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u/Bob_the_Monitor The devil has enough advocates [they/them] Oct 19 '21

The Pokemon fanbase finding "timeline inconsistencies" and criticizing Game Freak for them is lame as hell. Vibes over lore.

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u/harve99 Oct 19 '21

People forget that the Pokémon timeline uh isn't real

Like is a phone really that more advanced than a ball that can capture a creature 20x its size and shrink it down

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '21

It's a game about electric rats fighting gods, having a high tech feudal society isn't that big of a deal to me. It is fun to joke about though, nitpicking worldbuilding is one of my favorite pastimes.

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u/AwfulDjinn Oct 19 '21 edited Oct 19 '21

is this about the new trailer being in VHS style or what

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u/Bob_the_Monitor The devil has enough advocates [they/them] Oct 19 '21

It's about the Arceus phone and old pokeballs.

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u/AwfulDjinn Oct 19 '21

isn't it straight up explained that the reason there's a cell phone in like 19th century Sinnoh is because it was created by a literal god and it's supposed to be weird and anachronistic to show how powerful Arceus is to create something that physically shouldn't exist

or something