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HOW YALL DOIN i'm back in town i have TWO screens that don't freeze and all of my stuff again and i'm ready to rock, roll and raise it like the roof of the performing arts center in my city that high winds blew off into the streets yesterday, that's right baby there ain't no welcome back quite like a windstorm and fires all across the state, that's what i call fucking metal 

ok so for realtors-- firstly, stick a fork in april rewards cuz they done for march pledgers. thanks for being patient with me! if i have missed you or you want to call in anything, you know my digits. 

so i've actually been in the country several days by now but as i recounted before the folks 'round here were giving me the old Extreme Room Makeover... but there's only so much two people can do in two weeks, so I've had a lot to do in the past couple days. As of last night I've just about finally got everything I can do done myself... there's still a handful of things I'm waiting on the others for, and a few more things to put in place, but, you know, we're almost there. 

soooooooo i figured i'd share pictures from my room's new set up with you guys! like i said, not totally complete, but i think you guys get the idea.

so this is the main view of my room from the door. i've got that curtain to block my bed now, and the room is divided by the shelves on the right. the chinese lanterns in the top there light up properly, and my room's mainlight has a blacklight installed so it creates a really nice contrast. you can see in the mirror... forgot to move the dishes, oops... that the wolf wall y'all are seeing is to the left

and to the right...

...is my work area! it's on the other side of those shelves. i've got my keyboard over there properly now... um, ignore the green thing, that'll be replaced soon. and i've got a proper holder for my headphones, and a place to put my area sketches on the wall, and so on! it's pretty cozy. i like small spaces so this is fine. 

unfortunately this means the cool wolf wall won't be in the back of my streams anymore tho. sooo... i put together a different background on the shelves:

aka a bunch of cool junk and plushie friends. gotta catch 'em all
or something.

so that's most of the important stuff! the whole thing is basically way more spacious open and clean now though, so that's... pretty cool. there's been a lot to do and i kinda complained about how much was unfinished, but in the end, it's totally worth
and nowwwww that i'm done i can get back to development lyfe properly!

though i decided to add a few more maps... so.. whatever, they won't take long.

so due to circumstances not much has happened in dev recently, but marcello fixed and issue that was causing sound effects and music to not play at the volume i ask them to, and he's finally started on the function codes~ they trickle in and there's a lot to go, but we'll get there slowly and surely.

on the poison mono front, i'm up to kiki now... have been rolling my face against her for a while because aaaa lucario but at least i have a way to beat it now even if i haven't had time to make it work out yet... what's happened since my last update...

basically arbok carried the entire team through corey's battle... it would have been fine because i was -very- prepared to fight in the mist, but unfortunately the changes that made Incinerate affect Field Effects properly means that Corey's Skuntank blows up his own fucking mist every time
so then i had to fight on Corrosive and I was -not- ready for that because then my pokemon didn't resist Crobat's air cutter-- unfortunate since most of my team was still weak to flying at that point
even so Arbok lucked through it with Glare and 3x paralyzes in a row on crobat

so here was the end result for corey:

so after beating him i revised corey's team a bit to make him not destroy his own damn field cuz that's dumb af. unfortunately the only fire move skuntank gets besides incinerate is........ flamethrower.
so that might be scary.
but, i've taken power out of his team in other places to compensate, so hopefully it'll be okay.

that beedrill above is shiny by the way, she was the first one i found, and named after snow queen since apparently in the tale the snowflakes are called snow bees, which i didnt even know when i made the shiny sprite, it just happens to work out like booyah
and snedroningen fucking murdered shelly. shelly was a lil tough but then when i got the telluric atk boost on beedrill it just... it just rolled her entire team over with pin missile. she was done. who the fuck's a bug type leader, not her her anymore

..ok maybe it was a little bit of a struggle to get yanmega and anorith out of the way so it could do that though.

i was also lamenting as i went through shelly that the AI now is probably good enough to use shelly's original league strat... in the only league she wasn't a doubles leader-- she had volbeat prankster tail glow-baton pass the +3 boost to heather in singles and then that would sweep. i didn't try to implement that in game because of how the AI used to be, but i think now that we've made changes, it might be fine...
alas, i don't want to change her team at this point because it's pretty well established for her. unlucky.

shade was free but i went back to training up skuntank for that battle and encountered the level 57 beartic
and that level 20 or so stunky
murdered the fucking bear
because it kept dodging attacks and then got it toxic'd down
like what a beast

and that's most of the notable things to where we are now! i have a handful of pokemon on rotation around kiki's level, so it's a solid start.

probably we'll have a stream for the mono next week since i've got something else for this week. so i'll see you soon!!