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my game freak take is that game freak actually does not care at all what americans think, sorry

important!! remember!! mastodon is “not a law enforcement friendly environment”

western pokémon fans show the tiniest shred of cultural literacy challenge level impossible

give me a fic about the nameless girl with ponytails in lavender towns pokémon center that’s where the good content is at

i mostly read o·c pokémon fic because pokémon fans are too cowardly to write about minor characters

i realize it’s a political move but {the willingness to uncritically laud some aspects of stallman’s philosophy in the face of overwhelming evidence that many other parts, in some cases basically the same exact parts, are deeply fucked up} is always a trip

boosting accounts from mastodon.social is fraught so i will just drop the link here

https://stallman-report.org

can is labelled “richard stallman”; do not open if you do not want to read about richard stallman

but that then introduces the question of why nobody in Kanto ever uses a Houndoom

so now i’m leaning towards Oak limiting the pokédex to 150 for the sake of keeping it a round number, and the actual regional dex for Kanto and Johto looking more like the one in HeartGold and SoulSilver, with the possible addition of newer evolutions like Sylveon and Dudunsparce

why would Moltres be ok but not Magcargo??

i would believe that the Indigo League kept the number of usable pokémon small for Reasons, except that the same league is in charge of Johto (and was fine with a list exceeding 250 there) and they clearly had no problems including, you know, Zapdos

either Oak left out some Kanto pokémon to keep the Kanto dex to a round 150, or there are some Kanto pokémon which aren’t considered legitimate for training and battling, or several pokémon were introduced to Kanto over the course of like three years??

i would lean “no”, evidenced by the fact that nobody in Kanto seems to use them (battles against champions notwithstanding), except that there are some “Johto” pokémon, like Slugma, which are native to Kanto but not in Oak’s original pokédex

can you battle using Johto pokémon in the Kanto gym challenge

anybody gonna explain to me why alola was experiencing an economic boom in the 00’s?

time for kimty to be exceedingly normal about a video game

to be clear this isn’t the same message repeatedly

it’s new, unique messages every 100 steps because the story checkpoints are spaced that tightly together

every route, every building, every conversation with a story character

i swear like every 100 steps in pokémon sun you get a new handholdy message about where to go next

any furries done this one yet

“What Does The Pokémon Say?”, a compendium of every line of pokémon dialogue from every main series game