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Pokemon.... Is There Anything Good About It?
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blammo
in the shadow of the wonder of bread
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Try & get your kid REALLY into Jesus & tell him that Pokemon is an instrument of Satan & will be responsible for his eternal damnation unless he changes his ways. That works for some kids.
The Japanese sure can come up with some weird shit, I must admit. I must also admit that I spell "weird" wrong almost every time I type it. I keep wanting to type "wierd". This has been going on for quite some time now.
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michaelcoyote
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Manatee wrote >>
My kid has become hopelessly obsessed with Pokemon. It is starting to get a little intense. Can anyone tell me if there is anything redeeming about this? Right now it seems like I live in two worlds: my job, and Pokemon. Nothing else exists. Please help.I recommend a stiff drink, but then again I always do...
..whatever you do, don't search google for "Pokemon slash fiction"..
Posted 2 years ago # -
lifeliberty
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Pokemon > Chasing the Dragon
it can't all be bad, I remember playing D&D as a kid.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Motorist
The Trots
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This is one of my favorite things ever and may redeem pokemon for you. (don't know how to embed it)
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Get the Video Player Edit: Magic!
Posted 2 years ago # -
Rockmastermike
CORNspiracy HQ
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michaelcoyote wrote >>
I recommend a stiff drink, but then again I always do...
..whatever you do, don't search google for "Pokemon slash fiction"..or pokeporn
*shudder*
(What has been seen cannot be UNSEEN no matter how hard we wish it could be)
also do not ever google the phrase "So I heard you like Mudkips"
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TheOtherZach
Zackass
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A pox on thee, Rockmastermike! Telling me NOT to Google something is like hyperlinking directly to my brain.
Posted 2 years ago # -
NerosNeptune
Goodale Park
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"Pokemon.... Is There Anything Good About It?"
Uh, everything?
Posted 2 years ago # -
KSquared
Literally Hell
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AmyD wrote >>
tennessee was WAY into about 9 years ago. so now i have some cool t-shirts, but it was harmless. it will go away, only to be replaced by teen angst. consider yourself lucky+ the number of times my daughter has snorted derisively, rolled her eyes and stormed out of the room since she became a teen. Hint: it's a high number.
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Walker
The KLD / Downtown
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honavery wrote >>
I'm amazed at how long this has been able to stay popular.+1 to that. The first video game was released in the US in 1998, over 10 years ago. Not that video game franchises haven't existed longer, but everything about Pokemon seems to spell out "short-lived fad" and the kids today are still into it. Weird.
Anyway, I'd say that the most redeeming thing about it is the fact that the games (both video game and card game) seem to be fairly complex and require quite a bit of critical thinking and analysis to play them. I remember playing the first pokemon gameboy game when I was 18 (yes, I was (and still am) a huge nerd) and being pretty stunned at how deep of an RPG it actually is. Especially considering that many of the most hardcore players were in the 7-to-12-year-old demographic, and these types of games are generally more geared for teens and upward. Sure... the dialogue is cutesy, but the story is fairly engaging and the gameplay elements are very well laid out. Simple to learn, but tough to completely master. Sort of like playing Rock, Paper, Scissors, except with 151 kinds of items, and each one having 5 different types of ways to play them.
But yeah... sorry Mandy... I know you're not too keen on video games, so the last thing you probably want her to do is bury her nose in that whole part of the Pokemon mega-verse. ;)
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honavery
Arizona
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I admit to watching the cartoon some in college....there was a very amusing episode where they gave the Pokemon subtitles. So even though they just say their name over and over again, they were engaging in fairly complicated conversations....
I also remember how during the Gamecubes run, everyone was saying Nintendo was going to drop out of the hardware business because they didn't have enough money....I would just laugh because they were making so much money on Pokemon.
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Manatee
The eternal present
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Well, the weird thing is, it's struck me how much learning the different Pokemon characters seems like learning phylogeny or taxonomy. So, acclimating children to complex systems of relatedness seems OK. It's a lot like any other kind of collecting. I guess I just collected rocks, or plant IDs, or what have you.
I mean, I am just trying to wrap my head around this. She's not a dummling, so there must be something to it.
Although this time around, at least as far as I know, no pogs are involved, remember those? :)
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