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Pokemon go got a graphical upgrade to 8-bit graphics https://www.pokemon.com/us/pok...

We know for a fact and have documented at least two people repeatedly, for over half an hour each day for months on end, trying to access porn and porn-related sites. Yet, like the SEC, none have been canned.

I have found the same thing in my network logs a couple of times. In each case I have messed with our proxy server to point those requests to https://www.pokemon.com/
Same thing right?

... I mean just look at their tagline: ''Gotta captcha 'em all'' !!

But the cartoon sucked. Always sucked.

OK, let's review...

Transformers was aired in 1984. Cartoons (anime or otherwise) with good storylines were rare, if not unique. After all, what was the competition?
He-man? Voltron? Mazinger Z (pfft) ?

Transformers was written for young, gullible kids. Yes, it was also made to sell toys, but what difference does it make with other cartoons of today?

Anyway, it was a show about good vs. evil. And the evil characters were REALLY evil. I loved the way Megatron planned the destruction of the autobots, he was evil, and i just loved that (well actually i hated him, but you get the point). We rarely see characters like him today. And remember, in 1984, kids weren't aware of conspiracies, and intensive drama was definitely taboo. We were children! We didn't have to worry about terrorism, drugs, or our best friend committing suicide. We just wanted to play, have fun, and watch some TV.

Call me naive, but it was a show perfectly adapted for our young, innocent mindsets. And we loved it.

It's gollum, not Golem.

A Golem is this or this or this.


Yes, I am a Pokemon fan.

Funny thing about child porn, is that my great-grandmother (and probably yours) was married and head of a household at the age of twelve. The main reason behind this "think of the children" nonsense is the excessive coddling and retardation of children by corporate america. Adolescents are an ideal market for anything; after all, they don't have to earn any of their disposable income, so they're not so adverse to spending it on gaudy, trifling trash

AFAIK there is nothing to stop Pokimon from having a pokimon.kids.us website which can be linked to from advertisments within the kids.us domain.

Except that everybody would make fun of them for not even being able to spell their own trademark :-)

One of them was if we should ban cockfighting or not.

Be careful: if you vote "Ban it!" then, depending on the way the bill is worded, Nintendo may be banned from selling its animal combat simulation products in your state. Yeah, sure, Nintendo's official line is that it's based on the Japanese sport of beetlefighting, but American kids know what really happens, especially in a Pidgeot vs. Fearow match.

Besides, I've always wanted to take on someone in an FF-style battle.

By "FF-style battle" I assume you mean the Menu Kombat of most console role-playing games. Well, if you want player-vs-player menu kombat, you should check out Nintendo's cockfighting RPG.

I think the only true 3G in the market nowadays is NTT
But then the Japanese are always the first to adapt small interactive things ala Pokemon

Pokemon are the best thing to happen to host naming schemes in a decade.

Our little boxes that don't do anything real important are named after weak Pokemon: Caterpie is the Solaris jumpstart server, Pikachu is the console server, Nidorina and Nidorino are the pair of ftp servers.

Medium sized boxes with more prominent roles are named after more powerful Pokemon: a firewall is Eevee, one nameserver is Metapod, another is Beedrill.

Finally, our largest and most critical boxen are named after the most powerful and evolved Pokemon. The NetApp filers, an active-active pair clustered together around 2Tb of storage, are named Mew and Mewtwo. Our E3000 mail hub is called Electabuzz.

OK, so you've probably noticed that I don't follow the evolutionary model exactly right (Nidorino is a medium-strength Pokemon). But who cares. It's fun, the names are spelled mostly phonetically, are easy to say and type, and there are plenty of them.

There's even an online reference: The Pokedex. Does it get any better than this?

In fact, here's Zilog's page on the Z80 still in production after 25 years! How many other computer technologies do you know that are still available after 25 years? Pretty remarkable.

I guess there's just one reason for that. No, maybe two. =)

Some experts have suggested that advertisers will focus increasingly on "imbedding" advertising in the programs, via a split screen, an unobtrusive logo, or product placement as a "prop" in the show.

This sounds morally repugnant. Imagine a TV show where there was little plot and just a whole lot of product placement. I for one hope this never takes off.

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The press slamming it is not so bad a problem as all the developers going over to the Xbox. If they all defected, you can understand Nintendo sticking with what they've got

Nintendo already has a dead product (Nintendo 64) that it's been phasing out lately (notice only two announced N64 games in latest Nintendo Power magazine's Game Watch). But Nintendo has a nearly guaranteed winner in the GAMECUBE because kids are going to want one no matter what, as Nintendo has trademarks on popular franchises such as Super Mario, the series formerly known as Zelda (when was the last time you saw Princess Z being rescued? A Link to the Past?), and especially POcKEt MONey (gotta spend 'em all). Plus, Nintendo has an exclusive contract with Rare, who can squeeze the last bit out of even the hardest hardware. (Had Rare been developing for Saturn, the PSX likely wouldn't have killed it as quickly.)

"If you ever need an easy (though slightly shameful) point or two, just put in your post the words " Security Through Obscurity Doesn't Work". I have no fucking idea why this always gets the +5, but it's never failed me yet.

Also QNX and Solaris too, But never NT too buggy. I must keeping very quiet about it but Linux works well, not real time but good enough for most aspect of the control. If you want more info please checking out our Linux nuclear saftey web site www.chernobyl.power.ru/~borisgretsky/docs/html/Lin ux-graphite cooler-control.htm

Apologizing for my poor english speaking is not first language. I hope this is useful, I don;t think is classified any more.

This could be a really great thing to watch. Maybe now, becuase of Playstation add-ons, X box will start to put better stuff on, and then Sony will add more, and then X box will add more... and after many years of more and more, and the realease date being pushed back for many years, Sony and Microsoft will release two game systems that are so powerful they can directly link with your brain and cost millions and millions of dollars too make, and since they have to sell it at $350 or so they will both go bankrupt... and we, the consumers, will chuckle, and then be forced to play pokemon, yet once again...

I would sure hope Uri Geller wouldn't look like this......

The two companies have quite a few products in common; for example, Hasbro has the rights to manufacture Pokémon toys for the U.S. market (at least that's what the tag on my stuffed Pikachu indicates ^_^) and WOtC had the rights to market the Pokémon CCG in the States. Hasbro bought out Microprose, which made the Magic: the Gathering computer game.

This makes me wonder, though; Decipher currently has rights to produce Star Wars CCGs, and Hasbro makes the SW toys. I make a conjecture that some switching of licenses will be going about soon.

Is it easier to buy the company than to just buy the licensing? Hmm...

OMG, you don't know what Pokemon is? One of the most successful franchise of games ever? Well, to give you a quick rundown, you try to collect 150 (for now, new ones are going to be in later games) different kinds of Pokemon (really cute "monsters"). You fight them and and raise their power. It's an RPG with a collecting theme. It's highly addictive. It's spawned off a TV show, mulitple games, and you can put Pokemon on any product imaginable (watches, shirts, keychains, etc), and a movie is being released in November. And the Pokemon Trading Card game, which is sorta like the videogame, is also incredibly hot with the kid crowd. Like I said, go to your local middle school, and ask ANY kid there, and they'll tell you what Pokemon are. For some links, try these:
PokeAurora
Pokemon.com
The Pokedex

And while I don't like emulators, I do suggest you check it out, highly recommended.

Take Nintendo for example. I was looking at the box for the game Pokémon Snap. As you can see, the box features the lens of the camera with various game characters around it. If you look at the back of the box, you'll see a disclaimer: "This is a game pak, not a camera".

Well, DUH.

Maybe this cute pokemon could be the new logo. :)