my-insanity-is-an-artform:

actualaster:

bisexualbaker:

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jumpingjacktrash:

captainsnoop:

i was playing pokemon blue on stream earlier at 350% speed and i got to thinking

what if the reason nobody in the pokemon world has any good teams is because its considered a dick move to have a proper team comp

like culturally everyone is like “haha pick the pokemon you want! if you’re happy with three geodudes, thats you and your life!” and then you’re supposed to just have a friendly battle with any other pokemon trainers and whatever pokemon they just happen to have

like the average trainer is probably just walking around with a growlithe because that’s their pet, or a hiker has three geodudes because the geodudes help him with hiking. and if this pet owner and geodude hiker meet, you’re supposed to have a friendly battle but nothing too serious

now imagine the 10 year old kid that has six pokeballs on their belt comes up. you’re like “haha, we’ll have a friendly battle!” and you throw out your geodude 

and they throw out a fucking gyarados, and it one-shots your geodude 

and then you throw out your pidgey you have because the pidgey helps you navigate mountains because you’re a hiker

and then electricity crackles around the gyarados and a thunderbolt flies off of this giant dragon and evaporates your pidgey 

so you’re down to your last pokemon. you tell them you’re gonna send out your bulbasaur. the ten year old is like “oh okay in that case i’m gonna pull out my vulpix.” like not only is this kid walking around with an amped-up super dragon, but theyve also got multiple pokemon specifically for making type advantage counter-picks?

this kid’s a fucking asshole! really, kid? what are you trying to prove here? this is a friendly match between strangers for fun! why are you composing real-ass competitive teams? what a fucker! 

i mean if you look at how npc’s talk about their pokemon, they’re service animals mostly. some of them are just pets. apparently they really enjoy sparring, so you let them battle other people’s pokemon for socialization, it’s like going to the dog park.

hell yes i’d be mad if i took my chronic pain support chow-chow to the dog park and some asshole with four rottweilers and a husky was like SIC EM THUNDERNUTS even if my dog enjoyed the tussle at first.

look, kid, the paras helps me weed the garden. it’s not a special forces attack paras. it’s just a bug that eats dandelions. please calm down.

This is precisely why Cooltrainers are exiled to the mountains

Listen, I was happily going on my journey until you locked eyes with me and insisted we have a battle. I had no way out of it after that other than to win or lose, and I hate losing. Not to mention winner takes half the loser’s money. I don’t want to leave you destitute or anything, but I also need my own money for supplies and stuff? And, again, you’re the one who demanded we fight. I’d have been perfectly happy training up against wild Pokémon and getting money selling items one of my partners found with Pickup, but here we are.

You don’t get to force my pets to fight your pets without even giving me a chance to warn you mine are competition trained because I’m currently actively doing the gym/league/challenge/whatever the regional thing is circuit and then get to act like the victim when my completion team curbstomps your casual team to the center of the planet.

Basically NPCs get what’s coming to them picking a fight without even giving their opponent a chance to say “yo I’m out of your league this isn’t fair to your team”

Hey since nearly every time I get stopped (in Sheild), the npc sometimes comments on how I’m a challenger, I kinda figured they were just challenging you to help with training and also to keep an eye on the bunch of ten-year-olds that think it’s fun to challenge the local legendary to fight.

 What society lets a bunch of ten-year-olds run rampant without at least some form of supervision?

if theyre gonna challenge every person who they see to a battle, then theyre gonna face the consequences.