05-18-2004, 05:24 AM
Well, geez Wisemon, can you blame me? I'm such a ood author I have to look at all sides of an issue before I write it, so it's not a surprise that I hold many, and sometimes clashing, opinions on single topics. I try to limit myself to only one or two opinions on any given topic, though...
I'd like to clarify what I said above: Slide Evolution is a CHANGE OF ATTRIBUTES -- Whether it's simply HUMAN to BEAST type DIgimon, or otherwise, a SLide Evolution is an "evolution" to another Digimon of the same level. This, I think, all of us can agree on just based on Frontier -- so we have point 1: "Slide Evolution is a change of attributes."
My second point was separate from Slide Evolution, and related more to Jogress/DNA evolution: The data of the two Digimon COMBINES IN A NON-PERMANENT FASHION during Jogress (or DNA if you prefer) Evolutions. If it was permanent, then the "secondary" partner in the Jogress would be lost, just as if he were deleted and then loaded. Therefore for the Jogress to work as it does in Zero Two, we must rely on my second point: "Jogressed Evolution is a non-permanent combination of the data from two Digimon."
My third point was concernign the nature of Digimon, as to whether they are closer to computer programs or data files used by a computer program: Digimon operate within a system of controls and checks and rules, and this system is clearly like a program. Programs do not generally run other programs, nor do they generally interact with other programs. Therefore it is within reason to conclude that Digimon are not like programs, but rather like Data files, which allows them to be edited and changed in ways similar to data files. My third point then was: "Digimon are constructs within a program which can be modified in similar wayw to any data file."
These three points lead ME to conclude that a Jogressed Digimon could "swap" the ordering of Digimon (editing the positions of data within a file) to "Slide Evolve" (another file manipulation, because it involves the changing of attributes), because the evolution is not a permanent one.
I think that that's only one opinion on the subject at hand, through the reasoning of constructive rule analysis. It is not, to me, a matter of Slide Evolution requiring similar traits, but rather that Slide Evolution is used to CHANGE traits.
I'd like to clarify what I said above: Slide Evolution is a CHANGE OF ATTRIBUTES -- Whether it's simply HUMAN to BEAST type DIgimon, or otherwise, a SLide Evolution is an "evolution" to another Digimon of the same level. This, I think, all of us can agree on just based on Frontier -- so we have point 1: "Slide Evolution is a change of attributes."
My second point was separate from Slide Evolution, and related more to Jogress/DNA evolution: The data of the two Digimon COMBINES IN A NON-PERMANENT FASHION during Jogress (or DNA if you prefer) Evolutions. If it was permanent, then the "secondary" partner in the Jogress would be lost, just as if he were deleted and then loaded. Therefore for the Jogress to work as it does in Zero Two, we must rely on my second point: "Jogressed Evolution is a non-permanent combination of the data from two Digimon."
My third point was concernign the nature of Digimon, as to whether they are closer to computer programs or data files used by a computer program: Digimon operate within a system of controls and checks and rules, and this system is clearly like a program. Programs do not generally run other programs, nor do they generally interact with other programs. Therefore it is within reason to conclude that Digimon are not like programs, but rather like Data files, which allows them to be edited and changed in ways similar to data files. My third point then was: "Digimon are constructs within a program which can be modified in similar wayw to any data file."
These three points lead ME to conclude that a Jogressed Digimon could "swap" the ordering of Digimon (editing the positions of data within a file) to "Slide Evolve" (another file manipulation, because it involves the changing of attributes), because the evolution is not a permanent one.
I think that that's only one opinion on the subject at hand, through the reasoning of constructive rule analysis. It is not, to me, a matter of Slide Evolution requiring similar traits, but rather that Slide Evolution is used to CHANGE traits.