Overwatch was always deliberately unbalanced. There are very few symmetrical things in the game on purpose. The benefit of this is that players try off the wall things to gain success, rather than falling into a rhythm of counting cooldowns and min-maxing.

100% this. This is simply a difference of East/West culture, nothing more. Even before the current style of kpop, the culture of Korea in the 80s and 90s was still the same. Korea took its fashion sense from Europe, not the U.S. Men held hands, gave each other piggy back rides, lock arms. Women do the same. This is…

Yup. Here’s the Pokedex entry:

To be fair, most of the stuff you mentioned was invented by 4Kids and doesn’t exist in the original Japanese version.

I think it’s reasonable to conclude that people eat pokemon, but I’d be interested to see which pokemon are culturally acceptable to eat within each region.

Grass pokemons have a central system, so no you are not vegetarian!

They f-ing straight up tell you they eat people’s souls. But yeah, they don’t say they eat human meat.

The anime treats it like all Pokemon know/understand conversational human speech (and not just orders for their attacks), so when you think of them like that, sure it’s hard to imagine Pokemon as meat.

Mmm it really does taste like chicken.

The Pokemon Farfetch’d was specifically mentioned to have been hunted to near extinction because its meat was considered a delicacy.

I remember reading a book in Ruby and Sapphire that talked about eating Pokemon. There was a weird bit about returning the bones to the sea and being thankful and stuff. I’d expect that the director wouldn’t want to say anything definitive but if you ask a lore guy they’d tell you straight up.

They eat each other. Even the dex entries have predators eating their prey.

“Capitalism distributes resources based on achievement.”

You’re thinking of anarchic communism, a common mistake in America.

It’s not a very detailed explanation, but it’s pretty accurate.

As opposed to capitalist society, where the prisons are notably empty of people who questioned the status quo.

No, I don’t, because this is a weird thing that people trot out about Gen 1 Pokemon despite absolutely not being true.

Magnemite? Porygon? Jynx? Koffing? Muk? Voltorb? Plenty of inanimate objects in Gen 1 of Pokemon. It’s only natural that with further generations there’s more Pokemon based on other objects and…

I too remember when the Pokemon were based off of animals like:

It’s actual name is cosmog. In the game, the cosmog Lillie owns is nicknamed Nebby. Also, it’s a nebula.

Mr. Mime? Cubone? Nidoran? Lots of Gen-1 weirdos.