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[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

their whole economy is built upon rat fighting tho

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Also friendship!

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Only doing it if I get to periodically boot the queeniest corporate flaks into orbit

I mean ashs mom is a single mom and he's a latchkey kid so he probably drank hose water and grew up to vote republican (I think Shinzo Abe's party is that in Japan)

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 7 hours ago

Forgot this comic, thought it was about ratshaker

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 11 hours ago

... Also your Mom is banging the guy who gave her the rat.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 39 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Which is why the plot is bad ass. Its like being a viking without killing folks.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

And that's why Pokemon ZA setting sucks ass...

Seriously? We're going to be in an urban city environment the entire game?....

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

there's a Pokemon game with South Africa as the setting?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

hahahahaha good one

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

My favorite thing about the internet right here. Games not even out yet and it sucks ass/is the second coming of Christ. There is no in-between.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

With how badly TPC has been handling the franchise the past few years, expecting the next games to be bad is pretty reasonable

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 hours ago

You're probably right, however I reserve judgement on things untill I have actually experienced them. I fully expect it to be a disappointment somehow, but I don't know that it will be.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Well there's been that fairly lacklust trailer. It didn't exactly look inspiring. Of course it might have great gameplay but historically speaking that seems unlikely.

Also of course it's probably going to cost $100 which means I'm not going to buy it regardless.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

SETTING

I didn't say the game itself sucks but the SETTING does based on everything they have shown us (100% urban environments)

Before you talk about in-between maybe read everything in it's entirety first.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I did read your comment in it's entirety. My opinion is the same, and also not as about you as you seem to think.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

games not even out yet and it sucks ass.

This you?

Also when you say "right here" you are directing at me and what I said.

[–] Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I see you've taken part of what I said out of context. Good for you.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 117 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

The plot of Pokemon is the kid bounding down the stairs the morning he turns 10 and announcing that he’s going to do all of those things and the mom is just like, “Fine. Please call sometimes.”

[–] suite403@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Stole the plot of Earthbound I see.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Does he call? Asking for a concerned mom.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you actually go back to your home city there is literally nothing to do there.

You would have thought that at some point they would have added some special item or quest that you got if you actually went back but nope. In every game of Pokémon I have ever played there is no incentive to return to your home city and talk to your mother.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Art imitating life

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Pretty sure you can call her to leave some money with her to prevent going broke when getting wiped in battles. In some of the games at least.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 57 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

Then his single mom starts spends an inordinate amount of time hanging out with the Pokémon professor...

[–] NerdInSuspenders@leminal.space 22 points 13 hours ago

Don’t forget Mr. Mime…

[–] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

If Red/Ash's mom married Professor Oak, would he call Blue/Gary (Oak's grandson) his stepson? Stepdad? And would Giovanni (Blue's father) be his stepfather? Stepson?

And why does Game Freak refuse to answer my emails?

It would be extremely Star Wars/Everyone Important Is Related of them but I believe that it is a step sibling rivalry

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Bow chica wow wow...

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago

The show, yes. The game is more like the comic.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 54 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Or if you link up with your mom's PhD boyfriend, you have a choice between a lizard someone set on fire, a different lizard with a fungal infection, or a regular ass turtle.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

Uh, it's not a lizard with a fungal infection, it's clearly a frog/plant symbiote. Gosh

that ass turtle is a powerful turtle, water starters are slept on

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 10 points 12 hours ago
[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

7th gen:

mom can i go do this island's ritual of growing up right after i moved into this place?

Sure hon, have fun!

and then they went into alternate dimension to stop their friend's crazy mom

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Isn't the plot that he is in a coma and dreaming all of it? 😌

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago

No, that's just a fringe fan theory

[–] errer@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

That’s why Pikachu is electricity based, he represents all the stuff plugged into the unconscious boy in the hospital

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee -4 points 12 hours ago

This would be funnier without the last panel