Tag: fandom analysis

Okay, I need to express some thoughts about the Paper Mario series and how it’s changed in recent years. 

I want to start by making it clear that I don’t have anything against the concepts behind the two most recent Paper Mario games. Sticker Star did some really neat and creative things and I can see why they wanted to continue exploring that potential. It’s just a shame they had to get rid of the “old” way in implementing it. 

I have nothing against Nintendo trying new things – sometimes that’s completely necessary to make something great! And honestly, Sticker Star isn’t a bad game. But it’s basically started a different kind of “Paper Mario”, where the focus is completely different and the gameplay is its own thing entirely compared with the first two games. It might as well be a separate series. And that’s why people are upset about it, I think, because this “new” Paper Mario format has completely replaced the old one as the standard. I wouldn’t have a problem with it if they hadn’t completely discarded the original Paper Mario style for what might as well be its own series. Adventure games aren’t the same thing as RPGs and fans of one won’t necessarily be fans of the other – I get it. I really do. A lot of the counter-arguments are about RPG fans judging Sticker Star and Color Splash as crappy RPGs, when really they’re adventure games and should be viewed as such. The problem with that is that the series got its popularity because of its RPG elements, which is why fans of the older games are upset. The aspects of the games they loved were removed in favor of completely different sets of mechanics, with new characters being essentially off-limits if they aren’t generic Mario characters. Or I’ve seen people remark that “if you want a Mario RPG, that’s what the Mario & Luigi series is for”. They’ve got some similarities, sure, but they’re still pretty different series.

Basically, the “paper” has become a gimmick rather than a storybook.

scientificpokedex:

Every year, our planet produces 2.12 billion tons of garbage. Is it any wonder that there is a garbage pokemon?

Garbodor is literally a sentient pile of trash, but we we’ll save the details of how a pile of garbage gains consciousness for its pre-evolution’s entry. Today, on Earth Day, we are going to talk about why garbage stinks.

Garbodor’s pokédex entry tells us that it consumes more garbage to produce poisonous gases and liquids. While “poisonous” is fairly vague, the smelliest most common gases in garbage are nitrogen and sulfur. Other toxic gases include carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, chlorine, and ammonia.

So Garbodor produces these gases from garbage; but how? Think of the smelliest garbage. You’re probably thinking of things like eggs, fish, meat. These are all foods that are high in protein, and that give us our answer. As protein is broken down, it produces both nitrogen and sulfur. 

Garbage is broken down primarily through microbes like bacteria, who consume the trash and break down the molecules into smaller ones. They will rot meat, liquify vegetables, and who knows what else.

Garbodor then acts like a giant microbe, consuming and absorbing the trash, performing all sorts of chemistry to stink and poison up the environment.

Garbodor breaks molecules in garbage into smaller ones like Nitrogen and Sulfur, producing smelly and poisonous gases.

So please, remember to recycle and be mindful of waste. As cool as the Pokémon world is, one thing I do not want to see is a 6 foot tall pile of garbage coming to eat us.

Happy Earth Day!

Source: scientificpokedex

mewistheancestor:

skarchomp:

vedajuno:

skarchomp:

somebody ask me what the connection is between Sharpedo Garchomp and Crawdaunt

…………….They’re all dark type???????

NO THEY ARE NOT BUT I’LL COUNT THIS AS YOU ASKING

So I was thinking about Garchomp the other day, as I am prone to do, and I thought it was an interesting coincidence that the only two explicitly shark-based Pokemon had a yellow star pattern on their heads.

But then I thought more and came to the conclusion: what if it isn’t a coincidence?

Hold on to your butts, I’m about to do some Pokemon World Building™

Keep reading

Brilliant.

nomadimouse:

this is why I like lady bow so much–all the other species/races in the game trust mario 100% to take care of their shitty problems and are fully against bowser but the boos are just like ehh I dont know about this mario guy we ought to test him and even after all that lady bow is like wow I better come with you because why should I trust you to save my people. and in the end it’s not even tubba blubba holding the star spirit it’s lady bow. she’s like yeah you can have this star spirit after you help us hhhhhhhhhhh. any other race would be like oh mario take this star spirit and do whatever you want with it because we miss peach and the castle but the boos are like fuck the toads when are people going to give a shit about us..oH WAIT NO ONE EVER WILL SO WE HAVE TO COME TOGETHER AND WORK NOT FOR A GENERAL “GOOD” OR “BAD” SIDE BUT FOR WHAT IS GOOD FOR BOOS EVERYWHERE

also they randomly filter out words and replace them with “boo” which is adorable

Source: ugly-rat-man

asktehdoopliss:

askcoracle:

sharkman-land:

tangledbeast:

I love that Doopliss had a bathtub and shower curtain in his room because it implies:

A. This is a ghost who bathes regularly

B. This is a ghost that wants privacy while he bathes. Which is pretty stupid considering anyone entering the room has a full view of the tub, plus there’s a giant ass window right in front of it

???

You’d think Doopliss would just put himself in the washing machine.

@asktehdoopliss Doop what the heck))

I’ll have you know slick that the curtain is not for privacy, that curtain’s name is Kari and she’s a remarkably good kisser nice curtain!

Source: tangledbeast

Pokemon Headcanons: Evolved Pokemon

polygonfighter:

poke-planet:

  • New Linoones that stop and fidget frequently while running, because they were so used to running in zigzags.
  • Golbats who gain eyesight and fly into their trainer’s faces, excited to get a good look at them.
  • Tangrowths rearranging their trainer’s homes after learning what arms and hands can do.
  • Unprepared trainers of Slakoth who come back home to shredded cushions, broken objects, and a newly evolved Vigoroth; then adjusting their entire schedule to be more active.
  • Noctowls slowly unlearning standing on one foot
  • Scizors still instinctively slashing their claws
  • Arcanines accidentally knocking over their trainer the first time they try and lick them.
  • Pokemon of all types adjusting to new heights and weights, discovering they no longer fit their favorite spot, or have to be more careful with their trainers.
  • Noticing your Parasect acts very differently than your Paras did…

Why would you do this

the-winter-passage:

You know, listening to the music from Pokemon Red/Blue just reminds me that Kanto has got to be the creepiest region in the entire series. Maybe it’s the 8-bit music making it feel more minimalist or foreboding and haunting, maybe it’s the fact that the lack of details when it comes to some of the backstory (like the origins of Mewtwo) makes you wonder what exactly happened but it’s a region that has –

– A forest theme that foreshadows who the final gym leader is in a really creepy way (the music itself is just as spooky)

– Bits and pieces here and there that talk about how because the region is so industry based that pollution is an issue.

– Lavender Town (which is not as creepy as the internet has made it seem but still creepy in some places).

– Villains that may not be as visionary as what came later but they still controlled a city (Celadon), actually seeked to hurt people and took another city hostage and still managed to come back for the sequel.

– The mansion in Cinnabar as mentioned above, it’s got off-putting music, it’s completely abandoned (with the exception of some theives and a couple of scientists), has a number of poison Pokemon lurking around and the journals which only give you the slightest hints of what was going on and feels very much like an apocalyptic log.

– Cerulean Cave which you can’t even explore until you beat the Elite Four and just coming across Mewtwo at the very end

– Some of the trainer classes can be a bit unnerving, I mean the Cool Trainer has a whip (as does the Tamer but at least that makes a bit of sense) and the Channeler is just plain fucking creepy.

I just feel like the Kanto region had a bigger sense of danger and dread than any of the following regions that were more adventure based and it was fun to explore, I think the only thing that comes close is Sea Mauville in OR/AS that has the same thing with the journals that the Cinnabar mansion had and it’s just as creepy as it was back then.

There’s a few other elements that just make me notice that Kanto felt really dreary and depressing and I kind of like it like that, it made exploring the place so fun because you never knew what would actually pop out, you’d never properly understand stuff until you actually thought about it. I guess in that sense, it really does feel like a Mother game.

iadoremusicals:

circusdreamerr:

harryjamcs:

why don’t wizards on trial have the option to consent to veritaserum? like I get that it’s illegal to force it on someone and that’s cool, but why not have it as an option for people who are testifying that they’re innocent? like wouldn’t that just make sense? you have a potion that can prove 100% if someone’s telling the truth, but instead of using it you just lock innocent people in soul-sucking prison forever? would it just make wizard court tv too boring if half the cases were solved in like two minutes?

For serious tho

For Sirius tho…

happyhqlledays:

grandmagotrunoverbythediscourse:

happyhqlledays:

grandmagotrunoverbythediscourse:

happyhqlledays:

The best thing about the book version of the grinch is that he’s just some green fuck that the who’s know nothing about. He has absolutely no backstory he’s just up there being an asshole

The backstory is his heart was too small

SOME SAID THAT HIS HEART WAS TWO SIZES TOO SMALL!!!!! ITS A RUMOR YOU FUCK!!! I WILL FUCKING DESTROY YOU!!!!!

YOU SAW HIS HEART GROW THREE SIZES THIS IS AN OBSERVED FACT

Everything said about the Grinch is hearsay. The story of the Grinh, perhaps, did not happen the way it’s told in the story. I am going to kick your fucking ass. Below is a real excerpt from the book:

The Grinch hated Christmas — the whole Christmas season.
Oh, please don’t ask why, no one quite knows the reason.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.

IT COULD BE. I THINK. There is no solid proof that this is why the Grinch is the way he is. It’s A RUMOR. I am going to kick your fucking ass.