Nope anyone can start a gym. Theres an episode where Ash and Friends go to a “Soon to be open” Gym to help test it out. Gyms may be important to many cities infrastructure but they all have to go through the Pokemon Inspection Agency.

You point out the human-Pokemon relationship is absurd because it seems rather contradictory (i.e. are Pokemon coworkers or food?) but one could argue the relationship between humans and animals in real life is similarly dumb. I mean we eat some animals and keep others as pets and there are some, like police dogs,…

Also apparently in the Pokemon universe the souls of the dead count as Pokemon and people can and do catch them to use in Pokemon battles or contests. That means whenever you’re sending out your Gengar, your essentially forcing somebody’s long dead grandma to fight for you.

That’s why I posted the one from IKEA that is $139. They have another that is $70. If you’re going to spend $50-$75 on a single collectible, that’s not much money for a decent display case.

I agree with your advice to Display Case.

Besides the classism (and, let’s face it, implied but hidden racism) and implied solution of eugenics at the start of the movie*, I couldn’t make it through very much of the film because it was so fucking stupid. It was, ironically, an example of the thing it was decrying. It was also gutless - it was trying so hard…

Yep. I smell a poorly concocted PR stunt here.

Another motivation behind bookstore bans on phones and tablets is that customers can’t comparison shop on Amazon.

Usually when I’m in a bookstore, most of the people are looking at the books, not a tablet or phone. This seems like a solution without a problem.

Do you smell that?... yeah it’s the smell of marketing strategy, nothing more.

I always assumed he's aged. I mean .. let's say each region takes him six months to finish (six to a year). There are six main regions he's been to. For all we know, Ash has gone from ten-to-thirteen .. and during that time his voice has become a bit deeper, he has grown a little, but he generally looks the same. That…

Oh, it gets more interesting the more you know about the show. Some of the nurses have subtle differences in appearance, and not just that they appear different from region to region. The nurses and officers in Unova and Kalos look younger and wear different uniforms (though the latter is less surprising, and the…

Horrifying as that is, I don't think Ghost-type pokemon are actually the souls of regular pokemon. They're able to reproduce like living beings and a lot of them seem like drifting malignant spirits. For example, Banette is apparently just the soul of a vengeful forgotten toy.

You see a dystopia, I see a socialist utopia.

PEOPLE!! Pokémon are made of people!!

You should get all the stars. Good job.

Lieutenant Surge's backstory indicates that Pokémon have at least a role in the armed forces, as he states that he operated jets powered by Electric Pokémon. In some of the more recent games, X and Y, the region they're set in, Kalos, was the site of a long and bloody war between other regions in the Pokénations 3000…

*looks at a lot older Final Fantasy games where the art and in-game graphics varied greatly*

That's kind of conflating at style with storytelling though.

I have to laugh here because for one i love this movie and for two i totally get what you're saying. I recently watched some stupid gold rush show where these two mormons go to africa to find gold and they have all kinds of equipment failure so they bring in this army mechanic buddy and all of his education and…