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Silver2195 posted:https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-inside-a-pokeball-according-to-a-pokemon-1788004256 Masuda's a Silph Co shill, in the pocket of Big Pokeball
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I train free-range pokemon. My house is a smouldering wreck and the EPA has put a price on my head.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:23
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Eox posted:I train free-range pokemon. My house is a smouldering wreck and the EPA has put a price on my head. I mean, that's what Pokemon Rangers do. And several anime characters (including Ash) have a Pokemon that prefers to stay outside of its Poke Ball.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:25
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:I'm so glad Ponyta got dropped down a well so we could have improved graphics and animations. Unironically agreed
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Jul 11, 2019 15:33
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RatHat posted:I don't understand how such blatant copyright theft would happen anywhere, let alone China. When you’re powerful you get to ignore a lot of rules regarding things like copyright theft and human rights
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Jul 11, 2019 15:39
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That gif is also very much a cherry pick from a game that likely has a much more limited number of Pokemon than whatever Game Freak’s doing along with very simplified and streamlined mechanics. I’m going to guess that Pikachu, one of the most iconic mascots in the world got a lot more time making sure it’s face didn’t mysteriously vanish during animations or whatever. Still not an excuse to me for the current issues but it is worth noting.
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Jul 11, 2019 15:51
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Yo I want to know what was the deal with the rest of the Kalos Power Plants. Answer me Masuda!!!
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Jul 11, 2019 15:51
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https://twitter.com/Rockettshipper/status/1149231442737737733
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Jul 11, 2019 16:29
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I love Impidimp and will protect him
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Jul 11, 2019 17:31
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Speaking of the anime, I've started Black & White, and it's...OK. The "reset" Ash isn't quite as stupid as I expected him to be (although he's definitely not as smart as he was in Sinnoh). I have mixed feelings about the new handling of Team Rocket; while having them do their own thing instead of bothering Ash all the time was a good decision, the writers seem to have thrown the baby out with the bathwater and turned them into completely different characters in the process. I guess the writers thought that making them radically more serious was necessary to make them feel more competent? And the way they talk about taking over the world (and it's not treated as a joke, but as something they're actually making progress toward) rubs me the wrong way somehow. It feels like almost every non-joke villain in the TV anime (Giovanni, Hunter J) and even in some of the movies (the Iron-Masked Marauder) has the same generic "serious" and remorseless personality, and the Rocket trio has absorbed it too. It's a pity, because the first three movies suggest that Shudo, at least, could write more interesting villains. Cilan isn't particularly interesting so far (his main personality trait is using pretentious food metaphors for everything), but just as Brock is more interesting when he's actually being a Pokemon Breeder instead of sexually harassing Nurse Joys, Cilan will probably be more interesting when we see him doing...whatever it is Pokemon Connoisseurs do. I see what people mean about Iris; she really does say variants of "you're such a kid" more often than Dawn says "no need to worry." She does have a potentially interesting arc, I guess (if a somewhat recycled one). Trip is a fairly generic arrogant rival character, and his supposed superiority to Ash rings a bit hollow because he's a genuine newbie instead of an experienced Trainer like Paul. When Trip mocked him for having only one badge, Ash should have said, "Actually, I have 37 badges." As a side note, regarding Pokemon food: do Pokemon in the anime need to eat if they're inside Poke Balls? In Diamond and Pearl all the protagonists' Pokemon are shown eating, but in Black and White so far only the "free-range" ones (Pikachu and Axew) seem to. At the very least, Iris's Excadrill wasn't eating in front of Ash, since he'd been travelling with her for several days without seeing it. And even in earlier seasons, there were occasions where a Pokemon was trapped in a Pokeball for a seemingly long time (e.g., Mira's Sandshrew) and no one brought up the possibility of it starving. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 17:43 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jul 11, 2019 17:40
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Silver2195 posted:As a side note, regarding Pokemon food: do Pokemon in the anime need to eat if they're inside Poke Balls? In Diamond and Pearl all the protagonists' Pokemon are shown eating, but in Black and White so far only the "free-range" ones (Pikachu and Axew) seem to. At the very least, Iris's Excadrill wasn't eating in front of Ash, since he'd been travelling with her for several days without seeing it. And even in earlier seasons, there were occasions where a Pokemon was trapped in a Pokeball for a seemingly long time (e.g., Mira's Sandshrew) and no one brought up the possibility of it starving. The series as a whole doesn't touch upon this much, but it seems like Pokémon inside the Pokéball don't really experience the passage of time or any sort of entropy. They're converted into some kind of energy and remain so until the ball is opened.
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Zuzie posted:The series as a whole doesn't touch upon this much, but it seems like Pokémon inside the Pokéball don't really experience the passage of time or any sort of entropy. They're converted into some kind of energy and remain so until the ball is opened. This doesn't really fit with Masuda's "high-end hotel" explanation (which his other comments in the same interview downplaying the differences between the anime's and the games' settings imply is true for the anime as well as the games). And Pokemon seem to be able to leave their Poke Balls at will (at least, Misty's Psyduck, May's Skitty, and Brock's Croagunk do), so they're not completely in suspended animation. I guess they're in suspended animation only if they choose to be? That would explain why the protagonists' Pokemon in DP would get hungry but Iris's Excadrill wouldn't.
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Jul 11, 2019 17:50
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BW shows the inside of the Pokeball even when dragonite shows up and it's just cramped empty space
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Jul 11, 2019 17:57
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Silver2195 posted:This doesn't really fit with Masuda's "high-end hotel" explanation (which his other comments in the same interview downplaying the differences between the anime's and the games' settings imply is true for the anime as well as the games). And Pokemon seem to be able to leave their Poke Balls at will (at least, Misty's Psyduck, May's Skitty, and Brock's Croagunk do), so they're not completely in suspended animation. I guess they're in suspended animation only if they choose to be? That would explain why the protagonists' Pokemon in DP would get hungry but Iris's Excadrill wouldn't. Alternatively, fans are reading further in than GF every intended and they're just making stuff up. High end hotel sounds better than "hosed if I know".
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Jul 11, 2019 18:07
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it's kind of a difficult question to answer because most settings that have a player teaming up with a bunch of critters/whatever tend to either not have them make so much of a direct, personal connection with them (smt/persona/etc.) or don't stress having a bunch of them and/or storing them away when not in use (digimon/etc.)
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Jul 11, 2019 18:12
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d3lness posted:Alternatively, fans are reading further in than GF every intended and they're just making stuff up. High end hotel sounds better than "hosed if I know". Pokeballs are devices that are able to perfectly convert living matter into energy and back again with no loss in mass that can be bought with children’s pocket money and if broken doesn’t result in the planet shattering. It’s probably best to just accept that it’s just a children video game and you really should just relax. mikemil828 fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jul 11, 2019 18:17
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Johnny Joestar posted:it's kind of a difficult question to answer because most settings that have a player teaming up with a bunch of critters/whatever tend to either not have them make so much of a direct, personal connection with them (smt/persona/etc.) or don't stress having a bunch of them and/or storing them away when not in use (digimon/etc.) It's one of several weird tensions built into the Pokemon setting. Most obviously Pokemon as animals you capture vs. Pokemon as people you befriend, but also Pokemon as biological organisms that fit specific ecological niches vs. Pokemon as magical monsters that just do whatever, and the setting's geography as our world with the names changed vs. the setting's geography as a JRPG world with volcanoes and deserts and lost civilizations everywhere. Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jul 11, 2019 |
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Jul 11, 2019 18:19
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Johnny Joestar posted:it's kind of a difficult question to answer because most settings that have a player teaming up with a bunch of critters/whatever tend to either not have them make so much of a direct, personal connection with them (smt/persona/etc.) or don't stress having a bunch of them and/or storing them away when not in use (digimon/etc.) I've only played Cyber Sleuth so I'm curious, don't the games basically state that they're just saved as data in either your charter's storage or lounge's? Also, I most definitely make a personal connection with my Jack Bros. Shut your mouth before I unscrew your head and hee-ho down your neck.
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Jul 11, 2019 18:19
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realistically it's just one of those 'seriously don't think about it' kind of things but i can understand where the dissonance comes from in regards to pokemon in particular
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Jul 11, 2019 18:24
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d3lness posted:I've only played Cyber Sleuth so I'm curious, don't the games basically state that they're just saved as data in either your charter's storage or lounge's? The digimon games are always weird about playable digimon. Cyber Sleuth has you deconstruct and reconstruct dozens of digimon out of leftover data, lets you feed digimon to others for experience/to digivolve to certain forms and generally treats them interchangeably. But it also has digimon NPCs who are like actual people and doing any of that is incredibly hosed up if thats true for your digimon. Like creating a bunch of rookies to mash into another digimon to level it up (which you will later undo in an endless cycle of grinding) is hilariously monstrous and that tension is never addressed by the game at all.
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In Diamond and Pearl, James left his Carnivine unattended at his summer home for who knows how long without it ever coming out of its poke ball Which may be why it immediately tries to eat him...
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Jul 11, 2019 18:32
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Johnny Joestar posted:realistically it's just one of those 'seriously don't think about it' kind of things but i can understand where the dissonance comes from in regards to pokemon in particular It turns out that the world of Pokemon is just one of the failed iterations of the Matrix. In an attempt to solve the problem with humans they gave them Pokemon to enslave and use for cock fights, so they're just raw data and it's merely not in use when they're stored in their pokeballs
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Iron Crowned posted:It turns out that the world of Pokemon is just one of the failed iterations of the Matrix. In an attempt to solve the problem with humans they gave them Pokemon to enslave and use for cock fights, so they're just raw data and it's merely not in use when they're stored in their pokeballs
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Jul 11, 2019 18:36
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Wait it's meant to be pronounced You-no-va?
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Jul 11, 2019 19:02
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MikeJF posted:Wait it's meant to be pronounced You-no-va? Yeah, the pronunciation surprised me too (specifically, I expected the accent to be on the middle syllable instead of the first). Though the Pokemon franchise is so wildly inconsistent about pronunciations that you shouldn't feel too bad about pronouncing names however you want. Remember the Pokemon Stadium announcer saying Ray-chu?
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Jul 11, 2019 19:09
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MikeJF posted:Wait it's meant to be pronounced You-no-va? you mean you haven't been pronouncing it that way all this time 
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Jul 11, 2019 19:10
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MikeJF posted:Wait it's meant to be pronounced You-no-va? United States of America.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:22
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Silver2195 posted:Remember the Pokemon Stadium announcer saying Ray-chu? As opposed to?
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Jul 11, 2019 19:33
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qnqnx posted:As opposed to? Rye-chu.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:34
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The White Dragon posted:you mean you haven't been pronouncing it that way all this time I assumed it was OOO-NO-VA
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Jul 11, 2019 19:36
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Silver2195 posted:Rye-chu. That's hosed up.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:38
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RAY-chu would be spelled "Reichu" RYE-chu matches its spelling, "Raichu"
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Jul 11, 2019 19:42
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The Third Reichu.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:44
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Annath posted:RAY-chu would be spelled "Reichu" Personal rule of thumb is that in case of doubt, pronounce pokemon names like they were in Spanish.
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Jul 11, 2019 19:45
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Annath posted:RAY-chu would be spelled "Reichu" This is obviously correct, but looking at it, it is kind of hosed up
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Silver2195 posted:Speaking of the anime, I've started Black & White, and it's...OK. The "reset" Ash isn't quite as stupid as I expected him to be (although he's definitely not as smart as he was in Sinnoh). Team Rocket will revert eventually, so don't worry too much about that. As for Cilan, he really doesn't get any more interesting. The only mildly interesting thing I remember about him is when his brother Chili shows up again in a later episode and is depressed cause he keeps getting his rear end kicked by everyone... because he's an idiot and his Pansear knows nothing but fire moves, so Cilan helps teach it something else. Beyond that, whenever literally anything comes up that Cilan is interested in, he calls himself a Connoisseur in that subject. It gets annoying. And Ash... yeah, for some reason, they HATE having Ash reference accomplishments in previous regions outside of other people talking about it, or when his old Pokemon show up for cameos.
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Macaluso posted:This is obviously correct, but looking at it, it is kind of hosed up English spelling 101
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Jul 11, 2019 19:56
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Annath posted:RAY-chu would be spelled "Reichu" the confusion probably comes from Mortal Kombat's Raiden
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Jul 11, 2019 19:59
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it’s cleared up by mgs’ raiden
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less laughter posted:the confusion probably comes from Mortal Kombat's Raiden oddium posted:it’s cleared up by mgs’ raiden Maybe I'm dumb but aren't both of these RYE-den?
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