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1. cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 10:52:41 JST cool_boy_mew
   What happened to Weepinbell tho', did it evolve into that plant thing? I imagine so?
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 10:55:29 JST cool_boy_mew

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     looks like it's not actually everyone
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 10:56:25 JST cool_boy_mew

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     graduated? I really don't remember what happened to these
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:04:54 JST 寮

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     In one of the very old episodes still part of the original (aka, before Advanced Generation) series, he got coerced into trading his Utsubotto for that Koikingu scammer's Utsudon, then Utsudon evolved into Utsubotto mid-battle, and when Team Rocket got defeated, the new Utsubotto was left behind and found the old Utsubotto, and the 2 fell in love with one other.
     
     That's why it's not there.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:07:48 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @ryo thanks! It's been a looooong while
     
     Talking about the Koikingu scammer, I remember the boat episode (it was 2 part?) being really, really good
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:19:57 JST 寮

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     Yes, and the 2 met each other in multiple episodes after that, the scammer tried to sell Kojiro another Koikingu again, and every time he figured out it's the same guy, he would quickly packed up and ran away.
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   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:21:13 JST 寮

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     First he = Kojiro, second he = Koikingu scammer.
     Just for clarification.
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 11:21:23 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @ryo man, it's been 20+ years :cry:
     
     I was like 10-12 years old at the time. I loved Pokémon so much
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 16:20:23 JST Terminal Autism

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     Really want to rewatch the original again. It seems like it's impossible to get a torrent with it in Japanese and subbed (harder than in the past), though, so, I'll have to go back to Japanese if I ever want to watch it not dubbed. I have the raws, though. Maybe I should look for subs more.
     
     By the way, they did this in the dubs:
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=AAaX7eALAEo
     
     I don't know why, but it is amusing.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Mar-2023 22:00:37 JST 寮

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     • Terminal Autism
     Not sure if it's going to work for you, but the official Pokemon channel has some of the original episodes available in full, though without subtitles because they're behind a geoblock.
     But if you have the proxy option enabled in this particular Invidious instance, it might possibly work, or otherwise just download them using yt-dlp.
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=JZqKx8msJQc
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=sENjLoozgvg
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=xjbCRyJ1QVw
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=Z7dseMVlNz0
     https://youtube.owacon.moe/watch?v=4OYE7EBJtbE
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 15:51:16 JST Terminal Autism

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     I actually have all the original seasons, just no subs.
   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 16:04:25 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     • Terminal Autism
     @terminalautism @ryo
     Part of why the Pokemon sub situation is shitty is because of the fact that the people behind many subs including #PocketMonsters on IRC were spastic schizo autists. I'm not kidding the Pokemon fandom and community attracts literal human garbage like that. They made it as hard as possible to get subs. It got to the point at least one rival group was a response to them.
     
     That and there's hundreds of episodes and not too much interest in subbing it since the anime is repetitive as shit.
     
     Also does GS not do multiple user replies?
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:31:46 JST 寮

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     Thankfully I don't have to rely on subtitles since the source is already in my native language anyway, so I don't even know how the subbing community is like.
     But I do agree that episodes are generally repetitive, but then again they're taking the entire game's story (which can easily be beaten in just 1 day of autistic playing) with their own twist, and span it out over 3 or 4 years (2 years for gen 1, but this is simply because the anime came out 2 years after the release of Red and Green, and Pocket Monsters 2 was already in the pipeline, which also explains why they teased a gen 2 Pokemon in the very first episode).
     So of course you'll end up with 20 or so filler episodes inbetween episodes that actually matter (and the record goes to Diamond & Pearl where it took them an entire year between the 7th and 8th gyms).
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 00:35:33 JST 寮

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     As for GNU Social (I wasn't sure whether you meant that or Pokemon Gold and Silver), no multi user replying, at least not aware of it being a thing.
     Because no button for that exists in the default UI, but I can still see "🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 in reply to 寮, Terminal Autism" showing up, so I do suspect that the functionality for multi user replying does exist.
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   • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸 (phenomx6@fedi.pawlicker.com)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 01:45:09 JST 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸

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     @ryo yeah it's strange if I reply to you it only lets me reply to you and it only shows you replying to one person
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 01:54:46 JST 寮

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     • 🌲Number 1 Pleroma Criminal on XBL 🇵🇱|🇺🇸
     It doesn't matter anyway, because on GNU Social everything posted by at least 1 user of this instance appears in the public page sorted by the latest reply datetime regardless of whether you're engaged in it or not anyway.
     
     I never even look at the "reply" or "messages" pages, because I already explained the replies part, and for messages you're better off contacting me on XMPP or IRC.
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   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:18:35 JST Terminal Autism

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     Still, it's bizarre, because the first seasons were the most popular. Even if it's repetitive, you'd expect the beginning to be subbed first, because it's the beginning. And you would expect more people to be interested in it, because it's the beginning. And it's not repetitive yet, because it's the beginning, when the show was at its freshest, when every original idea that they could have had was still unused, and when it could get away with doing more because it wasn't this massive, established, tightly-controlled franchise (that has become unbelievably conservative, in a bad way).
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   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:35:35 JST Terminal Autism

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     Well, they're repetitive now, but back in the very beginning, not really. Personally, I only really got sick of it once it got to gen 3, but by then, the original writer was gone. Of course, I like repetition more than most, I played the games a ridiculous amount of times and rewatched the anime every chance I got, back in the day. Still, in the beginning, it was a fresh new thing, it wasn't formulaic and overdone yet, they still had original ideas (and could get away with doing them because the franchise wasn't as tightly controlled and conservative in the bad sense) and a lot of old episodes are very memorable. It was still this mysterious new world, not a time loop with no lasting character development, that lasts until it's not profitable enough to keep it going.
     
     I think someone could maybe argue with the gen 2 portion already being kinda repetitive (I haven't seen it in a long time, and I don't remember as much of it), though even then, the ending of that was satisfying and if it ended there, it would have been a very good show overall. And even if it was repetitive, it was their first time being repetitive, and to me at least, it was still exciting, because it was their first time doing a new region, with new pokemon, and it was an actual continuation of the story, while following seasons feel a lot more detached, like rebooting a story that was already basically over, with the Satoshi and Shigeru rivalry, that was set up in the very first episode, being concluded. There wasn't much left to do. Of course, Satoshi in particular still hadn't achieved his goal, so maybe there could have been one more season, but from there, the writers changed, and no progress was made, for so long that I can't imagine many people not dropping the show at some point or another.
     
     Anyway, I still ended up watching most of the gen 3 anime. Pretty weak. And from there, I only watched parts of it, that happened to be the cool parts of the gen 4 anime, and that was it. Also, I watched the movies up to gen 4 as well, because they were self-contained, so why not?
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 10:56:11 JST 寮

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     Pokemon anime was always tightly controlled and repetitive.
     The only reason why gen 1 wasn't repetitive was because as I already said, anime got launched already half way into the generation cycle of the games, and gen 2 was already in the pipeline.
     
     Though my theory was that they expected gen 2 games to come out much sooner back then, but it kept getting plagued with delays, which is why they added in this whole Orange Island part, because just adding fillers before the league wasn't going to work anymore, but it's just a theory.
   • T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer) (theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:15:42 JST T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll: (epic music enjoyer)

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     @terminalautism @PhenomX6
     pokemon black & white was peak pokemon imo
   • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket: (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Friday, 24-Mar-2023 12:32:17 JST 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:

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     @terminalautism @PhenomX6 Pokemon's early seasons are infamously bad though, since barely anyone involved with it knew jack shit about pokemon and tonnes of shit from early pokemon (not just the anime, but the games too) got retconned.
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 09:57:48 JST Terminal Autism

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     • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:
     I am not aware of that infamy because it's probably just some faggot on the internet that I'm not aware of because I almost only give my attention to cool people.
   • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket: (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 09:59:45 JST 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:

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     @terminalautism I don't think anyone who seriously watches the pokemon anime can ever be described as cool
   • Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 11:06:37 JST Terminal Autism

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     • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:
     That's just because you don't understand the mechanics of what makes something cool like I do. I'm the authority on cool. In fact, anyone that I haven't at least heavily implied to be cool is probably not, and is also statistically likely to be a faggot. Don't blame me, I don't make the rules. Actually, I do, so, don't bother calling the manager, I'm the manager, of the Kool Kidz Klub.
     
     Can't post images anymore, but it's fine, the image was so cool it would have been too overwhelming.
   • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket: (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 11:16:31 JST 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:

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     @terminalautism ok
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 16:08:44 JST 寮

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     Anyone who DICKtates who's considered cool or not cool based off hobbies is by definition not cool.
   • 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket: (galena@paws.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 16:58:07 JST 😼 Space Catboy :redrocket:

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     @ryo I never said I was cool. As an adult who likes pokemon, I think it's impossible for me to be cool.
   • 寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Sunday, 26-Mar-2023 17:35:53 JST 寮

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     What's wrong about an adult liking Pokemon?
     Might have been weird 2 decades ago, but at least here in Japan for many adults today Pokemon is still as much of a nostalgia as things like Superman or Batman are to American adults (at least, before they went woke).