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Mytical
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posted February 27, 2008 10:33 AM |
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The pokemon world : Information.
For those few here who don't know, the pokemon world does not exactly operate like ours.
Pokemon centers not only offer free lodging to trainers, but free food for both trainer and pokemon. They will also pack food to go for you. All pokemon also know how to forage for food, by instinct, even if raised from an egg. You never really have to worry about food or such. When you do find food, like berries, it also serves some other function. Like healing. Basic medical is also taken care of, but if you want healing ect in the field, medicines or berries must be used.
This has been a poke public service announcement. 
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TitaniumAlloy
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Legendary Hero
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posted February 27, 2008 11:20 AM |
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Who funds the pokecenters?
The government?
If so when do we get taxed?
Anarchy in the Pokemon world!
jk
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mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted February 27, 2008 09:58 PM |
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winterfate will we be able to control our pokemon's evolution?
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winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
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posted February 28, 2008 03:15 AM |
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@mamgaeater: Sure, why not? 
@Misty: That about sums it up pretty nicely.
@TitaniumAlloy: LOL! 
By the way, where's HodgePodge? (I knew I had missed someone  )
Updating once again, but probably the only time today...must...keep...studying...three tests Friday...
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted February 28, 2008 03:30 AM |
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this may be offtopic but... WHO THE HECK IS SWST?????????
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winterfate
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Water-marked Champion!
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posted February 28, 2008 03:53 AM |
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@mamageater: Over at the Round Table (celestialheavens.com), the member you know as AlkarRahn is called Sir William S Titan, or SWST for short. 
I'm winterfate here and there though.
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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Kareeah_Indaga
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posted February 28, 2008 04:07 AM |
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Who funds the pokecenters?
The government?
If so when do we get taxed?
Anarchy in the Pokemon world!
[unsolicited theoretical lecture]
My guess is…not directly. Income tax would be nigh-impossible to compute for the way it’s set up in the games, as even if everyone was perfectly honest about how much they won from battles and never forgot the amounts (not happening), that isn’t taking into consideration the cost of losing battles. So, no income tax. (I want to live there already. )
Property tax might be in effect, though how much that affects the majority of trainers who spend, at most, a couple of days in any one place and don’t own much except for the clothes on their backs is up for debate. The non-trainers might get a little screwed in this respect, but I’m getting to that.
Sales tax is probably where they get you, as most (all?) trainers will need to buy Pokeballs at some point. So all the tax money acquired from Pokeballs, Potions etc., could go towards maintaining the Pokemon Centers—kinda like buying a hunting license, really.
But this leads into the question of why? Why do the people not mind spending tax dollars so little Billy can get his Starly healed for free?
First, as we’ve seen, just because someone isn’t a wandering-around-in-the-wilderness-getting-lost trainer, doesn’t mean they don’t have Pokemon. Theirs won’t need medical attention as often as a trainer would (no battling—or at least a lot less), but they do benefit.
Second, look at some of the Pokedex entries. Often you’ll see entries on the sheer destructive power some of these critters possess: Drapion can scrap a car, Aron is known for eating important steel structures like bridges, and Tyranitar can re-write the local maps if they get mad enough. I’m not even counting the legendaries here.
Pokemon trainers are insurance against that; they (eventually) carry around their own highly-trained mini-army for fighting off wild Pokemon, and additionally they provide a link between the non-trainer humans and the wild Pokemon. They’ll also care about both worlds (at least in theory), because they live in one and work in the other, thus helping prevent people from doing stupid things like bulldoze a path through the forest of Ursaring and thereby provoking the leveling of any nearby cities.
It’d be like paying taxes for police against crimes (though the Pokemon world police don’t seem terribly effective, in the anime or in the games…), or for the fire department or the army.
[/unsolicited theoretical lecture]
My question is this: where do the trainers get their money from? Each other, yeah, but that has to start somewhere, especially since they’ll be pouring it out of the system for items and the occasional transportation or luxury good. Gym Leaders and Elite Four members probably draw a salary, but do enough trainers battle (and win) against either group to keep cash flowing through the whole system? There might be trainers who do odd jobs to pick up cash, but as Pokemon training seems to be a rather common career choice, I doubt there is much money to be made hauling firewood or whatever—someone else would have done it before you.
Also, good luck on your tests winter. They’re your midterms, aren’t they?
About HodgePodge: Try PMing her over at CH—I tried to a few days ago and she popped in here briefly, but I haven’t seen her since. I could PM her again and see what happens but it’s you she needs to talk to (she’s having issues figuring her character out), so I don’t know how much I can help.
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted February 28, 2008 04:51 AM |
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YES!!! I FINALLY FOUND IT!!!
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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Kareeah_Indaga
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted March 01, 2008 02:04 AM |
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So how did your tests go, winter?
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winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
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posted March 01, 2008 02:08 AM |
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The Botany test was terrible...
The Botany Lab test was slightly better and my Logic Test was easy (I expect an A at least in that one).
How about your midterms?
I'm going to update this ASAP, just as soon as I update the Caladont word game over at the Table...
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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mamgaeater
Legendary Hero
Shroud, Flying, Trample, Haste
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posted March 01, 2008 03:44 AM |
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winterfate could the map be a little more detailed.
i see the squares but i don't know where routes and towns are...
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winterfate
Supreme Hero
Water-marked Champion!
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posted March 01, 2008 04:35 AM |
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@mamgaeater: Hmm...well, I'll try to explain the map and if you still don't get it, then I'll see what I can do to spruce up the map.
Ok...you guys started on Aitel Island (the green spot with the black square in the middle of the ocean ). From there, you guys took a hectic ship ride (represented by the black dots in the water) to Siltis Village.
You have all left the town towards the west, so you should be reaching some sand dunes (brown spots at either side of the route) in a bit (I wasn't joking about the dryness of the area )
The brown circle a little ways to the west of that is Slashpeak Cave, where Team Bandra has set up shop in this little piece of the region.
That weird small black oval is a pit.
The other big square (the one to the southwest of Slashpeak Cave) is Hillsbreak Town. That's where the power plant powering the base is located (keep in mind you could just cut the power lines over at the base to begin with; they then have to rely on backup generators).
If you look directly across from Hillsbreak Town (all the way to the shore), you'll see a small square. That's a frontier village (nameless) that's basically a stop for Trainers on the road to somewhere else.
The clump of green squares is Dewdrop Forest.
Hope all of this helped!!
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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Kareeah_Indaga
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posted March 01, 2008 05:26 AM |
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Midterms were…insane. I’ll spare you the rant unless you really want to hear it.
But hey, Spring Break now!
And thanks for the explanation on the map.
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winterfate
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Water-marked Champion!
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posted March 01, 2008 05:34 AM |
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Midterms were…insane. I’ll spare you the rant unless you really want to hear it.
Please do tell. I've been told that I'm a good listener.
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But hey, Spring Break now!
Congrats! I hope you have fun!
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And thanks for the explanation on the map.
Anytime!
I just hope it helps mamgaeater as well.
Well, I'm out for the night. I updated the RPG.
I expect some nice action...soon...
Take care! *waves*
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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Kareeah_Indaga
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posted March 01, 2008 05:49 AM |
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All right, but I warned you… ()
I had two take-home essays, so it shouldn’t have been that bad. Except while the teacher for my Vampires in Literature and Film class said the take-home was due Thursday, I foolishly had to go and double check the website with the assignment rather than just trust my memory of his say-so, and the site hadn’t been updated and said Tuesday (we’ve had a lot of days cancelled this year from bad weather, so our schedule’s a bit off). My other take-home essay was only part of my Geo exam; this one actually was due Tuesday.
I got those both done for Tuesday. Did the in-class part of my Geo exam. Then I find out the Vamps exam wasn’t due until Thursday, but I handed it in anyway which ended up working out, as the paper and presentation for my Geo class were due Thursday so I got to do them instead. (Side rant: if ever you teach an economic geography class, do not suggest ballpoint pens as a commodity chain. I wanted to do copper, but noooo, Mr. I’m-a-professor-who-just-graduated-out-of-college-myself thought that would be too difficult. *mutters incoherently*)
I also had an Art project due Wednesday (not hard, but very time consuming—and the stuff for it is in Illustrator, which I don’t have on my computer so I got to go to the labs which are only open after eight on the weekdays. -_-).
There was a program for one of my classes that I know I flunked, but it was that or the Midterms.
I also got stuck in the parking lot for two hours when I was packed up and trying to go home (ice) on top of the cold I caught a few days ago, but my roommate was nice enough to help push me out.
So yeah…insane.
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted March 01, 2008 07:24 AM |
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You have a class called Vampires in Literature and Film? What kind of curriculum do they have set out for you?
As to the game, I'm not going to be able to post that much this coming week. I have the MPRE to study for and Brawl comes out on Sunday at midnight, so there goes that day.
P.S. I guess nobody liked the picture I put up.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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Mytical
Responsible
Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
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posted March 01, 2008 07:45 AM |
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Some of us can not see it Omega. Dang blocks at work, like they expect me to actually earn my packcheck. The nerve.
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OmegaDestroyer
Hero of Order
Fox or Chicken?
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posted March 01, 2008 07:49 AM |
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Really? I'll have to describe it. Jack Sparrow, Ash, and Pikachu are in the picture.
Jack Sparrow- "You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain Jack Sparrow."
Ash- "Dang"
Pikachu- Dead, impaled by a sabre.
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The giant has awakened
You drink my blood and drown
Wrath and raving I will not stop
You'll never take me down
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Mytical
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Undefeatable Hero
Chaos seeking Harmony
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posted March 01, 2008 07:55 AM |
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Sacrilige! Pickachu forever . Oh wait nm. Yay Jack Sparrow.
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winterfate
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Water-marked Champion!
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posted March 01, 2008 09:19 PM |
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@Kareeah:  How close are you to graduating anyways?
I get the feeling you're close.
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You have a class called Vampires in Literature and Film? What kind of curriculum do they have set out for you?
I don't think I want to know...
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P.S. I guess nobody liked the picture I put up.
Aww...I liked it.
I forgot to post my comment though, so I'll do it now!
*ahem*
OMGWTFLOL!
Very funny indeed!
Time to go update again.
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If you supposedly care about someone, then don't push them out of your life. Acting like you're not doing it doesn't exempt you from what I just said. - Winterfate
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