A wild Mew approaches!
February 5th, 2016
Having already established my nerk cred by, you know, going on at length about my RPG web site a couple times recently here, you shouldn't be surprised that a bit of video game chicanery is extant in my, uh, nerdery. Or is that nerkery? One of these game series, which I got hooked on as a direct result of watching the cartoons with my nieces and nephew, is Pokémon.
One of my many, many mental disorders is the whole obsessive collecting thing. If I let myself, I could readily become one of those hoarder people. As it is, I already still have too much crap, though luckily a lot of it is still sitting under the stairs in a basement in Omaha, Nebraska. Heh. This is why my Gi Joe and Transformers hobby has been put on indefinite hold - I'd be buried in plastic.
But Pokémon? Pokémon is great. I can try to catch 'em all without occupying all that much physical space. Sure, the cartridges for the Pokémon games do take up what, a square inch? At least the more recent ones do, at any rate. Pile them all up and, packaging aside, you've got like one cubic inch of Pokémon games. And to someone like me, these games are highly addictive.
But at least it's a relatively harmless addiction. Sure, I have to range far and wide to catch 'em all, constantly keeping an eye out for promotions like this, here, which grant players Pokémons that you can't physically get in the game. No, in order to truly catch 'em all, one has to put some inexplicably serious effort into it. And naturally, I've done that, because you know what?
I've caught them all.
No cheating, no hacking. Just a very, very long period of time stalking these beasts throughout the country, chasing down Nintendo events in cities near where I live, or making my way to stores offering special monster giveaways. At least now, save for their most recent promotion, you can usually just download the darn things when they're offered by the company online.
Now I actually have all the creatures that Nintendo will be giving away on this Pokémon anniversary celebration thingie they're going on about, but why just have one of everything? As the occasionally wise and unaddled by drugs Rob Zombie would say: more is more. Besides, these fellows are all level 100, and that saves a whole lot of grinding. Time which I can spend doing, uh, other grinding.
Grind grind grind.