The Damned

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Despite all odds, I have been given the worst person on this site to Secret Santa: myself. Bahamut says that everyone else is already selected and can't be changed. If only I could ask myself what I was interested in. Things like... I don't know... -Pokémon plush figures. I wonder if myself knows that I have a small collection of them. If only I could tell myself that I would loooove a plush starter. Though, I would kill for a plush Banette. -Borderlands 2 merchandise. There's not much of it, but it does exist. Oh, me. If only you know about my favorite characters, Axton the Commando and Mr. Torgue. -LEGO. No one here, including myself, really knows that I actually have quite a collection of LEGO, and make my own stuff (mostly sci-fi spaceship stuff). Something like Space-themed LEGO would be perfectly acceptable, but how can I let myself know without giving myself away? -There is one thing I know I can't get myself, and that's clothing. I'm terrible with clothing. I can never find the right size or color or anything. I'm sure that I won't try to get clothing for myself. It ended badly last year, and they are still finding parts of the cruise ship off the coast. Clothing might be best to avoid this year. Damn it, Bahamut, why did you randomly select myself as my Secret Santa? I don't even understand how that could have happened. Did you get everyone else done first and when it was my turn, you had no one left? Is that it? Were you so diligent that you did each pairing, personally PMing each person before moving on to the next? Was this done out of spite? You know I'm the worst person to shop for, and now I have to do it twice! Why would you do this to myself and I?

Not to mention that a lot of the CDs you get online aren't original CDs; they're bootlegs. Sometimes, they're well-made bootlegs, but they are still bootlegs. It's better that the artist gets no money then the bootleggers getting any of it. Worse case scenario, I'd send five bucks to the artist in the mail.

I did think of someone that this might actually be pretty good for: kids just getting into nerd/geek interests. If they're not really into anything yet, this could give them a good mix of stuff to start with. They might find a few things they end up liking. Plus the fun they might get out of a monthly parcel. Something to look forward to, I suppose.

The t-shirts can be found in any mall t-shirt kiosk or store for. Darth Vader ear-buds? I don't have any hopes for quality there. The candy is just regular candy you can get at almost any 7-11 at any time of the year (cheap candies get repackaged and relabeled as other products more often than you think. Are you really going buy the same candy just because of the wrapper?) Another problem is that while it may cover lots of fandoms... not everyone like all those fandoms. So you're paying for stuff that you may not like at all. Not into superhero stuff? Well, you still get boxes of it. Not into zombies? Here's a whole shipment of zombie stuff. I like the theme idea, but as I said, not everyone is into everything. You will end up with a significant amount of merchandise that you will have no interest in. Unless you really want lots of merch from lots of sources, regardless of the quality or quantity, your money would be better off buying specific items by themselves. The cost of a six-month membership (without the shipping and handling, which adds to the cost greatly) equates to less than what I paid for my recent pack of hardcover "Art Of" books. Those were from overseas, shipped by plane, and arrived at my door in three days.

I bred them the old fashioned way. Through random luck. I never got the hang of the RNGing thing, so... That's why most of my team is random stuff; I found them when I was checking all the IVs of everything I had caught at that point.

You kids and your "5 IVs"... that's so cute. Meanwhile, my 3rd Gen Aerodactly with 6 IVs of 31, and the right nature, and bred moves, says hi. And my other six 31/31/31/31/31/31 pokes as well. Sadly, none of them are really meant for competitive battling because they're favorites, but still.

Agreed. But, done correctly, it would make for a nice compilation. I think if you the remixes looped the basic theme a bit, but each loop is slightly different, it would not only fill out some rather short source material, but also keep it from getting stall after the first minute. I say go for it.

With the increased chance of encountering shinies (from 1 in 8192 until Gen 5, and now it's 1 in 4096), plus the various mechanics that help increase it further, combined with the relatively easy way to find out if eggs are going to be shiny... Shinies are now worthless. They're too common as as, and now it's even easier to get them, and they will still pass legality checks. In my day, shiny Pokémon meant something. You were lucky, you worked for it, you had a friend that gave you one. But kids these days... they're handed them by the box-full. Get off my lawn. The tall grass has wild pokémon hiding in it.

Yep, still using Winamp to play music on my computers. Luckily, there's enough of a fanbase with enough technical knowledge to keep mucking around with it for some time. We may see all kinds of mods for it still.

Stop worrying about everything, just enjoy.

Here's a crazy idea. You haven't played any FF games before? Why change now? It's not like it's required by law in order to qualify as a gamer (which is itself a fairly vague and useless term). There are lots of games and series that lots of people have never played, it doesn't make them any better or worse off for it.

Whoever gets linkspast, trade with me. I'll make it worth your while.

Waaaiiit a minute. I've done Secret Santas before, and it was always random crap that clearly showed that the giver had no idea what the recipient liked. Putting up a list or useful info and personal preferences seems like cheating. You people need to stop that.

Then it was in the trailer they released afterward. I've watched it a few times already.

To be fair, Nintendo showed that in their last Nintendo Direct for like, five minutes straight. It's hardly a spoiler any more.

I would like to point out that the original prices for these games, even back in the 80s and 90s, was often $45 and higher. $5 for a digital game that has been modified to run correctly on current hardware, with extra software features to make use of said hardware (like soft-saves and multiple save slots) is hardly a terrible price to pay. And you're complaining about having to pay even less than that? I have to assume you people start rioting when Steam has a sale and games are only 75% off.

I wasn't sure if I came up with it on my own, so I decided to just attribute it to someone else, just in case.

"Time spent doing something you enjoy is not time wasted." -Shit, I don't know... Mark Twain? Yeah, let's go with Mark Twain, sounds like something he might say

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Surprised this hasn't been mentioned yet If it has, I didn't see it. Enjoy!

Just... Fuck, really?

Yeah, I guess I could have specified that. This patch works on both physical and digital copies. The patch is applied to the SD card you have in your 3DS. The digital copy, which is also stored on your SD card, is patched directly, it seems. Also, it seems that you have to patch each version, digital or physical, separately. If you had both X and Y as digital copies and then also had both physical copies (for a total of four separate games), you would have to get the patch for all four. Why you have four copies of the game, I don't know. Maybe you're a sharing kind of person and let others play their own copy when you're not using it. If so, that's awfully considerate of you.

GRAB YOUR 3DS AND SCAN THIS QR CODE This is a patch for a known save file issue with Pokémon X/Y. In Lumiose City, the ring road that makes up the outer edge of the city is bugged, and saving on the street may cause your save file to load incorrectly. If you already have saved there, there is a way to get it to load properly: just keep trying. It will eventually load and you can save somewhere else. The patch also fixes certain GTS issues, like the filter system. If you don't know how to scan QR codes with a 3DS, open the camera on your Home screen, press either shoulder button, and there's an option in the camera menu. Or just hit the eShop, and it will prompt you to do it. But QR codes are kind of cool, so... you know.

Optional parole condition. Back then, OCR had a work-release program in place, and you could get a few months off your sentence if you signed up. The only problem was that I didn't sign up, I though you just had to go to the site every so often. So, after finding out why my three years wasn't down to two and a half, I figured I may as well just get a membership any way.