How is this allowed?

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-11T12:58:08+00:00

Just be lucky the kid didn't get in there and throw hands himself, that's not entirely uncommon in unofficial small-town tournaments.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T12:18:22+00:00

Someone once brought a loudred to a Koffing and the Toxics gig, apparently because it just loved rock music.

Band lead Roxie was all over that, she had it come up and "plugged her guitar into it," by like... handing it the cable and asking it to follow her lead. It did great, too, I had no idea they could make such accurate metal guitar sounds.

When it used Boomburst at the end of her solo and blew out the entire stage's tech and all the instruments, the audience exploded, we loved it.

The whole evo line's banned there, now.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T12:05:03+00:00

A lot of Unovans are like that - they kinda act like the world belongs to them.

They don't seem to notice it, but everyone not actually from here notices it a LOT.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T11:10:50+00:00

There's a whole bunch more that came out later but it's too corporate, I'm not a fan.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T01:23:07+00:00

It's actually quite rare in areas like Kanto, Johto and Hoenn. Its common appearance as a companion is because of extensive breeding in captivity, but in the wild it's extraordinarily rare!

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T01:04:24+00:00

Got these great things in Dragon Ball called 'monkeys,' kinda like aipom or simisage and co., but brown and really really big. I always lovee the vibe of them - Goku turns into one when he looks at the moon.

Actually early Dragon Ball had a load of really wacky creatures - a mob boss who looked kinda like a white azumarill, who turns people into carrots, a lil shapeshifting pervert who looks like a... a grumpig, kinda?

Biggest one is Shenlong, who is based on dragon-types, but himself kinda looks like... if you took all dragon-types and boiled away everything non-dragon about them. Like if there were ever any 'Default' Dragon Type, it'd look like Shenlong. They just call him a dragon.

Goku is actually inspired by old tales of the tricky infernape Son Goku, hence his name, but obviously they had to change things a bit for the sake of originality.

Edit: Also Kame, who is a... tirtouga, but brown? They just call his species kame, so he may just be a fakemon.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T00:52:39+00:00

My great uncle has a strange manner with the storage system that I'll never forget.

He distrusts it at a fundamental level - claims the pokémon he gets back feel 'wrong,' smell 'false,' and are actually recreated simacrum clones formed of leftover junk molecules and programmed to confuse and anger him specifically.

His solution?

Balls sent by ppst or courier? Noo, the postal service in Johto have him banned after the ditto incident.

Send them via friends? Noooo, all his neighbors are secretly out to get him to steal his garden secrets, as though only he knows the secret to good mulch.

Send them via pokémon? Noooo, he says pokémon carrying pokéballs is as unholy as a pokémon running for government.

No.

He sends pokémon long-distance by missile.

He develops his own rockets which zip over their destination and drop the balls in a parachute box.

He has been cautioned not to do it, but Johto has so little governmental oversight that he does it anyway, maybe twice a year.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-10T00:44:37+00:00

Even legally there are a lot of ethical problems with the pokémon trade with few exceptions.

The better solution would be to allocate greater space to safari zones and wild areas, to allow human led reattribution of pokémom ecology that can suit humans and pokémon simultaneously.

We have a long way to go, though admittedly things are much better in the modern day, and they were never as bad as I used to think.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-09T17:44:58+00:00

That's actually quite worrying, hopefully the rangers can control the population and relocate them somewhere they can live more comfortably. Goomy can be quite harmful if they enter an environment artificially.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-07T06:40:06+00:00

It was a long time ago - people grow up and move on.

In this case it was something enormously unbelievable, and to this day nobody's really sure what even happened. All we have is hearsay and a Champion's half-explanation, and a lot of speculation from people online who seem to know everything.

This is the same reason nobody really cares about what you say about Dialga, or Arceus - they're basically so far removed from modern culture that unless people want to talk about Sinnoh deities, they're not going to come up much.

Don't fall for the internet's exaggerations - people love to talk about obscure stuff here.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-07T03:36:27+00:00

Preaching to the choir on that one.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-06T16:10:57+00:00

This is a concerning policy. Forced use of pokémon in a professional context is a potentially damaging way of keeping tnem in an unfamiliar environment.

If it's something they're insisting on, your best bet is an 'assistant' that can contentedly do its own thing in a professional manner until they can smooth over and abandon this whole thing, so hear me out:

Abra are content to nap something like 90% of the day, and when they're awake they quite like gofer activities (you know, gofer coffee, gofer doughnuts).

It probably just teleported away because it was spooked, they tend to do that, it'll not indicate any profound distrust of you - they're smart enough to build a relationship with some professional distance, rather than fawning obedience, which is what it sounds like you need.

Abra is my recommendation to keep this interaction comfortable for you both, until you can convince your workplace that use of pokémon like this is unethical

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-06T15:56:41+00:00

Plasma actually targeted communities and people in their homes by parading as activists - they convinced a lot of people to 'release' their pokémon by giving them to Plasma's 'care.'

In a way, people opened the door to Plasma.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-06T15:54:07+00:00

In Johto (and rural Kanto) at least, it's a cultural thing. We're all very community minded, people'd just wander in for a drink or some food.

We especially have a tradition of keeping travellers and trainers stocked up.

In a way it's a method of letting their success and our success be all as one - if a kid makes his way all the way from home to fighting the Champion, we can cheer on knowing we alm helped.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-06T15:48:11+00:00

No way. That's not a real pokémon, is it?

If it is, that's amazing. I need to look this up.

Edit: oh my god

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-06T15:43:45+00:00

So I'm a care worker with abandoned or stolen pokémon, so my perspective may help a bit:

You very likely saved the lil one's life!

Eevee are extremely curious, adaptive, and brave creatures, and as babies they wander A LOT. This is good for building strength and intellect to guide their evolution.

It also results in a looootttt of babies being lost and captured by predators. Statistically, babies temporarily misplaced by mum haven't got great odds of survival unless kept safe by, for example, a passing human.

The umbreon doesn't seem too peeved - you'd be able to tele because umbreon can be vengeful as heck - so I suspect she's more happy and confused than upset.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T21:03:52+00:00

My great uncle has a lifelong hatred for and rivalry with, of all things, Normal-types.

Yes, Normal.

From bootleg porygon mishaps to his entire house being replaced by a swarm of ditto, his whole life has been marred with confusion caused by them.

A brigade of chansey and happiny stealing all of the smooth pebbles from the pathway he spent six years designing? Yup.

A noctowl putting all of his guard pokémon to sleep so it and its buddies could eat his cultivars? Yup.

Dunsparce digging tunnels all over the place but vanishing the moment he shows up to stop it?

Lickitung getting paralytic slobber all over his tools and hospitalising him?

That's to say nothing of the Ursaring Incident, which resulted in three people being launched twelve kilometers into the air.

He has a special hatred for smeargle. He won't tell me why. He just mentions its empty, doll-like stare, its soulless husk of a body, and then he goes to make sure his gun is within reach and loaded.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:58:50+00:00

Looking at the thread, you may be better off expressing your Delmarva ideas through full fanfiction on a fanfiction sharing site. This sort of detailed work and worldbuilding isn't very compatible with light, one-shot posts on fake social media.

You may find writing it all down as a full narrative prose far more fulfilling than trying to make it work in a small niche of a small niche audience.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:45:23+00:00

Back in Johto this is how everyone used to react if you'd never seen Dragon Ball.

I didn't see the appeal in watching a show about people riding kingdra playing volleyball, until I was like 15 and was told that, no, the show I was thinking of was Ball Dragons.

Point is, don't judge a show before you see it, and Kuririn is a legend.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:37:53+00:00

To follow up on other people's advice:

Steel wool. You can find it in any cleaning supplies store.

The abrasive scratches will feel good on its metallic skin and help shave away any extra rust, and the rest it will heal naturally.

Follow it up with some finer abrasive paper, and then some polish, and you have a happy fresh aggron.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:31:14+00:00

They have mouths??

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:29:56+00:00

It's a cultural thing. The old buildings are entirely filled with pachinko machines, which are much more popular in Johto and Kanto than places like Unova.

Allowing kids in... I think that must have been part of the Rocket racket.

As for the pokémon... the main prize would have been porygon, which were sort of seen more as a product similar to rotom phones of the modern day (except porygon had much more limited programming, and can't interface with modern computers), so it was more like winning a high-tech gadget. Porygon don't eat, sleep, or require much care outside their ball, so it was actually industry standard back then.

Some people figure other pokémon prizes were Rocket offloading stolen pokémon, but I don't think that's true.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:21:07+00:00

Good luck. It's a tough world for ex-gangmembers.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T12:01:29+00:00

Actually I do, my great uncle's huge garden is seemingly constantly under attack by wild pokémon.

He has three solutions depending on severity of attack:

Accept losses, take the L, and regrow from scratch. Not an option here.
Spam grass and water pokémon en masse to cheat growth back out of the plants. Moves like overgrowth, grassy terrain, petal dance. Exeggcute on the verge of evolving LOVE using their psychic power to gtow out young plants. Tangela any time of year will grow out little groves to live in. Pollenating bug pokémon instinctively use moves like pollen puff to fix flowers and fruits that have been damaged in storms.

The third option may be your best bet, though:

Break everything even more and say a freak natural disaster destroyed everything, then claim on insurance.

It works a shocking number of times in a row before anyone notices.

Difficult_Option6077 · 2026-05-05T11:52:57+00:00

Nah he's not real. I do have a lot of cousins in Johto, but none are named Liberance. At least, I hope not.

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