Also: Pokemon could benefit from a few of Breath of the Wild’s gameplay philosophy.
Namely just starting the player out by giving them pokeballs and a starter pokemon and then giving them the option to just go out and explore.
Like Pokemon is really the sort of game that could benefit from free-form exploration, letting it be your pokemon journey instead of railroading you to a certain plot.
Reminder that the Game Freak responded to people wanting Pokemon Switch to be like BOTW with this…
Like, I really am hoping that they don’t streamline us in story like with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Like, the story was great and all but you seriously couldn’t enter a new area without the game being like, “TIME FOR A CUT SCENE!!”
Tbh, Ruby and Sapphire are my favorite games in the series and i really wish we could get back to that level of freedom.
Like, when you get to a certain city, you see one of the NPC’s, Wally, in front of the doors of a gym right?
Unless you go talk to him, you don’t have to fight him just then. Instead, you can explore the rest of town. Or go check out a pokemon contest. You could go north of town if you want to and fight an entire family of trainers if you want the challenge. Wanna take it easy and breed some eggs instead? Do that! Do any of it! Wally can wait for a while.
The same kind of things can be said about previous games in the pokemon series as well, and even a few after.
It’s like, BoTW took YEARS to make and plan. Game freak wants to put out this new pokemon game this year. I’m not expecting anything big.
All I would really, really like to see is a more relaxed gaming experience like previous games. Even if it went back to looking like previous pokemon games with sprites, that would also be fine.
…also, more character customization wouldn’t hurt, even if I had to pay for some of it.
The worst part is that someone somewhere is going to use this false data to push their agenda
What the fuck, no way this can be real.
If this is real then I’m gonna take a guess and say the person who made it isn’t in a STEM field either. Because no one with a shred of education in science or math would think this is acceptable.
Why do they sound like someone’s vehicle has a fucked ignition?
Did someone flood these foxes engines?
^^^ exactly my thoughts
fun fact! red foxes make this sound when they have meet their perfect mate or soul mate would you have it! so basically they’re just screaming for all the other red foxes that they have found their love and for all the others to fuck off
@why-animals-do-the-thing can you confirm the last comment? I’ve been wondering about this for literally months and I can’t find a source that gives me a straight answer.
“Foxes do this when they meet soul mates”: definitely not. It sounds cute, but endless anthropomorphism.
This looks like conflict resolution in a tense situation, to me. Actually fighting is really detrimental to most animals so anything except dire conflict is resolved with vocalizations and threat postures instead of actual aggression. That’s what this looks like – a type of stereotyped (ritualized) conflict.
At first, this looks like aggression, due to the posture, the sound, and the body language of both animals. It’s really hard to tell at first what this is because the vine loops every 3 seconds or so and there’s really no extra information.
@cybervulprince tagged us in a comment looking for a response to this vine that actually did a great job breaking it down:
it looks more like aggressive or play behavior to me. it makes me think of the thing cats do where they just glare at each other and sort of lazily, slowly bat at each other until one eventually pounces, but those foxes look super tense and fluffed-up and have their ears back which makes me think aggression.
That sort of stiff posture is almost always indicative of stressful situations in animal interactions. In dogs, we call it a ‘freeze’ It’s hard to see if this is a full freeze because foxes are so fluffy and the vine is so short, but that’s basically what we’re looking at. Open mouth behavior is also always part of conflict or threat behaviors. Animal don’t have to open their mouths like this to vocalize, so it’s a point to note that it shows off their teeth. They’re also opened with tight, stiff lips, which we know reflects interactions that are more stressful.
So we can tell something tense is going on here, but why do the foxes make this noise? Here’s a sort clip of a red fox scream. While both sexes can and do scream, it’s normally a sound made by female foxes. It can indicate fear and often is used to define territory and fend of rival foxes during the mating season. (It seems to be a myth that foxes scream during sex – most of what I can find says that it’s common during the mating season, but more as a territorial behavior than a copulatory vocalization. Copulatory vocalizations tend to sound very different and carry much farther because they exist for very specific evolutionary reasons relating to sperm competition. Yes, in humans too).
What mostly confirms for me that this is a ritualized way of resolving a tense situation without conflict, though, is a vine on the content creator’s vine account that was uploaded to the same account shortly after the one that went viral. It looks like it as taken almost immediately afterwards. In it, the postures of the animals has changed – one fox is much lower now, in an appeasement posture, and the other is crouched so that it can lean over the lower fox (weigh placement is a very important part of conflict resolution in most animals, because it determines what behaviors you’re able to do quickly if it escalates). In another video on the account, it looks like there are at least five foxes in close proximity in the same enclosure, so it’s understandable that you’d have social interactions and different aggression issues going on between that many individuals.
Tl;dr: Screaming foxes are aggression/conflict resolution, not soulmate bond anthropomorphic nonsense that the internet thinks is funny and doesn’t fact check.
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