82nd moon [video]

[paladinlost]

[Tap tap tap, goes a hand against a wooden surface. A counter, probably, since all the video shows is the ceiling of Celadon's best bar.]

On the one hand, Rosa is not here to dine with me tonight and I've won no badge today. On the other hand, I'm not still suffering from painful burns all over my limbs. All in all, I'd consider this third anniversary acceptable.

[The tapping is almost a song by now, one that could be familiar to him but to no one else.]

But I never was one to be content with a merely acceptable situation. Thus, let's improve it together. Reply to me on the network, and I'll offer you the most sincere compliment I can think of; come see me in person, and I'll pay all your drinks tonight. That sounds fair enough to me.

[It also sounds better than drinking the night away by himself, which is the important part.]

Comments

[video]

[paladinlost]

That's an excellent question, considering that official breeders have no need for the badges as long as they have the disks. How can the HMs tell if someone is a trainer or not?

[With useless scarves and weird pattern and beads, of course.]

[video] i apologize forever for the horror of that last tag

[pinnedbangs]

[Rin thinks about it for a good 15 seconds.]

Y'know how pokemon are saved like files on a computer in the pc box? What if the HMs worked the same way?

[video] No worries~

[paladinlost]

...Why would you need to save files, unless there is a fire in your archive room?

[The lack of technological savvy strikes again!]

[video] ;u;/

[pinnedbangs]

Because you could lose them...? I guess a fire would destroy a computer but as long you have a USB or an SD card then you'd have all of your information.

[Come to think of it, could a fire destroy a computer? Rin's not too sure about that.]

Why would you have an archive room?

[video]

[paladinlost]

To keep all of your files, paperwork and contracts, of course. Some of them might be needed after a few decades, so burning them is not an option, and paper takes a lot of room over the years.

[There is a slight possibility that they might not be thinking about the same type of files.]

[video]

[pinnedbangs]

But that's what a phone's for. ...Or the pokegear over here in Johto. Why would you even need to keep that much paper for?

[Generational gap for the win?]

[video]

[paladinlost]

I doubt signing a Pokégear would be legally valid. Besides, without a paper trail you open yourself to courtiers complaining that their families were swindled by an agreement fifty years after the fact.

[video]

[pinnedbangs]

Courtiers? You mean like some legal system? [He gets it but ... ]

[video]

[paladinlost]

The kingdom's oldest and richest families. They can be perfectly pleasant most of the time, but if they feel they've been slighted...