I’m really disappointed too. Especially since I’m so picky about swimwear. The VS website has always made it much easier to shop for swimsuits, it’s easy to sort for what you’re looking for and they have so many cute things. I don’t like a lot of the swimsuits that are being sold at other stores right now.

Likely the case. When you bring a kid someplace, it changes the atmosphere. Even if the parents say you don’t have to change your behavior, most people don’t feel comfortable saying or doing certain things around kids. This why people don’t want even well-behaved children in adult environments. And, shoot, these guys…

Seriously, it’s not like there are many jobs that will let you bring your kid to work every day anyway. Shoot, most probably won’t let you bring a kid for any amount of time, ha ha.

Scyther is a praying mantis, Durant is a generic ant, Kangaskhan is a kangaroo. There are Pokemon for all sorts of animals, well-known and obscure, but there are few cetacean Pokemon despite their popularity.

Eh, I’m sure they’re also doing it for fun. Lots of people do art for fun, it’s not much different from fan art and fan comics, I suppose.

It happens every time a new Pokemon generation gets announced.

Yeah, when a new game is announced I really do enjoy seeing the fakes. It’s always fun to see what people come up with, and they get bonus points if they make stuff that looks like it could really be a part of the game.

Dammit, now I want a fire goat!

They also seem too similar to each other, like, they all have big, round, bright eyes. Starters are usually a bit more diverse than that.

Yeah, I actually really enjoy seeing some of the fake “leaked” stuff. It’s pretty enjoyable.

A gecko doesn’t make much sense for a water starter. A salamander would be more likely. (though the fake in this picture seems to be a gator) Personally I’m hoping for a mammalian water starter.

That would be so cute! I’m hoping that the next water starter will be a mammal of some sort, I’m personally hoping for cetacean but I’m not too picky. We only have one mammalian water starter and hardly any cetacean Pokemon in general (even though water is the most common Pokemon type) so it would be nice for…

For me, it was the outfits that gave it away. Pokemon trainers tend to have cooler, or at least more interesting, outfits.

That’s what immediately stuck out to me.

Agreed. I think women have more choice in the matter than they think, it’s just hard to break the societal programming.

Agreed. There’s definitely bias at play, but also, women are still much more likely to make sacrifices for their family. Things will NEVER be equal in the workplace until they become equal at home.

I don’t give a crap about the crossdressing thing. What bugs me is the age thing. I know child labor laws (among other restrictions) make studios reluctant to have teenage actors play teenage characters, but 34 is a bit much, don’t ya think?

Yeah, I thought the romance stuff was horribly boring.

This reminds me of some of those “voluntourism” trips. People would pay a lot of money to go to some village in Africa or something for a week and do some kind of volunteer work. Something that’s a nice gesture, but not anything terribly helpful or urgent, like painting the school building. (I read an article where…

Elephants are slow to mature and breed, so they’d be poor candidates for a selective breeding project. Your best hope for a small pet elephant would be if scientists can making cloning reliable and inexpensive, and they get access to the genome of the extinct dwarf elephant. The smallest dwarf elephant species, the…