (6) Alain
(4) Lance vs (5) Diantha
(2) Cynthia vs (7) Iris
(3) Steven vs (8) Ash

Leon vs Diantha
Cynthia vs Ash

Leon vs Ash

it is technically the Galara series after all, Leon was cemented as the leader to beat pretty early in

would've made seed sense if they just swapped Ash & Alain... after all, Ash already beat Iris who's #7. Alain hasn't really been shown in this series until the tournament

also yes not only did Lance lose round 1 but before the tournament not only did he lose his Top Champ status to Leon in the beginning of the series, but apparently Steven & Cynthia both overtook him since then

on the 3rd ep of Cyntha vs Ash rn and man they make Cynthia strategic as hell it's awesome

lmao Iris first fight is against Cynthia, RIP poor girl ain't get any chance to shine oof

also Lance started out as the top champ at the beginning of the series until Leon beat him, and now his round 1 was another loss against Diantha

oh wow JN111 ep, Lusamine family finds the father

this is pretty twisted

he opens his door to Lillie & Gladion, not recognizing either of them as his children, nor Lusamine coming in behind them. He's confused the kids call him dad and Lusamine calls him by his name (that he recognizes).

he invites them in, they say they're looking for their father, he goes huh that's neat I have a daughter named Lillie myself! he brings them to her bedroom and there is another Lillie playing the piano - but the rest of the family can see this is a Nihilego, as Lusamine quickly revolts having previously been abducted by one.

Pokemon Journeys status: Ash beat Raihan and officially slots in the Masters Eight tournament

8th Ash
7th Iris (Unova Champ)
6th Alain (Kalos Conference winner, beat Ash in the Kalos league)
5th Diantha (Kalos Champ)
4th Lance (Kanto & Johto Champ)
3rd Steven (Hoen Champ)
2nd Cyntha (Sinnoh Champ)
1st Leon (Galar Champ)

... I like how they don't even mention Ash is the Alolan Champion.

Tho oof it feels anticlimactic to see Iris here after Ash already beat her before he was even in the Top 100. I really can't believe they dumped on her like that and now they're like oh but she made it see she's real strong! when we've never really gotten to see that (her previous big win was against Dawn, which actually made her insecure because she didn't win from her own strengths but because her Dragonite went berserk and wouldn't listen)

honestly, I haven't been able to exactly understand the claim myself yet either which of course adds to how suspect it is

I've been trying to watch the same episode of Pokemon like 10 times. had a few rewinds before bed, now a few in the morning and I think I just gotta give up I don't care about anything that happened here

and it literally ends with a Suicune appearance, that's typically the point I pause and ask "wait why" and rewind

he claims he fell into a window or something *shrug*

but like the only way that would match up with the damage is if he continued to fly through the window and maybe fall down at least 1 story

oh shit that's right, a lot of my previous XIV streams I've had multiple people reminding me about the event so I was intending to do it after ARR (even tho I haven't FF16'd yet)

but then I didn't finish til like 4:30am so lol

guess I'll have to do one more XIV stream and if Monday's a no-go that leaves Tuesday!

gbro back and he's like beaten to a pulp & bloodied

and denying the fact he got beat up... when we can uh clearly see his condition

Serena's return taking all my attention <3

weird tho, these are Contests. backstory is after Serena's success as a Showcase performer in Kalos she turned down the mentorship of a top performance manager or w/e to go out on her own journey, tho the manager suggest she try out Contests in other regions. so yeah, we knew she started doing Contests so okay that's what she's doing still

but uh these contests don't run like Contests anymore? they're.... just performances, like Showcases were. huh??? we're even in Lilycove this ep so yeah there's no reason it wouldn't be the old Contest format from Hoenn, which Sinnoh didn't even change much of anyways

boooooo tho she didn't realllly get to see Ash. the whole ep was her encouraging Chloe to try a Contest after getting scouted. Ash is stalled by Wallace who wants a battle, and he keeps distracting Ash and he doesn't meet back up with Chloe / Serena until their boat is about to take off and Ash just rushes to catch it when Serena goes omg ash! and they catch-up while the boat is literally driving the gang away from Serena who stays behind

I guess if there was traversal space between Ash & Serena he'd be in risk of the Smooch Zone

long time no gbro update

but like last week he got his ankle monitor off. still under curfew, must be here 11pm each day but he doesn't care, the very day he immediately stayed out all night in toronto, saying he called the people in charge and they said they wouldn't check or whatever (he wouldn't be able to get it actually taken off until the next day)

but whatever that came and went, and he's since just been casually breaking that bail condition on the regular (he has another one not to be in communication with a friend he has never stopped communicating with)

today is the 5th day in a row he's been in toronto without coming back. 11pm he finally calls gdad asking to be picked up, saying he has a broken arm or something

sigh

Pokemon Evolultions beated wow that was awesome

Alola Episode holy shit they really went dark with Lusamine. Hoenn honestly I entirely forgot ORAS added Zinnia but she got an unforgettably cool showing here (although I mean I always really liked her design). Johto was a gorgeous play from the Kimono Sisters about Ho-oh & Lugia that really wowed on the visuals and using Pokemon for special effects. Then Kanto was the perfect closer with just a really fun cast of characters after Mewtwo. I desperately wish I could get an anime out of Green & Elaine

successfully replaced my Gold cartridge's battery and got saves working again <3

I've never done this before but it's so exciting, it's my same cartridge from almost a quarter century ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVl85T-QdnE

huh

!pkmn attack thunder-shock
!pkmn attack thunder-shock
!pkmn attack thunder-shock

aayyyyyyy Lensy in time to slot in for my ARR finale dungeon~~~

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/ea64ee29.jpg

and now I'm passed ARR wheee, fun stream with friends~ (and pokemon with aria earlier too ehe)

btw for both of you since you both actually used the !register command like Manny I can actually link your B8 accounts so you can continue progress in dillos topics if you'd like. if any concerns about exposure, b8 links aren't exposed in any command outputs, the only thing would be in Aria's case that your names are mismatched which means you would be referred to in bot posts here with the Twitch name you registered with (ofc I can change the nickname associated with a given account, intending that to be a changeable feature in general, but either way you'd be referred to on both platforms with whichever assigned name for your registrations)

personally I have two separate account registrations for bug testing anyways but either way I can !pkmn attack thunder-shock

Master Journeys beated, one more season of Pokemon w/Ash to go!

Masters Journeys finale was fun - lil bit of a lul just preceding it, but coming off a climactic battle against Bea which was pretty rad for doing Gigantamax Machamp vs Mega Lucario

but yeah finale was a two-parter with Dawn & space-time disruptions form Dialga vs Palkia going on that's de-aging Pokemon and opening rifts with a parallel world where Dawn got 2nd in the Sinnoh League and Ash is kinda of a a wuss. Also woah Chloe's a super hacker and Team Rocket are actually pulling off a huge global domination scheme

One season left to start seeing other old favs! I think Journeys has only seen Dawn, Iris, and Korrina's had a few returing moments (and some Cynthia)

I know Brock & Misty get brought back kinda significantly? And Serena will at least appear, I dunno how strongly. 42 episodes to go!

... and then like 12 episodes of Horizons, although that may bump up another 12 before I finish

wait what the fuck

Neopets requires you to login with your original email now

are you fucking kidding me

me & gtm are now Ultra Friends!!!

curious

On JN075, second Dawn episode and she finally bumps into Ash (previously just bumped into Chloe)

but also just highlighted something odd to me... which is that the Journeys squad haven't run into Brock or Misty yet (Ash mentions he used to journey with Dawn and his friend Brock they haven't met yet).

Their team is based out of Vermilion City.

skullbone posted...

Also trying to get down to around 160-170 so it's nice to know it's achievable without changing anything but diet. My diet is pretty similar to yours too, lots of chicken.

I started pulling back my calories this year to get myself down from 182, and now today I'm at 149 (cosplay goals for convention this year!). So like down 33 in 4 months even from a lower start. According to my tracker 180-160 was the first 2 months, then 160-150 has been the last two.

Entirely just from diet, I've maybe thrown a few random days of an exercise bike but reallllly not a regular occurrence. Probably the biggest thing his how much I've cut back on pop and just drinking a lot of water these days. Not that a casual can is off limits or anything but just being more conscious of the fact oh I really can't just guzzle these down like nothing.

Iris with the biggest glow-up in her Journeys episode, BW2 design is incredibly and holy crap she's Unova Champ? hell yeah Alder was the worst champion

sad she has to lose tho booooo it would've really done well to cement her progress since their journey together where she never was really allowed to shine - and now holy crap she's the strongest in Unova... and still can't shine

like Ash is no stranger to losing this series so c'mon if there's any match that would actually deserve it this would be it

I can't fathom it myselff, when i hear me it's such an uncomfortable feeling although as I start hearing those compliments I think it's getting better

links mana's account to this one so you can also test out the cross-platform command use of the !pkmn command and see your twitch progress continued here

but awh omg wasn't expecting a new face to just drop in with a sub on my first affiliate stream ehe waoo. I don't even have any perks for it yet! I'mma have to work on emotes asap

also wth stream started with the nicest person who's first comment about my voice being calming wth how is that like the 3rd time I got that specific comment when I'm so strongly dysphoric about my voiceeeee. really hits me right in the giddies tho

just realize i can pin mini versions of my chibi models on myself like this

https://streamable.com/w8mafq

also makes me wanna make a lil pet

and yeah Chloe hanging around isn't an every-ep thing still :(

anyways account update thing I ended up going the route that can just allow infinite alts stored in an alts table, seems to be working (I registered two "terminal" alts that both work on pkmn command)

btw !register

oh right also beated the last Pokemon movie. pretty decent! the reboot movies are all pretty consistently fine films outside of the shitty Netflix remake. Much better track record than the original series movies, hope we hear something about Horizons movie soon

copy-pasting the last ranking and adding what's new

Mewtwo > Manaphy > Zerora >> Diancie > Genesect > Zarude > Arceus > Giratina > Lugia > Ho-Oh/Marshadow > Lucario > Celebi > Zoroark > Unown > Latioas > Deoxys > Darkrai > Victini> Keldeo > Jirachi > Hoopa > Volcanion > Mewtwo Remake

100 episodes of Ash's journey left to go, and next distractions are the Pokemon Evolutions shorts which begins after JN079 and ends after JN091.... dunno if I alternate as they come or just batch them down after 91. either way, they're disconnected shorts

oops I forgot it will output here even if I test through terminal if I specify my platform

this test was checking my new account setup - usernames are no automatically assumed to be the same users across platforms by default, you now have to explicitly register accounts on other platforms

ie DizzyRollsEXE on Board 8 =/= DizzyRollsEXE on Twitch unless I one explicitly links the other and the other confirms the link

still thinking implementation up a bit, the manner I do have is working but only allows registering one account per platform.... I could implement alts, it would just need an additional table. don't think I need that though since it would only really matter for b8

ummmm bruh

Goh caught Eternatus

Trouble Girl

hoping GTM enjoys the endless wave of the same Pokestop next to my place