I wouldn't so much mind the idea they're playing a game - I mean, we have tennis/football/etc video games - as the idea they're playing exactly the same game as us, especially when anime battles function so differently. You wouldn't think Ash would have all that much fun playing a game that's basically just matching up types. (In fact, there were videogames in that one early episode at the Poketech place, and Ash was deeply unimpressed and went off about friendship and pokemon aren't numbers and all that.) And especially since unlike in our world, their pokemon are leveling when they do normal battles. (And unlike in our world, their pokemon are supposed to be friends/companions/otherwise more interactive, not pixels.)
Either that or an Andalite
You know in retrospect, the whole two hour thing was *really* stupid, because if you have a team member designed to let everyone know the exact amount of time that's elapsed, you can afford to have an irregular unit of time rather than saying it perfectly matches up with our completely arbitrary units of time because the universe revolves around us.
In fact you could even backfix this by having the first guy say it's two hours, and then when the other one joins the party he could have been all "Well actually it is more like two hours and thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds". Because when you're talking to the race without exact perfect timekeeping you'd probably want to give them a slightly shorter duration and something easier to remember, and also he might not have quite remembered the exact time length in their units and he wouldn't want to risk getting it wrong and telling them it's two hours and sixteen minutes, now would he?
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Date: 2009-12-03 01:20 pm (UTC)Either that or an Andalite
You know in retrospect, the whole two hour thing was *really* stupid, because if you have a team member designed to let everyone know the exact amount of time that's elapsed, you can afford to have an irregular unit of time rather than saying it perfectly matches up with our completely arbitrary units of time because the universe revolves around us.
In fact you could even backfix this by having the first guy say it's two hours, and then when the other one joins the party he could have been all "Well actually it is more like two hours and thirteen minutes and fifty one seconds". Because when you're talking to the race without exact perfect timekeeping you'd probably want to give them a slightly shorter duration and something easier to remember, and also he might not have quite remembered the exact time length in their units and he wouldn't want to risk getting it wrong and telling them it's two hours and sixteen minutes, now would he?
And I approve of Fluffles.
Fluffles does not approve of you.
Fluffles does not approve of anyone.
Fluffles is hate personified.
...Feed Fluffles? Fluffles wants tomatoes.