/po/ - Pokemon & Politics

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Unidentified 08/11/12(Wed)01:33 No. 194

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I love pokemon. Strange way to start a rant but give it time. Anyway as I was saying I love pokemon. I love it's depth. I love creating a team and I love filling out my collection. I love facing trainers and gym leaders, all to lay the smacketh on the elite four and the champ. Those that think it's only for kids haven't played it enough to truely get into it. Your team becomes an extension of yourself. It's brilliant.

Though it is also annoying. Very annoying. You may remember back in october I was saying how I needed to finish Leafgreen and do another quest before I could trade between versions and get my old party back.

It gets worse.

There is only one tool that allows you to transfer by box, Pokemon Box. Some may say that this is pointless, but I'm glad I used my stars to buy it. When you want to move your entire collection between versions you'll praise the fact you don't have to do it six at a time. Also you can't trade into an empty space, it's only pokemon for pokemon. Do you know how many Pidgeys and Rattatas I've collected just so I had something to trade with when I moved my collection? Too many.

But even that's annoying in that you need to get 100 pokemon in each version before you can transfer pokemon from box to your GBA cart. I restarted Sapphire to get the other fossil and another starter. I rushed through the story again while my collection stayed on LeafGreen. Didn't bother filling out my pokedex and only got 34 entries.

Now I have to capture 60 odd pokemon just to transfer my entire collection which has those pokemon already. Worse if I want to bring a high level party across I have to transfer from Box to LG, from LG to Colloseum, to Collosuem to Saph. It's just pointlessly annoying.

On top of that you have those events which give you special items to get special pokemon. Do they ever come near me? No. It's a 3 hour car journey just to attend an event designed for youngsters.

Only way to get Mew is to buy Emerald. Just for that ONE pokemon. Actually I can see three worth collecting on it (Mew, Groundon and Latios). Still a lot of momey for a game I already own just to finish a collection. I mean do you honestly think an Emerald owner is going to just give me their mew? or a Ruby owner willing to let go of their Groundon and Latios. Stupid.
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>>	Unidentified 08/12/28(Sun)08:04 No. 212 tl;dr

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Unidentified 08/07/24(Thu)21:49 No. 40

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As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe, the media was already speculating about the possibility of a gaffe. Obama's travel "carries political risk," the New York Times reported, "particularly if Mr. Obama makes a mistake."

But the only foreign policy error made in the last few days came this morning on ABC's Good Morning America, when John McCain made ANOTHER geography gaffe while trying to criticize Obama's visit to Iraq. (Just last week, McCain repeatedly referred to Czechoslovakia, a country that hasn't existed since 1993.)

Asked by Diane Sawyer whether the "the situation in Afghanistan in precarious and urgent," McCain responded: "I think it's serious. . . . It's a serious situation, but there's a lot of things we need to do. We have a lot of work to do and I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq/Pakistan border."

But as ABC's Rick Klein noted: "Iraq and Pakistan do not share a border. Afghanistan and Pakistan do."

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>>	Unidentified 08/12/09(Tue)01:16 No. 204 >>202 No not really. I mean there is still the bailouts and whatnot.

>>	Unidentified 08/12/09(Tue)01:29 No. 205 >>204 I meant on this board. We aren't talking about it as much as we were. We also aren't talking about net neutrality or anonymity on the internet.

>>	Unidentified 08/12/09(Tue)01:31 No. 206 >>205 Well We can go with that stuff if you'd like. We also need new blood. We need a recruitment drive.

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Unidentified 08/07/23(Wed)10:54 No. 16

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EPIC POLITICAL THREAD!

GO GO GO!

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Unidentified 08/11/11(Tue)20:45 No. 193

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What is wrong with currency? I mean, civilization developed currency to make it much easier to conduct business. Not only does it allow people to set one price for an item, rather than a large number of possible trades, but it allows posessions to be assessed effectively.

And anyways, I'd like communism if I liked everyone, but as long as there's status, ability, or ownership of any kind, people are going to have envy, jealousy, and hatred, and I'm afraid someone would break a system if it suited them. I don't want to put that much trust in people; I trust, rather, the current sort of system. Sure, there are power-hungry people and greedy people, and they will try to take things, but they do that anyways. Better not to reward them by saying no one else is going to try to get ahead.

I guess I mean it would be nice to have something like communism ... if everyone just automatically worked, and no one tried to exploit it. But people aren't perfect, and I don't think the system can be, either. I think it's better to constantly try to improve the current system than to change fundamentally the system in place.

I guess that could just be that I like the idea of effectively-regulated capitalism, where we work towards making capitalism reasonable.

Daedalus 08/11/12(Wed)02:41 No. 195

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Currency seems to be a universally accepted form of motivation, meaning that people will often do nearly anything for it, thus, because the benefits of modernization can be profitable, we in the industrialized portion of this planet dwell without the worries of things such as plagues and barbarians. Within that same sort of motivation lies the destructive element of currency: people will often do nearly anything for it, stealing, killing, or simply causing misery, whether illegally or within the range of law.

My opinion with monetary material was probably, originally caused by viewing Star Trek as a child, a setting where humans live in some variety of egalitarian society in which money is of no practical use. Another factor is, reluctantly confessing, that I am somewhat of a primitivist or Luddite.

Unidentified 08/12/09(Tue)00:15 No. 201

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Ah, yes, but those selfsame people being greedy or selfish for the sake of obtaining money are going to be greedy and selfish in obtaining power, status, and other sorts of material wealth. Money is merely a vehicle. Like everything else humans have created, it's a tool, and can be used for good, just as most tools are both intended for good and easily used to malicious ends.
It's like saying we haven't evolved past the use of knives. I mean, there are ways in which we'd be better off without knives, but how do you cut the food you're cooking for dinner?

Unidentified 08/11/11(Tue)12:48 No. 189

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I just thought this was relevant.
kthxbai

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>>	Unidentified 08/11/12(Wed)10:03 No. 196 /r/ sticky

Unidentified 08/11/13(Thu)02:31 No. 197
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he will change nothing. the excitement of a epic election year will wear off eventually. these newly elected presidents always promise change, sometimes they deliver, but reality soon sets in and they become what the campaigned against.

>>	Tahko!!H0AQSwZJRl 08/11/13(Thu)03:37 No. 198 File: 122657625278.jpg-(15.67KB, 253x348, bitterbeer.jpg) >>197 BITTER BEER FACE!

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Friedhamster 08/08/20(Wed)16:05 No. 106

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So I've been doing some thinking and it really hit me today when I was grabing some food at Taco Bell.

There are, at least, two types to every 'race' or ethnicity.

For example you have whites which fall into two main groups as far as I see it, and these two groups apply to all ethnicities (race is term that the ignorant use. We are all humans, unless some spacemen come from another world the human race is the only race that will ever be on Earth. )

Group #1 Iâ€™ll call this group tier 1. You have your yuppies, your jock types, your nerds, geeks, youâ€™ve got all manner of people in this group but the one thing they all have in common is that they are white and donâ€™t try to be anything different.

Group #2 Tries very hard to be different. You have your wiggers in here, your gang banger wannbies. Basically white trash as a whole.

Now Iâ€™m not exactly racist, I make jokes because theyâ€™re funny and I say things that could and would offend many people most likely. But I donâ€™t truly dislike any people group except anyone of any skin color in group #2. I guess I just dislike dumb ignorant people.

So back to the Taco Bell topic. The guy that rang me up was a #2 type. Hat a lil off center, a swagger to his walk, he thought he was going to be the next Jay-Z I bet. You know the type. They sing along to rap becauseâ€¦ I donâ€™t know. They toss in some of their own rhymes. They ax you questions, they do not ask. These people will say â€œwhachu doinâ€™ 2day?â€ not â€œHave anything planned?â€

I put Beyonce in the picture because she, like Tyra Banks and others (Will Smith, his wife) are group #2 people. Bernie Mac was a #2 as well. You could tell he was smart and intelligent. People like Carlos Mencia are #1â€™s that got lucky.
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>>	frodork!!ExZzAwBGR4 08/11/01(Sat)14:03 No. 176 >>175 ..... ..... did you just accuse me of being a scientologist? what prompted that? scientology is absurd and l. ron is a terrible sf writer judging from what i know of scientology.

>>	Unidentified 08/11/10(Mon)11:36 No. 187 >>174 Twenty Godwin Points can be exchanged for a penny.

>>	Unidentified 08/12/30(Tue)19:35 No. 215 >>187 wait, what?! goddamn i coulda been investing that stuff- dammit

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Unidentified 08/09/22(Mon)19:00 No. 132

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lol. this whole raiding affair seems to have become a vehicle for 12+12chan's obscure advertising campaign. its unfortunate they implemented such a ignoble tactic just push their site. the disinformation they disseminate may convince some, but not all.

Unidentified 08/09/22(Mon)19:27 No. 134

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/i/ had their say in this matter. they never pushed where they were from. they conducted themselves like a true insurgency, unlike these instigating fucks who ride the backs of underage script kiddies while attempting to mimic fawksnews's. their so called reporting on IMG!'s past doing is old news. everyone who matters already knew who/what/when/where and how.

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