What of it? light years is distance... so what?

You are a hundred years too early to be challenging Brock!

light year is a measure of distance not time

Actually, I'm about 5 tiles away

this enforces my theory that the world of pokemon is so gigantic that only one pokepace is the equivalent of our light year. Therefore, the town of vermillion city is bigger than the known universe.

Pikachu used thundershock on Onix. WAT

Pikachu used tackle on Onix. WAT

>>21163300

>>21163325

And? He's just trying to say that you're extremely far from him in the gym.

Even though Red (but I'll call him Ash because he has the Pikachu following him) could probably see him only a few tens of feet away...

Given that the journey to become a pokemon master is based primarily on distance traveled while time is simply secondary, utilizing light years as a measurement is more accurate than years.

>>21163325
Unless you have faster than light travel, even at 0.9 the speed of light it would still take a long time to get anywhere.

big deal, he corrects himself POST-fight

>>21163361

how come trainers want to gang fuck you on the way to the leader? it's like they're there to tire out your pokemon then the leader comes up with his well rested and un harmed pokemon a finishes you!! Gym leader's are douche bags....

>>21163409
which means OP never won the fight

A SIMPLE ROUNDING ERROR, GEEZ GUYS.

>>21163420
you can always backtrack to the pokemon center. Now the Elite 4, that's another story.

HURR DURR LIGHTYEARS IS DISTANCE

>>21163420
Owned

>>21163420
>Gym leader's are douche bags

Not as big a douche bag as this guy though.

>>21163395

Because of spacetime dilation, it can actually take a relatively short period of time in observer time to travel light years, because in your frame of reference things compress get closer together relative to you.

>>21163516
You're really overthinking it.
It still takes a long time no matter what.

>>21163557

But, the true question is, can Ash make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs?

It maybe difficulty to tell from the Game boy Pixels but there actual is a 9,460,730,472,580.8 km distance between the boy and Block. His argument is completely valid, I find no problem with it.

>>21163453
You're the one who assumed he was talking time. He could be referring to the figurative distance between them in terms of training skills.

>>21163607
>valid

>>21163607
How did you cacluated that?

>>21163260
Ah, Brock's single lonely minion.

>>21163420
You can sometimes avoid them, but I always bull through the lot of them for completeness and xp.

>>21163409
No one beats me and you know why now

See, I caught that the first time I played it as a kid, but I had assumed at first he was using a distance metaphorically, so I didn't think much of it until he tried apologizing for it afterward.

Also, shouldn't this be in /v/?

>>21163557
>>21163516
My point was that traveling fast than light is scientifically impossible, because once an object reaches that speed it turns into energy/light and is thus destroyed.

The only way around that problem is either a) developing an engine which can go 0.999999999 the speed of light without reaching that barrier (but that would still be very slow, it would take a ship from earth years to reach other stars at that speed), or b) being able to 'bend' space-time so that X arrival area and Y destination exist simultaneously in the same space-time, and as you know when you bend space time you create a 'hole', ie wormholes, warp travel etc.

>>21163602
Ash probably makes .5 past lightspeed

>>21163711
Pokemon is anime as well

>>21163705
Because they are all still walking to where you stand?

What I never got is how shitty trainers like Brock got to become Gym Leaders. Kids from a city across could beat the shit out of him. Hell, the god damn Hikers in Mt. Moon are more dangerous than Brock is.