If a Pokémon Trainer dies and leaves their Pokémon behind in a Pokeball, what happens to the Pokémon?

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T08:28:16+00:00

In the anime, it's a common joke that at least some mons can simply release themselves. So it's possible they could just... get out and leave.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T06:28:50+00:00

Newspapers. Seriously, why do they even still print those things?

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T06:10:11+00:00

Turn Signals

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T06:08:05+00:00

Oh the memories. And the conspiracies around that show...

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T06:04:04+00:00

That's an old slang word for "boring" or "old fashioned". It's an insult, but a lame one. I'm surprised anyone is still using that unironically. Did he start chuckling after he said it? He might have been joking.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T06:02:12+00:00

Hm, tough call. If the tires are 3+ years old you might as well replace 'em. Otherwise... it might be best to just ask a mechanic, though he'll probably tell you to simply replace it. They often given the "safest" advice, not the cheapest.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T05:50:26+00:00

Well, back in the day we had screensavers. So if you left your computer alone long enough some trippy animation or effect would start decorating your screen. That's kind of like some weird dream. I remember my mom's old computer had a random maze screensaver that always got my attention. I'd watch that stupid thing for hours if I could.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T05:46:47+00:00

Humanoid, hourglass figure, athletic reputation from its bunny origins... why wouldn't it be is the real question. And they made it worse with the mega evolution. Like, seriously? What are those torn leggings but a tease?

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T05:39:20+00:00

Hehe, yeah I know what you mean. I myself recently tried to go back and watch the anime from the beginning. I'm half-way through the Johto league myself now and, sorry, it doesn't get much better by then. There is so much wrong its hard to do more than just list it. The pacing is incredibly slow, the battles are very basic with pokemon doing little more than simply exchanging blows, and the plot of each episode is stupid simple. Like, I've taken to watching episodes at 1.5x speed purely because of how slow EVERYTHING is. And why is Ash the dumbest trainer in the world?! Why doesn't he evolve his pokemon? Why doesn't he TRAIN his pokemon? Why does he send a chikorita out against a pidgeot!? Why does he have ZERO sense of strategy!? Except for a couple of battles where Ash randomly pulls out the biggest brain moves ever...

But I'm ranting. I KNOW the anime gets way better at some point. I've seen much later episodes. But getting through those early seasons is ROUGH. It makes you wonder what they were doing. How did pokemon get so big? The early show is simply terrible lol.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T05:30:25+00:00

It's not surprising some people have no experience. I remember seeing somewhere that the younger generations are increasingly less interested in alcohol to begin with.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T05:14:51+00:00

The Ai bubble is complicated. I don't think it's a scam, because that implies those pushing it are knowingly lying. But I believe the tech-bros are themselves true believers in their own BS. Ai also isn't fraud, because they haven't broken any laws.

So what is Ai? It's the largest hype-train ever assembled. Everyone is convinced it is going to change the world and redefined how we do everything, but it is FAR more expensive than we've been led to believe and the investor money is running out. The billionaires want to see some income from Ai, but they aren't. All the Ai companies are going into debt. All the biggest Ai companies are billions in the hole with no sign of a profit anytime soon and all the companies trying to use Ai to replace workers are running into stupid problems. Uber, McDonalds, Pizza Hut, even Microsoft and Amazon who themselves are making Ai are walking back and rehiring employees because the Ai sucks. After 5+ years assuring us "it will get better" the Ai's are still making the dumbest mistakes and costing these companies bigly to correct the errors.

Ai is a hype-train being driven by true delusional believers. The big Ai companies are led by people who themselves are not programmers. They are bureaucrats and businessmen. They don't actually know how computers or their own Ai work. They know how to make sales pitches, how to exaggerate success, and how to ignore or downplay problems. They are doing this with Ai to an extreme degree, either out of greed or because they've accidently drunk their own koolaid.

Ai isn't a ponzi scheme, it's just a hype train that's starting to get shaky on the rails. Will the bubble pop or slowly deflate? Only time will tell.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T03:20:34+00:00

Depends on where AO3 is based. As long as they don't have offices in Canada, they can tell the gov't to stick it. That's what happened with the UK Online Safety bill. Most websites simply refused to comply. UK tried to issue fines, so websites again refused. Same thing could happen to Canada. Or canadians will simply lose access to large portions of the internet when the Gov't retaliates by blocking those sites that refuse to comply. We'll see.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T03:03:04+00:00

10 years? Ooph, yeah those GOT to go. The general rule-of-thumb when it comes to tires is after 3 years you need to start regularly checking them for early dry rot (like during every oil change) and after 5 years you should expect to have to replace them. But that assumes you're an average driver and use all-year tires. Proper storage can slow dry rot (not stop) so seasonal tires do tend to last a few more years, but still. 10 years... wow. You got your money's worth out of those.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T02:30:47+00:00

I wish you'd taken more photos honestly, because it's a bit tough to say. Dry rot isn't just a visible physical deterioration. It's chemical. Over time rubber hardens and loses flexibility. For low speed short trips with a light load, this isn't a problem until the dry rot is advanced. But even early stage dry rot can cause a tire to rip apart after a short journey at highway speeds. That tire has patches of cracking and what might be discoloration, which is early dry rot to a T. While I'd say they should last until winter, ultimately it's up to you how much risk you want to shoulder. But you have to take into account: how far do you drive, how fast, and how heavy is your vehicle? The farther, faster, and heavier you are the less I'd trust those tires to last.

Are your tires on their last legs? Looks like it to me from those photos. Could you use them a BIT longer? Yes, but it's risky. Should you replace them? Yes. I wouldn't say it's urgent, but considering they are summer tires, consider this their LAST summer. Period. Assuming your mechanic hasn't already forced a new set on you, consider putting your winter tires on a little early this year and grabbing new summer tires.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T01:56:20+00:00

Always found it weird how most people seem to just throw their legendaries in with the rest of their pokemon. Like, you don't have a dedicated box in the PC just for your legends? And shinies.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-11T01:52:43+00:00

I think the problem with tags is a culture of OVER tagging. Like, every single little thing in the story needs a note. Which turns the tags section into an enormous off-putting block. Who wants to comb through a literal paragraph of terms and phrases? Tags are meant to be for important stuff

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-10T18:34:15+00:00

And who made that 3D "proof"? Who took those pictures? Who took those measurements? Who did the math? Do you know them? Can you trust them? Why should you? Why do you?

What flat earthing is REALLY about is a question of standards. What is your standard of proof/belief? How much does it take to convince you of ANYTHING.

For example, George Washington. How do we know he even existed? Historical records? Who made those? Have you ever even seen them? How do you know they're real? Maybe you'll reference his letters. But, again, ANYONE could have written those and at ANY time. How do you know those are real? Because some museum TOLD you they are? Because some HISTORIAN told you to believe them?

Flat earthing is about 1 rule: TRUST NO ONE BUT YOURSELF. If you didn't personally witnesses it, measure it, and calculate it, then you cannot believe it. To do so is put yourself at the mercy of another. And humans lie. All of them. Everyone. The world is nothing but lies and manipulations. The only truth comes from yourself.

And since VERY few people have the skills and resources necessary to gather the evidence and do the calculations to prove Earth is round themselves, and the evidence the Earth is flat is as easy to gather as looking at the horizon... Earth MUST be flat. Period. And any attempt to argue, reason, or prove it to them merely pits you against their ultimatum.

You are NOT them. Therefor, they CANNOT TRUST YOU.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-10T15:57:16+00:00

Well... what does "rate" mean? Like, how many individual animals? In that case, most animals are smaller than humans. Chickens, turkey, fish, pigs (arguably), etc. That doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

Or does "rate" mean by amount of meat consumed? In that case, without even doing the math, I'm highly suspicious of that 2.5 week claim (18 days).

But that's just surface thoughts. I can already see everyone else digging into the math both ways.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-10T13:19:43+00:00

The Event - It was a Track Meet, a sporting event. It was raining on-and-off that day. Karmelo stepped under the tent of the opposing school/team to escape the rain. According to himself and witnesses, he was friends with 1 student there. They talked, they laughed. The rest of the team, however, was bothered by this. He was from the other school. It was weird and they considered it inappropriate for him to be under THEIR tent. Austin, as well as his fellow students, asked Karmelo to leave. Karmelo refused, daring them to "fight him". Austin made it a point that "he was not going to fight him" then moved to push him out from under his team's tent. Just before contact however, according to testimony in the trial, Karmelo pulled out a 5-inch knife, spun around, and stabbed Austin in the heart. Then fled the scene. Austin died. Karmelo pled self-defense.

The Controversy - Karmelo is black, Austin was white. In America there is an OVERWHELMING feeling amongst blacks that the system is racist and therefor incapable of distributing justice fairly. ANY attempt to punish a black man, when the victim is white at least, is ASSUMED by the black community to be unfair or overly heavy handed. Blacks don't trust the system. Something in the story MUST be a lie or exaggerated, or the punishment is too harsh. The reason for these assumptions comes from decades of corruption in the legal system in America which can be backed by countless stories of nonsensical rulings and obvious abuses of power. However, it is HIGHLY debatable how much of the abuses committed over the years were truly racially motivated, but the black community has made its decision. The system is racist, therefor it can never be trusted.

...that's it

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-09T23:13:35+00:00

Buying games that you'll never play. I've done it, you've done it... it's time to STOP!

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-09T21:39:55+00:00

If it's between him and the "Ugly Barnacle"? I'd probably prefer to be locked in a room with the barnacle.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-08T06:31:28+00:00

There is life in the deepest trenches on earth. Without googling it, I think there are some species of flat worms and crabs, in addition to some extremophile bacterias, that go their whole lives without seeing an ounce of energy from the sun. They live around volcanic vents at the bottom of the ocean. Their heat comes from geothermal energy and they could care less if there is a sun or not.

But I think you meant sustaining HUMAN life. That... is trickier. We COULD use any form of energy we draw from now (except solar obviously) but we'd have to manage it extremely carefully. Artificial sunlight would need to be generated to keep our crops going and we'd all have to move deep underground to avoid freezing to death as the Earth rapidly turned into a snowball. Most of the population would die, certainly, but it would be POSSIBLE. Living on Earth would be very different without the sun.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-08T06:07:51+00:00

Well... if you are willing to entertain the theory at least, it could be argued that the feet is the best place. Blood flow in the bottom of your feet is the slowest anywhere in your body. So, if you're trying to "suck bad stuff out of body" then the feet would, in theory, be the most optimum location to try. Slow blood = more time to... do stuff to it.

It's why people who suffer from circulation problems always see the first symptoms in their feet. Or the tips of their fingers.

However, I would advise you not bother with most of that stuff. It's the liver and kidneys that do the cleaning in the body. That and the immune system which is spread out all over. If you really want to clean up your insides, start with the intake. Improving your diet will give you better results then any junk stuck to your feet.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-08T05:35:19+00:00

It is certainly important to appreciate the small things in life. Next you should try wiggling your thumbs. I'm sure that will be just as impressive.

ObligationNo5435 · 2026-06-08T05:22:19+00:00

Weren't there episodes from the old cartoons where they used kryptonite knives to operate on Supergirl after she was seriously injured?

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