Just flying? Interesting. 

Because there is literallly only one pokemon with flying as its single type. Annnnnd it’s a god.

I’m flattered you think so highly of me. 😉

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I’d be interested in something :)

Oh, is that Joseph Anderson’s video? I’ve actually been getting into him recently, I feel like his critiques are really well thought out and never feel aggressively “this is my opinion and it’s the only RIGHT opinion” like a lot of critics seem to be, so even though I end up not agreeing with a lot of his points I still enjoy his videos a lot. Plus his soft voice helps get me to sleep :P

yeah. he does have a really distinct and pleasing style, lmao

Wii: first video game you ever played?

Because I was pretty young when I started-- my dad is an arcade gamer, I caught the bug from him-- I can’t actually answer this for sure. I know he had a lot of games a la SimAnt on one of the first computers I ever got to touch. Zork, Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo, 3D Ultra Pinball: Fastest Pinball In Space, Escape Velocity: Nova... Funnily enough, I didn’t play Oregon Trail until like. 4th grade when my grandpa (from kentucky!) sent me the fourth incarnation on disk. I binged it in one night, and haven’t touched it since. 

My first console game, however, is much easier for me to pinpoint. Some of my earliest memories of the house I live in are from the nights me and my dad stayed up late to 100% Spyro The Dragon on the PS1. I was young, and my gaming skills were not as refined as they are now. So I cheered Dad on while he flamed the heck outta Gnasty Gnorc. 

I also have strong memories of playing Pokemon before I could read-- and this is because I remember pestering my mom to tell me what every prompt said. She got mad at me and told me to learn how to read. :P (To be fair, pokemon games do have a lotta text, haha.) I don’t really know where all that fits on my timeline-- but I remember getting Gold in the opening week or so, which places me at abooouuut 6 years old? Actually, that places Pokemon prior to Spyro, I think? Gods above, I was young. It’s all a soupy mess of memory. Did we move between 1st and 2nd grade? Or during 1st grade? I can’t recall. Hmm. 

In any event, I’ve been playing (or watching my dad play) videogames since I was old enough to have an attention span. So like.... 2 or 3, probably.

PC: favorite villain?

GLaDOS wins this one hands-down. Kind of a show-stealer, really. I’m glad she was the emotional focus of the narrative, because she would’ve been wasted in a more traditional story. 

It doesn’t help that she has very little competition. Villains are often.... well, a lot like Breath Of The Wild’s “evil cloud” Ganon. Which is to say, not compelling in the least. Plus, there’s the whole “not really a villain” thing going around lately for antagonists that do get development-- the most recent example I can think of is in Moana, but it shows up in gaming too. 

Though, I gotta say, Kaos (from Skylanders, which I’m currently playing) is extremely entertaining. Just a big ball of cheese, VA’d by Richard Horowitz in a style similar to his acting of Zim. Not my favorite villain my a long shot, but a good example of the humor of the series. Skylanders is a lot better than the general gaming public gives it credit for. There’s a reason it kickstarted the toys-to-life trend, anywho.