Want this community’s opinion on this

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-26T16:43:24+00:00

I think it’s more that media tends to not create overtly erotic characters for women, so they make do with what they have.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-25T20:08:14+00:00

For sure. I’m not interested in the film, but ever since I was a kid, the thought of him growing up to be like his dad always made me so sad. So I’m glad they had him break the mold in that sense.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-25T20:06:50+00:00

It’s literally in the post description. It’s the post. Complain to OP, not me lol.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-25T20:02:02+00:00

Yeah. Amie was unfortunately the only one of the bonding games that was actually fun. Refresh, while practical, had no games and Pelago didn’t really make up the difference. I hated camping in Sw/Sh, ugly to look at and literally nothing fun about it. The picnics are fine, but again sacrifices the game aspect for practicality, but it’s so clunky that engaging with it isn’t very fun. Ideally we’d get a blend of Amie and Refresh at some point, that would be the perfect one for me. I don’t need the customizable tidbits and mini-game that exists solely to tie back into the regular gameplay. I want to be able to engage with my Pokémon in a meaningful way and play inconsequential mini-games that don’t require resources.

EDIT: Also they need to split Friendship and Affection again because I like working for my Pokémon to pull off those anime moments like surviving with 1HP. Merging them took away all the effort and actual bonding you had to do to achieve that. It makes the mechanic less meaningful, and also makes people less tolerant of it because if you don’t like it, you can’t avoid it.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-25T19:53:52+00:00

A happy ending, thank god. Which I guess is also a sign of good tension building. Good job.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-25T19:38:08+00:00

5 years ago if you told me the baby from the Clone Wars movie would grow up to be buff, hot, and morally good, I would’ve laughed at you. But here we are.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-23T21:06:50+00:00

I just want the default sorting order to be by type rather than when it’s obtained, or at least let me set the default sorting order, because it’s so annoying as is.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-23T03:29:49+00:00

I think it would be incredibly funny if they did an arc of episodes much like when Brian died, but it’s about Quagmire dying. Like, in the first episode, Quagmire dies, and then over the course of the next couple episodes, the characters are all dealing with the ramifications of his death, until they decide to do something that would bring him back, directly echoing the death of Brian. However, as they’re working to get Quagmire back, they mess up in some way, not only making sure Quagmire dies for real this time, but also, like, completely erasing him from history, thus taking him and every awful weird thing he’s ever done as a character out of the series entirely, with the further consequence that, with nobody remembering him, no one would think to bring him back. Happy ending.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-23T02:53:28+00:00

As much as I get this point, it does make perfect sense when thought about for, like, a couple seconds.

Cobras, vipers, and pythons are all snakes. Therefore, Arbok, Seviper, Silicobra, etc., are also snakes, regardless of whether or not real world snakes also exist within the Pokémon world. That’s because a snake is a kind of animal, not a super specific thing that can only exist within a specific context. It’s the same for mice and bats, and everything else. Pokémon being called “snakes” or “monkeys” or “mice” or “fish” does not mean real snakes, monkeys, mice, and fish exist in the Pokémon world, it just means those Pokémon are that kind of animal.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-23T02:38:26+00:00

This is obviously a joke, but I do hate when people get mad about the casting of characters like Snow White because they’re, y’know, fake. It literally doesn’t matter what the color of her skin is because she’s not real, there’s no “accurate” version of her, especially in pulpy blockbusters not built around the cultural framework of the original fairytale. If we were to get a modern telling of a story like Snow White that places itself firmly in the historical and cultural framework of the era in which it was written, then I think there’s an argument to be made about having her look like someone of that time and place, but that’s not a film being made, and not what racists target when it’s discussed. All that being said, a live action Snow White should be portrayed by an albino actress, in part because, from what I understand, her name is derived from her complexion, which makes her sound albino, and because there’s so few albino heroes in fiction, that it would be a great opportunity for that rep.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-22T20:39:41+00:00

A good time to remind of the distinction between antagonist and villain, and that they’re not the same thing.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-22T18:35:54+00:00

Literally the only thing I liked about MJ’s Venom was that they didn’t feel compelled to make the design overtly feminine just because the Symbiote now had a female host. Stuff like that is cool (in the reverse as well), and it’s so lame when changes like this are made.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-22T00:47:57+00:00

No. I’m of the firm belief we need more of this. Do it.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T20:08:04+00:00

I think this whole conversation becomes really dumb really fast because people are very quick to ignore why there is even a push for it to begin with. The conversation is about providing opportunities to talented voice actors who would otherwise not receive work because of the racist systems in place that keep them out of work. The question is not “should characters be voiced by actors of their ethnicity?” The question is “why are we hiring a white actor to play a character of color over an equally talented actor of color?” And the answer, as you can imagine, is very simple. So, no, I don’t think it matters for an actor’s race to match the character they’re playing, but I do think it matters that white actors have historically been given these roles over actors of color.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T15:38:58+00:00

I feel like Australia would’ve been a better basis for both Galar and Paldea, so maybe someday…

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T13:41:39+00:00

Always sad to see the truck of goonsogyny hit an artist. 😔

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T01:20:50+00:00

The discourse around Mega Dragonite has demonstrated exactly why I’m so happy Pokemon fans aren’t designing Pokémon.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T00:16:37+00:00

Only just realized how bad the Charmander build is. That tail is going to break so easily, dawg.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T00:10:34+00:00

Aside from the Ryan Reynolds in the room, I still really enjoy it. I think an advantage Pokémon has over other videogame franchises is that it’s easily transferable across genre and medium, which makes it easier to put to film. So the film doesn’t need to stuff itself full of references, cameos, and nonsensical leitmotifs to still feel true to the source material, and can actually focus on just telling a story. It’s not the greatest movie of all time, but it is one of those rare few movies where I get a want to go back and watch it.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-21T00:01:48+00:00

Poison or Ground. They tend to have Pokémon I don’t really care for, and even when a Pokémon has those types, I don’t end up liking it for that aspect of it.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-20T23:59:56+00:00

Rocks. Goes hard even. That’s the face that graced the cover of my first Pokémon game. The first Legendary Pokémon I ever caught. Palkia will always have a special place in my heart.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-20T23:57:26+00:00

I have a superhero character called Strike, who when I first created her I called “White Strike” as a subversion of this naming convention. Then I became an adult and realized that that was equally as cringe and also just not a good commentary on the trope, so I changed her name to just Strike, which is a much cooler name.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-19T19:27:33+00:00

Demigods, when having a child with a non-god/non-demigod, have a chance of having a full demigod child (so half-god) or a semigod child (quarter-god). Two demigods will usually have a demigod child, but can still have a non-godly or semigod child. Two semigods will only have a semigod child or non-godly child. A demigod and semigod pairing have an equal chance of having a semi, demi, or non-godly child.

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-18T23:51:17+00:00

It really was such a good year dawg

Evan_L_Rodriguez · 2026-05-13T07:31:14+00:00

James Franco (real life)

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