I'm thankful for the usual things: My life, my family. that I still have a job and a roof over my head to live in. That hasn't changed.
Also I got to meet Justin Briner, the voice of Deku from My Hero Academia (along with the voice actors for Bakugo and Iida) dressed as The Crawler at Anime NYC. He even recognized my cosplay! My day was certainly made then.
Now let's move on to the meat of the entry: I got the new Pokeymans game!
Sword, just like everyone else, it seems. And with a new Pokemon game comes new Pokemon! For some reason, half of the old Pokemon didn't make the transition to the Switch era, but that still leaves about 400 Pokemon, more than enough to keep people satisfied for a while.
And new Pokemon means new shiny Pokemon!
This time around shinies have become slightly easier to get. Well, it's still the same longshot odds to get one, but there's a new method now. See, the game tracks how many times you battle a certain Pokemon, and if you battle at least 500, the odds shoot up dramatically.
That's how I got this one, a shiny Bunnelby. I was battling for a shiny Baltoy for about three hours (just because, really) when this one ran at me and turned out to be shiny. Yeah, I don't know how sunlight is able to be noticed at night, either.
Since he turned out to be naughty by nature (ha), it was only fitting that I named him Bugs.
And keeping with the rabbit theme I decided to try my luck to hatch a shiny Scorbunny using the Masuda Method. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's when you breed a mon with one from a foreign version of the game, usually Japanese and it's usually done with Ditto. So by dumb luck I was traded a Japanese Scorbunny and a Chinese Ditto over surprise trade (the function formerly known as Wonder Trade that traded a mon with a random player from anywhere around the world) and it took roughly a day and half and about 150 or so normal ones before a shiny hatched.
His evolutions look really spiffy, to boot.
I named him Hare, and if you understood that reference I love you forever.
The fun thing about Cinderace is that it's based off a soccer player, and it does a really funny pose whenever you bring it out into battle.
I chose Sobble as my starter (just like almost everyone else), but god damn did this make a good argument against making my choice.
And that leads to shiny number three. This time I decided to try to hatch a more basic choice and try for shiny Magikarp.
This one took a surprisingly short time, only about 30 eggs, which took about an hour before this guy showed up.
I named him Big Red for obvious reasons. Sometimes I wish I kept it as a Magikarp because I really like its shiny too, but I had to bring back the first shiny I ever caught way back in Silver.
So what's next on the horizon? Who the hell knows, but my current target is shiny Wooloo:
Gonna name him Tommy Boy. Because he's the Black Sheep. This is why I don't have much of a social life.
