Ironbound

Hello and welcome to Reborn. I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here.

Scyther.

I dislike France. Meaning no disrespect to the French, but I don't think there's been a real Frenchman with any balls after Charles de Gaulle. Still, I like the art, even though Paris is no longer such a very iconic art capital of the world. Where would you like to live?

The fact that other, older people also make terrible decisionsdoes not make Charlotte's any less terrible. A rotten apple in a basket full of rotten apples is just as rotten if it were a standalone one. Still, I agree. Reborn is full of characters who make bad decisions kappa :]

No steel types with O? What a shame... Onix, since it evolves into a steel type...

E X C A D R I L L

That's very interesting. Also note that a bit freaky, but fascinating nevertheless.

Psh. Show me the dolphin Pokemon.

Back in school? I was interested in all subjects, but my favourite is a tie between higher math and economics. Yes, cringe, I like to see the arithmetically-challenged suffer. What's your least favourite school subject?

D I A L G A

No, 'tis I. Notice I? Note is eye.

That question is too huge for me to detail, but in short, yes: I have a duty to myself to grow and secure myself a good place in society, a duty to my family to educate myself to match the repute and knowledge of all the illustrious persons in said fanily, and, as the last scion of 600 very boringly historic years' lineage, to restore the familial glory which time and dwindling resources have leached over the generations, and I also think I have a duty to my country: "The penalty of the wise who do not participate in government is to be ruled by their inferiors." - Socrates. Not implying that I think myself wise, but I certainly have enough confidence as regards my competence, at least when compared with the sycophants and morons who form some parts of governments. So yes, my while life is centered around Duty with a capital D, and I have nothing else to live for. Also weenie, I am broader of build than that character, I have a FABULOUS moustache and I push my spectacles from the frame sides, not the bridge. But yes, that's a fair caricature of me! What's your story? What do you think you'd like to accomplish?

Hello and welcome to Reborn, Declan. I'm sure you'll enjoy your stay here. Be sure to give the Rules on the left a read, and do check out the Showdown server for a chat.

We follow the Lunar Calendar, not the Solar one. So the precise date of Ugadi as per the Georgian calendar varies from year to year. There is a specific 'tithi' or 'appointed hour' that marks Ugadi; it is also the traditional mark of the beginning of summer. It is honoured by certain invocations, the customary wearing if new clothes and the equally customary preparation of the seven-flavoured Ugadi Pachadi (a kind of chutney.) It's a nice holiday, much quieter and more to my liking than the noisy, gaudy ones like Holi or Deepavali. And no, marrying one's cousins is inbreeding. Not a good practice genetically, and quite skewed too if you ask me when there are a potential 7.2 billion others to choose from (since we live in enlightened times where gender is no restriction to marriage...) Also LOL at that anime, Halloween. What made you find that?

What's a soul? Oh, you mean that thing that accountants trade off in exchange for math powers? Sorry, I'm not in possession of one any longer. I would sell a considerable portion of my core configurations though, in order to obtain access to more steel types, namely Scizor, Ferrothorn and Aegislash. What about you?

I found some stuff to explain Magnezone's evolution process: Magnezone can only evolve in a magnetic field that can't be recreated in a lab. Field strength is measured in Tesla units. The earth's average field strength varies from 0.000031 to 0.000065 Teslas depending on the latitude. Now, there are four places where Magnezone can evolve in the Pokémon world: 1.Mt. Coronet: The highest mountain in Sinnoh and the location of the Spear Pillar, home of the portal to various dimensions. 2.Chargestone Cave: A cave in Western Unova that is full of glowing, floating stones. 3.Kalos Route 13: A barren wasteland that is the site of the manmade Kalos power plant. 4.New Mauville: Another man-made powerplant located under Mauville City in Hoenn. We know all of them have some sort of strong magnetic field. For both power plants, the source is relatively obvious. Any moving charge creates a magnetic field, whether it's an electron around a nucleus, or a current through a wire. These power plants must manufacture and distribute massive amounts of electricity, which generate a massive magnetic field appropriately. Chargestone Cave appears to be a deposit of diamagnetic superconductors. Basically, this allows the stones to easily float, just like Magnezone itself does. As for Mt. Coronet, it's probably either a strong magnetic pole, contains lots of ferromagnetic ores, or perhaps theres something about Arceus that generates a big magnetic field. In any case, all four locations have a Magnetic field in the order of around 1 Tesla. About 10 Teslas will kill a person, and since the areas are frequented by trainers, it's definitely closer to 1. Now, I am lead to believe that laboratories can easily produce magnetic fields that are larger then anything that naturally occurs in our solar system. The largest ever lab-generated field was 45 Teslas, while the largest ever lab-generated pulse field was 730 Teslas, which destroyed the equipment used. If Magnetons evolution was based on field strength alone, theres no reason why scientists could not recreate it in a laboratory setting. But because Magnezones evolution is not artificially possible, there has to be something else unique about these sites that triggers Magnetons evolution. Based on my understanding of what the internet tells me, I think the answer lies in how Magnetons magnets interact with the environment around it; not the other way around. Every material, I'm told, has a quantity called magnetic moment, which determines the magnetic force it will feel. During the experiment performed by the scientists mentioned in Magnezone's dex entries, they likely isolated and insulated their experiment from any other factors. So while the strong magnetic field could interact with Magneton, Magnetons own magnets did not act on the thing generating the magnetic field. I am told that essentially, Magnetons own magnetic field interacting with its environment around it (the thing thats generating the field) would take the already large magnetic field and make it into a changing magnetic field. Changing magnetic fields apparently have lots of interesting effects that stationary fields do not. If a field is changing fast enough, it can supposedly even have the same effect as bombarding you with radiation. Radiation is what causes Magneton to evolve, or rather, to mutate, into Magnezone. This fits in well, since Magnezone is supposed to be a Magneton that has 'melted' together. Magnezone gets the radiation energy it needs to evolve from a strong, changing magnetic field. It is not re-creatable in a lab setting because Magnetons own field is not allowed to interact with the equipment generating the external one; which would likely harm the equipment anyways. We know that Magnezone's magnetic field is sufficient to casually destroy mainframes and supercomputers, as stated by the dex. So, best stay away from Magnezone when it's evolving, because I understand that being exposed to the radiation of a rapidly changing magnetic field is akin to being stuck in a microwave!

I'm not much of a guy to celebrate holidays, but certain traditional ones are important. Ugadi, for instance, is the Telugu New Year. It occurs in March or April. What's yours?

S C I Z O R

Two words: Civic Duty. Everything in the world revolves around the concept of Dharma, of which duty is one aspect. This brings us to a larger question: what is society? We can generally conclude that society is a collection of organisms, usually of one kind, which aggregate and coexist together for their common benefit. An ideal example would be an ant colony: there are various heterogeneous members with their individual responsibilities that are each part of a larger whole. Human society is vastly more complex than an ant society; for one, we aren't such altruistic communists, we have our individual goals, and E are so highly complex that the degree of our tolerance for, and consequently our contribution to, society, various from person to person and can even be a negative figure where criminals are concerned. Society is very rarely anarchistic, and even then there are generally certain norms that are necessary to adhere to for society to be meaningful. One such law in most places is the law against stealing. You understand what I'm driving at, then. Even if person B in your example does not care, or is not materially affected by, the theft in question, he is morally incorrect to ignore the aspect if he resides in a society where theft in unlawful. Merely making sure of his own security for the future is not enough; even were B not interested in the materiality of the recovery of the item stolen, he is morally obliged to play his appointed part in seeking the criminal's retribution, for the good of the society at large. Of course, in a dystopia what the rulebook days one thing and the reality is another, one has no choice but to like it or lump it, but the theoretical, moral aspect in the same: a wrong is a wrong, whether you are affected by it or not, and as a citizen it is your duty to take action under normal circumstances. This doesn't apply only to theft, of course. I think I know what you're referring to. If a person has had certain injustices committed against them, even were they not concerned or even if they do not care about such abuse levelled against them, it is STILL their duty as a member of society to correct a wrong, at least in my view.

Nobody who is currently alive is worthy of my hatred. People to me are either useful or useless, and it is next to impossible for me to accird a useless person enough importance to actively hate them, for that implies recognizing their existence. Ergo, I don't hate anyone I've interacted with, but such recognition is of course accorded to people like Hitler, since it is important to remember them and their evilness. Also, in laughing at your mention of me as a leprechaun. I thought they're tiny, and I'm quite tall and well built. What's the weather like, where you are at the moment?

No steels with T either... Oh well, Tyranitar.

Needs more Magnezone.

Nice work! I like the Azumarill ears.

Cut out the melodrama, I'm not in a salubrious enough mood to entertain such stuff this morning. Anyways, see you all later. Today's the first day of college, and I'll pop in again from time to time when I can. Micky. I see you.