Current Ramblings
Sunday, October 03, 2004
I = Pokegeek
Have I mentioned how awesome it is when you beat a Team Rocket grunt in a Pokemon battle and they just stand there and let you go about ransacking their headquarters? Damn, I love that.
I'm currently on the fence about what I want to do regarding the Nintendo DS and Christmas. Talking to my mother on AIM tonight, she showed plenty of willingness to get it for me for Christmas. (She also misread a teaser ad on the top of GameStop.com as saying that they were offering free shipping on Tom Hanks Underground 2.) But I'm not entirely certain I want to get it right away. The thing is, Nintendo has a habit of doing special edition Game Boys to go along with new Pokemon games, like the Fire Red and Leaf Green GBASPs you can get from the Pokemon Center. I would love to have one of these, but they seem, more often than not, to come out long after the system's initial release, so I have the blasted system already. And I am kinda attached to my pretty blue SP. Am I ready to upgrade already? But see, I asked myself that when the SP came out, if I really needed to replace my GBA so soon, and the closer it got to release, the more certain I was that the answer was clearly "yes". I thrive on these gadgets and their endless upgrades, and the wireless LAN connection is exactly what someone with so many net friends like me needs. I can walk up to Cup o' Joe and trade Pokemon with a friend in New Jersey? I'm there. I'll probably give in by the end of the month, but for now I'm still fighting it out.
(Quick political aside: Walking downstairs to do the laundry, I ran into the couple who live in the apartment below us retrieving their escape-artist kitten. Turns out they were both at the March for Women's Lives, too. Add that to the fact that one of our more recent additions to #wiigii! was also coincidentally there and that's a pretty big segment of the population for how little coverage the Oh So Liberal Media gave the event. Yep, that media sure is liberal.)
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