Just got my one-year streak on Duolingo.

I’ve now managed to catch a full team of Wormhole shinies in Ultra Moon. One legendary still eludes me, though.

I’m glad to report that I have captured Zekrom in a Quick Ball! If I hadn’t, it probably would’ve one-shot my whole team. And I love the aesthetic of the Quick Ball and also not having to throw dozens of Balls like I’ve had to do with the other legendaries I’ve encountered so far, which thankfully could not end me during the time it took to do that because so many of them only had Psychic- and Normal-type moves and couldn’t do anything to my little Sableye, although I was worried about them fainting themselves with Struggle. But I’ve surprised myself by not adding it to my team, even though I would greatly benefit from a Pokémon that’s so much higher-leveled than most of my team and so much stronger than anyone on my team. I’m just very fond of the team I currently have.

So, the very first legendary I ended up encountering in Ultra Moon is Articuno, my favorite legendary from the first generation. I also already caught Altaria from the Ultra Wormhole, so I’m happy to have both of my favorite blue birdies on my team now.

I’m currently resisting the urge to spend all day scouring the Ultra Wormhole for Articuno, Cobalion, Zekrom, and Yveltal. I remember I had Ho-Oh and Groudon on my team when I went to the Elite Four in Ultra Sun, but this time I want to get all of my favorite legendaries that are available. I haven’t been able to find any legendaries yet, though, and there are other things I need to do this week.

It’s ridiculous how easy it is to cheese Ultra Necrozma. I’ve been severely underleveled the whole time I’ve been playing through Ultra Moon, and it’s just gotten worse and worse even after a lot of training, so I’ve been in a lot of really difficult fights, but this “ultimate” fight against Ultra Necrozma was literally the easiest fight because I just happened to have a Zoroark and an Arbok on my team.

Zoroark in front, Arbok in back, Night Slash five times while Ultra Necrozma spams Photon Geyser doing absolutely nothing, and that’s it.

Why does it seem like wasps have gotten a lot bigger this year? They were already terrifying.

I stayed up way too late because I decided to start a new game on my old Pokémon Platinum cartridge. I was curious how it would work without deleting my save file. It notifies you at the beginning that have to wipe the save file from the main menu to be able to save. So, any games that are started this way will never be able to be saved. But I guess you could play all the way through them if you’re a speedrunner.

I think it’s pretty neat how the older games were set up like this. Protecting your save file but still letting you play the game again if you just keep your console on. I just kept charging it with the screen closed and off but my 3DS still on. I didn’t want to leave it on while I slept, though, because it seemed like that might be hard on it. So I turned it off after I got half of the Gym Badges. I am kind of sad that I can’t continue that adventure now, though.

Does anyone have any recommendations for Pokémon-related content on YouTube? I’ve been injured and need to relax and kind of not do anything, so I could use some pleasant things to watch.

It’s really infuriating when I’m trying to tap on a specific grass patch and then the page jumps and forces me to tap on one I already know doesn’t have an egg.

Oh, hey, I finally hit Trainerlevel 60. I don’t really know what that means for me, and I’ve never deliberately tried to earn Trainerpoints, but I noticed it was taking a really long time to go up from level 59 and thought that meant this would be a kind of significant milestone.

Do fountain shiny boosts work on the event Gimmighoul, or do they not work on it since its shiny chance is set at 1%?

I think I got pretty unlucky getting my Gimmicoins assigned to Pokémon with 5,355 EHP both times.

Recently I’ve been playing a brand new copy of Pokémon X that I’ve kept sealed in its box for years so I could open it on a day when I really needed to be cheered up, so it’s the original version of the game with no updates, and I’ve only just realized that means that the online functions aren’t available and that it has some glitches, including this really weird one where you can’t save on the Boulevards of Lumiose City or some adjacent areas without messing up your game.

Continuing in comments because I ran out of space:

My browser keeps freezing up whenever I try to look through the Item Shop. It’s really weird and I can’t help but think that has something to do with me not being able to find Gimmighoul today. Like, maybe it’s supposed to be there but is failing to load.

I see there are three Gimmighoul (Chest) on-site now. How exactly do you get that one? And does anyone know how to get Gholdengo yet?

Does anyone know what language it is that Looker counts the Looker Tickets in after you bring them to him in the XY postgame? He counts from one to five as “ein, tvo, tri, fjore, fif”. It’s obviously a Germanic language, but I can’t figure out which one. Tvo, tri, and fjore seem more North Germanic to me, but they don’t match any language I was able to check, whereas ein is the same as German, and the closest thing to fif I could find is West Frisian.

For days I haven’t been able to sleep for more than a few hours, and I’m really worried. I don’t know what’s wrong, I can’t find any answers, and I’m losing the ability to function properly.

Three eggs left that I’m going to hatch with powerorbs. None of the 133 Tadbulb eggs from the grass I’ve already hatched were shiny, so this is my last chance.

I have a list of 28 favorite Pokémon that I made a while back. And 21 of them are from Gens 1-6. And I’m playing through X right now, and I’m kind of amazed by the fact that 6 of them are actually obtainable in that game before you even get the second Gym badge.