miladygrey

I've been trying to get my mother to watch The Mighty Nein for a while, and I finally got her to start this morning by volunteering to stay on the phone with her while she watched the first episode. She's one of those people who likes to talk constantly throughout when watching something new, asking questions and the like, so I sucked it up and stayed on the phone with her even though I'm the opposite and hate talking while watching something.

Then she decided to watch just one more episode. And then one more after that. And, well, you get the picture.

... yeah, she's five episodes in now, and the only reason she's not further along is because my father came in for lunch so she had to take a break for a bit. The rate she's going, she'll be finished with the whole season by later today.

I've been playing Pokémon Go since it was first released back in 2016. The thing is, I've always been fairly off-and-on with my playing.

It's mostly been because I've never had any PokéStops or gyms that I could access from home/work. On the days when I'm out and about, I could walk around and visit them, but that's definitely not something I could do every day. Especially now that my job is hybrid. I only have so much capability to deal with people in a given week, so on days when I'm working remotely it's not unusual for me to avoid all human contact whatsoever.

And, well, the game intentionally punishes you for that. Outside of a brief period during the height of the pandemic where they extended the range of PokéStops and gyms, you miss out on things if you don't actually go outside and spin those regularly as that's where you get a lot of items that can be used in the game to do things like catch new Pokémon.

Anyway, I do have a point! There's a PokéStop that I can access from anywhere in my new apartment. I've been playing the game significantly more the past month or so because it's so much more rewarding when I can easily access new items (including Poké Balls).