Pokemon General [SFW, No NSFW]

@igotnopicks  
That’s why I was asking.

Over the last 25 years, the main Pokemon series has given us 28-9 games in 14 releases telling 9 stories.
 
(Yes, I just felt like saying that.)

@Latecomer  
What’s the case with Digimon?

@Meanlucario  
Digimon is complicated, because it doesn’t really have a “core” in the same way. The original media, the virtual pets, are almost peripheral.

@Latecomer  
I don’t think a “core” is needed for this type of stuff if the focus is on the games released.

I’m gonna get back into my Alpha Sapphire playthrough after the anniversary ends on April 1.

@Meanlucario  
This many.

@yelling_into_the_void  
They’ve been keeping busy it seems.

@yelling_into_the_void  

 
The very concept of “humans eating meat” in a fantasy setting where both humans and fictional monsters coexist has been a problem for a while.
 
It reaches into an ethical dilemma when the mons can be as sentient like the anime counterparts, showing a large array of emotions and feelings, giving them a more anthropomorfied behavior.
 
Maybe the determination to eat a pokemon depends on its physical appearance?
 
We know that Farfetch’d and Slowpoke tails were consumed, but both are seen as shark fins: an unethical luxury.
 
I dont know. The more deep we thought about it, the more it turns into a disturbing vision about what humans can do to the pokemon.
 

@RogueBadnik  
That’s another reason why I highly doubt that pokemon are sapient.

@Meanlucario  
Yeah, but one thing is means is that there isn’t really a “main series”. There are all sorts of games, following various patterns, on a bunch of different systems.
 
 
@RogueBadnik  
Given what humans have managed to do to other humans throughout history…
 
(Of course, given their level of bio-science, it’s quite plausible that all meat is vat-grown. At least in civilised regions.)

@Latecomer  
Considering there is even less evidence of vat-grown meat than pokemon and humans porking in the franchise…

@Meanlucario  
No, but if you can do fossil revival and Mewtwo, it doesn’t seem too implausible.

Some animations which may be of interest. (Warning: mass Pokemon death.)
 
An all-out, literal-Pokedex battle between all Pokemin from the first 7 generations…
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFqZggMcq34&ab_channel=TerminalMontage
 
…except Legendary and Mythical ones. They get their own match.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVO8QrGAPHs
 
There’s also one just for baby Pokemon (even though they were in the original).
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J3edRvnYU8
 
Each of them comes with a “behind the scenes” companion video too.

@Latecomer  
I don’t know why I avoided these for so long.

 
Rayquaza’s probably like “When I said I wanted you two to be more friendly with each other, I didn’t mean like this!

Mew was the first pokemon, right? And contains the dna for all the rest. Presumably this would include all the mythicals also created by Arceus, but does this also count for ultra beasts?

@WyrmSpawN
 
Ultra Beasts are from another dimension, so I think the jury is out on that one.

@WyrmSpawN  
Terminal Montage does good stuff sometimes.

@WyrmSpawN  
Cool.

Precious.
 

@Cyborg_pony
 
There goes my heart

@WyrmSpawN  
Wow cool
 
@Cyborg_pony  
Aww cute

@Cyborg_pony  
Eevee is already cute enough… well kind of.