My Pokémon adventure continues…

My Pokémon adventure continues…

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...and I'm still thoroughly enjoying it. I've just beat the final Gym and am gearing up to the Victory Road/Indigo Plateau finale. I enjoyed the three little islands that weren't in the original Red and Blue, although it was a pretty slight diversion. I've caught all three Legendary birds, defeated Team Rocket but probably still need to do a bit…

Adon is the man

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Sorry Dan, but my time with you is over. Adon is my new all time favourite now, he's just so awesome. He works well delivering constant pressure, or sitting back and snuffing out any incoming attacks. I'm still working out the best ways to use the Rising Jaguar - it's just not possible to use it as a Shoryuken-type attack,…
But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

But Daddy I wanted to eat the lemon

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Went to see Jasmine (and Mum, David and Katie as well) yesterday, got to give her her belated birthday presents. We got her this turtle thing that plays little tunes while roaming around launching little plastic balls out of it's back that'll encourage her to crawl after it. Well, we put some batteries in it and as soon as it…

Infinity!

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Just a quick one to say that I got an Infinity rating on Lips last night, singing Viva La Vida by Coldplay. Then, immediately after, Jane got an Infinity rating on "a song I can't remember which I'll edit in when I've asked her later tonight". None for two months, then two in a row! Awesome! The Avatar Award didn't…
I’m playing Pokémon on my PSP

I’m playing Pokémon on my PSP

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This week I finally got around to enabling homebrew on my PSP. It was very easy, mostly thanks to my PSP being one of the old "Phat" models. I eventually found some suitable emulators and some questionable software - It was a bit tricky thanks to the gamut of sites that are mostly keywords designed to send you round and…
Number one in the world!

Number one in the world!

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I've finally achieved my dream of being number one on a leaderboard on an Xbox 360 game! Yesterday we downloaded Build Me Up Buttercup by The Foundations for Lips, and after our first go we saw that we could easily get to the top spot. We sang it a few more times, each time getting closer and closer until finally:…
Grifball!

Grifball!

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Bungie's Double XP Weekend playlist of choice this last weekend was Grifball. I adore Grifball. Created by Burnie Burns of Rooster Teeth, thanks to the wonder of Halo 3's Forge map creation tool and the fully customisable game-types, then combined with being able to spread these around via your own personal File Share, Grifball is undoubtedly the most successful user-created…

Always late to the party

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This week I signed up to Twitter (about a year and a half after everyone else in the entire fucking world, but there you go). It's been great so far, and thanks to me being quite selective about who I follow, it's not been entirely full of inane, pointless chatter. Initially I signed up in the hope that it would…
About that post I made about the football

About that post I made about the football

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Re: Football's going home. Turns out everyone hasn't blamed it on the disallowed Lampard effort, rather they have actually realised that England played very poorly! Common sense prevails for once. On a related football note, some teams I follow have recently announced new kits and they are lovely. The Glasgow Rangers new one is so simple, but it's striking and…

Reading list for June

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The Timewaster Letters The Return of The Timewaster Letters By Robin Cooper I'll include both of them in the same entry, as concept and content-wise they are exactly the same. I thought these two books were very funny. Basically, the books consist of correspondence between the (clearly mad) Robin Cooper and the various comapnies and hobby groups he sends his…