I kind of want to go home because... Chat!

Chat, I've done something, I've done something silly.

Let's see, let me just get rid of all of my spoilers on my phone, because...

Surely my background is entirely 1.2 or something.

Nah, here we go.

Chat!

Full disclosure, I want to go home.

I want to go home and I want to go play this.

Come on, camera.

Oh, the camera is not having a good day today, is it?

Fine, we'll look from here.

Oh yeah, the focus.

Oh shit, I forgot to change that from the fucking, uh, whatever.

It's a Pokemon game.

It's very, it's very hard to see, but it's a Pokemon game.

It's heart gold.

If anyone actually talks Pokemon.

I wanna go home and I wanna play that.

I bought it last week, they are so expensive, aren't they?

But I finally, chat, I came to a realization.

I have hobbies.

I like lifting, and I like kanji, studying kanji.

I take walks.

Music is probably the chillest thing.

And people are like, yeah, but like, do you have a life?

And I'm like...

What, those can't be life?

No.

And...

I got the thinking, like, hobbies that also spur on personal growth, say like training, exercise, that's fine, but it's also kind of like...

They definitely, I mean, lifting has its dull moments and its very high friction moments.

There's nothing really that I've dabbled with for like a year now.

I guess FFXIV, but even, honestly, that's just been, like, time-sink mode more than anything lately.

And I was like, I kinda wanna, I kinda wanna rebuild my retro games collection, because I lost all of my old shit, most of my old shit back in 2017-18, roughly.

No, earlier, sorry.

15-16.

Um...

And for reasons beyond my control.

And I want most of that back.

So I'm slowly gonna start rebuilding my retro library.

And that right there, Pokemon HeartGold, is my favorite Pokemon game.

That's a good start.

Full box, like, cardboard box, and then the DS box, and then manuals, PokeWalker game, everything is in there.

So pumped.

So pumped.

I, I, I... Mad respect, let's go into maybe, if you'd like to share your progress a bit.

Oh my god, I would love to, absolutely.

If people are interested, definitely.

Definitely.

Am I still playing FFXIV?

No.

For all of Dawn Trail, my interest in the game has died faster and faster, post progress being over for the Savage tier.

Because I week 1'd all three Savage tiers, humble brag.

And Cruiserweight even is my favorite to date, since the first one of Eden.

But even with Crucible Weight being my all-time favorite, the urge to play and re-clear and do anything in the game post-progress just dwindles again, faster and faster.

And especially now with Heavyweight here, like, with THE Heavyweight here, I felt very pumped going into it, and I felt very like, oh, I'll stick around for this, and then by week four I was, like, barely logging in for re-clears anyway, so...

I think I'm, I feel like I'm falling out and just to lump WoW in there as well, WoW is on the level of the expansion launching next month being the first expansion ever since Wrath in 2008 that I will not be playing at launch.

Which is partly because I won't be at home when it happens, but also...

Even if I would...

Even if I would be, I couldn't.

Or I wouldn't, so...

Even if I could, I wouldn't.

So, it's feeling like...

It's feeling like FFXIV is dwindling hard for me as well.

I'm contemplating joining.

Good prog for the last Ultimate.

Just to round off Dawn Trail's content properly and have it all, you know, done just to check it all off.

But I'm not very sure that I'll be investing like active scheduled time for that game at all anymore after the ultimates Didn't miss anything besides logic system, passenger rails and half walls

Anyway, that's my 14-yap for today.

I still love yapping about 14 to pieces.

Don't get me wrong.

It will always be a near and dear game to me.

And just like Pokemon, I found out recently, I can go on about that game for fucking ever.

Any Pokemon fans here, by the way, I'm currently breeding a competitive team in Black 2.

And I just got HeartGold in the mail.

So, having fun there too.

Sorry, anyway.

The Hoenn Pokedex is strong.

Maybe hot take.

Maybe hot take.

I think the only stronger decks than Hoenn is Alola.

But Hoenn is... Because for everything Gen 2 is to me, both nostalgia-wise and Gen 4 quality of life-wise and content-wise, the pre-Elite 4 deck in Gen 2 might be the weakest.

It's that or Kalos.

So, Alola might be second for me, or Sinnoh.

Sinnoh, oh Platinum specifically, Platinum is strong.

Diamond and Pearl can, the Pokedex can.

Yeah, you know the fire, you know the fire thing.

But Alola is thematically so on point.

Platinum first ever game, bro.

Platinum is...

Platinum is...

If not HeartGold, then Platinum is my favorite game.

Because what Platinum and Sinnoh overall gets right instantly is the atmosphere.

Sinnoh is such a good mystic world to just fuck about in.

It also has the Battle Frontier, Platinum specifically.

Emerald Lover?

Emerald's good.

I only played a friend's emerald.

I only owned sapphire and leaf green for gen 3.

What I will give the...

I'm not opposed at all to this being a Pokemon thing now either.

What I think is fantastic about Sapphire to Emerald and Ruby, for that matter, is that...

Between the vanilla versions of the game and the expanded version, I think Emerald does have a lot more to give.

But Sapphire and Ruby still hold up extremely well as their own games, despite Emerald existing, in my opinion.

Because Omega Hot Take, the Battle Frontier in Emerald, is worse than the Platinum and HeartGold one, and they got rid of the two factories that absolutely had to go.

Thank you.

Thank you, chat.

Thank you.

By the way, I just want to...

I mean, I know it's very late to say this.

If I do...

I know I...

Sometimes I see a sentiment in post comments about me speaking too fast, articulating.

I've been working on that, and I'm feeling very proud of my progress.

I am running with a...

developing cold and my nose is giga runny, so if I sound like I'm rushing through some sentences, I am, because my nose is acting the fuck up.

So sorry if it's been a bit slurry today, but, but, but, but, doing a much better work, thank you.

Much better job even, work, thank you, thank you.

Get well soon?

Oh, Pokemon will help.

I'm just so, I'm just so child-happy when I realize that I'll turn everything off, I'll eat dinner, and then I'll just cozy up on the couch and I'll play fucking Pokemon Heart Gold Chat, fresh from the entire box, entire boxes there, even the PokeWalker, it's all there, it's gonna be so sick.