I sold my soul for a Shiny Hoothoot

Sadly, it is just as the title says.

I traded a weekend of joy and fun and all i got at the end was one shiny hoothoot.

First off, what is a shiny hoothoot? Those of you who played pokemon before would know that hoothoot is probably one of the stupidest looking pokemon. Here is a picture of one.



Now, here is a picture of a SHINY HOOTHOOT, which is made of love and fuckwin.



What is the difference, you say?! SIMPLE MINDED FOOL! ITS GOLDEN!

Shiny pokemon have a rarity of something like 1/7812 or something. That means if you have 7812 pokemon encounters, 1 is a shiny one.

So now back to the main point of this story. It starts off with my saturday morning. Its the same routine i've had since i was 12. Wake up at 10, slack around till 11, and watch pokemon on Kids Central.

Thats when the trouble started.

To cut the long story short, i had a miserable day. Loads of chores, tonnes of lame pointless errands (Waiting in the void deck to pass my Dad's friend the golf clubs my Dad borrowed from him) etc etc.

Oh, and my Nintendo DS's memory card got erased. So i lost ALL my games/game data except for pokemon (THANK GOD). OH, and the icing on the shitcake is my external HDD got wiped as well. So i lost about 80gigs of anime, tv shows etc. Oh, and all the music i listen to.

So i feel super crummy that night. No shows to watch on my computer, nothing worth surfing on the net. So i pop in my pokemon catridge, and go around trying to catch all the pokemon to complete my pokedex. I spend 2 fucking hours in the fuckin' safari zone looking for a croagunk and NOTHING.

OH, and then we try and get a DOTA game going. But all 4 times before the game started people would start quitting for unknown reasons and we had to keep recreating the games. So we gave up on playing too.

Just when i was so pissed at my shitty day i was about to shit a thousand bricks, HE APPEARED BEFORE ME, IN ALL HIS MAJESTY. HIS DOWN GLEAMED GOLD AND HE GLARED AT ME, AS IF STARING INTO THE VERY DEPTH OF MY SOUL. HIS GLANCE SEEMED TO HEAL ME FROM THE INSIDE, LIKE HE WAS TELLING ME "CHILD, THERE ARE TIMES IN EVERY MAN'S LIFE WHERE GIVING UP SEEMS LIKE THE RIGHT THING TO DO. BUT IT NEVER IS. FIGHT, FIGHT FOR WHAT YOU LOVE, FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, FOR YOURSELF!"

And then i shat enough bricks to build a HDB. I caught that slut and put him in a safari ball. As i spent the next hour repeatedly cleaning my Nintendo DS screen, i pondered upon the wisdom of the shiny hoothoot. And i realised he was right. Shiny hoothoot appeared before me when i needed him most. Hence, he is my new idol.

Want to join the shiny hoothoot cult? We meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. BYOB (Bring your own birdseed.)