Friday, July 22, 2016

Street Racers and Poke Battles

This past week has been an interesting one. Started out with a Karaoke adventure that ended prematurely because I started feeling really ill and also included the room randomly clearing whenever a new Pokemon was announced to be running around outside. So far a number of friends have been out late every night doing laps around the major Pokemon areas, one of them out until 3am with about 100 other people. Then, since there's a gym literally in front of my house (but unfortunately not close enough to access which would have been GREAT for trolling), we've had the daytime horde of children and teens fighting over it. Then between...let's say 10pm and 2am we get cycle of small strike teams that will either walk or spontaneously jump out of cars to come take the gym and then just disappear into the night. The cycle is usually Yellow > Red > Really strong Blue > Weak Yellow. Last night it stayed blue. Not that I'm monitoring it or anything. But literally anything anyone says in the middle of the park is amplified and echoes because the houses are in a semi-circle around it.

Oh and then a couple nights ago I was woken up at 3am by street racers when one of them (a beige/brown truck...like actually a truck...street racing) didn't realize the road ended and promptly slammed on their brakes to stop. Doesn't really work when you're going 120km/h+ in a 50km/h zone, so I woke up to tires squealing, then a crunch, then more squealing, then some engines revving, then one final squeal. Eight minutes later the police show up and one of the neighbours goes out to talk very loudly to them (not that the entire block wasn't already awake. Went outside to assess the damage the next day and well...

This is the fourth time this has happened in some form. This wasn't the worst though cause the truck drove away with its two buddies. The worst was when a couple of high teenagers were speeding, didn't realize the road ended and crashed through the park to hit a tree on the other side. No one has been seriously injured yet, but it'll likely happen eventually. I mean singing lady is out there at 5am a lot.

Today's theme for Soundtrack Not Thursday is stuff people have been trying to get me to watch and I just haven't had time for yet:

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Chris and Amy both say this is good and encourage me to watch it. I binge-watched the original series when I was a teenager after a high school friend died. No idea why I did that to myself, but it wasn't bad. Apparently this series is better.

Walking Dead (Vol 1) - Nope still haven't watched any, much to a lot of people's surprise and disgust. What? Zombies just don't really interest me. Yes, I know it's more than that etc etc.

Daredevil Season 2 - Watched the first season, but haven't gotten around to the second season. Still waiting for Jessica Jones season 2.

Also if you would like to see one of the most anguishing moments I have ever experienced in a game. Enjoy.

PS - If anyone is wondering, I'm Instinct. I think the dodgeball Pokemon group (this is kinda hilarious when you think about it) are all in denial because they keep telling me to take the gym in front of my house for Valor. And I'm like sure...for "Valor." I'm literally the only one in that crew on team yellow. 90% of them are Valor and the rest (like 3 people) are on Mystic.

PSS - Pro tip: Put your coffee down before you try to catch Pokemon.

PSSS - With the coffee incident, the two times I've fallen up the stairs with drinks and the spill of an entire glass of lemonade all over my desk, I feel there is a sippy cup for me in my future.

PSSSS - You both scary and hilarious America.

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