haven't played Pokemon Let's Go but the fact that you're encouraged to strip-mine hundreds of the same species of Pokemon in a row seems very fucked up just from an extinction standpointpic.twitter.com/LVGhC5cDtg
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feels like a hard pivot for Pokemon to go from "i caught one of every pokemon :)" to "i caught 413 birds in a row because i was trying to find one that was slightly green"
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I'd be down if there were real consequences. Like you caught too many Beedrills and now there's widespread famine because they were the only pollinators.
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it's eventually revealed that Let's Go takes place in the future where Team Rocket won, and strip-mining Pokemon and grinding them up into pokedust is now perfectly acceptable
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Shiny chaining has been around for a long time though lmao
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It's not catching, but you do beat up thousands.
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“Are you sure you want to consume this Pidgey to sate the shiny gods’ blood lust?”
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Not to mention that professor Oak definitely grinds up all the Pokemon you send him into candy
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