Live-Blogging New Pokémon
March 23, 2009 § Leave a comment
Season: Battle Dimension [wtf? Does that even make sense?]
Episode: Hot Springing A Leak [heh, I’ve always loved their pun-filled titles]
This is quite literally the only thing on Cartoon Network other than Adult Swim that I can still stand to watch. Jeez, this channel went downhill.
The opening sequence is just not as inspiring as it used to be. And where did Misty go? Who’s this new girl? Whoever she is, she just walked all over her so-called “best friend.” Jerkface. Oh, her name is Dawn.
Ugh, the hot springs girl has 3 Swinubs. Never really liked that Pokémon.
Ash’s voice sounds slightly different, and a visit to IMDB tells me that the quite a few of the voice actors changed in 2006. Ash, however, is still voiced by a female. Why…did they do that?
The writing kind of sucks.
Holy crap! Brock’s voice got DEEP. Wonder if he grew out of his perpetual pervy-ness too.
Team Rocket is still as fruity as ever. Did their little song change?! Or was it just for this episode..?
Pikachu has a new move — Irontail! But it totally failed. What a disappointment. Surprisingly, Team Rocket didn’t even seem interested in stealing it. The good guys vs. bad guys battle was so uninteresting that I pretty much missed it when I looked down at the cheesecake I was eating.
The conflict is resolved already? What?? That was so lame!
Ooh, a tag-team battle. Boys vs. girls! The battle moves certainly have gotten a visual makeover.
The girls get their inspiration & tactics from their elementary school experience of beating up the playground bully. LOL.
Oh…my gosh. The battle ends in a TIE, making this episode even LAMER than it was before.
Now everybody is chilling in the hot springs. MAN there are a ton of Pokémon I don’t recognize anymore.
Okay…and now back to What Not To Wear. You’ve disappointed me today, Pokémon. But I’m still excited for Pokémon Platinum [which was released yesterday, apparently. If only I had a DS]!
The Aftermath
March 20, 2009 § 2 Comments
One consequence of the BU* that I’ve noticed is that almost immediately, I’m having more trouble trusting guys.
After breaking up with the first ex, I also had trust issues, especially regarding infidelity [granted, I was never married, but it’s the best word I have to describe the issue]; whenever J hung out one-on-one with other girls, I kind of freaked out, no matter who she was. I was in the process of getting over those insecurities when this BU happened, and now I have trust issues of a different kind — it was a different kind of BU.
I didn’t recognize this until very recently. Now, when I feel like a guy is getting too friendly out of the blue, I automatically wonder what he wants from me. Just a friend, or something more? Some of this apprehension arises from rational bases — friends have told me that so-and-so is clearly flirting with me, so it’s not just my own paranoia. Other times, though, I wonder why I immediately suspect somebody of having an ulterior motive. Although it’s easy to wonder why somebody would start FB chatting me up every day out of the blue with no initiation on my part — and there are three separate occurrences of this.
Urgh. Is there a point to psychoanalyzing myself at 4AM? Is it helpful?
Probably not. I think I’m just stalling because I don’t want to write my article…
I’m excited for spring break, but I do wish I was heading to some exotic locale [I miss Hawaii~] instead of closer in proximity to him. Will it be awkward? Will he avoid me? Hmmm so many questions that I wish I could purge from my mind. Even attention from other guys can’t fully take my mind off of it, though it would help if they were more attractive, heh. Why are there no hot people at my school?!?
. . .
*How I will henceforth refer to the “breakup”. While we were together, we referred to this as “the B word” and I still have an aversion to the word for some reason.
What Is A Relationship?
March 17, 2009 § Leave a comment
I just watched a brilliant short film titled “Please Say Something“, by David OReilly. The style is rather abrupt and open to interpretation, and there are lots of hidden things [mostly words]. Watch it carefully:
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Meet Mini-Me
March 16, 2009 § 1 Comment
I’ve realized that I haven’t posted about video games on this blog yet, which is amazing because you don’t know me until you know how much I love Nintendo. I mean, I’m certainly not a super-fanatic [if I had the money, though, I’d be all over that], but I am deeply in love with my Wii.
At Walgreens over the weekend with Roomie #1, we were browsing the candy aisle and checking out the balogna and hot dog gum when my gaze fell upon a candy dispenser shaped like a Wii controller. OMG! It looked exactly like the real thing! Here is a comparison:
It’s so cute!!! I immediately knew that I had to have it. The fact that it dispensed candy was negligible; I just wanted a mini Wii controller. Unfortunately, none of the buttons actually press down except for B, which shoots out a Smarties shaped candy. The battery compartment does open, though. It fits, um, a battery. Or backup candy?
It came with a couple rolls of candy, two of which were labeled “Bubble Gum Smarties.” The taste is alright but the gum consistency is inferior. The two other rolls of candy, called “Au’some Candy Roll“, was literally the worst candy I’ve ever had other than black licorice. Some candy tastes wonderful, some taste just alright, but this candy tasted straight up NASTY. The website looks cute, but I urge you to never buy it. You would regret it.
In the meantime, my mini Wii controller is just hanging out uselessly until I buy some SweeTarts.
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