With my internship over I can finally start going to my anime club again at the college and yesterday was a perfect time to go back as it was BAD ANIME DAY!!! Bad anime day is just like it sounds, we intentionally watch really really bad anime to make fun of it.

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I have all 8 badges and am ready to face the elite four so that I may become A POKEMON MASTER! But before going to Victory Road I've decided to hunt down the pokemon of the lakes. I really want that National Pokedex, but as it turns out, I have to complex the entire Sinnoh Pokedex beforehand! And as it turns out, in Platinum the pokedex is 210 pokemon. The good news is I don't have to *catch* all 210, just view them. From what I've read you can view all 210 from just doing all the trainer battles, but the legendary pokemon do have to be caught. I've caught Azelf and Uxie, but of course to make things hard Mesprit runs around Sinnoh. So I've been spending the past 4 days tracking it down like I'm some really lame big game hunter. I will swear on my dying breath that when Mesprit breaks out of the Ultra Ball when it does its little animation it is mocking me.

False Swipe is the most awesome attack ever. I've been trying to train a Scizor to be able to lower Mesprit to its last life point, the problem is Scizor is *stupidly* slow. It's attack is boss awesome, being it's level 40 and its attack is 130, but its speed is only 78, and Mesprit's speed is 80. I am tempted to catch a new Scyther and train it, but I'm not sure it will be worth the time, because even if I end up using False Swipe on Mesprit it doesn't guarantee I'll catch it on 1 life point. They seriously need to include more Master Balls in these games. One does not cover the *massive* amount of legendary pokemon this game has. It should be at least 1 Masterball for every 4 legendary pokemon, considering the original red and blue had 4 legendary pokemon (Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres and Mewtwo) whereas Platinum has Giritina, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Heatran, Cressalia, Dialga and Palkia--and that's not counting the legendary birds you get after the National Pokedex. That should be at least 3 right there. I have a Masterball, but if I use it on Mesprit that means having to face those last four pokemon with only Ultraballs. Good luck to me on that.

Also am I the only one who thinks that Volkner is really cool? He's like a pouty Lt. Surge (speaking of which have you noticed how similar those two look, I wonder if it's coincidence or if they are related). His pokemon though know some really unfair moves--like his Luxray knowing Ice Fang. Brutal. And I think it is just plain wrong for a Raichu to know Dig. Well, my Houndoom knows Solarbeam so I shouldn't win too much.

Now back to hunting Mesprit *straps on the khaki*

More trouble for 4kids, it looks like.

Apparently they are doing so bad their stock is getting delisted from the New York Stock Exchange, which means they are losing so much money that their stock is next to worthless. I think the writing is on the wall for this company, which means good and bad news. The good news is that they will probably lose the rights/be forced to sell the rights of their properties, which means there is a possibility of uncut, unedited versions of Yugi-Oh, Tokyo Mew Mew, Orujemi Do-Re-Mi and Shaman King being bought by other dubbing companies, like Funimation or Bandai. The bad news is they may be stubborn and not let go of their properties until their licenses expire (which we don't know when that is) and these properties will go into licensing hell for as long as a decade (as what's happened with Sailor Moon)

I really hope for the former, because it's pretty much been every anime fan's dream to be able to legally buy or watch the full version of Yugi-Oh and Tokyo Mew Mew, and 4kids stubbornness to release uncut versions in addition to their kiddy versions has been a thorn in the Otaku community's side for YEARS. In the beginning, their edits weren't *too* bad, in fact there was a time when 4kids was less annoying than Funimation's edits, but over the years (methinks due to the FCC's new crackdown on television broadcasts) their edits have gone to nonsensical. Editing out Japanese food, any kind of even mind violence, and even editing out pokeballs (seriously?)

But as 4kids still is around, we still have to wait and see.

I've been having a lot of complaints about features with the blog and just to let everyone who reads (all 4 of you LOL) that I will be changing the layout soon. I am coloring the new header and will start programming it in a couple of weeks.

The new layout should make things a lot easier to read and shouldn't be so cramped on the screen. As for things like RSS feed and such those *should* be working.

And a last note to remind spammers that your posts aren't going to show up because I have to approve each and every comment. So if you post the same, generic comment on 4 or 5 blogs I'm going to know you're a spammer. I don't care if you want to advertise your site on my blog, at least have something meaningful to say.

Yesterday was the last day of my internship. I was expecting to just do my last day of work and go home, but much to my surprise Omerica throw me a little going away party. Ashley from customer service gave me a cupcake, they bought me pizza and they gave me the prototype of the Celtic dogtag I designed. It was really touching. They also gave me a card that Zach the laser operator customized it. He has a really cool art style so it was really awesome. The Industrial Designer Alan brought in his dog Jackie, even though she's not really allowed back at the shop anymore, so I could say goodbye to her (she was kind of my surrogate dog after Sergeant died).

I still did work for the shop that day, but now my 150 hours are done and I just have to finish my last internship report and evaluation. I learned a lot from working there and I really enjoyed it. It'll be nice to have the extra time off though, because now I can get more work done on my comics.

Thanks for everything Omerica!