Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:52 pm

Data isn't actually a form of energy. It's energy stored in a particular pattern, which can be translated into useful information for a human or machine. Heck, data can even be stored in purely physical mediums.

So for Pokemon to be stored like data, the Pokeballs must either act as some kind of replicator technology with transforms the data (which is really a template) into a physical entity, or the Pokemon is a thinking computer that can manipulate the physical environment through the use of holograms and stuff.

Either way, it's not exactly very hard on the Moh scale.

Meikle641 · Post by **Meikle641** » Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:54 pm

It fits with the idea of Pokemon once being bio-weapons, as some have suggested. You've got containment tech, ways to heal them quickly, and apparently badges let you exert authority over monsters. Being able to program moves into them fits, I think.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:15 am

Zinegata wrote:Data isn't actually a form of energy. It's energy stored in a particular pattern, which can be translated into useful information for a human or machine. Heck, data can even be stored in purely physical mediums.

By this, then the storage, assuming it does turn them into energy, and doesn't just shrink them as was vaguely implied back when I still watched that shitty cartoon, then they're data anyway. They're energy stored in a specific pattern.

So for Pokemon to be stored like data, the Pokeballs must either act as some kind of replicator technology with transforms the data (which is really a template) into a physical entity, or the Pokemon is a thinking computer that can manipulate the physical environment through the use of holograms and stuff.

Either way, it's not exactly very hard on the Moh scale.

Aren't we technically thinking computers? Anyway, I figure it works the same as the laser in tron, it can scan the genetic code and "mind structure" of the pokemon, destroys the body, storing the data of genetic code and mind structure, and can then recreate it through nanotech or whatever. It implies a very high level of technology held in little balls, but...

For Valor · Post by **For Valor** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:40 am

I never thought of it that way... that gives the opportunity for all sorts of mobs screaming about the morality of killing a pokemon every time you send it back into its ball... woah.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jan 03, 2011 6:43 am

For Valor wrote:I never thought of it that way... that gives the opportunity for all sorts of mobs screaming about the morality of killing a pokemon every time you send it back into its ball... woah.

Which leaves me smirking and saying "define death." The pokemon still exists in everything but physical form.

However, it certainly would explain why a pokeball can't be reused, the risk of corrupting the data.

Also, I don't think most people fully realize how pokeballs work. And Kurt's apricorn balls may be magic...

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 2:31 am

http://tindeck.com/listen/vjnk
Ah, editing software. Is there no audio you can't make more amusing?

Zinegata · Post by **Zinegata** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:05 am

Prak_Anima wrote:It implies a very high level of technology held in little balls, but...

That's actually why it's not very hard on the Moh scale.

Moh would not object to the technology itself. We are thinking computers of a sort after all.

But allocating all of these advanced technologies to what is essentially a children's hobby does kinda indicate either a very anachronistic society ("We have nanotech but we have no airplanes"), or a society that desperately needs to get its priorities straight

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Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 3:21 am

Zinegata wrote:
Prak_Anima wrote:It implies a very high level of technology held in little balls, but...
That's actually why it's not very hard on the Moh scale.

Moh would not object to the technology itself. We are thinking computers of a sort after all.

But allocating all of these advanced technologies to what is essentially a children's hobby does kinda indicate either a very anachronistic society ("We have nanotech but we have no airplanes"), or a society that desperately needs to get its priorities straight .

It's not just a children's hobby, though. In the pokeverse, everyone has pokemon. They have no planes because they can just pull out their pidgey and go where ever they want for the cost of pokefeed. I don't think the pokeverse has weird priorities, I think it just found that people are more willing to go get a pet that's a one time cost, possibly for the cost of ~$6 and an "adventure", than to pay several hundred dollars for a corporate service. This is why most people seem to work jobs that can't be taken by a pokemon (law enforcement, science research, food service, manufacture) or as essentially a go between for trainers and pokemon or technology, or the former type of job (Nurse Joy, Store owners)

For Valor · Post by **For Valor** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 7:06 am

What I don't get is the lack of on-the-road transport. Like, girafarigs pulling a cart or something. Why don't we see that? After all, no sane person will want to walk from one side of a legitimately-sized Saffron City to the other.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:06 am

Ruby/Sapphire had you start off in a moving van.

There's technology, it's just extremely erratically placed. And the Ankle Express seems to be a major form of transport, still.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:31 am

I think the games just have a slightly skewed perspective and some conservation of detail going on. Remember that in the show, motherfucking Gary Oak had a convertible that all but had the Nelson laugh as it's horn just make Ash feel small in the pants.

Anyway. I just read The Widening Gyre, Kevin Smith's Batman arc. Or Volume 1 of it, anyway. I actually enjoyed it, it was, overall, funny, though very atypical. And while Bruce's dialogue with his girlfriend was... jarring and grating, everyone else's reaction to Batman having a girlfriend was actually pretty damned funny.
And I chose to believe that Batman made up the Year One thing to try and open up to a rookie, rather than him actually pissing his pants. Even though it'd be perfectly understandable for a man to piss his pants when just a few feet away from an unexpected premature plastique explosion.

CatharzGodfoot · Post by **CatharzGodfoot** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 2:53 am

http://www.hulu.com/watch/196469/the-si ... as?c=Other

This episode was brought to you by the letter Ü and the number e.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:13 am

Eh, it had its moments, but it's still not nearly as good as the Simpsons used to be.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Fri Jan 14, 2011 5:51 am

Many have said the trailer for the Simpsons porn parody is funnier than the Simpsons have been for years.

Buzzfeed, reasonably OK, contains some softcore, non-revealing photos.

It's terrifying, but in a funny way.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:38 am

Showing both the best reason to never go to work intoxicated if you're a surly drunk/high, and the best way to get fired from a Dominos: Best Termination Letter From a Dominos Ever

Edit:...I fucking love this site

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 4:56 am

Both of those are epic, Prak.

And definitely a lot funnier than the Simpsons has been for the last 8 years or so.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:10 am

The guy they got to play Flanders is fucking perfect. I might actually watch that just to hear more Flanders dialog.

-Username17

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Jan 15, 2011 7:33 am

The guy the got to play Flanders looks like a sociopath. But perfect, as you say. If Marge/Homer sex dialogue (even in the show) didn't skeeve me out, I might be morbidly curious enough to see it.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:05 am

Today's Girl Genius is emotionally satisfying for me.

Psychic Robot · Post by **Psychic Robot** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:35 am

Green Hornet was awesome. I thought it would suck, but it was great. GO SEE IT NOW.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 4:53 pm

Maxus wrote:Today's Girl Genius is emotionally satisfying for me.

Thank you Tarvek, for reminding us you're still, technically, a villainous character.

Now here's hoping Agatha doesn't go super moral hero...

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:23 am

Scifi had "Red: werwolf hunter" on. I recorded it for the cute Felicia Day footage. Other than that, it's standard suckfaux-fare. One of the werewolf-hunting weapons in the show was awesome though.

Take the basic minigun idea and then instead of shooting bullets, have it shoot out silver bolts. It was pretty cool.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:26 am

Prak_Anima wrote: bad Batman fanfic - bad.

There, I fixed it for you.

Etrigan's rhymes have always been kinda bad.

But Smith's version is just atrocious.

Here's a little bit of Etrigan's dialog from the first comic of the arc.

I have no quarrel with you dIe fleder-morsel
garbed like a child
who's lost all good sense
I'd just as soon let you be, and start my main course-el
then not savor
her flavor 'cause i'm battle spent.

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I did line-breaks based on the emboldening of the specific words.

Also Kevin smith's obsession with sexual references was a little overdone.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 2:05 pm

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2 ... olves.html

blog posts like these are damned enjoyable and count as much as any other media. I'm pretty sure that I would have probably played this game as a kid.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:37 pm

I finally got to see Inception, and holy crap did I like it.