How does one use a TM/HM actually?
>>58937960I used to imagine they were knowledge programs you could download into your monsters, something like The Matrix. Now I'm not too sure if they have anything in mind anymore, they just keep them discs out of nostalgia and don't really care anymore.
Like this.
>>58937960>>58937963They probably have a device similar to the Exp. Share where you insert the disc into a slot and transfer the knowledge related to the move into the brain.>Now I'm not too sure if they have anything in mind anymore, they just keep them discs out of nostalgia and don't really care anymore.Analog media is more resilient and less prone to corruption than digital media. Perhaps they continue using discs to preserve valuable moves.
>>58937981>Analog media is more resilientDiscs are digital.
>>58937960They shove it up the Pokemons ass
>>58937960Shove it up your mon's ass.
Since they're discs I assume they were instructional videos that help you teach the Pokemon a new move.
>>58937960Tap it against a Pokeball's release button, like scanning an Amiibo
>>58937960>his pokemon doesn't have a floppy drivezoomzoom...
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>>58937963This is honestly pretty real
>>58937960they eat it
The most practical way to modernize TMs would be to make them apps that download into the Pokedex that you wirelessly "install" into your Pokemon (in ball). But I guess that's a bit too digital.
>>58937960>>58938082>>58938085you can, uh- you can shove it up your aasss~
>>58937973Like the great myth of Athena, knowledge springs forth from the mind and now it shall be dispensed...through shoving a CD into an animal's head.
>>58937960Teachy TV has a disk driveI genuinely wonder if at some point in development you could only use TMs on pokemon in the PC or something, but gameplay wise that was a pain in the ass, but the imagery of disks stuck.Lots of shit in pokemon is like that anyway, we get some design or visual, but the context and explanation for it was cut content, but the thing itself is still canon.
>>58940399Here's what they originally looked like in RGBY.
>>58940416Another interpretation
>>58940419TCG
>>58940426How it functions:
Pokeballs turn Pokemon into data like Digimon, TMs/HMs are programs that edit your Pokemon's data.>b-but sh-shinkYou were lied to.
>>58940440Don't let the shrink schizo see you say that.
>>58940429>>58940426>>58940419>>58940416So the cd/disk is a retcon?Jesus christ, this is what TPCI stole from us
>>58940440this.
In Go they're digital ink scrolls of electronic knowledge.
>>58937960activate safe mode, duhhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6motL4QMc
>>58940509To be fair, the shock collar seems too cruel to depict.
>>58937960As a kid I knew what a floppy disc was so the first time I got a tm I assumed you had to use it on a pc to teach your pokemon the move.Which makes sense to the point that's how I still imagine what a tm is. Just a mp4 file you play on the rotom dex that gives proper instructions to your pokemon on how to use the move. You know, various positions and muscle movements to bring out the attack and all that. Gen 1 tm's were probably a txt file unless compression is better in the pokemon universe.
>>58940509The CD design was introduced in FRLG, alongside the Teachy TV. Then the TV was cut but the discs stuck around.
>>58940509Presumably you load the discs into some form of device like >>58940429 or >>58937981, and the FRLG animation of the disc bag icon being held up to the Pokemon is a visual shorthand that they used simply because they already had the framework made for animations for using healing items which have more straightforward bag icons (and even in those cases it's kinda abstract, you don't actually see anything spraying out from the potion bottles for example).
