Well, I was interested in this Pokemon trainer character on this week's CBB, but the bit turned out to be "just naming Pokemon characters" so I bailed
They've showed up before and yeah, the entire joke is just that Scott and the older guests don't have any fucking idea what he's talking about
He did it with World of Warcraft on last week's off-book, too. Worked a little better there, but it was more contained
The first time the trainer showed up on CBB had a bit that killed me and I still think about
zach: I'm from the Kanto Region
scott or PFT or someone:The Kanto Region of what?
zach: Hmm!?
really any time someone asks an improviser an obvious follow up question that the improviser didn't think of and they have to act like they didn't hear the question to buy time is just something that always gets me
"I've tried everything to find that Carmen Sandiego!"
"what have you tried?"
"huh?"
it's the Kanto region of Pokemon. They named the world Pokemon. Oak even says it in the opening of the first game, "Welcome to the world of Pokemon."
Serious answer: it's the Kantō region of Japan, Saffron is Tokyo. (The western bits are part of Chūbu, though, with Johto being a combination of Kansai and the rest of Chūbu.)
They weren't really pretending to be in a different world when they first made Pokémon - Lt. Surge is the "Lighting American", Silph Co. has a Russian branch, Mew was found in Guyana...
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"I've tried everything to find that Carmen Sandiego!"
"what have you tried?"
"huh?"
The World Of Warcraft is set on Azeroth, not Warcraft
I'm imagining a game where all the people are half tank.
And you get to date them.
Sherman-senpai...you...like my turret?
T-34 is way cuter.
Just try to avoid the bad boy's club of Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B. He's a bit of a bully!
Wait until you check out Planet Warplanes
I would legit probably play a tongue in cheek game about anthropomorphic tanks.
Y'all realise that like seven of these games exist in Japan right
Nope.
I don't actually look at Japanese games website much, they are often pretty impenetrable!
Also I don't like anime style art.
Now you're gettin' it!
Does anyone actually say "welcome to the world of warcraft" in WoW?
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
The only time I think they say this is in that weird hidden "Disco" song in warcraft 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jQ36ixLeq8
Serious answer: it's the Kantō region of Japan, Saffron is Tokyo. (The western bits are part of Chūbu, though, with Johto being a combination of Kansai and the rest of Chūbu.)
They weren't really pretending to be in a different world when they first made Pokémon - Lt. Surge is the "Lighting American", Silph Co. has a Russian branch, Mew was found in Guyana...
Pokemon world is just earth with slightly different geography. And a whole lot of scale issues cause videogame.
important lore questions
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Yeah, tanks a lot!
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