An 8 minute video showing the sped up process of how I created Scyther.

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I just mutilated that title

So I just got two boxes of Pokemon Card pack things in the mail from AmazonAnd I will blog about what I get…. IN REAL TIMEEEE

Yeah this would be a lot easier if we had a shoutbox… -_-’

The tape holding the box shut was really weird. It was hard to open and then suddenly it just snapped open. It made me feel weird….  :P

AIRplus? …. There are two little 3-packs…. of air? So no bubble wrap anymore, just these, or is this just a gift, like fresh mountain air or something? Maybe Amazon started shipping to the International Space Station and included these, and this was just an accident. Wait… What if I wasn’t supposed to get the air and the guys on the space station die because they don’t have enough air? This is so terrible!!!!!

kay, this first box is Pokemon TCG: Platinum: Supreme Victors. The title sure seems exciting and majestic. But the box itself sucks. The fonts are really generic and it almost feels like a cheap pirate box. The only artwork on there is a Charizard on front, the same Charizard on back, and a random Rayquaza. Meh.

Okay so there’s a Dialga promo card in front. The artwork is okay and it has a pretty good move, Time Call, where you can evolve any Pokemon by searching your deck, but the other Dialga I have (I have a normal version AND a jumbo card version with that one 8)) is way cooler, as it has a move that can DEevolve the opponent’s Pokemon.

Okay, so I totally just found the box. That’s so cool:

See. The other move is Time Wager. Flip two coins. if both are heads, it does 100 damage, but if any are tails, it does 50. It’s a really good move anyway. Seriously, 50 damage for only 3 energies!

??? There’s this gigantic poster of every single card in the Supreme Victors set. I…. Guess this is cool maybe?

There’s 4 packs. the POP Series 9, or Pokemon Organized Play packs, make up two of them, and there’s 2 Supreme Victors packs. The art on the POP is just the regular Garstomp artwork… booooring. The other two have an epic Charizard flying around, presumably about to claw the face off of that wuss Dark Charizard, not the shiny one, the one from the Team Rocket pack that isn’t even black, and another Garstomp, but one that is awesome and roaring as it repares to punch someone out with his winghands. Actually when you put them side-by-side it almost looks like they’re about to fight each other! Soooooooo cool :::.

POP Series 9

These packs suck. They only have 2 cards and one energy. I have enough energies besides dark and steel thank you very much D<

So this first pack has A Turtwig level 7 and a Buneary level 8. The Buneary is absolutely unremarkable, but the Turtwig is pretty cool.

meh. Oh yeah and a fighting energy. @____@

The other pack:
Booyah I totally got a dark energy! Score!! I also got a Manaphy, which is pretty okay, and a Chimchar, which does 60 damage plus sleep if you have a Piplup. Better than the other pack I guess…

The actual packs

The anticipation is not just killing me right now, but trying to violate my corpse as well. I have to open these! I will open the Garchomp first because he’s not as cool as Charizard.

Meditite level 22. laaaaaaaame
Gible level 12. laaaaaaaame
Bulbasaur level 13. ooh cool artwork. but it’s not a very cool pokemon…

Cherubi level 10. really really sucky
Rhydon level 45. meh to the extreme.
The holographic is Cherrim level 29, which is coincidentally the evolved form of the sucky Cherubi. It sucks as well. Its own main move, petal dance, makes itself confused >__>
Starly, level 5. It takes 2 energies to do a 20 damage peck? What the heck.
Milotic level 49. A really good Pokemon actually! You discard 2 cards from you hand to heal any Pokemon for 40 damage, and then another attack that does 90 damage, but minus 10 for every card in your hand!
Empoleon FB, level 50. Who the hell is Frontier Brain… I really should have played Platinum, I guess?Yeah it’s pretty solid. You can move the opponent’s energy to another card, and it does 20 damage.
Stadium: Champion’s Room. All SP Pokemon have one less retreat cost. laaaaaaaame. What’s an SP anyway?

Geodude level 9, Corphish level 11, and ANOTHER Bulbasaur level 13. All trite.

I got a pretty sweet Breloom level 37, plus an okay Masquerain level 36.
Skorupi level 6 has really cool artwork but isn’t a good Pokemon at all. And is psychic for some reason…?

This Chingling is awesome. It lets you search your opponent’s discard pile and use a supporter card in there for YOURSELF. yah

My holographic card is a level 33 Parasect. It makes the best sleep ever. When you go to sleep because of it, you have to get 2 coins heads to wake up instead of 1. Epic win.
I also got Skarmory FB, which is unremarkable, and an Arcanine G level 60, also meh.

So yeah not as good a pack. Also I still don’t know what SP means. It’s owned Pokemon, right? So why can’t it just be ___’s Pokemon?

Now onto the second box….

It’s a little better than the last one. This front has a pretty epic Celebi and a picture of Zorark, Rayquaza, and Dialga in the back.

Open

THAT PICTURE WAS A CARD. It was one of those jumbo cards and it was so awesome. Too bad you can’t use it DDDD<
Anyway I have 2 Call of Legends packs and 1 HGSS Undaunted pack. The Houndour on the Undaunted is freaking me out, and the Call of Legends Kyogre looks like it’s retarded, literally. But the other CoL pack has Deoxys, and it is certifiably badass.

Undaunted pack:

That’s the jumbo card btw

Meh: Stunky, Houndour, Hitmonchan, Misdreavus, Gloom, Vaporeon.

Cool: Honchcrow: It’s my rare
Evee: awesome 3D art, and a random Carnivine in back.
Scyther: Art only. Not that good by itself
Holohgraphic Scizor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Best Pokemon ever. And it has an attack that will do 20 extra damage for each metal energy attatched to Scizor. Infinite awesome.

Kyogre pack:

Pineco, Cyndaquill, Misdreavus, Slowpoke, Pidgey, Vaporeon. Mehhhhhhhh.

Holographic Riolu, which doesn’t even have a good attack -_-’
Snorlax: uhhh it’s pretty good?
A new cersion of the Copycat card. Extremely cute artwork. <3
Lost Remover: …..What’s a Lost Zone….

Deoxys Pack:

Pidgey, Relicanth, Hitmonchan ?(the same one as before wiht new art??), Snubbull, Phanphy, Flareon.

My holographic card is Typhlosion, wish is really cool but I no hav a Quilava….
Another Lost Zone card…. Sage’s Training. It’s like Professor Oak but worse…
Tangrwoth HELLZ YAH!!!!!!111one The artwork is so awesome… but it also has some “Lost Zone” crap and it confuses the heck out of me….

Yeah so I just got what, 58 cards I guess. Pretty cool and all for $26.16. I feel so accomplished

Well, since the last post there’s been a whole bunch of completed patches, as well as more progress on the current ones.

All added to the Completed Patches gallery! The WIP gallery has also been updated with several new pictures.

In other news…

The badge competition is almost over! Voting begins tomorrow (April 15th)

Link buttons now available for people who’d like to help promote our project on their websites/blogs – check this PPG thread for the buttons and more info!

And, as always, if you want more info or want to get involved, email us or join us at the forums!

I’ve just had a snack, so to speak. Digby Central is having a bit of a clean out, and as I was going through my freezer, I found a long-abandoned chill cake (see a previous blong, Diggers!). My heart, initially, was slammed hard with a punch of memories, as I had made this cake for the late Arukitori, but soon the punch turned to a gentle, loving stroke, as perhaps a lover would slip their hand into yours, or perhaps how a mother would pat the head of her newborn son. So I decided to get down to business with this chill cake.

Removing the protective skewers I had installed, I allowed the cake to thaw for a few minutes before pulling out my steak knife and hacking myself off a generous serve. Anticipating my hunger, I gave myself a knowing look and cut another three slices. Before I could “digger” in, so to speak, my current guests, American husband and wife Clive and Scyther-Marie, stormed into my kitchen and snapped up my remaining pieces, retreating into the granny flat where I have been letting them sleep since the unfortunate incident at the dedication of my Aruki statue. I initially was fairly content at their presence and allowed them to take a happy snap of me, which I instantly regretted and realised I hates their guts. I want them to leave.

Yessss.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ELECTION.

Cheers!

Diggers

So since this is Fight Month, why not tell you some near-perfect deals on fighting game compilations?

King of Fighters: Orochi Saga (Wii, PS2): King of Fighters ’94 through ’98, which is half of the original yearly series! It’s basically 5 games in one you otherwise would have to pay tons for on the Neo-Geo.

Samurai Showdown Anthology (Wii, PS2, PSP): Same thing, except this is 6 games in one.

Street Fighter Anniversary Collection (Xbox): Street Fighter III, already one of the best fighters ever, and Hyper Street Fighter II, which lets you play as every version of all 16 SFII characters! I didn’t include the PS2 version of this because the Xbox one is the only one that has online play.

The following are the Peanut Gallery’s key Pokemon for perfect success in Pokemon Red/Blue. This team was carefully crafted over hundreds of painsaking hours studying player’s guides and is therefore the best, the greatest, the all-time 6 creature team that guarantees great success… That and they come with some of the most bizarre Pokedex descriptions. Some of you may question this list. Others will point out “better” options. To those people, I say “Suck it, Trebek” (and also, see the Honorable Mentions list before whining).

6. Electabuzz

Ladies, check out the guns.

From Pokedex: “Electabuzz feeds on electrical currents. Its methods of securing its food vary: during thunderstorms, an Electabuzz climbs to the highest place possible, in hopes that it will be struck by lightning.”

Apparently, Electabuzz adheres to the ‘Highlander’ method of getting stronger.

5. Primeape

From Pokedex: “Vicious and frenzied, even making eye contact with it can anger it. If it is annoyed, it will never stop chasing the offender. Its frenzies are most dangerous when forcefully woken up, as it relentlessly chases the quarry while half-asleep.”

This is exactly the kind of Fighting/Earth Pokemon you want, the one prone to killing a dude just for looking at them wrong. Get this monkey a Bloods bandana.

4. Haunter

The ultimate female pleasurer. Gene Simmons eat your heart out.

From Pokedex: “Haunter is said to be from another dimension. They seem to eat by first paralyzing their opponent with Lick, then draining a bit of their life force.”

So what you’re saying is, Haunter is the ghost of a pervert. That’s the perfect character for a kids’ game.

3. Magmar

Come 'ere and give Uncle Magmar a hug.

From Pokedex: “It has the ability to expel orange-colored fire from every part of its body, including its mouth.”

……………riiight…………… EVERY part of its body. Not to mention, as The Heap has pointed out, Magmar’s head looks like a flaming ass. Sporting two flaming assholes sounds dangerous, which is exactly what’s needed for this team.

2. Alakazam

You see how long this thing is?!?! The MOUSTACHE, you sicko.

From Pokedex: “Alakazam has a long, gold moustache – nonetheless, some Alakazam are female, though females have dramatically smaller moustaches than males.”

You know you’re a badass when your women also rock facial hair. Don’t believe me? Ask the dwarves.

1. Gyarados

From Pokedex: “Gyarados tend to be very aggressive, and are powerful enough to destroy entire cities. They have a reputation for appearing where there is conflict, and annihilating everything with its Hyper Beam attack. Rampages like this have been known to last upwards of an entire month, and will not end until everything around them has been destroyed.”

It wouldn’t be a true Japanese experience without a giant city-leveling monster in it. Also, for those studying for SAT IIs, Death Star:Alderaan :: Gyarados:Japanese Cities…the correct answer is most certainly not that pretender Godzilla.

***HONORABLE MENTIONS***

Scyther – This is what you get when you solve (Praying Mantis + Ninja – Black Ninja Outfit^(Japanese Weird Factor)

Jigglypuff – It has a Britney Spears-esque ability to get more destructive the fatter it gets.

Mr. Mime – While Haunter may be the ghost of a pervert, Mr. Mime is clearly a child rapist pretending to be a Pokemon to get close to children. You heard it here first.

Eevee – This is exactly what every pet should be: OBEDIENT. If I want my cat to suddently become a fire-breathing Tiger, I should only have to tell it to (and give it some trippy ass rock). I shouldn’t have to slap it into some stupid outfit for Halloween.

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Angry Reader: “Where are the legendary birds? Where’s Mewtwo. Did you even play this game?!”

Me: “Did your mommie raise a little bitch or were you just born that way. I say it’s Throwdown Time. You. Me. Pokemon Stadium on the 56″ screen. Our original teams. Want some?!?! Of course not. You don’t even own the adaptor to let you play GBC games on the N64 do you. I thought so.”

More useless than R.O.B.

I SO RULE.