Since I would mainly just watch Team Rocket’s story, it was interesting to see how trainers and gym leaders use the field and other such things like the left over of sticky web to their advantage and also, feeezing the field and Pikachu using Electro Ball on itself to counter the effects of Sleep Powder. And it was just lucky that butterfly like pokemon got ice on its wings reducing its movement.
Though, I guess all that would be bs in the games. Especially Pikachu using Thunderbolt while still using Iron Tail to keep its balance on the ice field. Like, the rest, I guess, I can accept in the anime, but using two attacks at the same time seema like bs?
This is something that has always bothered me. I know Team Rocket aren’t allowed to steal people’s pokemon successfully for obvious reasons, but would it be so bad for them to capture a wild pokemon that won’t be on their party???
Umm, Bonnie, isn’t that the consequences of battling, either to capture a pokemon or battling against a gym. I mean, with Lt. Surge in the anime for example, he sent a lot of pokemon to Nurse Joy and no one really bat an eye. Just saying.
Okay, but am I the only one who ever thinks about this – of how trainers capture whatever pokemon they desire and rip them from freedom. Like, makes me wonder if the captured pokemon had friends, homes, and family? I mean, it’s safe to say its lifestyle changes completley.
Also interesting to note how Clemont was going to use technology to lure this one. Reminds me of how organizations sometimes do that – use technology to lure and capture pokemon, free or stolen. Lol
I ask this since Fletching really battled hard and tried to not be captured. My final question is how is it that most pokemon after being caught are just like ‘ok that happened’ and do whatever the trainer commands.
Idk, just thoughts I’ve always had. I know it’s not meant to be deep or complex at all. Lol.
Here’s some examples awkward accessibility being a thing:
Your at a hotel that has a lift to get you from one sub-floor to another, but the lift can only be unlocked and operated by one specific person that the hotel now has to go find. Sure, they’ve made the entrance to the sub-floor is accessible, but now it’s a thing.
The buses are wheelchair accessible but the driver has to stop the bus, take 30 seconds to lower the goddamn ramp, move passengers out of their seats, hook up the straps and then secure you in the bus. Sure, they’ve made the busses accessible but now it’s a thing.
The restaurant has an accessible entrance, but it’s past the trash room and through the kitchen. Sure, the restaurant is accessible, but now it’s an insulting thing.
Here’s some great examples of accessibility not being a thing:
The train to the airport pulls up flush with the platform. I board with everyone else and sit wherever the fuck I want. Riding the train is accessible and not a thing.
In Portland, I press a button the side of the streetcar and a ramp automatically extends at the same time the door opens. I board in the same amount of time as everyone else. This is not a thing.
I get that it is difficult to design for wheelchair accessibility, but folks need to start considering the overall quality of the experience versus just thinking about meeting the minimum requirements.
For the love of all things holy please pay attention to this
This is why universal design is so important. I had a great class that focuses on applying universal design aspects of architecture into teaching. Accessibility ideally should be integral to the design in the first place, not added on as an after thought.
As many of you know, Ciel and Sebastian’s contract is called a “Faustian Contract.” This is because the concept of making a contract with a demon comes from the German legend about Johann Georg Faust, a devout-man-turned-contractee. I thought I would point out some parallels, as well as what this may mean for Ciel when the contract ends and “the devil will have his due.”Â
The Demon’s Summoning “…[Faustus] took courage and did conjure the star once, twice, and a third time, whereupon a gush of fire from the sphere shot up as high as a man…”
It’s not fire, and a bit taller than a man, but the image is similar.Â
The Demon’s Form “Now a devil, or a spirit, appeared in the figure of a gray friar, greeted Doctor Faustus, and asked what his desire and intent might be.”
In the legend, Faustus was sent to school to study theology, and in his later studies grew well-versed in the Bible. He would have been familiar with, and even comfortable around friars, which is the form the demon chose to appear in. Similarly, Sebastian chooses a form that he knows Ciel will be the most comfortable with, and when Ciel seems put off, offers other options. What is the one thing a demon wants from a potential contractee? Trust. Both a friar and a butler are reliable, and thus ideal forms for a demon to take.Â
In honor of World Elephant Day, we present you with 12 little known facts about one of our favorite creatures…in GIFs, of course.
1. Elephants know every member of their herd and are able to recognize up to 30 companions by sight or smell.Â
2. They can remember and distinguish particular cues that signal danger and can recall locations long after their last visit.
3. An elephant’s memory is not limited to its herd, nor is it limited to its species. In one instance, two circus elephants that performed together rejoiced when crossing paths 23 years later. Elephants have also recognized humans that they once bonded with after decades apart. 4.Â
4. The elephant boasts the largest brain of any land mammal as well as an impressive encephalization quotient (the size of the animal’s brain relative to its body size). The elephant’s EQ is nearly as high as a chimpanzee’s.
5. The elephant brain is remarkably similar to the human brain, with as many neurons and synapses, as well as a highly developed hippocampus and cerebral cortex.
6. Elephants are one of the few non-human animals to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
7. Elephants are creative problem solvers.Â
8. Don’t try to outsmart an elephant! They have an understanding of basic arithmetic and can even keep track of relative quantities.
9. Elephants communicate using everything from body signals to infrared rumbles that can be heard from kilometers away. Their understanding of syntax suggests that they have their own language and grammar.Â
10. Elephants can recognize 12 distinct tones of music and recreate melodies.
11. Elephants are the only non-human animals to mourn their dead, performing burial rituals and returning to visit graves.Â
12. Elephants are one of the few species who can recognize themselves in the mirror.
Given what we now know about elephants, and what they continue to teach us about animal intelligence, it is more important than ever to make sure that these magnificent creatures do not vanish.
Despite an increase in awareness and advocacy across the globe, elephants are still a highly vulnerable population. Consider adopting an elephant or donating to one of many organizations that work to conserve elephant populations! ❤
🔥 There is beauty in destruction🔥 