iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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McKenna Morison @mckennakelpie.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Felt like it’d been way too long since I painted something. Some sparkly gems to start the weekend ☺️

4 star shaped pendants and two star shaped crystals painted in procreate.

Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 07/11/2025

I just finished up a small field recording bag! 🎤 I wanted something I could take with me on a hike/to a park that wasn't too heavy that I could capture some quick sounds on. Super stoked with how it came out!

A bag with a carabiner with a collapsible water bottle, fold up blanket and fold up shopping bag, with a lightstand held underneath by straps.

The internals of the bag in the first picture. Tripods, microphones, recorders and accessories are littered onto a table.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 07/11/2025

Oh dang, we said words about our game! 🔊 Huge shoutouts to Adam Lidbetter, Pete Reed, Josh Lord, and I guess Brad Meyer (@audiogre.bsky.social) 🙌

asoundeffect.com

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Sucker Punch Productions @suckerpunchprod.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Ghost of Yōtei has officially gone gold! 🥳 We're so excited to finally have reached this milestone and can't wait for everyone to experience the beauty of Ezo on October 2nd. Pre-order now: ghostofyotei.com

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McKenna Morison @mckennakelpie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Butterfly Scissors!

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PlayStation @playstation.com · 23/04/2025

Ghost of Yōtei comes to PS5 on October 2. New trailer introduces the Yōtei Six — gang members Atsu has sworn to hunt down: play.st/3GkxBT4

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Dude, keeping all of my Pokémon games from when I originally had them would have been worth their weight in gold. The price of Platinum had me thinking about all of this for a bit haha

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Thanks for reading these past two absolutely massive threads to those who did! On to the next adventure!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I know the Pokemon Company isn't on this site yet, but just wanted to give a solid "Thank You" for all the memories and experiences. I know they're little games mainly meant for a child-aged audience, but man, they're good.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I mainly wanted to do this for me, to prove that I could stay focused and determined on a large task for a while. But I also wanted it as something to pass down to a future child of mine someday if they also get into Pokemon like I did. I'm still a bit from that time, but I think it would be neat!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

It was the first game that my wife and I played together when we started dating nearly 12.5 years ago. With a new Pokemon game comes another chance at connecting with old friends and meeting new ones.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

As someone born in 1995, nearly my whole life has been Pokemon. It was the first cartoon I can remember watching. I used to wake up my dad as a two-year old by jumping on his bed and calling him a Snorlax. The first game I beat (Pokemon Yellow).

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

So now it's over. Not really, because new games and more Pokemon will always come, but as far as for me for now, everything I can get has been got.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I know which one my wallet would have preferred.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Now, if you do this the sane way, where you just want to catch all of the Pokemon possible and not necessarily from the original game/generation, I would definitely suggest that! Here's everything youd need for that.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Absolutely not. The amount of games needed and having to buy from eBay becuase these games no longer exist at retailers, the systems needed, the amount of time that I could have spent doing literally anything else is by no means an unsubstantial amount. Here's everything I needed.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

All in all, this took around four months of on/off playing to complete the Living-Origin Dex and around two weeks-ish of ProGamerHyperFocusMode to complete the other Home Dexes. Now, would I recommend doing this the way I did?

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

And the one I finished today: Sword/Shield + DLCs - Shiny Keldeo

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

They even give you cool Pokemon for doing this too! Sword/Shield + DLCs - Shiny Meloetta Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee - Shiny Meltan (why isn't it Mew??) Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - Shiny Manaphy Pokemon Legends: Arceus - Shiny Enamorous

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

And gamers, I did it. Every Pokedex, completed.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I actually completed my Living-Origin Dex two weeks ago, the original 1,025 I set out to catch. From then until today, I have spent nearly every waking moment (aside from working on a super cool video game that I am super stoked about and hanging out with my wife and animals) playing Pokemon.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

The total number of Pokemon I needed to catch: Sword/Shield - 474 Scarlet/Violet - 548 Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee - 150 Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl - 152 Pokemon Legends: Arceus - 242 For a whopping grand total of 1,566 I needed to catch. 541 MORE THAN EVERYTHING I CAUGHT TO THIS POINT.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

The Pokedexes I needed to complete were for: Sword/Shield (Gen 8) Scarlet/Violet (Gen 9) Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee (Gen 1 Remakes) Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl (Gen 4 Remakes) Pokemon Legends: Arceus

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Unfortunately, the newer Pokemon games aren't merciful with the amount of Pokemon they have in them.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

In order to complete these other Pokedexes, I would need to compile a Living Dex of each Pokemon available in those games and import them into Pokemon Home. Thankfully I wouldnt need to recatch the Pokemon I had already caught respective to their generations and they had already counted.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

The reason is because there would be a constant reminder that lived on my phone that I wasn't finished. That anytime I showed off my Living-Origin Dex to my wife in a never-ending attempt to impress her, there would be several other columns of failure. And I couldn't have that.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I hear you ask, "Dude, if you already caught them all why go through the hassle of doing it multiple times?"

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

So I would need to go back through the games I had already played, and complete their individual Pokedexes by catching every. single. Pokemon. in. that. game.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Game-specific dexes required that I catch the Pokemon from that game, even if they were Pokemon I had already obtained them from older games and transferred them in.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Now, you might be thinking this is where it ends. However, when I went to go appreciate my progress in the phone-app-version of Pokemon Home, I noticed a fun other tab that had something else. Game-specific Pokedexes.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

For having a Living Dex in Home, you even get a special-colored Magearna as a bonus (:

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

After getting the diplomas in the Gen 9 game, it was time to transfer all the Pokemon back into Pokemon Home to finish this all up. And so I present to you, a completed "Living-Origin Dex", where I have a Pokemon for each entry, and they all come from the games they were introduced in.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

So with that, and moving older Pokemon into newer Pokemon games, I had completed the dexes for Gen 8 + DLCs and Gen 9 + DLCs!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

I had them in Pokemon Home already, so they already counted toward the Pokedex completion. So for all inents and purposes, I'm going to count them as finished!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

Unfortunately, I had already traded for them. However, according to the arbitrary rule set I had set for myself, I would have to be the one to catch them. So I'll be catching them when the event returns on the 20th, and retiring the current ones I have.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

As if my prayers had been answered by some weird deity that listens only to prayers about Pokemon availability issues and not real world problems, the Pokemon Company announced yesterday that the event would returning later this month!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

- Wait and pray. When Gen8 reached the end of its time, they released all of the time-locked Pokemon to be encountered in raids. (Yes, there's Pokemon raids now.) In this solution I would just wait for the event to maybe come back before the next game released. Maybe, I'm impatient.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

- Trade for them. I didn't like this solution, but it would give me the Pokedex entries I needed. Thankfully at this point, I had easy access to pretty much anything someone would ask for, so it wouldn't be too rough. A solid maybe.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

- Hack my Nintendo Switch and, using the PKHeX software, "generate" the Pokemon I needed. I didn't want to do this as hacking a switch is scary and intensive and could not only get me hardware banned, but software banned, meaning that I could potentially lose all of the Pokemon I had. So, no.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

There were a few solutions to this problem. I could:

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

The issue? If you can believe it, two Pokemon in Gen 9 were locked behind a timed event that ended in May of 2024.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

After spending another weekend at it, I ran through the story of the Gen 8 and 9 Pokemon games and had free reign to catch all of the Pokemon I had left! Only for another issue to arise. Of course.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

As I had already played through Gen 8/9 before, I already had some of the Pokemon I needed. However, pokemon that had evolutions that required trading had me play through them again on another Switch system.

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

At this point, I had locked in 807 Pokemon The finish line is definitely in-sight, and we're now starting to catch up to the games that I had most recently played Progress from here speeds up exponentially!

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

(Just noticing that I said they went by fast when my Gen 7 game says I have 41.5 hours on it. Time has obviously passed me by and it must be with all of these real-world events happening around me that I might have dissociated a little bit maybe.)

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Chris Walasek @chrissoundsrad.com · 18/02/2025

So when I say that Gens 6/7 went by so fast I hardly remember them, just know that COMBINED the amount of Pokemon I needed to catch from them was only four more than Gen 5 at 160. These games were also the first 3DS-Era games and with that came a TON of optimization, which meant easier catching!

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