I'm playing A Link to the Past! I've never beaten it nor really gotten far into it until now. I saw my brother's copy of the GBA game with Four Swords and decided it was time. I'm in the first dungeon in the Dark World right now. Pretty fun. Tricky at points.

Very nostalgic of Ocarina of Time. Yeah, I'm aware of the irony.

I would be playing Pokemon Silver, but my damn Pokemon Crystal game ate some of the Pokemon I traded over to it from Silver so I could restart (some of these Pokemon were nearly 10 years old and from very early games of both my brother and myself) and I nearly went apeshit over it.

I know the typical response, they're not real creatures, why are you getting so worked up?

I'm not dense. I'm well aware Pokemon are fictional. Don't get me wrong, they're real enough to me, but I've not detachment from reality. The reason I'm upset is the age of these Pokemon. It's akin to watching old pictures burn up. Memories are lost and aren't coming back. If I'd lost my brothers original Charmander (Char!) lv. 85, my copy of Pokemon Crystal (which has corrupted save data on a good day) would be in pieces of the floor. I'm very sentimental of my past in Pokemon. Big part of my ten year old and older life; much like Ocarina of Time.

On a lighter note, I did go to Toys R' Us for shits and giggles to pick up Arceus on my copy of Pokemon Diamond. Something about putting the Pokemon God in a pokeball handed over by a Mailman was hilarious enough to drag my butt to that store. (not that I really need prodding to go to a toy store) I also did it for more sentimental reasons. I really wanted a real Mew back in the day and I always either lost the contests or never went to the Toys R' Us events. So in a way, it was a spiritual successor to that dream.

Yeah, I know you can get Mew from Pokemon Ranch.

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BULBASAUR SAUR BULBA!