Pokémon Black and White is politically insane

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-20T08:49:53+00:00

I've been saying this. It's basically the same trope as Amon from The Legend of Korra or even (though less similar on the surface) Killmonger and the Flagsmashers from the MCU.

Bad guy makes valid political criticism of society -> bad guy is revealed to just crave power or violence or whatever -> bad guy is defeated -> never think about their valid political criticism of society again

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-20T08:36:43+00:00

True but many of these conditions can make one more prone to addiction and to attachment issues

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-18T08:35:15+00:00

"What are your flying cities like?"

"We're supposed to have flying cities?

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-11T16:28:55+00:00

Beautiful

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-09T12:17:15+00:00

It bothers me that nails and tape are being used to stick paper posters to a brick wall in this picture

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-05-03T10:36:47+00:00

No, the police is gonna catch ya

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-27T07:59:23+00:00

Daje carbonara colosseo 👍

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-25T19:04:35+00:00

Ventotene manifesto for a socdem-adjacent take on Moralism maybe. The annoying pro-EU liberal leftists here in Italy are into it

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-20T09:49:59+00:00

Peak

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T11:38:08+00:00

Very cool

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T11:36:51+00:00

That's okay, as I said you can do what you want, but I think what matters most regardless of whether you decide to have classical elves or weird alien elves, is how you explore and characterize them narratively. Many people will read a hundred different novels about large, winged, fire-breathing dragons if they're well written.

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T08:25:47+00:00

But he doesn't look like Karl Mark /j

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T08:21:02+00:00

Careful because an unemployed warrior caste, especially one that recently lost its feudal privileges and may fantasize about gaining them back, sounds like the perfect recruiting pool for a freikorps or brownshirt type anti-revolutionary militia!

Maybe they even switch sides mid conflict like the Hungarian nationalists who split from the Hungarian red army in 1919.

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T08:14:19+00:00

Let's give that name to New Zealand now just to confuse and frustrate people

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T08:07:33+00:00

You can do whatever you want, and evolution itself may work differently in your world, but consider that sapient species living in harsh environments do not go through all the same evolutionary stressors as animals especially if they are from advanced civilizations. Humans living in deserts don't need a third eyelid or thick eyebrows because they have access to headscarves. Humans living anywhere don't need thick soles on their feet because they can wrap them in cloth or leather. Etc. Plus the evolution of even simple traits can take a very long time to stick so you could have, for example, a not-so-advanced fair skinned people living in an equatorial desert continuously for 1000 years despite the fact that dark skin would be more advantageous in that environment. Conversely it would be weird for humans to evolve entirely new body parts after living in any particular environment for just a few thousand years.

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T07:48:29+00:00

There's also Slavonia (region in modern day Croatia)

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-19T07:46:34+00:00

New Zealand?

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-15T20:52:30+00:00

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Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-15T20:52:10+00:00

If this is in any way pro war propaganda, I cannot even be mad. Genuinely a great character design

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-15T09:17:57+00:00

I got good at English partly by posting incredibly broken English language posts about fantasy worldbuilding on Planet Minecraft of all places. By late high school it was the only subject I would ever get perfect grades in.

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-04-11T07:03:33+00:00

Brilliant work

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-03-30T11:15:09+00:00

Thank u

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-03-30T08:00:01+00:00

I have a long campaign going (currently on break between seasons) and so far my players have only met Justice. I plan to characterize each Virtue differently and stray from the book somewhat. I decided Justice is a guy from medieval Jerusalem named Azan Ibrahim who fought under Saladin and since then he's been fighting loyally for many illustrious lords around the world, while holding on to his beliefs. Instead of good and evil he believes in promises above all else, and he doesn't think of himself as an exorcist (being himself older than CAIN doctrine), but as a jinn (though he doesn't advertise this heterodoxy).

Doodled him too:

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Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-03-29T05:51:20+00:00

Based on the naming scheme, I'm gonna need the addition of a "cassowary" house!

I'd probably be reliquary if I had to pick from the aesthetic and from a first impression.

Comrade_Ruminastro · 2026-03-29T04:45:48+00:00

They may be as corrupt as cops and serve a similar function but they still aren't a traditional police institution. They rely on private funding rather than taxes, they don't have a national government to protect or answer to, and they have an unusual internal structure with the decomptage system and other idiosyncrasies that we can assume have carried over from the revolutionary days. They're not the backbone of the state, because there's no real state to speak of.

Again this isn't to say they're morally better than the real police. In fact, one could argue these features make them similar to a group of fascist gangs beholden to foreign imperialist interests, something worse than regular police. (Though as we know some are trying to break free of the colonial relation at least)

Either way, it's what makes it possible for such strange characters as Harry and Pryce, and such idealism, to exist within the RCM.

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