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Azp2k32
08/06/11 11:08:00 AM
#451:


bumpo

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GenesisSaga
08/07/11 6:37:00 AM
#452:


Daily bump

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TsunamiXXVIII
08/07/11 6:00:00 PM
#453:


Actually, Mime Jr. is far better than Chimecho at being a cute thing.

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GenesisSaga
08/07/11 6:02:00 PM
#454:


TsunamiXXVIII posted...
Actually, Mime Jr. is far better than Chimecho at being a cute thing.

^That is true.

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muddersmilk
08/08/11 2:19:00 PM
#455:


“House, we can’t diagnose him without an MRI machine, but all of the machines in the hospital are broken! We can’t move him to another hospital because he’s too weak, and it’ll take too long to set up a new MRI machine. What should we do?”
“He’s got a brain tumor.”
“How do you know?”
“I know because I’m House.”
“Good enough for me!”


That doesn't seem all that far off from how he actually does things.
"It could be this or this or..."
"It's this."
"Wait how do you know?"
"I just do now go treat it and get a test for it while you are at it"
"Wow, he was right the patient is cured now!"

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XIII_rocks
08/08/11 5:56:00 PM
#456:


I can rebuild you

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Furious Fura
08/09/11 6:26:00 AM
#457:


can you

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XIII_rocks
08/09/11 2:16:00 PM
#458:


yes

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GenesisSaga
08/09/11 6:03:00 PM
#459:


we can!!

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GenesisSaga
08/10/11 9:20:00 AM
#460:


It's a new dawn.
It's a new day.
It's a new life for this topic.
And I'm feelin' good.

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XIII_rocks
08/10/11 4:35:00 PM
#461:


rebuild

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Jeff Zero
08/11/11 7:30:00 AM
#462:


up

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GenesisSaga
08/12/11 5:56:00 AM
#463:


Left

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GenesisSaga
08/13/11 7:28:00 AM
#464:


Bah.

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htaeD
08/14/11 1:52:00 AM
#465:


*sees episode list of BW*

WHATS WITH ALL THE MEOWTH EPISODES ALL OF THE SUDDEN
YOU ALREADY SHOWED OFF THE 4TH CITY, JUST GET EVERYONE THERE BY GOD

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crazyisgood
08/14/11 4:03:00 AM
#466:


tag

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mnkboy907
08/14/11 7:03:00 PM
#467:


From: htaeD | #465
*sees episode list of BW*

WHATS WITH ALL THE MEOWTH EPISODES ALL OF THE SUDDEN
YOU ALREADY SHOWED OFF THE 4TH CITY, JUST GET EVERYONE THERE BY GOD


I know, right? I'm just holding out hope that these episodes might actually feature Team Rocket having personalities again.

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charmander6000
08/14/11 7:09:00 PM
#468:


I heard Meowth goes on a secret mission during those episodes, not 100% sure about that though.

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Anagram
08/15/11 12:27:00 PM
#469:


Thanks for saving the topic, guys.

Wheel of Frontier
"I can't stand up straight for thirty minutes!"
Score: 4/10

The heroes have reached the Battle Arena, upon learning that the Frontier Brain, named “Greta,” is a girl, Ash is legitimately surprised. Good work, there, Ash. Ash is told that she uses fighting pokemon and idolizes Chuck and Brawly. Upon learning this information, Ash rushes to a pokemon center to withdraw a mystery pokemon.

I love how they really play up the Japanese culture in this episode, with the martial arts and even saying a word of Japanese and taking off their shoes, but "Greta" is just about the least Japanese name ever.

Greta brings out a giant wheel that Ash must spin: if it lands on a one, they battle one-on-one, if it lands on a two, two-on-two, and if it's three, Ash is killed on the spot. Unfortunately, Ash gets a two, so Greta throws out Medicham and Hariyama, and Ash responds with Grovyle and Snorlax. Yes, he brought out Snorlax to fight fighting pokemon, under the “Ash is an idiot” clause. You may think that’s weak legal ground to bring out Snorlax with, but they’ve made movies based on obscurer clauses, like the Santa one, so I’ll defend Ash’s move here.

Ash starts with Grovyle, Greta with Hariyama. Ash immediately learns that Hariyama is too dangerous to fight up close and is extremely fast, but can’t actually catch Grovyle, so he has Grovyle use quick attack to get really close to Hariyama and lets it get beaten into submission. Good work, Ash. So I have a question: if Brawly's Makuhita was only a little above Ash's Treecko, and Greta's Hariyama easily defeats Ash's Grovyle, how could Greta possibly look up to Brawly?
"I guess trainers who use fighting pokemon really know how to fight!"
Jesus Christ. Is this just a translator who doesn’t care about his job, or is there a Japanese guy out there who thought this was good dialogue?

Next up is Snorlax.
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Ash's plan is to play defensively and use ice punch and protect, because the writers didn't think using Noctowl, a pokemon with no weakness to fighting pokemon and with flying and psychic attacks, was cool enough.

Snorlax gets its ass kicked, but when Medicham freezes it with its own ice punch, Ash has it rest to use the ice as a shield. Medicham is forced to dig it out of the ice to keep attacking and let it finish resting, and when it’s freed, Ash has it use hyper beam on the ground to jump up, and as it falls, use body slam on Medicham.
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As the episode ends, Scott tells Ash to go to the Battle Dome and I reevaluate my life.

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muddersmilk
08/15/11 12:32:00 PM
#470:


Welcome back Anagram!

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Anagram
08/15/11 7:40:00 PM
#471:


muddersmilk posted...
Welcome back Anagram!

I'd like to thank both of my loyal fans, thank you, thank you.

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Pokalicious
08/15/11 7:44:00 PM
#472:


>_>

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XIII_rocks
08/15/11 7:53:00 PM
#473:


Yayyy

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charmander6000
08/15/11 8:07:00 PM
#474:


I liked that episode. It showed the awesomeness of Snorlax.

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GenesisSaga
08/15/11 8:25:00 PM
#475:


Oh yay Anna's back!

(I actually noticed several hours earlier but now I'm posting this to fill Anna's attention whoring needs)

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Anagram
08/16/11 12:31:00 PM
#476:


May's Egg-Cellent Adventure!
"You're giving me a pain, and I can't say where because kids watch this show!"
Score: 5/10

You have no idea what I do for you people. You have no idea how many puns about eggs I had to sit through for your benefit.

The heroes come across a farm, and when May mentions that she wants to visit it because it's so cute, two Voltorb appear and attack her. Brock muses that Voltorb don't attack people for no reason even though they have attacked people for no reason in almost every single appearance they have had. The farmers appear, including their daughter, Nicolette, who idolizes May for her contest skills, and because the heroes look so trustworthy, they invite them in for lunch, explaining that these are guard Voltorb. Her father, Christopher, explains to the heroes that he wants her to become a coordinator, but she refuses to leave the farm because she’s so unsure of herself.

May tells Nicolette that she should enter a contest, but she refuses because she can train on the farm, and challenges May's Munchlax with her Vileplume. May literally does not issue a single order for a solid minute, but Munchlax uses focus punch and solar beam at the last second and defeats it easily, despite having taken so much damage earlier.

Christopher mentions that the farm specializes in eggs, and agrees to show them some if they subtly provoke her into leaving by telling her stories of their travels, but she doesn't want to hear them. I don’t blame you, Nicolette. It’s like seventy percent filler.


Team Rocket leaves a huge egg by the farm and it would take too long to explain this sequence, so "Trojan Horse except with an egg." The heroes idiotically take a mysterious gigantic egg into the egg farm, so Team Rocket steals all of the eggs. Fortunately, Nicolette uses Vileplume to stun Team Rocket and petal dance to destroy their balloon, and the heroes manage to steal back the eggs.

As Team Rocket attempts to escape because they're now helpless and their plan has failed, Ash vindictively tells Pikachu to use quick attack to blast them off despite their no longer posing any kind of threat. Pikachu’s quick attack accidentally turns into a volt tackle, and it thus learns the move.

Congratulations, Pikachu! With your species’ low HP, that’s a move that will be completely useless to you.

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muddersmilk
08/16/11 1:30:00 PM
#477:


"You're giving me a pain, and I can't say where because kids watch this show!"

Did they really say this?

May literally does not issue a single order for a solid minute, but Munchlax uses focus punch and solar beam at the last second and defeats it easily, despite having taken so much damage earlier.

Wow, Nicolette must be horrible.

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Kibago
08/16/11 2:20:00 PM
#478:


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that's how Pikachu learned his coolest move? that is just depressing. i just assumed it had happened in an actual Frontier Battle.

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08/16/11 2:57:00 PM
#479:


muddersmilk posted...
Did they really say this?

I know, right? Awesome. Team Rocket is always the best.

Wow, Nicolette must be horrible.

In fairness, the point of the episode was that Nicolette had to see that training on her farm wasn't the same as real training, but yes, she was probably awful.


Kibago posted...
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that's how Pikachu learned his coolest move? that is just depressing. i just assumed it had happened in an actual Frontier Battle.


I was surprised too. I knew it would eventually learn volt tackle. What's weirder is that Ash is super excited when he finds out Pikachu knows volt tackle, but Pikachu is just all "Yeah, no biggie."

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FalconPain
08/16/11 4:13:00 PM
#480:


There will be at least one point in the series where Ash will have three of his six Pokemon equipped with moves that do recoil to the user, plus one who has the similar but not identical "has to recover after doing the move".

This is a surprisingly sound strategy in the anime, considering one of the criteria for a true shonen protagonist is the ability to do a move that hurts, tires, or can potentially kill the user, and yet never suffer any significant consequences. Stupid Heroic Willpower.

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08/17/11 8:17:00 AM
#481:


Bump

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08/17/11 7:07:00 PM
#482:


Weekend Warrior
"I don't know what to say!"
"I do! Remarkable!"

Score: 5/10

Sorry for not mentioning this in the previous episode's write-up, but May received a mysterious egg as a reward for helping the farmers.

At the Silver Town pokemon contest, May decides to enter, but Jessie decides against it. At first James asks why, but literally no explanation is given. I know the real reason is that the episode didn’t have enough time for another major character in the contest, but literally no explanation is given as to why Jessie ignores one of her biggest priorities in this episode.

One of the contestants, Jeremy, a businessman who's interested in pokemon, barely gets there in time, acting clumsy and goofy.

Jeremy's performance is very strange: he dresses up like a rocker (and like all rockers, he says things like "groovy"), and has his Butterfree use abilities timed to his playing his guitar. His performance is quite good, but his wife and teenage son show up and tell him that he looks ridiculous and needs to stop acting like he's his son's age. In front of the audience, Jeremy tells his family that he's been bored by his job and wants to just try something odd. He tells them that this is about sense of accomplishment, and the audience claps for him. Have you ever seen the episode of South Park where a wrestling executive watches an actual wrestler tearfully complain about how wrestling organizations have ruined a legitimate sport, and is so impressed by his acting that he hires him as a wrestler? This scene plays the exact same way, except it’s completely serious, and worse, about a character we don’t know and have no investment in. This is like in the The Last Airbender movie, where in the third act, Princess Yui shows up and suddenly becomes a major, central character despite never having been mentioned before, and when a certain spoilers event happens with her, we’re supposed to care.

In any case, May, Jeremy, and two nameless extras advance. I wonder who will finish round two. Jeremy's son watches his father battle, and quickly comes to appreciate it.

Finally, we reach May versus Jeremy. His son is now impressed, and his mother remembers to when she met Jeremy, before he became a businessman: he was on stage in his band, and she was apparently a teenage groupie. Because nothing leads to stable relationships in which to raise children than teenage groupies and rockers. Even though her concerns about Jeremy acting like an idiot were in no way addressed, she decides to cheer him on.

Venusaur versus Combusken, but this Venusaur is very powerful and has years of training, as opposed to Combusken's, what, few months? Venusaur proves to just be way more powerful than anyone expected, but after it uses frenzy plant, Ash tells May to pay attention to Venusaur's breathing, and she realizes that it uses up energy when it attacks. I see. Good thing this contest is about May and Ash versus Jeremy and not May versus Jeremy, since that would otherwise mean May had just received outside help and her accomplishment in defeating him is not her own.

Jeremy uses frenzy plant again, and it knocks May's points down to a sliver. But Jeremy forgot that shonen protagonists get stronger as they get weaker (this is actually an explicit, canon rule in Yu Yu Hakusho), and Combusken narrowly wins anyway.

At the end of the day, Jeremy goes back to his boring office job, but his son has a newfound respect for him. Good thing we, as an audience, had so much invested in Jeremy and wanted him to succeed so much.

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htaeD
08/18/11 4:00:00 AM
#483:


latest BW episode has a nice chance to the character dynamics

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Furious Fura
08/18/11 5:10:00 AM
#484:


is that the latest raw japanese or latest with sub? I just watched the latest sub on animecrazy, the semis are about to start at the end of the ep

also, kind of related to this topic: now listening to: Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!

i thought of this topic when they continuously song Anna Anna Anna Oh towards the end

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Kirbydamasta
08/18/11 8:49:00 AM
#485:


oh wow Meowth left TR in the latest BW episode

abandon ship?

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charmander6000
08/18/11 8:58:00 AM
#486:


The anime will put everything back to normal.

Only way for Meowth to leave the show is if the entire trio leaves the show.

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GenesisSaga
08/18/11 9:51:00 AM
#487:


Anagram posted...
In any case, May, Jeremy, and two nameless extras advance. I wonder who will finish round two. Jeremy's son watches his father battle, and quickly comes to appreciate it.

You know, Anna... Someday soon Generic Joe will reign supreme. Someday... What then, Anna? What then...?

Good thing we, as an audience, had so much invested in Jeremy and wanted him to succeed so much.

Lol yeah... Poor what'shisface.

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muddersmilk
08/18/11 10:03:00 AM
#488:


(this is actually an explicit, canon rule in Yu Yu Hakusho)

Yet another reason why YYH is awesome.

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08/18/11 11:56:00 AM
#489:


GenesisSaga posted...
You know, Anna... Someday soon Generic Joe will reign supreme. Someday... What then, Anna? What then...?

I would love that. May is in a contest, and a guy whose only characterization is "black hair" defeats her, and she just moves on and never mentions it again.


muddersmilk posted...
(this is actually an explicit, canon rule in Yu Yu Hakusho)

Yet another reason why YYH is awesome.


I remember watching that show on Adult Swim when I was fourteen and thinking it was fantastic, but then it turned into constant reruns because they ran out of English dubbed episodes, and then they transferred it to daytime television and censored things like cigarettes, so I shrugged and went back to playing Warcraft III.

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08/18/11 6:49:00 PM
#490:


Badump.

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Jeff Zero
08/18/11 6:49:00 PM
#491:


*obligatory post about how good YYH is*

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TsunamiXXVIII
08/18/11 6:58:00 PM
#492:


Anagram posted...
GenesisSaga posted...
You know, Anna... Someday soon Generic Joe will reign supreme. Someday... What then, Anna? What then...?

I would love that. May is in a contest, and a guy whose only characterization is "black hair" defeats her, and she just moves on and never mentions it again.


SPOILERS

This sort of does happen to Dawn, if you count "making it past the appeals round" to be defeating all of the contestants that didn't. I don't think May ever failed to make it past the first round, because Dawn had to go through a lot of suffering as a beginner even though May had never even heard of Pokémon Contests before going on her journey with Ash and Dawn is the daughter of a famous coordinator.

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GenesisSaga
08/18/11 7:07:00 PM
#493:


Anna don't read this post or the last one. Promise me!

TsunamiXXVIII posted...
Anagram posted...
GenesisSaga posted...
You know, Anna... Someday soon Generic Joe will reign supreme. Someday... What then, Anna? What then...?

I would love that. May is in a contest, and a guy whose only characterization is "black hair" defeats her, and she just moves on and never mentions it again.

SPOILERS

This sort of does happen to Dawn, if you count "making it past the appeals round" to be defeating all of the contestants that didn't. I don't think May ever failed to make it past the first round, because Dawn had to go through a lot of suffering as a beginner even though May had never even heard of Pokémon Contests before going on her journey with Ash and Dawn is the daughter of a famous coordinator.


Yeah, I know! I was just watching DP on CN the other day and Dawn had a contest in which she thought she did well. And then they started showing pics of the coordinators advancing to the second round and as they reached the last blank spot they paused to create drama and such. I laughed so, SO hard when nameless dude's face came up instead of Dawn's. SO HARD! And they did that not once, but twice! I didn't laugh the second time. I just felt sad because she tried to play it off like she was fine. Then she cried as soon as she got out of eyesight of her friends. Made me feel guilty for laughing the first time. :(

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mnkboy907
08/19/11 9:55:00 AM
#494:


OMG, they're stretching out Nimbasa City as long as possible... First the don tournament, then the Meowth mini-arc, and now a 2-part Battle Subway thing.

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charmander6000
08/19/11 9:57:00 AM
#495:


There's a 4 year gap between generations so that's roughly 200 episodes the anime needs to make. Just be glad it isn't mindless filler.

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htaeD
08/19/11 10:41:00 AM
#496:


Battle Subway is at least connected to the city itself

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Furious Fura
08/19/11 11:21:00 AM
#497:


where are you guys getting these new eps wtf

the last one ive seen is the one leading up to the semi finals of the don tournament, that's the latest subbed ep i've seen

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htaeD
08/19/11 11:35:00 AM
#498:


episode titles are given in advance

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mnkboy907
08/19/11 11:37:00 AM
#499:


They have episode titles up to episode 709, and I think the episode you just saw was 701 or 702.

I only watch the subbed episodes, but I think there might be a couple people here that watch the raw Japanese episodes.

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GenesisSaga
08/19/11 11:38:00 AM
#500:


Play Dark Cloud 1 & 2

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