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Zore posted:Probably, but you know Pokemon are a thing and a ton of them can do just absolute magic bullshit. Good Lord Zore we've solved the puzzle. Where the hell are our awards?
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Or possibly since the map isn't like...a gps style map and an artist's interpretation in universe it's not 100% accurate and also they took some liberties when designing the map for the new game to make gameplay better.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:08
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Or possibly since the map isn't like...a gps style map and an artist's interpretation in universe it's not 100% accurate and also they took some liberties when designing the map for the new game to make gameplay better. You got two new maps both for the remakes and the legends game. Both take place in Sinnoh in different eras it's not unusual to notice they apparently removed a lot of plot important areas that are present in the original games and remakes. Most generous interpretation is this is a hand painted map and the local people aren't exactly savants with their grasp of geology. However going by screenshots in game I'm not seeing anything that contradicts the layout.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:15
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Electric Phantasm posted:We're gonna see the consequences of letting humans and pokemon marry. Heatran's gonna be the one that causes it. There had to be a reason why they have random genders and still won't lay eggs.
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Aug 24, 2021 23:51
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Rudoku posted:Heatran's gonna be the one that causes it. There had to be a reason why they have random genders and still won't lay eggs. How drunk does someone have to be that a magma spider starts to look attractive? random man: God i hate my wife. horrible lava spider: HIIISSSSS random man: .....well hello 
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Aug 25, 2021 00:04
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imo it would own if we saw Regigagas just dragging a random landmass in the background of the northern section of the map
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Aug 25, 2021 00:16
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Flopsy posted:How drunk does someone have to be that a magma spider starts to look attractive? This sounds like a job for furries
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Aug 25, 2021 00:24
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Flopsy posted:How drunk does someone have to be that a magma spider starts to look attractive? magma toad, please
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Aug 25, 2021 01:05
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Flopsy posted:How drunk does someone have to be that a magma spider starts to look attractive? ...Have you ever been on the internet?
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Aug 25, 2021 01:23
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Given how the Ainu treated bears (murder the mother, take the child home, raise it as a member of the community for two years, then stake it out in the center of town, riddle it with arrows before slitting its throat, drinking its blood and eating its meat) I don't really blame the pokemon world for opting to interbreed with them insteead, much more family-friendly
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Aug 25, 2021 01:51
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:...Have you ever been on the internet? STOP REMINDING ME OF WHERE I AM also Vinylshadow posted:Given how the Ainu treated bears (murder the mother, take the child home, raise it as a member of the community for two years, then stake it out in the center of town, riddle it with arrows before slitting its throat, drinking its blood and eating its meat) I don't really blame the pokemon world for opting to interbreed with them insteead, much more family-friendly Uh...
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Aug 25, 2021 02:21
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I thought maybe it was some racist urban legend so I googled and it's apparently a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iomante Though the article notes that there aren't any sources for the specific claims regarding the ceremony, but given that there was a law passed in Japan outlawing the practice in 1955 for being too cruel (that law was apparently rescinded in 2007), it seems like it's probably mostly accurate. e: Unless the reactions were to the "breeding with Pokemon is more family friendly" in which case yeah, uh, I got nothing for that.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:24
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Vinylshadow posted:Given how the Ainu treated bears (murder the mother, take the child home, raise it as a member of the community for two years, then stake it out in the center of town, riddle it with arrows before slitting its throat, drinking its blood and eating its meat) I don't really blame the pokemon world for opting to interbreed with them insteead, much more family-friendly what the gently caress dude
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Aug 25, 2021 02:26
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Aug 25, 2021 02:27
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It's always fun to read up on what inspires a generation of pokemon To many a regret, I imagine
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Aug 25, 2021 02:31
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Goon 1: I bet people would marry Heatran lmao. Goon 2 (in response): Yeah but have you heard how the Ainu people historically killed bear cubs? History is super interesting!
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Aug 25, 2021 02:48
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Goon 1: I bet people would marry Heatran lmao. As someone who's absolutely a huge history fan I'll say this without an ounce of irony. It's a loving trip and half my dudes. You only find out later schools cut out or watered down all the interesting poo poo so parents wouldn't kick down the doors and burn all the books.
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Aug 25, 2021 02:58
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Goon 1: I bet people would marry Heatran lmao. Well now all I can think of is that one Super Fun Pak Comix.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:05
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Flopsy posted:As someone who's absolutely a huge history fan I'll say this without an ounce of irony. It's a loving trip and half my dudes. You only find out later schools cut out or watered down all the interesting poo poo so parents wouldn't kick down the doors and burn all the books. Perhaps that's why parents prefer to send their kids out on pokemon journeys rather than stay in school?
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Aug 25, 2021 03:12
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Back when Trainer Card level was a thing, did anyone ever try to max it out? Best I did was the Violet one in HeartGold
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Aug 25, 2021 03:23
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Vinylshadow posted:Perhaps that's why parents prefer to send their kids out on pokemon journeys rather than stay in school? That's why they can only learn about Sinnoh's sordid history on the back shelf in a library.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:39
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Carlosologist posted:Back when Trainer Card level was a thing, did anyone ever try to max it out? Best I did was the Violet one in HeartGold I got the Black one in Soul Silver, but I cheated my way through the battle tower because gently caress that RNG nonsense.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:50
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Carlosologist posted:Back when Trainer Card level was a thing, did anyone ever try to max it out? Best I did was the Violet one in HeartGold  But also I played the games with Battle Frontiers in them when I was an idiot child who knew nothing of battle mechanics beyond "haha earthquake go brrrrrr", so I never got any of the fancy trainer cards even by accident.
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Aug 25, 2021 03:58
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Flopsy posted:As someone who's absolutely a huge history fan I'll say this without an ounce of irony. It's a loving trip and half my dudes. You only find out later schools cut out or watered down all the interesting poo poo so parents wouldn't kick down the doors and burn all the books. Or taught a Eurocentric narrative.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:14
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Carlosologist posted:Back when Trainer Card level was a thing, did anyone ever try to max it out? Best I did was the Violet one in HeartGold Once or twice, getting multiple streaks always tripped me up because I usually wasn't good enough at the battle tower or you had to play against real humans. I don't remember
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Aug 25, 2021 04:26
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Violet_Sky posted:Or taught a Eurocentric narrative. I don't recall learning purely eurocentric history. What we mostly studied was the progress of human civilization from prehistoric times onward but like I said they skimmed a lot. Had to keep the narrative moving forward because we were covering a lot of material and they didn't see the point in fleshing out some details as much as they could. Onto a different topic, anybody else getting the feeling that Gen 9 might be taking place in an asian themed region because of these new regional forms and Urshifu being shoehorned into Gen 8? Just seems to me if we're going to bring back these guys the region most likely is going to reflect the aesthetics of the new pokemon somehow.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:30
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:They do that all the time. Both of those are good Pokemon though? And in the case of base Raichu has shown up at Worlds a whole bunch?
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Vandar posted:Both of those are good Pokemon though? Yes that's why I was using them as examples of cute pokemon that aren't worthless in battle.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:54
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I misread your post.  Ignore me, it's late and I'm tired.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:59
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Perhaps we'll finally get Gorochu as Hisuian Raichu?
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Buncha people itt who should read Golden KamuiFlopsy posted:Onto a different topic, anybody else getting the feeling that Gen 9 might be taking place in an asian themed region because of these new regional forms and Urshifu being shoehorned into Gen 8? Just seems to me if we're going to bring back these guys the region most likely is going to reflect the aesthetics of the new pokemon somehow. If we're using current games as ideas for where they're going next, I'd see them doing Poke-Russia as the region Hisuan Braviary originally came from. Well, I guess technically that counts as Asia, huh.
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Aug 25, 2021 05:11
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should go to space imo
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Aug 25, 2021 05:16
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But why are they in space? There's no reason for them to be in space!
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Aug 25, 2021 05:18
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Twelve by Pies posted:But why are they in space? There's no reason for them to be in space! To win the Space Pokemon League.
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Procrastine posted:Buncha people itt who should read Golden Kamui Kinda leaning towards China myself with the whole Lion dog form/Kung Fu bear thing...but then again Japan has a complicated relationship with them..hm.
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Most game's aesthetics are so loose that, despite how invested I am in art direction, I'm not even really interested in what their influence is from gen-to-gen. Johto and Alola were the only two regions where I think I would be able to tell you what region they were based off of. Sw/Sh's only real giveaway is the soccer hooligans - without them, I probably would have said Greenland because of the huge glacier region and the first town is so vaguely European it could be anywhere. B/W is supposed to be America, but like, what's the influence? Castelia City having cars? X/Y needed to include the Eiffel Tower to even come close to personifying France. Couldn't tell you at all what regions RSE/DPPt are. Arceus's influence is really clear, which is good
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Aug 25, 2021 05:39
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Possible real-world inspirations for regions that haven't been done yet:
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Aug 25, 2021 05:42
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Pokemon India. After twenty-five years, we finally learn what kind of Pokemon an Indian elephant is.
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There was that one dust-bowl-esque town in SwSh with a little outdoor market zone that gave me a big Latin America vibe, which is not great for a game that was supposed to be inspired by the UK but was a very neat aesthetic they haven't really tried for before and yeah I think that would be neat
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