A weremaid is someone who becomes a maid during the full moon.

a consistent angle I see taken on pokemon is 'wow, this world is fucked up, the teenagers have access to powerful tools' or 'kids can roam around on their own' or 'man, it's like cock fighting,' and all of that stuff only makes sense if you pretend the world doesn't work the way it demonstrates itself as working.

Like, pokemon are sentient. We know this. Pokemon express sentience and agency and they can visibly, tangibly, absolutely ignore their trainers. It's a recurrent point in every game that they won't just do any old things for you, or to one another. We know pokemon are choosing to get into fights, for example.

We know healthcare for pokemon is widespread. We know food is freely available. We know that pokemon can make lodgings and we know they can shelter people and we know they can influence the weather.

Pokemon is a universe where things are pretty okay and things get bad because of a small number of assholes operating under some degree of secrecy. People who want to criticise this world do it with the toolset of 'well, what if the kid is a shitty asshole with an abusive mindset' because we live in world where kids, given power, sometimes do terrible things, and that's usually tied to things like 'kids don't have support and love around them.'

My favourite example of 'the pokemon world is a nicer place' is when Team Skull take over a poke centre to charge people for health care, they charge you 100 pokebucks. About the cost of a can of soda from a vending machine. Like these people have enclosured an essential service, and their profit margin on this thing is... 'buy me a soda.' They don't conceive of immense wealth or gouging prices and they're criminals doing this.

My favourite example of 'the pokemon world is a nicer place' is when Team Skull take over a poke centre to charge people for health care, they charge you 100 pokebucks. About the cost of a can of soda from a vending machine.

⅓ of the cost, even; celadon's rooftop vending machines have em for 300

"yeah we've fully healed everything to the best of our ability. that'll be one quarter, thanks"

love it when shit takes place in Neo-Tokyo

take me to like... neo-sudbury or some shit like that. neo-cardiff. neo-aberdeen. just fuck me up

niche chost sorry

or: Fallout Manchvegas

(only real southern NH mfs will understand)

neo new new new new new new new new new new new new new new new york

Regional Differences

Forgive us, we tried.

Short version: Working Designs.

Long version: Working Designs rather infamously took two-and-a-half years to actually produce the US version of the game after licensing it, due at least in part to Sega losing some of the source code in a hard drive crash. Never fear, though - nothing could stop Working Designs from cranking up a game's difficulty!