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MOAR Pokey-mans!?! OH NOES!
18 years ago
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... I'm afraid I'm still rather put-off from the whole poke-craze. This is 20th century stuff. I lost interest about when I broke out of middle school. The entire thing reeks of money scrounging. They're going to keep beating this horse long after it's dead. IF it isn't dead YET. I'm sure even Samurai Pizza Cats would be horrible right now if they kept milking it for cash. Speedy SerViccé himself would be rolling over in his grave. And pokemon used to come on immediately before SPC (or was it after) after school! I bet he might be rolling in his grave ANYWAY!
Now, you're not less of a person for liking it, but I'm actually curious as to why anybody can stand it. I avoid World of Warcraft mostly for the same reasons--because of the kinds of people who get sucked into it combined with the fact of how horribly addictive it can be. ...Yet here are the people I actually have respect for, getting swallowed whole without a blink by something I have long since considered just as foul. What am I missing here...? Isn't Pokemon for seventh graders, originally marketed for Japanese elementary-schoolers, and in fact DISCONTINUED in Japan? I know the TV show, if it is indeed still running, is being produced and aired SOLELY in the united states... The whole thing gives me a queasy sensation of fakeness. Sort of like the smell of McDonald's or the taste of "Splenda" or its ugly cousin Aspartame.
...It's so ... fucking cutesy... I can't even fathom deriving joy from watching small creatures get packed into tiny plastic balls and forced to fight for sport--and I can hardly enjoy that even under the most TWISTED circumstances!! It would require me to either become incredibly, immeasurably CRUEL and SADISTIC, or astronomically dense and naive... or even both. Maybe it doesn't require that from anybody else, but... there's just no room in my heart for pocket monster training. Eeyugh...
Now, you're not less of a person for liking it, but I'm actually curious as to why anybody can stand it. I avoid World of Warcraft mostly for the same reasons--because of the kinds of people who get sucked into it combined with the fact of how horribly addictive it can be. ...Yet here are the people I actually have respect for, getting swallowed whole without a blink by something I have long since considered just as foul. What am I missing here...? Isn't Pokemon for seventh graders, originally marketed for Japanese elementary-schoolers, and in fact DISCONTINUED in Japan? I know the TV show, if it is indeed still running, is being produced and aired SOLELY in the united states... The whole thing gives me a queasy sensation of fakeness. Sort of like the smell of McDonald's or the taste of "Splenda" or its ugly cousin Aspartame.
...It's so ... fucking cutesy... I can't even fathom deriving joy from watching small creatures get packed into tiny plastic balls and forced to fight for sport--and I can hardly enjoy that even under the most TWISTED circumstances!! It would require me to either become incredibly, immeasurably CRUEL and SADISTIC, or astronomically dense and naive... or even both. Maybe it doesn't require that from anybody else, but... there's just no room in my heart for pocket monster training. Eeyugh...
