And here I thought I used fly under the ancient Sinnoh radar.
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So according to Pokémon Legends, the technology for creating Poké Balls is older than electricity?
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Pretty sure it does. Ghosts exists, psychic powers exist, AZ existed, there's an even an episode of the anime where the gang literally just go into their reflections in a cave into a mirror world, with no pokemon involved whatsoever
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IMO Voltorbs didn't exist until after Pokeballs were invented. Like Klefkis wouldn't have existed before people were carrying around keys on rings, or Vanillite wouldn't have existed before ice cream cones were created. Some Pokemon are a reflection of human invention, and thus come after that, whether as manifestations of the collective unconscious or physical objects brought to life or just poorly thought-out world building.
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Don't Pokémon get sent to the PC even if you never go to one first?
when you're very computer illiterate, you can make stuff stop working for you.
that isn't canon, otherwise we would have to take the anime Dark Balls that appear in the same movie.I mean there was already the old Pokeball in the Celebi movie.
Science is dramatically underfunded in the Pokémon world. Even when they try to make lists, they do it by sending out 10 year old interns who are working for free, and most of whom presumably die either to a random creature which eats them, or when they almost inevitably end up fighting a criminal organisation.
Maybe if the they created the technology to capture themselves. Otherwise I don't buy it.
There are tons of logic issues when you think about this game alone. It doesn't matter, the game will do whatever it has to to mimic Breath of the Wild. The setting is crucial here
Professor Oak: "There are only 151 pokemon in the entire world!"
Johto is literally connected to Kanto by a high speed train.
I think the train was built in the 3 year gap between gen 1 and 2. Of course it's also walking distance so that's it doesn't matter either way.
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It doesn't have to be electricity, it can be heat, steam, whatever.
I just find it hilarious how they have the technology to fit something like Wailord into something the size of a baseball while still having to rely on oil lamps.
In Zelda the older something is the more technologically advanced it is. Point being it doesn't really matter they will retcon anyway they need to fit the setting. They have been changing stuff around for 20 plus years why stop now. Pokémon tech doesn't line up with real world so it doesn't really matter. I hope the team Galactic theory is correct though.
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What does that even mean? I'm sorry, but this made me laugh out loud. Really though, it's my fault for creating the thread in the first place.
iirc ice cream is actually based on Vanilluxe, not the other way around
idk like steam punk based i honestly dont know how they would work with out them explaining it.
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I keep forgetting that pokemon has this ancient 10-foot man that just like hangs out. So weird
the moment they decided to have more than one region and more pokemon, there was probably a collective realization of a fuck up with being so specific with details
Prof Oak is the biggest fraud in the franchise. He doesn't actually know shit, but 10-year-old Red didn't know any better
It's hilarious because for a while the anime kept pretending every new Pokémon was something no one had ever seen before despite them being common ones lol
Pokemon are based in part on Japanese yokai: some are monsters, some are ghosts, and some are objects that were either old enough or beloved enough to come to life.
literally the original gameboy tv advertisement
That world has never really made much sense if you think about things even a little.
Well, everytime Game Freak worked themselves into a corner like with the remakes and such, the answer was alternate universes.
I find one issue to be pressed about, Oak made the first pokedex canonically right? Then what are we supposed to be in PLA? Aren't we making a Pokedex before he even exists?
Gamefreak fix this.
Or, is Oak the first person to successfully live to make a pokedex? If the last question, then we die before ever completing the Pokédex in PLA =D
Amazing ending!
Gamefreak fix this.
Or, is Oak the first person to successfully live to make a pokedex? If the last question, then we die before ever completing the Pokédex in PLA =D
Amazing ending!
pokeballs were born out of the primordial flame as a means to contain the evils of man. it's like c'mon, read a book
probably first digital pokedex. like he's the inventor of the PDA or some shit
weren't older pokeballs made from apricorns, as per Johto?
i assume there's some shamanism involved in doing it with a large nut, though. compared to technology
i assume there's some shamanism involved in doing it with a large nut, though. compared to technology
Ah, so a universe where the hard sciences have the same funding and resulting research practices as the social sciences have in ours.
The pokemon world is home to creatures that are basically magic, the industrial revolution happened way earlier than it did in real life and in the modern games you can carry a near infinite amount of supplies in your backpack because they can just turn into data and back again