PokeCollection

08/12/2025

When your new computer arrives... on a crate! 😅🤣

12 years to get to this much-needed upgrade, after a bit of a loss and grieving process over the past month with my previous lappy bricking itself. I still try not to think about what I've lost but it creeps up when I realise I need said materials!

Anyway, here's to a new era. Now to unravel this beast! 👀🙌

Although unsure if I'm brave enough for that today...

Alienware Intel Dell

07/12/2025

GIVEAWAY! In case you missed it, it's live on my channel right now and ends later this week: https://youtu.be/uf2GQsYVxT0

Massive thanks to my friends at Mighty Ape Hobbies - go get amongst!

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Mighty Ape

Opening up the Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box today, a bit later than I hoped - but better later than never! Thanks to Mighty Ape for sending this my way....

06/12/2025

What antics have I been up to and what's coming soon to ?

Check out this sneak peek, and more in my Facebook 'Photo Albums' section, and gear up for some new content!

Check out my YouTube channel for all the latest long-form videos, or keep an eye out for Booster Bites and other short-form content via YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and TikTok!

Visit www.pokecollection.com for all the links you need to find me on social and keep up with the latest!

04/12/2025

Ohai, it's me. I've got a giveaway coming at you tomorrow, provided courtesy of Mighty Ape Hobbies. Keep an eye out!

P.S. Thanks for all the viewership over the past few weeks as I rollout bare bones videos - both long-form and short-form. The views I've been getting on Shorts in particular have been so cool to see, and I really appreciate the support.

More on its way, I've just been a bit silent as this week has been a bit hefty, but I'm keeping things ticking along on YouTube (and a bit of TikTok) so be sure to keep those notifications - either on YouTube and/or Discord - and you can keep an eye out for content as it comes out!

Huge thanks to my friends at Mighty Ape for their ongoing support. They've been so good to me!

Opening up the Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box today, a bit later than I hoped - but better later than never! Thanks to Mighty Ape for sending this my way....

01/12/2025

30/11/2025

Stream tonight? 👀

29/11/2025

Oops! 🤦🏽‍♂️😅
Veronica Taylor

28/11/2025

This time last year, I was sitting down for a job interview.

The Head of Marketing was heading to their Christmas Party afterwards, so we were talking about that and goes on to say, 'you'll get to see how we party next year."

I thought nothing of it, but then I received the job offer first thing the following Monday.

Now, a year later, I got to do just that, having also been nominated as a finalist for an award in my first year, presented by the CEO and GM of People & Culture.

It's been a whirlwind, but I'm incredibly thankful and grateful. Not only to have turned around what became a detriment to my health into something that once again energises me, but that I get to do the kind of work that really makes me tick.

Seems poetic, being a year to the week.

Stoked!

And since then, we purchased our first home, WifeyCollection became a citizen and it's been a great bit of career growth for us as a young family.

On my way back to Auckland after a couple nights away and will be cracking back into content... once my voice is back. 😅

26/11/2025

I bought my new computer! 🖥️

A big deal for me, given recent events (IYKYK) and that I've been desperately needing an upgrade. 12 years later, I've finally taken the leap and I'm a step closer to having a dream setup that I've worked towards for so many years.

I ended up going with the Alienware Area-51 Gaming Desktop.

The specific specs I've gone in with for now:
• 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗿: Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 285K processor (24-Core, 76MB Total Cache, 3.7GHz to 5.7GHz)
• 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5080 16GB GDDR7
• 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆: 32GB Dual Channel DDR5 XMP (2x 16GB - Black) 6400 MT/s
• 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲: 1 TB, M.2, Gen5 PCIe NVMe, SSD

Overall, I've found a balanced beast that can handle audio and video editing, as well as gaming and streaming to the extent I need it to. The good thing here is that I'll be able to add to my RAM later on relatively inexpensively, as I'd be keen on 64GB, but 32GB will be a sweet spot for now and will get the job done. To put it into perspective, everything I've done over the past 12 years has been done with 8GB RAM, so this upgrade is truly an upgrade - and anything is better than what I had before. 🤣 The video card itself is pretty recent, with 5090 being a little less stable I've heard, but again - what I've gone with will work well.

I'll soon be able to start again, with more power and I reckon I've managed to future proof myself for what's to come, which is great.

Next up will be getting a new monitor, and eventually I'd like to look at a robust storage solution - such as a local server - so I can ensure I have enough space for backing up, always. I'm also keen to look into some RGB keyboards too, just to keep that lighting piece going, and an Elgato Game Capture 4K to replace my HD60S.

But hey, this is a huge first step and I'm stoked. It should be arriving next week!

26/11/2025

The Pokémon Advent Calendar is back! 🎄 I have way too much fun opening this up every year. How cool are the new figures! 😊🙌 AD Planet Fun

23/11/2025

I'm currently looking into a new computer system to handle my work, involving a great ton of editing - graphics, video, audio - plus gaming and all the usual stuff.

Any new system I purchase will be a massive upgrade from my computer that bricked itself, given that's about 12 years old, 8GB RAM and really was just holding on for dear life.

So I'm going full on into high-spec to future proof myself but balancing that out with value as well, because I may not need the full extent of high-end (such as GPUs, e.g. RTX 5080 vs RTX 5090 would be a $1K NZD difference). Feels a bit overkill!

I was looking into laptops originally, but I no longer really need to laptops with me unless it's work-related (and I'd rather not take anything personal), so now I've switched gears and thought of returning to a desktop - and one that I could potentially rebuild if I ever needed to.

At first it was looking at the Razer Blade 16 or Dell Alienware Area 51/Aurora series in terms of laptops, but I'm also considering OMEN by HP Max and Area-51/Aurora Desktops.

Anyone have an opinion on any of these? Desktop vs Lappy? Brand vs Brand?