A Pokémon of a Different Color
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A Pokémon of a Different Color
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#2Reminds me of when the internet collectively realized that the Sugimori watercolors for the original 251 Pokémon had been scanned and reproduced with the completely wrong colors in western media for over 20 years:
https://kotaku.com/pokemon-ken-sugimori-original-art-red-blu...
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#3I am eternally grateful to media people who care a lot about this stuff. I know that it has an impact on my life that I’m not aware of, but I can’t bring myself to dive into this. I am glad that there are people who are into it, though.
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#4Whats the deal with this artwork? I got into Pokemon as a kid in the late 90s* including all the Gameboy games through Sapphire/Ruby and I don’t remember any of this washed out art (like the Ditto example, it’s always been pink!).
Did I just miss this phenomenon entirely because I grew up right before it became big on the internet?
* I think I’ve still got a VHS tape of the promo material Nintendo used to originally introduce Pokemon to the US.
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Maybe people are paying attention to those things because there's a need to disconnect from the real world and its problems for a while.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe people are paying attention to those things because there's a need to disconnect from the real world and its problems for a while.
The issue is that we might have disconnected from the real world and its problem for a few decades already.
You're right! Therefore society should collectively stop having fun, playing games and propagating culture, until all of our problems are dealt with. I bet that will go just swimmingly.