Aqivex

Wait...

They (TR) definitely were involved in the "creation" of Ditto. In the pursuit of Mew. Who already "was" every Pokemon, in a sense. But you don't start that sort of research from scratch.

You pick a likely candidate for trials that has whatever traits you're looking for.

How does a Team Rocket experiment get a lower number?

If they did something to #132 that led to not just a lab specimen Ditto...but altered all instances of #132 in the wild also.

Dear Arceus...they genocided #132 and rewrote the children's history books. The monsters.

/hj

Know what else causes a loss of effective action and leads to a reversion to performative activism?

Making good points badly, to such a degree that your (presumably personally and deeply held beliefs) come across as the inverse of your intention.

Because neither the erosion of effective action nor the rise of performative activism, occurs in a vacuum.

In fact, both play into the hands of those who benefit from said erosions, and who have guided the communual discourse in such a way that even the very act of discussion in regards to the topics most important to the themes at hand, is apt to fracture into a mixture of ineffective action, which itself can only come across as "performative activism" to those approaching the very same problems, from a different angle.

Like, are you even aware of how poignant your gun violence example is, how your approach can easily be misconstrued as the same performative activism (an angry, contrarian, lone wolf call to sanity online is practically a trope at this point)?

They're winning, because nuance cannot be shouted, it must be demonstrated.

Goddammit, fine. I will go to the next reunion, and I will bring chicken for the lads, for old time's sake.

The way I thought it all shaked down (and what I thought was established fan canon long ago), was that the Cinnerbar Mansion experiments were an attempt to clone Mew.

Ditto was one of the first failures (and I bet the poor guys have it worse than no thoughts of their own, but rather their very thoughts are constantly trapped fighting shifting self-identity, if we want to go Grim Dark lol)

And they never got to perfect a Mew, because the next stage in the experiment precluded that.

That they achieved Mewtwo, after Ditto, and the scope of the project rapidly changed when the "benefactor" (sue me, there's still kids picking up the games, I ain't spoiling it, but we know who we're talking about) bankrolling the project got the initial "power level readings".

So they pumped Mewtwo, their perfect IV monstrosity, with both forced and artificial EVs, until what happened, happened, and Mewtwo had to go hang out in that cave to get some peace.

Meanwhile the Dittos suffer ;(

You know what else Reddit used to have? More comments like yours. You got it all nailed down in your observations. With intent, thought, and personality.

Same way you wrote a ridiculous yet thoroughly engaging "Elden Ring Journal" here on Lemmy (made my night lol).

That capacity for real people to have both the spaces and freedom to display themselves, whether that was them at their most intent focused in one community, or them at their most relaxed and silly in another, was one of the meta-qualities that their system didn't intend by design but which became hands down the emergent quality that allowed them to even get to being what they became post 2005 and pre-July 1, 2023.

The moment they started doing all the fuckery you rightly noted, they killed the conditions in which that emergent property could thrive.

Reddit doesn't just no longer feel the same because the system's changed, but because the changes were done with no regards for what it did to the organization's spirit, which for a web related property, has always been something defined by its users, and not the creators, all the way back to the first BBS.

I am one of the 90%. I have lurked in online spaces before and since Reddit, watching, and only occasionally sharing any thoughts.

Not because I'm antisocial (ok, maybe a little bit), but because there was always enough spirit to absorb, enough humanity to just bask in the display of shared thoughts between other people, that enough satisfaction was derived just reading, nodding along, and whispering opinions I had no intention to post.

That spirit, that humanity, is utterly dead in Reddit (and most of social media these days), and it behooves us all who care to not see it forever gone, to not see it driven away completely in the face of a dead Internet, to do something about it.

I guess I need to post more on Lemmy until I can return to invisibility, ugh.

Anyhow, great "rant", greater comments, and even greater silly posting, @Abyssian@lemmy.world, thank you for your time and thoughts!

I don't know how well that would work. The worst of these fucks seem to act with some sort of freakish resistance to acknowledging the natural world.

I don't mean that in some green washy climate related way (though that would have been nice, oh, 60 years ago), I mean they literally seem to resist acknowledging the actual physical state of reality as put before them.

I used to be a full blown atheist, but goddamn if I'm not starting to wonder if the Gnostics aren't on to something.

You entirely sidestepped the scenario and issue. In the example given, the copyrighted work is being produced directly onto a medium that obfuscates its provenance, literally. Yet, gives an opening for another to publish it in such a way, that they could claim it's their copyrighted work. They would be lying, and they would be wrong, but then you would have to prove to a body composed of ancient mummies who uphold an ancient code, why one of the few ways they thought they understood technology and codified into their verification process, isn't actually showing them the truth this time. Do you know how to defend a copyright claim?

Other poster isn't being difficult, facetious, or provocative, btw. The scumbags have already done exactly that, in other US states, already. Often. The articles are all over Lemmy.