I figured I would try something new in my return to Active Time Event, and attempt to write more bite size ideas in the form of post scripts on previous ideas. For the sake of ATE however, the P.S. will actually stand for playful silliness, in the aim to follow up with something a lot less rigid and a bit more flippy floppy.
All in the name of our quest to stop making sense, of course
This P.S. is in reference to my last post, which involved a replay involving Let’s Go Evee! I detailed how the essence of said playthrough was more akin to what I described as a “musuem tour” of sorts instead of a replay proper, to avoid making the whole trip down memory lane more of a stroll to enjoy than a sprint to endure, in my effort to avoid making the replay itself become “a thing”. While it would be fun to extrapolate upon that idea with even greater intellectual fervor, this writer up will in no way, shape, or form do so, and that other extrapolation just mentioned will have to continue to entice you as it forever floats around in the ether before it eventually settles by the wayside with all of the other uninspired Tangela’s of the creative world.
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But I disgress.
I was riding home from work the other day, and I briefly looked down to my bike computer while I was at a red light to see some personal stats for my ride home, and my mind wandered into a state of bemusement as I thought about what other kinds of devices you could concoct to connect with such a thing. My mind went to the novel immediately, and pairing something as absurdist as a digital bell in conjunction with the device made me giggle, as you would be going out of your way to create extra levels of possible difficulty in creating such a device in terms of troubleshooting by making a bell more complicated than need be. A more lamentable piece of technology not before witnessed by man’s eyes.
***CORRECTION: A lamentable piece of technology not witnessed in a longish time, I meant.
I then also considered the implications of something equally absurdist, in the realm of Nintendo throwing their hat into the DLC ring with Let’s Go Evee! in the form of a 99 cent purchase to get the in-game bike for the title. Not just in the cash grabbing ense that it would be a relatively cheap add on that may attract players that would add value to the game…(even though one could make the argument they would have slapped a price point on something that was in the original for free), but boiling down the monetary conversion rate of real world money to Pokebucks.
Nintendo keeping the trend alive of having their in-game economies being ripe with frustration.
Tom Nook’s face when he realizes his sons just ate 2.4 milliion dollars worth of turnips in a moment of boredom induced hunger
Just as a reminder, while you could acquire a bike in the original title, you could never purchase one directly with money, only obtaining a bicycle through the means of a charitable gift in the form of a voucher, as the bike itself went for a million bucks, a greater limit that exceeded the total dollar amount possible to obtain in the game. In this regard, there is no technical amount of fictional money in the Kanto region equivalent to a bike, as through traditional gameplay, it could never be obtained with money alone. You could then say perhaps a real world dollar is worth a million Pokebucks by conversion rate, if it were possible to obtain, or you could more realistically say since there is an infinite gap between an amount of money you can obtain vs an amount of money you can never obtain, the number conversion for real world money to Pokebucks would be an expanse equal to an infinite number of dolllars more than the suggested retail price of a bike is worth in the Kanto region.
Bike shop keep:…and for one bike that will come to…All of Kanto’s money.
Needless to say, Nintendo probably didn’t actually leave a lot of money on the table by not going with such a radically stupid idea wearing a funny hat for obvious reasons, which is likely why they continue to sit on billions of dollars in the form of a nest egg at any given moment, but it does make me wonder just how many folks would have gone for the amazing Million Dollar Bike Blowout Paradox Sale, with prices slashed to the low low price of just 99 cents, marked down from the unobtainable, impossibly large one million dollars, which sells itself, in my opinion.
An infinitely great deal.
Fat bottom monz makes the rocking world go round
~Pashford
***EDIT: My stupid fucking ass is just now realizing this whole article was a ramp up to reference the philosopher Bertrand Russell’s “set theory” in reference to the bike, as due to the price tag of a million dollars, it places the bike in the set of “the most expensive bike in the world”, but then creates a paradox due to the fact you can’t actually purchase the bike itself because of it’s price tag, effectively also putting the same bike into the category of “the most non-purchasable bike in the world” at the same time, thusly creating the fun paradox I was eluding to, but totally fucked up bringing it all together with outside of a sloppy post publishing edit involving what the whole post was about in the first place.
A bit mad, innit?
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