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The Bulbagarden Conversational Chat Thread Vol 4

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Okay, we have to do it some time when I'm not at work. Make a chess.com account if you don't already have one.
I'm off school for the next two weeks so I'm free anytime, just gimme a shout when you're free. And I don't have one, I'll make one later, presumably. :p
 

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HEY GUYS LOOK WHAT I FOUND! @TheMissingno.;

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Cool set, what are the pictures of?

They're the kings of Poland. My mom got it for me a few years ago when she was on a trip there.

Awesome, it is a beautiful board. I wish I could play on it some time.

I'll probably ending up making an account on that site but I can't play right now, I have an article to write.

Anyway, I learned how to play chess from reading an article in Muse (this geeky science-and-other-nerdy-things magazine I would read in elementary and middle school) about the chess match in the first Harry Potter movie. They explained the basics of chess for those of who were noobs and then showed how that one went down. Apparently a chess-playing computer would have sacrificed Harry's bishop rather than Ron's knight.

Yeah neither can I right now. I do make moves on slow games at work, but I don't go on live.

I learned how to play chess in elementary school but I didn't really start playing often until recently.

Okay, we have to do it some time when I'm not at work. Make a chess.com account if you don't already have one.
I'm off school for the next two weeks so I'm free anytime, just gimme a shout when you're free. And I don't have one, I'll make one later, presumably. :p
Okay, I'm free in the evening, so probably fairly late for you.
 

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Talking about the first Harry Potter book reminds me of how there was this animated gif that was all the rage on Photobucket around the time that the first FMA anime was airing on Adult Swim, where Harry Potter and Edward Elric reach the Philosopher's Stone and look at each other and say "Back off bitch! The Stone's mine!"
 

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Talking about the first Harry Potter book reminds me of how there was this animated gif that was all the rage on Photobucket around the time that the first FMA anime was airing on Adult Swim, where Harry Potter and Edward Elric reach the Philosopher's Stone and look at each other and say "Back off bitch! The Stone's mine!"

Edward Elric would destroy the Harry Potter of the first book.
 

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Talking about the first Harry Potter book reminds me of how there was this animated gif that was all the rage on Photobucket around the time that the first FMA anime was airing on Adult Swim, where Harry Potter and Edward Elric reach the Philosopher's Stone and look at each other and say "Back off bitch! The Stone's mine!"

Edward Elric would destroy the Harry Potter of the first book.

Yeah, probably.

I think they might be more evenly-matched in later books, though.
 

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Talking about the first Harry Potter book reminds me of how there was this animated gif that was all the rage on Photobucket around the time that the first FMA anime was airing on Adult Swim, where Harry Potter and Edward Elric reach the Philosopher's Stone and look at each other and say "Back off bitch! The Stone's mine!"

Edward Elric would destroy the Harry Potter of the first book.

Yeah, probably.

I think they might be more evenly-matched in later books, though.

For sure, especially if Harry was using the Elder Wand.
 

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I like that we are actually having this discussion.

Anyway, I'm moving this to a new post: is it pretentious if I'm American and refer to that book by its British title? I've just never understood that publishing decision. Do British kids get history-of-science classes in elementary school or something, since that's the only place you'd likely learn about outdated pseudoscientific stuff like alchemy? (Well, when I was in college I learned about homunculi in a history/women's studies class on the history of sexuality aka BEST CLASS EVER but that's beside the point.)
 

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I like that we are actually having this discussion.

Anyway, I'm moving this to a new post: is it pretentious if I'm American and refer to that book by its British title? I've just never understood that publishing decision. Do British kids get history-of-science classes in elementary school or something, since that's the only place you'd likely learn about outdated pseudoscientific stuff like alchemy? (Well, when I was in college I learned about homunculi in a history/women's studies class on the history of sexuality aka BEST CLASS EVER but that's beside the point.)

I don't know why they made the change. It's kind of like how they changed all of the early Beatles albums when they were released in America.

I learned all about homunculi and their various summoning methods from wikipedia.
 

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I don't know why they made the change. It's kind of like how they changed all of the early Beatles albums when they were released in America.

Well there was some "logic" in that the Brits had a head-start on the Beatles releasing albums there a year earlier, so they wanted to rush as much of it out in the States as possible when they first got popular here. But it didn't explain why the madness continued for a couple more years after that (basically until Sgt. Pepper, the first one that was the same IIRC).

I learned all about homunculi and their various summoning methods from wikipedia.

Yeah, I learned a lot about it there, too. But I just think it's funny that homunculi have become throughout literary history, either this menacing thing or this metaphor for how humans shouldn't play God or whatever, when really, the whole idea behind them came from the fact that medieval alchemists didn't know how is babby formed.

I'm trying to decide whether to call this group of characters in my novel homunculi - I mean, it fits in terms of how they were created, and they're basically the most advanced of a line that originally started as artificial humans being created in test tubes. But I'm worried this screams "guess which anime I've been watching lately?" especially since one of the characters can shapeshift (but is nothing like Envy in any other way). And the other option that makes sense for these characters, calling them chimeras (because they're a blend of humans and super-human aliens), is just as bad, really.
 

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Yeah, so maybe I should re-post that novel question in the Writer's Workshop.

I'm just really worried about this. I know it's common for young writers to be besotted by our influences (as John Scalzi puts it), but I don't just want to be that, it want it to be good.
 

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heya anyone there, so what's up

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And beyond the sky we've got the universe, which is lots of things. :eek:
 
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