Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

@coriander i literally texted @Satsuma like “i have been on the plane for 6 hours and this is the first time i’ve seen snow”

@coriander i flew from phl to sea recently and was extremely bothered by the complete lack of mountains

@coriander and then SV swings wildly the other way with the best plot and story of any main-series pokémon game but the worst gameplay imaginable

@coriander the thing about sword is that they actually did a pretty good job porting pokémon gameplay to a new platform, but they ran out of time to put cool things in it and then abandoned the attempt for BDSP and SV

i like the game *engine* there’s just not enough *game*

@coriander i think if you're only going to play one switch-era pokémon game it should be that one tbh

@coriander it's true, gen ii–iv was peak for this kind of thing

but legends arceus was pretty good at it also

@coriander like i have a whole rant i could probably go on about how pokémon is gothic fantasy but like

they live in a world with magic creatures and they do science with them in a mundane way but also never forget that they are magic, it’s great

@coriander honestly this is one of the top reasons i like pokémon

@coriander if i can't play my game while it is closed and sitting in my backpack then it's not a handheld it's just a portable computer

@coriander in gen v pokémon had a thing where it was expected you would walk around with your DS in your pocket and when you checked it at the end of the day you could see how everybody you walked past voted on a set of surveys and lmao at trying to do something like that with the switch

@aescling anyway if you want to come visit we have “pumpkin” scones

@aescling could have used more tbqh

@coriander the beatles were “good” primarily because they were popular enough to be allowed to do the weird artsy stuff in the studio that everybody else wished they could do

which is not their fault, but reinforces my indie belief that recorded music writ-large didn’t really get good until the invention of the cassette tape when people stopped needing to give labels the time of day

live music is a completely different matter ofc but who would ever go see the beatles live