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why do i want to write about lesbian Gen Xers in pokémon graduate school in the 90s

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« I think I'll have a little ice cream to cool my head... Ice cream... That ice-cream cone Fennel brought was sure delicious. » this is clearly a prompt

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i can’t believe there is not a single Professor Burnet / Fennel fanfiction

you CAN

a) play pokémon in an emulated version of games released prior to the publication of ECMAScript 1.0, and

b) transfer those pokémon into a game released in 2022 and use them like any other mon

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the previous pokémon data structure, which IS as old as (standardized) javascript, was later made forwards-compatible (with the virtual console releases of red and blue on the 3DS), but since there is no way to get a pokémon from a game boy game into the current ecosystem i’m saying that the original pokémon data structure as present in the original physical games still doesn't qualify

but you COULD argue it does

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this is not as old as javascript, css, or xml, but it is roughly as old as the first JSON and YAML libraries

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the pokémon data structure has been forwards-compatible since November 21, 2002, over twenty years

i've been playing pokémon dream radar which is three dollars on the nintendo eshop and remembering a time when tiny weird three dollar games from major publishers was an acceptable thing

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for the price of a little bundle of game currency you used to be able to get a whole-ass game

100% juice?! i thought this was apple cider!

« If there have been demons under the floor for as long as the world has existed... then Din, Nayru, and Farore deliberately chose to make demons. » glad to see this theological debate playing out in Zelda fandom too

gotta say the Sealed Chamber is still one of the coolest pokémon concepts

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