• @[email protected]
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    13813 days ago

    The plot of Pokemon is the kid bounding down the stairs the morning he turns 10 and announcing that he’s going to do all of those things and the mom is just like, “Fine. Please call sometimes.”

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      13 days ago

      Then his single mom starts spends an inordinate amount of time hanging out with the Pokémon professor…

      • @[email protected]
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        1313 days ago

        If Red/Ash’s mom married Professor Oak, would he call Blue/Gary (Oak’s grandson) his stepson? Stepdad? And would Giovanni (Blue’s father) be his stepfather? Stepson?

        And why does Game Freak refuse to answer my emails?

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          It would be extremely Star Wars/Everyone Important Is Related of them but I believe that it is a step sibling rivalry

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        If you actually go back to your home city there is literally nothing to do there.

        You would have thought that at some point they would have added some special item or quest that you got if you actually went back but nope. In every game of Pokémon I have ever played there is no incentive to return to your home city and talk to your mother.

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        Pretty sure you can call her to leave some money with her to prevent going broke when getting wiped in battles. In some of the games at least.

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      1012 days ago

      Or if you link up with your mom’s PhD boyfriend, you have a choice between a lizard someone set on fire, a different lizard with a fungal infection, or a regular ass turtle.

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    7th gen:

    mom can i go do this island’s ritual of growing up right after i moved into this place?

    Sure hon, have fun!

    and then they went into alternate dimension to stop their friend’s crazy mom

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    4313 days ago

    Which is why the plot is bad ass. Its like being a viking without killing folks.

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      And that’s why Pokemon ZA setting sucks ass…

      Seriously? We’re going to be in an urban city environment the entire game?..

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        1713 days ago

        My favorite thing about the internet right here. Games not even out yet and it sucks ass/is the second coming of Christ. There is no in-between.

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          913 days ago

          SETTING

          I didn’t say the game itself sucks but the SETTING does based on everything they have shown us (100% urban environments)

          Before you talk about in-between maybe read everything in it’s entirety first.

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            112 days ago

            I did read your comment in it’s entirety. My opinion is the same, and also not as about you as you seem to think.

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              games not even out yet and it sucks ass.

              This you?

              Also when you say “right here” you are directing at me and what I said.

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          With how badly TPC has been handling the franchise the past few years, expecting the next games to be bad is pretty reasonable

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            212 days ago

            You’re probably right, however I reserve judgement on things untill I have actually experienced them. I fully expect it to be a disappointment somehow, but I don’t know that it will be.

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          Well there’s been that fairly lacklust trailer. It didn’t exactly look inspiring. Of course it might have great gameplay but historically speaking that seems unlikely.

          Also of course it’s probably going to cost $100 which means I’m not going to buy it regardless.

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    I would read this series. I can’t wait until he throws his mouse out to fight a snakE. Or when he tries to keep a snapping turtle in his pocket.

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    I mean ashs mom is a single mom and he’s a latchkey kid so he probably drank hose water and grew up to vote republican (I think Shinzo Abe’s party is that in Japan)