• Zezzy [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    SMT negotiations are by far my favorite monster-collecting methods. Just equal parts philosophy, flirtation, and gibberish as they vibe check you.

  • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is less true for me than others because I spent 80% of my time in Pokemon X in Pokemon Aimie playing games with, petting, and feeding my Pokemon rather than battling with them

    But yeah.

  • RION [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The difference is Pokemon makes it clear that the Pokemon enjoy battling and do it voluntarily

    Are these the same people who accept JK Rowling’s “the house elves are slaves but they like it so it’s cool and even the idea of emancipation is a joke” with no further introspection?

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Taking my Charmander down to the Pokemon center to get electroshock treatment for her drapetomania and then trauma-bonding afterwards with pokemon treats that are basically like heroin

  • KittyBobo [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That always bugged me with the Pokémon defense. “Oh, but they like that im the master and tell them to do things. We’re all friends, just a big family!” Is the exact argument you would use if you were subjugating others but didn’t want to feel bad about it.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          10 months ago

          We co-evolved with dogs over the course of 40,000 years. in so far as the temr “natural” means anything, it is natural for dogs and humans to live together in close cooperation. there’s a theory going that humans and dogs (and domesticated agricultural plants) co-domesticated each other and that our close relationship with dogs (and wheat) is why humans seem to share many traits found in domesticated animals but not wild animals.

            • BovineUniversity [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              10 months ago

              Why should animals be forced to live within your limits though, even if you treat them ‘well’? You’re trapping them in homes or even cages, they have basically no agency.

              • WithoutFurtherBelay@hexbear.net
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                10 months ago

                Because if they get outside they’ll get killed by a car and/or fuck up the environment

                Pets SHOULDN’T exist, but that isn’t fixable by having individuals throw “their” animals outside, it doesn’t fix anything and causes more suffering

                So I’m not “against pets” any more than someone is “against food” because they got it from a capitalist grocery store

                • BovineUniversity [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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                  10 months ago

                  Oh I’m not saying pets should all be euthanized immediately or anything, just that the pet and pet-breeding industry should be phased out with the goal of animals existing almost solely in the wild in the future.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m sure the godly and legendary creatures I keep in a capsule in a bank are feeling good about it. Oh you’re the god of space? Enjoy the luxury ball it’s the only thing you’ll ever see again

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Pokemon is cockfighting, Mario massacres Goombas and turns by the hundreds in any given game and we know from Paper Mario they’re fully sentient and about equal to human intelligence, the star fox team are a PMC, Samus has blown up 3 planets, maybe more ans wiped out 2 species, sorta 3 if you count Evil Beak or whatever from Dread, he was likely the last Chozo. None of this shit really makes any sense and it’s pretty senseless to go thst deep into it. Especially if you’re being serious.

    • bazingabrain@hexbear.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Diegetic essentialism 101, it leads people to ask deeply unserious and frankly stupid questions like: “is superman actually a socialist?”. Like, no , unless superman is written as such, he’s not. These fantasy worlds you escape into? Theyre written a certain way by its authors, and no amount of nerd slapfighting online will change that, please stop wasting your time.

        • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          10 months ago

          My favorite part about the movie was when he was mad about stalin having gulags and stalin was like “sometimes you gotta do a little authority” and superman was like “no dad” and totally proved him wrong by murdering him with a laser like immediately