It's supposed to be round actually. Nintendo is just lazy with their geometry and cuts corners with all of their models. I'm shocked they improved the character models in SV and they had individual fingers.
yeah but it also looked like it had edges in a rendered animated cutscene. no LOD issues since it’s a movie cutscene.
and every pokeball in the game is a sphere
6 months ago
Anonymous
You can go to the room yourself and look at it, it's just part of the machine. The back part of it is even illuminated by the room. You're looking for something that isn't there.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah it's obvious since the fricking black hexagonal orb is literally inside the Time Machine
It's not part of the machine in that though
6 months ago
Anonymous
here it is with motion, is a giant sphere suspended in midair
6 months ago
Anonymous
This is some real "that's not a balloon it's a UFO!" shit.
6 months ago
Anonymous
6 months ago
Anonymous
Are there no free roaming cameras or such for SV?
Like the ones where you can just go look anywhere
yeah but it also looked like it had edges in a rendered animated cutscene. no LOD issues since it’s a movie cutscene.
and every pokeball in the game is a sphere
>I'm shocked they improved the character models in SV and they had individual fingers.
Character models also had individual fingers in SWSH and SM (only for battle models) as well.
Yeah, but the issue is we know from both Khu and officially you need to complete Teal to start Indigo and complete the Blueberry portion of Indigo to start the final arc. I never saw us going back to AZ and NOT going to a new area somehow, the terrarium is to afford the addition of the 200 'dexmon with the finale unlocking the legendary hunt portion.
And speaking of that, piggybacking here to vomit up my suspicions.: Khu told us long before had details of the DLC came, we'd need LP which would be involved in "selecting pokémon". People thought it was an in-game pokéhex, but now I'm thinking it's how we call the legends to the area - pay LP and materials (maybe), like building TM's to unlock an encounter with a leggo.
>Khu told us long before had details of the DLC came, we'd need LP which would be involved in "selecting pokémon".
I'm willing to bet its just an LP betting mode with rentals.
Is the island part going to be like an hour long or something? I don't believe for a second that Gamefreak is going to release more than 2 hours of new content.
I wonder if the ancient/future 'paradise' is gonna be some "center of the earth" trope or if it'll wind up being time travel after all. Maybe the sphere Terapogos is depicted sitting on is supposed to represent the Earth's core. The core is mostly made of iron and nickel and all of the future mons are referred to as "Iron".
I mean, let's be honest, it's without a doubt time travel but it's the application of it now that matters the most.
We know it's going to be used to go back 200 years ago but we're probably going to go back further when Terapagos was active and not in a dormant state.
No, it's way below that.
What you're looking at is the topmost level of the Zero Lab. The time machine is a lengthy elevator ride down. >The reason I asked you to come to me is because I have one last thing to do here at the Zero Lab, and I desire your help."
"In short...I wish for you to put a stop to the time machine the original professor created." >"Any questions can be addressed as we make our descent. Follow me." >"This elevator will take us down to the lower level. Step inside."
6 months ago
Anonymous
No, it’s in the building, you travel down an elevator which is in fact a part of the building
There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
6 months ago
Anonymous
>you travel down an elevator which is in fact a part of the building
Meaning it is not in fact the building in front, but below that building on a lower level as the game says. >There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
Except for the fact that the time machine is quite literally below that building and requires an elevator ride down to reach.
Anon, come on, there's denial and there's just being stupid. You have no reason to argue about this when the game outright says its beneath the Zero Lab.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It’s connected to the building, Anon, therefore it’s a part of the building
I don’t know why you’re in denial about this
6 months ago
Anonymous
The fact that youre trying to redefine what "below" means just to say that the time machine doesn't exist below the Zero Lab, something the game says, is genuinely worrying.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
It's fricking Khu you know how this dipshit is, his shitty "riddles" are the reason why that dumb imagination theory even exists even after he revealed the meaning behind them had nothing to do with imagination.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>muh imagination
Man, shut up already
6 months ago
Anonymous
Christ almighty anon, pay attention. I'm saying Khu has caused a lot of confusion because people didn't understand his shitty riddles.
You're making that same mistake right now.
6 months ago
Anonymous
And I’m saying you’re an obsessed moron. Shut the frick up and stop replying to me.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Running away instead of accepting you fricked up. Just like a fricking child.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>is mad
I already know you are
6 months ago
Anonymous
That doesn't even make any sense you illiterate Hispanic.
6 months ago
Anonymous
I think you should use your imagination powers to become a tad bit smarter, Anon
6 months ago
Anonymous
Khu's not to blame for moron pokefans going off half-wienered at every little bit he says (that's unironically WHY he's spewing shite - to dupe frickwit kneejerkers into 'tarding out). the blame for imaginationgays falls squarely upon the fanbase that either couldn't or wouldn't accept the time travel plot becuse they either didn't understand it or didn't like the explanation (even the simplest time travel plot seems to filter pokéfgas - cf Lucas being dragged back 100 years in time, after his 15th birthday and frickwits not realising he was the Lucas from DP, just older).
6 months ago
Anonymous
Bro, the time machine is fricking huge. It wouldn't fit in that dinky ass room.
Have you played the game?
The time machine is in the roof, if we're going below area zero why would we be going in the time machine?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The time machine is in the roof
Anon, I want you to draw what you believe the layout of the Zero Lab is right now.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>if we're going below area zero why would we be going in the time machine?
Area Zero doesn't have a height limit and the time machine is the new lowest point, lower than the natural lowest point even Heath went to.
6 months ago
Anonymous
The tweet makes me think we'd be going even further below that but the answer to the question in the OP IS the time machine room. I guess that makes sense, we're supposed to be meeting Terapagos this time so he's prolly in the time machine or something.
We’ve never seen anyone physically travel through time in the game and that was a deliberate choice >b-but the AI
we never saw where it ended up at all, just that it got sucked into the machine
The AI enters the machine at the end of the story after telling the MC that 1) they can't leave Area Zero and 2) it's a one way trip. The only doubt being casted is what the AI told you. Use your imagination.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Are you implying the AI lied about the professor's death and the professor used the time machine?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Allegedly the professor is dead, what are you on
6 months ago
Anonymous
I'm trying to figure out what the anon is trying to say there >how does the ai know how the time machine only works one way for a human? >maybe they tested it on someone >theres no one else in area zero besides the ai and the original professor >the professor is dead according to the AI but we never see the body and the AI has been locked in the lab for who knows how long >ergo, its possible the professor actually went in the time machine ???
I dont know how else to interpret that post, otherwise hes just saying its a time machine because the game says its a time machine even though the only source for this is an insane person and a robot who lies to you until the last second
6 months ago
Anonymous
The AI stated with certainty that only pokeballs could travel through the machine, so they would have had to test the machine in some fashion. Whether that be people, pokemon, tera crystals, or whatever they attempted to send through it, they came to the conclusion they weren't able to recall what they sent.
6 months ago
Anonymous
no one else in area zero besides the ai and the original professor
You know they had like an entire team right?
It'd be pretty funny if the professor was just chucking people in the time machine to see what happened and that's why their spouse left them.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>and a robot who lies to you until the last second
Anon, they've lied once and it was a lie of omission.
6 months ago
Anonymous
no one else in area zero besides the ai and the original professor
You know they had like an entire team right?
6 months ago
Anonymous
No, it casts doubt on it being a time machine. If it WAS time machine, we wouldn’t be revisiting it like this, and it wouldn’t leave us hanging in the first place.
We’ve already seen time travel in this series, and it’s had none of the weird limitations that this has.
6 months ago
Anonymous
There's different tropes in time travel, same reason why we have Dialga, Celebi, and Areceus. Dialga is supposedly the master of time, Celebi can move forwards and back freely, but Arceus isekais the MC of PLA and can't send them back for whatever reason. You're making assumptions of what the machine can and can't do outside of what we've been told about it. It's fine to question it, but you're stating with absolute certainty it's xyz because you think your assumptions are the right assumptions.
6 months ago
Anonymous
You’re doing the same thing, Anon
6 months ago
Anonymous
>it casts doubt on it being a time machine
Anon, you're literally trying to say that the lack of evidence against it being a time machine means it isn't a time machine.
That's ridiculous by that logic Arceus doesn't have time travel either.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel, we would’ve seen the process of catching Pokémon. They left it vague for a reason.
Also your point on arceus is dumb because we see first hand the the player character getting dumped into the past.
I think you’re trolling at this point.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel
No, no we wouldn't. If we saw where they ended up then they wouldn't have travelled through time. >Also your point on arceus is dumb because we see first hand the the player character getting dumped into the past.
We don't. We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make. You're saying that it isn't time travel because we can't see both points. >I think you’re trolling at this point.
Poking holes in your logic isn't trolling, it's discussion. If you can't handle criticism of your ideas then this isn't the thread for you because it's going to happen at some point if you miss a detail here and there or don't apply your own logic correctly.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make.
The main character is wearing modern clothes and has a smartphone, saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope, and that's ignoring the datamined room found in the game.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope
Yes that's the point. We don't need to see where they came from or in this case where they're going because there's other evidence in the game supporting the idea of time travel. In PLA it's their clothes and their phone.
In SV, it's the paradox pokemon and the testing the professor had done on Koraidon and Miraidon.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>In SV, it's the paradox pokemon and the testing the professor had done on Koraidon and Miraidon.
And that there are paradoxes in the book.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The main character is wearing modern clothes and has a smartphone, saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope,
NTA but they're just floating in the void at the start of the game, you could just as easily say that they're from another universe rather than time traveling. After all we know that time doesn't work the same way across them. Thanks SM.
You're basically just saying it isn't time travel because you don't want it to be time travel rather than having any real reason to say it isn't.
In PLA's case it's without a doubt where the MC is from.
Everything surrounding time travel in SV is suspect at best with plot holes not even the most devout timegays can explain with any consistency, the first and only example being why there were no Pokemon in Area Zero after Heath's expedition. These two situations are not the same.
I'd like to bring up SM's UBs as another example >weird ayylmaos found all over the place >game is very up front about the fact that they're ayylmaos that came from a tear in space >people from other universes are like here are our cool ayylmao pokemon >you yourself get to travel through space to get more ayylmaos >there's no question or debate about what UBs are or where they're from
Meanwhile in SV >these pokemon were encountered by heath 200 years ago but no one could find them after >the professor needs to build a time machine to find them because theyre actually from the ancient past/far future despite allegedly living in the crater according to heath >this time machine is built by the professor and a magical AI that shouldnt be possible for humans to create thanks to the power of these weird unstable crystals >said AI also came out of nowhere with no feasible explanation after the professor wanted a copy >the professor was also a raving lunatic who was okay with the rest of paldea getting razed to the ground if it meant getting their Pokemon
>You're basically just saying it isn't time travel because you don't want it to be time travel
No, you're saying it NEEDS to be time travel and no other possible explanation despite the fact that there's very clearly more to the story, with the Teal Mask DLC, which had nothing to do with time travel, deepening the mystery behind tera crystals and what they can do.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>the first and only example being why there were no Pokemon in Area Zero after Heath's expedition.
That's not a plot hole, the main function of the time machine is to send pokeballs, catch pokemon and pull them back to the present. There's literally an explanation in game.
I'm surprised you haven't heard that as a response yet.
>weird ayylmaos found all over the place >game is very up front about the fact that they're ayylmaos that came from a tear in space >people from other universes are like here are our cool ayylmao pokemon >you yourself get to travel through space to get more ayylmaos >there's no question or debate about what UBs are or where they're from
By this logic you should just believe it's time travel since there's more concrete evidence for it than UBs especially if you're looking at it from just the perspective of SM where the URS didn't exist. >themed around ancient creatures and futuristic androids >final story is about their origins from the past and future >mechanics of the time machine are laid out complete with restrictions on travel for humans. >professor confirms genetic and behavioral relations to pokemon in the modern day >paradox pokemon appear 200 years in the past without a time machine in the past which could only be achieved with the time machine in the present.
>you're saying it NEEDS to be time travel and no other possible explanation despite the fact that there's very clearly more to the story,
There's more but the debate about it being time travel is over. That chunk of the story no longer matters and the time machine is just a tool to show us more about 200 years ago.
Changing the origins of the paradoxes would be a huge retcon which would require rewriting major plot elements.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Revealing new information isn’t retconning anything, friendo
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Revealing new information isn’t retconning anything, friendo
You wouldn't be revealing new information, you'd be changing existing information.
Like how Spiderman used to be the result of an irradiated spider bite being 100% science related but now he's actually this super special mystical spider totem and used to have a magical compulsion to frick a spider girl who was another mystical spider totem.
Suddenly you've removed the reason, logic and mechanics and just turned it into "lol, magic".
If it were just adding details it would be there to explain something that wasn't explained like the potara in Dragonball. We were never given an explanation for Vegito defusing until super.
How did a FUTURE Pokémon end up in heaths time, if that’s the case?
Why would Turo be sending poke balls to the past if he thought they were from the future?
>How did a FUTURE Pokémon end up in heaths time, if that’s the case?
Because it's a two way time machine. It has to be if it can send pokeballs and retrieve them.
>By this logic you should just believe it's time travel since there's more concrete evidence for it than UBs
You literally go to the worlds the UBs are from to catch them, what the frick are you even saying right here.
>You literally go to the worlds the UBs are from to catch them, >especially if you're looking at it from just the perspective of SM where the URS didn't exist.
On that note did you know that USM actually retconned Ultra Space?
In SM it was said that the Ultra Deep Sea WAS Ultra Space and that all the UBs come from one location, in USM it was retconned into a world exclusively for Nihilego.
It's most likely the reason why GF put so much more detail into time travel.
6 months ago
Anonymous
You wouldn’t be changing existing information though
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, the game is saying they're from the past/future and have genetic data as fairly concrete evidence. To say that these aren't from the past and future would be a large change to the existing information.
Also it would mean that the AI wasn't written out of the story by being trapped in the distant past/future.
6 months ago
Anonymous
nta you’re telling me the pachirisu I got from dream world a decade ago wouldn’t have the same genetic data as a pachirisu you can find out in the wild?
6 months ago
Anonymous
That's not how the dream world works. It doesn't manifest fake pokemon, they're all living in the entree forest and your pokemon becomes friends with it IN the dream.
6 months ago
Anonymous
But why would they send them back there for them to find, then take them away?
That doesn’t make any sense. They would’ve stayed outright if they themselves sent the Pokémon there, but they didn’t.
6 months ago
Anonymous
How did a FUTURE Pokémon end up in heaths time, if that’s the case?
Why would Turo be sending poke balls to the past if he thought they were from the future?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>By this logic you should just believe it's time travel since there's more concrete evidence for it than UBs
You literally go to the worlds the UBs are from to catch them, what the frick are you even saying right here.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Don't expect the timetravelgay to be able to read
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The main character is wearing modern clothes and has a smartphone, saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope,
NTA but they're just floating in the void at the start of the game, you could just as easily say that they're from another universe rather than time traveling. After all we know that time doesn't work the same way across them. Thanks SM.
You're basically just saying it isn't time travel because you don't want it to be time travel rather than having any real reason to say it isn't.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Classic circular argument Anon, never change. >We don't. We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make. You're saying that it isn't time travel because we can't see both points.
This confirms your trolling
6 months ago
Anonymous
That anon is right though, the difference here is you're applying opposing logic between each circumstance because you're assuming you know the right answer.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon has been doing the same thing, so why can’t I?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Because he has the game's support and you have nothing.
6 months ago
Anonymous
That's not true anon. He has his imagination.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>he has the games support
But he doesn’t.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>AI says time travel >paradoxes are past and future themed >AI says Raidon have genetic similarities >only logical reason for paradoxes to 200 years in the past is time travel >Arven's blatant foreshadowing
What do you have that's supported by the game?
6 months ago
Anonymous
P-Penny said so.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Everything not being as it seems, since the game runs that in your face >but that means heath wasn’t lying
Yeah, he wasn’t lying.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Everything not being as it seems
Oh yeah, that's another point for time travel.
Everyone deemed the book fake, and Occulture is said to be a "dubious" tabloid. But then you explore area zero and find out everything was real.
I'm waiting on your evidence.
6 months ago
Anonymous
But the game is upfront about it, like heath supposedly being a liar
I don’t think you know how to read, unfortunately
6 months ago
Anonymous
>But the game is upfront about it, like heath supposedly being a liar
Yes, the game did say that the public didn't believe it. Then we as the player in both Arven's and the final story discover that, not everything was as it seems and that everything in the book was real.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Which means that it’s not a time machine
6 months ago
Anonymous
Go back to your containment thread.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Stop getting upset, stinky
6 months ago
Anonymous
>>AI says time travel
Wrong, the AI BELIEVES it's time travel, just as the professor did.
are past and future themed
And yet, they don't match up at all with realistic portrayals of past/future Pokemon. >>only logical reason for paradoxes to 200 years in the past is time travel
Except the paradoxes we have are closer to Occulture's portrayal of them (because the professor was a fan of it and kept issues in their lab) instead of being exactly like how they were in Heath's record.
's blatant foreshadowing
Speaks for itself.
P-Penny said so.
>P-Penny said so.
Penny is irrelevant. How does time travel explain the terastal phenomenon?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>they don't match up at all with realistic portrayals of past/future Pokemon.
What does this even mean? They ARE the realistic portrayal of past/future pokemon because this is the very first time we've had genuine ancient pokemon derived from existing ones.
What on earth are you even talking about?
6 months ago
Anonymous
i dunno what anon means by portrayal of future pokemon but he's right in that theyre nothing like the existing fossilmons which are all based around the existing life forms at the time, meanwhile paradox mons are literally "what if amoongus was a dinosaur"
6 months ago
Anonymous
>but he's right in that theyre nothing like the existing fossilmons which are all based around the existing life forms at the time
They're based off of two things at most dude, with the exception of the gen 8 fossils which are meant to be hodgepodge monsters. That doesn't mean that they were the only life forms running about at the time. I mean, look at relicanth, canonically a pokemon that hasn't changed in millions of years like a real coelacanth.
>What does this even mean?
They're not past/future Pokemon. >They ARE the realistic portrayal of past/future pokemon because this is the very first time we've had genuine ancient pokemon derived from existing ones.
Wrong. The descriptions match up with Occulture's perception of "ancient/future" Pokemon more than what we know of Heath's record. All of the dex entries point this out, and the designs themselves are all "Pokemon but with over-characteristically primal/robotic elements thrown in"
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe these Pokes are actually from the time periods the AI believes them to be when shit like Primal Groudon exists. Iron Thorns is LITERALLY Mecha Tyranitar from Pokestar Studios which gets referenced in Gen 9.
>The descriptions match up with Occulture's perception of "ancient/future" Pokemon than what we know of Heath's record.
Anon, the physical descriptions are the same, Occulture used the descriptions from the book and then made up stories.
Didn't you look at them?
Basically when Occulture says >iron hand's has fists that move independent of the body
That was in the book
But when it says >Iron hands was a human
That's fake.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>They're based off of two things at most dude
Yeah? That's what I'm saying, all fossil Pokemon line up nicely with real life ancient animals, and some Pokemon like Archeps and Carracosta are even cited as the evolutionary predecessors to currently existing Pokemon. They even have exact timelines for certain Pokemon which also line up with the animals they're based off if, it's really cool.
This is a far cry from paradox Pokemon who, again, just take a currently existing Pokemon like Raikou, and twist its features around until it resembles something like a dinosaur.
6 months ago
Anonymous
No offense but that's the most moronic shit I've ever heard in my life.
You're saying that just because some pokemon have been seen before that they all have to follow the same rules when there wasn't any consistency beyond being rock types and even that ended in gen 8.
That and you're treating the past as a location, when it's a massive span of time. I mean, we don't even know what era the past paradoxes even come from and the fossils already have massive gaps between them. Kabuto is from 300 million years ago while Lilleep is 100 million for example.
Now I can see why lore threads have gone to shit if this is why people don't listen to the game.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It's worth mentioning that for Scream Tail and Iron Thorns, both of their tabloid entries imply they're literally Pokemon from BILLION YEAR time gaps of Past and Future respectively.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Shut the frick up anon.
The only information in Occulture that matters is the description of the paradoxes. Everything else is made up.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>You're saying that just because some pokemon have been seen before that they all have to follow the same rules
No, I'm saying them having an established pattern for fossil Pokemon, and then suddenly breaking that pattern, on top of all the other wacky and weird shit going on with ancient Paradox Pokemon, from their lore to their design, is one of many issues people have with the idea that the Pokemon are actually legitimate.
Even gen 8's abominations are based off of actual history, where 1800s british archeologists fricked up their science and made fake dinosaurs, and even THOSE walking abortions are still parts based off of actual dinosaurs, but please keep coping.
If you can't tell the difference between something like Anorith and Walking Wake, there's really nothing left to be said.
6 months ago
Anonymous
They stopped doing typical fossils in gen 6. Gen 7 had no new ones, gen 8 had abominations, and now gen 9 has ancient/future pokemon. That pattern has been dead for 3 generations.
6 months ago
Anonymous
moron, all fossils, including the abominations, are based off of actual dinosaurs, paradoxes take normal pokemon and turn them into dinosaurs.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Terracosta and Kabutops aren't dinosaurs, anon. Did you know that all pokemon are based on something from real life?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Er, more than dinosaurs, I mean stuff that actually lived in ancient times.
Terracosta and Kabutops aren't dinosaurs, anon. Did you know that all pokemon are based on something from real life?
Yeah I messed up, but the point stands.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Your point doesn't make sense though, anon. Ancient/Future pokemon are more akin to Ultra Beasts than fossil mons. We've not had traditional fossilmons since gen 6. You're citing patterns that are not applicable.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>I'm saying them having an established pattern for fossil Pokemon
There's literally no pattern to fossil pokemon.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Except their base stages are all creatures found in the real-life fossil record. Sure, they pokémonify the evolutions, but Kabuto is a horseshoe crab (still extant, as it happens but first emerged 445m years ago), Archen is an Archaeopteryx, Cranidos is a Pachycephalosaurus but they turned Suicune into a Deinonychus or Utahraptor and Raikou into a Brachiosaurus (instead of making either of thosee as a wholly-new fossilmon).
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Except their base stages are all creatures found in the real-life fossil record
Yes and the paradoxes have similarities to real world prehistoric animals as well, you're not really getting it are you.
6 months ago
Anonymous
what are the real world equivalents for brute bonnet or scream tail or sandy shocks or roaring moon
6 months ago
Anonymous
Syzygites and cave men
6 months ago
Anonymous
love me some timegay moronation
6 months ago
Anonymous
Meaning you have no argument because you mad no idea that they existed
6 months ago
Anonymous
I gotta applaud you on your determination to power through getting shit on left and right. You know people will respond to you and shut you down, but you just keep attacking at different angles and praying something will stick. Psychopaths are usually successful in life, but unfortunately you spend that energy shitposting on /vp/ instead.
6 months ago
Anonymous
NTA but you're going to give yourself an aneurism if you keep on thinking pokemon are simply animals
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Anon, the physical descriptions are the same
They're not. The professor was a fan of Occulture and kept a fraction of the issues you can read in-game in their lab.
NOTHING in Heath's record implies anything about the time period these pokes are from. That all comes from Occulture. Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>and imagination is the gateway to that.
moron
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
Don't steal our theory for your imagination propaganda. It wasn't too long ago that you homosexuals were saying that Heath imagined any kind of ancient civilization things like the markings and plate.
Plus it makes more sense with time travel between the advanced technology like the AI and the whole memory recall thing from the anime.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It could be both altantis and time travel, atlantis just can't be connected to the paradox pokemon then. An ancient civilization can't interact with pokemon from the future
6 months ago
Anonymous
Okay you're getting your wires crossed so hard that I'm surprised you can even make sense of yourself. >The professor was a fan of Occulture and kept a fraction of the issues you can read in-game in their lab.
Okay for starters we have no idea if this is even true because Arven lived there on his own for years and the Donphan one references the Donphan in Asado Desert which is clearly after the professor spent all of their time down there. >NOTHING in Heath's record implies anything about the time period these pokes are from.
NO ONE said anything about Heath mentioning the time period. In fact, it's that detail that made people think that they were being manipulated from the start and lo and behold teal mask has a character undergo a massive emotional shift and a change of goals just like the professor. >That all comes from Occulture.
For a handful of Scarlet ones, for the Violet ones it's all over the place so Occulture doesn't explain why Turo needed a time machine. >Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
Atlantis and imagination literally cannot be reconciled. There's no ties there because the only one was the AI and you people think the professor wished it up instead of it being built.
And finally literally no one here said that the lore in Occulture, beyond the descriptions which COME FROM THE BOOK WHICH EVERY OCCULTURE ENTRY MENTIONS, matter. The anon you replied to even said that there's true information and false information mixed in and you're sitting there acting like he said the whole thing was true while throwing in more strawman on top.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>What does this even mean?
They're not past/future Pokemon. >They ARE the realistic portrayal of past/future pokemon because this is the very first time we've had genuine ancient pokemon derived from existing ones.
Wrong. The descriptions match up with Occulture's perception of "ancient/future" Pokemon more than what we know of Heath's record. All of the dex entries point this out, and the designs themselves are all "Pokemon but with over-characteristically primal/robotic elements thrown in"
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe these Pokes are actually from the time periods the AI believes them to be when shit like Primal Groudon exists. Iron Thorns is LITERALLY Mecha Tyranitar from Pokestar Studios which gets referenced in Gen 9.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Anon, if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel
NTA but we'll never see both points because one went to the future and one went to the past and their story is over as it is, they don't matter anymore.
It's gonna be a "pocket dimension" where time flows slower. >Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea. There, he is entertained by the princess Otohime[a] as a reward. He spends what he believes to be several days with the princess. But when he returns to his home village, he discovers he has been gone for at least 100 years.
I kind of like that combination the anons put together yesterday >ancient civilisation that took itself out of local spacetime using Terapagos' insane power output >that's what created the area zero crater >time flows differently there than it does in the real world >the time machine is just a time machine and the pokemon are from the past/future so it doesn't frick with the story >the AI technology comes from the past and was stored in the crystals >you and Briar go back in time and encounter Terapagos and inadvertently bring back some paradoxes to Heath's time. >you make sure everything happens as it should and even catch Terapagos >you then access the ancient civilization to get back to your own time
I'm not sure if you're referring to me or not but I don't necessarily think you'll travel through the machine. Terapogos wants to GO to Rakua in the anime, so we will probably follow it there when it enters its Terastal state. We represent the boat in the mural Heath drew.
Isn't the anime doing it's own thing with the story and focusing on the mc's ancestor instead of heath? I doubt anything in the anime will matter to the game
It's not the same story but it's a very similar in plot. Rakua is referred to Paradise, the same as the Professor describes what they're trying to build in Area Zero (which is based on what Heath found). The anime is in a weird flux of drip feeding information and we'll most likely get the full conclusion with Indigo Disk before we get anything more concrete.
So the “time machine” is gonna take us to some B/W dream world, right?
Maybe we’ll meet the AI again assuming it didn’t just fricking die when it got sucked up
Because they don't want to "discuss theories" they want to circle-jerk their imagination meme. That's why they shit up any thread trying to discuss theories.
I always assumed the paradox was just they didn't exist (because no one could find them after heath's expedition) but now they do, which is why theories vary from time travel to imagination to memories to ultra beasts to dreams.
The thing is that most of the other theories exist because there's anons that don't want a conclusion that confirms peoples suspicions, but rather one that denounces everything and tries to swerve you that it was all a lie. It's more fun for them to believe some asspulled theory from a youtube video and make up a fantasy scenario than coming to a logical solution from the story presented to us.
>The thing is that most of the other theories exist because there's anons that don't want a conclusion that confirms peoples suspicions, but rather one that denounces everything and tries to swerve you that it was all a lie
Well no, it's just the imagination theory that exists to be the contrarian choice.
Alchemy and a philosopher's stone is more because of the type changing as well as the markings.
Ancient Civilization is because of the various ruins and Area Zero being called atlantis in the code.
Urashima Taro because Terapagos is a turtle with hair
They all have their own kind of connection to the game somehow.
That's all theories since the official cannon (as of right now) is that heath made it up, the professor made a time machine and then actually found the paradox mons in the past or future. The game never mentions imagination coming to life or pokemon being sent back into the past for heath to find. Right now paradox pokemon are just a giant coincidence, until the dlc where they explain it properly
Stepping back it really is weird how the professor was somehow able to find the exact Pokemon from the book when their only guideline was "distant past/future", like, with the past paradoxes being dinosaurs, how many hundreds of millions of years are we plucking pokemon from?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Not really. It's because it's a predestination paradox.
The professor pulls through those specific pokemon, which get sent back, make it into the book and then inspire the professor to make the time machine.
6 months ago
Anonymous
why would the professor send anything back anywhere?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Because if you're dealing with time travel, you need to keep in mind the nature of timeloops for the sake of timeline stability.
The professor could have very well realized that Heath's one-off encounter with a Great Tusk/Iron Treads was because of their own actions to ensure their dream could come to fruition, and as such, once the time machine started working, they sent it back to Heath's era to fulfill the loop.
Keep in mind Legends canonizes the timeloop approach for Pokemon, its entire story hinges on bringing forth the protagonist from an era after Hisui was successfully shaped into Sinnoh in order to help ensure Hisui is shaped into Sinnoh, which in turn would later allow for the protagonist to be born and eventually be sent back into Hisui, so on and so forth.
6 months ago
Anonymous
So it’s your headcanon then, gotcha
6 months ago
Anonymous
Literally everything except for what's spelled out directly from the logs and journals of Heath and the Professor is currently headcanon until DLC2 answers our burning questions.
6 months ago
Anonymous
heath wrote about miraidon in the scarlet book, in the game where Sada only brought past paradoxes to the present and where you’re saying Sada sent them back into the past. yet Heath claimed to have seen miraidon, a pokemon not supposed to exist especially in Scarlet
6 months ago
Anonymous
You're using completely unused dex entries when we don't yet know if those entries are actually canonical.
6 months ago
Anonymous
briar has both the markings of miraidon and koraidon on her jacket meaning her family and her ancestry knew about both raidons
6 months ago
Anonymous
She’s pretty hot
6 months ago
Anonymous
Small problem. Violet's the canon book, so Sada didn't do anything. Scarlet's been confirmed to be the alt universe mirror to the canon story.
Diana found Lucius' luggage when she was a child, which included his journal, Terapogos, and possibly the violet book. She also has equipment that he wore on top of other documents. Since she gave the amulet to Liko, the following have occurred: >Terapogos woke up >Rayquaza woke up >Terapogos showing Volteccers its memories >Rayquaza waking up the other Pokemon belonging to Lucius >Terapogos knows Lucius and wants to return to Rakua immediately >Lucius is most likely related to Liko in some way
Diana not being able to find Rakua does not mean it isn't real, it means its existence was questionable.
6 months ago
Anonymous
I see this image being posted all the time but what is it supposed to mean exactly?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Many anons think that the purple book on the shelf is supposed to be the violet book, which would make violet the cannon game. A similar book also appears in the anime. But both don't have the Miraidon on it though, so I personally don't believe it. It's a fun fan theory though
6 months ago
Anonymous
It doesn't have Miraidon on it, because it was a hint to the next games, akin to the strange souvenir. They wanted to make it recognisable, not break NDA to slap an image of an upcoming pokémon they knew wasn't included in that game to alert people what was coming an ruin the surprise reveal.
And logically, it makees more sense for a 100 yo copy to be plain-bound and ones in the modern having more fancy bindings, because mass-production of imaged copies became cheaper as humans advanced their processes.
The pokémon world is an analogy to ours - thus shit like printing and photography were at the same level of real-world human development at a similar point in that universee's history.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The pokémon world is an analogy to ours
Anon, the pokemon world is far more advanced than our own.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah. Except Legends has a bloke with a camera exactly like a 1900's camera, in an era said to be the past of a known modern region.
The magitech is to make the world a not!Earth. But the details of human lives often fall heavily back on real world humans, where pokémon can't be bullshitted into the frame (conkedurr taught humans how to mix concrete, but they got 1920's-era cameras in Hisui).
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Except Legends has a bloke with a camera exactly like a 1900's camera
Do we even see his camera?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah. If you played the game, you'd know this.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, that's more akin to a 19th century camera not a 20th century camera.
6 months ago
Anonymous
What, like the one on the far-left, second image down I posted in that screengrab of google images here
It doesn't have Miraidon on it, because it was a hint to the next games, akin to the strange souvenir. They wanted to make it recognisable, not break NDA to slap an image of an upcoming pokémon they knew wasn't included in that game to alert people what was coming an ruin the surprise reveal.
And logically, it makees more sense for a 100 yo copy to be plain-bound and ones in the modern having more fancy bindings, because mass-production of imaged copies became cheaper as humans advanced their processes.
The pokémon world is an analogy to ours - thus shit like printing and photography were at the same level of real-world human development at a similar point in that universee's history.
? because you're right, it does absolutely look like that one of mine. Are you ignoring the Galaxy building, based off the former Hokkaido government buildings that didn't show up in real life in is current guise until 1888? Game Freak were VERY deliberate in their establishing what timescale we were dealing with. Sorry you missed it all.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Meant for
Anon, that's more akin to a 19th century camera not a 20th century camera.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>1888
Aka the 19th century.
God you're fricking moronic.
6 months ago
Anonymous
A bookshelf in Cogita's room in Legends, set 100 years after Heath's expedition, roughly with the Violet book on display (that was GF's new game tease we all fricking missed during Legends).
Seeing as the anime is displaying the Violet book and Game Freak themselves teased the Violet book in a canon game, set earlier in the timeline to the newest Generation, the only conclusion is that Violet is the canon version (as if there was ever any doubt previously - men generally supersede women in importance, when a male and female show up as Pokémon Professor. The Violet book popping up in the prime timeline before the concept is even introduced is kinda hard to ignore).
6 months ago
Anonymous
>set 100 years after Heath's expedition
Arceus isn't set 100 years after. There's no concrete time but the consensus is generally 150-200 years before the main story based.
It would most likely be around the time of Heath's expedition or slightly after.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It's set around 100 years in the past from DP (I saw 1920's bandied around, likely because of shit like human tech and trends portrayed in-game).
There's not that great of a time disparity between DP and SV. SM happened 10 years after RGBY, thus DP happened 7 years before SM and SV isn't that much later chronologically than SM (5 years at most). And SV s around 200 years since Heath published his book. Hence why I said roughly. Frick off spastic, Heath's book WAS said to cause a stir - Game Freak even established it travelled as far as PokéJapan in about 100 years. Sorry dinosaurmommy isn't real.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>SM happened 10 years after RGBY
Hold on, where are you getting this from?
6 months ago
Anonymous
When you meet Red and Blue in the Battle Tree, they're around 20 years old. And Red started as a 10 year old trainer at the start of RGBY (never mind it was the series 20th anniversary in SM's release year). Ergo, SM occurs 10 years after RGBY. the timeline isn't as long as people think. Hazards of making a kids series, with plenty of remakes for the newer generations. Timeline gets fricky in people's heads.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Red started at 11 and saying 10 years passed isn't confirmation.
It wouldn't make much sense in the general scheme of things either since we can assume BW is at least 5 to 10 years after because of the rocket grunt meeting someone and having a kid after moving to Unova and he was introduced in GSC which was three years after rby.
Add two years for BW2 which is said to be around the same time as XY and SM happens some time after those events but we already hit 10 at XY.
6 months ago
Anonymous
And the consensus is wrong, the photog studio has a camera set-up like one of these fricking things. They didn't show up until humans had gotten a FRICKLOAD better at cameras. Never mind in-game, you don't need to stand still for 5 fricking minutes to set the image.
It doesn't have Miraidon on it, because it was a hint to the next games, akin to the strange souvenir. They wanted to make it recognisable, not break NDA to slap an image of an upcoming pokémon they knew wasn't included in that game to alert people what was coming an ruin the surprise reveal.
And logically, it makees more sense for a 100 yo copy to be plain-bound and ones in the modern having more fancy bindings, because mass-production of imaged copies became cheaper as humans advanced their processes.
The pokémon world is an analogy to ours - thus shit like printing and photography were at the same level of real-world human development at a similar point in that universee's history.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Scarlet's been confirmed to be the alt universe mirror to the canon story.
I'd say it's the other way around. It doesn't make much sense with Violet which is generally the thing with most "blue" versions including and after gen 3.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>male professor, like all Japanese-region games, the french suck-off and the two burger versions (eventually in one case, from the get-go in another) >bikemon is an actual fricking bike, instead of a walking puppy >hinted at in the game DIRECTLY preceding it (which shared similar themes)
And then the kicker - Scarlet leaked before launch, just like Moon, Ultra Moon and Shield. The canon games don't leak early.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>caveman cosplayer made a robot clone of herself, said to be too technologically advanced for the present time
Surely you realize how dumb this sounds?
6 months ago
Anonymous
God you guys can't be this moronic
It doesn't even look the same
6 months ago
Anonymous
Absolutely none of this has any support in the game, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Rather than going "we don't know the full story and there's a number of possible answers to these questions", you've dug your heels in and said "it's time travel" and are now weaving this web of headcanon to justify it.
Neither the professor nor the AI ever mention Heath even once, when the professor gets the time machine working, all they're concerned about is bringing more Pokemon to the present to make their paradise real. The AI, when they enter the time machine, is only concerned with going to the past/future to hang out with their Pokemon. They don't mention Heath or any sort of paradox, nor time loops and trying to correct them. The only paradox mentioned anywhere is in the Pokedex.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The only paradox mentioned anywhere is in the Pokedex.
Except for the fact that Arven directly points out that the professor became obsessed with bringing the Past/Future to the present because of the excerpt where Heath encounters a Paradox Donphan in his expeditions, literally centuries prior to the professor building and activating the time machine?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>you've dug your heels in and said "it's time travel"
NTA and not going to insert myself into whatever discussion you're having, but the game tells you it's time travel, there is a time machine, and the conclusion of the game ends with it being uses for time travel. They are not digging in their heels, they are going off of the story. You are DENYING the story.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Then if it's a time machine, how did Heath see the Paradox Pokemon? How does he know what a Korai/Miraidon is? Why was the crater empty when people went in after him? People are arguing about the story if we ONLY go off the story then time travel makes no sense. There'd be no debates if the game didn't leave holes everywhere only headcanon can answer no matter what you believe in.
The same game that says it's time travel also casts doubt on it right after the plot is resolved, the fact is if you think for all of 3 seconds, time travel doesn't add up with the information we're given in the story.
6 months ago
Anonymous
This is only one of a dozen theories you could surmise to explain a timeloop paradox. Arven specifically points out that order of events don't make sense as the paradox pokemon exist in the present because of the time machine, so how could they possibly exist in the past?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Then if it's a time machine, how did Heath see the Paradox Pokemon
With a time machine.
Specifically the one in the present.
The one that can send things through time.
Because it's a time machine.
>People are arguing about the story if we ONLY go off the story then time travel makes no sense
Oh no one ever said that, you can reconcile time travel, ancient civilisations and every other theory with the main game with no plot holes or retcons.
You just can't do it with imagination which requires a ton of leaps in logic.
>The same game that says it's time travel also casts doubt on it right after the plot is resolved
You're the same anon who always says that in these threads aren't you. You know you never actually tell people what casts doubt on it right
6 months ago
Anonymous
They never state they sent them back in time with the time machine though
6 months ago
Anonymous
Yes because that's the upcoming story.
The treasure of Area Zero's final story is all about Heath's expedition, hence Arven foreshadowing a time loop at the end and the journal art at the end of the trailer.
6 months ago
Anonymous
How do you know it’s the upcoming story?
This and the way you interpret Arven is your headcanon
6 months ago
Anonymous
>How do you know it’s the upcoming story
Because it hasn't happened yet. We have documentation of what the professor was doing in the area zero journals, if they were the ones who sent anything back it would be there. >This and the way you interpret Arven is your headcanon
It's called basic reading comprehension and inference. Well, it's basic to me clearly such concepts either don't exist in your language or are simply too advanced for you.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It’s actually called forcing your own interpretations and calling everyone else’s wrong.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>It’s actually called forcing your own interpretations
It's hardly forcing an interpretation when it's right there as plain as day. >and calling everyone else’s wrong.
No, just you. You're the only one who can't put two and two together.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, you’re delusional and I’m not the only person who disagrees with you
6 months ago
Anonymous
You samegayging constantly /= "not the only person", unless you're legitimately schizophrenic and think each personality that posts to be a separate human individual.
6 months ago
Anonymous
There’s 40 posters in this thread, man
I’m going to stop replying since you’ve proven that you’re mentally unstable
6 months ago
Anonymous
And there was 25 of them this morning before burgerland woke up and the imagination autistic woke up.
And you won't, you can't leave us alone without screeching and shitting up these threads, because we're not fawning over your fricktarded reading of a kiddy game plot. I look forward to replaying to you later as you ape out again.
6 months ago
Anonymous
It's weird that when you do it it's inferencing and smart deduction but if someone else does it and reaches a different conclusion than you, it's brazen moronation and obscene headcanon made to be contrarian or whatever.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>but if someone else does it
That's the problem, you haven't once done it. Inference is using what you have to come to a reasonable conclusion that takes all evidence into account.
Saying >I don't get this so Heath lied
Is headcanon with no evidence created purely to satiate your own bias.
6 months ago
Anonymous
NTA, but I'd argue the professor using the book to shut down the time machine is an indirect mention of heath. That being said, I agree with the fact that since the professor never mentioned sending pokemon back in time to heath despite being expremely forthcoming with everything else, if it is a time machine, they're not the ones who sent the pokemon there
6 months ago
Anonymous
In my opinion the professor doesn't really care about Heath all too much, the professor only cares about the book and the Pokemon in the book. They don't care about proving Heath right like Briar does, they just want their Pokemon. > if it is a time machine, they're not the ones who sent the pokemon there
I can agree with this, the character with the motivation is Briar, but then again then time machine is seemingly shut down and Briar would need to somehow nab your Raidon from you for it to work, I think this line of thinking creates more issues than it solves the existing plot holes which is why I doubt it's going to happen.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>I think this line of thinking creates more issues than it solves the existing plot holes which is why I doubt it's going to happen.
Eh, not really. I mean the only plot hole is how did the paradoxes get there and we have a character with a motive, the method of the time machine and confirmation that the time machine can be activated with an authorised ID.
It's just a matter of putting a story to it now.
6 months ago
Anonymous
There are still plot holes though, if the events of the book are due to Briar's meddling, how does that explain Heath's encounter with Terapagos? How does she get your Raidon? How do things like Walking Wake and Iron Leaves exist if they're based off the imagined sketches? Is Briar okay with letting a donphan kill a dude? Etc.
I'd also say Brair forcing the events of the book to happen still makes Heath a fraud, but a propped up fraud, which isn't really her goal.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, a plot hole isn't just something that's yet to be explained, it's something that doesn't make sense or contradicts existing information.
Briar's goal is finding Terapagos and proving to the public that Heath was right you can already draw a connection there.
With your Raidon Briar doesn't need to have it, especially if the time machine is used to follow her to the past somehow or even if you send it into the past and then retrieve it later.
Walking Wake and Iron Leaves aren't based on the sketch, it's more likely the other way around.
And presumably she's okay with it since it happened in the book.
>I'd also say Brair forcing the events of the book to happen still makes Heath a fraud
That's the thing about a time loop, she wouldn't know she had a hand in it until after it happened.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>if the events of the book are due to Briar's meddling
They're not. The events of the book happened and are set. Briar's been trying to prove everything in the book was true and her ancestor wasn't a psycho. That's partially why we're going back to AZ - to help her get the proof to prove him correct (the world won't listen to 4 schoolkids trying to tell the truth - even if two are Champion-level trainers, ones the son of the professor who invented the Tera Orb and one's a computer savant). Briar's not the bad guy in DLC2.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Because if you're dealing with time travel, you need to keep in mind the nature of timeloops for the sake of timeline stability.
The professor could have very well realized that Heath's one-off encounter with a Great Tusk/Iron Treads was because of their own actions to ensure their dream could come to fruition, and as such, once the time machine started working, they sent it back to Heath's era to fulfill the loop.
Keep in mind Legends canonizes the timeloop approach for Pokemon, its entire story hinges on bringing forth the protagonist from an era after Hisui was successfully shaped into Sinnoh in order to help ensure Hisui is shaped into Sinnoh, which in turn would later allow for the protagonist to be born and eventually be sent back into Hisui, so on and so forth.
It doesn't even have to be the professor. Literally anyone could send it back to create the loop.
>the official cannon (as of right now) is that heath made it up
There is nothing stating that Heath made it up. People went into Area Zero and were not able to find what he described. Just like how anons tried to claim Rayquaza in the anime was imaginary because Liko's father wrote a story book including the ancient adventurer and his Pokemon. Turns out, all of it is true and based on actual events. Currently in the story Diana has still not found Rakua to prove Lucius' journal, but we know that everything is factual and the main plot will be Terapogos leading the Volteccers to Rakua and Lucius.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Diana has still not found Rakua to prove Lucius' journal >we know that everything is factual
6 months ago
Anonymous
Diana found Lucius' luggage when she was a child, which included his journal, Terapogos, and possibly the violet book. She also has equipment that he wore on top of other documents. Since she gave the amulet to Liko, the following have occurred: >Terapogos woke up >Rayquaza woke up >Terapogos showing Volteccers its memories >Rayquaza waking up the other Pokemon belonging to Lucius >Terapogos knows Lucius and wants to return to Rakua immediately >Lucius is most likely related to Liko in some way
Diana not being able to find Rakua does not mean it isn't real, it means its existence was questionable.
6 months ago
Anonymous
If the existence of something is questionable there's nothing "factual" about it
6 months ago
Anonymous
Whales found by sailors had scars on their body from giant squids for hundreds of years. The first giant squids were not discovered until 2004, even though we knew for a fact they existed. I understand you're a zoomer and 2004 was before you were born, but maybe if you're lucky there will be discoveries made in your lifetime that confirms things we previously believed were real but couldn't prove yet.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Anon, an idea only becomes a fact when it's empirically proven.
If not, it's a hypothesis at best.
Yup, the main Paradox is Heath encountering a Pokemon matching the description of Scarlet/Violet's Paradox Donphan before the Time Machine was ever built. Another key detail to keep in mind is Scarlet/Violet Paradoxes being seemingly inspired by tabloid sources in the Violet/Scarlet universe, which is relevant to bring up due to Briar having a design that utilizes both versions' color schemes. But until we get DLC2 to divulge the true nature of Terapagos, the Tera Crystals and the Paradox Pokemon, we can only speculate.
It could be a stable timeloop wherein the professor deduced that because they're working towards time travel, for the sake of timeline stability they must send a Paradox Donphan back in time to Heath's era to ensure he would encounter it and thus later write the Scarlet/Violet Book that later goes on to inspire the professor to bring the past/future to the present.
But it could also simply be a matter of desire-granting wonders from Terapagos and/or the heavy condensation of Tera Crystals that was based on Heath's desire to make breakthrough discoveries, whereas everyone else afterwards only went into Area Zero with the intent to prove Heath's claims were bullshit which is why the only thing they came back with nothing except for the beginnings of understanding the Terastal phenomenon and how it can change Pokemon types.
When did the marketing say it was time travel before the release of the game?
They're twists anon. They have a paper trail a mile long saying that something is wrong before the time travel and good ogre reveal.
But there's nothing like that for time travel. Everything is solid.
I actually decided to go out of my way to fact check this schizo cause they repeat this same rhetoric every thread.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/news/
Nowhere on the website does it claim Ogrepon is evil
Nowhere in the trailers do they claim Ogrepon is evil
I will actually say kudos to you that it took this long for someone to give a shit to see if the shit you were peddling was true or not, and turns out, you're just a weaselly little liar.
I watched both. It's mentions the folktale once, and asks "what mystery lies behind it" and that's it. Nowhere else is it mentioned that Ogrepon is evil. You cling to one word and have done nothing but exaggerate to pretend like anything you said was legitimate.
6 months ago
Anonymous
MEGA moron BLINDBRO SPOTTED PLEASE KNEEL TO ME MEGA moron AHAHAHHAHA
6 months ago
Anonymous
I don't think you understand what marketing is.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>D-D-D-D-DOESNT COUNT AIEE PABLO HELP MEE I CANT READ ENGLISH AIEEE
L M A O
6 months ago
Anonymous
Illiteracy and stupidity go hand in hand.
6 months ago
Anonymous
The direct announcing the game isn't marketing.
6 months ago
Anonymous
No shit, dumbass.
6 months ago
Anonymous
How is this marketing any different from what the game itself initially tells you about Kitakami folklore?
If it's like the information from other paradox entries and the website it'll probably just be along the lines of :
Scarlet - This pokemon resembles a sketch made in the scarlet book
Violet - This creature resembles a pokemon from paranormal magazines
Nah, none of the dex entries will say anything about the true nature of Paradox Pokemon as a desperate measure to make sure even dataminers need to check out the story they so desperately want you to follow in order to get the answer.
They showed Ogerpon's face on the Home render even though that was supposed to be a big reveal.
They will 100% reveal the truth in the new paradoxes' dex entries.
That's different, though. A render is meant to properly depict the Pokemon compared to strings of text that can say whatever the hell they want, and they sure as frick aren't going to spoil the truth behind Paradox Pokemon when it's been a big year-long mystery they've kept us guessing over with no real answer until the story is ready to tell us.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>and they sure as frick aren't going to spoil the truth behind Paradox Pokemon when it's been a big year-long mystery
The truth about the paradox pokemon has been and gone, just because people don't want to accept it doesn't mean that there's anything to say about it.
There's a reason why imagination is the only theory that's predominantly about the paradox and not Terapagos.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Cool, why are they hiding the new paradoxes dex entries?
They didn't hide that the galarian birds were related to the kanto birds back in swsh so why know?
6 months ago
Anonymous
The point is Terapagos and the Paradox Pokemon are feeling like Ohmori's narrative magnum opus with how desperately GameFreak is trying to keep the mystery alive until DLC2 can drop all of the truth bombs even with all of the other media (TCG, Anime, etc.) utilizing SV concepts.
Ogerpon doesn't get that same luxury because it's a simple draw for a simple DLC which is actually more focused on setting up Kieran and Briar as characters in DLC2.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>with how desperately GameFreak is trying to keep the mystery alive until DLC2
That's why just about everything now is focused on Terapagos and not the paradoxes. The only thing currently focusing on them is the newest TCG set which always works on a lag.
The anime didn't even bother doing a rehash of the main plot like they usually do and just jumped straight into Terapagos months before the release date for the actual dlc.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>There's a reason why imagination is the only theory that's predominantly about the paradox and not Terapagos.
Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
Every theory hinges on that Pokémon
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
Not really. Comes up occasionally but never as a serious point of discussion while they focus predominantly on the paradox pokemon being fake and Heath lying despite the game saying otherwise.
6 months ago
Anonymous
You’re absolute liar
Every theory hinges on the Pokémon because of Tera crystals
This is just you confirming you shitpost about theories you don’t like
6 months ago
Anonymous
You're just lying
6 months ago
Anonymous
NTA, but the imagination theory is that terapagos grants wishes. The turtle is the main focus of that theory and what everything revolves around. I don't think I've ever seen someone bring up the theory and not mention it
6 months ago
Anonymous
Oh I know, that's why I'm saying it never comes up as a serious point of discussion.
They just say it brings thoughts to reality and leave it at that.
Any time you try and go deeper into it they shy away from discussion and fall back on their usual shitposting about Heath lying and the paradoxes being imagined by the professor or how the time machine is a 3d pokemon printer or some kind of imagination permanence machine.
Actual discussion about Terapagos in relation to imagination is rare. The most we've had recently is the dream catcher thing and that begins and ends at a physical resemblance and nothing more.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Why do you continue to put yourself as a liar?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>people discuss Terapagos and it's wishing powers in a thread >Timetravelgay comes into the thread to bait people >The discussion has been derailed into talking about the fake time travel story
There was actually a great thread yesterday about the nature of the paradise and how it relates to the dream world feature in BW.
I remember you absolutely seething in that thread when nobody took your bait.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>They don't talk about terapagos they just talk about it's power and how it brings heath or the professor's imagination to reality
I mean this in the nicest way possible, what you just said made no sense. You're contradicting yourself. What are you talking about?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>what you just said made no sense
It makes perfect sense, you're reading it incorrect. I never said >They don't talk about terapagos they just talk about it's power and how it brings heath or the professor's imagination to reality
I said >they're not talking about Terapagos or how it functions, they're just saying it is how they say it is with out any elaboration.
It's how you get 500 different variations on the idea while every other theory sticks to one thing based on actual evidence.
Honestly, I expected more from someone who's at least trying to hold himself more highly than the rest of them.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>they're just saying it is how they say it is
So they are talking about it then. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's kind of obvious you're just shitposting at this point. You had me going for a while, so here's a final you.
6 months ago
Anonymous
I hope you understand now that when people say there's a time schizo, they aren't making stuff up, even when you try to talk rationally to him he just kinda twists whatever you're saying into something else entirely.
6 months ago
Anonymous
There's a time schizo, an imagination schizo, and probably another schizo I don't know about as well. Why does theory crafting always bring in schizos who ruin everything?
6 months ago
Anonymous
>So they are talking about it then. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's kind of obvious you're just shitposting at this point
The irony is that you're now the perfect example of my point. Because you lack the evidence for your stance, while mine continues to pile up as they post, you're refusing to discuss the matter at hand much like they refuse to discuss Terapagos in any detail beyond >I said it is so I'm right
But I'm not surprised in the slightest. This is /vp/ after all.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>I remember you absolutely seething in that thread when nobody took your bait.
It was really funny.
6 months ago
Anonymous
The thread was going great until one person replied to him and he brought in his sock puppets.
The answer is to just ignore completely.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
If they did they'd be able to decide on if it's passive or active.
6 months ago
Anonymous
why would it be active, no one in the story is aware there's a wish granter
6 months ago
Anonymous
Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
But if its active they have to be aware of it which they aren't.
It's a major hole in the theory and it's avoided like the plague.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
Source? The only person we know that's harnessed Tera energy to do this is the professor, and they succeeded. They were also a fan of Occulture and there are three missing issues we don't see in the game that correlate to the three new Paradox mons the DLC is bringing. Every other instance of tera energy we've seen has been directly related to other cases like Pokemon willing themselves into other types or powering AI-copy assistants. >But if its active they have to be aware of it which they aren't.
We also know the professor to be directly aware of Terapagos since it was mentioned in the lab notes. >It's a major hole in the theory and it's avoided like the plague.
Do we see Terapagos play an active role yet? What about Dokutaro? Right, we don't. You seem more upset people aren't making baseless assumptions to prove their "theory" right like timetravel copers have to in addition to ignoring everything in the game.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
Why would it work like that? You just applied your own reasoning to it to debunk imagination when we've seen that the wishes are only granted to people with extremely strong and extremely selfish desires like Kieran and the professor, who are parallels in how their obsession with (a) Pokemon warped their entire personas, with the professor becoming insane and willing to doom Paldea so they could get their paradise, and Kieran going from a meek boy to a school shooter.
The exact mechanics of who's selected to get their wish granted are a mystery, but the the people in the story who have gotten their wish granted are more alike than they are different, meaning there are more rules than "lmao it just passively grants everyones wish" >It's a major hole in the theory
No it's not, you're just interpreting it in bad faith because imagination bad.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>Why would it work like that?
Anon, a passive trait means it's always active and there's no control over it.
An active trait means it can be turned on and off and controlled.
Think about it for five minutes and you'll understand.
>when we've seen that the wishes are only granted to people with extremely strong and extremely selfish desires like Kieran
I know examples are hard to come by but Kieran?
You picked the one guy in the story that had all of his wishes literally shattered right in front of him?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Sada and Turo spent years inside of Area Zero and they were constantly thinking about their project while inside.
Terapagos isn't just randomely deciding who gets their wish granted.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>If they did they'd be able to decide on if it's passive or active.
And we'll never know until it's revealed. The fact is that the game leaves more implication that it's not time travel and morons who either didn't play the game or have ORAS Youtuber-tier reading comprehension think it can't be anything but time travel when all internal facets point to it being Atlantis.
It's not even worth replying to the shitposter that gets upset everytime someone doesn't believe their narrative. The way he composes his posts is the exact same as that moron that insists ORAS has some major contradiction with XY's mega lore before spouting off about how some games are either "in the mega universe" or not when that claim doesn't even make any sense.
>Scarlet: This Pokemon bears a striking resemblance to a creature known as Walking Wake/Raging Bolt, which was initially described in a certain book. >Violet: It resembles a creature depicted in a blurry photograph featured on a paranormal magazine.
Wow, amazing, this ends all of the debates!
If the turtle can will things into reality, could it maybe will entire new areas? I always figured Area Zero would have been a thing just wished upon to exist
>check thread >timeschizo shows up >YEAH WELL UMM... I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW IT'S TIME TRAVEL WITH ALL THE OTHER STUFF TERA CRYSTALS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO DO SO I'LL JUST SAY IT'S IRRELEVANT!
every. thread.
No, because Khu confirmed Terapagos created tera crystals in passing, when he posted his "which is the odd gimmick out?" graphic with megas, z-moves, dynamax and terastralisation. I can't remember what his answer was, but someone replied something in the vein of "Megas, as the others were created by a pokémon tied to their lore" and he said "this also explains it".
Terapagos is the source of Tera crystals, just as Necrozma was the source of Z-Crystals and Eteratus the source of Dynamax energy.
DLC2 will release and it's going to be a 30 minute video from the perspective of a camera in a toilet bowl focused on Ohmori's butthole while he takes a fat shit and explains how he doesn't give a frick about anything with Terapagos or the Paradox Pokemon and only wanted to focus on writing about his familial trauma via Arven and Kieran.
I hate the paradox mon’s names
I get that they’re like that because they probably aren’t real/naturally occurring Pokémon, but shit like “great tusk” and “iron sharticus” is fricking gay
I always thought of the names as cryptid names like big foot, since they appear in those dubious magazines. It makes its a bit better to me. Although if we get a regular Pokémon named something like moving glacier or gold dickus next gen I'm going to be mad
>fossil pokemon: unique species >paradox pokemon: same species at a different evolutionary stage
Are you also mad that homosexual heidelbergensis aren't called humans?
>occulture a dubious magazine that named the paradox pokemon first is the equivalent of scientists that use a taxonomic naming system to get homosexual erectus, homosexual habilis, australopithecus afarensis, etc >categorized into the single word “hominids” anyways
sandy shocks and scream tail seems more like big foot, loch ness, and moth man to me
>occulture a dubious magazine that named the paradox pokemon first
Why even lie about something like that when even Occulture says the names comes from the Books. >Flutter Mane—a name taken from a strange creature with a matching description appearing in the Scarlet Book
>There’s nothing stopping them from having real names
I don't think I need to explain to you why calling a ancient jigglypuff jigglypuff would cause some confusion when referring to jigglypuff or jigglypuff.
>Or they could've made them forms like Bloodmon Ursaluna
Thing is, they aren't exactly forms either. It's a jigglypuff before before it evolved into the modern one.
And because of story reasons and character limits you can't exactly call it ancient jigglypuff.
Maybe for right now, but the thread will eventually slow down and both the imaginaitongays and timetravelgays will leave. Maybe they'll migrate to another thread though, there is one on the catalog already
The thing is, how did the professor know which time period to search for these past/future Pokémon
How come they don’t have actual names, how come there’s no completely original designs and instead they’re all based on existing ones, how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Part of me is mad that it isn’t time travel, because we could’ve gotten shit like an old Salamence without wings since it never evolved to have them and fly, an amoongus that mimics something that’s not a poke ball, etc
>how did the professor know which time period to search
The story tells you the answer to this. They didn't know, but eventually found them. We don't know exactly how they searched for them, or what type of algorithms the machine used to search. If the paradox they chose for this story is a predestination paradox, the professor would have found them regardless of what time they set the machine to because they were already destined to find them. A lot of these questions really just come down to how Gamefreak decided what the solution is.
>how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Ironically, gamefreak is not that creative for a company that needs to create different marketable monsters every few years
Nah, I think it’s deliberate that they’re based on Pokémon since if it’s about wishes or imagination, the Pokémon that are dreamed up or whatever would likely be based on existing things as a frame of reference I think. Granted the majority of the designs are fricking gay because of this.
They’re not really lacking in creativity, I’d say.
>Nah, I think it’s deliberate that they’re based on Pokémon since if it’s about wishes or imagination
It makes way less sense to have uniform design traits under wishes and imagination. Even if you want to go with the Heath lied situation Heath would be incapable of envisioning the Violet designs in general being outside of their idea of technology.
If they were more steam punk designs then you would have a point.
No. The sketches and pictures of the Donphan appear in the book and Occulture refers to the pages describing the other paradoxes.
Unless you're trying to say that they went back 200 years ago, gave Heath the ideas, somehow survived until the modern day and then died.
6 months ago
Anonymous
The photos were faked, there was noting in the crater. The professor is who actually designed the paradox pokemon, this explains why there are a number of difference between the photos and real donphans, and why the beast amalgam got split into 2 (presumably 3) different pokemon
6 months ago
Anonymous
>The photos were faked
Maybe if you could imagine some braincells you would understand that being real or fake doesn't matter.
Whether or not they're real in your scenario doesn't matter because Heath would have had to have designed them to put into the book.
Now the problem is, how did they think of technology that wouldn't exist for another 100 or so years?
6 months ago
Anonymous
Heath only mentions metallic pokemon, the LED lights were added by Turo.
6 months ago
Anonymous
>the LED lights were added by Turo.
Iron Treads has its LEDs yes in the photo.
6 months ago
Anonymous
There's nothing about iron treads' sketch that is inconceivable for someone 200 years ago to dream up, it looks like something related to Aggron or something along those lines, pic related looks like any old steel type Pokemon. It's only when it gets dreamed up by Turo that the details not present or easily readable in the photo (so the legs and eyes) get filled in with modern things like a screen for the eyes and compartments for the legs to tuck into.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Hi Donphangay, it's been a long time. Here's the gif that scares you away every thread.
6 months ago
Anonymous
W...what the frick does this have to do with anything I said.
6 months ago
Anonymous
Why are you pretending, anon? You originally stated that Iron Treads couldn't turn into a ball like described because the drawing had legs. You stopped stating that after I disproved you that Donphan does in fact curl into a ball while having legs. Why act disingenuous? You are quite literally the only person that has ever made this argument.
6 months ago
Anonymous
You got me anon I am in fact utterly perplexed by what the frick youre talking about
6 months ago
Anonymous
I think that anon spends way too much time in threads like these and is mistaking you for someone else
6 months ago
Anonymous
>those legs
The dlc better explain why the drawings are inaccurate.
By lacking in creativity I meant more like why are most future pokemon just metal versions of already existing mons. I like iron bundle and iron valiant because they do something different, but they should have made the others more unique. Same goes for the past paradoxes. Paradox misdreavus is just regular misdreavus but with a hair extension. Give me gundum hydreigon or something. If it isn't time travel I'll be slightly upset that a cool fakemon turned real concept was used to make regional forms. Although if it is time travel I'll also be slightly upset pokemon turn into robots in the future. I guess I just can't win
>how did the professor know which time period to search for these past/future Pokémon
Carbon dating and fossil records.
But in all seriousness they didn't, they literally just meticulously searched. >How come they don’t have actual names
Lore wise, because they haven't been studied long enough for someone to give them one. Koraidon and Miraidon have which is why they aren't called winged king and iron serpent.
As a game, to separate it from the original without giving away the plot. >how come there’s no completely original designs
Because real world evolution was always hinted at but never explored. >how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Because there are only two dinosaurs and two dino halves and the future is inherently unknowable so tropes. >because we could’ve gotten shit like an old Salamence without wings since it never evolved to have them and fly, an amoongus that mimics something that’s not a poke ball, etc
Kind of boring if you ask me. With crescent moon now bagon has a flight coded into it's DNA as a recessive trait instead of just randomly believing it can fly and growing wings and Bonnet shows that the normal pokeball design predates the pokeball. or that Sada unknowingly influenced their evolution by hucking so many balls into the past that it adapted the pattern.
The thing is, I still state these are just modified (by Tera Energy) quote unquote clones. I don’t think it’s Atlantis, or Time Travel, or I agitation.
Its probably just a machine via the Tera Crystals ‘recording’ Pokémon into it, like say the Professors consciousness which allowed the AI to be created, these ‘images’ are then used as a blueprint for Pokémon to be created from, but because it can’t make an exact copy (explaining why the AI Professor is actually dressed as a Cavewoman or in some future onesie, since we have no clue if this was garb ever actually worn by the real Professor) they make altered, perhaps ‘corrections’ is the best term I can think to use, to make these Pokémon the ideal form Terapagos wants.
Two problems, if the recordings are inherently broken then the AI wouldn't work on account of the data for the professor being too corrupted for the AI to use.
Second, the body is mechanical, it seems like you deem to believe that they're made out of crystals.
No, see they aren’t broken, the recordings are only altered when attempting to be made real again, replicated into reality.
The fact is the mechanical body can still work, considering the fact that the creation of the future paradoxes makes making cyborg/cybernetic, or artificial organisms, is entirely possible.
The photos were faked, there was noting in the crater. The professor is who actually designed the paradox pokemon, this explains why there are a number of difference between the photos and real donphans, and why the beast amalgam got split into 2 (presumably 3) different pokemon
This just doesn’t work, considering everything else was real. Why would the Paradoxes alone be fake?
It would also explain more cost for the ‘Raidon’s, they essentially take more energy than the crystals in Area Zero naturally can provide, unless supplemented by more Tera Energy taken in from presumably outside via Tera Dens, or some such. Regular Paradoxes are easier to read by Terapagos, because they’re made to take in energy, instead of produce it like the ‘Raidon’s are.
back into the time machine room boys. they left it in there for no reason postgame
I mean, we knew it was going to be used again.
I wonder how little effort Penny will need to put into hacking the system.
Reading comprehension
Atlantis chads won
Yeah it's obvious since the fricking black hexagonal orb is literally inside the Time Machine
It's supposed to be round actually. Nintendo is just lazy with their geometry and cuts corners with all of their models. I'm shocked they improved the character models in SV and they had individual fingers.
it notably has pointed edges
Look at any spherical object in any nintendo game.
They look like actual spheres.
yeah but it also looked like it had edges in a rendered animated cutscene. no LOD issues since it’s a movie cutscene.
and every pokeball in the game is a sphere
You can go to the room yourself and look at it, it's just part of the machine. The back part of it is even illuminated by the room. You're looking for something that isn't there.
It's not part of the machine in that though
here it is with motion, is a giant sphere suspended in midair
This is some real "that's not a balloon it's a UFO!" shit.
Are there no free roaming cameras or such for SV?
Like the ones where you can just go look anywhere
don't look at titan klawf's eyes
>I'm shocked they improved the character models in SV and they had individual fingers.
Character models also had individual fingers in SWSH and SM (only for battle models) as well.
what about toes
someone post the Paldean oceans image with that frickhueg sphere
I swear to God if this fricking thing turns out to have a purpose for existing
I think the new DLC will bring us to the future/past and we will explore a small area. The new academy looks too small to be the whole DLC.
we got the whole terrarium to explorw
Yeah, but the issue is we know from both Khu and officially you need to complete Teal to start Indigo and complete the Blueberry portion of Indigo to start the final arc. I never saw us going back to AZ and NOT going to a new area somehow, the terrarium is to afford the addition of the 200 'dexmon with the finale unlocking the legendary hunt portion.
And speaking of that, piggybacking here to vomit up my suspicions.: Khu told us long before had details of the DLC came, we'd need LP which would be involved in "selecting pokémon". People thought it was an in-game pokéhex, but now I'm thinking it's how we call the legends to the area - pay LP and materials (maybe), like building TM's to unlock an encounter with a leggo.
>Khu told us long before had details of the DLC came, we'd need LP which would be involved in "selecting pokémon".
I'm willing to bet its just an LP betting mode with rentals.
Remember Ultra Space?
It's Gorochu
The Great Crater of Paldea is a giant toilet bowl, Area Zero is piping that leads to the shit-filled sewers below.
STIP POSTING KHU!
Is the island part going to be like an hour long or something? I don't believe for a second that Gamefreak is going to release more than 2 hours of new content.
another entralink entree
It goes deeper
Motors and gears.
>Lost World
He's coming.
>khu
Nothing.
Nobody has asked what the left exit in the starting area for the great crater goes.
You mean Clear Pokemon arc
Stop posting this chink schizo babblings shill
This.
It's getting really bad now. Gonna start adding this shit to the filter tonight.
I wonder if the ancient/future 'paradise' is gonna be some "center of the earth" trope or if it'll wind up being time travel after all. Maybe the sphere Terapogos is depicted sitting on is supposed to represent the Earth's core. The core is mostly made of iron and nickel and all of the future mons are referred to as "Iron".
I mean, let's be honest, it's without a doubt time travel but it's the application of it now that matters the most.
We know it's going to be used to go back 200 years ago but we're probably going to go back further when Terapagos was active and not in a dormant state.
The tweet is "What's beneath this place?"
Area Zero itself goes deeper
Nothing about this implies we're traveling back in time
>Nothing about this implies we're traveling back in time
Except for the fact that beneath that area is the time machine.
The time machine is in the building there…
No, it's way below that.
What you're looking at is the topmost level of the Zero Lab. The time machine is a lengthy elevator ride down.
>The reason I asked you to come to me is because I have one last thing to do here at the Zero Lab, and I desire your help."
"In short...I wish for you to put a stop to the time machine the original professor created."
>"Any questions can be addressed as we make our descent. Follow me."
>"This elevator will take us down to the lower level. Step inside."
No, it’s in the building, you travel down an elevator which is in fact a part of the building
There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
>you travel down an elevator which is in fact a part of the building
Meaning it is not in fact the building in front, but below that building on a lower level as the game says.
>There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
Except for the fact that the time machine is quite literally below that building and requires an elevator ride down to reach.
Anon, come on, there's denial and there's just being stupid. You have no reason to argue about this when the game outright says its beneath the Zero Lab.
It’s connected to the building, Anon, therefore it’s a part of the building
I don’t know why you’re in denial about this
The fact that youre trying to redefine what "below" means just to say that the time machine doesn't exist below the Zero Lab, something the game says, is genuinely worrying.
>There’s no reason to say what’s BENEATH this place if it were simply referring to the time machine
It's fricking Khu you know how this dipshit is, his shitty "riddles" are the reason why that dumb imagination theory even exists even after he revealed the meaning behind them had nothing to do with imagination.
>muh imagination
Man, shut up already
Christ almighty anon, pay attention. I'm saying Khu has caused a lot of confusion because people didn't understand his shitty riddles.
You're making that same mistake right now.
And I’m saying you’re an obsessed moron. Shut the frick up and stop replying to me.
Running away instead of accepting you fricked up. Just like a fricking child.
>is mad
I already know you are
That doesn't even make any sense you illiterate Hispanic.
I think you should use your imagination powers to become a tad bit smarter, Anon
Khu's not to blame for moron pokefans going off half-wienered at every little bit he says (that's unironically WHY he's spewing shite - to dupe frickwit kneejerkers into 'tarding out). the blame for imaginationgays falls squarely upon the fanbase that either couldn't or wouldn't accept the time travel plot becuse they either didn't understand it or didn't like the explanation (even the simplest time travel plot seems to filter pokéfgas - cf Lucas being dragged back 100 years in time, after his 15th birthday and frickwits not realising he was the Lucas from DP, just older).
The time machine is in the roof, if we're going below area zero why would we be going in the time machine?
>The time machine is in the roof
Anon, I want you to draw what you believe the layout of the Zero Lab is right now.
>if we're going below area zero why would we be going in the time machine?
Area Zero doesn't have a height limit and the time machine is the new lowest point, lower than the natural lowest point even Heath went to.
The tweet makes me think we'd be going even further below that but the answer to the question in the OP IS the time machine room. I guess that makes sense, we're supposed to be meeting Terapagos this time so he's prolly in the time machine or something.
Bro, the time machine is fricking huge. It wouldn't fit in that dinky ass room.
Have you played the game?
We’ve never seen anyone physically travel through time in the game and that was a deliberate choice
>b-but the AI
we never saw where it ended up at all, just that it got sucked into the machine
If you played the game, the AI tells you it's a one way trip for anything that's not a pokeball. We don't know why that is, or how the AI knows that.
Exactly. This casts doubt about it being a time machine.
The AI enters the machine at the end of the story after telling the MC that 1) they can't leave Area Zero and 2) it's a one way trip. The only doubt being casted is what the AI told you. Use your imagination.
Are you implying the AI lied about the professor's death and the professor used the time machine?
Allegedly the professor is dead, what are you on
I'm trying to figure out what the anon is trying to say there
>how does the ai know how the time machine only works one way for a human?
>maybe they tested it on someone
>theres no one else in area zero besides the ai and the original professor
>the professor is dead according to the AI but we never see the body and the AI has been locked in the lab for who knows how long
>ergo, its possible the professor actually went in the time machine ???
I dont know how else to interpret that post, otherwise hes just saying its a time machine because the game says its a time machine even though the only source for this is an insane person and a robot who lies to you until the last second
The AI stated with certainty that only pokeballs could travel through the machine, so they would have had to test the machine in some fashion. Whether that be people, pokemon, tera crystals, or whatever they attempted to send through it, they came to the conclusion they weren't able to recall what they sent.
It'd be pretty funny if the professor was just chucking people in the time machine to see what happened and that's why their spouse left them.
>and a robot who lies to you until the last second
Anon, they've lied once and it was a lie of omission.
no one else in area zero besides the ai and the original professor
You know they had like an entire team right?
No, it casts doubt on it being a time machine. If it WAS time machine, we wouldn’t be revisiting it like this, and it wouldn’t leave us hanging in the first place.
We’ve already seen time travel in this series, and it’s had none of the weird limitations that this has.
There's different tropes in time travel, same reason why we have Dialga, Celebi, and Areceus. Dialga is supposedly the master of time, Celebi can move forwards and back freely, but Arceus isekais the MC of PLA and can't send them back for whatever reason. You're making assumptions of what the machine can and can't do outside of what we've been told about it. It's fine to question it, but you're stating with absolute certainty it's xyz because you think your assumptions are the right assumptions.
You’re doing the same thing, Anon
>it casts doubt on it being a time machine
Anon, you're literally trying to say that the lack of evidence against it being a time machine means it isn't a time machine.
That's ridiculous by that logic Arceus doesn't have time travel either.
Anon, if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel, we would’ve seen the process of catching Pokémon. They left it vague for a reason.
Also your point on arceus is dumb because we see first hand the the player character getting dumped into the past.
I think you’re trolling at this point.
>if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel
No, no we wouldn't. If we saw where they ended up then they wouldn't have travelled through time.
>Also your point on arceus is dumb because we see first hand the the player character getting dumped into the past.
We don't. We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make. You're saying that it isn't time travel because we can't see both points.
>I think you’re trolling at this point.
Poking holes in your logic isn't trolling, it's discussion. If you can't handle criticism of your ideas then this isn't the thread for you because it's going to happen at some point if you miss a detail here and there or don't apply your own logic correctly.
>We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make.
The main character is wearing modern clothes and has a smartphone, saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope, and that's ignoring the datamined room found in the game.
>saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope
Yes that's the point. We don't need to see where they came from or in this case where they're going because there's other evidence in the game supporting the idea of time travel. In PLA it's their clothes and their phone.
In SV, it's the paradox pokemon and the testing the professor had done on Koraidon and Miraidon.
>In SV, it's the paradox pokemon and the testing the professor had done on Koraidon and Miraidon.
And that there are paradoxes in the book.
In PLA's case it's without a doubt where the MC is from.
Everything surrounding time travel in SV is suspect at best with plot holes not even the most devout timegays can explain with any consistency, the first and only example being why there were no Pokemon in Area Zero after Heath's expedition. These two situations are not the same.
I'd like to bring up SM's UBs as another example
>weird ayylmaos found all over the place
>game is very up front about the fact that they're ayylmaos that came from a tear in space
>people from other universes are like here are our cool ayylmao pokemon
>you yourself get to travel through space to get more ayylmaos
>there's no question or debate about what UBs are or where they're from
Meanwhile in SV
>these pokemon were encountered by heath 200 years ago but no one could find them after
>the professor needs to build a time machine to find them because theyre actually from the ancient past/far future despite allegedly living in the crater according to heath
>this time machine is built by the professor and a magical AI that shouldnt be possible for humans to create thanks to the power of these weird unstable crystals
>said AI also came out of nowhere with no feasible explanation after the professor wanted a copy
>the professor was also a raving lunatic who was okay with the rest of paldea getting razed to the ground if it meant getting their Pokemon
>You're basically just saying it isn't time travel because you don't want it to be time travel
No, you're saying it NEEDS to be time travel and no other possible explanation despite the fact that there's very clearly more to the story, with the Teal Mask DLC, which had nothing to do with time travel, deepening the mystery behind tera crystals and what they can do.
>the first and only example being why there were no Pokemon in Area Zero after Heath's expedition.
That's not a plot hole, the main function of the time machine is to send pokeballs, catch pokemon and pull them back to the present. There's literally an explanation in game.
I'm surprised you haven't heard that as a response yet.
>weird ayylmaos found all over the place
>game is very up front about the fact that they're ayylmaos that came from a tear in space
>people from other universes are like here are our cool ayylmao pokemon
>you yourself get to travel through space to get more ayylmaos
>there's no question or debate about what UBs are or where they're from
By this logic you should just believe it's time travel since there's more concrete evidence for it than UBs especially if you're looking at it from just the perspective of SM where the URS didn't exist.
>themed around ancient creatures and futuristic androids
>final story is about their origins from the past and future
>mechanics of the time machine are laid out complete with restrictions on travel for humans.
>professor confirms genetic and behavioral relations to pokemon in the modern day
>paradox pokemon appear 200 years in the past without a time machine in the past which could only be achieved with the time machine in the present.
>you're saying it NEEDS to be time travel and no other possible explanation despite the fact that there's very clearly more to the story,
There's more but the debate about it being time travel is over. That chunk of the story no longer matters and the time machine is just a tool to show us more about 200 years ago.
Changing the origins of the paradoxes would be a huge retcon which would require rewriting major plot elements.
Revealing new information isn’t retconning anything, friendo
>Revealing new information isn’t retconning anything, friendo
You wouldn't be revealing new information, you'd be changing existing information.
Like how Spiderman used to be the result of an irradiated spider bite being 100% science related but now he's actually this super special mystical spider totem and used to have a magical compulsion to frick a spider girl who was another mystical spider totem.
Suddenly you've removed the reason, logic and mechanics and just turned it into "lol, magic".
If it were just adding details it would be there to explain something that wasn't explained like the potara in Dragonball. We were never given an explanation for Vegito defusing until super.
>How did a FUTURE Pokémon end up in heaths time, if that’s the case?
Because it's a two way time machine. It has to be if it can send pokeballs and retrieve them.
>You literally go to the worlds the UBs are from to catch them,
>especially if you're looking at it from just the perspective of SM where the URS didn't exist.
On that note did you know that USM actually retconned Ultra Space?
In SM it was said that the Ultra Deep Sea WAS Ultra Space and that all the UBs come from one location, in USM it was retconned into a world exclusively for Nihilego.
It's most likely the reason why GF put so much more detail into time travel.
You wouldn’t be changing existing information though
Anon, the game is saying they're from the past/future and have genetic data as fairly concrete evidence. To say that these aren't from the past and future would be a large change to the existing information.
Also it would mean that the AI wasn't written out of the story by being trapped in the distant past/future.
nta you’re telling me the pachirisu I got from dream world a decade ago wouldn’t have the same genetic data as a pachirisu you can find out in the wild?
That's not how the dream world works. It doesn't manifest fake pokemon, they're all living in the entree forest and your pokemon becomes friends with it IN the dream.
But why would they send them back there for them to find, then take them away?
That doesn’t make any sense. They would’ve stayed outright if they themselves sent the Pokémon there, but they didn’t.
How did a FUTURE Pokémon end up in heaths time, if that’s the case?
Why would Turo be sending poke balls to the past if he thought they were from the future?
>By this logic you should just believe it's time travel since there's more concrete evidence for it than UBs
You literally go to the worlds the UBs are from to catch them, what the frick are you even saying right here.
Don't expect the timetravelgay to be able to read
>The main character is wearing modern clothes and has a smartphone, saying they're from anywhere but modern times feels like a cope,
NTA but they're just floating in the void at the start of the game, you could just as easily say that they're from another universe rather than time traveling. After all we know that time doesn't work the same way across them. Thanks SM.
You're basically just saying it isn't time travel because you don't want it to be time travel rather than having any real reason to say it isn't.
Classic circular argument Anon, never change.
>We don't. We never see the present in PLA and that's the point you're trying to make. You're saying that it isn't time travel because we can't see both points.
This confirms your trolling
That anon is right though, the difference here is you're applying opposing logic between each circumstance because you're assuming you know the right answer.
Anon has been doing the same thing, so why can’t I?
Because he has the game's support and you have nothing.
That's not true anon. He has his imagination.
>he has the games support
But he doesn’t.
>AI says time travel
>paradoxes are past and future themed
>AI says Raidon have genetic similarities
>only logical reason for paradoxes to 200 years in the past is time travel
>Arven's blatant foreshadowing
What do you have that's supported by the game?
P-Penny said so.
Everything not being as it seems, since the game runs that in your face
>but that means heath wasn’t lying
Yeah, he wasn’t lying.
>Everything not being as it seems
Oh yeah, that's another point for time travel.
Everyone deemed the book fake, and Occulture is said to be a "dubious" tabloid. But then you explore area zero and find out everything was real.
I'm waiting on your evidence.
But the game is upfront about it, like heath supposedly being a liar
I don’t think you know how to read, unfortunately
>But the game is upfront about it, like heath supposedly being a liar
Yes, the game did say that the public didn't believe it. Then we as the player in both Arven's and the final story discover that, not everything was as it seems and that everything in the book was real.
Which means that it’s not a time machine
Go back to your containment thread.
Stop getting upset, stinky
>>AI says time travel
Wrong, the AI BELIEVES it's time travel, just as the professor did.
are past and future themed
And yet, they don't match up at all with realistic portrayals of past/future Pokemon.
>>only logical reason for paradoxes to 200 years in the past is time travel
Except the paradoxes we have are closer to Occulture's portrayal of them (because the professor was a fan of it and kept issues in their lab) instead of being exactly like how they were in Heath's record.
's blatant foreshadowing
Speaks for itself.
>P-Penny said so.
Penny is irrelevant. How does time travel explain the terastal phenomenon?
>they don't match up at all with realistic portrayals of past/future Pokemon.
What does this even mean? They ARE the realistic portrayal of past/future pokemon because this is the very first time we've had genuine ancient pokemon derived from existing ones.
What on earth are you even talking about?
i dunno what anon means by portrayal of future pokemon but he's right in that theyre nothing like the existing fossilmons which are all based around the existing life forms at the time, meanwhile paradox mons are literally "what if amoongus was a dinosaur"
>but he's right in that theyre nothing like the existing fossilmons which are all based around the existing life forms at the time
They're based off of two things at most dude, with the exception of the gen 8 fossils which are meant to be hodgepodge monsters. That doesn't mean that they were the only life forms running about at the time. I mean, look at relicanth, canonically a pokemon that hasn't changed in millions of years like a real coelacanth.
>The descriptions match up with Occulture's perception of "ancient/future" Pokemon than what we know of Heath's record.
Anon, the physical descriptions are the same, Occulture used the descriptions from the book and then made up stories.
Didn't you look at them?
Basically when Occulture says
>iron hand's has fists that move independent of the body
That was in the book
But when it says
>Iron hands was a human
That's fake.
>They're based off of two things at most dude
Yeah? That's what I'm saying, all fossil Pokemon line up nicely with real life ancient animals, and some Pokemon like Archeps and Carracosta are even cited as the evolutionary predecessors to currently existing Pokemon. They even have exact timelines for certain Pokemon which also line up with the animals they're based off if, it's really cool.
This is a far cry from paradox Pokemon who, again, just take a currently existing Pokemon like Raikou, and twist its features around until it resembles something like a dinosaur.
No offense but that's the most moronic shit I've ever heard in my life.
You're saying that just because some pokemon have been seen before that they all have to follow the same rules when there wasn't any consistency beyond being rock types and even that ended in gen 8.
That and you're treating the past as a location, when it's a massive span of time. I mean, we don't even know what era the past paradoxes even come from and the fossils already have massive gaps between them. Kabuto is from 300 million years ago while Lilleep is 100 million for example.
Now I can see why lore threads have gone to shit if this is why people don't listen to the game.
It's worth mentioning that for Scream Tail and Iron Thorns, both of their tabloid entries imply they're literally Pokemon from BILLION YEAR time gaps of Past and Future respectively.
Shut the frick up anon.
The only information in Occulture that matters is the description of the paradoxes. Everything else is made up.
>You're saying that just because some pokemon have been seen before that they all have to follow the same rules
No, I'm saying them having an established pattern for fossil Pokemon, and then suddenly breaking that pattern, on top of all the other wacky and weird shit going on with ancient Paradox Pokemon, from their lore to their design, is one of many issues people have with the idea that the Pokemon are actually legitimate.
Even gen 8's abominations are based off of actual history, where 1800s british archeologists fricked up their science and made fake dinosaurs, and even THOSE walking abortions are still parts based off of actual dinosaurs, but please keep coping.
If you can't tell the difference between something like Anorith and Walking Wake, there's really nothing left to be said.
They stopped doing typical fossils in gen 6. Gen 7 had no new ones, gen 8 had abominations, and now gen 9 has ancient/future pokemon. That pattern has been dead for 3 generations.
moron, all fossils, including the abominations, are based off of actual dinosaurs, paradoxes take normal pokemon and turn them into dinosaurs.
Terracosta and Kabutops aren't dinosaurs, anon. Did you know that all pokemon are based on something from real life?
Er, more than dinosaurs, I mean stuff that actually lived in ancient times.
Yeah I messed up, but the point stands.
Your point doesn't make sense though, anon. Ancient/Future pokemon are more akin to Ultra Beasts than fossil mons. We've not had traditional fossilmons since gen 6. You're citing patterns that are not applicable.
>I'm saying them having an established pattern for fossil Pokemon
There's literally no pattern to fossil pokemon.
Except their base stages are all creatures found in the real-life fossil record. Sure, they pokémonify the evolutions, but Kabuto is a horseshoe crab (still extant, as it happens but first emerged 445m years ago), Archen is an Archaeopteryx, Cranidos is a Pachycephalosaurus but they turned Suicune into a Deinonychus or Utahraptor and Raikou into a Brachiosaurus (instead of making either of thosee as a wholly-new fossilmon).
>Except their base stages are all creatures found in the real-life fossil record
Yes and the paradoxes have similarities to real world prehistoric animals as well, you're not really getting it are you.
what are the real world equivalents for brute bonnet or scream tail or sandy shocks or roaring moon
Syzygites and cave men
love me some timegay moronation
Meaning you have no argument because you mad no idea that they existed
I gotta applaud you on your determination to power through getting shit on left and right. You know people will respond to you and shut you down, but you just keep attacking at different angles and praying something will stick. Psychopaths are usually successful in life, but unfortunately you spend that energy shitposting on /vp/ instead.
NTA but you're going to give yourself an aneurism if you keep on thinking pokemon are simply animals
>Anon, the physical descriptions are the same
They're not. The professor was a fan of Occulture and kept a fraction of the issues you can read in-game in their lab.
NOTHING in Heath's record implies anything about the time period these pokes are from. That all comes from Occulture. Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
>and imagination is the gateway to that.
moron
>Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
Don't steal our theory for your imagination propaganda. It wasn't too long ago that you homosexuals were saying that Heath imagined any kind of ancient civilization things like the markings and plate.
Plus it makes more sense with time travel between the advanced technology like the AI and the whole memory recall thing from the anime.
It could be both altantis and time travel, atlantis just can't be connected to the paradox pokemon then. An ancient civilization can't interact with pokemon from the future
Okay you're getting your wires crossed so hard that I'm surprised you can even make sense of yourself.
>The professor was a fan of Occulture and kept a fraction of the issues you can read in-game in their lab.
Okay for starters we have no idea if this is even true because Arven lived there on his own for years and the Donphan one references the Donphan in Asado Desert which is clearly after the professor spent all of their time down there.
>NOTHING in Heath's record implies anything about the time period these pokes are from.
NO ONE said anything about Heath mentioning the time period. In fact, it's that detail that made people think that they were being manipulated from the start and lo and behold teal mask has a character undergo a massive emotional shift and a change of goals just like the professor.
>That all comes from Occulture.
For a handful of Scarlet ones, for the Violet ones it's all over the place so Occulture doesn't explain why Turo needed a time machine.
>Atlantis is the only explanation that makes sense, and imagination is the gateway to that.
Atlantis and imagination literally cannot be reconciled. There's no ties there because the only one was the AI and you people think the professor wished it up instead of it being built.
And finally literally no one here said that the lore in Occulture, beyond the descriptions which COME FROM THE BOOK WHICH EVERY OCCULTURE ENTRY MENTIONS, matter. The anon you replied to even said that there's true information and false information mixed in and you're sitting there acting like he said the whole thing was true while throwing in more strawman on top.
>What does this even mean?
They're not past/future Pokemon.
>They ARE the realistic portrayal of past/future pokemon because this is the very first time we've had genuine ancient pokemon derived from existing ones.
Wrong. The descriptions match up with Occulture's perception of "ancient/future" Pokemon more than what we know of Heath's record. All of the dex entries point this out, and the designs themselves are all "Pokemon but with over-characteristically primal/robotic elements thrown in"
You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe these Pokes are actually from the time periods the AI believes them to be when shit like Primal Groudon exists. Iron Thorns is LITERALLY Mecha Tyranitar from Pokestar Studios which gets referenced in Gen 9.
>Anon, if it were a time machine we would’ve seen the results of the AI’s time travel
NTA but we'll never see both points because one went to the future and one went to the past and their story is over as it is, they don't matter anymore.
There's a sidequest in the dlc about them
Low quality bait
It's gonna be a "pocket dimension" where time flows slower.
>Urashima Tarō (浦島 太郎) is the protagonist of a Japanese fairy tale (otogi banashi), who, in a typical modern version, is a fisherman rewarded for rescuing a turtle, and carried on its back to the Dragon Palace (Ryūgū-jō) beneath the sea. There, he is entertained by the princess Otohime[a] as a reward. He spends what he believes to be several days with the princess. But when he returns to his home village, he discovers he has been gone for at least 100 years.
I kind of like that combination the anons put together yesterday
>ancient civilisation that took itself out of local spacetime using Terapagos' insane power output
>that's what created the area zero crater
>time flows differently there than it does in the real world
>the time machine is just a time machine and the pokemon are from the past/future so it doesn't frick with the story
>the AI technology comes from the past and was stored in the crystals
>you and Briar go back in time and encounter Terapagos and inadvertently bring back some paradoxes to Heath's time.
>you make sure everything happens as it should and even catch Terapagos
>you then access the ancient civilization to get back to your own time
I'm not sure if you're referring to me or not but I don't necessarily think you'll travel through the machine. Terapogos wants to GO to Rakua in the anime, so we will probably follow it there when it enters its Terastal state. We represent the boat in the mural Heath drew.
You were the anon that sparked that particular conversation.
That is the dumbest shit I’ve ever read
You know what sounds cooler? A magic turtle that grants wishes when it's convenient.
What’s cooler is you seething.
Says the person who constantly seethes about "timeschizo"
Mindbroken
Isn't the anime doing it's own thing with the story and focusing on the mc's ancestor instead of heath? I doubt anything in the anime will matter to the game
It's not the same story but it's a very similar in plot. Rakua is referred to Paradise, the same as the Professor describes what they're trying to build in Area Zero (which is based on what Heath found). The anime is in a weird flux of drip feeding information and we'll most likely get the full conclusion with Indigo Disk before we get anything more concrete.
Hollow earth confirmed
Is there a model rip of that tiny sphere inside the time machine?
It's part of the machine, stop coping.
So the “time machine” is gonna take us to some B/W dream world, right?
Maybe we’ll meet the AI again assuming it didn’t just fricking die when it got sucked up
Though he says “underneath” so maybe we’ll get to see that abandoned civilisation under the crater too.
>riddler "gf did sv well" khu
>riddler "failed to debut because of some technical problems" khu
Tick tock timegays
OP here, imaginationgays go back to your containment thread
you said yesterday you are the only ones that want to discuss theories, so why are you here?
Because they don't want to "discuss theories" they want to circle-jerk their imagination meme. That's why they shit up any thread trying to discuss theories.
>Paradox Pokémon are just regional forms from the middle of the earth
That's be interesting
My only gripe with this is they're called "paradoxes" but the solution of "just dig deeper" isn't paradoxical.
I always assumed the paradox was just they didn't exist (because no one could find them after heath's expedition) but now they do, which is why theories vary from time travel to imagination to memories to ultra beasts to dreams.
The thing is that most of the other theories exist because there's anons that don't want a conclusion that confirms peoples suspicions, but rather one that denounces everything and tries to swerve you that it was all a lie. It's more fun for them to believe some asspulled theory from a youtube video and make up a fantasy scenario than coming to a logical solution from the story presented to us.
>The thing is that most of the other theories exist because there's anons that don't want a conclusion that confirms peoples suspicions, but rather one that denounces everything and tries to swerve you that it was all a lie
Well no, it's just the imagination theory that exists to be the contrarian choice.
Alchemy and a philosopher's stone is more because of the type changing as well as the markings.
Ancient Civilization is because of the various ruins and Area Zero being called atlantis in the code.
Urashima Taro because Terapagos is a turtle with hair
They all have their own kind of connection to the game somehow.
That's all theories since the official cannon (as of right now) is that heath made it up, the professor made a time machine and then actually found the paradox mons in the past or future. The game never mentions imagination coming to life or pokemon being sent back into the past for heath to find. Right now paradox pokemon are just a giant coincidence, until the dlc where they explain it properly
You’ve angered me, Anon
Stepping back it really is weird how the professor was somehow able to find the exact Pokemon from the book when their only guideline was "distant past/future", like, with the past paradoxes being dinosaurs, how many hundreds of millions of years are we plucking pokemon from?
Not really. It's because it's a predestination paradox.
The professor pulls through those specific pokemon, which get sent back, make it into the book and then inspire the professor to make the time machine.
why would the professor send anything back anywhere?
Because if you're dealing with time travel, you need to keep in mind the nature of timeloops for the sake of timeline stability.
The professor could have very well realized that Heath's one-off encounter with a Great Tusk/Iron Treads was because of their own actions to ensure their dream could come to fruition, and as such, once the time machine started working, they sent it back to Heath's era to fulfill the loop.
Keep in mind Legends canonizes the timeloop approach for Pokemon, its entire story hinges on bringing forth the protagonist from an era after Hisui was successfully shaped into Sinnoh in order to help ensure Hisui is shaped into Sinnoh, which in turn would later allow for the protagonist to be born and eventually be sent back into Hisui, so on and so forth.
So it’s your headcanon then, gotcha
Literally everything except for what's spelled out directly from the logs and journals of Heath and the Professor is currently headcanon until DLC2 answers our burning questions.
heath wrote about miraidon in the scarlet book, in the game where Sada only brought past paradoxes to the present and where you’re saying Sada sent them back into the past. yet Heath claimed to have seen miraidon, a pokemon not supposed to exist especially in Scarlet
You're using completely unused dex entries when we don't yet know if those entries are actually canonical.
briar has both the markings of miraidon and koraidon on her jacket meaning her family and her ancestry knew about both raidons
She’s pretty hot
Small problem. Violet's the canon book, so Sada didn't do anything. Scarlet's been confirmed to be the alt universe mirror to the canon story.
I see this image being posted all the time but what is it supposed to mean exactly?
Many anons think that the purple book on the shelf is supposed to be the violet book, which would make violet the cannon game. A similar book also appears in the anime. But both don't have the Miraidon on it though, so I personally don't believe it. It's a fun fan theory though
It doesn't have Miraidon on it, because it was a hint to the next games, akin to the strange souvenir. They wanted to make it recognisable, not break NDA to slap an image of an upcoming pokémon they knew wasn't included in that game to alert people what was coming an ruin the surprise reveal.
And logically, it makees more sense for a 100 yo copy to be plain-bound and ones in the modern having more fancy bindings, because mass-production of imaged copies became cheaper as humans advanced their processes.
The pokémon world is an analogy to ours - thus shit like printing and photography were at the same level of real-world human development at a similar point in that universee's history.
>The pokémon world is an analogy to ours
Anon, the pokemon world is far more advanced than our own.
Yeah. Except Legends has a bloke with a camera exactly like a 1900's camera, in an era said to be the past of a known modern region.
The magitech is to make the world a not!Earth. But the details of human lives often fall heavily back on real world humans, where pokémon can't be bullshitted into the frame (conkedurr taught humans how to mix concrete, but they got 1920's-era cameras in Hisui).
>Except Legends has a bloke with a camera exactly like a 1900's camera
Do we even see his camera?
Yeah. If you played the game, you'd know this.
Anon, that's more akin to a 19th century camera not a 20th century camera.
What, like the one on the far-left, second image down I posted in that screengrab of google images here
? because you're right, it does absolutely look like that one of mine. Are you ignoring the Galaxy building, based off the former Hokkaido government buildings that didn't show up in real life in is current guise until 1888? Game Freak were VERY deliberate in their establishing what timescale we were dealing with. Sorry you missed it all.
Meant for
>1888
Aka the 19th century.
God you're fricking moronic.
A bookshelf in Cogita's room in Legends, set 100 years after Heath's expedition, roughly with the Violet book on display (that was GF's new game tease we all fricking missed during Legends).
Seeing as the anime is displaying the Violet book and Game Freak themselves teased the Violet book in a canon game, set earlier in the timeline to the newest Generation, the only conclusion is that Violet is the canon version (as if there was ever any doubt previously - men generally supersede women in importance, when a male and female show up as Pokémon Professor. The Violet book popping up in the prime timeline before the concept is even introduced is kinda hard to ignore).
>set 100 years after Heath's expedition
Arceus isn't set 100 years after. There's no concrete time but the consensus is generally 150-200 years before the main story based.
It would most likely be around the time of Heath's expedition or slightly after.
It's set around 100 years in the past from DP (I saw 1920's bandied around, likely because of shit like human tech and trends portrayed in-game).
There's not that great of a time disparity between DP and SV. SM happened 10 years after RGBY, thus DP happened 7 years before SM and SV isn't that much later chronologically than SM (5 years at most). And SV s around 200 years since Heath published his book. Hence why I said roughly. Frick off spastic, Heath's book WAS said to cause a stir - Game Freak even established it travelled as far as PokéJapan in about 100 years. Sorry dinosaurmommy isn't real.
>SM happened 10 years after RGBY
Hold on, where are you getting this from?
When you meet Red and Blue in the Battle Tree, they're around 20 years old. And Red started as a 10 year old trainer at the start of RGBY (never mind it was the series 20th anniversary in SM's release year). Ergo, SM occurs 10 years after RGBY. the timeline isn't as long as people think. Hazards of making a kids series, with plenty of remakes for the newer generations. Timeline gets fricky in people's heads.
Red started at 11 and saying 10 years passed isn't confirmation.
It wouldn't make much sense in the general scheme of things either since we can assume BW is at least 5 to 10 years after because of the rocket grunt meeting someone and having a kid after moving to Unova and he was introduced in GSC which was three years after rby.
Add two years for BW2 which is said to be around the same time as XY and SM happens some time after those events but we already hit 10 at XY.
And the consensus is wrong, the photog studio has a camera set-up like one of these fricking things. They didn't show up until humans had gotten a FRICKLOAD better at cameras. Never mind in-game, you don't need to stand still for 5 fricking minutes to set the image.
>Scarlet's been confirmed to be the alt universe mirror to the canon story.
I'd say it's the other way around. It doesn't make much sense with Violet which is generally the thing with most "blue" versions including and after gen 3.
>male professor, like all Japanese-region games, the french suck-off and the two burger versions (eventually in one case, from the get-go in another)
>bikemon is an actual fricking bike, instead of a walking puppy
>hinted at in the game DIRECTLY preceding it (which shared similar themes)
And then the kicker - Scarlet leaked before launch, just like Moon, Ultra Moon and Shield. The canon games don't leak early.
>caveman cosplayer made a robot clone of herself, said to be too technologically advanced for the present time
Surely you realize how dumb this sounds?
God you guys can't be this moronic
It doesn't even look the same
Absolutely none of this has any support in the game, this is exactly what I'm talking about. Rather than going "we don't know the full story and there's a number of possible answers to these questions", you've dug your heels in and said "it's time travel" and are now weaving this web of headcanon to justify it.
Neither the professor nor the AI ever mention Heath even once, when the professor gets the time machine working, all they're concerned about is bringing more Pokemon to the present to make their paradise real. The AI, when they enter the time machine, is only concerned with going to the past/future to hang out with their Pokemon. They don't mention Heath or any sort of paradox, nor time loops and trying to correct them. The only paradox mentioned anywhere is in the Pokedex.
>The only paradox mentioned anywhere is in the Pokedex.
Except for the fact that Arven directly points out that the professor became obsessed with bringing the Past/Future to the present because of the excerpt where Heath encounters a Paradox Donphan in his expeditions, literally centuries prior to the professor building and activating the time machine?
>you've dug your heels in and said "it's time travel"
NTA and not going to insert myself into whatever discussion you're having, but the game tells you it's time travel, there is a time machine, and the conclusion of the game ends with it being uses for time travel. They are not digging in their heels, they are going off of the story. You are DENYING the story.
Then if it's a time machine, how did Heath see the Paradox Pokemon? How does he know what a Korai/Miraidon is? Why was the crater empty when people went in after him? People are arguing about the story if we ONLY go off the story then time travel makes no sense. There'd be no debates if the game didn't leave holes everywhere only headcanon can answer no matter what you believe in.
The same game that says it's time travel also casts doubt on it right after the plot is resolved, the fact is if you think for all of 3 seconds, time travel doesn't add up with the information we're given in the story.
This is only one of a dozen theories you could surmise to explain a timeloop paradox. Arven specifically points out that order of events don't make sense as the paradox pokemon exist in the present because of the time machine, so how could they possibly exist in the past?
>Then if it's a time machine, how did Heath see the Paradox Pokemon
With a time machine.
Specifically the one in the present.
The one that can send things through time.
Because it's a time machine.
>People are arguing about the story if we ONLY go off the story then time travel makes no sense
Oh no one ever said that, you can reconcile time travel, ancient civilisations and every other theory with the main game with no plot holes or retcons.
You just can't do it with imagination which requires a ton of leaps in logic.
>The same game that says it's time travel also casts doubt on it right after the plot is resolved
You're the same anon who always says that in these threads aren't you. You know you never actually tell people what casts doubt on it right
They never state they sent them back in time with the time machine though
Yes because that's the upcoming story.
The treasure of Area Zero's final story is all about Heath's expedition, hence Arven foreshadowing a time loop at the end and the journal art at the end of the trailer.
How do you know it’s the upcoming story?
This and the way you interpret Arven is your headcanon
>How do you know it’s the upcoming story
Because it hasn't happened yet. We have documentation of what the professor was doing in the area zero journals, if they were the ones who sent anything back it would be there.
>This and the way you interpret Arven is your headcanon
It's called basic reading comprehension and inference. Well, it's basic to me clearly such concepts either don't exist in your language or are simply too advanced for you.
It’s actually called forcing your own interpretations and calling everyone else’s wrong.
>It’s actually called forcing your own interpretations
It's hardly forcing an interpretation when it's right there as plain as day.
>and calling everyone else’s wrong.
No, just you. You're the only one who can't put two and two together.
Anon, you’re delusional and I’m not the only person who disagrees with you
You samegayging constantly /= "not the only person", unless you're legitimately schizophrenic and think each personality that posts to be a separate human individual.
There’s 40 posters in this thread, man
I’m going to stop replying since you’ve proven that you’re mentally unstable
And there was 25 of them this morning before burgerland woke up and the imagination autistic woke up.
And you won't, you can't leave us alone without screeching and shitting up these threads, because we're not fawning over your fricktarded reading of a kiddy game plot. I look forward to replaying to you later as you ape out again.
It's weird that when you do it it's inferencing and smart deduction but if someone else does it and reaches a different conclusion than you, it's brazen moronation and obscene headcanon made to be contrarian or whatever.
>but if someone else does it
That's the problem, you haven't once done it. Inference is using what you have to come to a reasonable conclusion that takes all evidence into account.
Saying
>I don't get this so Heath lied
Is headcanon with no evidence created purely to satiate your own bias.
NTA, but I'd argue the professor using the book to shut down the time machine is an indirect mention of heath. That being said, I agree with the fact that since the professor never mentioned sending pokemon back in time to heath despite being expremely forthcoming with everything else, if it is a time machine, they're not the ones who sent the pokemon there
In my opinion the professor doesn't really care about Heath all too much, the professor only cares about the book and the Pokemon in the book. They don't care about proving Heath right like Briar does, they just want their Pokemon.
> if it is a time machine, they're not the ones who sent the pokemon there
I can agree with this, the character with the motivation is Briar, but then again then time machine is seemingly shut down and Briar would need to somehow nab your Raidon from you for it to work, I think this line of thinking creates more issues than it solves the existing plot holes which is why I doubt it's going to happen.
>I think this line of thinking creates more issues than it solves the existing plot holes which is why I doubt it's going to happen.
Eh, not really. I mean the only plot hole is how did the paradoxes get there and we have a character with a motive, the method of the time machine and confirmation that the time machine can be activated with an authorised ID.
It's just a matter of putting a story to it now.
There are still plot holes though, if the events of the book are due to Briar's meddling, how does that explain Heath's encounter with Terapagos? How does she get your Raidon? How do things like Walking Wake and Iron Leaves exist if they're based off the imagined sketches? Is Briar okay with letting a donphan kill a dude? Etc.
I'd also say Brair forcing the events of the book to happen still makes Heath a fraud, but a propped up fraud, which isn't really her goal.
Anon, a plot hole isn't just something that's yet to be explained, it's something that doesn't make sense or contradicts existing information.
Briar's goal is finding Terapagos and proving to the public that Heath was right you can already draw a connection there.
With your Raidon Briar doesn't need to have it, especially if the time machine is used to follow her to the past somehow or even if you send it into the past and then retrieve it later.
Walking Wake and Iron Leaves aren't based on the sketch, it's more likely the other way around.
And presumably she's okay with it since it happened in the book.
>I'd also say Brair forcing the events of the book to happen still makes Heath a fraud
That's the thing about a time loop, she wouldn't know she had a hand in it until after it happened.
>if the events of the book are due to Briar's meddling
They're not. The events of the book happened and are set. Briar's been trying to prove everything in the book was true and her ancestor wasn't a psycho. That's partially why we're going back to AZ - to help her get the proof to prove him correct (the world won't listen to 4 schoolkids trying to tell the truth - even if two are Champion-level trainers, ones the son of the professor who invented the Tera Orb and one's a computer savant). Briar's not the bad guy in DLC2.
It doesn't even have to be the professor. Literally anyone could send it back to create the loop.
>the official cannon (as of right now) is that heath made it up
There is nothing stating that Heath made it up. People went into Area Zero and were not able to find what he described. Just like how anons tried to claim Rayquaza in the anime was imaginary because Liko's father wrote a story book including the ancient adventurer and his Pokemon. Turns out, all of it is true and based on actual events. Currently in the story Diana has still not found Rakua to prove Lucius' journal, but we know that everything is factual and the main plot will be Terapogos leading the Volteccers to Rakua and Lucius.
>Diana has still not found Rakua to prove Lucius' journal
>we know that everything is factual
Diana found Lucius' luggage when she was a child, which included his journal, Terapogos, and possibly the violet book. She also has equipment that he wore on top of other documents. Since she gave the amulet to Liko, the following have occurred:
>Terapogos woke up
>Rayquaza woke up
>Terapogos showing Volteccers its memories
>Rayquaza waking up the other Pokemon belonging to Lucius
>Terapogos knows Lucius and wants to return to Rakua immediately
>Lucius is most likely related to Liko in some way
Diana not being able to find Rakua does not mean it isn't real, it means its existence was questionable.
If the existence of something is questionable there's nothing "factual" about it
Whales found by sailors had scars on their body from giant squids for hundreds of years. The first giant squids were not discovered until 2004, even though we knew for a fact they existed. I understand you're a zoomer and 2004 was before you were born, but maybe if you're lucky there will be discoveries made in your lifetime that confirms things we previously believed were real but couldn't prove yet.
Anon, an idea only becomes a fact when it's empirically proven.
If not, it's a hypothesis at best.
That's not a paradox though.
Yup, the main Paradox is Heath encountering a Pokemon matching the description of Scarlet/Violet's Paradox Donphan before the Time Machine was ever built. Another key detail to keep in mind is Scarlet/Violet Paradoxes being seemingly inspired by tabloid sources in the Violet/Scarlet universe, which is relevant to bring up due to Briar having a design that utilizes both versions' color schemes. But until we get DLC2 to divulge the true nature of Terapagos, the Tera Crystals and the Paradox Pokemon, we can only speculate.
It could be a stable timeloop wherein the professor deduced that because they're working towards time travel, for the sake of timeline stability they must send a Paradox Donphan back in time to Heath's era to ensure he would encounter it and thus later write the Scarlet/Violet Book that later goes on to inspire the professor to bring the past/future to the present.
But it could also simply be a matter of desire-granting wonders from Terapagos and/or the heavy condensation of Tera Crystals that was based on Heath's desire to make breakthrough discoveries, whereas everyone else afterwards only went into Area Zero with the intent to prove Heath's claims were bullshit which is why the only thing they came back with nothing except for the beginnings of understanding the Terastal phenomenon and how it can change Pokemon types.
The game says Ogerpon is evil. To say she isnt would be a large change to the existing information.
You sound like the schizos that said N was a Zoroark.
>he still denies it
KEK BW REMAKE WILL BTFO YOU ONCE AGAIN
Other way around, the game says that the legend was wrong, to say that Ogerpon was evil all along is a change to existing information.
Where in the marketing does it say that the legend about Ogerpon is wrong?
When did the marketing say it was time travel before the release of the game?
They're twists anon. They have a paper trail a mile long saying that something is wrong before the time travel and good ogre reveal.
But there's nothing like that for time travel. Everything is solid.
Not to mention it would also be out of place for this one specific thing to be wrong and not everything else
I actually decided to go out of my way to fact check this schizo cause they repeat this same rhetoric every thread.
https://scarletviolet.pokemon.com/en-us/news/
Nowhere on the website does it claim Ogrepon is evil
Nowhere in the trailers do they claim Ogrepon is evil
I will actually say kudos to you that it took this long for someone to give a shit to see if the shit you were peddling was true or not, and turns out, you're just a weaselly little liar.
Go watch the entire direct morono kun
I watched both. It's mentions the folktale once, and asks "what mystery lies behind it" and that's it. Nowhere else is it mentioned that Ogrepon is evil. You cling to one word and have done nothing but exaggerate to pretend like anything you said was legitimate.
MEGA moron BLINDBRO SPOTTED PLEASE KNEEL TO ME MEGA moron AHAHAHHAHA
I don't think you understand what marketing is.
>D-D-D-D-DOESNT COUNT AIEE PABLO HELP MEE I CANT READ ENGLISH AIEEE
L M A O
Illiteracy and stupidity go hand in hand.
The direct announcing the game isn't marketing.
No shit, dumbass.
How is this marketing any different from what the game itself initially tells you about Kitakami folklore?
Prepare for this debate to end when their dex entries are leaked 2 weeks before release.
I mean, there shouldn't have been a debate in the first place, the beasts were just a final nail in the coffin.
Eh, not really.
They actively avoided giving them dex entries for a reason.
If it's like the information from other paradox entries and the website it'll probably just be along the lines of :
Scarlet - This pokemon resembles a sketch made in the scarlet book
Violet - This creature resembles a pokemon from paranormal magazines
The other paradoxes are written like that to create ambiguity, these ones will directly reference what is actually going on.
Nah, none of the dex entries will say anything about the true nature of Paradox Pokemon as a desperate measure to make sure even dataminers need to check out the story they so desperately want you to follow in order to get the answer.
They showed Ogerpon's face on the Home render even though that was supposed to be a big reveal.
They will 100% reveal the truth in the new paradoxes' dex entries.
That's different, though. A render is meant to properly depict the Pokemon compared to strings of text that can say whatever the hell they want, and they sure as frick aren't going to spoil the truth behind Paradox Pokemon when it's been a big year-long mystery they've kept us guessing over with no real answer until the story is ready to tell us.
>and they sure as frick aren't going to spoil the truth behind Paradox Pokemon when it's been a big year-long mystery
The truth about the paradox pokemon has been and gone, just because people don't want to accept it doesn't mean that there's anything to say about it.
There's a reason why imagination is the only theory that's predominantly about the paradox and not Terapagos.
Cool, why are they hiding the new paradoxes dex entries?
They didn't hide that the galarian birds were related to the kanto birds back in swsh so why know?
The point is Terapagos and the Paradox Pokemon are feeling like Ohmori's narrative magnum opus with how desperately GameFreak is trying to keep the mystery alive until DLC2 can drop all of the truth bombs even with all of the other media (TCG, Anime, etc.) utilizing SV concepts.
Ogerpon doesn't get that same luxury because it's a simple draw for a simple DLC which is actually more focused on setting up Kieran and Briar as characters in DLC2.
>with how desperately GameFreak is trying to keep the mystery alive until DLC2
That's why just about everything now is focused on Terapagos and not the paradoxes. The only thing currently focusing on them is the newest TCG set which always works on a lag.
The anime didn't even bother doing a rehash of the main plot like they usually do and just jumped straight into Terapagos months before the release date for the actual dlc.
>There's a reason why imagination is the only theory that's predominantly about the paradox and not Terapagos.
Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
Every theory hinges on that Pokémon
>Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
Not really. Comes up occasionally but never as a serious point of discussion while they focus predominantly on the paradox pokemon being fake and Heath lying despite the game saying otherwise.
You’re absolute liar
Every theory hinges on the Pokémon because of Tera crystals
This is just you confirming you shitpost about theories you don’t like
You're just lying
NTA, but the imagination theory is that terapagos grants wishes. The turtle is the main focus of that theory and what everything revolves around. I don't think I've ever seen someone bring up the theory and not mention it
Oh I know, that's why I'm saying it never comes up as a serious point of discussion.
They just say it brings thoughts to reality and leave it at that.
Any time you try and go deeper into it they shy away from discussion and fall back on their usual shitposting about Heath lying and the paradoxes being imagined by the professor or how the time machine is a 3d pokemon printer or some kind of imagination permanence machine.
Actual discussion about Terapagos in relation to imagination is rare. The most we've had recently is the dream catcher thing and that begins and ends at a physical resemblance and nothing more.
Why do you continue to put yourself as a liar?
>people discuss Terapagos and it's wishing powers in a thread
>Timetravelgay comes into the thread to bait people
>The discussion has been derailed into talking about the fake time travel story
There was actually a great thread yesterday about the nature of the paradise and how it relates to the dream world feature in BW.
I remember you absolutely seething in that thread when nobody took your bait.
>They don't talk about terapagos they just talk about it's power and how it brings heath or the professor's imagination to reality
I mean this in the nicest way possible, what you just said made no sense. You're contradicting yourself. What are you talking about?
>what you just said made no sense
It makes perfect sense, you're reading it incorrect. I never said
>They don't talk about terapagos they just talk about it's power and how it brings heath or the professor's imagination to reality
I said
>they're not talking about Terapagos or how it functions, they're just saying it is how they say it is with out any elaboration.
It's how you get 500 different variations on the idea while every other theory sticks to one thing based on actual evidence.
Honestly, I expected more from someone who's at least trying to hold himself more highly than the rest of them.
>they're just saying it is how they say it is
So they are talking about it then. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's kind of obvious you're just shitposting at this point. You had me going for a while, so here's a final you.
I hope you understand now that when people say there's a time schizo, they aren't making stuff up, even when you try to talk rationally to him he just kinda twists whatever you're saying into something else entirely.
There's a time schizo, an imagination schizo, and probably another schizo I don't know about as well. Why does theory crafting always bring in schizos who ruin everything?
>So they are talking about it then. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, but it's kind of obvious you're just shitposting at this point
The irony is that you're now the perfect example of my point. Because you lack the evidence for your stance, while mine continues to pile up as they post, you're refusing to discuss the matter at hand much like they refuse to discuss Terapagos in any detail beyond
>I said it is so I'm right
But I'm not surprised in the slightest. This is /vp/ after all.
>I remember you absolutely seething in that thread when nobody took your bait.
It was really funny.
The thread was going great until one person replied to him and he brought in his sock puppets.
The answer is to just ignore completely.
>Imagination does talk about Terapagos though
If they did they'd be able to decide on if it's passive or active.
why would it be active, no one in the story is aware there's a wish granter
Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
But if its active they have to be aware of it which they aren't.
It's a major hole in the theory and it's avoided like the plague.
>Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
Source? The only person we know that's harnessed Tera energy to do this is the professor, and they succeeded. They were also a fan of Occulture and there are three missing issues we don't see in the game that correlate to the three new Paradox mons the DLC is bringing. Every other instance of tera energy we've seen has been directly related to other cases like Pokemon willing themselves into other types or powering AI-copy assistants.
>But if its active they have to be aware of it which they aren't.
We also know the professor to be directly aware of Terapagos since it was mentioned in the lab notes.
>It's a major hole in the theory and it's avoided like the plague.
Do we see Terapagos play an active role yet? What about Dokutaro? Right, we don't. You seem more upset people aren't making baseless assumptions to prove their "theory" right like timetravel copers have to in addition to ignoring everything in the game.
>Because if it's passive then it's definitely not imagination since everything would be brought to life not just one person's dreams and desires.
Why would it work like that? You just applied your own reasoning to it to debunk imagination when we've seen that the wishes are only granted to people with extremely strong and extremely selfish desires like Kieran and the professor, who are parallels in how their obsession with (a) Pokemon warped their entire personas, with the professor becoming insane and willing to doom Paldea so they could get their paradise, and Kieran going from a meek boy to a school shooter.
The exact mechanics of who's selected to get their wish granted are a mystery, but the the people in the story who have gotten their wish granted are more alike than they are different, meaning there are more rules than "lmao it just passively grants everyones wish"
>It's a major hole in the theory
No it's not, you're just interpreting it in bad faith because imagination bad.
>Why would it work like that?
Anon, a passive trait means it's always active and there's no control over it.
An active trait means it can be turned on and off and controlled.
Think about it for five minutes and you'll understand.
>when we've seen that the wishes are only granted to people with extremely strong and extremely selfish desires like Kieran
I know examples are hard to come by but Kieran?
You picked the one guy in the story that had all of his wishes literally shattered right in front of him?
Sada and Turo spent years inside of Area Zero and they were constantly thinking about their project while inside.
Terapagos isn't just randomely deciding who gets their wish granted.
>If they did they'd be able to decide on if it's passive or active.
And we'll never know until it's revealed. The fact is that the game leaves more implication that it's not time travel and morons who either didn't play the game or have ORAS Youtuber-tier reading comprehension think it can't be anything but time travel when all internal facets point to it being Atlantis.
It's not even worth replying to the shitposter that gets upset everytime someone doesn't believe their narrative. The way he composes his posts is the exact same as that moron that insists ORAS has some major contradiction with XY's mega lore before spouting off about how some games are either "in the mega universe" or not when that claim doesn't even make any sense.
>Scarlet: This Pokemon bears a striking resemblance to a creature known as Walking Wake/Raging Bolt, which was initially described in a certain book.
>Violet: It resembles a creature depicted in a blurry photograph featured on a paranormal magazine.
Wow, amazing, this ends all of the debates!
If the turtle can will things into reality, could it maybe will entire new areas? I always figured Area Zero would have been a thing just wished upon to exist
Timetravelfrens, it’s over
We already know that it’s wishes due to DLC 1
Operation cause a sperg to meltdown was a success
Returning to base
>The direct announcing the game isn't marketing.
The website isn't part of marketing either.
>check thread
>imagination homosexual shows up
>YEAH WELL HOW DOES TIME TRAVEL EXPLAIN [irrelevant detail]
every thread this guy pulls this
>check thread
>timeschizo shows up
>YEAH WELL UMM... I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW IT'S TIME TRAVEL WITH ALL THE OTHER STUFF TERA CRYSTALS HAVE BEEN SHOWN TO DO SO I'LL JUST SAY IT'S IRRELEVANT!
every. thread.
Am I late on noticing them spoiling 19th tera in the center of Mesagoza?
So people typically approach the subject as
>terapogos -> tera crystals
But has anyone taken a moment to think that maybe
>tera crystals -> terapogos
>yfw no one found the paradox pokemon because they turn into tera crystals when they die
>yfw that pile of crystals is the professors decomposing body
No, because Khu confirmed Terapagos created tera crystals in passing, when he posted his "which is the odd gimmick out?" graphic with megas, z-moves, dynamax and terastralisation. I can't remember what his answer was, but someone replied something in the vein of "Megas, as the others were created by a pokémon tied to their lore" and he said "this also explains it".
Terapagos is the source of Tera crystals, just as Necrozma was the source of Z-Crystals and Eteratus the source of Dynamax energy.
[citation needed]
Do you know how to read?
there’s a possibility tera crystals are just like corruption that slowly spreads and when it gets concentrated enough it spawns a baby terapagos
God i can't wait for the game to actually drop and disprove all of you autists (Khu included) theories
>dlc comes out
>paradox forms are just ultra beasts
I really hope it's something like that or the dlc doesn't reveal anything new regarding terapagos
DLC2 will release and it's going to be a 30 minute video from the perspective of a camera in a toilet bowl focused on Ohmori's butthole while he takes a fat shit and explains how he doesn't give a frick about anything with Terapagos or the Paradox Pokemon and only wanted to focus on writing about his familial trauma via Arven and Kieran.
I hate the paradox mon’s names
I get that they’re like that because they probably aren’t real/naturally occurring Pokémon, but shit like “great tusk” and “iron sharticus” is fricking gay
I always thought of the names as cryptid names like big foot, since they appear in those dubious magazines. It makes its a bit better to me. Although if we get a regular Pokémon named something like moving glacier or gold dickus next gen I'm going to be mad
They had weird code names for UBs as well, I'm a little disappointed we got these as official names.
I don't mind because i mean, they're supposed to be the pokemon but from a different era.
>fossil pokemon: aerodactyl cradily kabutops omastar aurorus
>paradox pokemon: brute bonnet, scream tail, flutter mane, sandy shocks
>fossil pokemon: unique species
>paradox pokemon: same species at a different evolutionary stage
Are you also mad that homosexual heidelbergensis aren't called humans?
>occulture a dubious magazine that named the paradox pokemon first is the equivalent of scientists that use a taxonomic naming system to get homosexual erectus, homosexual habilis, australopithecus afarensis, etc
>categorized into the single word “hominids” anyways
sandy shocks and scream tail seems more like big foot, loch ness, and moth man to me
>occulture a dubious magazine that named the paradox pokemon first
Why even lie about something like that when even Occulture says the names comes from the Books.
>Flutter Mane—a name taken from a strange creature with a matching description appearing in the Scarlet Book
There’s nothing stopping them from having real names
They’re like this because they’re not real
>There’s nothing stopping them from having real names
I don't think I need to explain to you why calling a ancient jigglypuff jigglypuff would cause some confusion when referring to jigglypuff or jigglypuff.
I’m not saying call them jigglypuff
I’m saying they should give them an actual fricking name
Or they could've made them forms like Bloodmon Ursaluna.
There's no reason to create such a separation if they're just normal pokemon.
>Or they could've made them forms like Bloodmon Ursaluna
Thing is, they aren't exactly forms either. It's a jigglypuff before before it evolved into the modern one.
And because of story reasons and character limits you can't exactly call it ancient jigglypuff.
You did not address the point at all
>bump limit
I'm going to miss the autistic arguing
I mean, at this rate our resident imaginationgay will still continue to shitpost.
Maybe for right now, but the thread will eventually slow down and both the imaginaitongays and timetravelgays will leave. Maybe they'll migrate to another thread though, there is one on the catalog already
The thing is, how did the professor know which time period to search for these past/future Pokémon
How come they don’t have actual names, how come there’s no completely original designs and instead they’re all based on existing ones, how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Part of me is mad that it isn’t time travel, because we could’ve gotten shit like an old Salamence without wings since it never evolved to have them and fly, an amoongus that mimics something that’s not a poke ball, etc
>how did the professor know which time period to search
The story tells you the answer to this. They didn't know, but eventually found them. We don't know exactly how they searched for them, or what type of algorithms the machine used to search. If the paradox they chose for this story is a predestination paradox, the professor would have found them regardless of what time they set the machine to because they were already destined to find them. A lot of these questions really just come down to how Gamefreak decided what the solution is.
>how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Ironically, gamefreak is not that creative for a company that needs to create different marketable monsters every few years
Nah, I think it’s deliberate that they’re based on Pokémon since if it’s about wishes or imagination, the Pokémon that are dreamed up or whatever would likely be based on existing things as a frame of reference I think. Granted the majority of the designs are fricking gay because of this.
They’re not really lacking in creativity, I’d say.
>Nah, I think it’s deliberate that they’re based on Pokémon since if it’s about wishes or imagination
It makes way less sense to have uniform design traits under wishes and imagination. Even if you want to go with the Heath lied situation Heath would be incapable of envisioning the Violet designs in general being outside of their idea of technology.
If they were more steam punk designs then you would have a point.
they were designed by the professor which perfectly explains their uniformity
No. The sketches and pictures of the Donphan appear in the book and Occulture refers to the pages describing the other paradoxes.
Unless you're trying to say that they went back 200 years ago, gave Heath the ideas, somehow survived until the modern day and then died.
The photos were faked, there was noting in the crater. The professor is who actually designed the paradox pokemon, this explains why there are a number of difference between the photos and real donphans, and why the beast amalgam got split into 2 (presumably 3) different pokemon
>The photos were faked
Maybe if you could imagine some braincells you would understand that being real or fake doesn't matter.
Whether or not they're real in your scenario doesn't matter because Heath would have had to have designed them to put into the book.
Now the problem is, how did they think of technology that wouldn't exist for another 100 or so years?
Heath only mentions metallic pokemon, the LED lights were added by Turo.
>the LED lights were added by Turo.
Iron Treads has its LEDs yes in the photo.
There's nothing about iron treads' sketch that is inconceivable for someone 200 years ago to dream up, it looks like something related to Aggron or something along those lines, pic related looks like any old steel type Pokemon. It's only when it gets dreamed up by Turo that the details not present or easily readable in the photo (so the legs and eyes) get filled in with modern things like a screen for the eyes and compartments for the legs to tuck into.
Hi Donphangay, it's been a long time. Here's the gif that scares you away every thread.
W...what the frick does this have to do with anything I said.
Why are you pretending, anon? You originally stated that Iron Treads couldn't turn into a ball like described because the drawing had legs. You stopped stating that after I disproved you that Donphan does in fact curl into a ball while having legs. Why act disingenuous? You are quite literally the only person that has ever made this argument.
You got me anon I am in fact utterly perplexed by what the frick youre talking about
I think that anon spends way too much time in threads like these and is mistaking you for someone else
>those legs
The dlc better explain why the drawings are inaccurate.
By lacking in creativity I meant more like why are most future pokemon just metal versions of already existing mons. I like iron bundle and iron valiant because they do something different, but they should have made the others more unique. Same goes for the past paradoxes. Paradox misdreavus is just regular misdreavus but with a hair extension. Give me gundum hydreigon or something. If it isn't time travel I'll be slightly upset that a cool fakemon turned real concept was used to make regional forms. Although if it is time travel I'll also be slightly upset pokemon turn into robots in the future. I guess I just can't win
I thought you meant lacking creativity went it came to regular new Pokémon, not the paradoxes
To add to this, the only paradox Pokémon I like are the box legendaries
The johto beasts and funny swords are okay, but the rest can frick off
>how did the professor know which time period to search for these past/future Pokémon
Carbon dating and fossil records.
But in all seriousness they didn't, they literally just meticulously searched.
>How come they don’t have actual names
Lore wise, because they haven't been studied long enough for someone to give them one. Koraidon and Miraidon have which is why they aren't called winged king and iron serpent.
As a game, to separate it from the original without giving away the plot.
>how come there’s no completely original designs
Because real world evolution was always hinted at but never explored.
>how come all the past ones are dinosaur themes while every future Pokémon is just a dumbass robot?
Because there are only two dinosaurs and two dino halves and the future is inherently unknowable so tropes.
>because we could’ve gotten shit like an old Salamence without wings since it never evolved to have them and fly, an amoongus that mimics something that’s not a poke ball, etc
Kind of boring if you ask me. With crescent moon now bagon has a flight coded into it's DNA as a recessive trait instead of just randomly believing it can fly and growing wings and Bonnet shows that the normal pokeball design predates the pokeball.
or that Sada unknowingly influenced their evolution by hucking so many balls into the past that it adapted the pattern.
I think the concept of an unflying salamence is way cooler than “mega salamence with feathers”
Paradox Pokémon fricking suck
It's really not. It'd just be a big bagon at that point and there are already enough NFE past paradoxes.
That’s cause the paradoxmons are fricking gay
I’m not talking about giving bacon thrills or any of that shit
The thing is, I still state these are just modified (by Tera Energy) quote unquote clones. I don’t think it’s Atlantis, or Time Travel, or I agitation.
Its probably just a machine via the Tera Crystals ‘recording’ Pokémon into it, like say the Professors consciousness which allowed the AI to be created, these ‘images’ are then used as a blueprint for Pokémon to be created from, but because it can’t make an exact copy (explaining why the AI Professor is actually dressed as a Cavewoman or in some future onesie, since we have no clue if this was garb ever actually worn by the real Professor) they make altered, perhaps ‘corrections’ is the best term I can think to use, to make these Pokémon the ideal form Terapagos wants.
Two problems, if the recordings are inherently broken then the AI wouldn't work on account of the data for the professor being too corrupted for the AI to use.
Second, the body is mechanical, it seems like you deem to believe that they're made out of crystals.
No, see they aren’t broken, the recordings are only altered when attempting to be made real again, replicated into reality.
The fact is the mechanical body can still work, considering the fact that the creation of the future paradoxes makes making cyborg/cybernetic, or artificial organisms, is entirely possible.
This just doesn’t work, considering everything else was real. Why would the Paradoxes alone be fake?
So more like, it takes more energy to manifest a copied pokemon from a crystal than it does to read from a crystal essentially?
It would also explain more cost for the ‘Raidon’s, they essentially take more energy than the crystals in Area Zero naturally can provide, unless supplemented by more Tera Energy taken in from presumably outside via Tera Dens, or some such. Regular Paradoxes are easier to read by Terapagos, because they’re made to take in energy, instead of produce it like the ‘Raidon’s are.