1. They were chained, not caged in cages they could escape from
2. Slaves did escape and revolt all the time. Muslims purposefully sterilized all their African slaves to continuously profit off of the trade and prevent them from having any hope or desire to flee.
3. Pokemon Legends Arceus tried to create new lore to explain things because Game Freak had an idea and didn't care about any lore that got in the way of their idea. The "Pokemon were always able to shrink" bullshit is a cynical attempt to justify Game Freak breaking canon.
Eunuchs are fairly cattle-like and tame. Chinese emperors would famously make most of the administrative state out of eunuchs because they literally didn't have the balls to usurp power. Getting your balls lopped off makes you far less likely to actively fight for freedom, and even if you escaped there'd be nothing waiting for you out in the wild. You couldn't even comfort yourself with a spouse since you were turned into a Californian.
The main reason they liked eunuchs in China is that eunuchs can't build dynasties, so in theory they're less likely to want power since they have no children to pass it on to.
In practice, the eunuchs were a major political force in the palace.
Eunuchs were a major political force sometimes. It mainly happened towards the end of dynasties when the bureaucratic state swelled up to massive, unsupportable levels and the juice was no longer worth the squeeze for the newly ball-less men. Castrating men to make them more subservient was practiced in several cultures. Chinese did it, Ottomans did it, Arabs did it. When your body is no longer producing enough testosterone, you behave less aggressively and more agreeably which makes you more useful to tyrants.
It's why we started chemically castrating sex offenders to greatly reduce the risk of them reoffending
>The "Pokemon were always able to shrink" bullshit is a cynical attempt to justify Game Freak breaking canon.
not defending gamefreak but if you people aren't capable of understanding that said statement is the equal of bong early paleontology (a wrong and outdated take by old professors) then you are very moronic. modern statements are correct
There's a difference between real life history and fabricated universes. You can't just come out and change established lore 25 years after the fact because it's convenient.
they didn't change the lore.
the "shrinking" is a statement made in the past, by the first professor that the sinnoh region had, it doesn't mean the he is right NOW. He is supposed to be wrong, because it's one of the first theories about functional pokéballs, he proved to don't know jack shit of them. He is wrong.
>poacher putting pokemon in cages in a universe where tiny portable storage devices for them exist that’s perfectly legal to catch them in
I hate how fricking moronic the ashnime is and how it just pretends pokemon are animals.
Oh no, I'm going to get banned from *checks notes* a containment board for furries, incels, pedophiles, and—based on your poor reading comprehension—high school dropouts... on the basement cellar of the internet? Noooo.
>Game Freak is moronic
True but this has nothing to do with this discussion. According to lore, Pokemon shrink due to severe damage. The real thing you should be asking is why the frick did Plasma never bring this up, because it mean that Pokeballs are even more abusive then theorized since they require the Pokemon to be in weakned/near-death state to even work. >PLA is a bad game?
It's better than SwShit and BDSM
>Why didn't the slaves from Africa just leave?
That's how dumb you sound.
They do sound dumb, but you just outdumbed the dummy.
1. They were chained, not caged in cages they could escape from
2. Slaves did escape and revolt all the time. Muslims purposefully sterilized all their African slaves to continuously profit off of the trade and prevent them from having any hope or desire to flee.
3. Pokemon Legends Arceus tried to create new lore to explain things because Game Freak had an idea and didn't care about any lore that got in the way of their idea. The "Pokemon were always able to shrink" bullshit is a cynical attempt to justify Game Freak breaking canon.
How would the sterilization cause the slaves to lose their instinct of being free? I don’t get it.
Eunuchs are fairly cattle-like and tame. Chinese emperors would famously make most of the administrative state out of eunuchs because they literally didn't have the balls to usurp power. Getting your balls lopped off makes you far less likely to actively fight for freedom, and even if you escaped there'd be nothing waiting for you out in the wild. You couldn't even comfort yourself with a spouse since you were turned into a Californian.
The main reason they liked eunuchs in China is that eunuchs can't build dynasties, so in theory they're less likely to want power since they have no children to pass it on to.
In practice, the eunuchs were a major political force in the palace.
Eunuchs were a major political force sometimes. It mainly happened towards the end of dynasties when the bureaucratic state swelled up to massive, unsupportable levels and the juice was no longer worth the squeeze for the newly ball-less men. Castrating men to make them more subservient was practiced in several cultures. Chinese did it, Ottomans did it, Arabs did it. When your body is no longer producing enough testosterone, you behave less aggressively and more agreeably which makes you more useful to tyrants.
It's why we started chemically castrating sex offenders to greatly reduce the risk of them reoffending
I don’t think this is true
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms practically started because of eunuchs
>The "Pokemon were always able to shrink" bullshit is a cynical attempt to justify Game Freak breaking canon.
not defending gamefreak but if you people aren't capable of understanding that said statement is the equal of bong early paleontology (a wrong and outdated take by old professors) then you are very moronic. modern statements are correct
There's a difference between real life history and fabricated universes. You can't just come out and change established lore 25 years after the fact because it's convenient.
they didn't change the lore.
the "shrinking" is a statement made in the past, by the first professor that the sinnoh region had, it doesn't mean the he is right NOW. He is supposed to be wrong, because it's one of the first theories about functional pokéballs, he proved to don't know jack shit of them. He is wrong.
You'd be right if it wasn't in the very first encyclopedia ever released for pokemon, used in the manga and referenced in later games.
>PLA retroactively changed the zukan published 30 years ago
moron
they weren't in any danger
Pokemon don't shrink in the anime, only the games.
Why is it the only difference between a good Trainer and an evil poacher seems to be using a Poké Ball vs. using a net or cage?
The real question is why are they using cages when a PokeBall is like $3
a pokemon can get out of a ball and escape if it wants to
can't do that in a net
When they shrink they go into hibernation so that wouldn't help them
OH NO NO NO SHRINKBROS HOW COULD WE LET THIS HAPPEN
>poacher putting pokemon in cages in a universe where tiny portable storage devices for them exist that’s perfectly legal to catch them in
I hate how fricking moronic the ashnime is and how it just pretends pokemon are animals.
The fact that people still watch it says a lot about the Ashnime's audience
Confirmed dumbass.
Confimed b&.
Oh no, I'm going to get banned from *checks notes* a containment board for furries, incels, pedophiles, and—based on your poor reading comprehension—high school dropouts... on the basement cellar of the internet? Noooo.
SIR GET THE FRICK OUT OF THE INTERNET IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE RACIST. You are not interesting. Get it know? Captcha: Vav8kw
POKÉMON CAN NOT SHRINKING VOLUNTARILY UNLESS THEY KNOW MINIMIZE. SHRINKING IS A INSTINCTIVE RESPONSE TO DAMAGE. WHY DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THIS.
but they're clearly damaged.
Why is it so hard to accept that Game Freak is moronic and PLA is a bad game?
Shrinking has been canon since gen 1.
Only for Pokemon that know Minimize.
>Game Freak is moronic
True but this has nothing to do with this discussion. According to lore, Pokemon shrink due to severe damage. The real thing you should be asking is why the frick did Plasma never bring this up, because it mean that Pokeballs are even more abusive then theorized since they require the Pokemon to be in weakned/near-death state to even work.
>PLA is a bad game?
It's better than SwShit and BDSM
Go back, Joe
i got banned by the homosexual jannys for making this joke
Crackers can grow after eating enough unseasoned chicken.