Pokemon Go Updates! - Catching Up #1

As mentioned in a previous post, towards the end of my holiday I started playing Pokemon Go again. It's been two months since then and i've pretty much played daily. While I do have temporary moments of clarity where I realise I am spending a significant portion of time catching virtual creatures, I do somewhat enjoy it anyways.

 

Holding a Kalbarri Gym for 45 days!

 During my trip at Kalbarri I visited a lookout/trail up in the hills - several kilometres out of town. Pestering my friends, I took the gym located there while they waited in the car. I then went on to hold this gym for more than 45 days, with another random Mystic member joining me. However, all good things come to an end and an unknown player kicked me out. There's no chance i'm heading back any time soon so it'll remain a mystery for quite some time. The Magneton used has been honorarily named Trail Guard and favourited, destined to enjoy a relaxed life for the rest of it's days. This gym is still my only gold badge although I do have a couple others close to joining it. If any locals desire to take the gym it's located at the Malleefowl Trail!

A long 45 days did this poor Magneton stay posted

 

My New Shiny Collection

I've caught quite a few more shinies since my last post involving Pokemon Go. The shiny Cerebii was a nice suprise I wasn't expecting. The Zigzagoon and Starly lines are obviously from the last couple community days I participated in. I did get the shiny Hydreigon from the makeup community day but I honestly didn't realise it was on until the last 15 minutes so I only got a single one. Rest of the shinies are from random spawns with my favourite probably being Karablast since I love the green colouring. Won't evolve it though since the evolution ruins the colour scheme.

 

I'm going to be honest, I forgot I had this much. Got more at the GO Fest as well!

A Few Four Stars

While none of them are of particular note minus the Zarude, I have caught a few four stars in the last couple months. Hoping I eventually get a Shundo. 

A beautiful Zarude

Legendaries

Also finally got my first legendary a month or two ago. After numerous tries I crafted a team capable of defeating Giovanni and caught a shadow Latios. The stats weren't amazing but I was happy to have it. I've caught a decent amount of other legendaries since then, especially after I started using remote raid passes and PokeGenie. Caught both the legendary dogs, all the available ultra beasts, Palkia and the recently released Cosmog. None are particularly amazing but i'm happy to own them. Had to catch two Zamazenta for a certain purpose which will require a seperate post! :)

My very first Legendary

 GO Fest Finale 2022

 I'll also reserve this for a seperate post but I did attend the GO Fest Finale and scored a few nice catches!

 

Check out my new YouTube channel and it's first video!

 Hi guys, sorry for the absolutely appealing schedule but the only thing i'm amazing at is procrastination. Evidence of this is the fact that I only just uploaded a video I recorded the raw footage for in February. I've created a new channel called LukaZS which will house more of my vlogging/IRL type content that I may decide to make in the future. Garden updates will probably me the most common video found on the channel but I do sometimes have ideas for other types of videos.

Please check out the first video if you could, I would greatly appreciate it.

In case you don't want to watch the video on this site i'll provide a link to it's YouTube page HERE.

Stuff that's been happening

 Hi guys, sorry about the whole 'I'm back' post where I followed it up by not posting. I'm currently stuck in the living room as my sister has COVID-19 so she's currently occupying our room. Haven't been up to a whole lot recently to be honest, suffering in this room without my PC however. Here's some things of note though which are slightly interesting.

 

Marvel Stuff

So i'm a decent fan of the MCU and i've watched both of the most recent entries, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as well as Moon Knight. Of the two I definitely prefer Moon Knight, I personally place it as the second best MCU Disney+ show just below Loki. I think overall it has the best and most confined story out of all of them, there's pretty much no loose ends and it doesn't setup other stuff which is what the other shows has annoyed me about. I also adore that it has a total of zero references to the wider MCU. The soundtrack is also pretty superb for the most part, the main theme and every variation of it are amazing, especially Constellation. Give Her a Call and Summon the Suit are also bangers. The one scene i've re-watched the most is towards the end of Episode 4 where Marc first enters the asylum. The soundtrack in that scene is amazing and i'm incredibly disappointed it isn't included in the soundtrack.

Multiverse of Madness was also pretty good, i'd give it a solid B. I did miss the first couple minutes which was something. Unfortunately the plot leaked a solid six months before so i'd pretty much already known everything that was going to happen, was still entertaining though. I thought the best part were the visuals by far, everything looked visually stunning almost the entire film. Scarlet Witch was both a little too weak while also facing characters that weren't the brighest. She's supposed to be capable of fully altering reality but spends most of her fights firing energy balls. Zzzzzz

 

Pokemon Go Shinies 

I was at university the other day, not doing what I was planning to do primarily because I forgot my earphones. I decided to open up Pokemon Go for the first time in awhile purely out of boredom and universities always have a lot to do in the game. One of the first things I did was click the completion button on one of the tasks I completed last time I played. I'm pretty sure it was one of the encounter rewards and surprisingly I was met with a shiny Bonsly. I believe it is my second shiny in the game and my third completely random shiny across all games. It was pouring this day so a Castform was on my map and I decided to catch it. Turns out it was also a shiny somehow, two shinies within three encounters. I couldn't believe my luck and I adore the shiny Castform since it's a perfect mix between green (my favourite colour) and blue. (Sorry for the awkward layout but I haven't found out how to place images next to each other on this site)

It's been a long time!

After almost two years since my last post I have returned to this blog. Haven't been up to anything notable over that time. Still play most of the games I played before, mainly Counter-Strike. Have a few ideas I have been cooking up which I will probably make posts for on here. A lot has happened in my garden although to be honest I don't even think I have ever posted about it on here despite that being one of my goals for this blog. Still at University and despising it as always but who expects anything less. 🤣

See you all soon!