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Didn't even really need to overlevel him for that, though. He was fast and had a high special attack, so he got the first move in most situations and could oneshot most things. Even when it first evolved, my Kadabra carried me through pretty much every gym on its own, just because of how broken the psychic pokemon were in gen 1.

I don't know, I'm pretty sure I've got aphantasia, but I love reading. I just tend to skip over character descriptions and have no clue what any of them are supposed to look like. On the plus side, I'm pretty much never disappointed with casting of an adaptation meaning the characters don't look as I'd imagined them, since it's just not something I do.

I think it was last year that I had to break it to my mother that pickles are not, in fact, a naturally occurring relative of cucumbers, but rather the result of placing cucumbers in some sort of brine. She's almost 70, and apparently believed there were pickle plants out there that you could just walk up to and grab a gherkin, or something.

The last time I played gen 1, this was my strategy up until I caught an Abra. After that, once I got.some.levels on Abra and he got a psychic attack, my starter only came out when Abra ran out of moves. By the time you hit the Elite 4, you can just one shot pretty much everything with a well-leveled psychic Pokémon.

Duckduckgo does plenty with its advanced search operators, which are pretty similar to Google's. * is a wildcard, meaning if you were to search c*y, results word return something including a sequence beginning with 'c' and ending with 'y', but having any sequence of characters in between them.

Eh, if I knew it was permitted going in, that's on me. If it's a new movie and there's no notice that they'll allow that behavior, and they allow some guests to be loud and obnoxious for the whole showing, I wouldn't go back to that theater unless I heard things changed. That was more than enough to avoid teenagers being insufferable at Friday night horror films when I was growing up. Some of them allowed it, and they had ongoing problems with teenagers being little monsters (breaking stuff, causing fights, bothering other patrons outside the theaters, etc), and gained reputations for being dumps not worth going to. Others required teenagers to be accompanied by parents, to control them a bit and shame them into behaving. Others just didn't indulge in it at all, and would just straight up kick out disruptive people.

I'd prefer more places had a system like Alamo Drafthouse's, where they post on the site when it's going to be a screening with audience participation, or a children's screening, or whatever. Everyone is free to choose the sort of screening they want to attend, and those who opt for a quiet theater experience without some muppet feeling the need to scream "Oh no! He's gonna get you bitch, run!" or similarly obvious outbursts, don't have to put up with it.

Honestly, 9/10, I find the people shouting and carrying on really only add something to the experience for the friends that went with them and find them funny. Save that for when you're watching at home with them, or when there's a screening that explicitly allows it.

For stage shows that have some audience participation as an element, sure. For most other cases, it just seems like people who don't know how to behave themselves in public. Like, sure, go for it if you're at a Rocky Horror Picture Show screening, or the theater advertised it as a sing along screening, but otherwise, it's inappropriate and inconsiderate.

I only see the super cheap coffee from Latin America vacuum packed in the states, like Cafe Bustelo. Stuff that's ground up and going to sit in a warehouse or on a grocery store shelf for months and months.

I mean, I know there had to have been some, but 2/3 of those are out of business and weren't competitive with their Japanese rivals, while Zenith's most recent "notable product" on Wikipedia dates from the 1970s and has been a subsidiary of a Korean company for nearly 30 years.

I think it's mostly that they did way better than the US in terms of making many consumer technology products widely available at a higher quality and better cost than the US did. Like, Japanese brands were huge for televisions, audio equipment and similar goods. I can think of several that were the go to brands for TVs when I was growing up, but I can't think of a single US-based manufacturer, even a crappy one.

They also did way better in terms of building out internet access and public transport than the US has done.

It might only be within a few limited sectors, but when those sectors account for the vast majority of peoples' interactions with technology, it's going to have a far greater impact on their perceptions of relative advancement.

Also, in the pre-internet days, it probably helped that non-Japanese people largely didn't see all the ways that Japan can be an extremely conservative country, like their reliance on fax machines long after pretty much every other country with the means to do so had almost entirely left them behind as obsolete.

It's seems like the 3d movies of the tech world. Every so often, they release a new iteration, tell us it'll change everything, and while people get excited at first, they rapidly realize it's not as useful as it was presented and often impractical. Start developing the next gen version, rinse and repeat.