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Topic Started: Feb 20 2011, 01:22 PM (2,067 Views)
Ànraich
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dialforthedevil
Feb 20 2011, 04:28 PM
I would probs laugh if someone did say it if a creature accidentally looked like one apart from that its retarded
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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That isn't the natural color.
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So? It's the animal mudkip is based on. I used to have a bunch of them living in my pond, but they were all eaten by snakes. Yes, that's right; I had real mudkips.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Guys, I don't think that the meme should be spewed randomly, but making games, such as pokemon, into spec projects requires knowledge, creativity, and imagination. I don't think that it limits an SE experience, that is if the project is scientific and not liekish
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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I'll allow it.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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Finally something I ask is acknowledged!
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Canis Lupis
Feb 20 2011, 03:35 PM
Please. Pokemon is not spec. It's just a kid's show and card game that I and most of us speccers were probably obsessed with as kids.

So please: do actual spec on the SPECulative evolution forums. Don't try to make video games real. That's not spec; that's just plain unoriginal and you're trying to pass your nostalgia off as spec.
That screws most of Fakey's projects.....

Actually, I still think Squib's Walking with Pokemon is still pretty cool, it's one game-made-real project that's actually real speccing, but except for that one project I agree with Canis, making video games real isn't really speccing. Unless you come up with something that's TRULY serious and make it a proper spec project with original ideas, it ain't going to do the job.

And yeah, the *coughiherduliekmudkips* meme is pretty retarded. Although I actually do use it sometimes; I caught it from other people who always use the meme. I guess I won't be repeating it again unless I want my brain fried....
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dialforthedevil
Feb 20 2011, 04:13 PM
Canis Lupis
Feb 20 2011, 03:35 PM
Please. Pokemon is not spec. It's just a kid's show and card game that I and most of us speccers were probably obsessed with as kids.

So please: do actual spec on the SPECulative evolution forums. Don't try to make video games real. That's not spec; that's just plain unoriginal and you're trying to pass your nostalgia off as spec.
Fakey- I couldnt care less how it is spelt just stop!

Going by that logic my whole project isnt Spec ;) i dont really care to be honest World Mythology is more academic than bleedin pokemon in my eyes
Dial, you should care. Spelling is very important to the world.

And both of you lost any respect I've had for either of you.

Do you know how FUCKING HARD it is to try and speculate why the hell a Wobbuffet looks like it does?

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THIS. THIS. Is the one Pokemon for my version of Pokemon that has caught me in a snag. I've tried making it a large arthropod. Didn't work. I tried making the blue part a decoy and the black part the actual creature. Didn't work. I tried making it a species of cave dwelling beaver. Didn't work.

Ice-types are easy. Psychic-types are a challenge. Fuck Psychic-types. Especially Wobbuffet and the Ralts family.
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Really? I got woobbufett and ralts families down easy.
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

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Then what, praytell did you make them? The Ralts family in mine is a species of human.
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My ralts will be flightless pterosaurs.
I do art sometimes.

"if you want green eat a salad"

Projects:
Amammalia: A strange place where mammals didn't make it and the land is, once again, dominated by archosaurs.

Oceanus: An endless sea dotted with islands, reefs, and black holes. Literally endless, literal black holes.

❤️❤️~I'm not a boy~❤️❤️
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I wanted the Carnivorhea topic moved.

Psychics are easy-it's so removed from reality that you can bullshit it.
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I think Canis you may have been a bit harsh on the pokemon project. sure it may be outside the box, but isn't that the same for everything in speculative evolution?
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tried making the blue part a decoy and the black part the actual creature.

That's what Wobuffet is though. That's why its moveset is based on counter and endurance.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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