The Bount arc is over and finally we are on to bigger and better pastures, I honestly just stopped carring near the end I wanted it done, before we even started watching Bleach I was like "Oh the Bount arc can't be that bad! It'll be fine! At most it'll feel like a waste of time!" and while yes by definition it didn't kill me and was in fact just a waste of time, it hit that point of "this is dragging on for far too long" that Dressrosa or the end of Whole Cake hit in One Piece and that's not even referring specifically to the anime like even the manga and the fan edit One Pace still felt like those two arcs dragged on for far too long for my liking........I'm realizing actually if a fight is longer than even like 2-3 episodes I just get tired of it and I get that a lot of the Shonen genre is meant to be "Hype Moments and Aura" with cool fight scenes I realize I do not care as much about those as others do, I care significantly more for the character dynamics and how they all act and react with eachother more than how hard one can throw a punch at another. To completely get derailed and bring up the Luffy vs Kaidou fight when he goes Gear 5th, it was a beautifully animated scene and was fun to watch for a while but even that had hit a point of "Ok, I get it.....can Kaidou stay down now?" the other 2 mentioned arcs just did it sooner and kept going longer. I do at least think Ririn is neat and her plushie is cute though.
In the process of writing the Confessions page and putting off main site updates we've also made progress into the Arrancar arc and I won't lie it's been a lot more interesting that I thought it would be, not that it's amazing but it's at least somewhat holding my attention. Shinji is a funny guy and I am already attached to him he's just a funny goofy guy with his fuckass bob cut. The filler with Rangiku's crew and that kid and his sister Nanako is entirely disinteresting though to be entirely real, I don't know how but it's genuinely like something I started zoning out watching and could not keep focus on it in the slightest.....
Moving on I got a new controller in for my original Xbox and it just fucking works, I didn't expect it but it does so the shit 3rd party one I bought was just dead on arrival.....because this one works now I could set the clock and test to disk drive and the entire console just works! Just an amazing flea market find a "for parts" Xbox for $15 that actually had no issues as far as I can tell. I have already swapped the harddrive for a 120gb drive and have it softmodded, eventually I'll probably TSOP flash it just so I don't have to worry about it in the future but that's for another day I'm lazy and don't want to open up the Xbox at the moment.
Also, I FINALLY finished writing about Confessions you can read about my thoughts here, it blatanly and openly talks about the culprit so don't read it unless you've read Umineko all the way through otherwise you are missing out on a blind experience of probably one of my favorite pieces of media of all time. This is a mess of writing over the course multiple days over the span of like 2 weeks and is a mix of late night writing, some alcohol, and a LOT of crying. It is mostly just recap with some topical commentary on my own thoughts all things told though.
I made a Spreadsheet to track my Crystal Living Dex progress you can find it here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HEfRIT5HF8DmcryHoQjHOeKhP2aALaTdOZOrsvLxACI/edit?usp=sharing
I have every pokemons bulbapedia page linked and the route or area you can find them is highlighted with the games color that I figure was easiest to find them in, I specifically went and looked at every evolution to see if it was obtainable in the wild and decided if it's possible to catch it in the wild I have to, so if it's listed as EVO you have to evolve for it.
Most base forms of pokemon are just listed on the same route as the evolved forms I figure it was easier to organize that way since I'll be catching whatever comes up during my playthrough then sweep back after I have the HMs and Key Items nessecary for optimal travel.
Feel free to make a copy of this and use it yourself by the way it's why I linked it in the first place!! I'll leave it linked here on the main page for the time being alongside the normal updates so it's in a easy to reach location.
