babel_hacker | Day 44

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Day 44 - [Text]

[After the prom, Atsuro used the Ace Trainer’s services to return to Goldenrod to pick a few things up from the department stores. Other than equipments and references he needs for programming, he also pick up a Dubious Disc to study. He’s been planning on taking a look into its contents, but he haven’t save up enough until now.

Not when he’s also saving up money for a possible investment into a house for himself and his Pokemon.

It’s after he take a good look into the Dubious Disc and dig in as much as he can, that he typed up a post to the network.]

Did anyone else look at what’s inside the Dubious Disc? The data inside is what cause Porygon2 to evolve into a Porygon-Z via trading. Which isn’t all that strange, since the Porygon line are made of data.

So I looked inside and I found some weird stuff. I’m wondering if anyone else can confirm it as well, or I lucked out in getting a weird copy to study.

Because I don’t know what to think about finding this inside. Or what looks like a bunch of familiar looking memes, just Pokemon (which is somehow both surprising but not really). So I’d appreciate your input on this.

Also, does anyone want a Dubious Disc? I can’t use it since Fortran’s fully evolved.

[Thanks for that, mysterious kidnapper.]

...And if you're also raising a Porygon-Z, mind if I ask you about the evolution process and results? Thanks.

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You can always poke into EXA's code if you need to. ...Well, I'm saying that, but for all I know it'll respond with a Zap Cannon, so you might want to ask it first.

...Yeah, I'd rather ask first. I don't know what a Zap Cannon would feel like, but I don't want to find out.

[All the Zio spells are bad enough back home!]

I imagine it feels much the same as getting an electrified anchor shot to the face, which isn't very pleasant.

[According to his victims' reactions, at least.]

Sounds nasty. Worse I had was being zapped by magical electricity.

Does the magical part really make a difference, if the voltage is the same?

I never got zapped by normal electricity before to compare them.

[At least badly enough to hurt.]

...Let's keep it that way and not get deliberately shocked for the sake of comparing the two.

Yeah. It's not like I desperately need to know right now.

Certain types of knowledge are best left unexplored, even if the nurses here could probably heal all the side effects.

Right. Who knows, if we're lucky, someone else might get unlucky and let us know!

That'd be great! But saying that definitely makes us very bad people.

Very bad people. It's not like we're wishing for it for real.

Of course not. Unless the unlucky person is one of a few chosen individual who are not present in this world but would deserve a shock or two.

I don't know anyone like that. Well, except for the greedy man who leaks out dangerous things to people.

[Or his teacher, but that's...mildly complicated.]

Good. The fewer people like that out there, the better. Even if they're useful during target practice.

Or as an opponent in general, in case you use a less physically attacking them type of method. Or you don't have access to any shooting equipments.

True. Far be it from me to discriminate against other weapons and attack types.

Right! I would prefer showing them up with technology, but I know some people who would love to throw in a good punch.

Those are not my favorite means of attacking, but I have to admit there's something about them that can be very satisfying.

You got that right. It's almost weird how cathartic punching can be.

Yeah. There's a few people I wish I had the chance to punch once; I think it would have done us both some good.

It would be. I think the closest I've done that helped us both is taking away or defeating the source of their power. It proves that it's not all-powerful like they think.

And it also stops them from using that power against you?

Context: We used similiar powers as them, using a handheld console as the medium. One guy thought he can't be harmed due to restrictions on their models and he's your typical high ranking suspicious guy in a group. But our models doesn't have those restrictions like their grunts.

The other case is more of a "defeating his literal manifestation of judgement and justice". Or rather, it's more like his faith was taken down along with his power source.

[The latter one is harder on him, for personal reasons.]

...There's so much that's weird about both of those that I'm not quite sure where to start. How can a handheld be a power medium?

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