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Published: 2012-03-28 19:10:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 50571; Favourites: 1203; Downloads: 0
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I run, I surf, I bike, but the challenger's glare holds me in a frozen prison. I avoid eye contact, but they approach nonetheless. I use up all my repels, but they are lured from the sidelines, undeterred. Why are these people talking to me?I quickly realised that my panel planning could have used less flaws, but unless it isn't clear, the biked stopped because the boy noticed him. Not the other way around. But I am assured that most pokΓ©mon gamers would realise that, because as we all know, stares cannot stop moving objects. Yet.
I am also not entirely sure if I came up with this idea myself or if someone suggested it many suns ago whose name I've now forgotten. If anyone in the audience believes that I've taken advantage of their idea submission in the most sinister way conceivable, please address this subject in an email and I shall happily slap together an apologetic acknowledgement.
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Considering some of the dialogue I've read going through FireRed and Emerald, it seems like the player trainer challenges people who look at him/her a fair bit of the time. It's kept vague and implicit mostly, though.
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trust me this happened annoyingly. i went to my starting town and went along to the third town. JUST BEFORE I GO THERE someone stops me. level 70 vs their level 4's ._. it was only a waste of time.
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Hate when that happens, but I do feel better by the end of the day when I beat em.
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You should be more worried about the rows of people waiting for you down the road... not battling each other.
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If you fall from your bike, you're looking like a Trainer. No shit Sherlock. I like Joey's way of deduction...
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There are times when I just need to get to a Pokemon Center, and I've been through the area for ninety minutes power leveling off of Audino, never spotted by anyone, but my timing is beyond perfect, and still everyone and their dog spots me, stops me dead, and I end up raping their intolerably underleveled team, all because I need healing since I spent the last hour and a half trying to boost five levels per member of my team to rip the local gym leader a new one. It's like they have no respect for me. They spot each other, and they're both trainers, they say 'hey dude' and go back to their patrol. They spot me? 'Hey, you're a trainer that isn't that guy right there I see every three seconds but don't challenge... Hey, let's battle, stranger whom I see has shiny Pokemon that are level 9000 that were EVO/Pokerus/Macho-Brace trained from level 1 and have egg moves that can one shot my whole level ten to eleven team at the same time just on the STAB damage.' It's... I just... They're in... RRRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!! ... *Sizzles quietly*
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Damn that annoying brat >.< I can remember countless times I've been caught by that stare of doom...and the few times where I was stupid and didn't have a bird pokemon, had a team with low HP and was going to a pokecenter, and some dumb trainer challenged me to a battle 
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I wish the trainer had a shotgun...
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"...stares cannot stop moving objects. Yet."
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Oh trainers who get in my way of hurried travel. damn you all!
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I think the panels were fine. I got it without even reading the comments.
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I got it just with the thumbnail.
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The auto-break feature.
We all want to get around fast, fast, fast! But what if you missed seeing someone who you could battle? With this handy new auto-break feature you'll never miss a battle again! Just step right up and for a paltry favor or just out of your local bike salesman's good hearted nature you will receive this enhanced bike absolutely free!
(This will save you from paying that nasty 1,000,000 for the old style bikes.)
I just couldn't help the salesman spiel.
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Next thing you know they'll be stopping you in mid-flight to battle.
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That would be REALLY bad!
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Every. Freaking. Time. I HATE WHEN THAT HAPPENS!!
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I hated those trainers that looked in two directions periodically. And not even in the four directions within the space of seconds so you could time yourself for them not to spot you. But two ways, which were both unavoidable on the path, and the timing randomised just so when they looked away and you ran they looked back and found you again.
And battled. Usually when all you had was your HM slave at 1 hp left.
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Yeah, but atleast in the older versions or rather Silver, Gold , and Crystal(I'm not sure if Blue and Red version allowed you to but . . . ) when you find Red or Blue (The trainer) you can walk right up to 'em without him challenging you. 'S a good thing too, 'cause his pokemon are on 80! Believe me I know, I found Red.
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yeah, I always loved how they did that for the legendaries so you had time to save and just watch them and stuff.
I've probably just been plaing too much of the new gens yeah xDD
Haha Red's not much one for conversation, is he?
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R/B version doesn't do it at all. Your playing as Red in those games! XD
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Haha, this always made me angry when I was just trying to go somewhere.
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Times like that, it makes me want to summon my Gallade, and have it use Slash on the kid/biker/psychic/whatever-random-douchebag decides to stop me on a bicycle going on a downhill slope so fast it's a miracle the bike didn't suddenly time travel by going 'you're a trainer, I'm a trainer, I have nothing better to do with my life, battle me'.
Here's a valid question, if I may. Why is it the games have you as the only trainer trying to best the Elite 4 apart from your personal rival(s)? Is there some messed up law stating that only trainers on a journey to see all of the Pokemon in the region are allowed to challenge gyms and the Elite 4 to become the new champion? In the anime, a lot of trainers try to become the champion of their region in the form of a tournament. But in all of the games, just you and your rival(s). Is it just me, or does it not make a lot of sense?
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Time waits for no man
Well done-it made me laugh!
p.s. Nice title!
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I used to try to hop past trainers in my Pokemon Sapphire game using that special bike. I thought, "Maybe I could jump high enough to avoid their line of sight," but alas, I shall never avoid the bike-somehow-stopping-in-mid-air gaze.
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EXCELLENT. 
And is it just me, or is the bike missing its wheel guard...thing in the second panel?
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Clearly it is the stopping mechanism. It detaches itself and gets caught in the chain and wheel spokes, bringing the bike to a stop as quickly and dangerously as possible
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It does.
Please, don't look at me.
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Ahaahahahahaha! That's hilarious!
Great job!
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I always wondered about that, I wonder what'd happen if the player were on a Mach Bike...?
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If only we were allowed the option to run the fuck away...
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There is, but it doesn't work during battles because THERE IS NO ESCAPE FROM BATTLES
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everybody dresses the same
what makes you look like a trainer to them!
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