Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

just got my switch labo balance board and this thing rocks.

I'm on a ferry right now. It's almost like being on a cruise liner.

@ogo79

Is that a sharpie in your hand? Hold off and buy the sticker kit from Nintendo! Don't be hasty.

When you place your Switch below the "board" to simulate "waves" from the Joycons it is going to be awesome. Only caveat is you must weigh 3 lbs or less or your Switch will shatter in to a million pieces.

Ok so the ferry moved a lot. I don't mind the swaying (it was actually kinda cool), but the noise kept me up all night. I think I only slept like one hour.

Also the bed was hard. I've reduced the score to "not quite almost like a cruise liner".

@Meowpheel Why are you still on the ferry?

I'm already out. It takes a whole night to cross the gulf of California by ferry.

Ugh is the site being extremely slow for anyone else?

@Meowpheel Yep, lagging and sometimes getting 503 errors

Well at least it wasn't just me then.

I'm used to getting laggy in the site every now and then, but it seems to be happening more often lately.

Just suddenly got a lot of Twitch followers XD

It's been years since I've been on a boat larger than a pontoon boat. The only cruise ship I've ever been on was nice, though I don't remember too horribly much of it (I was eight). That was the only time I've been out of the US.

What's wrong with this site?

I'm wondering the same thing. I just had a heck of a time posting in the TP HD thread.

We usually go to "mainland" by plane (it's a peninsula, so we are technically mainland too, but ya know), but every now and then when it's more convenient to take the car with us, we go by ferry. Right now we are carrying way too many gifts for the baby.

It's usually very comfortable... But to be fair this is the first time we use the ferry during winter. Winter makes the sea a bit nastier by default.

At least the food is always good.

Is that cursed music box a gift for the baby?! Why are you doing that to her?!

No the demon stayed behind to look after the house.

If only we still had that antique porcelain doll to keep it company...

@Meowpheel: Daaaawwww, gifts for the new baby! Hopefully there's something game-related, like a blanket?

Well with her name being Zelda you can bet we have a few game related things for her.

Particularly we found a plush blanket that looks like cartridge of the first game.

@JohnBlackstar
man thanks for the advice!

So my blind run of Pokemon Crystal (That cant be put on YouTube after streaming because lol blocked worldwide!) is...proving interesting.

Namely I explored up to the Lake of Rage and Olivine City...with no trouble, before even battling Morty or even going inside the Burned Tower, which meant the Rival showed up in Olivine...only to go back to Ecruteak.

Then after clearing the Lighthouse, I went and battled Morty, the 4th Gym Leader. This is where it gets especially weird.

I chose to go to the Lake of Rage. I beat the Lv30 Gyarados, unlocked the Rocket Hideout. They are all Lv16-25 or so by the end of it. So on par with Morty. But you need to beat the Lv30 Gyarados to unlock it....which is odd levelling.

Doing this unlocked the Mahogany Gym, which stops at lv27-31 for the Leader, Pryce.

According to the game, that is the intended 7th Gym, and all the stuff involving the Lake of Rage onwards isn't meant to be done until you have 6 badges.

But if that's the case, why would you be expected to have 6 badges to do a Lv30 encounter only to then be stuck fighting stuff that's below what the 4th Gym had?

But to compound issues further, I was told the 6th Gym Leader, Jasmine, is higher levelled than the 5th and 7th Gyms.

Why does this game have an expected progression like this?

Lv25 max - 4th Gym
Lv30 max - 5th Gym
Lv35 Max - 6th Gym
Lv30 Max - Gyarados
Lv25 Max - Team Rocket
Lv31 Max - 7th Gym

Johto is weirdly designed man. What's sad is...I had no issue doing any of this 7th Gym stuff either.

Johto is a hot mess when it comes to difficulty. This is because the latter half of it (after Morty) is designed to be "open world": right after getting the ability to surf you could go either left or right without any issue.

Then after you complete both branches, the path to the last area opens.

The regular trainers won't really get past level 30, wild Pokemon stay much weaker.

Then you go to "open world" Kanto and the wild Pokemon there are even weaker. Which just plain sucks because there's no good place to train your Pokemon for the last battle.

It's really hard to keep a full team in these games, and the remakes aren't much better at it.