• @EnderMB
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    531 month ago

    Someone should make a ROM hack where Pokémon centres charge a game-world fee equivalent to what a person would pay for healthcare for serious injuries in the US, with insurance and loan sharks.

    • Hello_there
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      1 month ago

      Do the rom hack right.

      • Toll roads everywhere. Paid each time you enter.
      • Pokemart is a monopoly and gouges you.
      • Arceusism is the state religion and others are barely tolerated.
      • Gyms are privatized and cost per attempt.
      • Pokemon sweatshops.
      • PC access is a freemiun model where you get the first 5 for free, but beyond that you have to pay for Pokestorage+ and pay monthly. Also pokes come out hating you so pretty sure they getting abused. And occasionally pokes get lost.
      • @SkybreakerEngineer
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        181 month ago

        Cost per attempt? Gyms require an annual membership fee, and good luck ever canceling

      • @[email protected]
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        151 month ago

        Pokémon Sweatshops

        I think that was literally a plot point in one of the earlier games or anime? That one will be easy to adapt, just make Team Rocket the heroes for being shrewd businesspeople and you the villain for daring to question the will of the free market.

        • Hello_there
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          101 month ago

          And all the rocket goons are just police protecting the capitalists

        • @Sharkictus
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          31 month ago

          In fact where it is dejure religion, nobody actually follows it or believes it.

      • @EvolvedTurtle
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        41 month ago

        Wait That last one is just Pokemon home lmao

    • @httperror418
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      21 month ago

      I read the end part there as Bender “with blackjack and hookers”