IRC log of Cochineal on 2011-03-06

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04:16:39 [gadgetgrl]!pointer
04:16:39 [Sacchi]http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/cochineal-logs/Cochineal-2011-03-06.html#T4-16-39
04:22:14 [gadgetgrl]I would partake in beer tasting, but from the backlogs i read, it seems more difficult than might be worthwhile :/
04:58:36 [AChes]It shouldn't be a problem. I'll just check a bag, it was probably the righ plan from the beginning
05:40:01 [Pipian]Okay
05:40:08 [Pipian]I'm giving up on this Nuzlocke crap
05:40:35 [Pipian]Once my L49 E4 runthrough inevitably fails
06:27:00 [gadgetgrl]early day again tomorrow...night!
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08:49:08 [Pipian]Thus rendering it a moot point; Cynthia's team requires me to level in any case.
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15:53:50 [Puyopuyo]!pointer
15:53:50 [Sacchi]http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/cochineal-logs/Cochineal-2011-03-06.html#T15-53-50
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17:13:45 [Pipian]And thus my Nuzlocke run comes to an end with the E4, as somewhat anticipated, because eff grinding against wild Pokemon that are over 10 levels below me.
17:14:03 [Puyopuyo]The wonders of Gen 4.
17:14:13 [Pipian]Well hey
17:14:15 [Pipian]Could be worse
17:14:19 [Puyopuyo]See, I had no trouble with the E4.
17:14:20 [Pipian]I could be trying to do HG/SS
17:14:37 [Puyopuyo]BECAUSE MY LEVEL 100 EVENT ARCEUS DOESN'T BELIEVE IN QUITTING!
17:14:43 [Pipian]hurr
17:14:58 [Puyopuyo]Seriously, that's the only thing that got me through the E4.
17:15:03 [Puyopuyo]The level jump is ludicrous.
17:15:18 [Pipian]Well, I finally managed to Nuzlocke Bertha
17:15:32 [Puyopuyo]You can't Nuzlocke Cynthia.
17:15:34 [Pipian]But then the fire types tripped me up a littcle
17:15:36 [Pipian]And yeah
17:15:36 [Puyopuyo]Your party will go down fighting.
17:15:44 [Pipian]Nuzlocke Cynthia is pretty much impossible
17:16:24 [Pipian](also Lucien pretty much ended that too since I don't really hdave anything that's particularly effective against Psychics)
17:16:34 [Puyopuyo]No dark?
17:16:39 [Pipian]Non
17:17:21 [Pipian]Non-STAB Crunch on a Luxray
17:17:38 [Pipian]But most of Lucien's pokes have a speed advantage over Luxray
17:17:52 [Pipian]Which makes it pretty difficult when all of their attacks hit for over 50% HP
17:18:02 [Puyopuyo]Ugh
17:18:10 [Puyopuyo]Stupid Luxray not being DARK/ELECTRIC
17:18:12 [Pipian]Add on Mr. Mime's Reflect and it makes it very difficult to take out the first few.
17:18:24 [Pipian]Really dunno why it wasn't.
17:18:35 [Pipian]And then of course Cynthia's Garchomp
17:19:33 [Pipian]Which basically has the speed advantage on everything, and trashes the only poke I could possibly hit it with: My Empoleon with non-STAB Ice Beam
17:20:13 [Pipian]About the only way I can avoid a OHKO at L49 against the L62 Garchomp is to throw an X Defend because EVERYTHING HAS EARTHQUAKE
17:20:49 [Pipian](which is hell on a team with a pure Fire-type, pure Electric-type, part-Steel-type, and part-Rock-type)
17:21:17 [Pipian](Sure, the Crobat takes no damage, but it can't make a dent in half the pokes that have Earthquake on them)
17:21:28 [Pipian]Incredibly
17:21:37 [Pipian]They toned DOWN the levels of the E4 in Plat
17:21:53 [Pipian](even though the levels throughout most of the rest of the game were toned up by 1-2 levels)
17:22:02 [Pipian]But Cynthia was bumped up of course
17:22:26 [Puyopuyo]Of course.
17:22:33 [Puyopuyo]She's Cynthia, greatest Champion EVER.
17:22:47 [Pipian]So you're going from a L53-59 team with Lucien
17:22:57 [Pipian]To a L58-62 team with Cynthia.
17:23:08 [Pipian]Considering that your pokes at that point are, at BEST, L49
17:23:36 [Pipian]Maybe a bit better if you go the "insanely leveled starter + 5 throwaway low-level pokes"
17:25:29 [Pipian]You get a few levels against the E4 (so maybe you're L50-51 by the time you take Cynthia)
17:25:31 [Pipian]But still
17:25:35 [Pipian]So the dreams of a Nuzlocke are ended
17:25:46 [Pipian]And I'll just have to do the standard thing against the E4
17:25:56 [Pipian]Which is "run against them until your pokes are leveled enough"
17:26:27 [Pipian]Which will have to wait until after Black
17:27:07 [Pipian]Which I am actually going out to get now
17:53:34 [Puyopuyo]Nice.
17:53:40 [Puyopuyo]* Puyopuyo hasn't started his copy of Black yet.
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18:30:35 [AChes]!pointer
18:30:35 [Sacchi]http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/cochineal-logs/Cochineal-2011-03-06.html#T18-30-35
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20:12:37 [nathanbp|laptop]woo finished Wise Man's Fear
20:12:47 [nathanbp|laptop]now only 4 more years until the final book comes out >_<
20:15:09 [Puyopuyo]Ha ha
20:18:51 [nathanbp|laptop]4 years is being optimistic actually >_>
20:19:15 [nathanbp|laptop]on the plus side I actually have the last 2 books of The Malazan Book of the Fallen series to read!
20:19:34 [nathanbp|laptop](held off on reading the 2nd to last one because I heard it ends on a massive cliff-hanger)
20:20:20 [Puyopuyo](Good reason to hold off)
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22:08:17 [gadgetgrl]!pointer
22:08:17 [Sacchi]http://www.pipian.com/stuffforchat/cochineal-logs/Cochineal-2011-03-06.html#T22-8-17
22:08:42 [Puyopuyo]Whoa, it's a Jenn back from GDC.
22:08:53 [Puyopuyo]Did you go to the mini-rant panel?
22:10:02 [gadgetgrl]no, but i heard about it
22:10:15 [gadgetgrl]i have access to the video vault so i'll probably view it then
22:10:53 [Puyopuyo]Cool.
22:11:53 [nathanbp|laptop]did you get a free Xoom from google? or whatever I heard they were handing out?
22:13:17 [gadgetgrl]no...didn't go to the right panel
22:13:30 [Puyopuyo]Boo.
22:13:41 [gadgetgrl]that's okay
22:13:48 [gadgetgrl]it would have been cool
22:13:50 [gadgetgrl]but i made out last year
22:13:56 [gadgetgrl]so i'm okay with it this year
22:14:04 [gadgetgrl]though motivation to sign up to work those panels :p
22:14:08 [gadgetgrl]nintendo failed this year :p
22:14:27 [gadgetgrl]not only did they not give ANYTHING away, but they had a mini-ad for the 3DS in the middle
22:15:15 [Puyopuyo]What, the keynote?
22:20:21 [gadgetgrl]yeah
22:20:35 [Puyopuyo]I enjoyed watching that.
22:20:39 [Puyopuyo]NEW SUPER MARIO BROS 3-like game.
22:20:59 [gadgetgrl]at least that was exciting
22:21:07 [gadgetgrl]but it was really uncessary to have reggie come out
22:21:07 [Puyopuyo]Yeah, I liked the 3DS info.
22:21:16 [Puyopuyo]I won't disagree with that.
22:21:23 [Puyopuyo]But for the devs, it was an interesting appeal.
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23:22:16 [Pipian]Alright
23:22:21 [Pipian]Time to restart until I get a female Oshawott
23:22:32 [Pipian]And then name it Wotter
23:45:09 [Pipian]There we go
23:45:13 [Pipian]Female Oshawott obtained
23:45:48 [Puyopuyo]* Puyopuyo is going to be wifi traded the other two starters...who are currently in eggs.
23:46:37 [Pipian]I've got a few friends who can assist with that as well
23:46:44 [Pipian]But not at the egg stage
23:50:02 [Pipian]Time to give this Oshawott the only true name
23:50:04 [Pipian]Wotter