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[PA Comic] Friday, October 18, 2013 - Tall Grass, Big Stakes
Geth
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**that's one US penny***
***penny may have already been lost under couch cushions
Those tears are just heartbreaking. Gabe is, as usual, a true monster.
Brought the dark, forgot the humor.
Edit: Also kind of odd in light of the most recent Pokemon letting you level affection with your pokemon by letting them and stuff and getting huge bonuses with the pokemon you do it with. More exp, more crits, ability to shrug off status effects and KOs, etc.
i will never not love Gabe the abusive trainer
Appropriate avatar.
I don't even play Pokemon and I think this is brilliantly dark.
The worst is that he's a veteran, he fucking knows Weedle is gonna be crushed by a Pansear. He sent that bug out to die.
Glad to see the return of Trainer Gabe, and the dark underbelly of pokemon battling.
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I know. I just don't find animal cruelty amusing, personally.
Do you find animal cruelty training simulators passed off as children's entertainment amusing? Because I do.
But animal cruelty is not the punch line, here
This game (primarily made for children), rated E for everyone, has a cute veneer laid over top of absolutely horrific actions, if you look below the surface
The joke here is Trainer Gabe is embracing what Pokemon actually is, and letting us laugh at the dichotomy, using the most obvious example as the context in which to present it
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'nuff said.
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Not really. In the game pokemon faint, they don't die. And abandoning your pokemon in XY would be dumb because your spend hours training up their base stats and petting them and feeding them treats and playing games with them if you want them to be as strong as possible.
Before trainer Gabe seemed more about being insane about making his pokemon the strongest in the world, taking the training aspects too extremely. This comic isn't about being the best or the strongest. It's about being a dick.
Like, in XY your Weedle is not equivalent to any other Weedle. Because assuming you actually planned on using a Weedle you've spent hours super training and building affection with him.
Yeah before he seemed to be a sort of Pokemon drill sergeant personality, but in this comic he's more totally unfeeling/sadistic.
I think you are letting very specific game mechanics bog down the observation that Pokemon is an animal meat grinder hidden underneath a carefree, whimsical world.
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Somehow I doubt Trainer Gabe spent much time building affection.
I know people love Hipster Bootyshake Gabe in this comic, and it is outstanding, but my favorite part will always by Tycho's expression and posture in the third panel.
This is still in the abusive training realm. He's saying that he's going to do all these things, and it's implied that he will do them unless the Weedle "mans up".
This Weedle still has the opportunity to beg for his life, and show that he IS different.
...Granted, I still miss the days where the characters had straight teeth, but that's me just bein' picky.
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Strip Search Wastebasket of Broken Dreams App I made
Can you still run your own eugenics program, culling the unfit in pursuit of the UberMonsch this gen?
Interestingly, this sort of observation is increasingly out-dated since the last three sets of Pokemon games (including this one) specifically discuss that problem and the problem of the sustainability of modern life. X&Y's plot has more in common with Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs than the earlier, less self-aware games.
edit: It should be noted that the above doesn't apply to the actual comic itself. I found it pretty funny, especially considering I am currently trying to breed a Shiny Eevee because I've never seen a Shiny before ever and I just want to once and everytime I hatch a normal Eevee I feel shame and hatred.
I wonder if Gabe cared that Arceus was introduced in D/P as the Pokegod. I would have loved to see a comic where he goes up against it with no shirt and Pokeballs chained to his wrists like Kratos.
But I'll settle for Full Metal Pokemon