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@coriander pokémon does it for slightly different reasons tho, or at least to me it feels more justified, because they really just want every region to feel unique. each region has its own food (and related food mechanics) and, since Gen V for serious, its own way of pokémon battling (rotation/triple battles, mega evolution, Z-moves, Gigantamax, Terrastal).

there are obviously commercial reasons why they do this; it feeds into the marketing and gives them new things to show in the anime and inspires new TCG mechanics (which powers card sales) and so on. but “i want each region to feel unique” is at least a reasonable artistic motivation to have even if the execution is sometimes lacking.

that’s different, in my mind, from mario, which is like “there is a powerup which lets you become an elephant this time”.

@aescling @coriander anyway this is why the polls are still close despite virtually everybody agreeing biden is too old

people know but nobody believes anyone else would actually do more for workers, they would just be a more functional neoliberal backstabber

@aescling @coriander of course sanders would have done all this and more but look at who they’re liable to replace him with…

@aescling @coriander also his handling of the economy and pandemic stimulus was genuinely better than pretty much any other president would have been willing to have done

we are supposed to be in a major recession right now, and we're not, and people would like to keep not, yk

@aescling @coriander i mean biden is possibly the most pro-union president we’ve ever had

lowest possible bar but *looks at alternatives* i understand why some people want to stick with that

@coriander true of most people tbh

@aescling @alyssa why did you stop it can’t be worse than shadow the hedgehog

@aescling @alyssa i do not remember you posting about this since you had this username

@aescling @alyssa cat the wonderment was not that this is a thing it is possible for a person to do but rather that it is a thing that you, specifically, have the requisite knowledge and experience to do

@aescling if you like it you should download it cat, what is online today might be offline tomorrow

@aescling i repeat the question with more emphasis on YOU

@aescling yes i was remarking that you were aware of this fact

@aescling also we should test this hypothesis do you have a database of pokémon ass

@aescling i cannot tell if you know that the pony i screenshotted is named princess luna or if you just also named your umbreon luna and now are calling it a my little pony

@aescling you can recognize my little ponies by their asses

@aescling

@aescling no that's me