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Second Rap [Video/Action in Ecruteak]

[When Dirk turns on his Pokegear, he’s leaning against a wall somewhere, bundled up in his ridiculous Christmas sweater. Maybe it’s hard to tell thanks to his habit of wearing sunglasses all the time, but to those who know him, he might seem kind of tired.]

A word of advice for future Christmases. If you’re planning on getting your friend an egg, first figure out how many of their other friends are giving them eggs too. Otherwise, they might have five eggs hatch on the same day.

[At this point, Dirk turns the SFC around to show a collection of baby pokemon at his feet, including a Ralts, Charmander, Houndour, Feebas, and Ponyta. As soon as Dirk’s attention is directed to them, they all start clamoring for attention.]

Anyone else have the same problem?

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Just a bit. Means I get a head start in terms of knowledge, so I can't complain.

I guess. What kind of game was it that makes all of this the "same" as it?

Just a video game. It was like this- you had Pokemon you trained, and so on. Some of the Pokemon were even the same. I can't remember too much about it other than that, video games aren't exactly my thing.

The hell is a video game? [The hell is a "video" actually. After a few moments of that question hanging in the air, he shakes his head.] Nevermind, it's probably just not something from my world and it won't make sense.

If you're sure. I bet I could manage a pretty good description, depending on the type of technology your world has.

My world is.. broken down, you could say. We don't have anything like these, for starters. [Gesturing at the screen.] All the buildings here look pretty different too. The only things that look similar are the tin huts lining the walls at the Aerie, and even then, these are far more stable looking.

[Aka, medieval.]

So, not much. All right. A video game is a combination of a story and a test of skill. Usually, there are segments used to advance the plot interspersed with challenges to test the person playing the game. These can be puzzles to battles. It doesn't involve actual fighting on the player's part- they use a controller to manipulate their character and get them to do the right thing at the right time. It's something like having a puppet, only that puppet is interacting with a fake world that you yourself can't personally interfere with. There might be some on the Pokedex.

A test of skill with puzzles in the mix. Huh. It does sound like something interesting, to say the least. [Actually, it sounds like the temple in the desert, with all it's bloody "magic" rules and that room where he couldn't run or get teleported back to the 'start'.]

It's a test of a very particular skillset, that doesn't always apply to the real world. but it definitely helped here.

Makes sense. It's not a bad idea, at least, but I would hope there are some based on as close to the real world as possible. It seems like it would be a waste of time to do all that learning and not be able to put any of those skills to use.

I'm sure there are, but there are plenty that aren't. For some people, half the fun is doing ridiculous things you can't do in real life.

And that's why it's a "game", hm?

Exactly.

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