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April 8: Back again

The Mother OST review has been updated, and I've done some general site maintenance, fixing stuff here and there.

March 19: Ms. Fix-it at your service

I fixed a whole bunch of pages with incorrect information and bad spelling. I also added a new, Pokemon-related Page: Hey You, Pikachu! It's a game that, sadly enough, seems to lack information. I hope to update it often since it seems that most Hey You, Pikachu pages are outdated or lack things.

Wow, it's been exactly two months since the last update. That's quite a coincidence.

There is bad news... I fiddled around with the CSS styles and now the affiliates bar appears improperly in Shadow Queen Style and Togepi Style. I'll work to fix it as fast as I can, but it may take some time considering my previosu attempts have been useless.

Hmm. Well, at least the website's finally coming back. Prepare yourself (or not, if you don't feel like preparing) for Pokemon, Paper Mario, and EarthBound content - at the same time.

January 19, 2009: whoa

I have a good reason for not updating and for the sudden name change! This website, which was formerly known as Critter Cryptics, shall from henceforth be known as The Red Blimp. Why?
Some domain parking thing bought the Critter Cryptics domain and so I either had to pick a new name, pay around $100 per year for the domain, or not have a domain until the end of the year. I was eager to get the site up, so after much time and many failed names, I came up with the Red Blimp. Blimps look like balloons, and there are balloons in Pokemon, EarthBound, and there's even a blimp in Paper Mario. There it is.

I'll admit that I don't have any new pages up, but I do have much content planned, especially for Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and Mother 3. Perhaps Platinum will get something as well once it's released. For now, pretend to be happy that this site is back.

October 26, 2008: Mother 3i Review

I finally did another one of my long reviews. The victim this time was Mother 3i. It's a great album, really. To get the scoop on each individual track, you'll just have to take a look.

That game? Yeah, it's on hold again. NaNoWriMo starts in a week, boys and girls! :3 I should put up the NaNo from 2006... my next goal: make fanfiction page and do something for Pokemon.

October 19, 2008: Mother 3 Fan Translation Released!

YES. After two years of waiting, Tomato, Jeffman, and the rest have finally finished this long-awaited translation. I wanted to have something special for when the translation was done, but no. :(

October 6, 2008: Ah, music.

I finally figured out the chords to Pollyanna, and they can be found here. Fun, no? Through some stroke of luck, the chords I found were in the same key as the version on the Famicom! If you want to play along, I also found the tempo. Feel free to jam. If you want an mp3, I'm certain you can find one at Starmen or perhaps Galbadia Hotel. Yeah, that's all, folks. G'night, everybody.

September 30, 2008: More controversy!

This site is, in part, a Paper Mario site. Therefore, it should follow that there is Paper Mario content. Behold! a page discussing the gender of Vivian! "Ooh, trivial." I guess it is. Some people are really fired up on this issue, though. I guess if you don't know where you stand on the debate of Vivian's gender, you could take a look at this page and see which side you agree with and stuff. It even features gender neutral pronouns! :o If you don't know or care about those, don't worry. It's not like they're a subsection of the article or something.

September 21, 2008: Minor Update of doom

I updated the glitches page for Paper Mario. I found a glitch for SMRPG. Lame update? Yes. The game is still being worked on. I'm too lazy to finish the images. I was thinking about making videos of how to combo in Mother 3... maybe some Pokemon Diamond/Pearl stuff. School has been hitting hard. I was also thinking about doing NaNoWriMo. 'Write a novel in a month'! Second half of my novel, here we go (and no, I don't care if the rules discourage it).

September 12, 2008: Hurrah, Mother 3 stuff!

There shouldn't be any spoilers on the new page detailing the Mother 3 Sound Player. I wanted to include a list of every song on there with translated names, but I don't know Japanese, don't recognise all the songs, and was really tired looking through 250 tracks for songs I liked/ knew. Either way, there are a bunch of variations of the Pig Mask theme, so that effectively clears up 1/3 of the songs. :P Nah, just kidding.

I want to bring back something I loved from the old site... hint: it's a game. I am trying to incorporate both Pokemon, Paper Mario, and EarthBound into it so anyone who likes at least one of those series can recognise an area, characters, and generally be happy. I've already got some parts of it done, but it's still in the works. Also, I've really been writing a lot of Mother stuff lately. Pokemon and Paper Mario are, well, rather neglected. Hopefully, once I finish the game, that will all will be changed. ;)

Edit: In response to a startling problem involving Togepi Style and Internet Explorer 7, I have made a page detailing the style-switcher. It describes the styles and lists any possible compatability errors with browsers. There is a huge problem with Togepi Style in IE7, as mentioned: the normal lists don't show up unless the content is hovered over. This make reading a chore, and on mobile phones, it's pretty impossible. I'm trying to fix this, so bear with me...

September 5, 2008: I'm sorry

I'm sorry that I haven't updated anything. I wrote a page, but I don't like it and I'm trying to revise it. There's a game I've been thinking of making, but I no longer have the software for it. Bear with me - I'm going to get something up over the weekend.

September 1, 2008: Happy Labor Day~

That Pokemon and EarthBound section is finally up. Say hello to Pokebound! "What," the visitor asked, "could that be?" It's the similarities between Pokemon and EarthBound. Wow, so special! So risque! Let's give me a big round of applause! ... Nah, I'm just kidding. :P I got some photos today of Pokemon merchandise and the Mini-magazine from the 10th anniversary, but the device to connect the storage card for the camera to the computer is currently not working, and the one I thought would work is for a different type of storage card. As soon as I can get that device, expect a page on Pokemon stuff in general (and hopefully some things unique to this site!).

August 29, 2008: Subliminal Messages...

There was a discussion on an EarthBound forum on Mother 3 being technology vs nature. I disagreed, and I wrote an article. It's like NoA and mother, but not as rambly. I'm gonna try to get the Spanish site up to date over the weekend, so stay tuned. ;)

August 22, 2008: Paper Mania

Paper Mario finally got its section. I've never found out where the idea to make Mario Paper came from, so here's some theories. Yes, the EarthBound and Pokemon thing is still in the works.

August 21, 2008: Blame the government

There's nothing new to update with. Sorry. D: School has started and I can't stay up late working on pages like I did in the summer. If the update gap grows, you know that you can blame wither school or laziness.

August 18, 2008: It's quite musical

I created an Earth Bound 0 section. I moved the Mother OST page there, and added a new page, chords. Yeah, this is mostly an update for the music-lovers. I'm trying to get up another page, involving EarthBound and Pokemon (at the same time! :O). The poor Paper Mario section is crying now. Don't worry, Paper Mario fans, I'll get a page up for that soon as well.

I tweaked the styles a bit. Shadow Style should now work regardless of resolution or browser you're using. If not, well, tell me so I can go crazy trying to fix it again. :P

August 15, 2008

This is news, and this is crazy news - this website has started existing again! Yes, this website sort of died in 2007 after the great crash of 2007. Great crashes are not fun, no? Most of the content was lost, which isn't fun either. All the Javascript games aren't here anymore. Old visitors will see that I've added an EarthBound section - I'm not selling out or turning this into a Nintendo site or something, but I really wanted to write about EarthBound, considering how there are almost no good EarthBound sites out there. Yes, the Paper Mario section has only two pages. I know. However, that will be fixed soon.

I'll update whenever I have content available. Simple, right? I have to get rid of most of my affiliates because they no longer exist. D: I've got to rewrite some boring pages, too. At least the site is back.