• Altima NEO
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    1388 months ago

    If it was in the US, it would quickly turn into palworld.

    • @[email protected]
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      448 months ago

      I haven’t played Palworld but I’m told that you can capture people and force them to work for you. So technically the US is already ahead of this.

      • @thirteene
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        78 months ago

        That is correct, you can capture mercenaries for combat, and townsfolk can be relocated to your base (although risky)

      • @EvolvedTurtle
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        68 months ago

        The only thing I know from palworld Is a screenshot of a bunch of pals sitting in front of a conveyer belt and another screenshot of a pal with a gun

  • @riodoro1
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    778 months ago

    There would be no rioting in the US. Just corporations scamming you with „insurance”

    • Cosmonaut_Collin
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      638 months ago

      The U.S. has been trained to see protesting as a bad thing, so now we all just take the hits and blame neighbors whose political values don’t line up with ours.

      • @[email protected]
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        348 months ago

        It’s amazing how many people I meet who think so highly of the American revolution, but are completely aghast at the idea of fighting against the government now.

        • @[email protected]
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          198 months ago

          While simultaneously opposing any form of gun control so they can fight… something?

          Apparently the only protest worth anything is one where you’re shooting at someone

          • Cosmonaut_Collin
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            28 months ago

            Shooting at people is an American tradition. We can’t let our kids forget what this nation was built upon.

  • @EnderMB
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    538 months 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.

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      8 months 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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        188 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        158 months 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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          108 months ago

          And all the rocket goons are just police protecting the capitalists

        • @Sharkictus
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          38 months ago

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

      • @EvolvedTurtle
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        48 months ago

        Wait That last one is just Pokemon home lmao

    • @httperror418
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      28 months ago

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

  • RBG
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    238 months ago

    Why would they pokemon be on the side of the government during riots? Are pokemon stupid?

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      I mean, why would pokemon be on the side of team rocket or whatever other villainous (often apocalyptic) group the games have? They just follow whoever catches them no matter what.

    • @[email protected]
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      208 months ago

      Why are suffering lower/middle class people opposed to protests for better social security and medical systems? Are they stupid?

      But fr tho sometimes people are just blind. If you have been a slave (pokemon) for life then its hard to break your chains.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      198 months ago

      Why wouldn’t they? Team Rocket/MagmAqua/Galactic/Plasma/Flare all have pokemon fighting with them. They listen to the trainer, not the moral obligation of the society.

      • RBG
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        08 months ago

        Yeah but they get less healthcare then, because now it costs money.

        • @[email protected]
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          58 months ago

          There are many people who have jobs they hate because they get good benefits, like healthcare & dental.

          The Pokemon are just the abused working class.

    • @ClockworkOtter
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      78 months ago

      Yo, the last major outbreak of violence against the government was when the far right lost an election. This is pretty damn on the ball.

    • @Mango
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      28 months ago

      A price on healing means my trainer won’t be so inclined to make me fight!

    • @[email protected]
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      18 months ago

      Pokemon in all versions of Pokemon are literal slaves. They have no free will if they are in a Poke Bowl. And depending on the movie - that free will can be overwritten again by a Psychic Type Pokemon.

  • @[email protected]
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    168 months ago

    Fun fact: This happens in Pokemon Sun and Moon, when Team Skull takes over one of the towns. They charge a whopping 10 Pokedollars.

  • @Etterra
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    108 months ago

    Charizard used Eat the Rich. It’s super effective!

  • Annoyed_🦀
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    58 months ago

    PokeRiot would totally turned into an all out civil war. I wonder if they have a signal jammer but for pokeball? 🤔