It kind of did, Our Beginnings is one of the confirmed songs. As is Rivers in the Desert.

Yes.

What a judgmental comment.

Shovelful 101 when?

You joke, but Pokemon DOES have a group that responds to alien incidents, and not even as cranks. They’re part of the international police because Pokemon has a number of of alien pokemon, enough of them that Bulbapedia literally has a page on known or suspected extraterrestrial pokemon.

My takeaways:

Good lord there are a lot of scam spam comments in the pending queue.

The real world answer is that Pokemon is a property targeted towards Children so the makers have no interest in exploring that sort of thing. The real-deal mature stuff in the games that have been sneaking in since at least BW is all in subtext, setting detail, background lore, or contextual storytelling and is almost…

I mean, you joke, but I’d play the hell out of a Pokemon game set in the Rural US. Of course I’d play a Pokemon game set just about damn near anywhere, so that’s not a significant bonus.

Drifloon has the wonderful Pokedex Entry: “If for some reason its body bursts, its soul spills out with a screaming sound.”

I know a couple of streamers who point out that if Arena wins were retroactive they’d have gold everything.

It’s worth remembering that Zul’Jin is a flat damage dealer, his kit is entirely focused on hitting things unlike Baptiste being a healer. Also his ult makes more sense when you realize it’s meant to combine with his passive ability to attack faster at lower health and his ability to enrage and deal bonus damage at…

It will be mourned, but not by me.

I wish. Cronenberg’s version had way more to say about culture and society.

You should never feel guilty for playing a game you like, and anyone who makes you feel guilty should, themselves, feel guilty for it.

I never thought of it like that, but you’re right, and that’s actually kind of genius. Stan Lee is selling a dream, but by god he’s selling it.

I really wish Crash was as courageous as it postured at being. Instead it charged full speed ahead with racial bothsidesism and was really really frustrating. Even moreso because it had some actually good scenes that were hampered by its cowardice.

Not by default.

Absolutely. Deus ex Machina refers to a particular thing that happened in particular plays where a a god would literally be wheeled onto stage via contraption to stop the conflict at the end, but the underlying definition is that of something totally out of the blue happening to resolve things in an unsatisfying way.

The Ninja was from Snowboard Kids 1. And yes, unlocking him was a very high bar. He wasn’t in Snowboard kids 2.