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Honestly, most of my time is spent simply watching the scenery going by. I'll often bring puzzle books and some games with me (usually just my 3DS), but it's rare that I actually use them. I think across my whole rail vacation in June I spent maybe 30 minutes total on my 3DS. I've always been fascinated by the varying scenery across the country, even the more mundane kinds like desert or plains. I do have other methods to pass the time though depending on the method of travel. In air travel I'll probably just stare out the window most of the time, but if they have in-flight entertainment available I'll sometimes use that instead. I learned this way that The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King extended edition is almost exactly as long as a flight from Chicago to Los Angeles! If I'm traveling by car, I find simply watching traffic going by to be very cathartic for some reason, as odd as it might sound. When doing a short hop on rail I usually just stare out the window the whole trip, while on long distance trips I would try to strike up conversations with the other passengers. I have a sizeable playlist of mostly video game music that I'll sometimes listen to on long trips as well.
QueenCobra
Daisuke Sekimoto girlie
—Who’s your favorite character from the Mario series?
—Favorite video game villain?
—Celebrity crush?
—Favorite video game villain?
—Celebrity crush?
1. My favorite Mario character would have to be Luigi. I've always preferred him over Mario, but his depiction in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga as well as my first playthrough of Luigi's Mansion on GameCube helped solidify is position as a favorite. I just love the way his character is depicted in the games he plays a major role in.
2. It has to be Fawful from the Mario & Luigi series. From his initial role as a sidekick in the first game to becoming the main villain in Bowser's Inside Story, Fawful is decidedly evil and yet he has a certain kind of charm about him that you can't help but like him anyway. The way he talks is priceless too, and he has so many great lines across the series.
3. I actually don't have one. I personally couldn't care less about celebrities in general to be completely honest.
Captain Jigglypuff
Leader of the Jigglypuff Army
How do we know that canned pet food tastes like how it says on the label? Do pet food companies hire people to taste test it? And if so are they paid minimum wage or a set higher wage?
Funny you should ask this, I was having this exact conversation with someone at work a couple days ago! It started because I found a box of some kind of dog treats that was labeled as a new recipe that was supposedly "more delicious" or something along those lines. It had me wondering just how they were able to make such a claim unless they had some unfortunate soul compare the two! I would hope that any taste-tester was paid higher than minimum wage for such a position, though I certainly wouldn't expect it. And if they don't have testers, I suppose we just have to trust that whatever is in the can is in fact the flavor that's being advertised. I'm inclined to just believe them though without attempting to verify it myself!
My full collection, you ask? I was going to take your second option and just show the favorites, but then I remembered that I've been looking for an excuse to get pictures of the whole thing anyway. Besides, even though I do have a few favorite pieces within the collection, I do like every piece of it. So why not show it all off! I've never actually had the whole collection out at once, so seeing just how many pieces I had kind of shocked me a bit. And that's not even the entire thing anyway, since I have 3 or 4 other pieces currently stored away. But here it is!
17 Buizel plushes, two of which are doubles so 16 unique ones total! 4 small figures at the front as well, and the clear piece in the back left is an LED lamp (the lamp base doesn't work anymore, unfortunately).
A complete collection of Buizel Pokemon cards, plus a few doubles. At least, complete as of now, since another one will apparently be releasing soon. I'll be getting that one as soon as possible though!
In terms of numbers, these ones make up the bulk of my collection. Most of them feature Buizel pretty prominently, but on a few (especially the sticker sets) Buizel only has a minor presence.
A few more stickers, mostly Japanese bread stickers, plus a few tokens and like pieces. At the bottom there is a keychain piece, a Buizel and Floatzel clip set, and even a Buizel postage stamp. The large one at the top is a folder for storing Bromide cards, and is what I will be using to store most of my cards and stickers now that I've gotten pictures of all of them.
Two more items which include a Buizel shirt (unofficial, and I have a second one in blue), and an old Pokeball toy that came with a small Buizel plush, still in the box! The box has definitely seen better days though...
Captain Jigglypuff
Leader of the Jigglypuff Army
Are you excited about any new games coming out soon?
Your Buizel collection is so amazing! I'm totally in awe. I'm a big Pokemon fan, and I have favorite Pokemon, but I tend to hoard Grass Pokemon rather than get a ton of a single specific 'mon.
So my two questions are:
1. Was Buizel your top favorite 100% of the time since it was first revealed, or did you like it but gradually come to LOVE it later?
2. What was your favorite Pokemon before?
So my two questions are:
1. Was Buizel your top favorite 100% of the time since it was first revealed, or did you like it but gradually come to LOVE it later?
2. What was your favorite Pokemon before?
There are only two games I'm looking forward to at the moment, but I'm really excited for both. One is Fantasy Life i: The Girl who Steals Time." I'm a huge fan of Fantasy Life game on 3DS and was both shocked and happy when they suddenly announced a new installment in the last Nintendo Direct. It does look like the developers are taking a bit of a different approach to the game compared to the first one, but I am hopeful that the game will still retain that same kind of charm that the original had. The second is Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. When Breath of the Wild released, it ended up stealing away weeks of my time. I was beyond obsessed with the game, and it ended up finding itself in second place on my list of favorite games of all time, only behind Zelda: Majora's Mask. It looks like a ton of care and polish have gone into this game (as is typical for Zelda games), and I can't wait to see how they expanded upon Breath of the Wild's map which was used as a base for this game. Enemy variety seems to be massively improved too, which was one of my very few complaints about BotW. But I'm trying to go into this game as blind as possible, I guess trying to sort of recapture that same kind of feeling of exploration and discovery that I had with Breath of the Wild since virtually everything I found in that game was new to me. But we're quickly approaching the release date and it will hopefully be here before we know it!
1. Buizel is actually a fairly recent favorite of mine. I did like him back when Diamond and Pearl were still new, but at the time he wasn't anything special to me. But a couple years ago I started a new playthrough of Platinum and caught a Buizel for my team. I decided to look up his move learnset online and saw a few pictures of him from the show which I found to be rather cute (I'm a huge sucker for cute things!). I started looking for more shots of him from the show which brought back scattered memories of the episodes of the show I've seen him in, so I tried looking for clips on YouTube. I ended up finding a video of the Manaphy Pokemon movie that was edited down to only the moments Buizel was on screen (linked in the spoiler below), and it was that video that kickstarted my extreme obsession with him and placed him at number one on my list of favorite Pokemon by a country mile.
2. It's a bit cliched I know, but my favorite Pokemon before Buizel was Pikachu, for a lot of the same reasons as Buizel such as his overall cuteness and his portrayal in the shows. The overabundance of plushes and merchandise that Pikachu has as a result of being the mascot of Pokemon helped a lot with that as well!
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