Ironbound

It can't be simpler. What do you think of children and parenthood as a concept, and, if you choose to view it that way, as a personal opinion.

Indeed. Which is why the contributions to this thread deal solely with their viability in Reborn, not necessarily in competititive. Why don't you write up a little about them, in the format given above? Anyhow, MOAR STEEL: Metagross

This sanguinous place.

Meganium is bad and it should feel bad. It fully deserves its condemnation for being so utterly mediocre: poor typing, mediocre bulk, terrible offensive prowess and speed, lackluster movepool that fails to differentiate it from all the myriad other Grass types that do a much better job as a tank. The fact that it gets SD is just an insult. Design wise, I find it equally unremarkable. A green sauropod with antennae and a derpy flower around its neck. There's nothing about it that can validate its choice over the other two from Johto, save for the oddity known as human sentiment. Typhlosion is decent, although its movepool is restricted and it's rather a one-trick pony, with its access to Eruption and Lava Plume being an impressive yet sole noteworthy point; Feraligatr is just awesome. Sheer Force on its best moves, good coverage options, SD, DD, priority...and as design, c'mon. It's an upright crocodile with opposable thumbs. That is terrifyingly badass.

Well said. I too will make a disclaimer, that initiating a topic here does not necessarily mean that I agree with all that it says. Needlessly playing the devil's advocate is not my intention, but it may still be noted, as I said in the introduction, that this place is for thought for thought's sake; we're merely woolgathering. I broadly concur with weenie about the line between eugenical research for the sake of medical advancement and, to a point, for the betterment of the human genome quintessential to the continued existence of our species as a whole. The issue arises when we go beyond trying to cure our problems (physical and mental) and try to gild the lily, so to speak. I may or may not ask the same questions here as back in the arcade. I will expect the same responses from weenie, but my reason for doing so will be to expose such topics to everyone in one place, this being more appropriate. We may as well continue. I'll remind our contributors that they can continue with the previous topics or start their own as they please, regardless of me posing a new question. What is your opinion on children and parenthood, both positively as a fact of life today and normatively, as you think it ought to be?

A Dolphin can love a whale; depends on your definition of love, too. If love is defined as compassion and responsibility, then yes, it has been shown that dolphins, being the more intelligent of mammals, can exhibit extraordinary care, such as towards humans. Although generally dolphins are hostile towards other species of cetaceans, and bully smaller ones (in Orcas' cases, actively eat other cetaceans) they can theoretically love another. And if we think sexually, there are instances of aggressive, aroused male bottlenose dolphins who tried to have intercourse even with human divers! I wouldn't put even a small whale, say a minke or a fin, beyong the cavorts of these hormone-charged casanovas. I can't answer why the structure of this forum is as it is. I always assumed dragons contained an organ that produced a bilious, liquid-nitro type fluid. This burned when it was belched up and spat; thus dragons breathed Fire by belching up a combustible liquid/gas. The last question's answer depends on the size of the lollipop, the dexterity of the tongue lucking it and the number of shots the person actually gave to record the instance.

Hello and welcome to Reborn! Dark humour, eh? Sure, gibbet a shot. We can put our heads together on that, at least. Enjoy hanging around, and see you soon.

About to and you show up again. Geez. And yeah, I've had about 40 days of break between semesters as a summer vacation. This being the later half, I gear up and get busy. Also, my college semesters have nothing to do with my accounts course exams, which were the ones that recently terminated. I'm doing two things at once, remember. *yawns* Spine...Zzz....

Indeed. Considering we have a staggering number of cats, dogs, bovids, butterflies, birds and even slugs and jellyfish, I think it's a very long way off to worry about the number or quality of designs, or if our love for pitting monsters versus each other for Shiny metal tokens while we supress a villain with a grandiose plan of world destruction. Or, perhaps one day they'll make a mature game, as Daze suggests.

As I said, the 'intended purpose' is to talk and discuss in any way one pleases. If your chosen form of contribution is in your writing, then by all means, it is welcome. There may be many points of similarly between the eventual scope of this thread and your musings, but while the latter can elicit responses both of the topic and of your literature in general, this will focus mostly on the topic at hand. Consider it a consolidation, if you will. Feel free to link your works here, and expect a response here about the topic at hand, while a response about your work or the style theoreof can be expressed there. For instance, if I feel that a picture conveys a thousand words, and link a drawing of mine here to substantiate a point, I can expect a discussion about the subject here and my artwork and associated criticism there, back in my art thread. You needn't worry about a duplicity of effort.

One is actually laxer during exams than prior to and after them, for in those times one is prepari g for the next exams. Fear not, the art and commissions will come in due course, at least weekly. And yes, I am busier now because I have more to do and the second year of college to start in twenty days. That answers you, Weenie? Also thanks for asking, the exams were done, awaiting results.

And goodnight, time to sleep. Weenie?

Nintendo has made enough money to buy a small country if they wished just from rehashing Pokémon and Mario. Even when they exhaust the idea, they can happily hang up their boots and say well done. As for what they can do, eventually they can simply stop adding new pokes and Megas and simply rerelease an old game with better graphics and story, and still make a Mont out of it for the nostalgia factor. Would you not buy a Red and Blue re-remake with only the original 151, but with SM graphics and a patched up yet original story? There are also innovations like pokken that mushroom all the time. The poketraon is far from spent, I think.

It's just me. Dhan, show up.

I am here. Also, as promised, weenie, there's a place for your brain-poop now. I want to see what you come up with. Spine?

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"Question Everything" "Why?" Welcome to the Philosophy Club, the little alcove wherein one can find a respite from the rapid eddies of life's daily toils; a place where one can think and question, answer and learn, purely for the sake of the thought itself. This is a place of discussion and of debate, of opinion and of introspection, of free thought and of the exchange of ideas, a place to exercise the mind. The basic premise of this place is to talk, quite simply, about any topic that captures one's attention. I was part of a rather fascinating discussion involving, among other things, the subjects of children and parenthood, eugenics and cloning, dictatorships and democracy, and all things in between, back in the in the Ask the Next Person a Question thread of the Onyx Arcade a day or two ago. I felt that such topics needed a place of their own to be discussed heartily. This thread works similar to the arcade one, but it is very lax in its functioning. Any contributor may ask a question or state a view about any topic that comes to their mind, provided it is not better suited in another place of this forums, and provided it pertains to the world at large and can fall within the ambit of a general discussion. Any subsequent contributor may answer, counter, or otherwise continue any previous topic, should it catch their fancy, or may start a discussion of their own. In short, it is not necessary for one to answer the previous post. RULES The reason this is in the Trainer's Journal is because it can be personal with its topics or with the views one may proclaim, and because i would like to throw open the halls of thought to all and any who wish to participate, provided they remain pertinent, civil and respectful of another's comforts, opinions or differences. This is a place of discussion, even debate, but not of argument. However, it is inevitable that people may disagree and even be disturbed by the ideas of another, and so, the best we can do as people is to moderate our tongues and minds to broach such topics maturely. To those who may be unable to accept another's statements, the remedy is to simply ignore it and continue on a new tangent. While any topic, however trivial or however controversial, can be initiated here, please bear in mind to be pertinent. A topic that can better be started in another part of the forums is not suitable here. The scope of this thread is naturally broad, and hence it is difficult to state what is and is not truly 'philosophical', but as long as it evokes critical and rational thought, it is welcome. We're all guilty of it at some point, but it's not great fun to be a philosophaster, that is, pretending to have a greater knowledge of a topic than one actually does. No one is a know-all, and no one should think to be one or feel bad for not being one, for both are an impossibility. A request to contributors to please quote or reference the excerpt they are responding to, if they are not immediately prior to their own. Since it is possible for one to pick up any previous topic, even if it were several pages ago, it would be confusing for any subsequent contributors to follow. If the excerpt is too big or cumbersome to encapsulate in a quote, it will suffice to provide a reference to the post number (reply number) of the post which one is responding to. This is not a compulsion if it is a direct response to an obviously ongoing topic, or if it is an answer to an immediately preceding post, but it would be easier to categorize if a reference could be provided. And there it is. Let the talk begin. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For a start, to carry on the last interesting Arcade question, what do you think of eugenic research and genetic customization as a notion?

Forget wolves, where's my dolphin!?

Oh, bibs, you never cease to amaze me. [19:59] Spineblade: Anyway [19:59] Spineblade: I must fly [19:59] Spineblade: Fly far away [19:59] Pineapple the Blue: do not [19:59] Pineapple the Blue: fly away from us Spineblade left [20:00] Spineblade tried to fly and fell and died [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: there is no esc- [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: goddammit viri Bootiful Bidoof left [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: I just realized that chat was fifty shades of green Spineblade joined [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: except for my hipster blue color [20:00] Spineblade: The hell did Viri do [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: I Random Battle started between +Red_Chaos_PR and pizza maker. [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: CANT BELIEVE [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: MYSELF [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: . [20:00] Spineblade: What [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: *goddammit spine [20:00] Pineapple the Blue: 'oops' [20:01] Spineblade: HOW [20:01] Spineblade: THE HELL [20:01] Pineapple the Blue: I [20:01] Pineapple the Blue: DONT Myrdwyn Lily left [20:01] Pineapple the Blue: KNOW Pineapple the Blue was muted by BreloomBot for 7 minutes. (Automated response: flooding) [20:01] Spineblade: RIP IN PEACE [20:01] Spineblade: YOU BEAN [20:01] Spineblade: Also I think that's 48 now +Viridescent joined [20:02] Spineblade: Good timing [20:02] +Viridescent: Hello, everyone [20:02] +Viridescent: Mh? [20:02] Spineblade: Look at the last ten messages [20:02] Spineblade: Or so [20:02] Wendalf Garadex: Hai Babiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiribiri [20:02] +Viridescent: Oh [20:03] +Viridescent: Hi wendel [20:03] +Viridescent: And I am laughing, bibs [20:03] Wendalf Garadex: Yea Bibs [20:03] +Viridescent: I am laughing [20:03] Spineblade: So I once mixed up Zumi and Viri [20:03] Wendalf Garadex: gj Bibs [20:03] Spineblade: But he manages to mix up Spine and Viri? [20:03] @Zuмi - Ⓢⓒⓗⓞⓞⓛ: tfw [20:03] Spineblade: Shh [20:03] Wendalf Garadex: rekt Bibs [20:04] +Viridescent is bawling with laughter [20:04] +Viridescent: This has to be quotebooked~ AND JUST A FEW MINUTES LATER: [20:08] Morshυ: im ALIVE [20:08] Morshυ: goddammit spien [20:08] Wendalf Garadex: Noh [20:08] +Red_Chaos_PR: hi [20:08] Morshυ: ... [20:08] Morshυ: *VIRI [20:08] Wendalf Garadex: >Spien [20:08] +Viridescent: Hi red [20:08] +Viridescent: Wb bibs [20:08] +Viridescent: And this is GOLDEN [20:08] Morshυ: dont mind me [20:08] Morshυ: ill just go [20:08] Morshυ: fall off a cliff So it seems that the phrase 'Goddamit Viri' has become a conditioned response, what?

That is a possibility, but I think it is a little remote; we know GF likes the fossil mechanic enough to keep bunging more and more mons at us. It's not necessarily true that fossils have to be prehistoric; the youngest fossils date back to the Holocene (that's only about 12000 years ago) in which case it can be supposed that a recent enough eruption could have buried some unfortunate lizard and fossilized it over the centuries.Besides, this is merely a hypothesis. I feel GF will hardly use such rarefied logic in deciding fossil availability; on the contrary, it knows we love 'em so it will be looking for an excuse to bung as many mons as it can towards us. Granted, the number of new Pokémon are reducing and they do indeed claim that they want to tone them down and instead do new stuff with older mons (probably more Megas) but the concept of a fossil pair is so firmly a part of all games (save gen2 for the reasons you stated) that it is unlikely GF will not give them to us this time aeound., despite the likely smallness of the roster. Also, GF has been following a rough trend of more and more 'evolved' animals as fossils: from trilobites and ammonites, to sea lilies and bugs, to aquatic reptiles, terrestrial Triassic and early Jurassic dinosaurs and even down to Cretaceous raptors (and BURD.) Granted, they are not in order of generations, but the trend is noticeable. We may then reasonably expect more recent fossils, like perhaps a fossilized mammal or something.

I've seen Dragon, and even though it has all the badass Dragon types in it, I somehow don't find it so great. It did everything that was expected of it...so I guess it's just that. It didn't surprise me. Even though I'm horribly biased forwards Steel, if I step back and look at it impartially, I still do not think Dragon made that big an impact. Dragon was more like a panoramic view of all the legendary Ubers and prominent Megas, and it was undeniably awesome, but even so, it didn't -click- as well as Steel and Normal-1 and Ghost did. Just my opinion, and a neutral one at that. Some parts were cooler, though, like showing all the player characters and the view of the stained glass creation Pantheon, but overall it was good but not excellent, in my view. And I'm a little upset that nothing used Draco Meteor.

It looked more like a woodpecker to me, but seeing as that could conceivably only be Grass/Flying, and we already have Rowlet for that, I'm inclined to think that the notion of it being a hummingbird is not out of the way. Electric/Flying can make sense, yes, but so could Fairy/Flying or even pure Flying. It shpuld have access to good moves like Giga Drain and Hyper Voice if it's a hummingbird, so let's see how it goes. Maybe it'll get Pixilate, too. Sprightly little Fairy bird and all that.

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

We need more Water/Rock and Rock/Flying fossils anyway. NOT. Tiki would be fun, although Nosepass and Nigel Thornberry sort of take up that spot (not really, since they're based on the Moai, but still.) However, it's not like GF doesn't repeat things, and it'd be cool to have a Rock/Ghost fossil. I'm hoping we get a Rock/Fire lava lizard, with the whole volcano motif. It's actually a good offensive type, so if it is fast and has decent power and movepool it'd be fine (just that defensively that typing is horrendous; look at poor Magcargo.)