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Title: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Enu_N on July 02, 2011, 08:17:59 pm
Much of you should know about Team Plasma making a Pokemon Rights Movement. Now, let's discuss it. I think forcing Pokemon into tiny little balls and forcing them to hurt others of their race (not species....) until one faints from pain/exhaustion is evil and mean. thoughts?
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 02, 2011, 09:18:56 pm
Well i mean pokemon don't really exist you know. but I can't take you, N or team plasma seriously at your word because you all still stuff pokemon in little balls.

theoretically, of course.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Enu_N on July 02, 2011, 09:20:52 pm
tch... touche
but i do it for the greater good. and i release pokemon after battling.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 02, 2011, 09:23:23 pm
so besides being a pokemon fanboy what kind of calculator interests do you have on omnimaga?
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Enu_N on July 02, 2011, 09:27:06 pm
i like FPS games and i can program in TI BASIC language. I want to learn Axe or ASM programming
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 02, 2011, 11:15:22 pm
so besides being a pokemon fanboy what kind of calculator interests do you have on omnimaga?
Note: Just because somebody likes Pokémon doesn't mean he's a fanboy. A fanboy is someone who worships something as perfect and bash anything else such as Digimon or Neopets, for example, and someone who call other people names for liking something different than them.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: ZippyDee on July 02, 2011, 11:32:30 pm
i like FPS games and i can program in TI BASIC language. I want to learn Axe or ASM programming
If TI-BASIC is the language you're most comfortable with, then I'd suggest learning Axe first and then ASM. Axe is pretty much the perfect combination of TI-BASIC and ASM for people who want to ease into assembly programming.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: fb39ca4 on July 02, 2011, 11:38:51 pm
There's the Pokemon Rangers, they don't use pokeballs, they just draw little circles on their ds :P
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 04, 2011, 06:17:42 am
so besides being a pokemon fanboy what kind of calculator interests do you have on omnimaga?
Note: Just because somebody likes Pokémon doesn't mean he's a fanboy. A fanboy is someone who worships something as perfect and bash anything else such as Digimon or Neopets, for example, and someone who call other people names for liking something different than them.

no, that would be a bigot. Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. It's not a bad term unless you make it one, and Enu_N said he was a huge fan in his intro, dj

perhaps you haven't noticed but he does hold pokemon in quite significantly high regard. I've heard him talk of little else.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Deep Toaster on July 04, 2011, 10:39:31 am
Much of you should know about Team Plasma making a Pokemon Rights Movement. Now, let's discuss it. I think forcing Pokemon into tiny little balls and forcing them to hurt others of their race (not species....) until one faints from pain/exhaustion is evil and mean. thoughts?


So true. Team Plasma is a noble cause. We're enslaving Pokémon, people!

no, that would be a bigot. Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. It's not a bad term unless you make it one, and Enu_N said he was a huge fan in his intro, dj

In some ways it's still considered a rude word, though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: XVicarious on July 04, 2011, 01:06:48 pm
so besides being a pokemon fanboy what kind of calculator interests do you have on omnimaga?
Note: Just because somebody likes Pokémon doesn't mean he's a fanboy. A fanboy is someone who worships something as perfect and bash anything else such as Digimon or Neopets, for example, and someone who call other people names for liking something different than them.

no, that would be a bigot. Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. It's not a bad term unless you make it one, and Enu_N said he was a huge fan in his intro, dj

perhaps you haven't noticed but he does hold pokemon in quite significantly high regard. I've heard him talk of little else.

The bold part is what DJ_O described. samebull, if you just want to argue, don't do it here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Ashbad on July 04, 2011, 01:19:44 pm
so besides being a pokemon fanboy what kind of calculator interests do you have on omnimaga?
Note: Just because somebody likes Pokémon doesn't mean he's a fanboy. A fanboy is someone who worships something as perfect and bash anything else such as Digimon or Neopets, for example, and someone who call other people names for liking something different than them.

no, that would be a bigot. Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. It's not a bad term unless you make it one, and Enu_N said he was a huge fan in his intro, dj

perhaps you haven't noticed but he does hold pokemon in quite significantly high regard. I've heard him talk of little else.

I'll admit that he was somewhat setting himself up to be called a highly devoted fan, but the way it was said and definitely WHERE it was said was most of the issue, IMHO.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 04, 2011, 05:45:08 pm
Much of you should know about Team Plasma making a Pokemon Rights Movement. Now, let's discuss it. I think forcing Pokemon into tiny little balls and forcing them to hurt others of their race (not species....) until one faints from pain/exhaustion is evil and mean. thoughts?


So true. Team Plasma is a noble cause. We're enslaving Pokémon, people!

no, that would be a bigot. Fanboy is a term used to describe a male who is highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject or hobby within a given field. It's not a bad term unless you make it one, and Enu_N said he was a huge fan in his intro, dj

In some ways it's still considered a rude word, though.
Yeah true. Some people take offense to being called a fanboy, since it designs a lot of bad people. I also do not see how talking mostly about Pokémon and nothing else is a problem either, as long as the person doesn't cause any troubles on the forums. In any case, calling people a fanboy or names is at risk of causing trouble.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 05, 2011, 07:26:04 am
I stand by my earlier application of "fanboy" and I'll point to this topic to support it's dictionary definition.
http://ourl.ca/11927/225339;topicseen#new

I didn't see Enu_N taking offense, fanboy is not a derogatory term, and the argument that followed was baseless and pointless.
End of line.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: TIfanx1999 on July 05, 2011, 08:17:03 am
The term "fanboy" has and is used negatively on the internet, that's why people responded to it in such a way. Omnimaga is meant to be a hostility free environment, and people want to be sure it remains such. I can see that you didn't use the term in a negative way. I think that we should all just move on, I see no need to dwell on something that wasn't meant to be negative or hurtful, right? :)
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Spyro543 on July 05, 2011, 08:31:02 am
I think forcing Pokemon into tiny little balls and forcing them to hurt others of their race (not species....) until one faints from pain/exhaustion is evil and mean. thoughts?

But they're not alive! They're just data allocations on a memory chip that run on previously programmed instructions! They can't 'feel' anything!
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 05, 2011, 08:37:38 am
we should all stop eating meat and release our pets into the wild

be free, Shark! *dumps fishbowl in garden*
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Spyro543 on July 05, 2011, 08:42:59 am
we should all stop eating meat and release our pets into the wild

be free, Shark! *dumps fishbowl in garden*

I LOLed IRL. :D Yeah, I guess that's what this movement thing would do if it happened in the real world...
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 05, 2011, 09:00:21 am
we should all stop eating meat and release our pets into the wild

be free, Shark! *dumps fishbowl in garden*

I LOLed IRL. :D Yeah, I guess that's what this movement thing would do if it happened in the real world...

Somebody call People for the Ethical Treatment of Abstractions, hurry!
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: AngelFish on July 05, 2011, 10:18:04 am
Samebull...
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: samebull (metagross111) on July 05, 2011, 10:31:06 am
Samebull...

oh, if you're confused.... I used abstractions because "Pokemon" or "monster" doesn't really work.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: p2 on July 05, 2011, 11:52:28 am
Pokemon are no Monsters.
They're yust Pokemon.

Quite easy!
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Hayleia on July 05, 2011, 12:42:51 pm
Pokémon = Pocket Monster
Pokémon are monsters
You can't fight the truth ;)
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: p2 on July 05, 2011, 12:50:18 pm
yes...  :P
But I don't think THIS looks like a monster:
(http://files.pokefans.net/sprites/602.png)

But I know, there are more than two pokemon...
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Hayleia on July 05, 2011, 01:15:23 pm
But I don't think THIS looks like a monster:
(http://files.pokefans.net/sprites/602.png)

You're right: It is a monster
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: p2 on July 05, 2011, 01:17:02 pm
Why is this little fish a monster?
It really won't eat you!
(at the moment...)
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Hayleia on July 05, 2011, 01:24:34 pm
Maybe it is nice, it doesn't change anything. "Monster" doesn't mean "mean" ("bad guy", "eater", "whatever").
It means, umm, well, yeah, you know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: p2 on July 05, 2011, 01:33:13 pm
monster means MONSTER!!!
And a MONSTER is a big, bad guy (or thing) who wants to eat you.

Looks this little fish like a hungry monster?
(http://files.pokefans.net/sprites/602.png)
NO!
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Hayleia on July 05, 2011, 01:36:42 pm
A MONSTER is not (always) a big, bad guy (or thing) who wants to eat you.
A monster is a non-registered living being.
^This is a non-meaning sentence.
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: Scipi on July 05, 2011, 01:43:27 pm
Monster is usually used with a negative connotation, but in many cases it's not a derogatory term.

(On a side note, I just used some monstrous terms up there) :P

In the case of Pokemon, the original name was "Pocket Monsters". It was shortened to Pokemon when they realized the term could be misinterpreted. But Pokemon are, in a sense, monsters. If they were to suddenly appear here (assuming Pokemon never existed) they would be labeled as monsters before getting a classification.

Hope that clears up a bit of the confusion ;D
Title: Re: Pokemon Rights Movement
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on July 05, 2011, 01:47:20 pm
I'm locking this topic because people can't discuss here without fighting. If I notice anymore of this pointless argument, I'm starting to hand bans.