I agree that Shedinja is the cooler Pokémon here (probably the best Pokémon of all conceptually, IMO) and one I could imagine having IRL, but I'm not sure if it's as significant to me as Porygon2. I hardly ever keep Porygon2 in my lead, unlike Shedinja which I keep as my lead in SoulSilver, but it's one of my oldest Shinies (the oldest I still have, I think), has such amazing colors, and totally took me by surprise when I accidentally SR'd it in Platinum (vs Shedinja, which I was intentionally hunting). I also remember poorly paper-crafting a Porygon2 "puppet" as a kid, so I guess that makes Porygon2 a little nostalgic. (It's a real shame that I can't just swap my Rotom Dex for a Shiny Porygon2 Dex...)
(Also, I never really thought of Shedinja as being transparent...???)
I totally understood what that picture with the cylinders meant when I first saw it, but then you went and said that the cylinders represent spheres, and now I have absolutely no idea what it means, hahahaha! :laugh:
And I'm not saying that Shedinja's totally transparent! It's not, like, invisible or anything. What I mean is that if you think of a continuum of opacity, with "totally opaque" on one end of the spectrum and "totally invisible and see-through" on the other, Shedinja is much closer to the transparent portion, without being all the way at the end.
Like, do you know about the test that dude did to see whether light was a wave or a particle? He took a laser and shot it at a wall with two holes in it, and he had another, totally dark wall behind it. That test was checking out whether the light that reached the back wall perfectly lined up with the shape of the holes in the blocking wall (which would indicate a particle nature of light), or whether the light projected on the back wall didn't totally match up with the holes and crept out in a manner that didn't perfectly align with the shape and size of the holes in the anterior blocking wall (which would indicate a wave nature of light).
It turns out that light can exhibit properties of both waves and particles, but for the purposes of the following illustration, let's take the particle theory and assume it's true (it's not, but I'm making a demonstration here!) to test whether various Pokémon could function as "holes" in the anterior blocker. In doing so, we could see whether a Pokémon is solid or not by seeing whether any light would show up on the wall behind it. I think that if you were to do a similar thing as the original experiment and launch a laser beam at various Pokémon (sorry, icycatelf's faves! :pink_love: ), a perfectly opaque and solid Pokémon like Porygon2 would fully block the light and there wouldn't be anything on the wall behind it; a Pokémon like Flareon would block pretty much all of the light and form a silhouette on the wall behind it - but it wouldn't perfectly match the shape of Flareon's body, since Flareon's hair isn't monolithically solid and light would get through in a manner that doesn't completely line up with Flareon's look, as its hair could be blowing in the wind or something, "lol"); and with Shedinja, I'd imagine that most of the light would get through, but not all because Shedinja does have a physical essence that would block certain things from passing through.
Actually, on second thought, this wouldn't tell us a darn thing about the opacity of Shedinja, since whether something can interact with its body or whether it passes right through it is entirely contingent on Wonder Guard! There are certain elements that "recognize" Shedinja and interact with it as if it were a perfectly solid object (fire, bird attacks, etc.), and other things are disaligned on a dimensional plane such that the two elements never interact, and thus can be perfectly superimposed on the exact same Cartesian coordinates. I don't know whether light photons would be an element that could collide with Shedinja or would pass right through it due to failing the Wonder Guard dimensionality alignment, so this little experiment has absolutely no utility in helping us determine the opacity of Shedinja.
All this has done is let me launch a preemptive strike on some of icycatelf's most trusted companions, launching lethal laser beams to give me a quick victory to start off the war! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! :evil-smirk: :badsmile:
*sends in army of undead zombie anteaters led by Dorena the shiny Drowzee and Narango the mischevious fire mage to assault icycatelf's fortress*
Haven't posted in awhile. Today I got a shiny Gible, it took 581 Dexnav encounters. I forgot to plug my 3ds in yesterday but it wasn't red so decided to do 1 Dexnav encounter today and it was shiny. I put it to sleep and it caught in 1 ball. I immediately saved after catching it and after saving the 3ds died. Had it broke it of the ball I likely would have failed it. So happy it lived long enough to catch the shiny and save.
I've been in a fs hunting a shiny female Combee, have found 3 Pinsir, 3 Volbeat and 1 male Combee. I'm using cute charm so that Combee is more often female when it pops up. Really wish I had a fs with just 2 Pokemon in it though. Also have been horde hunting for 5% Scyther and masuda method hunting for Gastly.
Maserati!!!! I'm so glad to see you back!
Congrats on those new shinies - that's an enormously brave feat you pulled off there, "lol!" You must have enormous guts to engage in a shiny capture attempt where one failed throw could lead to a lost shiny! :pink_disbelief: I'm super glad to hear everything turned out for the best! :nod:
Also, I absolutely love how:
Classic shiny hunters: count their encounters by number of Pokémon seen
Maserati777: counts his encounters by number of shinies seen
:laugh:
Also, your Pokémon can follow you in the Isle of Armor (and hopefully the Crown Tundra coming later this year) and, unlike wild Pokémon, Shinies have their Shiny colors in the overworld! They still stay in their Poké Balls in the main region, though.
EDIT: Found this guy by chance last night! Funny since I'd been trying for a Shiny Midday Lycanroc on and off (mostly off) pretty much since the release of Sun & Moon. Full-odds, too! (That is, assuming the Isle of Armor doesn't have any unique Shiny mechanics like the Friend Safari.)
Nickname references my old username (KougaWolf), though I'm thinking about changing it to Shugo (the main character from .hack//Legend of the Twilight) since my mind immediately jumped to Ouka when I first saw Midday Lycanroc.
BWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA "lol" that first pic is
THE MOST icycatelf image ever, hahahahhahahaha! :laugh-squinted: Like, if you distilled your essence down and melted the very innermost pure elements of your soul to reforge them into a single image,
that would be it!! Leafeon in the center, Dunsparce prominently displayed in the foreground, a beautiful natural environment filled with rare fauna, shiny Wartortle and a Shedinja hanging out,
the corpse of Porygon2 lying solemnly in the background, a memorial to honor his lost soul that was so brutally felled by G-Money's nefarious laser beam...
It's often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but that picture is worth someone's soul! :pink_laugh:
And woah, for real!?? OMG that makes me absolutely hyped for the new DLC!!!!!!!! :boogie: I was thinking of waiting until the whole thing came out later in the year, but hearing that Pokémon can follow you sounds AMAZING!!!!!! Like, that's a huge part of why HG/SS were the greatest Pokémon games of all time!!! OMG now I want to go and play that immediately, haha.
Massive congrats on the shiny Rockruff! Kouga sounds like a dope name, especially since it was your name back when you were a wolf and shiny Lycanroc kind of looks like a wolf. (Also, you used to be a wolf!? I only remember you being a Cryogonal named KKN, and then a shiny hunter named icycatelf. What kind of evolutionary tree are you following!?? :pink_confused:)
