Dae asks: Favorite Badge Design

It’s about time we did another Dae asks! I’ve been a bit sick the past week and tiredness and writing articles don’t mix sadly. But I’m already getting better, if only school would end soon…

This time’s question was inspired by our own Ampharos2551 in the comments, where he linked us a wallpaper containing all the badges ever featured in the games and anime. Now it’s your turn to decide which has the best design! You’ll have to sort out the name of the badge yourself, however, but last time I heard there was this specialised Pokémon wiki, but I can’t seem to remember the name. You can find all the badges >>>HERE<<< courtesy of Seancantrell.

Go comment already! You’ve been doing a great job at keeping it civil, so keep doing that. Hopefully some actually interesting news (and not tournament #7546) will come soon, and if not, I’ll finally finish the Daely Snack I’ve been planning all along. See ya!

~Daedardus~

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966 thoughts on “Dae asks: Favorite Badge Design”

  1. Get well soon Dae 🙂
    There are so many beautiful gym badges out there but my favorite would be the Feather and Leaf badge :3

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  2. I like the Rainbow Badge (gen II), Relic Badge (gen IV Fantina), Fairy, Psychic, and Iceberg Badges (gen VI last three gyms). And of course all of Hoenn’s especially Winona’s and Tate and Liza’s (Feather and Heart Badge respectively).

    EDIT: Get well, Dae. I can’t believe I totally missed reading that.

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  3. In terms of badge styles, I liked Hoenn’s style the best.
    However my all time favourite Gym Leader Badge is Blane’s Volcano Badge, closely followed by Normans Balance Badge.

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  4. As for the article
    I can easily say my favorite Badges came from Kanto, my reason is purely their ties to the Elements and as most who personally know me, The Four Elements are very very important to me
    Examples
    Boulder: Earth
    Cascade: Water
    Thunder: Electricity
    Rainbow:…Technically Wood/Plant
    Soul: Shadow
    Marsh: I guess Mind or light
    Volcano: Fire
    Earth: Earth again! Earth FTW!!!!

    But my Favorite Badge was most difficult badge to obtain The Boulder Badge (You try beating two rock types with Scratch)

    a Simple Grey Octagon simply a solid design that has a lot of character despite being so plain

    I also fancy the Quake Badge and the Knuckle Badge

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  5. So i would like to know when the PJL plans to start and on a second note: Has earthen Fixed up the gyms and stuff like he said?

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  6. I’ve never really thought about this before, it is an interesting question as some designs are really intricate and interesting

    Indigo League: Rainbow Badge
    Johto League: Glacier Badge
    Hoenn League: Knuckle Badge
    Sinnoh League: Relic Badge
    Unova League: Jet Badge
    Kalos League: Psychic Badge

    Had to look at the badges on Bulbapedia cause forgot what some look like. I hope in the future they give better names (ie not names after the respective type)

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  7. Wonderful question choice. Here is my response for each region:

    Kanto: Rainbow Badge
    Johto: Rising Badge
    Hoenn: Dynamo Badge
    Sinnoh: Beacon Badge
    Unova: Legend Badge
    Kalos: Psychic Badge
    And just for fun:
    Orange Islands: Coral-Eye Badge

    PS: If there is a Moderator on, please tell PJ to check his inbox. I emailed him something through the CONTACT tab, and the contents of that email are very important. 🙂 Thanks.

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  8. Kanto: Rainbow badge
    Johto: Zephyr Badge
    Hoenn: Dynamo Badge
    Sinnoh: Relic Badge
    Unova: Jet Badge
    Kalos: Voltage Badge
    There needs to be a game where you can choose your badge path
    How did they find the unused badges?

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  9. My overall favorite is the Mind Badge from Mossdeep, because of its simplicity…and ties with Xatu. But the Rainbow Badge and Relic Badge are close second and third.

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  10. Im in a spriting mood but I have nothing to sprite ;-;
    I need PJ or Ithsme to continue (PJ for champion sprite, Ithsme for rival sprite)

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  11. My favorite badges have got to be Olympia’s Psychic Badge, the shooting star badge which appears to not have a name since it’s from a cameo appearance in the anime, and the Voltage Badge 😀

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  12. Ok, so not many people think Mega Swampert would get Sap Sipper right? Well, Swampert is a swamp pokemon thing correct? So I can picture it either growing a tree thing (idk) or it’s toe things becoming roots.

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  13. This is off topic but should i warn people they are off topic i feel like people will not like it if i do that, but i don’t want to see anyone banned… I just don’t know…

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  14. Question of the Night:
    Name a Pokemon that you were completely in disagreeance with when you saw its type. In other words, name a Pokemon whose type you did not think would match its look.

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  15. To earn a spot as an NPC or Trainer in Jade Jungle…
    Name the National Pokedex Number of the following Pokemon:

    Hoothoot
    Xerneas
    Drifblim
    Mankey
    Torchic
    Chikorita
    Liepard
    Rhyperior
    Umbreon
    Glameow

    FIRST PERSON TO DO SO CORRECTLY WINS THE SPOT!

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  16. Let’s do an easier one for you guys.
    How many Pokemon, including alternate forms, are there of each of the following types:
    Fire
    Psychic
    Dark
    Water

    First person to get them all wins a spot as a trainer in one of the Jade Jungle gyms!
    PS: BULBAPEDIA IS YOUR FRIEND!

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  17. GENIUS:
    Shedinja @ Weakness Policy
    Ability: Wonder Guard
    EVs: 252 Spd / 252 Atk
    Adamant Nature
    – Endure
    – Swords Dance
    – Shadow Sneak
    – X-Scissor

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  18. FINAL QUIZ OF THE NIGHT!
    If you’ve won already, YOU MAY PARTICIPATE AGAIN!

    This is for a spot as a GYM LEADER.

    NAME ALL OF THE BASE STATS, AT LEVEL 50, OF THE FOLLOWING POKEMON:

    Dragon-type Gym:
    Drudiggon
    Gabite
    Noibat
    Deino
    Altaria
    Dragonair

    Steel-type Gym:
    Klink
    Metang
    Klefki
    Scizor
    Excadrill
    Durant

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    • Note, you must individually list the base stats.
      Not using the total, but Attack, HP, etc. Must list them all correctly to win a spot as a gym leader.

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    • 77 120 90 60 90 48
      68 90 65 50 55 82
      40 30 35 45 40 55
      52 65 50 45 50 38
      75 70 90 70 105 80
      61 84 65 70 70 70

      40 55 70 45 60 30
      60 75 100 55 80 50
      57 80 91 80 87 75
      70 130 100 55 80 65
      110 135 60 50 65 88
      58 109 112 48 48 109

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  19. What can I be in Jade Jungle? I’m part of the naming committee, but I want to be in the game as a trainer, or something.

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  20. Sweet! New article! Anyway, my favorite badge design is Clemont’s Badge. I love how it has thunderbolts sticking out in an asterix formation. It’s very unique and eye catching.

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  21. Yay something inspired by me! My favorite badge designs are:
    Kanto: Marsh badge
    Johto: Fog badge

    Sinnoh: Forest badge and the six badges to the right of the beacon badge
    Unova: Pretty much all of them including the unknown ones except for the Quake Badge and the one to the left of the Kalos Bug badge.
    Kalos: None (If I HAD to choose, then the Rumble badge or the Plant badge

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    • If I have to choose one from each region, it would be:
      Kanto: Earth Badge
      Johto: Zephyr Badge
      Hoenn: Heat Badge
      Sinnoh: Fen Badge
      Unova: Wave Badge
      Kalos: Cliff Badge

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  22. Alright, this isn’t fair. Yesterday and the day before the game told me I played the maximum number of battles for the day, but today, it only showed 39! So my record isn’t 14-26, it’s 14-25, making yesterday’s tally 9-10.

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  23. so i was reading the old comment and i was seeing the contest for being a trainer in JJ, i thought i already was a trainer as the entertrainer in the pokepub?

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  24. So Earthen is Team Eda Leader, Dicie is Team Flora Lead Scientist, PJ is Champ, Ithsme is Evil Rival, I’m Poképub CEO dude, GoK is Entertrainer, a couple others also work at the Pokepub (I should really write that down), anddddddd idk any others. We need a Team Flora Leader and, um, whatever the mods things under them are called, Team Eda Lead Scientist and, um, whatever the mods things under them are called, and another GOOD Rival?

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  25. Aren’t you guys lucky, being able to see blueprints of my new art project
    Everyone on deviant art have to wait(not like anyone follows me on deviant art XD)
    Refresh

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  26. So i would really like to know what I can do to contribute to JJ. btw: i know nothing of how to sprite or anything but i would love to learn.

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  27. :0 I can see Ithsme and opposite gender rival joining Teams Eda and Flora respectively and riaing through the ranks quickly to become admins. After you defeat Team Flora and Eda’s leaders at the climax, I can see somethimg happening there involving them,, including apologizing for their actions and making up or battlimg you., then doing this.

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  28. Okay, something’s seriously wrong. I’m in the April Friendly, and the stupid game’s only letting me play 19 battles a day. On the first day, it let me play 20. So I’ve only played 58 battles, while the record reads 60.
    Oh, and my win-lose record is 23-35, today’s being 9-10 again.

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  29. Okay, what’s my role in Jade Jungle? I’ve designed a lot of Fakemon, and even drew half of them (uploaded on the spreadsheet). I’m also part of the Naming Committee, though I haven’t received any tasks.

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  30. So good so far, I’m taking a break
    Things to do
    -go over the outline
    -finish colouring
    -add more shading
    -???
    -profit
    Refresh

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  31. ah. I remember the day pokemon black and white came out. It wasthe first official new region that i was a pokemon fan for. i have so much memorys with my white game, shame i have to delete the file. :’)

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    • I guess the best way to describe it is that with stereo you can hear different things from different earphones at the same time, for example. Whereas mono it’ll be the same thing in both.

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    • If you have stereo sound in Pokémon, when the left Pokémon attacks you will hear a sound left and vice versa for the right. Also, music will sound more complex and overall better :).

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  32. @movingg:disqus What’s going to happen with my email? Who will it go through? When will I hear back? When will I get the outcome? 🙂

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  33. :0 Guys, it’s not the Jungle Games, but instead the Jungle Games where they airdrop 24 PJers into an enclosed jungle where they fight to the death.

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  34. The picture that moving posted below is for our upcoming underground fighting match between PJ and Serebii! No tickets will be for sale;in fact, we will not be doing any underground fighting! Thank you all for participating!

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  35. Seems everyone is doing unova XD #Can’tStopWon’tStop Unova is amazing 😛 there is so much to do ,a dn it has an amazing post game

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  36. Watching the B2/W2 animated trailer, >,< Gamefreak should have made this an anime ITS AMAZING. they ahve the perfect voice actors and everything ( yes even the ash elesa XD )

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  37. I am actually working on a fangame called Black and White 3.
    It’s basically Unova 500 years later, where Gyms are replaced with Ruins, Gym Leaders are replaced with Guardians, and Badges are replaced with Relics.

    I’m really excited about it. 😀

    If anyone wants to help you can start NOW. 😀

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    • IMO its colress all the way. His futureistic design was flawless as well as his quotations. nOt only that his goal in pokemon was truely one i would have sought after too.

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    • hmm……Ghetsis i guess. He was pretty cool(and evil) He was o evil he kept his evil intintons from his own team and son!

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    • I say Ghetsis. Sure, he’s the typical super villain that wants to take over the world, but he’s so sinister about it. The way he looks is eye-catching, and his battle theme is awesome (although I wish it didn’t change in B2W2)!

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  38. Wow, es quiet. Anyways, did anyone else notice the Pokemom War is a recurring theme in Pokemon games? Lt. Surge of Japan was in it. Kalos (France) was in it, and they have pictures of New York’s legends in Kalos, so I’m guessing they were involved as well. In conclusion, I’m thinking this is WWII.

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  39. Whoa, just realized Saffron City is Tokyo O_O Seriously, look at this Pokémon rumor page thing. Most are common, some are different.

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  40. this theory actually makes sense :O
    “So, many people ask who was the Pokémon Champion before Blue defeated him/her and claimed the place as official Champion. Well, I have a theory.

    So, here it comes:
    Norman, the player’s father, was that Champion Blue beat.

    They say Norman lives for Pokémon. He was so confident of himself, he couldn’t believe he was defeated. He thought he did something wrong, somewhere, ever. He released all of his Pokémon, came back to Olivine City, where his wife and child lived and then moved to Hoenn to start a new beginning. There, he caught three Slakoth, which evolved later (slakoth don’t appear in Johto, they have to be caught afterwards!). Because of his fame, he was able to become a decent Gym Leader in Petalburg City.

    By the time Red defeated Blue but didn’t want to stay in one place and be Champion, former Champion Norman was long gone. Lance got his place after that.”

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  41. So has pokejungle become a theory association? Fine I shall be detective Goodra who would like to join me on my journey?

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  42. :O Route whatever in Unova is based off of 9/11! In Pokémon it says it was hit by a meteor that released Kyurem, which is 9’11”.

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  43. A Few times
    I’ve
    been around
    that track
    So
    it’s not
    gonna
    happen like
    that
    Because I ain’t no
    hollaback
    Girl~
    ~Gwen stefani
    Oh and has any one else heard the theory that Gardenia is too afraid to go in the haunted house because she killed her grandpa and her sister( Who are now ghosts) in there so she could be gym leader?
    Mhmm.

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  44. My only theory

    A lot of people lived in the old chateau, Charon (the new platinum admin), some butlers, some… these girls that are like butlers…
    Fantina, Mr. Fortuny and their Daughter.
    Fantina and fortuny were married, they had a daughter.
    Charon was a butler, working for Mr. Fortuny. He discovered Rotom, and adopted it as a pet.
    some day, Rotom made a fire, a BIG fire. causing the death for two people (or at least that is what appears in the game) a butler and Fantina and Mr. Fortuny’s Daughter.
    everyone ran away, exept Mr. Fortuny, Fantina, Their daughter and the butler, who tried to save the girl. Charon ran away with rotom. he transformed into a sciencist (he wanted to do it when he discovered rotom). and started to work for Team Galactic.
    the butler couldn’t save the girl, and perished with her as well.
    Rotom ran away from Charon, becouse he turned to be a bad guy, so it went back to old Chateau. Giratina (has the ability to go from our world to distortion world using reflecting items like water and glasses) watch everyone who’s on the mansion, for watching that the fire won’t be awakened, and also watching rotom.
    Fantina became a Ghost gymleader becouse this makes her feeling like she’s with her daughter. Mr. Fortuny went back to the mansion, took an statue and got back to the new pokemon mansion.
    in Pt, Giratina hates you becouse you entered in old Chateau, that’s why it attacks you.
    in DP, Giratina is in a place, where is the limit between live and dead beings.it’s said also, that Mr. Fortuny has in his mansion the bodies of his daughter and his butler, and those girls won’t let you pass.

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  45. The pokeball’s colors, red and white, represent the two sides of the Russian Civil War (Reds = Bolsheviks, Whites = Everyone else).
    Red is on top of white because the Reds won
    mind=blown? :3

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  46. :O They. NEED to make a Pokémon game that includes you going to parts of different regions, at the Pokémon War time period!

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  47. So I battled the girl who will probably have the highest rank in the Spring Friendly. When I faced her her rating was already 1900 something, and she sweeped me with a Purrloin..

    Her set was Prankster ability, Assist (which kept turning into Spore), Substitute, Swagger, and Foul Play. Probably the most annoying Pokemon I’ve ever faced.

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        • Yeaaaaah….I’ve fallen back into the near inescapable quagmire that is World of Warcraft
          Before i got into Competitive Pokemon I literally spent my entire High School Career on wow literally I have played everyday of every week of every month for a year straight
          and that was my third year when i was a master and not a novice

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          • But at least i’ve made tons of Offline Wow friends
            But nonetheless there’s a reason people got sucked into it purely for being a very accomplished MMO
            I’d recommend it to anyone

        • A perfect move for me
          I’m the kind of guy who’ll slams his arms and fists at a foe to clobber them but ends up putting all of my energy into one attack
          or would that be more like superpower

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          • I use…
            a Two Handed Wooden Mallet (Hand Built)
            One Handed Hammer (Hand Built with help)
            a Boomerang (Ordered from Australia used to throw it in the park but always got caught in the thorns )
            Fists (Highly used)
            My Head (Thank you thick skull)
            and that’s pretty much it

    • Hey Noivs, you need to be updated on Jade Jungle…
      I’ve given up my position in Team Eda as Lead Scientist to SlipperySceptile, and will instead be taking the Team Flora Lead Scientist position, if all right with you.

      Skiddo the Survivor Fan was chosen through a contest to be the gym leader of a Dragon-type gym. His three Pokemon, levels, and genders are below, and it is your task to give him a fake, but likable name:
      Dratini Female Lv. 17
      Bagon Male Lv. 15
      Deino Male Lv. 15

      @ProsecutorZero:disqus won an additional contest and would like to be featured in one of the gyms as a trainer.

      Also, if the spot for Head of Team Flora is currently vacant, then I can occupy it, if that’s fine with you. Of course, I’ll be moving up from the Lead Scientist position, leaving that open for someone else.

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    • Hey Noivs! Pokemaster gave me a role as one of the rebattleable trainers in the Pokepub, and I suggested that the Pokepub should be in every major city, like a Pokémon Center.

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  48. I gotta say the badges get more fancy after Gen 1, though not evenly. I personally didn’t like any badge in particular, but if I had to pick, it’s the Viola’s badge in Gen 6, the “Purse” badge. -_-

    That being said, I dislike Gen 5’s badge shining mechanic. 🙂

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  49. After listening to Xerneas and Yveltal’s Theme so much, I’ve realized that I really like the battle backgrounds when battling them. IMO, Iris’ Champion Battle first introduced such a unique background (night sky with shooting stars background with a blue floor), and it appears that Game Freak had adapted it into XY with Xerneas’ Forest Background, Yveltal’s Cosmic Background, and Lysandre’s Solar Background.

    It makes me wonder…what will Zygarde’s background look like in the next games? What other Pokémon or Major Bosses do you look forward to seeing with such backgrounds?

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  50. What if.. Dome Ace Tucker returned as a Fairy type gym leader/Elite 4 next gen, in Z or in the R/S/E remakes? That would be so fitting haha

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  51. Question: Why do they call them the legendary dogs when really they seem to be based on a lion (entei) a tiger (raikou) and a leopard (Suicune)? I know they’re really called the Legendary Beasts but everyone seems to call them the Legendary Dogs, including myself.

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  52. What happens when you and your opponent are on your last Pokémon, you use a recoil-inducing move and both the Pokémon faint? Is it a win or loss for you?

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  53. Hello Fellow Pokejungler
    No one will be online to see this but if anyone is on please give the message latter I your Govnah will be stepping down for the time being and the reasons being.
    1. Deerling
    2. Disqus being a annoying litltle
    3. Life getting better
    I dont want to leave but something is telling me too i will return one day and when that day comes, The Govnah will rise again.

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  54. Indigo League : Quake Badge. The use of gradient to crete the strata of earth, with the single mineral-gem (in green) — tasteful.

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