It's cute and relatable but it's also something that's been done to death and presented better in other media. It's not that it's bad but it's embarrassing to call it "peak".
Well no, but like you said it's relatable. Not every story beat needs to be epic.
But what about the whole deal with A.I. Turo/Sada actually being the good guy and the dead prof being a deranged fricker?
It's typically the other way around, where the og prof was a kindly person with a dream who let his A.I. clone take over after his death, only for the A.I. to completely misinterpret the og's dream with cold calculated logic, making it a threat.
Instead, the A.I. is trying to stop the og's psychotic dream with everything it can.
I mean, this isn't the pinnacle of storytelling either, but I liked that it wasn't the classic >A.I. TOO LOGICAL >A.I. TURN BAD!
This whole schitck is fricking stupid and so are the characters and area zero. Wasted opportunity, but I guess that does confirm that androids exist in that universe, and are not just throwaway lines like we've seen in Battle Tower clones mentioned occasionally. Not like GF will do anything with that idea, of course.
Every other storyline, including Elite 4, DLC and especially Team Star are utter garbage. Game would have been a lot better if it just let you frick around and do whatever you wanted organically
I never said it had to be epic or intense. Just that if Pokemon's "peak" is just telling an old and tired if heartwarming story in a worse way than other stories have it's genuinely not that impressive.
The AI twist was fine. I don't hate it but it doesn't feel like it fully hit on an emotional level. Maybe it's because I've actually been playing games that aren't Pokemon for over a decade now and the presentation still feels amateur to me even if the ideas are there.
Sorry, i dont consume massive amounts of media, i just play video games. Im sure you have a long list of shows and movies with the sick dog troupe, but you can put it away.
Incorrect.
Femoid was created as a reaction to the critique of the usage of the term "female" in incel communities instead of less clinical words like "women" or "girls" or such (That this innate objectification of women in language might be part of the reason they were incels is not something I will make comment on)
Regardless, the incel community being the sunny and loving place it is, they doubled down on their use of derogatory language, and the intentionally dehumanising term "femoid" was created.
Unless there is some outer context to which I am unaware, "moid" followed suit as a response by both those who disliked incels, and the roughly incel/redpill equivalent commonly found in places like r/femaledatingstrategy and crystal cafe
Anon, i know. Anything remotely positive is against everything Ganker stands for, but regardless, give it a try. You'll feel a bit less miserable, trust me.
Judging somethog based on how "relatable" it is is bad because its not a mark of how good it is at all. This isnt about being le edgy 4chud. Its a pattern i have seen increase over and over where "relatable" is senselessly tossrd and bumperbstickered on everything seemingly as a substitute for "good", which is weird and narcissistic thinking as it presents a very specific narroe collectionnof things as falling under this umbrella to the the exclusion of other experiences or scenarios.
9/10, what it really translates to is "appeals to lower class, insecure introvert social outcasts ".
Its often used as a shortcut gor having to actually write compelling or tjought out characters because you can bypass all that by making projection fodder that makes someone go "its me fr", so their brain shuts off.
Its a blight on modern writing and modern media analysis in general.
These things arent inherently bad, but the way they are used and judged in analysis is a massive problem.
Why are you malding out as if it's some big professional production you paid money to see? It's a silly little amateur comic some troon shat out in an afternoon and put on their tumblr. They had no way of knowing that OP would go out of his way to find it and get mad enough to post it here. You're supposed to look at it for two seconds, puff air out of your nose, and move on with your wretched sexless life. Calm down ho.
Mabosstif yes, lokix - NO! Bugs are hideous creatures!
Bait responses or not, thank you for proving my point.
This is a world where you have over 1,000 creatures based on many varieties of faunas, floras, objects, etc. With good writing, you could put one of the most unlikely choices in the same position, still have it work, and probably make it even more popular, but nope, gotta appeal to those lowest common denominator sales and bait for easy praises. >Bugs are hideous creatures!
So I guess you weren't sad at all during Bye Bye Butterfree?
bro what are you talking about, have you LOOKED at mabosstif? It's fricking hideous. If they really wanted the lowest common denominator they would've done the bread dog, an eeveelution, or some other cute Pokemon.
>It's fricking hideous.
It's not traditionally cute, but it's far from hideous. It's a big, dopey looking dog with literal puppy dog eyes.
8 months ago
Anonymous
I owned big dogs, mabostiff is really cute for a cartoon Dog
Okay, not hideous but not uwu cute doggo Reddit tier. It’s modeled after a mafioso, its mouth opens WAY too wide, he’s no old yeller you know? So it’s hardly a “lowest common denominator” Pokémon to pick.
Have you never seen a Saint Bernard and how big of oafs they are?
8 months ago
Anonymous
He's not a SB thoughever
>how many women are on this board
I had seen at least 1 drawgayette post her breasts and feet in one of the Raichu belly worship threads already last year, so its not that much of a suprize to me if VeePee really were one of the most popular board among foids...
This, you could of had Arven be sad about a fricking Scyther or Golem or Gyarados in the exact same way, but because you pathetic homosexuals can only cope with life through heckin doggos and cats, they went with the easiest fricking way to pull at heartstrings.
This would arguably make Arven and his story even MORE based, as well as further propel the popularity of cool and varied Pokemon like Lokix and Brambleghast.
Yes, because Arven's story is one of the rare instances in these games of a character's relationship with a pokemon being a core part of their story. Almost every other character's visible relationship with their pokemon pretty much begins and ends with them being nondescript tools of battle, the average pokemon game could have every single one of the little bastards replaced with a fricking inanimate sword wielded by their owner and the plot wouldn't need to change very much to accommodate it, so Arven wanting to heal his friend(who is a pokemon) is a big step forward in a series that wants us to believe pokemon are trusted friends and companions.
>Yes, because Arven's story is one of the rare instances in these games of a character's relationship with a pokemon being a core part of their story
Way to admit you dont play the games.
I kinda was expecting the dog to go fully berserk at the end due to the herbs and you would have no choice but to kill him.
GF is too b***h ass to pull off shit like this.
>considered peak pokemon
By literally whom? I can made up shit too anon.
Also you're autistic as frick if you can't tell that this is obviously supposed to be exaggerated. Arven is a tragic character, but it doesn't just come down "my sick pupperino", it's supposed to be a joke.
He's a lifelong child neglect victim, and the implication is that his Mabosstiff got injured when he tried to find out what happened to his parent after they cut all contact with him. It's a riff on how the player is made believe that he's a bit of an butthole, but isn't actually,
Oh wait, let me guess, you didn't play the fricking game did you?
I don't think "people" find it controversial, they are just emotionally stunted ~20 year olds (possibly younger) who think that not feeling any emotions other than anger makes them more masculine and mature.
It's cute and relatable. Why are you moids such relentlessly bitter buttholes?
/vp/gays have never owned pets because they’re legitimate animal frickers, so this doesn’t surprise me.
FP?
BP
It's cute and relatable but it's also something that's been done to death and presented better in other media. It's not that it's bad but it's embarrassing to call it "peak".
Well no, but like you said it's relatable. Not every story beat needs to be epic.
But what about the whole deal with A.I. Turo/Sada actually being the good guy and the dead prof being a deranged fricker?
It's typically the other way around, where the og prof was a kindly person with a dream who let his A.I. clone take over after his death, only for the A.I. to completely misinterpret the og's dream with cold calculated logic, making it a threat.
Instead, the A.I. is trying to stop the og's psychotic dream with everything it can.
I mean, this isn't the pinnacle of storytelling either, but I liked that it wasn't the classic
>A.I. TOO LOGICAL
>A.I. TURN BAD!
This whole schitck is fricking stupid and so are the characters and area zero. Wasted opportunity, but I guess that does confirm that androids exist in that universe, and are not just throwaway lines like we've seen in Battle Tower clones mentioned occasionally. Not like GF will do anything with that idea, of course.
Every other storyline, including Elite 4, DLC and especially Team Star are utter garbage. Game would have been a lot better if it just let you frick around and do whatever you wanted organically
I never said it had to be epic or intense. Just that if Pokemon's "peak" is just telling an old and tired if heartwarming story in a worse way than other stories have it's genuinely not that impressive.
The AI twist was fine. I don't hate it but it doesn't feel like it fully hit on an emotional level. Maybe it's because I've actually been playing games that aren't Pokemon for over a decade now and the presentation still feels amateur to me even if the ideas are there.
The only person who said it was peak content was OP, who probably did not make the comic.
Fine, it's not amazing writing that deserves praise then you fricking pedant.
Sorry, i dont consume massive amounts of media, i just play video games. Im sure you have a long list of shows and movies with the sick dog troupe, but you can put it away.
Here's another (You).
FPBP
You anime edgy wannabes swear your so cool just cause you frick goats and ither small animals.
Let me help you understand, imagine your dick died and you can't continue to frick helpless animals, what would you do?
Move on and make fun of other dickless on an anonymous CHILDREN SERIES themed forum?
Leave to /vp/ to have tard rage over someone not dick sucking le tragic pupper/kitter drama story.
>imagine your dick died
I refuse to let trannies live in my head rent-free thoughever
>Moid
What the actual frick does this even mean? Sorry I prefer Zoids.
Male equivalent of "femoid", a term coined by incels as a derogatory word referring to women
Thanks for telling me anon.
God.
This is getting moronic.
Yeah it's fricking stupid. I hate culture wars so fricking much, it's all moronic and pointless.
we had the word moid LONG before you moids took it and made it gay like you do everything else
Really? I didn't know that, huh
I'm not a moid btw
No not tr*ns either
Incorrect.
Femoid was created as a reaction to the critique of the usage of the term "female" in incel communities instead of less clinical words like "women" or "girls" or such (That this innate objectification of women in language might be part of the reason they were incels is not something I will make comment on)
Regardless, the incel community being the sunny and loving place it is, they doubled down on their use of derogatory language, and the intentionally dehumanising term "femoid" was created.
Unless there is some outer context to which I am unaware, "moid" followed suit as a response by both those who disliked incels, and the roughly incel/redpill equivalent commonly found in places like r/femaledatingstrategy and crystal cafe
how do you know all this intricate history about incels anon?
takes one to know one
because he's not ESL and can use urbandictionary/knowyourmeme
>muh cute and relatable
Cancer of modern writing.
Anon, i know. Anything remotely positive is against everything Ganker stands for, but regardless, give it a try. You'll feel a bit less miserable, trust me.
Judging somethog based on how "relatable" it is is bad because its not a mark of how good it is at all. This isnt about being le edgy 4chud. Its a pattern i have seen increase over and over where "relatable" is senselessly tossrd and bumperbstickered on everything seemingly as a substitute for "good", which is weird and narcissistic thinking as it presents a very specific narroe collectionnof things as falling under this umbrella to the the exclusion of other experiences or scenarios.
9/10, what it really translates to is "appeals to lower class, insecure introvert social outcasts ".
Its often used as a shortcut gor having to actually write compelling or tjought out characters because you can bypass all that by making projection fodder that makes someone go "its me fr", so their brain shuts off.
Its a blight on modern writing and modern media analysis in general.
These things arent inherently bad, but the way they are used and judged in analysis is a massive problem.
>seeing everything in black and white
Being you sounds tiring
My post literally says it isn't black and white, illiterate-chan.
Go speed read somewhere else.
Why are you malding out as if it's some big professional production you paid money to see? It's a silly little amateur comic some troon shat out in an afternoon and put on their tumblr. They had no way of knowing that OP would go out of his way to find it and get mad enough to post it here. You're supposed to look at it for two seconds, puff air out of your nose, and move on with your wretched sexless life. Calm down ho.
Would you say the same if instead of a Mabosstiff it was a Lokix or a Brambleghast?
no because most people don't own a giant grasshopper or a sentient ball of twigs
Bait responses or not, thank you for proving my point.
This is a world where you have over 1,000 creatures based on many varieties of faunas, floras, objects, etc. With good writing, you could put one of the most unlikely choices in the same position, still have it work, and probably make it even more popular, but nope, gotta appeal to those lowest common denominator sales and bait for easy praises.
>Bugs are hideous creatures!
So I guess you weren't sad at all during Bye Bye Butterfree?
No, I'm glad that thing is gone!
bro what are you talking about, have you LOOKED at mabosstif? It's fricking hideous. If they really wanted the lowest common denominator they would've done the bread dog, an eeveelution, or some other cute Pokemon.
>It's fricking hideous.
It's not traditionally cute, but it's far from hideous. It's a big, dopey looking dog with literal puppy dog eyes.
Okay, not hideous but not uwu cute doggo Reddit tier. It’s modeled after a mafioso, its mouth opens WAY too wide, he’s no old yeller you know? So it’s hardly a “lowest common denominator” Pokémon to pick.
I owned big dogs, mabostiff is really cute for a cartoon Dog
Have you never seen a Saint Bernard and how big of oafs they are?
He's not a SB thoughever
I had seen at least 1 drawgayette post her breasts and feet in one of the Raichu belly worship threads already last year, so its not that much of a suprize to me if VeePee really were one of the most popular board among foids...
>post her breasts and feet
This, you could of had Arven be sad about a fricking Scyther or Golem or Gyarados in the exact same way, but because you pathetic homosexuals can only cope with life through heckin doggos and cats, they went with the easiest fricking way to pull at heartstrings.
Mabosstiff is ugly af, even Golem is cuter dude
Mabosstif yes, lokix - NO! Bugs are hideous creatures!
Yes, moron
Yes.
This would arguably make Arven and his story even MORE based, as well as further propel the popularity of cool and varied Pokemon like Lokix and Brambleghast.
Yes, because Arven's story is one of the rare instances in these games of a character's relationship with a pokemon being a core part of their story. Almost every other character's visible relationship with their pokemon pretty much begins and ends with them being nondescript tools of battle, the average pokemon game could have every single one of the little bastards replaced with a fricking inanimate sword wielded by their owner and the plot wouldn't need to change very much to accommodate it, so Arven wanting to heal his friend(who is a pokemon) is a big step forward in a series that wants us to believe pokemon are trusted friends and companions.
Also one of the very few instances where someone doesn't refer to their Pokémon as "it". Arven always uses "he" for Mabosstiff.
>Yes, because Arven's story is one of the rare instances in these games of a character's relationship with a pokemon being a core part of their story
Way to admit you dont play the games.
Name one other instance that's even on the same level.
He can't because he's a homosexual.
Hugh's sister's Purrloin and AZ's Floette
>Hugh's sister's Purrloin
You're joking right?
Those are side stuff you'll never see.
Based
>"what? caring about pokémon dying?! this is le shit!"
Kys, Galarcück.
replying to a cringe troll post in agreement
op btfo
have a (you)
Femoids? There's no women on this board you moron.
I kinda was expecting the dog to go fully berserk at the end due to the herbs and you would have no choice but to kill him.
GF is too b***h ass to pull off shit like this.
>kill him
Pokémon don't die, they faint.
>inb4 Lavender Town
You know what I mean.
>cute and relatable = good
raise your standards Mr. "I Have Been Using the Internet for a Grand Total of 32 Minutes" ffs
also the artstyle is shit
Frick off back to Crystal Cafe
>Moids
Reddit, twitter or troony term?
>i have no counterargument therefore you must be from reddit, from twitter or a troony
the jokes really write themselves, don't they?
All of the above, then?
Post disregarded, then
what's wrong with using Reddit?
morons think they're cool for typing a different website into the address bar.
nothing as long as you stay there
>femoids
Yes.
crystal cafe
Misandrist term
the saddest part is the cliche story of a dying dog is still the best writing pokemon has had for actual decades.
>considered peak pokemon
By literally whom? I can made up shit too anon.
Also you're autistic as frick if you can't tell that this is obviously supposed to be exaggerated. Arven is a tragic character, but it doesn't just come down "my sick pupperino", it's supposed to be a joke.
He's a lifelong child neglect victim, and the implication is that his Mabosstiff got injured when he tried to find out what happened to his parent after they cut all contact with him. It's a riff on how the player is made believe that he's a bit of an butthole, but isn't actually,
Oh wait, let me guess, you didn't play the fricking game did you?
The homie on top of this post has some serious issues.
ARVEN SEXOOOOOOOOOO UOOOOOOOHHHH ARVEN SEXOOOOO
Soooo true
he turned me gay
Don't worry anon it's not gay if he wears a skirt
UOOOOOOOHHHH
Made for sexo
I would cum if he looked at me like that.
>in 2023
>artist signature says 2022
>never seen this comic before so it wasn't even popular
homie why are you making shit up to make yourself upset?
how many women are on this board
Define "women."
Thinking dogs are cute isn't feminine.
More than you think. No I don't mean trannies.
Do you think this board is the most complacent and corporate slurping for just no reason at all? Of course there's a shitton of women here.
moron
go look in favorite pokemon chart threads and you can tell which are auto-gynophilia homosexuals and which are just girls
It's probably the 4cuck board with the most roasties
>how many women are on this board
It looks like someone pooped on her head because of the unbleached hair
Not the heckin doggerino
Zoomers are very sensitive.
>board dedicated to a franchise about bonding with your pets finds it controversial that a character has bonded with his pet
I don't think "people" find it controversial, they are just emotionally stunted ~20 year olds (possibly younger) who think that not feeling any emotions other than anger makes them more masculine and mature.
it's the segment of this board and true Gankerners who are autistic sociopaths
heckin' doggo board ASPD Black person
why does her mouth turn into a proboscis? i hate calarts
>not making Arven do the Batman slap meme
0/10
This fanbase and franchise is fricked quality wise