u/Pasta-hobo

In Gold and Silver, he leads with his Pikachu, has all three starters, an Espeon, and a Snorlax. In HG/SS the Espeon is replaced with a Lapras, making it an all gen1 team.

Leading with the suped up Pikachu and having all 3 starters is what I'm mostly getting at here. This Pikachu is one heck of a mouse, and it's best not underestimated. And the three starters, I think Yellow is the only version of Gen 1 you could actually get all three in without link-cabling them over.

So, is this the Trainer Red from Yellow? Is that the Canon version?

Because that's the only in-universe reason I could imagine that such a dedicated trainer with such a monstrous, tanky team would not only have, but lead with a Pikachu, rather than evolving into into a Raichu.

Obvious, the real reason is because Pikachu is the mascot of the franchise. I get that. But Red doesn't know that.

Like, both from a legality and in-universe perceived ethics standpoint.

There's plenty of instances where you can buy a pokemon or receive one as a prize. And there's trading, which is one of the backbones of Pokemon training.

And then there's Team Rocket's racket, stealing and poaching rare and valuable Pokemon to sell for a profit or use nefariously for their own purposes.

But that "poaching" line raises some questions, since it's perfectly normal and acceptable to catch wild pokemon.

And the ones they poach from the wild, how illegal is it to sell them? Or is that one of those legal but frowned upon activities, like animal testing?

Where is the line drawn? What are the customs? Will I get arrested if I sell my Groudon but not if i trade it for a lv 3 Ratticate and he just also coincidentally gives me 10,000 dollars as a gift?

When they were analyzing the dead medusas from South America, they found that some of the medusas were duds with defective diamond batteries that were too small to be utilized by the device.

Now that we know the Medusas were acting of their own accord to find a host scientific species... How does that make any sense?

They need those diamond batteries to function, how would one get from the moon to earth with a defective one in its slot? It shouldn't have been able to move in the first place.

This seems like a good purchase, it's cheaper than a switch lite! And some of the more recent reviews seem pretty glowing, especially if they have Rocknix installed.

But I do have some questions.

1: what's the battery-life like?

2: how good is the suspend feature?

3: how well does it handle 3DS games?

Let's be real, gaming on a PSP or 3DS is way different than gaming on a switch or steam deck.

One is as portable as a cell phone, the other is just a computer slate with buttons.

I'm not hating on the modern ones, people like them for good reasons. But what's the alternative for pocket-sized gaming? Retro remake consoles and mobile games. One offers nothing new, and the other is predominantly gambling with ads.

I don't think it's unfair to say that Pokemon games were better when those monsters could actually fit in your pocket.

Honestly, with memory and storage prices what they are, it might be the perfect time to make another true pocket portable console. Low resource, low intensity, low barrier to entry.

I get that there's some super indie consoles in the makerspace that fit the bill, but I don't think something the consumer has to solder together themselves quite works for this purpose.

I'm not saying we need to bring back the gameboy, but it'd be a good time to bring the PSP and DS serieses back.

There's no compliance mechanism within the Pokeball. And the Pokemon's loyalty isn't artificial in any way, they can and do run away from bad trainers(this is how ash got like half his pokemon)

So, when trainers trade pokemon using that big ball-swapping trading machine. What actually occurs?

(put under the Advice flair as there's no "seeking advice" flair)

Long story short, I had absolutely no social life growing up. Rural, middle of nowhere, online school(that was probably leagues better than the local ones), and worthless parents who's current 'alive' status is a testament to my self control.

And to top it all off, my brain generates consciousness using a completely different set of mechanisms than a normal person. I can ONLY use logic, and am medically incapable of picking up on "vibes."

Needless to say, there wasn't much of a chance for me to learn the ropes in highschool like a normal person.

And, now as an adult, I'm still rural in the middle of nowhere, a different rural nowhere, but now I have access to a motor vehicle and don't live with people who make me want to blow their brains out and then my own.

Yeah, I don't live in the big city where Gay Clubs are always less than an hour away. I live in Ohio, essentially equal distance from both major cities(not a joke.). Literally the butt crack of nowhere. And that's an upgrade from where I grew up!

And to top it all off, I don't drink. I got paranoid about brain damage as a kid, every fact I learn about alcohol's interaction with the human body further reinforces that, and it shall remain something I'll refrain from, likely until the day I die, because there isn't actually any safe amount of alcohol to consume, it's just one of those things aliens would judge us for. Like bloodsport mating rituals.

I'm losing my train of thought, but my point remains. I am soliciting advice on queer dating in a terrible farming/rust belt area without getting blackout drunk at a club and hoping I don't regret who I wake up next to, which is how I assume all normal people date.

And before anyone suggests it, I AM TOO POOR TO MOVE SOMEWHERE BETTER.

Machinery with some animal-level AGI and some universal translation tech built in as a universal societal-mutation-proof user interface.

​

They seek out science-capable civilizations in the hopes that they'll maintain and make more of them, possibly providing some technological boost in the process. Like stray cats just showing up and hoping you'll take care of them.

​

​

If they find a host civilization that isn't as advanced as the one that made them, they'd even have a fair trade. Further scientific advancement to the point they can replicate them.

These are not cunning rogue AI aliens. These are feral appliances acting on basic self-preservation instincts.

​

I'm not confident they're even that smart. If they were they'd recognize the value of being able to do use tools themselves and either request some hands or tentacles from their previous host species, or figure it out themselves by maneuvering into dexterous configurations as a collective. As of now I'm firmly convinced the Medusas' are of more animalistic intelligence and just have some universal translation tech built in. Like something roughly analogous to modern day LLMs.

​

And speaking of which, modern LLM research kinda proves that the ability to speak comprehensibly in language doesn't require exceedingly high intelligence like we used to think. Another point in the "animal-level AGI medusas" pile.

​

It's like the whole cat distribution system concept, but on a cosmic scale. Show up to the smartest species in town, and hope they let you in and take care of you.

​

They don't seem to understand tool use very deeply either. When the Island Medusa was placed in a vacuum chamber, something it would consider beneficial as it gets the deadly oxygen out of its environment, it basically just resorted to "make loud noise to get the attention of the intelligent species" like a dog barking when you let it outside.

​

(Also that guy had his battery taken out and put back in a lot, that had to be a weird experience. You'd think HE would've said something at some point.)

​

​

But, yeah. No way around it. Medusas are not high-level entities, they're the invasive byproduct of a high-level entity. Again, comparison to domestic housecats.

​

They're feral appliances.

​

​

​

​

Note: I am assuming the neanderthal is born into modern society, not getting hurled forward in time from the stone age. This is a discussion of difference in species, not how well a cave man could adapt to modern life.

​

​

I am operating under the assumption that neanderthals and homo sapiens are so similar that they could seamlessly integrate into modern society without issue.

​

That they could work, socialize, and participate in modern civilization without any significant obstacles (defined as issues a neanderthal would be exceedingly more likely to experience than a homo sapien).

​

​

My reason for this assumption is because it's a fairly plausible and somewhat popular hypothesis for how they went extinct, integrating and interbreeding with homo sapiens and becoming a unified species.

I mean, the enemy who's boosted to 9999 DEF and in any other situation would be a scripted loss.

​

The best example I can think of this is from Deltarune chapter 3, >! where you fight the games main overarching antagonist...after a full boss fight from the chapter's antagonist(so you're down all your healing items and half your health going in). If you just play the game normally it looks like a scripted defeat because they down your party in an instant, But all this antagonists bullet patterns are technically dodgeable, and moreso, this is how you get the chapter's secret boss quest item, because the fact you can win the fight is the secret. !<

&#x200B;

&#x200B;

Basically, situations where you actually can, and deliberately so on part of the developers, win against the scripted defeat, surviving by the skin of your teeth, wittling down their immense health one paltry hit at a time while you're getting absolutely blasted into next Wednesday.

&#x200B;

I'm not necessarily looking for meta commentaries on traditions in game design, like Deltarune kinda is. But I do want these incredibly one-sided, unbalanced, brick wall fights to be winnable by developer intention. So the eight bears in Inscryption, or similar events where the game breaks down if you win(assuming it's not part of the story) is disqualified.

"Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing."

&#x200B;

"Let us know if you feel a shortness of breath, a persistent dry cough or your heart stopping. Because that's not part of the test. That's asbestos."

&#x200B;

-Cave Johnson 1957

&#x200B;

&#x200B;

Let's be real, the man was born in like the 1910, 1920s at the latest. He's a pre-osha industrialist, and since the late 40s he was just throwing science at the wall to see what stuck. He probably had more lead in his blood than iron by the end of his life.

&#x200B;

&#x200B;

And, by any realistic measure, he realistically should've been exposed to far more asbestos than moonrock dust in his life. He's not the low-wage nobody running the rock-crushers. He's not a scientist or test subject routinely exposed to it. He's the CEO!

&#x200B;

Why would he have been exposed to moon rocks?

&#x200B;

So, yeah. That's my hypothesis. It's the asbestos that killed him, with a median latency of 46.6 years.

Is it actually a full programmable computer? Or is it just a terminal used to interface with the SAL9000?

Is the actual 40 kilogram electronics module mostly just a radio, or does it actually have those programs built in?

Because a text message program that transmits sequences to and receives sequences from the SAL9000(that nobody else can interface with because Taiju has the only one) could conceivably fit inside the module shown. That's not too mechanically complex, it's basically just electronic ticker tape.

But space invaders. Unless the games are pure hardware, and maybe can be swapped out like cartridges, I have my doubts.

My job regularly throws away like a full trashbag full of donuts basically every day. And this is actually one of those "help yourself, they'll just get tossed anyway." Places. Nobody bats an eye if you just fill up a bag with them and take them home.

So, I was thinking. Donuts are basically just carbs and simple sugars. They're like the perfect feedstock for alcohol fermentation, aren't they?

And I'm not especially concerned with taste, I want fuel and solvent for my purposes.

Has anyone here used donuts to make alcohol?