Pika is a real animal?
Gen 1 pokemon really are just funny colored real animals.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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“Ekans” is just “Snake” spelled backwards.
“Muk” is just…oh, oh god
Pika is pronounced "pie-kuh" generally. Pikachu comes from pika pika (japanese onomatopoeia for "sparking/sparkling" usually with the connotation of clean) + chuu (sound a mouse makes/squeak).
Actually it comes from pika(-tto), the onomatopoeia for a lightning strike.
Not according to an interview by the creator of Pikachu, Atsuko Nishida:
“Since it was an Electric-type Pokémon, I thought ‘pika‘ [the expression of light flashing in Japanese].
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Voltorb, Muk, Magnemite, and Mr Mime would all like a word with you. Jynx, however, doesn't mind.
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Bigger lens is better for wildlife photography and long distance shot. Animals scurry away when you try to get close, so it's best to take a picture from the distance.
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When you stare into pica, pica stares into you. Also sprach Zarathustra.
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Shit. My ADHD brain doesn't need another expensive hobby to hyperfixate on.
Wanna buy my setup? My hyperfixation ended.
Edit: but for real, we should introduce a ADHD-sharing network. My old fixation could be yours and vice versa. And I could tell you everything I learned, which is a lot!
I'm super into this idea. It's got stuff! It's got sharing! It's got socializing! Seriously, what a rad idea
Let's get hyper fixated on this idea and make it a ... oh, I could start another hobby?
Can we get someone who can focus for longer than a week for project lead?
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That's a great idea for a store front. And great for buying for those people that are hard to buy for, cause they have to figure out how the whole collection works lol
Look for a creative reuse store for the art and craft version of this! I’ve got so much art shit on the cheap. So at least it’s less expensive for it to sit in the drawer 🥲
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Can you afford to not get into photography, though?
Dont spend money on fancy new cameras, chances are the camera in your phone is already better than 90% of all cameras in history. Don't drop a dime on equipment until you've hit the limits of the hardware you already have.
The picture above isn't a picture of what an expensive camera can do - it's a picture of what a good photographer can do, enhanced by specialty equipment. In the hands of a novice the equipment cannot produce pictures like this.
Phone cameras are great. Their compatibility with telephoto lenses is what sets them back.
They make telephoto lenses for phone case now
Sucky ones.
I get the point but there is no way my phone camera can capture the mountains reflected on the eyes of any animal even on full daylight
Wildlife photography really is mostly about the equipment though. And waiting/being in the right place obviously. But I can tell you from experience, a novice can absolutely produce pictures like this with the right equipment.
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Phone cameras are good, yes, but their lenses are not. Even a cheap, used camera is better.
I did the math for another post and if I remember right the best telephoto lens built into a very recent phone camera has equivalency to around 120mm (anything else is just digital zoom and sometimes AI enhance).
It's a relatively new gimmick, and it can do wildlife photography from afar (I got some good full body shots of deer recently), but it's not quite as good as 600mm or the 1000mm from the other post.
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600 mm lens for my camera costs as much as my whole year's salary🫠
And it weighs more than 3 kg. No way I'm carrying that on a hike.
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Casually using an amazing photo for a meme 👍
A top-shelf flex.
I like the content, but seriously I’m baffled as to how this is a science meme?
I would assume because it's related to educating someone about why optical lenses can give an incredible amount of detail that digital just can't compete with. But that's just a guess and that might not even be enough for this forum
What's a digital lens exactly?.. The only thing I can think of are in some point& shoot cameras and phones they have fake factorial zooms that are just cropping into the resolution.
~~you people do understand it is fake, and if you zoom on the top right eye, it is not the same as bottom right, right?~~
ok, so to my surprise, it seems to be possible. the difference in the eye may be result of multiple layers of shitty jpeg compression.
the author has more pictures on his web - https://www.pjvphotography.com/Fauna/Pikas
☺️compression did nothing wrong
You are not supposed to zoom into a compressed photo 🤭
it is though
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What does it say, when it sneezes?
Tap for spoiler
Pi
Ka
Chuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mountains in the eye of a trailside pika, ...
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
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beautiful 🤌
Today's risky click is presented by GreatTitEnthusiast 👀
Hey, I'm just hear because I heard climate change is threatening Great Tits
Why 600mm? Because sometimes you need really good photos of squirrels.
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