Fuck you America. When will you change to the metric system like every other reasonable country? Why are we forced to deal with this crap if we want to play in english?
Russia will steal our secrets if we do that
>>24687446
Time for you scrublords to git gud
>>24687446
Tone down the butthurt, non-American
>>24687483
>git gud
>>24687446
I think there have actually been some studies done calculating the cost of switching from imperial to metric so look at those if you're wondering why we're still so arbitrary.
>>24687446
Why cant we have Metric system in the EUROPEAN games?
Let the NA games have imperial but plz if they would just use metric for the EU games
>>24687446
/pol/ pls go
>>24687504
Sssh, don't give Game Freak an excuse to delay European releases by another 5 months.
>>24687499
>arbitrary
Words are hard.
>>24687518
Other languages already use the metric system so it shouldn't take any longer to add it as an option when playing in english.
We've tried several times. It just won't stick.
>Even the European versions of the games use imperial measures
It really sucks to be European
>>24687566
Everything but English uses metric though
>>24687539
Huh, learn something new everyday.
>>24687708
Why the hell would you think the Italian game WOULDN'T use metrics?
Do you think the murrican measurements came from the original Japanese games or something?
>>24687718
Would believe it that I don't constantly think about Pokemon lengths?
>>24687566
What kind of ethnocentric foolishness
>>24687499
But there is also the fact it's way easier to make conversions in metric system.
For example it takes you to add only some zeroes to convert from milligrams to grams or to kilograms. Ounces to lbs and tons are much more difficult to do mentally.
That would save costs in the long term.
america is a third world country
>>24687827
USA*******
before all you spergs correct me
>>24687446
Why does this even matter?
The only thing that matters is how good your Pokemon are.
No niggas gonna be caring about how tall a Pokemon is.
>>24687827
>I don't know what a third world country is
>>24687726
>>24687839
you gotta know if your dick's gonna fit
>>24687862
i think the average human penis would kill a mespirit
>>24687933
>>24687833
>>24687849
>Taking the obvious bait
>>24687446
There are only 2 types of countries in this world. Ones that use the metric system and ones that have gone to the moon and back
>>24687504
Just play in Spanish, Edvard.
Metric system is stupid.
>>24688076
baka desu senpai
>people can't do simple unit conversions in their head
IIRC we already tried, but that attempt was before I was born, like during the 70's or 60's or 50's. The attempt failed miserably.
>>24687708
Wait, it I go to my store (I live in USA), buy an USA version of the game, and set it to any language not English, it will be in metric system?
>>24688113
I didn't even know you could select other languages in the American versions.
>>24688113
>Wait, it I go to my store (I live in USA), buy an USA version of the game, and set it to any language not English, it will be in metric system?
Yes. There's 7 languages in the game, and they have nothing to do with which region the game is from.
>>24688084
>You just had to go there, didnt you Liberia?
>>24688124
Well, Liberia was practically formed by Americans.
>>24688129
I forget but I assume Bangladesh had a similar reason
>>24688123
Strange. "All" the people who speak only Spanish where I live still use the metric system. Same with the Chinese only speakers.
>>24688167
inb4 butthurt americans post the edit
>>24687446
>change to the metric system
you can have that crap all to yourselves, europoors.
>>24688167
We all know Kelvin is the only true unit of temperature though.
>>24687446
From what I've heard it's the cost of switching over, since literally everything is in imperial over here
>>24688167
So what? It's how we do it and have done it. The only way to get people to change it is to force them to, and our founding documents don't allow government efforts to change how people go about their day-to-day life in the name of being part of a "global community."
>>24688167
>3rd may
>November 21st
Which one doesnt sound like a retard? hint:American
>>24688120
how do you not notice the "select a language" screen when you first open the fucking game
i mean, why wouldn't there be an option? they translate the games into french and spanish, there are notable populations of both in the americas.
>>24688181
This. You cant ever go to space without the Kevin
>>24688120
I almost played in german but decided not to. If I ever buy Pokebank and re-do Y, I'll most definitely play it in German.
>>24688194
who said anything about policing their speech? it just has to do with slowly rolling out conversion via things like doubling up on signs and then eventually making them pure metric. worked in canada, which is right next to you and shares a fair amount of your culture, worked basically everywhere else that imperial was dominant, what makes you so special?
>>24688197
>3rd of may
>>24688197
It's 3rd of May btw senpai.
>>24688202
I remember reading about Mexicans forced to play in English, guess I misunderstood something.
>>24688228
From pre-gen VI games, quite possibly, since those didn't have a free language select.
I MEAN, IT'S TWENTY FIFTEEN
TWUNNY
FIF
TEEEEEN
>>24688239
Well isn't that funny? We got fully translated games from all gens here in Italy.
>>24688241
DO YOU HAVE
ABSOLUTELY
NO IDEA
OF WHAT YEAR THIS IS?
IT'S 2015 I MEAN
[APPLAUSE]
TWENTY FIFTEEN PEOPLE I MEAN COME ON
>>24688215
>who said anything about policing their speech
Nobody's talking about policing speech. However, why should taxpayers pay for a modification to infrastructure that they clearly don't want? We're happy with our measurement system and we haven't been given a real reason for changing it beyond "everyone else is doing it."
>what makes you so special?
The same could be said to you. Why are YOU special enough to decide how we should measure things?
>live in Canada
>do everything in Metric
>except talking about people's heights and weights, which everyone I know does in imperial
That, and the rulers we give to kids in schools are a foot long but have metric measurements, 30cm and 300mm on the sides.
>>24688247
>>24688228
We got Spanish translations too, but those are fucking retarded so we rather play in english.
>>24688250
>Why are YOU special enough to decide how we should measure things?
The fact that you not only lost a probe that was sent to Mars, but people also overdose on medicine due to conversion fuckups. It's also much easier to do conversions and general math with, and you need it to travel abroad in a lot of cases.
>>24688262
Yeah, same here. Brits do it, too.
>>24688269
Also true, it's a Euro Spanish translation, so it looks stupid to a lot of LatAM people. Also, "contador".
>>24688281
Mostly stupid shit like "contador" I don't mind the occasional "tÃo".
>>24688241
DUUUDE
>>24688241
I thought it was Trudeau who started this meme. Who the fuck is this guy?
>>24688281
Holy shit, here comes the gay ass /int/ and /pol/ roleplay.
>The fact that you not only lost a probe that was sent to Mars
I didn't do that. The government I try encouraging people to stop electing did that. I don't even think the government should be sending probes to Mars.
>but people also overdose on medicine due to conversion fuckups
Then blame the people who did the conversions. You say that like converting metric to imperial is something that only a PHD in physics can do.
>It's also much easier to do conversions and general math with
Good, I'm happy for you, then. We'll just keep doing it our way, since it's easier to do that then it is to instate a pointless federal program designed to resocialize a country that's barely socialized to begin with.
>and you need it to travel abroad in a lot of cases.
Then learn it. I know metric as well as I know imperial, and I've traveled abroad. However, someone who doesn't want to travel abroad, and wants to do business in imperial with other people who prefer imperial, should use imperial.
>>24688312
>I didn't do that.
I meant you as in the collective you. I blame English for lacking plural "you". I also don't care if you don't personally agree with it, it's still more than a hundred million dollars lost.
>Then blame the people who did the conversions. You say that like converting metric to imperial is something that only a PHD in physics can do.
No shit, but having to convert is a pain in the ass that can literally kill people if done poorly. Wouldn't it be better to just eliminate that step altogether to remove the chances for error?
>since it's easier to do that then it is to instate a pointless federal program designed to resocialize a country that's barely socialized to begin with
It's not pointless if it has notable benefits. Also, what do you mean by "socialised"?
Is there any reason to actually keep it? Aside from "it's too much effort", which is clearly up for debate since a lot of other countries seemed to do it without much issue. Is there any actual benefit to keeping Imperial?
>>24687446
6'7" = 201 cm
269 lbs = 122 kg
>>24688262
>the rulers we give to kids in schools are a foot long but have metric measurements
y tho
>>24688346
Why not? Also never made the connection that it was a foot desu, just figured thirty centimetres was the length.
>>24688339
>Is there any actual benefit to keeping Imperial?
It pisses people like you off.
>>24688352
I'm not pissed off. If anything, it's another thing I can laugh at you for.
>>24687827
This. They are not even among the whitest nations in the Americas anymore (even Uruguay and Argentina are whiter now lel).
>>24688205
Why german?
>>24688375
Friendly reminder.
>>24688396
BUILD
>>24688352
Are you literally unable to express an opinion without memeing?
>>24688396
The "white" category is misleading because it includes Arabs, North Africans, Caucasians, Gypsies, etc.
The relative white share of the population began declining in the mid-1940s after it reached a peak of just under 90%. At the time, only Canada was whiter in the Americas. But that has fallen a long way since, and the white population has been falling in absolute terms (total deaths outnumbering total births) since 2013. Anyone who thinks the white "majority" can last another 20 years at this rate is nuts.
>>24688396
Not for long.
>>24687446
So is that six feet seven inches, or six feet and .7 inches?
You deserve a president like Trump. A clown just like the lot of you.
>>24688426
Seven inches
>>24687446
#justamericanthings
>>24688011
Reading that, I immediately thought of Phantom from the Manaphy movie.
>base ten
Kek.
You guys do know you're gonna have to convert again right? There's a reason time went duodecimal -> decimal -> duodecimal.
Base 8, 12, or 16 would be ideal.
>>24688084
>thefirstworld.png
>>24688459
Nice first world senpai.
>>24688455
We went from duodecimal to decimal back to duodecimal because time being duodecimal has relevance to the world being a sphere and taking 365 days to go around the sun. Time isn't comparable to measurements of length or weight because it's influenced by the rotation of the earth and time zones, which are based on degrees, which total 360 in a full rotation because there's 365.25 days in a year.
>>24688485
>degrees
>using arbitrary measurements of angles
Daily reminder that radians are superior.
>>24688167
I agree with the metric system being a better unit of measurement but the Fahrenheit system of temp I think works better on a human scale. Fahrenheit is temp relative humans (not exactly but you know what I mean).
>>24688482
>>24688518
lel no
>>24688522
How does the fahrenheit system make more sense? Celcius may not be based on humans directly, rather it's based on the freezing and boiling point of water, but water is arguably one of the most relevant substances in the world and definitely the one who's physical transformations are most important and frequent in human life.
>it's below zero? That's cold enough for it to snow fuck
>>24687963
you would be fine though
>>24688575
fuck, meant to link
>>24688522
>>24688167
>Fahrenheit is 'arbitrary' because it doesn't follow Celsius's parameters
>Not knowing that Fahrenheit is based on Human temperature
>implying we'll ever switch over to a duodecimal base system
Regardless of whether or not it's superior it's too massive an undertaking to happen and the transitional period would be largely unfeasible with everyone doing extensive conversion calculations from 10 to 12,whenever they encounter the base 12 format.
Aside from that, the only REAL advantage of the base 12 format is that its third, sixth, half, and quarter value are all whole numbers unlike 10's 2.5, 3.3333- and 1.6667- atrocities.
>>24687446
On that same note, why does America use Month/Day/Year?
Would it not make more sense to use Day/Month/Year like most countries do?
>>24688375
This is why america is an awful country where the government keeps screwing the people in favor of corporations.
Muricans actually think that shit like this matters.
>>24688608
Because the former matches the common parlance a bit more, though they still say things like "the fourth of July," so it's not the end-all-be-all.
>>24688608
Wow, Canada is a whore.
>>24688608
It has more to do with language than anything else.
In Canada, some documents will be imperial dates and some will be metric dates, because despite us official using the metric system colloquially we say for instance "January first", rather than "the first of January. And that's because when we write the date in long form instead of dd/mm/yyyy, we write January 1st instead of the 1st of January, 2016.
We write in the same way we speak it, since, honestly, the dd/mm/yyyy format isn't really that important and done for the sake of convenience and brevity, rather than conversion like metric measurements. Days don't fit evenly into months so it's largely irrelevant which one you write first.
>>24688608
I honestly have no idea how the US came to the conclusion of mm/dd/yy vs. dd/mm/yy. Personal guess would be the "ease" of pronunciation. "November Twenty-first, Twenty-fifteen" is arguably easy/quicker to say than "the Twenty-first of November, Twenty-fifteen." That saves two whole syllables. Two! Remember, Americans are the laziest or most efficient, depending on point of view.
>>24688670
It also has to do that when written in words rather than d/m/y, we don't write the 15th of november, 2015
>>24687446
Sorry for inventing all your modern technology and being the first industrialized nation, you dick gobbling third worlder.
>>24688700
ahem
>>24688700
Why so defensive?
>>24688700
Sorry for inventing America. No, really, we are.
>>24689081
Don't blame yourself, lad. It's all France's fault.
>>24689114
Everything is France's fault.
>>24687538
>>arbitrary
>arbitrary
>arbitrary
>Hm what, jeffery?
>>24688109
I'm from America and the imperial system is the stupidest shit ever, don't even try to defend it. It's so ingrained into our culture and society, it's disgusting. Imagine if everyone used the same system. Yes there are conversions but why make it more difficult? Fuckin snowflake status has to blanket a country?
>>24687446
>mfw im a manlet compared to mewtwo
>>24687446
Shouldn't have lost the war, faggots.
What about Australia? We use the metric system officially, but if you want to measure a living thing, we always seem to use feet and inches.
I wouldn't have a goddamn clue how many centimetres tall I am, without checking my driver's license.
I'd kill for seperate options for height and weight.
>>24687446
>Wah, I have to use an online measurement converter for my useless Pokemon trivia, wah!
>>24687446
From my experience, most of us want to.
>>24689630
>Wah
>wah
>>24687504
This. Choosing this should be in the options menu.
Its so fucking annoying to play in English but find retarded feet, lbs and whatevers everywhere
>>24688482
meanwhile, europe is turning into the new homeland for arabs
>>24689630
Kek
Not even.
>>24687504
They could. Just have different scripts for American English and British English.
>>24688241
But what does Janice in Accounting think?
>>24687446
POKEMON RELATED BIDEU GAEMU
>>24687499
Bullshit, it's easy to do over a long period, where you use both units, then gradually phase out imperial.
>>24688011
Aw cute, you think they use imperial at NASA.
>>24688109
>people need to overcomplicate by using conversions
>people don't just learn it and get familiar to the lengths and weights
You dumb.
>>24688250
Im American and I can see how much more even and square the metric system is. Its just tens. It makes more sense. You just sound like a retard that probably got mad over Starbucks cups too.
Japan uses both metric and imperial while occasionally applying their own terminology
>be metric using nation
>pretend decimeters don't exist and jump from meters to centimeters
>>24689790
I have it on good authority that she does not give a fuck.
>>24688167
>>24691916
KEK
>>24691927
I thought I had it saved somewhere but I couldn't find it so I made a replica
>tfw wanting to play with Gym Heroes/Challenge cards with friends
>tfw we're all European
>tfw Blaine's Quiz will be horrible because all the pokémon's lengths won't be in metrical units
Fug.
>>24688608
Because it goes from the smallest set to the largest set.
But it doesn't matter since Y/M/D is the objectively best format under actual criteria instead of arbitrary bullshit like "b-but that's not how I say it IRL".
>>24691930
I just hadn't seen it in a million years.
>>24687933
it wouldn't even feel yours though
>>24687499
Not really. Most measuring devices have both imperial and metric available, and most science stuff is measured in metric, even in America. The only real problem is that people here already know how to roughly measure in imperial and not many know how to convert.
>>24688482
Are these screenshots from the Fallout games?
>>24688281
>"contador"
we had that shit in the Italian version too.
In Gen 6 they changed it from Contatore (Counter as in thing that counts) to Contrattacco (Counter attack)
It's funny because Gen 1 had a lot of mistakes like these but they were fixed in Gen 2, yet we had to wait until Gen 6 for them to fix that.
Another one that was fixed recently is Glare, it was Bagliore, which means Glare from a light source, and they corrected it to Sguardo Feroce (Fierce Look, the correct translation of glare in this case)
>>24688011
NASA uses metric bro.
>>24692702
>>24689964
You guys know NASA didn't use the metric system in 1969, when the U.S. landed on the moon, right? They didn't begin their transition to metric until the 1980s.
>>24692725
and your point being? they transitioned to a better system for a reason and not because they had nothing better to do with their time
>>24692753
>your point being?
Almost fifty years later, and metric still hasn't reached the moon.
>>24688485
>because it's not comparable to any other measurement
Eurokeks in denial I see.
The second as we know it was based off cesium decay solely because it closely matched our current view of time. To keep the 60/60/24 ratio.
>Easily could've chosen something else to base it off
>readjust time zones
>etc.
Of course, for the sake of convenience and not having to change infrastructure...
Also, degrees were a Babylonian estimate. Since it's NOT the exact amount of days the earth rotates around the sun, it's pretty useless to keep as is. Except for convenience of not having to change everything to switch :^)
>>24688604
Pretty sure multiple countries have switched systems and are doing just fine bar linguistic residue.
See: Denmark.
>>24688608
Because We Can.
>>24692793
>multiple countries are already using a base twelve numeracy system
>>24692725
Except that's wrong, they used both.
>>24692778
Top lel
Checkmate atheists
>>24688011
Liberia has been to the moon?
>>24687446
>/vp/ has gone to such shit that we need to talk about imperial vs. metric to keep occupied
When will the shit board die?
>>24693354
In seven days senpai
>>24688167
I use year-month-day. It's something all programmers pick up on sooner or later.
>>24692719
RIP My sides
1995-2015
>>24693342
I'm so proud of them.
They grow up so fast.
>>24689634
That's a negitive Ghost Rider. Metric can suck dick, this is America.
>>24691916
Celcius isnt even metric. Kelvin is.
>>24688411
Did he use a meme?
>>24692043
>Im-fucking-plying you'd get it right anyways
Unless you've memorized the exact height of every first gen pokemon, you're just looking for reasons to whine.
>>24698327
1C=1K, it's the same scale. They're both metric.
>>24698349
You realize that the heights are printed on the cards right
>>24687446
As mentioned here: >>24692719, it's because fuck you.
>>24688225
>>24688228
Who actually says out loud "it's the 3rd of may", over "it's may 3rd"?
The calender ia the only one with SOME logic behind it, because it's written how you say it. Imperial is just because of its been in place too long to make change easy now.
>>24700214
>Who actually says out loud "it's the 3rd of may", over "it's may 3rd"?
Everyone in the UK. But it's a dumb argument anyway, we write all sorts of stuff differently to how we say it. The only true date format is yyyy-mm-dd.
>>24687446
>yurop
How poor can you be?
![Bs8bZGvCQAA8ubi[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mDcTuMB.jpg "Bs8bZGvCQAA8ubi[1].jpg")
>>24700214
Me
