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Pokemon Fail moments?
| #1 :: August 27th, 2010 @ 5:49 AM | |
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Have you had any -headdesk- moments whilst playing any pokemon game?
I'll get the ball rolling; Well, It was about 5 years back, I was playing Pokemon ruby with my friend who was playing sapphire. At this point I didn't have much of a clue about pokemon, so I had to ask my friend about pretty much everything. So, I was making the first trek along the first route (forgotten the name, the long vertical one) and a pokemon appeared... (I had no pokeballs at this point either)... and it was a poochyena, but it was... yellow? Now, me being me I totally freaked because I thought my game was faulty and I quickly asked my friend his advice on what I should do. It was only when he told me that the yellow poochyena was called 'shiny' and it was extremely rare, and to get a 'shiny' pokemon on my first ever pokemon encounter was even rarer. He told me to throw a pokeball and capture it.... damn I had no pokeballs and had no means of getting them, and, alas, I had to let my poochy go... ;w; And to this day, after playing every pokemon game known to man, I have never encountered another 'shiny' pokemon... So, your -headdesk- moments?
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| #2 :: August 28th, 2010 @ 9:37 PM | |
 SaddlebredGets Around   9,705 Posts 603 Achievements |
holy crap WOW. That's incredible that your first wild pokemon encounter was with a shiny! I love Poochyena/Mightyena. I'd be SO pissed to have had to let that go. :c The only wild shinies I've encountered have been Zubats. I've caught 2 of them. Evolved one to a Golbat. I hope I get some non-bat shinies. haha.    tumblr twitter Last Edit by:
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| #3 :: August 29th, 2010 @ 5:42 AM | |
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@Saddlebred - I know! I love Poochyena's too! Gah, your so lucky, I would have loved a shiny zubat D;
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| #4 :: August 29th, 2010 @ 7:23 AM | |
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Fail moments, hm. Probably when I was new and didn't know you should save in front of legendaries. And from the original red game I always failed to get all the stuff on the S.S Anne. xD
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| #5 :: August 29th, 2010 @ 8:30 AM | |
 SlendermanIs Lonely  2,327 Posts 333 Achievements |
 The only shiny I've ever seen was one of a Weepinbell. Wasn't paying attention and 1-hit KO'd it. ><
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| #6 :: August 29th, 2010 @ 2:24 PM | |
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Sapphire, years ago. My friend and I were hunting for a horsea with a scale to finish his pokedex. I'm on my way to finding their part in the cave.
I FIND A SHINY GOLBAT! GO GARDEVOIR! Gardevoir uses Confusion! The attack was super-effective! The thing is left with a little over half hp at this point. Gardevoir uses Confusion! CRITICAL HIT! FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU The end.
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| #7 :: August 29th, 2010 @ 5:54 PM | |
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| #8 :: August 30th, 2010 @ 12:55 PM | |
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I was playing Emerald, and I found a shiny Zubat. I had no idea what a "shiny" Pokemon was so my only response was "WTF WHY IS IT GREEN!?" and "killed" it Last Edit by:
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| #9 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 6:03 AM | |
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| #10 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 7:14 AM | |
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| #11 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 7:18 AM | |
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 @pork Never encountered a shiny other than the gyarados you're given in gold/silver/crystal/heartgold/soulsilver However, while trying to catch Lugia, it killed itself five times with struggle. That move that is automatically used when there are no more moves left.
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| #12 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 7:38 AM | |
| Pikaparty Donated to the Cash Shop  186 Posts 238 Achievements |
 Lol, I encountered a shiny zubat on Mt. Moon in my firered game a while back ago. I did'nt know about shinies back then so I let it go  . I found a shiny fearow in diamond and caught it with my last pokeball. 
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| #13 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 3:22 PM | |
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| #14 :: September 1st, 2010 @ 3:49 PM | |
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 @Godzilla First things first-the gif in your forumset is loveing amazing. Hell yes full pokemon battle. <3 I've never missed out on a shiny pokemon-I think I'd send my DS through the window if that happened-but I did once love up my FireRed cartridge by going nuts with an Action Reply. I remember walking around Saffron City as a glitching piece of paper, and every time I tried to fly out, I'd end up inside the Pokemon Center. I had to completely wipe the damn thing clean before it went back to normal.
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| #15 :: September 2nd, 2010 @ 3:04 PM | |
| Kendra Has a Massive Family  3,214 Posts 478 Achievements |
 Previously the user Wailord My first shiny was in good ol' silver version. <3 I was messing around in Kanto near Fuchsia city, and found a shiny Nidoran Female. I caught her and trained her and loved her until she was a level 100 Black and Pink Nidoqueen. But then I restarted and forgot to move her. .-. Most of my fail moments are in Shoddy Battle. I always, always seem to forget that Empoleon has access to Grass Knot. x__x
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| #16 :: September 3rd, 2010 @ 1:35 PM | |
| Jodie Gets Around  15,761 Posts 814 Achievements |
Trick or Treat @ Jodie ~*~ style-file ~*~ comissions ~*~ tumblr  Ya'll will be jealous of my shiny charizard I got on my second playthrough of Pokemon Firered, yo. He's legit as hell, I love him so hard.I get a crapton of shiny Pokemon since I use the Poke Radar method on the swarm pokemon c: it's easy. I've personally never had a really bad fail, other than that I cried the first time I saw a Golbat in Pokemon Blue because it scared me soo much ;o; @Aya_57 Jeez, how long were you battling it for for it to use struggle every battle o__o I don't think I've ever gotten that far into a battle with a legendary since I usually just false swipe them down to 1hp and put them to sleep as soon as I can xD
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| #17 :: September 6th, 2010 @ 12:27 PM | |
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My moment is when I encountered Groudon on my Ruby. I ran out of all pokeballs except the one masterball during the encounter. The masterball I was going to use on Rayquaza. I managed to run away from the battle, and my game counted that as defeating Groudon. It wouldn't have been so bad if I had just rebooted my game since I had saved shortly before the encounter. Being in a stupid moment, I, of course, SAVED AFTER THE FAILED ENCOUNTER.
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| #18 :: September 6th, 2010 @ 12:47 PM | |
| Grievance Silly Spamming Sausage  245 Posts 263 Achievements |
@Lyrics
-offers sympathy- I have never encountered a shiny either :C the only fail moment I can think of is when I killed Articuno on Yellow and saved afterwards >_> or when I beat Lance for the first time AND DID NOT SAVE OR HEAL my pokemon before entering the next room 
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| #19 :: September 6th, 2010 @ 4:05 PM | |
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| #20 :: September 6th, 2010 @ 8:11 PM | |
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@pork I've had a couple fail moments. Fail Moment #1 - I had captured a wild shiny Golbat in my Crystal version and re-started my game out of boredom about a week later. Fail moment #2 - I was playing my Pokemon Ruby a couple years back and I encountered a shiny Electrike. I was busy training my pokemon and was in a very zoned out state. By the time I realized the Electrike was shiny, it was too late. I had killed it. D; Fail moment #3 - I got Ho-Oh through the GTS in my Pokemon Pearl version and decided to take it out into the wild just for the hell of it, just to see what its attacks looked like. I encountered a level 50 male Purugly and thought "Pfft, this'll be easy", thinking my level 50 Ho-Oh would knock it out. Instead, the Purugly uses Swagger and then managed to paralyze Ho-Oh with body slam. I wasn't all that attached to Ho-Oh and I didn't think it to be too big of a deal, so I didn't bother using a Full Restore or switching out. Big mistake. Ho-Oh would either lay still and do nothing or it would be confused like hell, and when the giant fire bird could attack, the Captivate move Purugly used killed Ho-Oh's Special Attack stat, and the Purugly's special ability was Thick Fat, so Ho-Oh would barely leave a dent. The Purugly eventually killed it off with multiple slash attacks and body slams until Ho-Oh fainted. A definite WTF moment for me. A freaking Purugly knocked out a legendary?? -shame- However, I had other pokemon with me. So I weakened the Purugly a little further with another pokemon, captured it and decided to nickname him Juggernaut in honor of his feat. But... yeah. The Legendary Fire Bird that created the Legendary Dogs of Johto was defeated by a fat kitty cat. Definite fail moment there.
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| #21 :: September 11th, 2010 @ 12:26 AM | |
| milku Member  21 Posts 59 Achievements |
worst pokemon mistake? using masterballs on anything but shinies. :I seriously... they only give you one, use it wisely doges. 
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| #22 :: September 11th, 2010 @ 9:14 PM | |
| karoia Is a Survivor  4,120 Posts 360 Achievements |
Seriously, it took me until the Ruby/Sapphire generation to realize the game shows you if you've caught a Pokemon already. I was so pissed at myself, because I would literally go through my Pokedex and write down the names of Pokemon I needed so in case I ran into them in the wild I'd know if I'd need them or not. I never noticed the gosh darn Pokeball icon until it was pointed out to me. I felt like headdesking at that moment at my own stupidity!
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| #23 :: September 12th, 2010 @ 3:23 AM | |
| Toph Is the Pumpkin King!  3,373 Posts 650 Achievements |
 I think my only fail was when I discovered what a dry internal battery meant on my Ruby. turns out that means no more time based events. HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW MY BERRIES WOULDN'T GROW?? Only advantage is my pokeruss never. leaves. But I lost a decent amount of berries to thinking they would grow then they didn't.
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| #24 :: September 12th, 2010 @ 3:48 AM | |
| Unforgotten Is a Survivor  1,413 Posts 427 Achievements |
I has a shiny Totodile from picking my starter in pokemon heartgold
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| #25 :: September 13th, 2010 @ 5:16 PM | |
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| #26 :: September 13th, 2010 @ 5:22 PM | |
| Kyandesu is a SUPER USER!!!  783 Posts 336 Achievements |
 After the Lake of Rage event in Pokemon Crystal, I encountered a Pink Butterfree. Here I was walking back to the town after capturing that annoying Red Gyarados, and I had Pokeballs but I wasn't thinking. I saw the pink, my hands were worn out from pressing buttons on that old Gameboy for four hours straight and I clicked Ran/Run or whatever. Never saw another Shiny in Crystal again. I was lucky in Ruby. I ran into a Shiny Swablu, knocked it out but restarted the game thinking that I might run into it again. You know what? I did. Captured it, moved it to HeartGold where it is my only Shiny... Sad. |
| #27 :: September 13th, 2010 @ 5:23 PM | |
| Amigo is a big bully  10,918 Posts 1,039 Achievements |
Not really a fail moment while playing Pokemon, but a fail moment caused by too much Pokemon.
 Crossword puzzle. They asked for a bird that died out. Four letters, already "Do.." standing there. And I, Claudius, clever as I am, write... Dodu (the German name of Doduo, btw) ... and later I'm wondering why another word doesn't fit into that other row, where the you of Dodu stands. And when I realized my mistake, I facepalmed.
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| #28 :: September 13th, 2010 @ 5:37 PM | |
| LeoTheLamb Junior Archaeologist  557 Posts 469 Achievements |
I haven't had one personally, but when my brother was playing emerald, he was fighting Groudon; but had saved so he could turn off, turn back on if he lost, and during one of these times, the Groudon ended up shiny. Great right? Well, he lost, and instead of letting himself faint and going to a Pokemon center again, so the pokemon would be shiny when he went back to it, he turned off the power on his gameboy.
Not one of his brighter moments...
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| #29 :: September 13th, 2010 @ 5:54 PM | |
| sabishisa The Gourmand  2,594 Posts 848 Achievements |
 Oh god X__X What are the odds of that happening?! I haven't really had any major fail moments so far, thankfully. *crosses fingers*
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:: | #30 :: September 14th, 2010 @ 6:01 PM | |
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 Actually, in my current Leaf Green, I am still stuck in Cerulean City. You know why? Because smart me decided it would be so cool if I hacked items into my key items pocket that I normally wouldn't get in the game (such as Devon Goods and stuff like that). Little did I know that once I got to Bill's House, he would be all, "Oh, you have too many items in your key items, so I can't give the darn ticket to you." And without the ticket, I can't get into the house that was broken into. And without that event, I can't move on. I could just restart the game, right. But I just like my team too much. And the shinies. Encountered a few of those. Without using any cheating devices of course. My first one was in Sapphire, I came across a Shiny Loudred in the Victory Road. I wasn't really paying attention when the battle commenced, so I missed the whole sparkly thing that comes with the shinies. So I spend maybe like ten minutes staring at the game, trying to figure out whether it was a Shiny or not (at that point I couldn't remember the difference between a shiny Loudred and a regular one). I caught it anyways, and turned out it was a Shiny. So yay me. Unfortunately, I no longer have that game file. Second shiny was a Zubat in Diamond. Just walking through the Oreburgh Cave and it popped up. I was pretty excited until I found out I had only ONE Pokéball on me, and all my Pokémon were at least twice its level (it was on 15 or something, and my team was on the early 30s). Luckily enough my Onix had Sandstorm on it, so I used that up until the Zubat was one-more-hit-from-Sandstorm-then-dead away. I threw the Pokéball, crossed my fingers, and caught it. c: I think it's either still in that Diamond, or in my Platinum. If it's in my Diamond... bloody hell, because I gave that to my friend. But I did evolve it! Couple months ago I was on a massive hunt for the Pokémon I was still missing from my Platinum Pokédex. Whenever I encountered something I didn't have, I caught it with one of the over 900 Master Balls I had on me. Well anyways, I was on the route right before Veilstone City, running through the grass and hoping to find a Kadabra. Instead, I come across a Shiny Lickitung. Caught it. And non-hindering nature too! YES! Then maybe the next day or so I was on that little island between Battle Area and Resort Area, and I came across a Shiny Pelipper. I had one already, but decided to catch it anyways. C: My sister was mighty jealous. I think that's it for my legit shiny encounters.
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| #31 :: September 15th, 2010 @ 12:07 AM | |
| Keldeo Junior Archaeologist  2,154 Posts 676 Achievements |
 One that really sticks in my mind is when I found a shiny Exeggcute in the Safari Zone, and it fled. art by |
| #32 :: September 15th, 2010 @ 2:44 AM | |
| Ian is Darksided!  2,337 Posts 830 Achievements |
One that really sticks in my mind is when I found a shiny Exeggcute in the Safari Zone, and it fled. That loveing sucks. I've only had two encounters with Shiny pokemon. I came across a shiny Graveler in Diamond. At the time I had no idea why it was gold or even what a shiny pokemon was. (At the time I had never played a Pokemon game before. I bought it purely for nostalgia from my childhood) but I caught it anyways. The second time, I encountered a shiny Lotad was while I was playing Sapphire. It was towards the start of the game where I only had two or three pokeballs. Unfortunately, I had leveled up my starter pokemon so much that anything would have been a 1hit KO. So two or three pokeballs didn't cut it on a full HP pokemon. :| |
| #33 :: September 15th, 2010 @ 10:40 AM | |
| Metalman Is the Pumpkin King!  3,702 Posts 574 Achievements |
 Pokemon fail moments...let me show you them. Back when I had Crystal when I was a kid, I encountered a shiny Suicune. SUICUNE. I was going to catch that mofo, of course, but like an idiot I LACKED POKEBALLS. :C I HAVE NEVER ENCOUNTERED A SHINY SUICUNE SINCE. My second fail was on Emerald. Another shinyfail btw. I was all "damnit I need an absol, gotta have it for dex completion maaaaaaan." I encounter a shiny FEMALE absol (which would have been great seeing as I wanted one that I could breed with my blaziken or mightyena at the time. Again with NUMBER OF POKEBALL fail. My biggest fail? HeartGold, and a whole "WHERE ARE THE ? AND ! UNOWNS" freakout. It took my girlfriend telling me what room they're in. And I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND AN ! UNOWN. XD They're avoiding me like G Unown were. UNOWN HATE ME. *Takes a bite.* 
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| #34 :: September 25th, 2010 @ 4:54 PM | |
| Monologue is Darksided!  2,290 Posts 750 Achievements |
 I think my biggest fail moment was actually catching a Shiny Machoke in Diamond and then shutting off the power. I had not even walked three steps away, and that was my first shiny. But I caught a Shiny Magcargo the next day, which made me feel a lot better. And on SoulSilver I managed to see and catch a Shiny Rattata relatively early on in the game. Those are the only Shinies I have, besides my beloved Red Gyarados (which has a gentle nature. Why do all of my Gyrados have gentle natures???) Another Pokemon fail was when I was breeding Eevees and I couldn't get a single female, and I just about lost it when I hit my twentieth male. So I was like, "WHY ARE YOU ALL BOYS??? I DON'T LIKE YOU, I LIKE FEMALES!!!" at a Christmas party my family was attending, in the middle of all of these adults. Not very smart.
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| #35 :: September 26th, 2010 @ 12:17 PM | |
| Teacup Tongue Wagger  2,160 Posts 429 Achievements |
t e a c you p ;; I have the amazing luck of getting a shiny as soon as I get into Victory Road on my Crystal versions. Well, on my original Crystal verison, I've got a shiny Onix, then on my ROM Crystals (don't want to restart my current or pay $250 for a new one...) I've got shiny Sandslash and another shiny Onix. fosho. My big fail moment was trying to EV/IV whatever my Garchomp, who I had already vitamined to the max. I spent like, two hours killing only Goldeen and Seakings and then she only gained +1 in Attack. dksanfdljkasf. I was so pissed. I now understand why, but IV/EV training ruins the fun of the game so I don't even bother anymore. |
| #36 :: September 26th, 2010 @ 4:52 PM | |
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| #37 :: September 27th, 2010 @ 5:38 PM | |
| Thalion Newbie  9 Posts 11 Achievements |
My biggest failure is... kind of odd. I had a lot of fun with the pokemon blue/red missingno glitch. I'd duplicate rare candies, proteins, tm's, etc. so I could beef up my poke'mon for the poke'mon Colosseum (the one for the 64, ancient stuff XD). Well it really, really messed my game up after a while. Every time I turn off the game boy, the game wipes itself. I start with a new game every time.
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| #38 :: October 14th, 2010 @ 12:28 PM | |
| dannie Le Extreme Spammer  3,767 Posts 364 Achievements |
one time when i was playing sapphire..i think it was my second time through the game, i forgot to go back to the aqua hideout and get the masterball. i realized it a few days later and when i went back...the hideout was gone forever and i was like "noooooooooo ;o;~~~" as for shinies, i caught one a longgg time ago on my silver game but i don't remember what it was i probably have encountered other shinies but didn't realize it Last Edit by: User not found (1): danniebloo 10/14/10 - 12:32:57 pm
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| #39 :: October 14th, 2010 @ 4:41 PM | |
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 About a few days ago. I drew an Arbok and was talking about it to my friend. And this girl, outta nowhere goes "Arbok is psychic." LOL. I whispered "...No...it's poisonous." It was seriously a fail moment. What makes it even more of a fail is that it's a cobra, and cobras are venomous snakes. 
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| #40 :: October 15th, 2010 @ 11:08 PM | |
| Frozen_Shade Is a Survivor  455 Posts 411 Achievements |
Headdesk moment came when one of my Gamecube mem.cards wiped itself, taking one of my XD games with it.
I was all: ... ... A`_A ... Nuoooooaaaarghhhhh *wail* My jolteooonnnn~ There went over twenty four hours of work- I hadn't even fought the creepy girl with the altaria... Lovrina, was it... for the first time in that game. I really lived that jolteon. He was over level fourty-three. Then there's the shinies... Diamond, a starly before I had pokeballs (and aside, one hit would have completely KO'd it) (and in the end, I'm not really complaiing, because encountering Denkou would have been different and I would have never gotten Miru) Then... Heart Gold. Oh gods Heart Gold. I still have pictures of them. TT`_TT A shiny sentret, then a shiny rattata, both before I had pokeballs, and my starter at level twenty-nine and thirty-eight respectively. That was... Yeah. Then there was me catching a shed skin ekans (on purpose) in Soul Silver, planning on resetting to before I got it if the Togepi didn't have either serene grace of female gender. And I got attatched, which I honestly didn't mean to do, but knew in some part of me would probably happen. ... It ended up pretty great for me though; a team winner with every single basic pokeathlon medal (several times over), half my gym badges to her name and a taste for psychic pokemon and dragons (which she eats for dinner), I think she's pretty cool. And HG again, my metang, gotten as a beldum from Winner's path. I caught many, never seeming to be able to find the right one... and then, just randomly, realised the very first one I had caught was the one that I'd been looking for the whole time- the day, the nature... I almost literally put my head to the wall at that.
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