The Origin of Pokémon

Once upon a time, Arceus created Dialga, Palkia and Giratina. He gave Dialga power over time, Palkia power over space, and Giratina power over something else. However, Giratina betrayed Arceus, who then banished him to a parallel dimension called the Distortion World, where time and space didn't exist since Palkia and Dialga didn't have control. Because Giratina was banished to the Distortion World, however, he did not help create the universe, hence the universe does not have whatever it is he got power over.

Dialga and Palkia later continued on and created the world, in which Arceus created Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza. Groudon created land, Kyogre created the waters, and Rayquaza created the skies. After this, Arceus came back and created Mew, and between them Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf was born. Arceus gave the three powers over dimensional travel, thus making them the bridge between the universe, the dimensions where Palkia, Dialga, and Arceus lived, and the Distortion World.

By now, Arceus had created too many things to possibly control by himself, so he created the Unown, mysterious beings able to bend reality using their combined power. Many millenniums later, prehistoric Pokémon such as Omastar, Kabutops, Genesect, Aerodactyl, Cradily, Armaldo, Bastiodon, Rampardos, Carracosta, Archeops, Tyrantrum and Aurorus went extinct because of meteor showers happening at Meteor Falls and Mt. Moon, which brought over Mew's offspring with Rayquaza - Cleffa, Lunatone, and Solrock.

After all this, some Pokémon started gaining interest towards the Unown and learned from them to build, write, and farm. These would later evolve (Darwin way) into humans. The humans later had a war in which AZ (the king of Kalos)'s Floette died, so he created a super weapon that killed many Pokémon, which resulted in Virizion, Cobalion and Terrakion join the war.

Finally, 2000 years later, Red is born in Pallet Town.

Close Encounter of the WII-erd Kind

Today I decided to take my old Nintendo Wii out of its hiatus and use it again, perhaps as a form of exercise for a lazybum like me. At any rate, I was particularly glad that I didn't throw out any of the plastic controllers, nor did I throw out any of my games.

The good news was, I got all of my games except one. The bad news was, the game I lost was bloody 'Rock Band: Green Day', the one which I wanted to play the most. Oh, and apparently child me was a bit of a careless bastard, since most of my favourite games from back then was scratched to hell, so they won't work. I still have Twilight Princess though (and it works perfectly), so it might be worth a re-visit.

Now, there are 2 things that I'd like to point out about my renewed experience with the Nintendo Wii.

The first one was that, those music rhythm games like Rock Band and Guitar Hero? They're bloody difficult! Like seriously, I barely scraped by out of Dead Kennedys' 'Holiday in Cambodia' on guitar on Hard difficulty, when I know how to play that song properly in real life. This shouldn't happen. Maybe it's the crappy plastic guitar controller (Indeed, I've been playing the strum button with a plectrum, which makes it a lot easier), or maybe I'm just too used to the proper guitar to make any sense of the plastic one. Or maybe I just suck at the game, I don't know.

The second one was outside of the games or the console itself proper. I found a store that still sells Wii games. Yes, proper Wii games. To think that such an obsolete console would have nobody else selling the games, but no! I was out to town today and saw that this little small corner shop sells Wii games. I was pleasantly surprised. They were out of the major titles, unsurprisingly, since there were no re-stocks, but I managed to grab a couple of decent games. I am genuinely impressed by this. Might be coming back to that shop.

So yeah, I guess that's all there is to it. I now look forward to the agony that is Wii Bowling.

Song to Share

Here, have a song to listen to: