#Pokemon #music #puns #juxtaposition #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
After all these years, the app I really really want to exist is still Pokémon for Naturalists.
Seek from iNaturalist is good, if limited, but dammit, I want REAL gamification. I want people to get a serious hit of dopamine from their citizen science. Especially plants.
I want to record sightings of ten different shrubs and BAM you get a Shrubasaur, but he’s not gonna evolve into Oakdaimon until you log fifty species of tree. I want obscure-ass Naturemon that only show up if you’ve successfully logged thirty species of nearly identical lichens. I want to walk into a swamp and find a gamer in hip waders grinding water bug IDs so that he can finally get Belastoman, the Toe-Cutter.
Then ideally I want to be able to battle other naturalists. I want to yell “Sedgizard, I choose you!” and have my opponent stare in mingled awe and horror, because bitch, it took me years to document three hundred native sedges, and NOW IT WILL EAT YOUR FACE.
…I am pretty sure I am not the only person who would be down for this.
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#story ideas I will never write #(sort of) #Pokemon #disappointed permanent resident of The Future #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #apocalypse cw? #amnesia cw?
When you follow aesthetic/fandom blogs but also social issue blogs
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #the humour of my people #in which Brin learns to speak Pokemon #our roads may be golden or broken or lost #drugs mention #juxtaposition
So apparently today is the 20th anniversary of Pokemon.
For obvious reasons (aka IT’S A VIDEO GAME THE DEVIL WILL EAT YOUR SOUL), I never played Pokemon as a kid, and my grasp of it even through fannish osmosis is about limited to “I know what Pikachu looks like”. Recently I’ve been wanting to check it out, not unrelated to all the anniversary hype, but Google and the marketings seem to be aimed at people who at least have a little sense of what the fuck’s going on.
So. Do I have anybody that could answer some questions?
* It has color names instead of numbered game-episode-thingies like Mass Effect. Does that mean you can jump in anywhere, or do I need to know a playing order?
* I’m only seeing references to it being played on a console. Is there a PC port or an app version? If not, is it the sort of console you plug into your TV (I don’t have a TV) or the sort where there’s a little screen built in? How much does it cost and where do you buy it? (The console and the game/s both.)
* Are there guides / walkthroughs? I fail hard at video games without guides. I got so lost in the tutorial level of ME1 that I had to watch a video walkthrough to find my way down the ramp to the Prothean beacon.
* Is it primarily single-player, co-op, player-vs-player, or what? Do the older ones not have enough players to make it fun anymore / are there servers that have shut down / anything like that?
I, too, feel very left out by my inability to speak Pokemon. (*grumble grumble Crystalline Gala grumble*) Anyone want to help us out?
This thread is very branchy, so rather than reblogging each one I will just make a list of distinct branches:
I have still not played any Pokemon console games (yet?), but I have played Pokemon Go, which despite its gameplay differences remains helpful for learning one’s way around a Pokedex.
Also, in related news: Bulbagarden (the Pokemon wiki) is available as a downloadable file [link] through the same people who brought you downloadable Wikipedia [link]. As of this writing, the downloadable version was last updated in October 2018, and the space requirement is about 1.4GB for a full copy and 200MB for an imageless copy.
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Update: as of today, all three of these problems are gone.
* Last summer, a guy I bumped into at a Pokemon gym inducted me into the local raid-coordination chat. I’m still pretty bad at actually *catching* them, but I’ve made it to the catch screen a fair number of times (and got some TMs!), and I did get an Arcanine.
* Today I checked the Discovery Channel website just in case things had improved, and they *had*: it looks like they’ve gone back to ad-supported streaming, and no longer require a TV subscription. I watched Daily Planet today, for the first time in about a year!
* Learned last autumn that I could indirectly sell Amazon credit (taking roughly as much loss as I’d expected to take selling directly) by buying electronics on Amazon and then immediately turning around and selling them on eBay/Craigslist/suchlike. Still not as good as extracting the full value from the credit, but it’s something. (and they continue to expand their gift-card section! still have hope for eventual Wegmans! *crosses fingers*)
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#oh look an update #in which Brin learns to speak Pokemon #adventures in human capitalism
I saw one of my local gyms was trying to get an all eeveelutions gym, so I’m like ‘cool’ and toss my Umbreon in, but when I went to check on the gym later to see if someone added the Flareon and Eevee we needed I saw this
Look at him! Of course he’s part of the Eevee family look at his ears. Nope nothing suspicious here, not at all.
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#not even remotely suspicious #in which Brin learns to speak Pokemon #oh my god
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