dave mamahecking strider (
callbacks) wrote in
victory_road2017-01-13 06:24 pm
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so ive been thinking about this a lot since last year and im nowhere close to having an answer for it so im outsourcing the legwork
consider this an informal survey fellow pokeresidents
(not to be confused with pokecitizens since there doesnt seem to be any naturalization process on the books)
when
would you say people become adults?
because i gotta say ive been an ex minor for a month and a half already and im not noticing any measurable difference
not on the inside anyway
i guess im taller
probably
but i think im still growing
and i heard human brain structures dont stop developing until were twenty five
watching my pokemon grow up doesnt help any because they all mature at different rates and in every case WAY faster than we do
and it makes me wonder like
some of these guys that hatched from eggs
do they see me as a parent???
because thatd be fucked up
but then i have to ask myself why exactly is that fucked up and is it because im a child or because i dont want to be a dad or because im not fuckin parent material or something else?
and since when does adulthood have to go frond in frond with parenthood??
anyway let me know your thoughts or your homeworlds societys hiveminds thoughts its open season on this question i just decided right now
consider this an informal survey fellow pokeresidents
(not to be confused with pokecitizens since there doesnt seem to be any naturalization process on the books)
when
would you say people become adults?
because i gotta say ive been an ex minor for a month and a half already and im not noticing any measurable difference
not on the inside anyway
i guess im taller
probably
but i think im still growing
and i heard human brain structures dont stop developing until were twenty five
watching my pokemon grow up doesnt help any because they all mature at different rates and in every case WAY faster than we do
and it makes me wonder like
some of these guys that hatched from eggs
do they see me as a parent???
because thatd be fucked up
but then i have to ask myself why exactly is that fucked up and is it because im a child or because i dont want to be a dad or because im not fuckin parent material or something else?
and since when does adulthood have to go frond in frond with parenthood??
anyway let me know your thoughts or your homeworlds societys hiveminds thoughts its open season on this question i just decided right now

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YOU'RE THINKING "PRONG." "FROND" IS LEG.
AND IT'S USUALLY AROUND 9 OR 10 SWEEPS? SOMETIMES EARLIER. FUCK THE HEMOSPECTRUM, BY THE WAY.
BUT THAT HAS MORE TO DO WITH PHYSICAL MATURITY AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
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fronds are like
bigass leaves
what kind of legs do you have that look like this???
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AND DON'T EVEN PRETEND YOUR LANGUAGE ISN'T FULL OF HILARIOUS MISNOMERS. OR BETTER YET, DO! LIKE, WHY IS IT CALLED A "SOCK" IF YOU DON'T HIT PEOPLE WITH IT?
[... It's the first example to spring to mind, give him a break.]
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actually, I'm not sure. I wouldn't really say I'm a kid anymore, but I don't know if I'm an adult either and I just turned seventeen. Where I'm from, it's really, uh.
It's weird and from what I've been gathering from other people, not... normal.
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sorry im not laughing at you exactly
just
join the club
so what makes you say youre not a kid
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But, er... I've been a soldier since I was twelve and I've seen a lot of things most kids probably shouldn't have to see at that age.
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Hmmmmm...
I suppose people become adults when they feel they do.
So even if their age goes up and they're doing things like working a full time job and filing their taxes, if they don't feel like an adult, they're not really an adult.
That's what I think, anyway.
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there are no taxes here ill never grow up
im saved
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We'll all be young forever with no worries other than stray Pokemon making their homes in our attic!
Truly we have the absolute best luck to have found ourselves here.
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Hard answer: it's subjective.
That being said, I'm thirty-five and I have no children and no intent to have them. I'm pretty much widely regarded as an "adult". I don't really think maturity or seriousness plays into it and I guess I'd probably say once "teen" isn't part of your age anymore. Then again, I've known incredibly resilient and capable teenagers.
I cannot really say how they see you, though, or how they feel. I guess it would depend on how you raise them and treat them. Siblings can help take care of each other and never see one another as parental figures and sometimes they can. Friends can, too. I think it would depend on what you teach someone (them?).
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what about when parents dont pass muster as parental figures
or as "adults"
is there some way to get their majority revoked
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Since you're not an adult and we also have ten-year-old's raising baby pokemon here.
I think you only count as one when someone's first thought is to call you "Sir" or "Mister" in a completely unironic manner.
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please god never let that ever happen to me hallelujah amen
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actually, I haven't really thought about growing up for a long time
even since I became a Haibane, which was a few years ago already.
huh
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do haibane grow
cause i mean if its been years already id have imagined thatd be the sort of thing that would come up
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like I think u feel more adult when u get more adult stuff 2 do like holy shit suddenly you gotta learn taxes car payments buy a house n nobody to hold ur hand but google
porn and sex are plus sides on the legal front
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this is an e for everyone childrens franchise
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but is there some kind of formula for it
some way to calculate exactly what percentile youre in for your age like there is for height and weight
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As for the parenthood thing...uh. Yeah, the two don't have to go together, but it is definitely weird raising Pokemon. They're too smart for me to really think of them as animals, but they're not really human-level intelligence. Most of them, anyway. And then toss in all those re-incarnated human origin Ghost-types and it gets even weirder. Part of me is really glad that some of the older ones are responsible enough to keep an eye on the younger ones, but then I start wondering if I'm a bad 'parent' for leaving even part of that to them, you know?
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also like
i dunno
just because something doesnt have humanLIKE intelligence doesnt mean they dont have human LEVEL intelligence
you feel??
like wart thinks like a human but hes also vaguely human shaped and also psychic and likely absorbed a lot of my thought processes by osmosis and observation
but i dont think my other pokemon are stupid either even if their brains dont work the same way
well except turkey leg
hes just dumb
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Nah, I'm just messing with yah. A kid that kills a dude is still a kid, just one with a temper problem.
There isn't any magic number, any special event, any weird party that suddenly makes someone a grown up. You just wake up one day and realize 'I guess I'm not a kid anymore'.
And don't compare looking after Pokemon to being an actual parent. It's not anywhere close to the same thing.
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i saw some other dudes on the network talking about being grandparents
im inclined to believe theres something to such a widespread cross species tendency towards familial label type shit
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your home state didnt differentiate between minors and adults because thatd be fucked up
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ayyy private threadjack lmao
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