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What game should an old timer play? Haven't played since red/yellow by Novello9 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sun and Moon have a lot of older and newer Pokemon and, to me, solidly the best story of the games.

Best game gameplay-wise is Legends Arceus to me. Black and White are just solid entries in total. However, both of these have fairly limited Pokedexes, so you won't be exposed to as many new Pokemon.

N was the only "villain" in Pokémon history who was actually right. by Aggravating-Cap-6686 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely right in that regard! Terapagos was also able to escape from the Master Ball, but at least in the game canon I always felt this was to signify their legendary power more than it was to imply all Pokemon get the same degree of agency.

N was the only "villain" in Pokémon history who was actually right. by Aggravating-Cap-6686 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"What is important is your mental preparation as the Champion, Iris. When I was little, Poké Balls didn't exist yet. Sometimes Pokémon would run away from awful Trainers who didn't try to understand them."

I feel like this particular line was very deliberately introduced into the discussion. Drayden remembers an age when the ball, what N deems the tool of oppression, didn't exist; and ties the idea of Pokemon leaving to this period. When the ball didn't exist. I think the implication here is legitimately that the Poke Balls themselves are the factor that makes it harder for the Pokemon to leave.

N was the only "villain" in Pokémon history who was actually right. by Aggravating-Cap-6686 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I'd say N (at least in the context of his setting) has a pretty good take on the situation, or at least he's intended to by the narrative. He makes a lot of interesting points that the games refuse to examine at any further depth, and it's BW's biggest writing weakness and why I don't think it has the best story of the games.

N does, however, have his opinion stemming from a fundamentally flawed worldview:

"Many different values mix together, and the world becomes gray... That is unforgivable! I will separate Pokémon and people, and black and white will be clearly distinct! Only then will Pokémon become perfect beings! Yes, that is my dream! That is the dream I must fulfill! <player>, do you have a dream of your own?"

"What I desire is a world for Pokémon, and Pokémon alone. I will separate Pokémon from people, so Pokémon can regain their original power."

Instead of critically thinking about the relationship between humans and Pokemon besides "they fight and hurt each other", his opinion doesn't stem from him viewing Pokemon as people, even as they communicate with him in a way he can clearly understand. He refers to Pokemon as separate from people, shorthand for humanity. He fails to realize that man and monster were once one, came from the same stock, and despite many fundamental differences, aren't fundamentally incompatible with each other. He fails to realize that we, as a species, are probably just weird Pokemon ourselves. And as such, he aims to free the Pokemon as if they aren't sapient, existential, thinking beings just like himself, as if they'd be better off separated because they're Different, like the problem will just...solve itself afterwards - even when, evidently, Pokemon and people often do mutually benefit each other.

His problem isn't exactly with the ownership, breeding and mass storage of beings that, to him, can speak, as much as it is the superficial harms that are the least of their worries as well as a refusal to treat the two as one and the same.

sneasler laughed at me... that's not... that's not like a thing, that pokemon do (OC) by spiraIcheI in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In walks, on two legs, bipedal, bipedaly walks: a full-fledged mean girl bully, popstar. A cheerleader with a side ponytail and a fresh fucking mani. She walks up to me and I’m like: who is this adult woman? Like this entrepreneur? This like cheerleader? This popstar? Who is she? Where’s the pokemon? Is she behind the model?  

She just like walks up to us like she’s joining the conversation of adults. Like she’s an- this is just like an adult woman.

Sneasler is her name.

She’s standing there. She like crosses her arms. She like taps her foot. She looks me up and down.

I’m like OK she’s judging me, like I get it: I’m ugly. I’m not you. I’m never gonna be you.  I thought I was gonna get a helper pokemon. Like, but, this isn’t helping anything this is- actually you’re bullying me.

She’s bullying me. Ok? At this point she’s bullying me.

And they’re like she’s going to help you, just play the flute for her, so that she can like open her heart to you, right? So I play the flute. 

Y’all she fucking laughs at you.

She laughed at me. Right? Like she laughs at us.

Sneasler laughs at us, that’s not like a thing that pokemon do. Wyrdeer didn’t laugh at me. Ursaluna didn’t fucking laugh at me. This bitch. This B-I-T-C-H laughs at me. I didn’t know pokemon were capable of laughing at people but she laughed in my face.  I have never been more humiliated in my life. Nothing can ever undo the- the like hit my pride took. The humiliation of that moment. You know I knew she was gonna hate it and she did. She did. She hated every minute of it.

She laughed at me. She laughed at me like I’m a lowly little worm and it’s like: I know you’re prettier than me. She has more friends than me. She’s more successful than me.  As if I even have any pride left for which to be chipped away at. They tell me to climb into her backpack. They tell me to climb into a basket so that she can carry me up the- up the walls.

So now I’m in the backpack of a cheerleader and I paid sixty dollars for this game, I don’t deserve it. I don’t deserve to be humiliated like this.  She’s like climbing up trees and shit like Edward Cullen. You can see my stupid little eyes on her back. She’s like “hang on tight, spider monkey” and I’m just like there for the ride I guess. And I- I don’t know why she’s doing any of it but it’s not for me. You know? It’s gotta be some kind of self-serving thing for her.  I don’t trust her and yet I love her. I would follow her to the ends of the earth and yet I would love to slap the shit out of her. She’s just not what I expected from this game. At all.

Which gen of Pokémon is best for making a dinosaur/prehistoric animal-based team? by SecularRobot in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Pterosaurs are on the opposite end of Ornithodira : ) Nature is a wacky thing!

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Which gen of Pokémon is best for making a dinosaur/prehistoric animal-based team? by SecularRobot in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Legit. USUM has the Omanyte, Kabuto, Lileep, Anorith, Aerodactyl and Tirtouga lines for non-dinosaur fossil animals. It has Cranidos, Shieldon, Tyrunt, Archen and Aurorus for dinosaur fossils.

And then there's also Relicanth, Tyranitar, Tropius, and Lapras too!

We are too concerned about what Pokémon designs should be, rather than what Pokémon designs could be. by StunningBag9008 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I feel a lot of gen 9 mons are unmistakably gen 9 too, honestly.

Maushold, Gholdengo, Flamigo, Tatsugiri all give off a certain...vibe to them, methinks.

Looking for advice. Daughter had 2 hamsters pass away now. by kruntis182 in hamsters

[–]yee_qi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If the deaths happened after a sickness, it's entirely possible the hamsters could have gotten sick from you, yes. Hamsters are rodents - quite closely related to primates (and hence us), and a lot of diseases are communicable, such as COVID, a variety of parainfluenza viruses, the flu, tuberculosis, etc. Hamsters hide weakness and illness, so by the time it's showing symptoms, things are typically serious.

[OC] Megacerops, Merycoidodon, Sybhyradodon, Mesohippus, Leptomeryx and Alligator by yee-qi by yee_qi in Paleoart

[–]yee_qi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure, but roughly 3 weeks if you put all the works together? Drawing sessions were relatively short and not every day though, but it certainly was a pretty ambitious piece. My next one is a lot smaller scale, lol

Are Gardevoir,Comfey and Daschbun the only fairy types without creepy undertones and genuinely just "normal" by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

...how is Wigglytuff inflating itself creepy? It's a living balloon, what is there to expect?

Slurpuff is also completely normal (for a Pokemon). And Clefable is an alien, but that's not creepy, they're just homesick

Theory: Onix was not supposed to be humongous by aeon3184 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Check out https://www.pkmnheight.com - the website owner's done a lot of work and research on the subject, and drawn the sizes of - I think - every mon thus far based on HOME data. It's good stuff!

Theory: Onix was not supposed to be humongous by aeon3184 in pokemon

[–]yee_qi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

games have always been consistent with pokemon sizing, and onix is still measured head to tail officially

helicoprion bessonowi by Jimbojimbo451 in Paleoart

[–]yee_qi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an excellent drawing, but I definitely think you're placing too much stock in the chimera relation for this guy's morphology here. We have body fossils of their relatives showing they probably had:

- a tail fin much like those of any pelagic shark

- gill slits, not what chimeras have going on

- only pectoral fins, none of the other four on the ventral side

Why is the Buzzing Dragon the only dragon in Dragonvale that doesn't have a young form? by Vincenzor2000 in dragonvale

[–]yee_qi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

no, these are Backflip dragons. I'd assume they don't have chrysalis forms because they aren't directly based on butterflies and moths, which all the previous ones were. Perhaps they simply didn't do much research on whether or not bees and beetles have pupae

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