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from here, right side, "player's poll".

i mean, that's a silly question, isn't it? the phrasing of the question implies that i am have become a pokemon for reasons beyond my control, so why would i be able to determine which variety of pokemon i would become? if you woke up one day transformed into a pokemon, which would you be? whichever type the mysterious forces that transformed me decided i would be, i guess!
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Lasa · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 128

Mystery Dungeon dictated that I would be a Meowth.

The Great Unwashed · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:33 am Post subject:

Where is the motherfucking Cubone option?

What a shit poll!
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I would repeatedly say my name and bounce up and down.

Probably.
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Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

judging from the choices available, i'm pretty sure they just took whatever was available to you in that mystery dungeon game.

which, yeah, was convinced that everybody on the planet was a mudkip.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I'd have to pick Pikachu out of that list, but that's like saying your favorite Harry Potter character is Harry Potter.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I've only heard of one character on the list. I guess... I should play Pokemon?

The major thing that's kept me from doing so is that the games defiantly only have one save slot, so any time I've tried to pick up someone else's copy and mess around, I've been forced to quickly put it down again.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

P.S. I want to be Meowth so I can be catty and hang out with hot chicks in uniform.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Now I'm imagining you flying out of the Select Button forums all dishevelled and indignant like Team Rocket. 'Team Dracko's blasting off again!!!'

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Do I get a uniform?

Japan says I do:

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Who's that guy with the glasses next to you?

Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

dhex · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 9:17 am Post subject:

perhaps the poke-morphosis has some kinda limited calvinist determinist thing going on, so while you didn't have a choice in your change, you have a limited kind of choice in terms of what you change into?
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

seryogin · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:00 am Post subject:

I played Pokemon back in high-school. It was fun... The oddest thing, though, was that, a about six months ago, on my last day as balloon delivery boy, I was paired with a new worker, who played pokemon red on his GBC all through the ride, singing "it feels to be good a ganster."

Weird times, weird times.
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bleak · . Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 258

I'd totally be a psyduck. Except that horrible game decided that I was to be a Charmander.

Psyduck is a possibility in that game.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

SuperWes · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

I would be Mewtwo so I could continue to speak to people and totally kick ass at the same time.

-Wes
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

If given the choice of all the Pokemon, I think I'd like to be Squirtle, since he can swim, shoot water jets, and he evolves into Blastoise.

I like this thread.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

I would hang myself.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Wow someone more picture-editing-literate than me needs to put a noose around that pikachu sprite
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Man you guys aren't really entering into the spirit of this.

D-A-I-S · . Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 123

I want to be an intelligent Pokemon capable of high-level logical reasoning and human speech who also does not get eaten by other Pokemon.

Which would probably make me one of those strange creator-god Pokemon that turn up in the later games and totally fuck up any kind of logical understanding of the universe.

One of the few very worthwhile things that happened to me in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was when my Meowth got a custom rescue base and it turned out to look exactly like his head. Not many things cause me to pump my fists and shout "Fuck yes!", but that did it.

I don't have a picture of it right now so I'll just check Google image search JESUS FUCKING CHRIST now I need to throw up

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I wish I had a base that looked exactly like my head.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

If I woke up and found out I was a Pokémon I'd "oh shit I'm a Pokémon now" and then I'd go on a mass rampage or something.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I'm disappointed with all the clever answers we've had since me and Wes retooled this into the 'State clearly and without irony which Pokemon you'd like to be and why' thread.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Too Kafkaesque for my blood.
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daphaknee · Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 4:12 pm Post subject:

which is the spiky purple one that belches a lot i want to be that pokemon

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Koffing!

Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

You can't go on a rampage as a Pokemon. It's not like you're Godzilla. The military would just shoot a bunch of bullets into you until you ARE DEADED.

POKEMON AREN'T GODZILLAS.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah but WHICH POKEMON WOULD YOU BE.

Pink Teddy Bear · . Joined: 24 Aug 2007 Posts: 180

Tyranitar, cause he kinda looks like Godzilla.

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Ohhh! Nice!

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Gon.
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Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87

I'd totally be Snorlax. Partially because he's fat and lazy and partially because Snorelax was my old online handle.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Charmander.
The only one I recognize that's not Pikachu.
All I know about Pokemon I learned from Pokemon Puzzle League and maybe a cartoon or two.

Please to be explaining.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

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sediment · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:37 am Post subject:

You know, questions like this disturb me on a fundamental level - not when posed from forums like ours, but specifically when posed from certain other forums.

Blind mudkip responses aside (/b/tards all) any response indicates an admission to, at least on some level, a desire to become a creature with essentially no destiny. Any pokemon exists only to repeat its own name, become captured by some petulant child, and then subject to duel after duel.

I mean, I know it's supposed to be all in good fun, but that's really all I can think of right there.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:16 am Post subject:

what's a blind mudkip?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Gon's too awesome to be anyone's Pokémon, motherfucker.

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I don't know about that, I just know he's objectively not a pokemon.

Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Gon's an Objectivist hero!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Dracko you still haven't answered the question

seryogin · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 1:55 pm Post subject:

sediment · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject:

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Wow good answer. I'll have to disallow reason b.), though; PLEASE KEEP YOUR JUSTIFICATIONS INTERNAL TO THE UNIVERSE OF POKEMON

sediment · Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

ok how about the ability to learn ghost and psi abilities as a replacement for point b).
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I guess that's too rooted in statistics, you have to express it in more naturalistic terms , like 'the beast has one foot in the world of men and another in the world of sorcery'