Setsuna_Meiou [she/her]

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Capitalism is all about making threats out of innocent things. I hate how transparent it is. Like who sees fireflies and thinks of protecting your home with industrial poison that's been proven to cause cancer?

Like that's part of the 'family values' American nostalgia. It's one of the things that show up in boomer posts about 'kids these days.'

I know the US and capitalism in general are full of contradictions, but it's bewildering to see how bad it is.

It's interesting that land owners get to decide what is a weed or pest regardless of who or what was there first.

I dunno, the idea of a black hole doesn't seem too frightening to me from what I understand.

If the sun was replaced by a black hole of the same mass as the sun, the earth's orbit would remain the same, right? Aside from the change in temperature/electromagnetism, that is.

It's hard to understand and their gravity fuck with our understanding of physics, but there were things on earth that once were unknown and scary.

I don't want to be in a room with a black hole, but I think they're remote enough that we don't have to worry about them in our lifetimes.

But there's something about the existential dread that comes from feeling so small and powerless in our growing understanding of the universe.

The only thing that isn't political is brunch

It's kinda nice to get news like this months or years in advance of libs.

Thinking about Havana Syndrome right now

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It's weird as fuck, but it's an interpretation of a franchise I prefer over something produced by a focus group.

I wouldn't call it good exactly, but a YouTube video essayist would have a great time analyzing King Koopa as the dictator of a cyberpunk dystopia.

TIL that one's personal identity is sacred unless you're trans.

Rude

My joy con has been veering right for so long that it's getting money from the DNC.

It really is that simple, isn't it?

Just the users reading this comment.

Do you think he was being earnest, he was trying to cash in on a personal brand, or that someone put him up to this?

I wish the Pokemon Company stopped treating Pokemon like inanimate collectibles in the games.

I get that's the original tagline, 'gotta catch em all,' but I think that mindset is really holding back what storytelling can happen in the games.

It feels like there's too much emphasis on collecting and forgetting the Pokemon once you're done with them. Adding and replacing features like mega evolutions and terastal Pokemon just get too gimmicky too quickly.

And it feels like there's rarely any sort of importance to the Pokemon outside of battle mechanics. One of the best episodes in the early anime was about the Diglett and how they worked to keep the ecosystem working. Outside of that, Pokemon just exist.

I'd change some things to help the setting

I'd honestly love if they stopped introducing new Pokemon for a little bit. Emphasize the importance of older, lesser known ones. Give them some love and recent l rebalance the stats so you can use the ones you like in battle.

On that note, I'd love to see a way to viably use more Pokemon who haven't fully evolved. Not like eviolite, but an invisible power boost that brings Dragonair close to Dragonite in terms of strength. That way you can see more variety with people using their favorites.

I'd actually like to see some clarity in how Pokemon work. The contradictions between the Pokedex, the anime, and the games is really confusing when taken at face value. It stops Pokemon from being seen as living entities in the setting and more just vague ideas.

I'd actually want to borrow more from something like Digimon. The animes ran at around the same time in the US and they're cool in how they approach the creature companion differently. Digimon can explicitly talk and there's usually only one assigned per person. I think if future Pokemon games focused on a smaller number of distinct Pokemon, they would do a lot to make the Pokemon world more immersive.

I dunno. I was watching my friend play violet and just started to ramble.

That was a nice thought

Oh well, gotta put more money into the defense budget

Hey, be fair. The US military only has practice bombing civilians.

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