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umalt posted:Untrue, my first Pokemon game was Silver. And since I was an idiot kid who didn't know about HMs, I grinded the first pokemon I caught (a Pidgy) to get it to learn fly as quickly as possible. It literally was the only Pokemon that I used in battle, and after a while it became disobedient until I beat more gym leaders. Pidgey and its evolutions have never learned Fly naturally. Is it your memory that's wrong? e: oh my god why is this a new page, I am going to die 
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No Pokémon learn HM moves naturally At least in the older ones.
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Dec 23, 2017 03:11
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CharlestheHammer posted:No Pokémon learn HM moves naturally only if your definition of "older ones" stops at gen 2
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Dec 23, 2017 03:51
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yeah the GBA is almost 2 decades old
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Dec 23, 2017 04:05
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I remember the original Gameboy. Now there was a platform. Never played Pokemon on it, though.
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Dec 23, 2017 04:30
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:yeah the GBA is almost 2 decades old loving a. I got that system with a Castlevania, Advamce Wars, and a bright as hell lamp.
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Dec 23, 2017 06:05
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CharlestheHammer posted:No Pokémon learn HM moves naturally Seaking learned Waterfall in Gen I, which became an HM in Gen II. Close enough. 
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Dec 23, 2017 06:43
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I remember the original Gameboy. Now there was a platform. Never played Pokemon on it, though.  Mine still works even though it's literally held together by ducktape as the screws have all broke.
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Dec 23, 2017 16:39
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Back on topic; Frasier NYE 1999 episode, nobody makes anything of Frasier using a mobile phone while driving. Of course, this was back when they were still relatively new and Frasier and Niles were early adopters of such. (rich gits)
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Inescapable Duck posted:Back on topic; Frasier NYE 1999 episode, nobody makes anything of Frasier using a mobile phone while driving. Of course, this was back when they were still relatively new and Frasier and Niles were early adopters of such. (rich gits) I dunno, my family was nowhere near rich but my parents had one of these by '99.
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Dec 23, 2017 16:59
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Yeah lots of people had cell phones in the late 90s.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:02
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I had a cell phone in 1994 and I was a poor college student. Granted I got to choose between a mobile phone and a bag phone and I reeeeally considered that bag phone. I do remember watching The Game and the theater letting out an audible gasp when Michael Douglas took a call via steering wheel controls.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:05
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I assume what they meant was that it's illegal to drive and use a phone in Washington today.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:05
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I was just talking about this part "were still relatively new and Frasier and Niles were early adopters of such. (rich gits)" Also there are still assholes everywhere since I see Uber drivers staring at their phone while driving all the time.
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Point. Also, the depiction of video games has aged surprisingly well, probably because they minimise the details (it's hard to tell what Frederick is actually playing, looks like an off-brand Playstation controller) and keep the depiction to hilarious death screams and Niles sucking at it and immediately being sucked into the challenge. (and there's a mention of lives, but in 1999 you could expect games to still have that) It's funny how Frasier and Niles are brothers only a few years apart but look about a decade apart, though David Hyde Pierce might just be one of those guys who always looks young.
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Dec 23, 2017 17:24
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young niles was a goon
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Krispy Wafer posted:I had a cell phone in 1994 and I was a poor college student. Granted I got to choose between a mobile phone and a bag phone and I reeeeally considered that bag phone. My parents' first "cell" phone was a bag phone. Mu Zeta posted:Also there are still assholes everywhere since I see Uber drivers staring at their phone while driving all the time. Yup. I watched a guy yapping on his cell phone blow through an intersection today while everyone else was stopped to let a firetruck with full lights and sirens go by. I hope that idiot crapped his pants, but more likely he had no clue.
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It's nice that they have cell phones on Frasier because it cuts down on the 'person a cannot contact person b' pattern in the plots
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Mu Zeta posted:I was just talking about this part Can you rate them down for this?
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:It's nice that they have cell phones on Frasier because it cuts down on the 'person a cannot contact person b' pattern in the plots Just more avenues through which to lie and miscommunicate. Niles seems to leave his phone at Frasier's place a lot.
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Dr. Video Games 0081 posted:It's nice that they have cell phones on Frasier because it cuts down on the 'person a cannot contact person b' pattern in the plots There was this British sci-fi show, Blake's 7. It felt like a really understaffed Star Trek, so that 50% of each episode would be somebody "planetside" (invariably an unused Midlands factory) calling up to be transported, only for no-one to be in the transporter room as they're busy somewhere else on the ship.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:There was this British sci-fi show, Blake's 7. It felt like a really understaffed Star Trek, so that 50% of each episode would be somebody "planetside" (invariably an unused Midlands factory) calling up to be transported, only for no-one to be in the transporter room as they're busy somewhere else on the ship. Also, as an added bonus, the ship itself had a sentient computer that could have done it but often didn't or couldn't be bothered. It was a nice way to push the menace and lack of trust the crew had for each other.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Also, as an added bonus, the ship itself had a sentient computer that could have done it but often didn't or couldn't be bothered. It was a nice way to push the menace and lack of trust the crew had for each other. I was really disappointed that the dystopian 1984ish vibe of the first episode or two didn't hold on for the rest of the first season. Don't know how the other ones went.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I was really disappointed that the dystopian 1984ish vibe of the first episode or two didn't hold on for the rest of the first season. Don't know how the other ones went. Oh boy it returned. One later series had a background plot of the Federation are gunning citizens drugged into blank compliance down in the street to see if they will react. Plus the ending which really doesn't want spoiling.
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EdBlackadder posted:Oh boy it returned. One later series had a background plot of the Federation are gunning citizens drugged into blank compliance down in the street to see if they will react. Bah. Now I'm going to have to dig it up somehow.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I was really disappointed that the dystopian 1984ish vibe of the first episode or two didn't hold on for the rest of the first season. Don't know how the other ones went. Looking back, it's a bit unnerving now that in the BBC's 1978 pilot Roj Blake was framed for child molesting. That aged a little too well.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Can you rate them down for this? Not sure how when I'm just a pedestrian.
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EdBlackadder posted:Oh boy it returned. One later series had a background plot of the Federation are gunning citizens drugged into blank compliance down in the street to see if they will react. Yeah, Blakes 7 really did showcase that the main power of 1984 dystopias rely a lot on the setting. Being in space and in gravel pits every so often means that the main thrust of the menace has to be carried by the characters. Which they really did do well, but that means you have to keep watching it as the anxiety over being hunted by something as cruel as the Federation is something else. And the ending, yes.... The UK show '1990' did not age that well. It concerns Britain being taken over and being made into the Soviet Union. It aired for two series...and then the year after it ended Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister and showed just how a capitalist dystopia would go, making all of '1990's' fearmongering delightfully outdated and quaint. At least the Soviet-styled masters in the show realized people had to eat. 1990 is on DVD right now in the UK, finally being released earlier this year. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_(TV_series) Figured I should give a link in case anybody is interested. It has a lot of familiar faces in it, especially if you like The Equalizer and Keeping Up Appearances.
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:At least the Soviet-styled masters in the show realized people had to eat. Would have been nice if the real Soviet Union realised this
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Trauma Dog 3000 posted:Would have been nice if the real Soviet Union realised this 1990 hinted at food shortages brought on by embargo. Oddly enough, the hero of the story also had this thing where people could be shipped out of the country by hiding in ships, making one wonder why didn't they all do that. But whatever, it was a pretty good series despite reality kicking it in the balls. Since it's Christmas Eve, I've been watching the Married With Children Christmas specials throughout the years and the very first one aged badly but in a very sad way: the plot revolves around the opening of a brand new mall that is getting all sorts of press and excitement (which takes away from Al's mall). Flashforward to today and the attitude is very different: malls are pretty much collapsing around us as they either die out or are repurposed. It's hard to watch this episode and realize that at one time in America malls were like town centers to gather and hang out as well as shop, which requires leaving the house. Not to mention the mall would hand out gift certificates of $20 each just to push more business to every store there.
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Jedit posted:Looking back, it's a bit unnerving now that in the BBC's 1978 pilot Roj Blake was framed for child molesting. That aged a little too well.  I completely forgot about that.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:
What makes it stranger is that Blakes 7 really had the same budget as the Tom Baker Doctor Who, so going from aliens to child molestation dystopia was one hell of a jump.
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Jedit posted:Looking back, it's a bit unnerving now that in the BBC's 1978 pilot Roj Blake was framed for child molesting. That aged a little too well. I was bored in a doctor's office and watching an old Charlie Brooker Wipe, and while he was talking about the BBC scandal, he posited that Jimmy Savile might not have achieved stardom if TV's in the 70's were similar to now, because his overall physical creepiness would have been magnified x1000 in today's modern landscape with the way TV's work now compared to how they did when Savile became a star, especially since the image was so much smaller than now. It's an interesting theory and I mainly brought it up because bringing up both Blake's 7 plus the BBC Molestapalooza made me think of it since Brooker covered both really well. Sadly no Wipe this year 
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Somehow this BBC talk just reminded me that The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is only a couple of days away, oh boy.
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Scholtz posted:Somehow this BBC talk just reminded me that The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is only a couple of days away, oh boy. The one with Mel B from the Spice Girls is a hilarious train wreck as you can see the tension and animosity grow and grow over the night as she slowly turns it from a fun "pub quiz" style thing into a funereal dirge by virtue of her being ... herself. She even manages to piss off the usually placid and even tempered Richard Ayoade. Highlight for me was this exchange. Jimmy Carr :Hey, you can't turn all the panellists against you." Sarah Millican "Oh yes she can."
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BrigadierSensible posted:The one with Mel B from the Spice Girls is a hilarious train wreck as you can see the tension and animosity grow and grow over the night as she slowly turns it from a fun "pub quiz" style thing into a funereal dirge by virtue of her being ... herself.
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FactsAreUseless posted:What happens? Nothing much. She is just really humorless, and doesn't seem to "get" the show. All the comedians are visibly uncomfortable, and tense, and it makes for peak cringe TV. Jimmy Carr being Jimmy Carr makes a few references to it during the show, but there is definitely an air of tension between them all. From what I can gather having watched it, Micky Flanagan, (her teammate), made some sort of joke/comment backstage that she took umbrage at and then she bit his head off, and all the comedians reckoned she over-reacted so turned against her. You will notice he is being uncharacteristically quiet and subdued during the show. Also she makes some comment or other about "giving him his balls back", implying she had emasculated him earlier, hence his cowed performance. Here's the full thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rx3RwwakAA
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FactsAreUseless posted:What happens? Much like all British television, nothing interesting or entertaining. It's a group of unfunny people getting upset that another unfunny person wasn't being the scripted unfunny they were trying to be. Basically like what QI would be if the US tried to adapt it. Just terrible.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I was bored in a doctor's office and watching an old Charlie Brooker Wipe, and while he was talking about the BBC scandal, he posited that Jimmy Savile might not have achieved stardom if TV's in the 70's were similar to now, because his overall physical creepiness would have been magnified x1000 in today's modern landscape with the way TV's work now compared to how they did when Savile became a star, especially since the image was so much smaller than now. It's an interesting theory and I mainly brought it up because bringing up both Blake's 7 plus the BBC Molestapalooza made me think of it since Brooker covered both really well. Possibly true, and he definitely wouldn't have cut so wide a swathe. My mother met Jimmy Savile in 1969 or 1970 and she indeed thought he was a creep, but she saw a lot of girls making moon eyes because he was the star from the TV.
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Scholtz posted:Somehow this BBC talk just reminded me that The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is only a couple of days away, oh boy. I'd love those if they stopped having Noel loving Fielding on them.
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