They already let it slide when DHS and ICE did the same thing last year, remember?
Just another reason to boycott Nintendo (along with the other 2 console manufacturers for their own reasons)
I like this, they’re making posters that appeal to the mental age of their voters
By the next election they can move up to sesame street level posters
Animal Crossing’s primary demographic is 30-year olds who want to escape the hellworld
Edit: Oh wait this is pokemon. Why does it use the Animal Crossing text style? Fucking AI
The style is from a spin-off game that just came out yesterday, Pokopia
Interesting, Nintendo ripping themselves off. I definitely get Animal Crossing vibes from that font and text
that was what i thought it was too until i read these comments
its apparently the highest reviewed game of the year, so they did a good copy job
I wanted animal crossing for my phone (a real version). I don’t want to carry around an extra bigass switch for occasional casual play.
You could probably emulate the 3DS one on phone with just above average specs these days
It’s more a Pokemon copy of Dragon Quest Builders
“Everyone is twelve now” theory still going strong.
This take is sure to piss a lot of people off, but I’m in the workshop crafting a thesis of how pokemon is fascist and digimon is the real prole vanguard.
Is “The animal rights activists are portrayed as cartoony villains and the abused animals are portrayed as liking their servitude” the tl;dr version?
(Can’t speak for digimon as I don’t know basically anything about it; my best guess would be…the digimon are equal partners in their relationship with the kids? For one thing they’re not shelved when they’re not in use)
Pretty sure in the anime of digimon they’re like protectors of the kids they are destined to be paired with.
Ah, I wouldn’t know, I never watched digimon and I got to pokemon way too late (I really do want to watch pokemon, but it’s clearly made for very young audiences)
I’ve seen a bit of the show, but what I really like is the v-pet because it’s cute
If you want to watch some of the Pokémon anime, check it out on Internet Archive and Pokemon TV is uploading every episode slowly.
The early seasons are pure brainrot (I mean this as a compliment but the writers were clearly just making it up as they went along), but I still kind of like it because Pokemon to me is the closest thing there is to a highly mainstream solarpunk story.
i hate the fact that the best pokemon games have basically “PETA but secretly evil animal slavedrivers” as the villains
I think the Pokémon generation before Team PETA the anime had a rival character that was way worse than previous rivals/ antagonist characters. A lot of the fans say that he is better/ more mature but everything I read of him seems to suggest more than the Sinnoh arc’s writers were too cowardly to call out abuse and give consequences. In the Kanto and Unova arc the conclusion to the abandoned fire starters was that their previous trainers were abusive assholes, that their standards are not something they should be striving towards and that they owe nothing to their past abusers. With the Sinnoh rival the conclusion sounded more like “He is not bad he’s just different. Ash just needs to prove his strength to the POS who was mean to him for petty and childish reasons even though Ash has been nothing but kind. The abandoned fire starter just needs to prove his strength to the jerk who forced him to use a life-threatening strategy that could have killed him if not for Ash’s intervention and then blamed everything on him and abandoned him even though he won under Ash’s instructions.”
The first two seasons of Digimon had the Digimon partners wanting their specific human partners right after birth.
spoilers for season 1 and 2
A backstory in the first season showed that the Digimon partner’s eggs were not entirely natural (compared to other Digimon) and had some ‘science’ modification that imprinted them to the human partners even before meeting face to face. One of the Digimon partner’s eggs was dropped during an evacuation of the lab they were made in and hence hatched separately from the other seven. After that partner hatched she spent time wondering, feeling like she should be awaiting somebody but not knowing who and hence feeling empty/ unhappy because of it. EDIT: Also season 2 established that partner Digimon can weaken if separated from their human partner. One character had a field trip to Kyoto and left her Digimon partner with another of the main characters to take care of for that duration. The result was that Digimon’s health deteriorated requiring the temporary caretaker to travel to Kyoto via the digital world to reunite the Digimon and human partner.
Season 3 (and I think 5) was when the Digimon partners were not born wanting to have a human partner and could choose their human partner. One Digimon’s backstory in 3 was that his human partners (who were much younger kids) were not good partners which got him to run away and the emotional consequences.
spoilers for season 3
Some time later in season 3 they mentioned that Digimon were made to have some affinity with children in general. So still kind of conditioned/ brainwashed like season 1 and 2 but not as bad.
4 had no partners; the humans became the Digimon themselves.
I don’t know about the later seasons.
EDIT 2: Added some more information for season 1 and 3 and put some plot-relevant stuff behind spoilers.deleted by creator
Facts. Digimon are not encaged in the pokeball
Nobody show SorosFootSoldier that right-wing crank Digimon Tamers stage play
The what now? I’ve never seen tamers, my digi knowledge is the first show and the v-pet…
Tamers is a perfectly fine show - it’s written by Chiaki J Konaka (of Serial Experiments Lain and The Big O fame) so it’s got some interesting stuff going on. He’s also got some severe right wing brain worms, and sometime around 2020 he made a Digimon Tamers sequel stage play where the kids and Digimon fight woke on the Internet.
Nintendo is suing the us government (over tariffs, not this)
and in international court… so even if they win, nothing will happen
They didn’t sue them for fake pokemon cards, they won’t sue them for this. Nintendo only cares about suing their fans and indie studios.
still don’t understand how pokemon showdown has existed for a decade at this point
The Pokemon Company is not nearly as hawkish with their IP as people say. They shut down a handful of fan games years ago but they’ve just kinda given up on that it seems. There’s so many hugely popular ROM hacks that streamers play on twitch, clearly using emulators, and TPC does nothing about it. Wolfey Glicke, a VGC player who has done many official collaborations with Pokemon, has played them on stream and made videos about it on Youtube.
It seems like Pokemon has decided it’s not worth the hassle or maybe they see benefits in letting them exist (many of the biggest Pokemon creators basically only play ROM hacks), either way they haven’t shut down Pokemon-related fan projects in ages.
Fair use maybe? I’m glad its still around.
Idk they use the exact mechanics, names, music, art, moves, etc. as the base games
Yeah idk I checked the GitHub and the website just now cause I was curious. MIT license but I dont see how this is still standing unless Nintendo likes to keep it around? Or unless you can do this as long as it doesnt make any money or take donations? No idea.
I figure if Nintendo ever made a comparable product they would sue them out of existence, but tolerate it as long as it doesn’t compete directly with them. Sort of like the understanding Blizzard had with private WoW servers until they created Classic WoW and sued them into oblivion.
A satisfying hypothesis but also chilling. These things become a psrt of the zeitgeist and they’re all seemingly a finger twitch away from the void.
Welcome to the Amerikémon center! We will heal your pokémon (well, write you a prescription that may or may not keep them from dying) for 1,000,000 Pokédollars. What’s that, your wallet can’t hold that much? Too bad, you should have bought the insurance to bring it down to 999,999 Pokédollars I guess, huh?
Hard to sue the administration that packed all of the courts at every level - and especially the highest courts with final say.
I recommend watching the Cecilily video on the topic: The US Government is using Pokémon as deportation ragebait
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
they only sue those who have less power or ability to fight back
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