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I have come to the conclusion that whenever there is a Pokemon inspired and/or themed thread, I have no loving clue what any of it means. Pokemon became wildly popular just as I graduated high school, so it was out of my age range from the now twenty-something majority of SA that remembers it fondly. Here are the musings of an out-of-the-loop mid-thirties rear end in a top hat that gets his information solely from memetic mutation: The main kid's name is Ash. Pikachu is a little yellow monster he owns, and there is also a dragon looking thing called Charizard. There are hundreds more monsters that I have no idea what they are or what they're named, but I think  is also one of them. The antagonists consist of a woman with purple hair, some dude with even purple-ier hair, and some cat looking thing. I'm certain their name is Team Rocket. There are monster battles between Ash and Team Rocket that consists of each team member yelling at a red ball container, "[MONSTER], I choose you!" and the monster appears to battle. Am I correct about anything and cool enough to be in the know? I want to be cool.
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You Are A Elf posted:I have come to the conclusion that whenever there is a Pokemon inspired and/or themed thread, I have no loving clue what any of it means. Pokemon became wildly popular just as I graduated high school, so it was out of my age range from the now twenty-something majority of SA that remembers it fondly. Here are the musings of an out-of-the-loop mid-thirties rear end in a top hat that gets his information solely from memetic mutation: That's correct with regards to the TV show, but goons mostly go crazy about the handheld games which don't always use Team Rocket as an antagonist.
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May 27, 2013 22:08
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Pokemon is just as silly as anything else. If you did not play it as a child like 99% of the dominant generation did you cannot do anything about it now, because viewing the game through a non-childlike lens makes it a boring and silly game (except possibly if you're caring deeply about the horrifically tedious hidden breeding mechanics and stats). There's a thousand more worthwhile things to learn about or be entertained by. Knowledge of fonts, world history of war, or Star Trek would probably be more impressive than knowledge of Pokemon and much easier to get into as an adult (easier than ever before now that we have the internet). I was excluded from the rest of the Pokemon playing masses because I was not allowed. My parents thought it was about trading demons and even they weren't the pokemon were demonic in design.    Kind of funny that there's an actual game, Shin Megami Tensei, that's gotten popular recently that's exactly about that (and you kill god in the original snes game, out before pokemon). Then again, I find almost all rpgs tedious in general.My inane thing that I liked as a child was Power Rangers. Until a preacher said that Dragons were demonic and they caught wind of the magic on the show, which is when they made me through them all out into the garbage. Sigh.
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May 27, 2013 22:22
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I wasn't even allowed to watch power rangers. My dad genuinely claimed it was too bad a show to allow me to watch it. edit: no Deformed Church has a new favorite as of 23:26 on May 27, 2013 |
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May 27, 2013 22:46
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MooCowlian posted:I wasn't even allowed to watch power rangers. My dad genuinely claimed it was too bad a show to allow me to watch it. You must not be allowed to edit your posts then either
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May 27, 2013 23:05
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You Are A Elf posted:I want to be cool. You kind of ruined that by buying an SA account. Sorry.
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May 27, 2013 23:07
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Yonic Symbolism posted:Pokemon is just as silly as anything else. If you did not play it as a child like 99% of the dominant generation did you cannot do anything about it now, because viewing the game through a non-childlike lens makes it a boring and silly game (except possibly if you're caring deeply about the horrifically tedious hidden breeding mechanics and stats). There's a thousand more worthwhile things to learn about or be entertained by. Knowledge of fonts, world history of war, or Star Trek would probably be more impressive than knowledge of Pokemon and much easier to get into as an adult (easier than ever before now that we have the internet). Oh, I know. I thought it was silly then, and I think it's silly now, but I don't chastise the people who grew up with it. It was just something for kids back then, and I didn't follow it or the games (forgot about those) and in turn don't know much of anything about Pokemon. Just gettin' my facts straight. Stargate posted:You kind of ruined that by buying an SA account. Sorry. Well, poo poo.
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May 28, 2013 03:13
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I went to a Power Rangers live show when I was a kid, it was totally loving awesome.
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May 28, 2013 04:03
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My mom didn't let me watch Power Rangers either. She once fired a babysitter for letting me watch it. She let me watch Pokemon though. A guy at my college actually got us all back into the Pokemon Trading Card Game as a joke, because we were all nerds, and still had all our old cards. Then we realized we were twenty-something year old nerds with more money than sense, instead of the kids who had to beg their mom for a pack of trading cards. It started an arms race of building newer and stronger decks, and the original guy just sat back and watched as we decided to waste our money on colorful cardboard. But hey, I guess it was cheaper than Magic.
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May 28, 2013 21:17
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I never watched Power Rangers as a kid. I was raised in a Big Bad Beetleborgs house. 
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May 28, 2013 22:54
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pro-click for a post-Helldump triumph
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May 29, 2013 13:45
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OmniDesol posted:My mom didn't let me watch Power Rangers either. She once fired a babysitter for letting me watch it. She let me watch Pokemon though. My parents thought Power Rangers was an evil show that would make me stupid. Needless to say I kept watching it.
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May 29, 2013 22:55
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Eggplant Wizard posted:pro-click for a post-Helldump triumph It's... it's like 2008 again  Seriously this is great it's a full-on helldumpstravaganza. It's got lies, hypocrisy, an unexpected interlude of self-shot transexual pornography, stalking, social anxiety - it's the whole shebang.
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May 29, 2013 23:56
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Eggplant Wizard posted:pro-click for a post-Helldump triumph Rrail forever.
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May 30, 2013 03:11
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I'm down with the first 151 pokemon but beyond that I don't know what the gently caress. It's worse when some of them make their way into pop culture .ie. mudkip.
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May 30, 2013 07:14
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Me and the original 151 are homies; everybody else be frontin'.
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May 30, 2013 08:21
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I thought Black & White had some pretty good pokemon. Scraggy is cool.
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May 30, 2013 08:25
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As is Toxicroak. Bros for Life
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May 30, 2013 12:18
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Patrice O'Neal owns and I love him and wish he wasn't dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Yh7DixLXc
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May 30, 2013 15:11
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tbp posted:Patrice O'Neal owns and I love him and wish he wasn't dead I couldn't agree more tbp
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May 30, 2013 17:05
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Daikatana Ritsu posted:I couldn't agree more tbp Diabetes ftl.
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May 30, 2013 17:24
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edit: wrong thread
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May 30, 2013 20:25
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Coffee And Pie posted:edit: wrong thread Philosophically speaking, can this be the wrong thread?
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May 30, 2013 20:30
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Posting something that isn't your favorite would go against the spirit of the thread. My favorite thing is dinosaurs, dinosaurs and weed.
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May 31, 2013 01:29
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Least favorite things: * Baby carrots (they need to grow the gently caress up) * Baby corn (same) * Babies (in general)
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May 31, 2013 03:39
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Youremother posted:Least favorite things: Oh so you have bad self esteem? haha
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May 31, 2013 04:18
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Youremother posted:Least favorite things: What about Babybel? You should try them, they might become your favorite babything.
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May 31, 2013 08:54
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I have some favorite things but they're personal; I hope you understand.
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May 31, 2013 09:03
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TheHistoryChannel posted:Posting something that isn't your favorite would go against the spirit of the thread. My favorite thing is dinosaurs, dinosaurs and weed. Why not suggest a new subforum? PYLF, there's no chance in hell this idea might backfire.
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May 31, 2013 09:23
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PYLF Something Awful forums member (don't actually do this, never be mean to anyone.)
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May 31, 2013 12:15
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Youremother posted:PYLF Something Awful forums member Being nice is a good choice. One of my favorite Something Awful forum members is Youremother.
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May 31, 2013 12:44
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TheHistoryChannel posted:Posting something that isn't your favorite would go against the spirit of the thread. My favorite thing is dinosaurs, dinosaurs and weed. Dinosaurs used to be my favourite thing, I wanted to be archaeologist when I grow up, that dream is long lost.
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May 31, 2013 12:49
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West007 posted:Dinosaurs used to be my favourite thing, I wanted to be archaeologist when I grow up, that dream is long lost. Archaeologists study the remains of human civilizations and peoples. Paleontologists study dinosaurs and such. You can still do it! I believe in you!
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May 31, 2013 12:56
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Youremother posted:PYLF Something Awful forums member It's me; I hate myself.
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May 31, 2013 12:57
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Archaeologists study the remains of human civilizations and peoples. Paleontologists study dinosaurs and such. I just liked digging in the ground. Now I dig on the internet. 
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May 31, 2013 13:47
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Bertrand Hustle posted:Archaeologists study the remains of human civilizations and peoples. Paleontologists study dinosaurs and such. They make like no money tell him to do something else
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May 31, 2013 14:22
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I still haven't figured out how to like things. I've heard it's like hating things backwards but this doesn't seem to work.
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May 31, 2013 14:29
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Yonic Symbolism posted:I still haven't figured out how to like things. I've heard it's like hating things backwards but this doesn't seem to work. Have you tried signing up for Facebook? That helped me in liking a lot of things.
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May 31, 2013 14:37
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Just wanted to share something with you guys something I've been loving lately. It's an 8 track album by a guy called Wil Wagner from Melbourne, it's just him and his guitar (except some percussion and I think a harmonica on a few tracks) and the results are great. http://wilwagner.bandcamp.com/album/laika If you listen to any track on there listen to laika, it's a song about the first dog sent into space and it's a bit of a tear jerker.
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prefect posted:It's me; I hate myself. I like you prefect, but your avatar seems really sad, perhaps if it cheered up you'd feel better? Just a thought.
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