Silly card texts

[AmishEskimoNinja]

So I usually enjoy reading the card texts because they are so badly worded/translated. But being an engineer, two caught my attention.

The larger pincer has 10,000 horsepower strength. However, it is so heavy, it is difficult to aim.

Wow. Strength measured in horsepower. An 10,000 at that. There were any number of better units they could have used. Pounds, Newtons, Nanogram parsec per decade squared, whatever. Now I suppose you could create a force deflection curve of Kingler crushing something and integrate it to get work and then convert it to power if you knew the time over which it was occurring, but that would still be dependent on the material it was crushing.

It pushes the tips of its tails against the foe, then lets loose with over 20,000 volts of power

Power is measured in Watts. Not volts. Voltage is measured in volts. The unit is in the name for Arceus's sake!

So here is my suggestion. Pokemon USA should hire an under-privileged engineering student to look over all card texts for science related errors. With the way things are going, they could probably just pay him in Cheetos and Dr. Pepper. *offers his services*

I'm all for making mountains out of molehills, but have you ever thought of how the moles would feel about that?

 

[LucarioXFroslass]

You should ask for some fake card texts, as well; they're funny, too...

BTW, you being an engineer, I bet you will love this saying...

The optimist says the glass is half full; the optimist, half empty; the engineer, the glass is twice the size it needs to be...

 

[Dr4g0n]

^^ I thought it was "The optimist says the glass is half full; the pessimist, half empty..."

AEN: I couldn't agree more. Although one thing is wrong, IMO. It should be Doritos, not Cheetos!

 

[AmishEskimoNinja]

AEN: I couldn't agree more. Although one thing is wrong, IMO. It should be Doritos, not Cheetos!

Right. My mistake.

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BTW, you being an engineer, I bet you will love this saying...

The optimist says the glass is half full; the optimist, half empty; the engineer, the glass is twice the size it needs to be...

I'm tempted to rattle off every engineering joke I know, but that would make this tread even more like spam than it already is.

 

[Zierant]

The dex entries are actually exactly the same as the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum pokemon dex entries. So it is the translators of the games that you must talk to