January 20th, 2025

I haven't mentioned the Pokemon TCG Pocket thing but I've been paying attention to it mostly in the background of stuff. I have a deck built now that I'm playing with. I like that I feel like I don't really need to like, go "all in" with the game. It can just be a casual side thing. Idk it's kinda fun too. A few decks in the meta right now are pretty random but even most of the random ones are a bit consistent. Misty looks like absolute crap despite being the lynchpin of Water decks but that's why I'm not running a Water deck.

Not that much progress in Emerald, a bit too scatterbrained in it today. I'm trying to get the coins to buy some of the TMs in the Game Corner, which is actually not that big of a deal. If you mash on the roulette wheels you actually have a 50% chance to, at worst, double the money you bet (there are twelve spaces, but the wheel is only reset every six balls), so that's something. Platinum has this whole elaborate minigame with the slot machines that's honestly kind of cool but I think it says something that literally just fucking mashing is way better because it doesn't take ten million years to get coins.