the Hearth :ms_agender_flag:: "re: philosophy/triggers shit" - Awoo Space

Dec 10, 2020, 03:20

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

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

Dec 10, 2020, 03:20

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

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

Dec 10, 2020, 03:21

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

@monorail Wait so is this a PC in-universe?

Dec 10, 2020, 03:22

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@IceWolf @monorail yes that's how pokemon works
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Dec 10, 2020, 03:23

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@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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Dec 10, 2020, 03:23

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

@Felthry @monorail Ooookay I am uh just going to run as far away from Pokémon as I can then. >,,>

Dec 10, 2020, 03:24

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

@IceWolf @monorail huh?
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Dec 10, 2020, 03:24

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

philosophy/triggers shit

@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/.

Dec 10, 2020, 03:25

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @monorail there's no indication that any copying is going on
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Dec 10, 2020, 03:25

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@Felthry @monorail Aren't you copied /in/, then copied back /out/?

Dec 10, 2020, 03:26

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @monorail We've always thought of it more like a portal situation
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Dec 10, 2020, 03:31

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@Felthry @monorail Ohhh okay that's good to hear.

/Very/ different than being stored as data!

Dec 10, 2020, 03:32

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @monorail i mean you are stored as data?
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Dec 10, 2020, 03:32

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@Felthry @monorail Theeeen that's still a problem because you're still copied in right?

Dec 10, 2020, 03:32

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @Felthry maybe it's more like digimon

Dec 10, 2020, 03:32

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @Felthry or code lyoko

Dec 10, 2020, 03:32

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@IceWolf @Felthry two shows i've never seen

Dec 10, 2020, 03:33

Frost [moved] @IceWolf@meow.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

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

Dec 10, 2020, 03:34

mixed berry social anxiety disorder 🍓 @monorail@glaceon.social

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@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

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@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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Dec 10, 2020, 04:12 · · · ·

Dec 10, 2020, 04:16

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@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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Dec 10, 2020, 04:17

the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

re: philosophy/triggers shit

@monorail @IceWolf except gennai might know? he's not really telling though
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