DON'T TOUCH MY MC (The Beginning of a Wonderful Thing)!!!

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  Sorry I haven't posted all weekend...actually, I shouldn't be sorry, since I spent the entire time working on the new site.  It's almost done, (except for the fact there are no blog posts...) complete with a computer-drawn background, video of the week (I was lazy and the list function sucked), and a forum+chat room!  (Attached to the site this time; we all know how G-star's High School Forums went [or I do anyway].)  Several interesting things have happened since I last posted (that was Thursday, right?), including (but not limited to) Sock'em, watching two new movies, and a lot of gaming.  The bit about Sock'em is probably shortest, and I'm going to forget it entirely very soon, so let's get it done with.
     On Friday, Wolfy invited me to Sock'em at a local church.  What is Sock'em, you ask?  Well, as the pastor put it, "you put a sock inside another sock and hit people."  We split up into two teams by grade (it was a high school event) and went to different areas of the church to start from.  It's a pretty big church, which made it awesome, along with the fact that (almost) all the lights were off.  Since nearly all my friends are freshmen, I got to hang with them the whole time.  In the first round, I got separated from the others except for MC and then cornered by a group of seniors.  I was hiding around a corner when they got MC, and I immediately ran at them, deserting my hiding spot and shouting "DON'T TOUCH MY [MC]!!!!"
     ...understandably, I was hit too.  But I think I might've taken a few with me!
     Later we did a round where you could come back in after 10 seconds, but if a certain person on your team (the VIP) was hit, your team lost.  My team hid our VIP in a back corner, a dead end, that we could defend easily.  We hid her around a corner where no one could see her unless they stood right next to her and dubbed me the decoy.  They would pretend to protect me and tell me to run, and once the opponent chased us out they would leave that hallway alone and the real VIP would be safe.  We also would run at the opponent shouting at the top of our lungs to try to scare them off.  It was a pretty solid plan, actually...the only problem was we never got to use it.  We tried the "scream and shout" bit on a group we heard coming, but they turned out to be our teammates, and then no one else came.  Well, someone came to tell us that we'd won, and we had just started heading out when we found out that the round was still going.  So we sprinted back and quickly got everything back in place.  Later, someone else told us we won, and no one wanted to check to see if it were true since we had already had a false alert.  But it turned out that we had, and when we headed back to the gym to start the next round the church seemed completely empty...
     There was a small snack bar and I jammed my hoodie pockets with gummy bears to keep me going throughout the game.  (It's a very tiring game.)  Unfortunately, they kept falling out when I ran... ;_;
     And that was that.
     I went to the library on Friday as well.  They didn't have the next volumes for a lot of my current manga, so I began quite a few new series.  Usually the stash of manga I check out lasts me about a week, maybe less depending on the length of the manga.  (For example, Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle is fairly short so it doesn' contribute much.  Nevertheless, I am a dedicated reader.)  This time, it's almost gone within four days, despite my checking out not one but two omnibi.  One of these was for a series I've been wanting to read for quite a while called Azumanga Daioh.  It was so cuuute...and the omnibus was for the whole series, so now I'm done with it.  It was addicting, and I stayed up past midnight on Saturday-Sunday reading it.  Too bad there's no more...
     Speaking of manga, I recently caught up to both Kagerou Project and Black Butler.  (KagePro still doesn't make any sense...)  Since I've actually been enjoying reading manga online (something I don't often do), I went to browse an alphabetical list for something new to read.  Almost immediately I discovered something called The Legend of the Sun Knight.  16 chapters, based off a Japanese light novel, and surprisingly good.  It sounds cheesy, and at first, it is, but very quickly it becomes entertaining, suspenseful, and even contains pretty boys, which pretty much tops it off for me.  If you want to read a translation (it's only PG-rated, I promise), you can find one here.  It leads to mangahere.com, my favorite site for reading manga online.  There are ads, but those are impossible to avoid, so don't be put off by those.  It's worth it!
     I spend literally all of yesterday playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl.  I started a new story mode file with my brother, to only do two-player.  We just finished the level where you meet Ice Climbers and Lucario...we played for over six hours.  This should be fun.
     He desperately wants to do a Let's Play video of it.  When it comes to Youtube videos, we're all talk, no action.  We had intended on making a video of our customized game mode for the Pokemon Trading Card Game, but we never got around to it.  I forced him to promise we'd do it this summer though...
     And that is all.  I thought I'd have more to talk about...I still need to do that entry on my "family friends", though.  I keep putting that off...
     As I said earlier, the website's basically done.  Despite this, though, I'm going to wait until at least my birthday before I publish it.  Why?  Well, I put in my profile that I'm 15 and I'm too lazy to change it a week before my birthday.... *mumble mumble*  Anyhoo, until then, this is G-star, signing off.

There's No Specific Topic I Can Base the Title On... (Sorry, I Suck)

    *Well, here's the tricky bit.  I wrote this on Friday but didn't get a chance to finish it so I'm posting it on Saturday.  However, there are several time references in this entry that don't really make sense if read on the weekend and that I'm too lazy to go over and change, so just read this as if today is Friday.  Thank you.*

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  Man, it's a beautiful day!  Okay, so it's really cloudy and a little chilly but, to be honest, that's my favorite kind of weather.  Not too hot, not too cold.  Sunny, humid days drive me nuts because I hate wearing shorts; they're too tight.  (I'm sure the Shorts Boy from Pokemon would hate me.  I'm sorry, but they are NOT comfy or easy to wear.)  Why do guys get the comfortable clothes?  Chicks only get skintight, low-cut crud.  It drives me crazy.
     It's odd how little I always say I have to talk about, yet somehow manage to write an annoyingly lengthy entry.  (Yes, I'm stalling.)  I suppose I might soon stop talking about things that happen and instead discuss various topics, like most other bloggers do.  It seems to work for them.
     I actually had a pretty good day yesterday.  In basketball they actually played real music instead of the REALLY SUCKY RAP (see, Patveli, I'm not referring to all rap now.  Happy?) the boys the teacher puts in charge of the stereo setup usually play.  I knew them all.  (That's how I judge most music.)  In Gaming Club, not only was I one of the first people there (so I got to play a ton), but I rocked their socks off.  All the practice I do with my brother really payed off.  Apparently, though, in Super Smash Bros. 4 they're getting rid of both Ike and Pokemon Trainer, my two favorite characters.  It really shouldn't matter to me since it's only for 3DS and Wii U so I can't play it (or at least not multiplayer), but the fact that they're ditching a popular character like Ike really ticks me off.  Fortunately, I don't think the Gaming Club's planning on changing versions anytime soon, so we're probably okay.
     Later, during IHS Health, the mom of a girl in the class came to give a talk.  If you could call it that.
     The topic was sexual assaults, and for some reason she spent the entire class wandering around handing out candy.  At the end of class she just held out the bowl out for anyone who wanted it.  I grabbed several handfuls of Starbursts and just shoved them in my vest pocket for the walk home.
     Speaking of which, I've been walking home with MC the last couple of weeks.  It's been nice out, and the only day we didn't walk was Wednesday because she wasn't feeling well.  She still isn't actually, but apparently it's just that she can't breathe through her nose, so...wish her well!
     Every time we end up having an in-depth conversation on the Kagerou Project (KagePro).  I started reading the manga online a while ago, but got distracted by Black Butler.  (Speaking of which, I've finally caught up to the online chapters!  I'm really excited for Finny's flashback!!)  Now that I'm done with that, though, MC's having me go through a list of the order in which I have to listen to the songs, read the manga and light novels, etc...it's a bit confusing, but I already know a little of what happens from what she told me and later songs I listened to early just out of curiosity and not knowing what they were.  So that makes it even more confusing.  (... - _ -")
     I now have yet another comic-in-progress.  It's based off of a roleplay I'm currently doing, which is based off of James Patterson's Maximum Ride.  It'll be tricky to pull off, but since I'm fairly good at drawing wings it won't be overly difficult to draw the actual comic.  What I'm worried about is the copyright issues involved.  But that's what I'm always worried about, so it's just part of the daily grind.
     As I believe I've said before, Zane's comic is based off a roleplay I did a long time ago that originated as a Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu fanfic roleplay.  Since the majority of the characters involved have the same names as the original TV show characters I have to change some to make it seem more different.  But of course, I can't change Zane's name, so Nya is now Kenna, Sensei is still Sensei, and I'm working on Cole.  (Kai, Jay, Lloyd, and others never appeared, for some reason.)  Also, someone played their version of Marceline from Adventure Time, but I didn't realize this at the time because I had no interest in the show.  Now though, she's probably going to be Maybelline.  Unfortunately there is also the problem of changing her background, mainly from vampire queen to something with equal effect...?
     Cale, fortunately, is fine as he is.  As is Zane.  I'm not touching him...well, except for the bit about him being a robot.  That actually played a fairly large part in the roleplay, but I've found an alternate plotline.  I'll post chapters here once I start working on it; I've decided to just do the whole thing on my Manga Studio Debut 4.0 program since it has pre-programmed panels you can insert and I suck at drawing straight lines so that'll help.  Also, I don't have to worry about screwing up while inking.  This is the third time I've drawn this comic; the second I did because I had figured out a new drawing style that worked better for the book than my old.  I suppose it's all due to my procrastination.
     Sorry this post is late; I've been fairly busy as of late and haven't had a chance to get on the computer.  The next post will probably be up sometime next Tuesday or Wednesday once I've finished my IHS Lit. project (an art project on the book we were reading, Night by Elie Wiesel.  I'll put it up here once I'm done), so until then, this is G-star signing off.

PLOT TWIST (No One Will Trade With Meeee/The Legend of the Backwards Slingshot)!!

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  I don't know why I put myself through this, forcing myself to post on the one day of the week I have less computer access time than any other...I suppose I'm a masochist of sorts.  The kind who enjoys stress.
     But there is a beautiful thing: my brother is at Outdoor School for the week.  It's this thing the sixth-graders at my old school do in spring where they go to a relatively nearby camp with a couple other schools and do all sorts of activities and games.  It's sort of like summer camp, but educational and during spring.  I really enjoyed it when I went...we got to see huge predatory birds (>v<) and there was this one "ride" called the Flying Squirrel.  All the counselors' camp names were birds, and the guy who was overseeing the Squirrel was called Bald Eagle.  There were three ways to ride the harness attached to a rope next to a gully.  You could just stand there and the other campers, dragging a pully, would just lift you straight up; you could run and jump off the edge of the gully as they lifted you and end up just swinging back and forth (my favorite); and then there was the last one...the counselor would grab your harness and drag you backwards, then let go as the others pulled the rope, sending you flying.
     The Slingshot.
     You could ride it twice, and I had intended on doing the run-and-jump twice, but Bald Eagle had other ideas.  On my second turn, as I prepared to make a flying leap off the cliff, he grabbed the front of my harness, ran the opposite direction, and let go.  A BACKWARDS SLINGSHOT.
     It was terrifying, yet exhilarating.  I screamed my head off the entire time, and when I landed I fell down.  My first adrenaline rush.
     Anyway, this year it's at a different camp, with different counselors.  (Thank God.)  For some reason beyond my comprehension, my brother has approved my use of his Nintendo 3DS while he's away.  It's an overnight camp, so that's actually quite an honor.  Understandably, I was ecstatic (as I can be), especially since it's the system I use to play Pokemon X.
     Currently, I have two goals in Pokemon X; catch Mewtwo and fill the Pokedex.  Right now I'm fulfilling both by training an all-new team to defeat the Elite 4 (AKA L337 Quad).  And I'm doing this by circumnavigating the entire journey again.  (For some reason, it actually does go in a circle.  It looks like a spiderweb with Lumiose City at the center...)  As I do this I'm catching all the Pokemon I never bothered with, both because I hated them (in the case of Bunnelby and Fletchling) and because I had a Pokeball shortage at that time.  I was poor.  Technically I was a homeless chick beating people up for spare change.
     That's really all Pokemon journeys are, isn't it?  You wander around, get the animals you force to fight for you buff, beat up overly confident strangers to buy miniscule, cramped, airtight cages so you can eventually enslave one of every race and then -- PLOT TWIST -- you are suddenly looked upon, with your brute strength, to take down a criminal organization that's about to monopolize your business.  So you them up too, get tons of cash doing so, and end up looking like a hero because of it.  And then, when you beat the benevolent leader of the country with your ridiculously overpowered fire-spewing lizards, you finally have the control and money you want...but then, suddenly, no one will battle you.  You've already beat them all.  So you slowly run out of money, rely on non-explained free government health care to magically "heal" your guard animals, (because that's all they really are now; animals that protect you from the wild beasts that jump you whenever you walk through weeds,) and slowly wither away as you begin to rely on the neon-colored pet food that appears whenever you play with your guard animals, even though they hate you now for letting them get knocked unconscious so many times they're loopy.  And then...the one Pokemon that allowed you to defeat all your enemies, most of which you never saw again, decides to turn on you, the lone human in this desolate world, and then... (Okay, that last bit was a ripoff of Pokemon Lost Silver creepypasta, but the rest was all mine...logical minds ruin people's childhoods.)
      Wow.  That was intense.  X]  Now to the topic I had actually intended...
      Wonder Trade and the GTS have done, mind the pun, wonders for my second goal of filling the 'Dex.  If there are any Pokemon I can't find then I just catch common ones and put them up on the GTS or go chance on Wonder Trade.  Of course, you can't put legendaries from other games up on the GTS and it's unlikely that someone would trade it in Wonder Trade, so you have to work hard for those.  That's where one-on-one trading comes in.
     People have been requesting trades with me ever since I put "I have Eevee" in my shoutout.  It's ridiculous.  There's one spot where I find and catch them by the boatload, but apparently they're still ridiculously popular....  Unfortunately, I have some setbacks when it comes to trading. 
     1.  I don't have any shinies.  Normal Pokemon are perfectly fine, and besides, they're rare.  Also, they've lost value because of the Action Replay, which can let you turn up to 10 Pokemon at a time shiny.  I don't have one, obviously.
     2.  I don't trade high-level Pokemon.  Usually the Pokemon the other person offers are level 50 or above, but I on the other hand would never train a Pokemon just to trade it away later.  I only train Pokemon I intend on either using a lot in battle or evolving for the records.  This makes even trades very difficult.
     3.  The only legendary I have is Xerneas.  My brother has accounts on a few other games so, potentially, he could transfer legendaries from those to X and Y.  Unfortunately, his free trial of Pokebank already expired.  My only hope at this point is that at some point he'll subscribe to Pokebank and transfer the Pokemon I don't have, including legendaries, to my account; it only has to be for a second to register them in the Pokedex.  Unfortunately, neither of us have a credit card or bank account.
     On the note of #2, there are plenty of Pokemon I train both to evolve and fight with.  Currently I'm leveling up a Kirlia (that was a Ralts I got over the GTS) and a Clefairy (which I received as a Cleffa).  Obviously, I don't have to level up Clefairy to evolve it, but I like to make sure my Pokemon are high level before I evolve them to their final form because it would be embarrassing to have a stage 2 Pokemon be hit with a one-shot KO, but also because sometimes I like the second form a lot more than the third, mainly because they're faster.  For instance, the starters.  Look at those things.  The only exceptions are Treecko, Chimchar, Snivy, and Froakie.  (Okay, so I wouldn't say 'only'...)  They're so dang SLOW.  Venusaur especially bugs me.  I haven't touched my Ivysaur for months simply because I don't want it to evolve...into THAT.  A good Pokemon, ruined.
     I'm not looking for haters.  But slow Pokemon really bug me unless they're worth it.  Like my Golurk that I spent time training at the beginning of my journey.  (At the same time as being huge, awesome, and a dedication to alchemy fans everywhere, it's the mascot of the Handshake Dynasty.  Go Lurk.)  Unless they have specific moves that only work if they're slower than the opposing Pokemon (like Copycat, Encore, Payback, or Revenge), I usually try to increase their speed stat a lot.  I love it when I'm doing an internet battle and I bring out my Golurk, and the opponent thinks "Oh, that thing's slow and lurky.  I'll drag this out."  NOPE.  Use Earthquake.  Take that, moron.  Weren't expecting that, were you?
     Along with increasing the stats that would be the most helpful considering the Pokemon's attacks, I also like to increase their lowest stat just so they can do things no one would expect.  It's so much fun.  Not that I ever really do internet battles...they really, really tick me off.  I mainly depend on my level and type advantages, but when they're all lowered to lvl 50 and the opponent's smart enough to switch out when they're at a disadvantage, I lose immediately.  It's ridiculously frustrating.  Plus I can't use items.  I think I prefer preprogrammed battles.
     I'll be continuing my journey throughout this week, so I'll keep you updated.  Hopefully the upcoming posts won't be as long as this one.  - _ -;;  Until then, this is G-star, signing off.

Quiz Attack (The Anime Marathon/Club Time)!

     Hello, all.   G-star here.  The business classroom smells like grilled cheese sandwiches.....and it's right before lunch.  Cruel.
     I think Basketball has quickly become my favorite class.  I get to play a sport I actually enjoy, the teacher seems to like me, and one of my best friends is in the class.  I've also found out that there really is such a thing as a 'good' sweat.  The only problem I have is that it's first period....
     I found out from MC about a part of Death Note (an anime I've mentioned before but never finished) where Light loses his memory.  Now, something like this immediately catches my attention because of the implications; there's plenty of room for comedy and goading by other characters about things the amnesiac can't remember.  So now that I've been dragged over brambles back into the show, MC has decided that we're going to have a Death Note marathon over the weekend.  I agreed to this, but only if we could watch the anime I've been watching, Meganebu!  Apparently it's only 12 episodes long (....T-T) and is ridiculously unpopular on animelist.com, but I've always liked obscure manga and anime and this one is right down my alley, even it's not for MC.  It has no real plot, which is what annoys MC the most (just like Lucky Star), but it's my one condition and she'll abide by it.  I'm also going to model for her, since she got an old-timey camera in Arizona (that's where she was all spring break).  We did something similar in middle school with her phone camera and the nearby bike path, and they actually turned out pretty well.  This should be fun.
     We discussed all this last night while Skyping.  We had intended to get some co-op Geography homework done, but when we finished that we immediately became distracted.  I opened quizilla.teennick.com out of boredom (I surf quizzes there when I have nothing else to do on the internet) and read the title of the newest one, "What Jellybelly Flavor Are You?"  MC gasped and ordered me to do the quiz for her.  (She was cleaning her room while we talked and so couldn't access the internet.)  We did this by me reading her the question and then the answers, or, if the list was extensive enough, just let her name one (we did this for color questions).  She ended up getting this odd cherry drink flavor, and I got peach.  While mine suited me fairly well, hers said she was "delicious."
     Mmmmm.  One Miss Cappuccino, please, hold the ketchup.
     After this we continued on to several other quizzes, including (but not limited to) a Disney Villain and a superpower (more like elemental power, though) quiz.  For the villain one MC got the Evil Queen from Snow White (hehe)...and I got Gaston.
     WHA?
     It continuously described me as "narcissistic" and "proud", before ending the result with "congratulations, jerk."  Okay, the jerk was only implied, but still.  I'm not narcissistic!  Okay, maybe just a little, but aren't all bloggers?  I mean, we spend our hours talking about ourselves.  But what else could we write about without extensive research?  Sandwiches?  Video games?  (Admittedly, that is one of my main topics, so I don't talk about myself all the time...)  For the superpower quiz MC got water.  It suits her quite well, I must say.  I, on the other hand, got....DARKNESS.
     Usually quiz writers put a picture in each result to jazz things up a little.  The one for darkness was a little girl in a chair holding a skull.  Um....
     Apparently, if I were a boy, I'd be the coolest guy around, but since I'm a girl I'm constantly being crushed on.  Yeah, yeah, sure....I wish.
     The Chemistry Club had planned an awesome event for today's meeting: the ULTIMATE cola fountain.  They poured five gallons of cheap cola into one of those plastic water cooler containers with a long pipe attached.  A nail near the base would keep the 99 Mentos from falling into the soda until we could reach a safe distance and pull it out with a (long) string.  We did all this in the science courtyard, and there are full-length windows along the two bordering hallways.  A huge crowd gathered in those two hallways, and several people were recording.  Everyone in the courtyard backed away and another member of the club counted down before pulling the string....
     ....and nothing happened.
     The two main members fiddled with it, shaking it, hitting the Mentos off the bottom, shaking the tube to make sure none of them were stuck, even putting salt in it to start the reaction, but still nothing happened.  Everyone slowly trailed off and eventually I had to leave for class.  But it would've been cool....probably....
     Minecraft Club was canceled by the chaperone, AKA my Physics teacher, AKA the Chem Club advisor.  Apparently he didn't get enough sleep last night.  He's nice, but he incessantly ditches club.  We all look forward to it, too, and he doesn't tell us until we're all waiting in front of the computer lab without a ride home.  It's frustrating.
      There is a good side, though.  I got to meet up Bibbidy, who apparently decided to go the meeting that day.  After finding out there was no club today we went to the library.  The librarian recently got in a few new manga series, including Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle~<3  I recommended it to her and finally got Vol. 1 of Ororon.  Looking forward to reading it.
     I had this whole rant about Pokemon Mega-Evolutions prepared, but I think I'll save that for later.  I enjoyed posting once a day, but writing a big, decent one is probably better.  I'll continue posting the daily Mini-Rambles, though, for entertainment purposes.  Until Monday, this is G-star, signing off!

DEFEATED WITH THE POWER OF LOVE!

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  I'm sure you missed me.
     Pathetically enough, the most exciting thing that happened to me this past week was beating the Pokemon X game.  Technically, it's my brother's, as he received it for Christmas (well, that's technical too; it didn't have his name on it, it was simply a given as he was the only one with a DS of any sort), but he has been 'generously' <_< allowing me to play it when he's not home...sometimes.  So it was difficult to get to this point in the game, but I finally did it, and boy was it worth it.
     (Yes, I'm going to continue ranting about this.)  My thing about training a Pokemon team is that I level them up with a goal: to get them to evolve.  Therefore, I don't often put fully evolved or non-evolving Pokemon in my party.  Pokemon that evolve by trading usually don't find their way into my party or even PC either, since I really don't like trading.  This is partially because I don't have anyone I trust to trade back when it evolves, but mostly because I'm ridiculously frugal; I keep stocked up on Potions (or at least, until they got really expensive and I realized Soda Pops cost the same amount and were more effective), Pokeballs, Great Balls, and Revives, but I never buy things that temporarily up any stats; what's the point?  Besides, all my Pokemon already have maxed stats (that's MY style of training, but I'll go more in-depth with that soon).  Anyway, I never catch a Pokemon I don't intend to either train or trade immediately to an NPC, because catching not only uses up Pokeballs but is a real bother.  My Pokemon faint just trying to keep the other Pokemon from fainting.  This is why Quick Balls are my favorite thing EVER.
     Unfortunately, I quickly found that switching teams every time they had all evolved...didn't work. At ALL.  Every time I would realize the new party was too low level, and then I'd spend an extra week in the surrounding routes before moving on to the next town, have all my Pokemon evolve right before leaving, and start the cycle again.  At some point I just gave up and reverted to my thus far highest level team: an Azumarill named Lapis that I'd been training since the very beginning, an Absol named Omen that had helped me out of many a pinch, an Umbreon named Eon (the one that I had accidentally evolved into Sylveon -_-"), A Staravia/Staraptor named Stella that I at first only had with me to use Fly, a Reuniclus named Meto that, actually, was probably my strongest Pokemon, and a Golurk named Mottel that I just had a fondness for.  Soon, though, I switched Mottel for a Gengar named Spook my brother traded me.  Gengar's probably my overall favorite, but every time I found a Haunter I would accidentally knock it out.  Ridiculously annoying....  Every time I start a new team, I end up with one Pokemon that's very powerful, and has high Defense and everything, but takes a real battering.  At first, this Pokemon was my Pangoro, Bambi.  She would take all sorts of status conditions, be knocked out several times, in one battle, etc...I'm pretty sure if I had taught her Frustration, it would have done 500 damage.  After that it was my Granbull, Mottel, and then finally Spook.  Poor guys.
     Despite my inefficient leveling up method, however, I have some pretty strong Pokemon.  Why?  Well, in the X and Y versions, a thing called Super Training was added.  (Or maybe it was in Black/White too....I dunno, this is the only one I've ever played fully.)  I would spend hours of my free time working up my team's stats; I'd focus on the lowest one (as long as it was useful or important) and increase it until it was a little more than the others.  Then I'd take the next lowest and do the same thing, and so on, and so forth.  Eventually, I'd focus on just one stat that I thought needed improving or would make the Pokemon unbeatable.  I increased Eon's Attack stat a crudload because all his attacks are physical.  This was annoyingly difficult, because it was originally his lowest stat....  After a while, though, my whole team was maxed out, and I was pretty happy with it. ^_^  And then I would continue leveling them up on my journey...until I reached the end.
     The Elite Four were pretty easy to beat because of my type advantages; they were fire, dragon, water, and steel.  I had water/fairy, dark, psychic, ghost, and flying.
     Admittedly, Lapis did most of the work, and the steel guy was pretty difficult as none of my attacks were very effective, but I think I did a pretty good job overall.  Oddly, the champion was the easiest of all -- none of my Pokemon fainted -- and I finished her off pretty quickly.  Completely out of nostalgia, I brought out Lapis, my earliest Pokemon, out to fight her last remaining defense, and had him defeat her with Return.  As the opponent's HP bar fell to zero, I pumped my fist and shouted "I HAVE DEFEATED YOU WITH THE POWER OF LOVE!"
     ...................
     I'm sorry, that was REALLY long.  But I suppose it's for the best, since I don't really have any other ideas about what to talk about....well, until next time, I suppose.  G-star out.

Mini-Ramble: In a Rush, But Please Enjoy (Zane Art)!

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  Sorry, I would've liked to post yesterday or even Thursday, but my brother has been on the computer almost nonstop since Christmas.  I don't know how he manages this since he's also been playing his new Pokemon Y game nonstop, but...
     I had a great Christmas, and I hope you did, too.  (Now here comes the New Year....)  What'd you get?  (Rhetorical question; I know that no one comments on my blog. T-T)  I received a new computer drawing tablet, and I spent the entirety of Christmas day working on a picture of Zane (the main character of my comic).  It turned out great!  The one problem I'm having is that I drew it on a manga software, and it cuts the picture off at the borders of where the comic would regularly be.  Also there's a page number on it.  Other than that, however, I'm happy with it, and I hope you will be as well.  Yes, I'm actually posting a promised drawing!  (I never did put up that angel drawing, did I...?)  Please enjoy.
     I have a lot else to say, but not enough time, so I will tell the rest this coming week.  (Since it's not like anything else interesting will happen any time soon.)  Until then, G-star out.

And there's that page number....^          
And there.^                                                                          

Let it Snow...and Snow...and...MAKE IT STOP (Creepers and Pikachus/Addictive Yet Useless)!!!

     Hello, all.  G-star here.  Sorry I didn't post earlier; I was playing Wii with my little brother, and though I had this nagging feeling there was something I needed to do on the computer, I couldn't pin it down.  I'm sorry for forgetting all you amazing readers out there. u.u  I forgot it was Wednesday mainly because I depend on school to keep me up-to-date on what day it is.  Why dodn't I have school, you ask?  That would be because the local roads have been blocked with ice and snow since Friday.  Yes, it is normally my city's duty to clear the roads with their ginormous street-sweepers, but although they cleared out the intersection leading to several stores and a couple schools, for some reason they (the ever-present, all-powerful "they") decided that the long street that leads down to my house, with over a hundred homes on it altogether, didn't deserve sweeping.  This, of course, basically nullified the purpose of clearing the big intersection of ice and snow, as no one could get to it to visit stores.  Being unable to leave the house has driven my mom to the brink of insanity.
     Of course, all this snow has its good sides, too.  On Friday it was too powdery to build anything with, so MC and I just walked around the neighborhood.  We found some icicles hanging off a car, and I broke one off and licked it...yes, I understand the health hazards of licking something you broke off a car, but it looked clean and I was thirsty.  (I was also kind of hoping it might stick to my tongue, but nothing happened.)  The next day we just stayed inside reading and playing video games (that's when MC and Ducis came over) and Sunday my family went outside and had a huge snowball fight, made an unsuccessful snowman,  tried to make the dog drag us around on a sled (which, unfortunately, didn't work), and made Dad drag us around on a sled (which, unfortunately for Dad, did work).  (I mentioned this in a comment after posting on Sunday.)
     Since "they" never cleared out the neighborhood and the snow is taking forever to melt, I haven't had school all week.  I'm not sure if I'll have it tomorrow; my extremely indecisive school says they're going to wait until tomorrow to make anything official.
     Most people would take full advantage of all this, but I'm personally kind of hoping that we'll have school tomorrow.  Why?  Well, remember that Gaming Club tournament I mentioned before?  It was supposed to have started yesterday and go on until, at least I think, the beginning of January (taking into account the two-week Christmas break), but since we missed the first day of the tournament and maybe the second day as well, I'm not sure what will happen.  Also, (and I don't think I've mentioned this before, and even though it's not relevant, I don't care because it's interesting,) the prize for the winner of the tournament is a quarter of the total profits from sign-ups (it costs $2 to sign up), while the other 3/4 will be going to new games, controllers, and overall equipment for the club.
     This is unrelated, but this entry has been slow going thanks to a website I just discovered called My Candy Love.  Well, I say 'just discovered', but I've actually been seeing ads for it for months now and only today decided to check it out.  So far it's interesting, but I can't go very many places...  Well, looks like Ken wants to go on a date with me.
     This really is an odd game.  Yet so addicting....  (Mostly because one of the characters looks like Tamaki Suoh. <-<)
     Speaking of computer simulation, MC has gotten me addicted to one called "Little Alchemist".  You're provided with four elements and have to combine them in all sorts of ways to create new ones.  It was fun at first, but now that I have a ton, it's sort of a pain to find two elements that might do something.  That wasn't really important, I just felt like I needed to make this entry longer.
      It's strange; when I first started blogging, every post was short, and I was fine with it.  But now that I've had so much to talk about (sort of) and they've been getting longer, I feel an obligation to make every post just as long, regardless of whether I actually have something to talk about.  Interesting.  Hopefully, at some point, I'll actually have a need instead of an urge because of my interesting social life.  (Yeah, like THAT'LL ever happen.  Why do you think I spend my time playing dating sims and roleplaying?)
     I just remembered something.  My little brother recently downloaded the Minecraft mod "Pixelmon", and I felt an immediate pull.  We're both Pokeheads and, though we only have two of the actual games (counting the Wii Battle Stadium game), collect the cards with wild abandon.  He with his ridiculously strong EX and Stage 3 cards; I with my strategic cards possessing only attack effects.  Oddly enough, I always beat him.  (I wonder why that is?  -v-)  Anyway, he went the "honest way" with his Pixelmon game, starting from scratch in Survival, cheats off, with nothing but a starter, living in Pokemon Centers and desperately scrounging for Apricorns, and guessing when it came to crafting Pokeballs.  While I, ever the logical one, started in Creative with cheats on and took the "reasonable way"; providing myself with a home, the essentials (crafting table, furnace, chests) and Pokemon Center supplies (as I was unable to find one, no matter how far I flew), and catching one Pokemon over level one with a Master Ball.  After that, though, I went Survival, actually bothering to LOOK UP Pokeball crafting recipes as I played.  And what was the result?  My brother still only has his starter (as he was unable to make any Pokeballs), no home, and is desperately trying to get along with no cheat abilities.  I, on the other hand, have a full team (and then some), plenty of self-crafted Dusk Balls and Level Balls, and manage to heal my Pokemon between battles.  Let's take a second and think about which one was the better idea.
     Now then, I need to go level up my recently acquired Miltank and track down an Abra that's been giving me the slip.  Until Saturday, this is G-star, signing off.

Good God, My Fish is a Cannibal?! (Pikachu, I Choose You!)

     Okay, I only have half an hour and I would like to play Minecraft as well, so I'll try to write this quickly.  Nothing much happened this last week, though, so it should be short anyway.  Yesterday, I woke up to hear my little brother (he's 11) sobbing like the earth had just swallowed up our parents.  When I came out, I found out that his fish, the only remaining albino shark in a huge tank of clownfish-type-things and a bunch of other who-knows-what, had died the previous night.  This by itself was sad, but when I found out that my brother had discovered this fact by seeing his fish's tail protruding from the mouth of Buddy, my big black fish, I was horrified.  Later, when he went to feed them (not that Buddy needed any feeding o-o) he found his albino shark's decapitated little body floating in the corner of the tank.  GOD, THAT'S HORRIBLE!!!  I think we're both traumatized.  Mom tried to break it to him gently that his fish had probably gotten sick in the night, and, well, it's a fish-eat-fish world.  Buddy had seen him as prey.  Heck, I just think my fish is cannibalistic. T-T  On a lighter note, we're going to a barbeque at the house of some family friends.  My brother seems to have recovered and is hoping to bring his Nintendo and Pokémon cards there, as the daughter of the family is also a Pokémon fanatic.  (Not saying I'm not, though... >->) Other than that, though, nothing really happened.  I'll see you next week, hopefully with a treat (but only for those who comment!!).  For now, though, this is Gstar, signing out.