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Yeah, I can understand that. It's just that Scyther is my number 1 favorite Pokémon. No, wait, scratch that. Scyther is my number 0 favorite Pokémon.
NO WAY I got a ghost Pokemon right after reading this
very good story, lore/10
Great website thanks! Currently trying to get Lugia in Soul Silver with ultra balls. Apparently it's going to be a tough one!
Very nice
(To add some additional insight to that, the reason it ended up as that specifically is that first I just tried editing the first character to the paragraph character, only for nothing to show up. Then I realized obviously that was because the stat box was rendered on top. So then I tried just lengthening the name with three additional R characters, and still nothing showed up - so I squinted at it again and realized yeah, actually the tenth character goes right where the right-side border of the stat box is, so in fact you can't see any sign of the name getting rendered under there even if you somehow had a ten-character OT name. Then I thought of the trainer character and stuck that on there. If I'd merely happened to think of these edits in a different order, I would've just stuck the trainer character in there instead of the end string character in the first place instead of extending the name with extra R's, and we wouldn't be having this discussion because it would just say INER on the screenshot.)
Nah, I'm afraid. The only reason it says "RAINER" in that screenshot is that I'd shamelessly memory-edited the OT name specifically in order to lengthen it enough to show up despite the stat box being rendered on top. In that particular screenshot the OT name was "<page>RAINERRR<trainer>", where <page> is the new Pokédex page character discussed in the article and <trainer> is the single control character that prints the entire word "TRAINER". In order to change it to that, I had to manually do all of the following:
- First I replaced the actual initial T character in the original name ("TRAINER") with the page character, which as discussed elsewhere in the article would require several different bit flips. This was required in order for the rest of the name to get written out in the position where a Pokédex page would begin.
- Then, despite that the player character's name is limited to seven characters in the naming UI, I lengthened the OT name to the technical limit of ten bytes by duplicating the final R character a few times. This would again require a bunch of different bit flips.
- And then I changed the tenth character to the trainer control character specifically, which would again require a bunch of specific bit flips. If the trainer control character were anything but specifically the tenth byte of the OT name, or if the page control character were anything but specifically the first byte, then what shows up wouldn't be RAINER but rather AINER or INER, etc.
This is an extremely contrived and unrealistic sequence of changes and is not something that would ever, ever have happened on someone's game by chance; my Jolteon was only plausible because it only took one flipped bit from the end string character to the paragraph character. It's an amusing coincidence that the first contrived completely implausible OT name I managed to construct that had the text overflow past the stat box happened to result in the bit of the name that's not obscured being the name of a supposed Pokégod, but there's no way that's the actual origin of the Pokégod's name.
In theory, there could be some other, more plausible glitch that could have resulted in a string with the trainer character in it being partially obscured by other graphical elements drawn afterwards, but I think that's still extremely unlikely to be where Rainer came from - in all likelihood, some kid just came up with Rainer as a not-very-original name for an awesome Water-type, the same way they came up with "Charcoal" or "Doomsday".
So this means Rainer is real??
Maybe it's time for a trip to the old glitch forums to see if there's any credibility to the pokegods. At least Rainer lol. It's too close for that name to be chosen by accident, maybe someone has stumbled upon that name appearing in a real save file before
I think the problem is not them following their conviction (every Christian have rights whether they thing something pop-culture is good or bad, that's their own free will). The problem begins when they enforce their conviction towards other Christians, and questioning whether these Christians are true believers or not (due to not having the same convictions as them). While not the same issue, the Bible spoke about this issue in the Book of Romans, Chapter 14.
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1) Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
2) For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
3) Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth: for God hath received him.
4) Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.
5) One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
6) He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks.
7) For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself.
8) For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
9) For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.
10) But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
11) For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
12) So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.
13) Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.
14) I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
15) But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.
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It's lengthy, but in summary, it's about how it's okay for Christians to follow their own conviction in some aspects of life (i.e. pop-culture), and we should respect the conviction of our brothers and sisters who are with it or not; as long we don't judge them because they don't follow the same conviction as us, because all of us are brothers and sisters in Christ.
It's really sad to see how some Christians (due to their legalism and fear festering in their minds) see pop-culture as something irredeemable, because it can be used as something fun and good. They're not harming how people see them, but they are especially harming our brethren over conviction differences. I hope I give info needed, and take care.
I've wondered about this for a while. Great explanation!
I used this to memorize & recite pokémon in natdex order in high school, truly proving to my psych that I was Not Autistic™️.
Been using this guide to help me get back into pixel art. So far it has been a blast \(^_^)/
Facepalm
I don't know if I have the brain capacity to memorise all of the pokedex numbers but I'm sure it'll be fine.
Thank you so much for this, I guess I did just get really unlucky with Regirock.
Any backup musical ideas in case the Pokémon Company sues you?
If I could get away with it, it would be Morphic: the Musical :P
Butterfree, if you wrote a Broadway musical yourself, what would it be about?
Shiny verification 'mon!! :O AAAA
Hope you're having a great vacation, Butterfree! ^^
Not to be rude, but what goes on in your head?
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Ethan Schoales
Ethan Schoales
