It’s his redemption arc!

Oh yeah, it was weird reading the comments on .

Like people saying ‘fuck the ccp’ as though it meant something. Or that a few people asking not to be filmed represented the whole Chinese government.

It’s terrifying that the US has a division of the military dedicated to killing people remotely with drones and such an easily manipulated population who would do so on Reddit in a heartbeat.

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Charles Cullen, a brilliant university professor and ruthless killer, makes a daring escape from a hospital for the criminally insane. Dr. Joseph Kallinger, the psychologist who examined Cullen, is called in to help find him with a burnt-out cop who thinks Kallinger’s diagnosis is to blame for the situation they’re in.

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Hopefully with Mewtwo leading the charge.

That’s true, but the games are designed with the intention for players to replace Pokemon in your roster. The anime did it too, with Ash changing out his team between regions and only occasionally revisiting them.

There’s a level of disposability baked into the series.

Where are the free speech perverts?

I agree on all points and that just makes me all the more passionate about getting rid of IP laws and letting an ambitious fan write the Pokemon game we deserve. Liberate all Pokemon!

It’s hard to say - a lot of them are aging poorly so fast these days, especially with how they come out all glitchy. It’s like Starfield was born and then drank from the wrong holy grail.

I’m looking forward to that. Right now, I’m in the prophecy portion of the Cassandra myth.

Oh yeah, I know what they’re doing, it’s just so gross in several different dimensions.

Communism when no food but this is all good. Good ol Arby’s paying the food debt 7000 starving children while making almost 4 billion dollars in 2019.

I just want Pokemon to actually do more of its early premise of humans and animals working together in community. I would love a team-based mon game, but I really just want to see Pokemon answer and explore the philosophical questions present in the series.

That’s the cute meme, but the reality is that they were written by the developers without much forethought. I read that post about Diagetic Essentialism a few days ago, and I know it’s splitting hairs to over invest in worldbuilding, but I think such a popular series could stand to be a little more responsible in how it explores the relationships between humans and animals. Even fictional ones.

I don’t want an age-up or edgy story, I just want the world to be depicted with more depth. I just want to know where the ham comes from when you make sandwiches in the new games. Or just don’t have meat. Nobody asked for it and it just raises more questions.

Signed,

An autistic person with terrible luck in special interests.

I think there’s something deeply contradictory in Pokemon’s messaging that there is a quantifiable hierarchy in power, even in the anime. Training is great and everything, but a starter bird wouldn’t win in a matchup with any fully evolved mon, let alone a legendary.

There’s a cynicism that’s passed off as realism that decides that one creature is inherently better than another. Is that biological essentialism? I had a similar issue in Steven Universe where Jasper was treated as a superior fighter to Amethyst regardless of training and tactics.

Like yeah, a physically weaker creature might not win in a battle of strength, but that doesn’t mean there’s no way to win a fight in another way. And even if not, it’s fucked up that there is an inherent value system in place.

Then again all of the Pokemon values they express in the series falls apart when you look at the fact that it’s possible to trade a Pokemon, and there’s an incentive to do so. It really fucked me up as a kid seeing ash trade his Butterfree and then later feeling sad when Butterfree left on his own accord and was sad. Pokemon are depicted as sentient and it’s bizarre at this point they still incentivize trading with the tagline: Gotta Catch’em All!

It’s sad too because I don’t want edginess, I want Nintendo to just explore Pokemon like they’re living creatures.

The worldbuilding is so shallow and the Pokedex entries don’t make sense. And the new Pokemon roll out to replace the old ones (hate that it’s called dexit).

It’s frustrating to think about the proposed ideology of Pokemon about stewardship, compassion, and working together when the franchise itself is just that, a franchise.

What if you could say yes to join Team Rocket on Nugget Bridge?

I identify as being in pain.

Dude is speaking through some serious trauma. Doesn’t make what he’s saying any less awful, but it does speak to the fucked up way the US traumatizes people.

This isn’t real, this isn’t real, this isn’t real

Aspic of Theseus