Chibi Pika
Stay positive
This thread is NOT what you think it is. I'm not complaining about fics being uncreative. In fact, just the opposite--I want to take this moment and praise every single person in this forum, n00b writer and fic celeb alike. Because the General Pokemon Discussion Forum is driving me completely insane.
Lemme explain: yesterday there was a thread on why smart Pokemon like Alakazam bother listening to dumb trainers. I was too annoyed with the thread to post my own words or opinions, so I just fetched a quote from QFTL, posted, and left.
But I couldn't help but see some people saying "it's just a game." Other people said, "It's fictional, things don't have to make sense." Or even worse, in some threads there are the competitive battlers who say, "Pokemon are just bits of data, nothing else matters." (I most certainly don't mean any offence to competitive battlers, as I know many who write fics or post realistically in the GPD forum.)
Then I made a thread on how Pokeballs work, whether Pokemon are energy-based or not, or whether Pokeballs just have the totally illogical ability to turn all matter into energy. I put one of the poll options as "It's just a game" to gauge the amount of people without any theories. It was in the lead for awhile. I curtly replied saying that "some people like having opinions," before storming off.
"It's just a game." "It's just a game."
Well, NO, it's NOT just a game! That's what we DO! Even those of us who don't strive to bring logic to every ounce of the Pokemon world at least have SOME theories and opinions. Why do so many other people have to just be bland, thoughtless, and opinionless, spouting Pokedex entries like they make sense and criticizing anyone who likes to take a realistic perspective on things? I used to think of Pokemon as being an intelligent game, because Pokemon is so open-eneded and open to interpretation, that everyone had to have their own creative take on the way things work. Ha....haha.
So here's to the Fanfiction community, which utterly pwns the General Pokemon Discussion. That's why I posted it here, because otherwise everyone would form an angry mob and a flamewar would start and I'd get banned for disturbing the peace or something like that. =P
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
~Chibi~;249;;448;
Lemme explain: yesterday there was a thread on why smart Pokemon like Alakazam bother listening to dumb trainers. I was too annoyed with the thread to post my own words or opinions, so I just fetched a quote from QFTL, posted, and left.
But I couldn't help but see some people saying "it's just a game." Other people said, "It's fictional, things don't have to make sense." Or even worse, in some threads there are the competitive battlers who say, "Pokemon are just bits of data, nothing else matters." (I most certainly don't mean any offence to competitive battlers, as I know many who write fics or post realistically in the GPD forum.)
Then I made a thread on how Pokeballs work, whether Pokemon are energy-based or not, or whether Pokeballs just have the totally illogical ability to turn all matter into energy. I put one of the poll options as "It's just a game" to gauge the amount of people without any theories. It was in the lead for awhile. I curtly replied saying that "some people like having opinions," before storming off.
"It's just a game." "It's just a game."
Well, NO, it's NOT just a game! That's what we DO! Even those of us who don't strive to bring logic to every ounce of the Pokemon world at least have SOME theories and opinions. Why do so many other people have to just be bland, thoughtless, and opinionless, spouting Pokedex entries like they make sense and criticizing anyone who likes to take a realistic perspective on things? I used to think of Pokemon as being an intelligent game, because Pokemon is so open-eneded and open to interpretation, that everyone had to have their own creative take on the way things work. Ha....haha.
So here's to the Fanfiction community, which utterly pwns the General Pokemon Discussion. That's why I posted it here, because otherwise everyone would form an angry mob and a flamewar would start and I'd get banned for disturbing the peace or something like that. =P
Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest.
~Chibi~;249;;448;