Pokemon is unrealistic to even the practical parts of reality.

[Aldurin]

They probably take ballet or something.

Pokemon has been going on for about close to a decade right? Wouldn't technological advances indicate something along the lines of a portable "pokemon center"? Those heal machines have remained the size of a smartcar forever.

[PCD]

To be technical, it's believed that the four generations all pretty much happen in the span of three years or so, Generation 1 and 3 taking place at the same time, and 2 and 4 taking place in the years after. But still, that is enough time for them to downsize things some.

I'm still pissed off that I have to waste a movespace on my Scyther for Cut. God damn, it's got fucking blades for arms, it should not have to be TAUGHT how to slice up frail shrubbery in its path!

[bluestarultor]

Originally Posted by EvilEarl

They probably take ballet or something.

Pokemon has been going on for about close to a decade right? Wouldn't technological advances indicate something along the lines of a portable "pokemon center"? Those heal machines have remained the size of a smartcar forever.

A decade isn't long enough to really justify that. Maybe if it was mostly computer-based, but what if it really takes them out of their balls and stuffs them underneath to do, like, surgery and stuff? For that matter, what's to say it doesn't just teleport them somewhere different entirely for treatment? We know they can teleport them because they do it every time you have more than six. I'd imagine that gate technology might still take up some space.

Or maybe it's just powered by a Raticate on a large hampster wheel and they don't want you to see that.

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Or maybe it's just powered by a Raticate on a large hampster wheel and they don't want you to see that.

I always thought it was a Ninjask in a wind turbine.

[Token]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

Or maybe it's just powered by a Rattata on a large hamster wheel and if anyone other than Red or Joey so much as glanced at it, it's Top Percentageness would burn their eyes out.

FTFY

[Premmy]

Originally Posted by EvilEarl

I always thought it was a Ninjask in a wind turbine.

These things run around in the bushes, guys

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Premmy

These things run around in the bushes, guys

That's their backup generator that they use whenever some moron comes by with a fainted legendary.

[Aerozord]

why can you only carry six pokemon? This especially made no sense in yellow when one of them wasn't even in a pokeball

[Aldurin]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

why can you only carry six pokemon? This especially made no sense in yellow when one of them wasn't even in a pokeball

There will probably be some revelation where either celestial powers prevent you from carrying seven.

Or maybe government agents discreetly assassinate trainers who try to keep that seventh pokeball, and then all of the disappearances led to people unconsciously avoiding the mere thought of seven pokemon.

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Aerozord

why can you only carry six pokemon? This especially made no sense in yellow when one of them wasn't even in a pokeball

The league said so? I'm pretty sure it's a rule that's hard-coded into the pokeballs. Just because Pikachu isn't in in a pokeball doesn't mean Ash doesn't still have that ball on his person. I'm pretty sure that anytime in the show that Ash had six pokemon in a battle and Pikachu wasn't one of them it was because the little shock-rat was sitting with Ash's current girl companion. I would assume he just handed her the pokeball for Pikachu so that he could get another ball warped in. The reason Pikachu never gets warped away is because he's never in his damn ball so it's inert. If I remember right the system always chooses the most recently acquired ball to warp back to storage.


So I see a lot of Ash/Misty kissy-face pictures that look suspiciously like actual screenshots from the show. When the hell did that happen? I thought their little sexual tension thing was supposed to last forever.