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Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 09:56:18 No.58937960 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>58937963 >>58937981 >>58938082 >>58938085 >>58938163 >>58938198 >>58940192 >>58940202 >>58940399 >>58941982 >>58942717

How does one use a TM/HM actually?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:00:28 No.58937963 Report

Quoted By: >>58937981 >>58939180

>>58937960
I 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.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:07:51 No.58937973 Report

Quoted By: >>58940260

Like this.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:25:47 No.58937981 Report

Quoted By: >>58937983 >>58943020

>>58937960
>>58937963
They 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 10:27:36 No.58937983 Report

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>>58937981
>Analog media is more resilient
Discs are digital.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 11:57:07 No.58938082 Report

Quoted By: >>58940202

>>58937960
They shove it up the Pokemons ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 11:59:47 No.58938085 Report

Quoted By: >>58940202

>>58937960
Shove it up your mon's ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 12:06:43 No.58938096 Report

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Since they're discs I assume they were instructional videos that help you teach the Pokemon a new move.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 12:51:23 No.58938163 Report

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>>58937960
Tap it against a Pokeball's release button, like scanning an Amiibo

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 13:13:26 No.58938198 Report

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>>58937960
>his pokemon doesn't have a floppy drive
zoomzoom...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 20:09:28 No.58939148 Report

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bump

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Feb 2026 20:21:14 No.58939180 Report

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>>58937963
This is honestly pretty real

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 02:37:24 No.58940192 Report

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>>58937960
they eat it

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 02:41:35 No.58940197 Report

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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.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 02:45:47 No.58940202 Report

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>>58937960
>>58938082
>>58938085
you can, uh-
you can shove it up your aasss~

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 03:27:58 No.58940260 Report

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>>58937973
Like 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:24:16 No.58940399 Report

Quoted By: >>58940416

>>58937960
Teachy TV has a disk drive

I 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.

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:31:27 No.58940416 Report

Quoted By: >>58940419 >>58940509

>>58940399
Here's what they originally looked like in RGBY.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:33:09 No.58940419 Report

Quoted By: >>58940426 >>58940509

>>58940416
Another interpretation

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:34:22 No.58940426 Report

Quoted By: >>58940429 >>58940509

>>58940419
TCG

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:35:54 No.58940429 Report

Quoted By: >>58940509 >>58943020

>>58940426
How it functions:

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:39:31 No.58940440 Report

Quoted By: >>58940451 >>58940531

Pokeballs turn Pokemon into data like Digimon, TMs/HMs are programs that edit your Pokemon's data.
>b-but sh-shink
You were lied to.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 04:45:59 No.58940451 Report

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>>58940440
Don't let the shrink schizo see you say that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 05:16:16 No.58940509 Report

Quoted By: >>58942696 >>58942891 >>58943020

>>58940429
>>58940426
>>58940419
>>58940416
So the cd/disk is a retcon?

Jesus christ, this is what TPCI stole from us

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 05:28:15 No.58940531 Report

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>>58940440
this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 12:40:08 No.58941837 Report

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In Go they're digital ink scrolls of electronic knowledge.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 13:25:50 No.58941982 Report

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>>58937960
activate safe mode, duh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e6motL4QMc

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 17:13:00 No.58942696 Report

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>>58940509
To be fair, the shock collar seems too cruel to depict.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 17:18:57 No.58942717 Report

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>>58937960
As 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.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 18:00:07 No.58942891 Report

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>>58940509
The CD design was introduced in FRLG, alongside the Teachy TV. Then the TV was cut but the discs stuck around.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 18:45:04 No.58943020 Report

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>>58940509
Presumably 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).

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