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Favorite ways to pass time when Shiny Hunting

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Hi Bulbapedia, this is my first post, so I thought I'd ask what's on my mind. Currently soft-resetting for a shiny Kyurem, I've found myself watching Stephen Hawking's Into the Universe to pass the time. Also, I'm playing the Shiny Hunter drinking game. Every time you soft reset, you take a sip of beverage of choice (beer or mixed drink recommended to avoid the hospital, unless completely boss). What do you do to pass the time?
 
1. Welcome to BMGf :D
2. Don't play that drinking game, you'll get drunk out of your mind. You'll probably hit 1000 soft resets before finding a shiny one.
3. I'm currently trying to SR for a shiny Snivy, and at this point I'm just getting bored out of my mind and really depressed. Probably gotten at least 300 SR's if not more by now. Don't even start haha
 
Yeah, I wouldn't do the drinking game. My liver would have been shot to pieces during my Golett hunt last year. :dizzy:

I myself will take a break and head over to the GTS and check out the offerings; sometimes I can nail a shiny from there.
 
Silverwynde said:
Yeah, I wouldn't do the drinking game. My liver would have been shot to pieces during my Golett hunt last year. :dizzy:

I myself will take a break and head over to the GTS and check out the offerings; sometimes I can nail a shiny from there.
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Maybe, but I've never seen any shiny on GTS that wasn't offered in return for "Lv. 9 or under [insert impossible legendary like Zekrom]"

Plus getting a legit shiny on your own is special, and trades just don't cut it for me. That said, I've been SRing for a shiny Snivy starter in W2 for over 3 days now (many hours and hundreds of SRs) without any luck. I'm getting very doubtful, irritated, and depressed about how much time I have thrown in the garbage.
 
I really don't do much shiny hunting , but when I do I usually pass the time by watching TV (obviously if you couldn't tell by my sig/avatar, I watch alot of Adventure Time) or playing another game.
 
The_Doctor said:
Silverwynde said:
Yeah, I wouldn't do the drinking game. My liver would have been shot to pieces during my Golett hunt last year. :dizzy:

I myself will take a break and head over to the GTS and check out the offerings; sometimes I can nail a shiny from there.
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Maybe, but I've never seen any shiny on GTS that wasn't offered in return for "Lv. 9 or under [insert impossible legendary like Zekrom]"


Plus getting a legit shiny on your own is special, and trades just don't cut it for me. That said, I've been SRing for a shiny Snivy starter in W2 for over 3 days now (many hours and hundreds of SRs) without any luck. I'm getting very doubtful, irritated, and depressed about how much time I have thrown in the garbage.
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I've seen shinies on GTS that asked in return viable stuff (i got a shiny bagon for a female bagon, and a shiny gible for a male bagon), as some time ago i saw a german magnemite asking for a male lv60 Sceptile, and another one asking for a lv100 Typhlosion.
And my shiny totodile, I just spend like 3 hours SR in HG (3 hours a sunday, and then the following monday, just spending time while boiling some water to drink some coffee before studing, lucky me!!)
 
I've given up on the shiny Snivy. I'm just gonna play the damn game because it would take longer to get a shiny snivy (way longer) than to play the entire game. Oh well.
 
The_Doctor said:
Silverwynde said:
Yeah, I wouldn't do the drinking game. My liver would have been shot to pieces during my Golett hunt last year. :dizzy:

I myself will take a break and head over to the GTS and check out the offerings; sometimes I can nail a shiny from there.
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Maybe, but I've never seen any shiny on GTS that wasn't offered in return for "Lv. 9 or under [insert impossible legendary like Zekrom]"

Plus getting a legit shiny on your own is special, and trades just don't cut it for me. That said, I've been SRing for a shiny Snivy starter in W2 for over 3 days now (many hours and hundreds of SRs) without any luck. I'm getting very doubtful, irritated, and depressed about how much time I have thrown in the garbage.
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If you look hard enough, you can find some real gems on GTS. I've gotten quite a few shinies for a song: Youmeikibow--one of the shiny Golett brigade--was given up for a female Gible. There reason he was so "cheap"? Poor little guy had Klutz as his Ability. Didn't matter that he was perfect in three Stats, including Attack and was Adamant, his Ability rendered him useless.

Now granted, there are those who like to show off but there are a decent number of people who actually want to trade. But grabbing your own shiny after so much work is awesome. I should know; I was on cloud nine last April when I hatched my shiny Golett.

I tried to SR for a shiny Chimchar when I started Platinum. Yeah, that didn't work out so well. And to add insult to injury? The game decided to drop a shiny Zubat on me later. Yeah, I kinda wanted to scream. (Still caught the idiotic Zubat, though.)
 
Silverwynde said:
I tried to SR for a shiny Chimchar when I started Platinum. Yeah, that didn't work out so well. And to add insult to injury? The game decided to drop a shiny Zubat on me later. Yeah, I kinda wanted to scream. (Still caught the idiotic Zubat, though.)
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Oh my god, yes. Almost the exact same thing happened to me. I finally gave up on the shiny Snivy hunt when getting my starter, and just yesterday I ran into a shiny Rattata. So cruel. XD
 
i watch anime or toons on the net i used to do like an hour or so in the afternoon or and hour at night more if i felt like it but the 2 hours were mandatory, 3400 soft resets i stopped at with no luck. i will pick up again eventually
 
The_Doctor said:
Silverwynde said:
I tried to SR for a shiny Chimchar when I started Platinum. Yeah, that didn't work out so well. And to add insult to injury? The game decided to drop a shiny Zubat on me later. Yeah, I kinda wanted to scream. (Still caught the idiotic Zubat, though.)
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Oh my god, yes. Almost the exact same thing happened to me. I finally gave up on the shiny Snivy hunt when getting my starter, and just yesterday I ran into a shiny Rattata. So cruel. XD
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Yeah, that's when you know good and darned well that the game is screwing with you.

Other ways I keep my sanity is trying to watch TV so I can catch up on anime or anything else I've missed. Trust me, there comes a time when you have to stop looking at egg after egg.
 
I soft reset for shinies during my really boring college lectures! Btw during one college lecture today, I got a Shiny Eevee !!! I was soft resetting for it in my Pokemon Firered Version during a college lecture this morning and I thought to myself, "gee wouldn't it be nice if I got the shiny Eevee right now", and then all of a sudden bam, jackpot !! I look at my Gameboy SP screen and then I saw it!! I was so surprised! Later today I traded it to my friend's Emerald version to use the cloning glitch on it. So I cloned like 35 shiny Eevees!!! I then transferred them to my Heartgold version, which took a while since I Pal-parked all 35 of them!! I was so excited afterwards though. So now I can have all 8 shiny Eeveelutions once X and Y come out! Soft-resetting for the shiny Eevee took a total of about 2.5 months. So I was excited when I got it during my college lecture!!

Another way I pass time while shiny hunting is by watching LPers on Youtube do a Let's Play on really hard Pokemon Romhacks and insane Pokemon Hack games.
 
I usually just watch whole seasons of Power Rangers while shiny hunting, so far I have 1340 random encounters in the Giant Chasm in White 2.
 
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