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► I don’t play Pokémon Go super-regularly, but last Sunday I picked it up to participate in my first Community Day! ♥ I didn’t catch too much, but I got enough to evolve one Mareep to Ampharos, plus I got my first shiny! So that was exciting. ♥ Since then, I’ve googled my town + Pokémon Go and discovered that it has a whole website dedicated to where the best places in town to catch Pokémon are, so I’ll probably be taking advantage of that information the next time around.

► My Naruto reread’s slowed down again (I think it’s been over a week since I last read anything, whoops), mainly because I got distracted by gaming/fandom5k. But I still managed to get a pretty decent chunk of it read before that, so I have a few things to say. In bullet-points, as always.( spoilers beneath the cut )

► In the interests of cutting down my VN backlog, I started playing OZMAFIA!! not long after my last update. I… didn’t get very far; I only reached one ending, and then tried and failed* three times in trying to get the other (hopefully less horrifying) ending for that character.

*Not even following the walkthrough I looked up choice-by-choice worked! I’m not sure what was going on there.

( spoilers + lots of images beneath the cut )

► I’ve reached Day 10 of Yoosung’s route in Mystic Messenger, and wow, what a ride. ( cut for spoilers for Yoosung’s route up to Day 10 )

► The other day my big brother sent me a link to an article. He does this often (as in, multiple times a day often), but I found this one particularly interesting: Why It's So Hard To Make Games In China.

All of the games mentioned in the article looked pretty interesting. One of them, Hazy Days, was both free and short, so I downloaded it and played it. I… can’t say that I enjoyed it, precisely, but it was definitely thought-provoking, and I think I would recommend it playing it at least once. If nothing else, it’s an interesting example for how video games can be used for more than just entertainment. And it is really short— I didn’t time it exactly, but I think it took me maybe ten minutes to complete the entire thing.

► On Pokemon GO: I saw a Vulpix for the first and only time yesterday, but didn’t have any Pokeballs. D: What is with this Vulpix-related bad luck I’ve been having lately.

I did finally figure out how to get free Pokeballs from Pokestops, though, so that was excellent. And there seem to be a lot of Pokestops down Main Street, though the bit where they really begin to cluster together is a pretty far walk from my house, so.

Something that amused me: the local military school has a gym, and that gym is being held by Team Valor. Somehow, I am utterly unsurprised.