what are some mildly interesting things you notice?
i was just using google and in italy you get redirected to google.it from google.com, so the name of the website is "google it". unfortunately, this awesome play on words is lost on italians i'm sure.
I guess something that is mildly interesting is when my mum's parents visit, her dad always puts on How It's Made. I guess it's kinda interesting to know how things are made but it's just more of a "oh, they do that with that to make that? okay" sort of interest.
Quote from: Kpyna on April 07, 2016, 15:45
what are some mildly interesting things you notice?
i was just using google and in italy you get redirected to google.it from google.com, so the name of the website is "google it". unfortunately, this awesome play on words is lost on italians i'm sure.
Google in Spain is google.es
googlees
For a while, I've been wanting to know what having amnesia was like. Now I know!
It was weird. My brother came to visit me in hospital yesterday, and I had no idea who he was.
One of my friends who I haven't seen in ages was in the same ward as me, and I remembered him.
Strange how amnesia can do that.
Due to the fovea in the eye, we all have a blind spot in each eye.
Quote from: Spriter on April 07, 2016, 15:52
I guess something that is mildly interesting is when my mum's parents visit, her dad always puts on How It's Made.
I used to love that show.
Something I find mildly interesting is Apples to Apples. I know it came first but Cards Against Humanity is just so much better.
benzene isn't actually toxic to you as is. your body tries to metabolise it thru the p450 cytochrome (an family of enzymes in ur body which....well they metabolise and do a lot of things. ask a biologist.) and ur own traitor body sticks an oxygen on it which turns it into oxepin/benzene oxide which is nasty/bad. so its ur own bodys fault that we can't huff nice petrol smells all day
So smelling petrol is actually bad for you? I wasn't aware of that ;;
There's a guy called Justin O. Schmidt who gets himself bitten by insects to make a pain chart that goes from 0 - 4. He's ranked the bullet ant as one of the most painful stings. He's also quite poetic in how he describes the pain he feels, e.g. for the bullet ant: 'Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.'
Halloween is the most ironic holiday ever created. All year long parents tell their kids not to take candy from strangers. And what do they do on Halloween? Actively encourage their small children to literally walk up to strangers to get some candy!
The fact that Nintendo managed to stuff all the data and other stuff into one of these!
(http://gamesdbase.com/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_Game_Boy/Cart/big/Pokemon_-_Red_Version_-_1998_-_Nintendo.jpg)
How the hell did they do it?
How much data can those things store?
^I think you would be more impressed by the data going into Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, then. And they're a lot smaller in terms of cartridge size.
Quote from: Spriter on April 09, 2016, 13:38
^I think you would be more impressed by the data going into Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire, then. And they're a lot smaller in terms of cartridge size.
Yeah, but Pokemon Red was an old game from the 90's, and fitting all the data in one small cartridge must have been really hard back then. But now, we have all this fancy techonlogoy and storing huge amounts of data in one smaller cartridge is much easier.
Yeah, but once upon a time people were surprised you could save and insert your own data onto a floppy disk, and the from there they were excited, then people were amazed you could start popping them into your video game console to play something like pong. then they just downsized and memory improved because there was a market for it...
i used greek yogurt instead of sour cream (because they dont have in it italy) to make onion dip (which they also don't have) and it tastes exactly the same...
Yes, but thinking about the limitations of the gameboy and the amount of data storage the cartridge has approximately 56kb - 2mb) it's a bit "what the hell?!"
The game was also a lot simpler then, like how all same-species Pokemon will have the same stats at level 100, all sprites were limited to the same 6 or 7 colour palette and the instruments were heavily compressed. Even so, it's still impressive that people have taken the step to create hardware and store data on it.
If they could stuff so much stuff in a small cartridge, then they could have given each Pokemon a different cry, instead of using a similar cries for some Pokemon that are just other Pokemon cries, but just with parts taken out or the sound of it being edited.
^He has a point there.
I find it mildly interesting that you can witch time Little Mac's KO punch.
I notice that teachers find opportunities during lessons to tie in their political beliefs to the material that they're covering. Every politician in the race right now has one of my teachers supporting him/Clinton.
to be fair supporting trump and cruz is kind of a crappy thing to do
it's pretty easy to support someone who basically isn't promising to destroy our country
Ditto and poliwag have the exact same cry. Gen 1 has loads of cries that are similar, but Nintendo were actually too lazy to make a separate (or at a similar cry from another pokemon) cry for poliwag??? Or ditto???
Actually it had more to do with the space limits. What happened was that there are in actuality only 37 unique cries in Red/Blue, so many Pokemon actually had similar cries but with something slightly different. For instance, some cries would actually remove a sound channel but otherwise be the same cry as another Pokemon, some others were sped up, some others had higher/lower pitch, etc.
Generation 2 wasn't any better, utilizing 30 more unique cries.
Some other examples of Pokemon with almost exactly the same cries: Rhyhorn/Charizard, Machop/Omanyte, Caterpie/Goldeen, Wigglytuff/Poliwhirl, etc.
If anyone is curious, there's a very in-depth article about this in Bulbapedia. (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cry)
I've watched this scene from star wars rebels a few times now and I only just noticed that Kanan uses a mind trick on Ezra at about 46 seconds into this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU5h-ub5ylo).
Vileplume and aerodactyl have similar cries.
Paras and mew.
Parasect and mewtwo.
I found a video of it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMNnDNYgro
Can anybody tell what pokemon cry is at the very beginning?
Some lawsuits that were filed or planned with ironic facts to them. First is Mattel suing Aqua for the song Barbie Girl only to use it for awhile in actual Barbie ads and toys with some changes ten years later. Second is Gary Coleman planning on suing Avenue Q writers for their portrayal of him even though he was offered the role before he never came to the meeting to cast him and Gary clearly knew what the musical was about since he was interested in being in the musical.
Quote from: The name master on April 10, 2016, 14:45
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmMNnDNYgro
Can anybody tell what pokemon cry is at the very beginning?
Deoxys I think??
I knew there were a lot of mons with the same/similar cries but I didn't realise quite how many...
Quote from: Clairefable on April 10, 2016, 18:57
Deoxys I think??
I knew there were a lot of mons with the same/similar cries but I didn't realise quite how many...
Yes! Definitely deoxys!
Quote from: Lord Raven on April 10, 2016, 12:59
If anyone is curious, there's a very in-depth article about this in Bulbapedia. (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cry)
I enjoyed reading that! Thanks (:
For anime fans: there's not just yanderes, but there are yangires too. Yanderes will go to the extent of killing people if they're obstacles to get with their love interest, but yangires will just kill people randomly. Shion Sonozaki and Rena Ryuugu are good side-by-side examples of this!
Quote from: Lord Raven on April 10, 2016, 12:59
If anyone is curious, there's a very in-depth article about this in Bulbapedia. (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Cry)
this is pretty cool
QuoteMost Pokémon will only say their names and communicate using those syllables. For example, Ash's Pikachu has been known to use the three syllables in the word "Pikachu" in various combinations to refer to several characters, including Ash (Pikapi), Misty (PiKachupi), Brock (PikaChu), Dawn (Pikaka), Togepi (Pipipi), Team Rocket (Pipikachu), Bulbasaur (Pikakapika) and "My name is Pikachu" (Pika, Pikachu).
and this is just adorable
Quote from: Sizacu on April 10, 2016, 21:34For anime fans: there's not just yanderes, but there are yangires too. Yanderes will go to the extent of killing people if they're obstacles to get with their love interest, but yangires will just kill people randomly. Shion Sonozaki and Rena Ryuugu are good side-by-side examples of this!
So yangire means Serial Killer?
I made a team based around mega gallade. I have an RMT thread based around it on the competitive battling thread if you want to take a peek.
Quote from: The name master on April 09, 2016, 13:31
The fact that Nintendo managed to stuff all the data and other stuff into one of these!
How much data can those things store?
An original GB cartridge could hold up to 8mb (depending on the chip in the cartridge) with some games taking up more space on a chip than others. Super Mario Land took 64KB uncompressed. Super Mario Land 2 took 512KB uncompressed. So assuming all of the music files/cries were MIDI files that's less than one and a half MB, with masses of space left to play with with the actual sprites and such that were just reused didn't take a lot.
The reason there is only one save file on Pokemon is because the developers wanted you to nickname all 151 of them. There wasn't enough space to do that across multiple profiles.
Also- The battery in the cartridge keeps the game in an 'on' state permanently, which is how you're able to save the game. The original MCB1 chip games with the CR1616 batteries had a life of about sixteen to nineteen years. So if you've got an original copy of any of the Pokemon games; you're running out of time to play them.
The Gen 2 games onwards used a CR2024 battery, which is good for about forty years.
Should I make this into a separate topic? All everyone seems to be talking about is cartridge size and data storage. I see a potentially long-lasting forum thread.
Quote from: Milsap on April 11, 2016, 13:51
The Gen 2 games onwards used a CR2024 battery, which is good for about forty years.
Though people have been replacing those batteries too, as of late. I'm not trying to mess with that nonsense though lol that requires stuff like a soldering iron.
That's gotta suck if you want to change your boxes in gen 1 and 2 though.
Quote from: The name master on April 11, 2016, 15:54
Should I make this into a separate topic? All everyone seems to be talking about is cartridge size and data storage. I see a potentially long-lasting forum thread.
It is interesting to learn though.
My college exam grades so far: 80, 80, 90, 84, 84
Quote from: Lord Raven on April 10, 2016, 22:15
So yangire means Serial Killer?
You could argue that, yeah.
Coca Cola tastes different depending on where you get it. Interestingly enough Mexican coke tastes almost exactly like Pepsi.
^ definitely true
in italian "coca cola" is almost a tongue twister because they pronounce their c's differently, so you usually hear is referred to as only cola, even when they refer to it in comparison to pepsi.