Just bringing it around again for a reminder!
It’s still taking place August 1st, 2012.
It’ll be somewhat of a end of summer party, as I’ve come to figure, instead of start.
More detail is in the last post!
Come out and have fun!
a very derpy, very badly done animation, haha.
Yeaaaah.
I’mma use this in ask-sandshrew in a bit pffff
A-achoo.
Um..
H-hi, everyone.
I think I’m getting better :>
Excuse me, I think I’m coming down with adorable overload.
What's that about you being a pokemon trainer?
It’s an ongoing experiment that was outlined here! To summarize: there has never been an instance of a Pokémon acting as a Pokémon trainer, despite there being seemingly no intellectual or behavioral impediment to doing so. To learn more about whether Pokémon are capable of being trainers, I’m running through an experiment where I play the role of Pokémon trainer to a number of genetically-engineered Pokémon from the lab!
So far it’s been quite an intense experiment. I’ve had to go through a number of different situations which have been set up by the lab, as well as some of your usual everyday trainer business. I’ve had my pitfalls and my highlights, and so far I feel like I’m acting like a trainer would for the most part! But there’s still a few things I find difficult about the whole thing.
One of the main issues I’m having with the experiment is that I don’t really know what qualifies as a success or a failure. They haven’t let me know. Obviously, I understand why this is - they can’t tell me what right or wrong is, lest it affect my behavior and performance - but for the life of me, I can’t imagine what metric they might be using to test my ability to “be” a trainer. It bugs me when I have a question I know I can’t know the answer to, because you know me - I always want to know the answers! But I hope that after I’m finished, whenever that is, they’ll let me in on it.
I’ve had a couple people tell me that these results can’t really be used to say anything definitive, because I’m not like your ordinary Pokémon - I’ve spent years in a lab, doing research, learned the language of humans, have spent a ton of time around them, all factors which could make it easier for me than it would be for your average Pokémon. Granted, it might not be overly generalizable, but I’m basically serving as a proof of concept - testing whether a Pokémon could, under ANY circumstances, take a trainer role. If someone in a position as favorable as mine couldn’t do it, it would say that it’s probably not going to happen ever. On the other hand, if I succeed, then the question becomes, under what circumstances could it happen? Either way, I’ll be contributing something through my actions!
Say, are you a doctor? Like, a good one?
Heh, not yet! The supervisors are looking into whether a Pokémon can be granted a doctorate in the first place. Even if they can, I’m not likely to attend any institution to earn such a degree - it’s a lot of work and my spot at the lab is really a full-time deal, trying to juggle the two would be a lot! But they say an honorary doctorate wouldn’t be out of the question! I don’t know how that might happen, but I trust they’ll keep me apprised!
How did you get your labcoat?
I received it as a gift from the lab I work for, for the amount of time I’ve spent working with them and the contributions I’ve made! It came as part of a whole outfit which I have nothing but the utmost appreciation for! I’m even getting a second set made so that I can be wearing them more often - I like how professional it makes me look!
We’ve breached 100, let’s try a little harder.
Get that booty.
Because… reasons.
Also because reasons.
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Does someone want to draw/photoshop one so that we can use it for this page?
Credit will, of course, go to the artist.
Use your imagination for this.
Someone help out here, guys! I would but I am not quite up to par on either drawing or Photoshop!
Ya' seem like a smart fellow. How did you get so smart, anyways? Ya' always had your nose in a book or somethin'?
Heh, I believe one of your kind has asked me a very similar question before! I attribute a lot of it to my natural curiosity, which makes me wnt to seek out knowledge and learn the answers to everything!
As for books, I didn’t read much if at all until I started working at the lab. Truth be told, I couldn’t - not because I couldn’t make sense of the words, but because I couldn’t see them well enough! If you’ve seen the pictures of me with glasses, then you’ll know I wear them on occasion - it’s primarily for reading text in books and other publications! I can see fine for most purposes without them, but my eyes aren’t made for tiny print! Once I got them, I got into reading a lot more - it’s a good way to learn stuff, a boatload of knowledge packed into pieces of paper!
You are too awesome, Grimm! Thank you so much for your kind words! I’ll keep doing my best to live up to that billing! And I hope I keep getting lots of questions that can help me do so!
