RadicalEagle

joined 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Magnemite is named after a magnet and Voltorb is an electric orb.

Tauros and Porygon are just one letter away from Taurus and polygon.

Ekans is snake backwards.

I'm open to having my mind changed, but I'm going to need more lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Honestly I don't even think gen 1 Pokémon are anymore creative than the others. I was still a kid when the concept was new so they felt fresh, but pretty much every Pokémon I can think of is based on an existing archetype of some sort. Plant/Animal, inanimate object brought to life, spirits, dinosaurs, etc. Then you sprinkle on some regional flavor and there you go, you got a Pokémon.

"Identity" isn't something that belongs to the object, it's something that is assigned to the object by an observer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Uhhh... The internet? lol

You can get together with a small group of friends if you're more comfortable that way, but the sentiment is the same. Find some people and have fun remembering your shared past.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't worry trainer, you can always get back together in a big ol' group of all your friends and between everyone we'll be able to figure out all their names. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Is it possible to go too far in one direction? You'll never know unless you find out, and there's no guarantee you'll ever find out.

I think in his later years Feynman did LSD and started feeling more comfortable with the potential philosophical ramifications of his work. We have to draw a line somewhere as a starting point for our understanding of reality, but it's important to always be willing to reconsider that line. That's what good science is all about.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I've been reading The Screwtape Letters and having aot of fun with it. Lewis and Wormwood both know how to pull the levers to get an emotional reaction out of a person lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My bad, I meant the activity depicted in the picture (popping a wheelie to try to impress a girl) could easily be from a pre-internet time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Right, I guess I mean I don't see how the sentiment of wanting to show off for ladies has really changed that much post internet. To me this picture speaks more towards how motorcycles impacted simping, and I'm pretty sure that's the whole reason motorcycles were invented.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

In what way? Guys popping wheelies to impress girls was definitely a thing before the internet. I'm pretty sure that's why the wheelie was invented.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

During the AI goldrush you can make your fortune selling bookshelves.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.

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