wait holy fuck

my whole fucking life i've gone "porygon doesn't make sense. like i buy that they programmed a pokemon but programs don't have physical form"

fucking

pokemon and items can be stored as data in the pc. technology is amazing

did they just store another pokemon in the pc and hex edit it into porygon

@IceWolf @monorail there's literally a guy in the starting town of every pokemon game who comments on how amazing technology is
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@Felthry @monorail Ooookay I am uh just going to run as far away from Pokémon as I can then. >,,>

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@Felthry @monorail so it like copies you into the PC and you're stored as data, right?

so it's a copy-you-and-kill-the-original-you situation.

/Happening all the time/.

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@IceWolf @monorail there's no indication that any copying is going on
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@Felthry @monorail Aren't you copied /in/, then copied back /out/?

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@IceWolf @monorail We've always thought of it more like a portal situation
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@Felthry @monorail Ohhh okay that's good to hear.

/Very/ different than being stored as data!

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@IceWolf @monorail i mean you are stored as data?
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@Felthry @monorail Theeeen that's still a problem because you're still copied in right?

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@monorail @Felthry I was /just/ going to ask how those worked.

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@IceWolf @Felthry i'm pretty sure both of them just kind of handwave it like "step into this portal and be transported to the digital world" without any explanation of how that process works but it's never implied that it might be philosophically terrifying

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@monorail @Felthry Huhh yeah if there's a portal involved then there's like, never any point at which there is an original you and copy-data.

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@monorail @Felthry [as opposed to being say, scanned and digitized.]

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@IceWolf @Felthry yeah and i think that was the system felthry was referring to as their headcanon

i pretty much just don't think about it at all

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@monorail @Felthry *grins* I kinda have to think about it because wheeeeee, triggers!

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@monorail @IceWolf digimon is very explicitly a portal to the digital world yeah

it's implied that some characters might have some idea of how it works but it's actually something that just kinda started happening naturally some 20~30 years prior to the events of the anime
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@monorail @IceWolf and no one really understands it, that bit's important. some people have a bit of an idea but no one really knows
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@monorail @IceWolf except gennai might know? he's not really telling though
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@IceWolf @monorail how do you define copied?
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@Felthry @monorail Like even if the /data/ isn't copied you're still copy-killed in transit it sounds like...

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@IceWolf @Felthry they never really get into how it works exactly

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