Bob 2009/10/11(Sun)18:54 No. 63 ID: 7d87d9
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MORE TUUUUUUUUUUUUBES!

Bob 2009/10/11(Sun)19:06 No. 64 ID: 9cc8fd
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TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES

Bob 2009/10/11(Sun)19:42 No. 68 ID: 7d87d9
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WE HAVE FOUND TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES!

WE NEED MORE TUUUUUUUUUBES

Bob 2009/10/11(Sun)21:57 No. 82 ID: 43d730
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TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBS

Bob 2009/10/11(Sun)22:00 No. 84 ID: 7d87d9
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Tubs have pipes.

And Pipes are...

Raycaster!k6uRjGDgAQ 2009/10/11(Sun)22:11 No. 89 ID: 72139c
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A 3D TUBE

Raycaster!k6uRjGDgAQ 2009/10/11(Sun)22:31 No. 92 ID: 72139c
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THIS TIME: WITH ANIMATION

>>92
We're not worthy!

>>92
So is that video like porn to spess pirates?

Also your tube needs moar smoothing.

>>98
I only smooth my tubes in private, thankyou very much.

The space pirates can make do with this fanservice.

Bob 2009/10/12(Mon)06:36 No. 106 ID: 7d87d9
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As you see Space Pirates DO play Pokemon.

>>92
MOTHERFUCKING 3D TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES

Smooth? No.

You need to average your normals there bud.

So how long until we start having to deal with these tubes being full to the brim with posts and stuff...

>>106
I thought TUUUUUUUBE stones were really rare, though.

Bob 2009/10/14(Wed)15:22 No. 173 ID: 7d87d9
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>>172
I thought they used Phazon

I mean they love that shit.

>>173
...Wouldn't you end up with PUDDLEON or something?

>>174
They already got a Water Type Eevee evolution in Vaporeon.

Tubeon would be the steel type.

>>178
I meant 'Puddle of radioactive goo'.

I think Muk is already a puddle of goo that may be radioactive...

>>186
Well, there is the poison component...
You know, they never actually say anything about the technology level.
They just have electric plants and somehow mass-produced buildings and little items.
Where are the factories?
Where are the places where they harvest resources?

>>189
Probably off the path. Off screen stuff.

We see a coal mine network in generation IV and an iron works apparently run by a guy with a thing for those STUPID FUCKING ARROW TILES.

>>191
Still, the tech's weird.
It's half "Hey, we've got these physics-defying critters running around all over the place, let's use them for things" and half "50s-ish industry" which somehow leads to "Modern-japan style society along with critters everywhere".
For example: Several machines over the course of the series are powered by Voltorbs and Electrodes. Then... why do they need coal?

>>192
Why do we have hydroelectric when we have coal? Or nuclear power plants? Alternative energy sources arise as their need does. Coal might not be available everywhere. Using Pokemon might be less manpower intensive, or it may have less of an environmental impact.

There are a lot of logical inconsistencies in that series, but that one doesn't really strike me as one of them. Thinking on it a little further, I imagine everything is so disjointed because there is no real centralization to homogenate everything. Every town is sort of like its own city state, so it would follow that there would be wild varyation in technology and general aesthetic.

>>193
The only thing that's really centralised are is the Gym and Tourney system.
Which makes sense on the 'Channel and control the idiots doinking around with the destructive superbeasts' level, but very little on any other.
Actually, scratch that. EVERY shop in the games sells items that are either interchangeable or close enough not to care. Who makes all those potions?
The various companies.
Shit, that's it. The companies are the actual ruling force that keeps everything in line.
No magic-unfailing-ubercritter-capture-devices means no effective firepower.

>>194
That is a very good point, and I think you might be right. I didn't consider the manufactured nature of the items. I vaguely remember and episode on the show where they actually visited the place that manufactured pokeballs. Does anyone remember the specifics for that? Might shed some more light on the theory.

>>195
So it's cyperpunk.
Or at least Harnessing-large-dangerous-animals-that-can-breathe-pure-molten-death-punk.

...Does that mean the various villainous Teams are just trying their hand at industrial sabotage?

>>198
If Industrial Sabotage includes "Flooding the world" and "Stealing everything in sight" and "Dumping magma into the oceans," then yes.

>>192
Well we know they have a Space Program

We see references to the Shuttle and Apollo Programs and Hoenn has a rocket launch facility.
And because Porygon exists we know they have modern if not better computer capabilities because Porygon isn't only Artificial Intelligence but a fully Artificial Lifeform

>>193
Coal is important for smelting. We also see Iron Island which was mined out for years before the player starts the game

>>201
They're Dorfs?

But seriously Team Rocket is probably a large Crime Syndicate and has a number of fronts going on. Team Galactic is a Terrorist group with a front of being an Energy R&D company (which apparently one of the commanders is going to make the company legit after their Leader was lost in another dimension.)

We know of at least two Major Corporations in the form of the Silph Corporation (located in Kanto) and Devon Corporation (located in Hoenn)

>>201
Think of it like this...
You start the game as a ten-year-old random kid who knows a professor. Going around the competitive circuit, you beat up some minor thugs, then personally meet the CEO of a company who give you free shit and implies that you need to focus on the Team for the game.
You could cast it, if you felt like it, that the apocalyptic efforts of the Teams are to shake up the companies; anything short of that would be insufficient to stop such a far-ranging menace.
I mean, the various companies are happy now: the best place to put a superweapon-beast that controls a basic force is the hands of someone that's going to use it for glorified cockfights and not stir things up.

I like Pokemon as a post war thing, as we figured out in that /tg/ thread.

EDIT: it's on sup/tg/
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5870863/

>>2184
MAKE MORE SCIENCE!