Stop gatekeeping fandoms
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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It's a double-entendre on "really into"
The joke probably would've been clearer had you mentioned Vaporeon 😏
I don't get it either.
They watch the horny pokemon things, probably. Rule 34 and all that.
Oh, that's nice. Something we can bond over then.
Not gonna lie that sounds like perks to me
Hey guys, did you know...
...that in terms of human compatibility...
...Grapploct is in the human-like egg group...
I'm a huge pokemon fan I only saw the first season when it originally aired and only played red and blue...come at me
I also owned both silver and gold, bug never really played them because even back then the differences were marginal.
That's all that ever mattered to me too. Peak level Pokémon. Still got Red loaded in my OG GameBoy Pocket on my desk.
I don't know. On the one hand i never played a game beyond generation 4 because is did not have the hardware and on the other hand i always felt like everything after gen 3 felt like it only purpose was to make more money and to milk the shit out of pokemon. Even with gen 3 i first had my hesitations. But it's just a personal opinion.
I'm exactly the same as you, I think the last time I paid attention to anything Pokémon was ruby/sapphire. After that I don't know anything. I could have a good go at naming the original 151 still but when it became a cash grab I lost interest.
i played Go! starting late 2019. very recently i got into TCG Live. the last cartridge i played was silver, and i hated it. the lore in the first games was that professor oak is THE WORLDS foremost expert in pokemon, and there were 150 of them. i could understand if he didn't know about mew or togepi but there is no way there are literally thousands that escaped his notice.
i don't care what kind of retcon they did, there are 151 pokemon. the rest are made up.
i still play the tcg live, but that doesn't mean all the pokemon they print are real.
I reckon I could even go as far as to say that I understand him overlooking the Regi's since they are ancient and hidden, but I only remember regirock regice and registeel, I imagine there's more Regis by now that may have undone the secrecy.
Other than those, I agree with you.
Edit: I just tried to download TCG to try it cos I collected the cards as a kid and it piqued my interest but apparently I can't even make an account because something keeps going wrong ☹️
True fan
Maybe they read the manga?
Damn! I forgot about those. I think I still have the ones that were distributed with Nintendo power. Although they are in bad shape.
gen4 and the rest of them are lame. i drew pokemon. i owned the action figures, the cards, the magazines, the cheap fast food crap, the films, and the blow up dolls!
They fucked any balance after 4. Best card emerald fight me
Fight accepted. Silver/Gold were the epitome. You had two areas, mother-fucking Lugia, and could battle the elite four and as a bonus, wipe the floor with your rival on specific days of the week. Plus, I can memorize about 252 pokemon. More than that and it's just a slog. Also, newly introduced day/night cycle with time passing actually meaning something? Hot damn, son, that's lighting a Ho-oh under someone's ass.
I'm still on Crystal as the single best game in the entire series. All of what you mentioned plus the Suicune story added? Plus the intro of the animated sprites for Pokemon, it's perfection.
Fair. I never played. Time to go find a rom!
there is a hack with some qol changes, search around for that
yea, but the gameboy color was junky at best and only relevant for 3 years or something. Gen3 we had firered/ leafgreen, the hoenn series AND 2 gamecube games - that their graphics are to me better than the switch's releases
They have a bad dragon patch on their purse 😳 every time they pull something out I think it will be the strap, not lipstick 😳
Anyway OP post this in 196, Lemmy memes clearly doesn't understand the joke.
I watched the original run of the anime as a kid. How has it progressed? I have a bunch of questions…
- does it still follow ash Ketchum?
- does it tie into the story of the games?
- what is the general story at this point?
- does Ash just have a team of legendaries?
- if I were to start watching again, where should I start?
I've watched a few episodes from each season and kept up on the news, but I havent religiously watched it by any means so I might be wrong on a few details.
Every season has followed Ash, but they will be moving on to a new protagonist soon.
It is very loosely connected to the games like it always has been. The two can be enjoyed independently of each other.
Not entirely sure on the story, but Ash did finally become a Pokemon world champion in the most recent season, which is why they are changing the protagonist.
He hasn't caught any legendaries, but he has a mythical Pokemon melmetal.
Based on what I've seen, you can start almost anywhere. Each season softly resets Ash's progress. You may see occasional cameos of past characters, but each season Ash usually makes a new set of friends, has a new set of Pokemon, and starts a new story.
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Ended his journey literally this year February
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not as far as I remember
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up to gen 8, Ash's story was becoming champion then master. Not gonna watch Paldea, lo siento 🤷🏿♀️ (gen 9, Paldea, is Spain, & Ash ain't mc)
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nope, & never does as I can tell, though his Greninja was definitely doing something lol, Ash-Greninja form
If you want to see the end of ash's journey, I recommend watching sun and moon seasons and then "pokemon journeys" (the sword and shield seasons). Journeys are the final seasons with ash but has a few episodes that are a callback to sun and moon.
Pokemon horizons has new protagonists, is currently airing and has about 23 episodes currently.
I think the series is over now.
Competitive Pokemon?
Clarification: Pokemon showdown.
Nobody playing competitive anything is ever getting a date.
tbf, going by all the people I know who seriously play competitive mode in any game that's for the best. Nothing but toxicity to be found there.
I would know I used to game competitively. If you're not picking up an SO from doing it, you're shit out of luck.
That's probably true, but a good friend of mine does play competitive Pokemon and he's married so it can happen.
His wife is also into pokemon too.
Nah, competitive Pokemon requires like 3 of the modern games.
I meant Pokemon showdown.
...it's a Vaporeon joke isn't it
There are only two good things about Pokémon, and that’s FireRed and Regigigas