Just want to say that it's awesome that you persevered and continued after that crushing moment in the previous stream. It was really rough and it would be easy to just restart, but it's cool to see the colony still pushing forward after all that.
I was the same way as all the kids at your school with the Pokémon thing. I was always like 'Why would I want to keep this dumb sand move it does no damage" and then when the AI would spam it on me I would be mad and think this is some bull crap. It must be a kid developmental thing, cause I see it in my little cousins and nephews just in the context of different games.
The things is with how the pokemon ai plays you can usually just keep trying to hit your attack after getting your stats wracked because you aren't getting finished. And as a kid I was always crazy over leveled, no reason to get good at the game.
