Hello everyone, my name is Joe, but I'd prefer it if you called me Vulpes, or some derivative of that word.
Hello Vulpix! Do you want a Fire Stone, so you can evolve into Ninetales? I was planning on heading into Celadon Dept. Store anyway to stock up.
I'm Luke. 22 years old, Australian, and have been quite a reader since childhood. Back in primary school, I used to read Horrible Histories/Geography/Science, Captain Underpants and other Dav Pilkey (I think that's his name?) books. Back in high school, I dropped those for Harry Potter, with the occasional Power of One (the book about a "rooinek" African boxer; haven't read it in a while) and Anh Do book.
These days, it's mostly fanfiction. Most of that's Harry Potter, but on occasion I read Persona 5, Star Wars, and Danny Phantom.
Oh, and my first two videogame consoles were the PS2 slim and the DS Lite, with the two separate LEGO Star Wars games and Pokemon Pearl respectively. I don't remember which one came first, but those were definitely my first two. Shame, really, that I didn't know about Persona until P5 back in 2017 or so; the Australian PS3 Store doesn't have Persona 3 on it, and buying a physical copy...too expensive. Oh well; my child self had plenty of PS2 and DS games he enjoyed.
Never been too good at making friends, personally; going to a different high school compared to all of my primary school friends didn't help, and the few mates I got at high school didn't last long after graduation. University...eh, not that sociable, I've found; each class has a different group of people that are almost certainly different to the group in every other class, and you're only with them for 12 weeks before you almost certainly never see them again. That makes it hard for me to make "friends", rather than "partners for group assignments and in-class activities", which does suck.
Only got the one real friend now, still hanging on from primary school, but...I don't see him as often as I should, he's already married, and he's religious (not overly so, but still - erk. Bronze Age mythical crap that should've faded away within the last century, but still holds back scientific progress, education, and public understanding of scientific progress). Should make more, but...don't know how, honestly.
Also, getting bullied by two girls and a female teacher in Years 5-6 then going to an all-boys high school hasn't exactly helped with the dating scene any, or my general view of women - especially when I learned how biased child custody and accusations and the like are, after graduation. Used to go to a psychologist for Asperger's Syndrome throughout my life; this never came up because I never recognised this until a year or so ago, and even if I did go back I wouldn't know how to bring it up.
*Shrug*
Let's see...I do prefer MacOS over Windows, due to how much more user-friendly Apple's OS is over Microsoft's. File Explorer has NOTHING on Finder, and I like the separation between Dock and Menu Bar. Pity the newest OS took away Dashboard; that was a feature I adored, due to being able to place post-it notes on it, along with multiple (basic) calculators and conversion widgets. They couldn't have removed the useless Notifications panel instead, or Launchpad?
I don't know why Microsoft hasn't added tabs to File Explorer yet, when that'd be so incredibly handy. Also, there seems to be a fundamental difference in how files and documents are displayed in Finder compared to File Explorer, that leads to FE feeling a lot more 'cluttered' and harder to navigate; just me?
Last paragraph for now, the Switch. Decent console; shame it doesn't have backwards-compatibility when
every previous handheld and the last two home consoles had it (a big reason why I loved Nintendo over Sony), or comfortable controllers. Which dumbass thought unaligned analog sticks would be a good choice for the Pro Controller, when the Wii Classic and Wii U GamePad and Pro controllers had aligned sticks? Why make the JoyCons so small and cramped and awful? Why not fix these issues with the so-called "Switch" Lite (which, by definition, is not a "Switch" since it only has one mode - portable)?
Also the GUI sucks compared to the 3DS and Wii U; I liked the box design, since it meant you could see a bunch of game icons at once, instead of only three-and-a-half. Looked especially good on the 3DS, must say.
Dropping Miiverse and Virtual Console was stupid too; Miiverse was kinda fun, while Virtual Console allowed some well-loved games of yesteryear to be officially playable again (the Wii U has DS VC, which is great!).
Oh, and the only customisation options are 'White" or "Grey", when the 3DS had so many themes. Ugh; another downgrade.
Still waiting for another brand-new Legend of Zelda game that isn't open-world, and/or has limited stamina and/or weapon and/or shield fragility; the last brand-new one was 2013's A Link Between Worlds, and we've only gotten remakes and remasters since.
Also waiting for another good Pokemon game, though this seems particularly unlikely...sigh. Too many content cuts and too much apathy in all four Switch titles; the pinnacle was Black/White 2 on the DS, with the series slowly dying since (the only good addition the 3DS games brought was Mega Evolution, alongside the general slew of new moves and Abilities. The 3DS titles also nerfed far too much).
