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so the criteria for a "good" sequel set forth was that it a) developed characters further while retaining the lessons learned in the first movie and b) added more understanding to the world presented in the first movie. That's cool, that's fine, I can agree. This dude's argument was that Incredibles 2 didn't fit these criteria, but Wreck It Ralph 2 did. ???? I don't think we watched the same Wreck It Ralph sequel. I can see the argument behind Incredibles 2 not being a good sequel. He pointed out that the two kids are similar arcs as the first, that some of the character flaws or multi-dimensionality were taken away, that it didn't retain a lot of the compelling story and world elements of the first, etc etc. I'm fine with that! He went in depth, he talked, that's cool, whatever. But how, on any planet, is Wreck It Ralph 2 any better??? Not only did the characters become almost charicatures of themselves, but the world presented in Wreck It Ralph 1 was pretty much shucked away in favor of some memey emoji-movie-esque world, and the story drove the same exact plotline into the rotting ground. oh but I guess it had a poorly written and terrible nice moral for kids so it was good uwu Like idk, you don't have to think either are objectively good or bad movies, or that Incredibles 2 is a good sequel, but there is absolutely no way in hell that Wreck it ralph 2 does anything any better than Incredibles 2. I was going to end it here but I just gotta talk about the """moral""" in Ralph Breaks The Internet. I think, long story short, that a story needs to TEACH a moral, and not TELL you the moral. If a story has to straight up spell out what it thinks is its moral, it automatically has failed at teaching that moral. Not only does Ralph 2 have a terrible storyline, horrendous characterization, and bad writing, it doesn't even have the decency to treat its audience as though they have brains. It has Ralph spell out for you that you shouldn't suffocate your friends, but doesn't bother having any of the characters learn or grow. Ralph only supposedly learns this because there is an outside force (the giant ralph) pushing him towards this message. Ralph doesn't actually look at himself and want to develop on his own!! Ralph isn't actually redeemed. The moral doesn't come from Ralph wanting to be a better person, it comes from a giant monster. There is no teaching of "you can choose to learn and grow and become better." It just says "look how stupid Ralph is for doing all these dumb things and nearly killing his friend! haha!" wreck it ralph 2 is just a miserable failure, yet had so much potential. there could've been an honest message in it. it could've talked about friendship and heartbreak and letting go, but instead of being honest it decided to cram in goat memes. I legitimately wish Ralph 2 was good because the first one was great, but god. it just fell so far.

I need to finish upgrading my grass and ghost badges but I don't want to spend 400+k just to complete them. I've saved my Petripeep chain at 127, so I'll hunt Eevee at reset for my needed 200 grass rte. After that, I'm thinking I'll hunt gastly for a few hundred eggs since it has a low level evo compared to other ghost types. Both of these will double as delta point hunts too, for when I return to petripeep. After rte, I think I'll do some fossil hunts for delta points and gems? They'll all give me rock gems, so it's more about the dual type. So water, flying, bug, grass, ice, dragon, and steel. All except for water, grass, and steel are at Titanium, so I might just cycle through the rest until I reach 1k gems for each type. I can worry about relics later.

• Amaura
• Archen
• Anorith
• Dragon

Tyrunt may double as a melan hunt since I need that dex anyways. The timeline for this is gonna be funky, since Type Race is coming up soon. Estimating 100 eggs each day, and if I finish Eevee all tomorrow, then it'll be 4 days for Gastly, 20 days for Amaura (assuming I get half ice gems and no Ravyne days), 13 days for Archen, 6 days for Anorith, and 18 days for Tyrunt.