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JohnnyC
Jun 8, 2008
If you think Mewtwo is powerful, just wait until you meet Metoo

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Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin

JohnnyC posted:

Canonically, Mr. Mime is loving Ash's mom, but it's not clear that Pokemon can give any kind of meaningful consent

Keep going

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

Lastgirl posted:

pokemon already mirrors the real world in the games, the technological levels are similar and it functions as a capitalist democracy (or does it?), there are goods and services exchanges for money, infrastructure such as trains and modern housing etc. so there's no need to trend it as human civilization developing with pokemon, otherwise it would have looked very different

You trap animals as big as buildings in objects the size of a tennis ball and then upload them to the cloud

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Gum posted:

You trap animals as big as buildings in objects the size of a tennis ball and then upload them to the cloud

Have you seen how antiquated Bill's PC looks with a CRT? It's got quantum computing, deceptively


Obviously these devices are mass incarceration funded by Big Silph

follow the money

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

Lastgirl posted:

Have you seen how antiquated Bill's PC looks with a CRT? It's got quantum computing, deceptively


Obviously these devices are mass incarceration funded by Big Silph

follow the money

Maybe he just likes the retro aesthetic

mormonpartyboat
Jan 14, 2015

by Reene

ShriekingMarxist posted:

wait wait wait wait wait

before we get too deep into this

are we talking about a world where pokemon suddenly appear

or are talking about a world where humans civilization developed with pokemon

this is very important as it'll determine where i anchor the crux of my speculations

Hey, don't look at me, man. Mexicans still get poo poo for the fuckin' Alamo.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
is digimon an extremely popular and beloved franchise in this world???

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out
The only thing stopping the world of pokemon from being a post-scarcity utopia is that nobody knows how to copy and paste

Terminal autist
May 17, 2018

by vyelkin
What happens if im a trainer and dont pay money when i lose a fight, like in the games you extract money from like 7 year olds and poo poo how does the economy in this hellworld work

Typo
Aug 19, 2009

Chernigov Military Aviation Lyceum
The Fighting Slowpokes

Terminal autist posted:

What happens if im a trainer and dont pay money when i lose a fight, like in the games you extract money from like 7 year olds and poo poo how does the economy in this hellworld work

the winning guy could just incinerate you with his chizard op

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Lastgirl posted:

it functions as a capitalist democracy (or does it?),

Healthcare is free and there are no homeless people

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out

Terminal autist posted:

What happens if im a trainer and dont pay money when i lose a fight, like in the games you extract money from like 7 year olds and poo poo how does the economy in this hellworld work

They're mugging you

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Machop : Guoh! Gogogoh!
<game> : A MACHOP is stomping the land flat.

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Moridin920 posted:

Healthcare is free and there are no homeless people

in pokemon world the healthcare is only restricted to pokemon, there no human hospitals also this is about if pokemon were in OUR world too

would there have to be pokemon vets to treat pokemon? imagine the bills in the US

imagine people abandoning pokemon and there have to be rescue shelters for pokemons across the US under capitalism

California bans Ponytas and Rapidashes among other Fire Pokemon under an "exotic animals ban" that is dogwhistled for anti-fire pokemon advocates

Lastgirl has issued a correction as of 06:50 on Nov 13, 2018

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
The government employees are all clones

Kung Food
Dec 11, 2006

PORN WIZARD

Moridin920 posted:

Healthcare is free
For pokemon, sure. For people? remains to be seen. Poke centers everywhere but not a single hospital.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
If I was living my US feudocapitalism life right now but also I had a charizard I'd probably go help burn Malibu down tbh

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!
the FAA outlaws flying pokemon without a federal registry much like drones

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Two Japanese cities were flattened by multi stage explosive weapons that exploited the dense energies contained within a Voltorb packed inside a gun assembly to initiate nuclear chain reactions

Lastgirl
Sep 7, 1997


Good Morning!
Sunday Morning!

Shear Modulus posted:

president trump i urge you to call detective pikachu, ace detective, to crack the case and get the evidence you need to LOCK HER UP!!!

Ayn Randi posted:

special counsel pikachu. MISMAGIUS HUNT!

Gum
Mar 9, 2008

oho, a rapist
time to try this puppy out
The constitution guarantees my right to train pokemon and Soros' crisis dittos aren't going to change that

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
Starmies are killed by poachers for their gems.
Trainers with Hypnos and Drowzees are put on a registry and have notify all their neighbors about it.

Gareth Gobulcoque
Jan 10, 2008



You'd have to assume that they are essentially modern genetic creations because the idea that pokemon survived humans for any considered length of time with any amount of diversity seems doubtful at best.

reignonyourparade
Nov 15, 2012

Typo posted:

it never made sense to me why team rocket wanted pikachu so much when they have literally the only talking human language pokemon in the entire world which is worth prob 100000x than pikachu

I mean just imagine if you had a talking dog irl he'd get his own talk show and poo poo instead of wondering around the wilderness stalking a 10 yr old boy

team rocket in general doesn't want pikachu, team rocket's biggest morons want pikachu because they get constantly oned by pikachu

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeX5GzN03AU&t=78s

RaySmuckles
Oct 14, 2009


:vapes:
Grimey Drawer
more like pika-boo

i see you

Salacious Spy
May 29, 2010

Well the word got around they said this kid is insane, man
Banged in the mouth and now he's got AIDS, man
I wanna gently caress a Gardevoir

Salacious Spy
May 29, 2010

Well the word got around they said this kid is insane, man
Banged in the mouth and now he's got AIDS, man
Mew is basically the stem cell pokemon, and Mewtwo is a clone that actually exhibits sapient self-awareness, so somewhere there's a blacksite that has both isolated infinitely mutable genetic material and also managed to create sentient nonhuman life. pokemon science has solved the riddle of the flesh

HookedOnChthonics
Dec 5, 2015

Profoundly dull


they actually added a psychic fetus pokemon




also excited for the animate, murderous concept of snow

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

GIRL BRAINS posted:

You never see any people ghosts in the world of Pokemon. Perhaps humans are merely soulless tormentors of the Pokemon, and this is their hell

You do though. A lot of it is just Japanese people apparently all think ghosts are 100% real.

There's also humans with psychic powers, and teleporters. Though the teleportation tech for humans seems to suck given you can only go somewhere in the same building.


Jim Long-un posted:

Mew is basically the stem cell pokemon, and Mewtwo is a clone that actually exhibits sapient self-awareness, so somewhere there's a blacksite that has both isolated infinitely mutable genetic material and also managed to create sentient nonhuman life. pokemon science has solved the riddle of the flesh

Well there was until Mewtwo blew it all the gently caress up.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Just letting my 10 year old kid leave home to go on a huge adventure with no support except for his pet

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
cloning is now possible via ditto breeding polycules

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
the touching story of a dad who became a pokemon trainer after his son turned into a Yamask

Tiberius Christ
Mar 4, 2009

just hours of detective pikachu zapping people in the crotch and setting labia folds on fire

"how's that for hot coffee?"

Victory Position
Mar 16, 2004

Jose posted:

Just letting my 10 year old kid leave home to go on a huge adventure with no support except for his pet

in this world, the Pokemon are entitled to universal healthcare

you? well, you're on your own, buster

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
If I could find an of age Pokemon that consented could I gently caress it?

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
What level of sentience does a Pokemon have to have to be able to give consent? Like large birds with magic powers or a 200 year old living rock is not going to know conceptually of what your asking so that's out, but where do we drop the line?

drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
I guess you could in New Mexico but getting them across stat lines bring in a lot of constitutional issues.

Nerses IV
May 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Moridin920 posted:

Healthcare is free and there are no homeless people

I'm guessing all the homeless people get killed by the extremely aggressive wildlife

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drilldo squirt
Aug 18, 2006

a beautiful, soft meat sack
Clapping Larry
Would Pokemon be responsible for their own behavior? Would they be considered individuals with rights? What will you do with pokemon farming industries like Magikarp farming? They are demanding something the are calling the Nurenblurb trials.

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