How Could You Ever Be Broken?

I relate to this on like 3 different levels and, for the life of me, I cannot come up with an intelligible reason why.

The Rescuers (1977)

I find it really interesting how the Alola and Galar regions’ games have completely deconstructed the traditional gym challenge - and relatedly, the role of pokemon training in society - in completely opposite directions. Taking the basic premise of “ok so people over a certain age can go around earning merit badges from local leaders/celebrities/weird hermits” and then spinning it off first into “this is an ancient coming-of-age ceremony with both practical skill-building and deeply spiritual components” and then immediately swinging back to “they’re professional athletes. the challengers, the gym leaders, everyone. they all have corporate sponsors and their job is to be entertaining”? It’s very good. 

It’s also, I suspect, partly to blame for a lot of people’s problems with the writing in the Gen 7 and 8 games. Like, yes, Gen 7 was fairly railroady and Gen 8 feels a little shallow. Gen 7 is guiding us through an extended ritual ordained by the gods while gently pointing us toward places where that tradition fails to care for people and asking us to question how, or whether, the traditions can survive modernization and contact with dominant global cultures. Gen 8 has a lot of interactions with other major players that are literally kayfabe while raising questions of where the posturing of the public persona stops and the hard work of the person behind it takes over, and also showing us places where that tradition leaves whole communities in the dust. It feels awkward, and in some cases is genuinely poorly executed, because we’re not used to a pokemon narrative that asks us to consider whether the gym challenge itself is a public good.

Fallout 4 character creation is a trip

he’s not very good w/ words..

Hide from vet. Tail is good hiding spot. Vet never find me here. Not gonna get poked today. No sir.

simongerman600

This is art

my mom is so mad shes like “why does your brother post such dumbass memes” jhgfghgfdsdfghj

Villians Beware! Bat-Cow is on the Case