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Very cool, if for some reason you do end up on our side of the world visiting with a collaborator make sure to send Aethien some beer so he stops complaining. The other data guy here used to work in the Berkley Physics dept. for a number of years and has had only nice things to say about the place (and some fascinating stories, as one might imagine).



Edited, Oct 3rd 2013 3:31pm by someproteinguy

Protein, I should visit you. I was gonna visit Oregon this year but then I went to the Netherlands.

I'm not sure that's fair.

For one, the Dex listings say that those keys on the ring are actually just keys. Because it has a fascination with them, trainers give Klefki their keys, because they know it won't lose them (like they might). They also specify it's very popular with shopkeepers as a result. And why wouldn't it be - your key is always under armed guard.

And here's the thing; it's a Fairy Pokemon.

A love of keys (and propensity to steal them) is a REALLY old trait of Faeries in Fairy Tales. And if you lump them and elves together, the Shopkeeper part of the story fits right in.

/shrug

That seems okay to me. Whether or not it's a fairy that took the shape of a key because it was interested in them, or a fairy that took a fascination to keys because they look similar to it, etc., remains to be seen. But I have no problems with the design.

Now, if those keys were a part of it, I might.

On the other hand, if this is actually the final form of the fire starter, I might be willing to accept Fennekin as the best-designed starter to-date. The Froakie final evolution looks badass, too. I don't love Chesnaught yet, but we'll see with time. I'm not sure I understand the squirrel -> sloth evolution they seem to have gone with.

I'm not saying I don't love the originals. I adore them. But I have to admit, they can be just as insane.

Cubone is a pokemon that wears its mother's skull, and evolves so that its mother's skull is fused to it. But that's universal. And while fan theories love thinking it's a Kangaskhan baby that lost its mother, the fact remains that's logically insane in its current state... especially now that we have pokemon breeding, and the mothers come through just fine.

Or how about Farfetch'd? The pokemon that carries its own seasoning around with it? Apparently it can't live without that leek, but it might eat it in an emergency and run off to find a new one? Why can't it live without it? It's not attached, and it's not a grass pokemon?

And it's not like item-based pokemon are new. Voltorb and Electrode are the ones that started that trend. At least now they give the item-based pokemon an honest effort. They don't just make their signature self-destruct and then pretend like it's not an issue that they never die.

Yeah... but it's the Fairy type.

What, exactly, are you expecting?

I dunno. It's just a pokemon that looks similar to a key. But it's not THAT close to one, at all, without the other keys there for comparison.

Honestly, if you saw that pokemon without the keys on the ring, would you have ever really thought that's what it looked like? With the name, I would have thought it was meant to look like a music note.

Keychain Pokémon, activate! Roll out! Punch it! Digivolve! Am I getting any of the references right here?

Well if you ever are in the neighborhood definitely swing up and say hi.

You'll have to get out to the coast and visit Pigtails as well. Trying to think of who else is in the area, Kao is just up the road, Theo is too (not that he's around so much any more). Come to think of it there were a few other Oregon posters I haven't seen in a while now...

Where'd everyone go?




Edited, Oct 4th 2013 8:28am by someproteinguy

How could someone, who is obviously inclined to a political talk show on NPR, somehow not know that Obamacare cost money?

Kids these days.

Edit: I mean seriously that's been the thing with it all along "everyone has to buy healthcare, if you're poor you get a discount." Like from day 1 people, at this has been going on for like 2 years now?

Edited, Oct 4th 2013 8:51am by someproteinguy

Ahh okay that makes more sense then. BBC has a knack for finding those types.

Engineering is magic.

You had me doing a double-take. At first I was sure you meant her when you said "someone," then I thought my sarcasm meter was surely broken and you meant me when you said "someone." Hence the edit.

Also, because it is so closely related to the subject at hand - I got a letter from someone yesterday that I cannot stop laughing about, or showing to people in the office to make them laugh. I got a feeling it's not that funny but that maybe it's just been a long week for me.

First sentence is the standard "acknowledge receipt" of my letter with attachment. Second sentence "advises" me that my 1,041 page attachment is incorrect because it is missing a page. Third sentence, and it's the first three words of this sentence that I can't stop laughing about, begins, "It is thus that I enclose . . ."

What? Is he handing me two stone tablets with 10 commandments written on them or something? Why can't people just say, "Thanks, but I noticed a page is missing. I'm attaching a copy of the page for your convenience."


[Ohh, maybe above, instead of saying "Hence the edit," I should have said "It is thus that I edited my post."!]

It is apparently a real bridge that is used every day.

Gratz?