Pretty sure the author meant restitution but also, good point
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
293 points (92.0% liked)
Comic Strips
23247 readers
2210 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
-
😇 Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
-
🏘️ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
-
🧬 Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
-
📽️ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
-
📋 Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
-
📬 Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 🖐) will be removed.
-
🏴☠️ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
-
🍿 Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.
Well they also enslave their pokemon, primarily to fight each other to unconsciousness for their masters' entertainment. In fact, gambling winnings from these fights is how the main protagonists in the games are able to make money. It's prevalent and profitable enough that pokemon trafficking is the main enterprise of several organized crime organizations. All this is despite the fact that there are several examples of pokemon learning to speak and otherwise having an intelligence comparable to humans. Basically, it does not do well in the veil of ignorance test and only seems idyllic if you know you will be at the top of the hierarchy.
I think you've focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.
Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.
Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you'll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.
There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn't hunger or homelessness.
Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.
Hey now, most of them give you free pokeballs. Professor Oak even sends out his minions to give you useful devices as you fill in the pokedex.
Jeez, that's a thirsty series.
Many comic artists have side gigs to actually make a living. I could guess what this person does for their day job.
If she’s writing a thesis at the end of the journey it’s academia
Kids can't contribute to FOSS because then it's child labour.
The funnier part is the idea that you could just... report a well established and ingrained element of a society... to that society's 'police'... and thinking that they would do anything other than laugh at you.
'Economical retribution'?
"Retribution" is a common false friend (faux ami) in English-Spanish translation, where English speakers might mistakenly use retribución to mean punishment, whereas retribución actually means compensation, payment, or remuneration.
And Spanish is not the only language where "retribution" means remuneration. English is the weird one here.
Sure, but this comic is in English...
By a Spanish-speaking person. Give them a break.
I actually enjoy all this cultural swap stemming from ESL people slightly misusing English. I love languages. I love how many words come from similar roots but spreading with slightly different meaning across regions.
Me too
One thing I’ve never heard any native English speaker say, but have heard from more than one non-native speaker is the phrase ”we perfectly know“. Something like “as we perfectly know, English is a living language”
I’m not sure exactly what word I’d substitute in there to make it “proper” English, but I do know I don’t want to
"We know perfectly well" would be a common way of phrasing this as a native US English speaker.
I’ve heard British English say “we all well know” as a canned phrase even though that isn’t proper English grammar. I suspect it’s borrowed from French, like a lot of British English phrases.
One of those people was French, so it’s possible
The artist is Colombian.
And whoever wrote that is probably a native Spanish speaker.
In English a synonym would be “payback” which in modern context has a negative association but it’s not the only meaning of the word. I suspect the comic artist’s primary language is Latin based.
Only once they had a "human hospital" in the series, almost everything else is only for pokemon.
What's stopping people from going in pokeballs?
I'm absolutely certain there have been many a naughty comic made about this idea.
Alright, I checked. For science.
The tag caught_in_pokeball has 5 pages of results on rule 34 dot xxx.
I’ve not seen a comic from this dude in so long
There was one posted here yesterday.