How are Pokemon centers economically viable?

It certainly is an outlandish work of fiction.

Maybe they take something from the pokemon in exchange for healing?

I like to think it's funded by all the money the Elite Four /Champion/ gym leaders take from challengers who lose to them.

By charging you or your insurance company tens of thousands of dollars to inject you with microchips and give your children fake vaccines that stunt their development

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It's like any gift shop slapped by any landmark. People need to heal their pokemon, and the access to it costing no money attracts trainers, whom have their pokemon hirt the most. Conveniently, a mart in inside or in very close proximity to the pokecenter, and presumably owned by the same corporation due to being inside the pokecenter, and having a very similar design to the structures when separate. The healing machines draw in trainers, and purchasing something to ensure you can catch more pokemon/heal your pokemon give profit to the corp and a feeling of safety to the trainer, making them return when they want to stock up.
The profits are then shared between the mart and the center in that town/area, with some funds laid aside for pay, some to research and create new medicines for selling, and some laid down to purchase pokeballs from various third party companies, like Devon Corp or standalone ball creators like Kurt.

Where are all the items found in PokeMarts manufactured?

In America or China. The islands are slaves to the bigger powers.

Where else do you get your memes?

Is this related to "the war" referenced by Surge in RB?

Considering their level of technology, it appears as though the free services require very little (it seems to just sort of use some energy to heal the pokemon up, which is currently economically cheap. In the fictional setting it is not that outlandish).

Easily fundable by the poke mart.

Pokemon is set in a communist utopia.

They are primarily designed to track rare pokemans and their trainers for whichever evil empire is threatening the world this week.

They're compensated for each trainer and monster that gets added to their watchlist and reasonably, they render their services free of charge to get as many names as possible added to their list.

If Team Fuckbucket wants some creature that isn't available in their region, they just have to consult a spreadsheet that lists trainer information for everyone in their region with one.

They aren't.

Who knows? Do the regions really have a government? Seems like they are either independent or part of some unheard of country.

What's the best way to monitor and steal highly talented and rare Pokemons from brats?

Shoot the kids, take their balls.

Imagine having to watch an ad before the light changed color

Silph Co.? They made Pokeballs

The Pokemon world is actually real, but people don't know about it because it's in Canada.

DIG HOLES

The GCN games often had self service healing machines, so it's apparently not a position that requires skill.

Pokemon has had the ability to store and retrieve things as a data since the very start. It's clear they live in a post-scarcity economy where only skills, creativity and energy have value.

welp, time to squeeze my prostate & balls dry.

Pokemon is clearly set in some sort of amusement park, similar to that of Westworld.

people pay taxes and it funds them.

renewable energy. solar panels. kinetic-based energy generation from tiles. I don't know.

Theoretically all the government has to do is pay the nurses is the energy is renewable.

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IIRC pokemon are the infrastructure slaves aren't them? they do all the work and also provide the energy

Pokemon essentially work for free outside food and we've seen that pokemon can do most of the same work humans do. It's obvious they're publicly funded since the labours of pokemon essentially make up for any economic loses to an overwhelming degree.

Every time

But not free, leftytard

I assume most of their economy is based off pokemon.

Considering how easy it is to breed and harvest resources from them.

energy- electric pokemon
labor- fighting pokemon
mining- rock/ ground pokemon
heat- fire pokemon
food- edible pokemon

most people in the world are either scientists developing tech, or involved in big poke.

The adventuring kids have parents. Only one most of the time, but still, those parents pay taxes

That always bothered me that a game for children would promote that kind of degeneracy. You'd think they'd want to show an idyllic stable white family but it's always single parents

Game Theory is pokemon an allegory for the housing crisis

Well at least gen 3 had a hard working father living on another town to afford a new house on a different country for his family

He was probably banging a woman and was divorced. Wally is probably your half brother

It's the same company that owns the pokemart. It's in their economic interest to keep your pokemon alive so you can keep buying battle shit.

They make fuel out of pokemon shit.

So the company selling items to revive and heal pokemon is also giving away those services for free?

Communism and selling pokemon blood to the black market

this reminds me, wally is a sickly child but what the fuck does he have? the 'tism?

Who would buy pokemon blood though? Given how often you're jumped by one they seem like common pests so it shouldn't be difficult to bleed a few dry. You probably wouldn't even have to leave your porch.

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Yes. This kind of thing happens all the time in the real world. You can get free revive and heal when in town, but you pay for the portability. Tons of real products are "free" for the base version, but charge you for extra flexibility.

yeah i'll take one cold Slurm please

Most importantly, why do they build entire buildings to house one little healing machine? Why do they hire chatty nurses that waste your time? I doubt you need any training to figure those things out, you just stick your balls in and that's that.

So jynxes don't steal the machine.

In Sun/Moon, there's a town taken over by the game's criminal team. The town contains a Pokemon Center, but it doesn't have any power or staff. A couple of Team Skull goons run it, and charge you the equivalent of ten cents to heal your Pokemon. Ten Yen for the services of a Pokemon Center. And presumably, that's because they have to spin up whatever machinery and electronics need to get going from a cold boot to get it working, normal Pokemon Centers don't have that kind of initial investment since they're always running. So either the goons are underselling their services, or Pokemon Centers cost fuck all to run. I'm inclined to believe , since the margins you make from selling portable items will cover the operational costs of a Pokemon Center no problem. Theoretically, any margins put towards that could probably be considered a contribution to charity or philanthropy, and could be written off on a company's taxes. It'd be in their best interest to do so, especially since it's so cheap to run, and especially since Game Freak went full retard and has a split timeline where the current games have UNLIMITED ENERGY for reasons I don't understand because I didn't play X/Y.

Isn't it obvious?

That actually makes sense

This makes the most sense when you consider how pokemon marts are now inside of pokecenters since gen 5.

They make the real money off merchandising.
Poke-equipment of all sorts. Games, posters, clothes.
Safaris, breeding, fishing.
Think of all the money made from tournaments.
Poke centers are probably very inexpensive to run. You need low skill workers. They just stand there and turn on the machines.

Pokemon themselves are probably a lab creation of humanity. Pokemon aren't wild creatures. They're products.

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You see, pokecenters share the same parent company of the pokemarts. The pokemarts charge a premium on things like pokeballs, potions, etc, all which cost only a few yen to produce, yet they are marked up thousands of percent. Since the pokemart runs a pseudo monopoly, the government forces them to offer an (less convenient) alternative so they can't abuse the people (the pokecenters). However, it was found that this barely reduced profits (as the electricity and materials used to run the place were extremely cheap due to pokemon that produce electricity and metal, also government subsidies help) on the pokemart company, as people still bought repels, potions, balls, etc - so the pokemart company continues remodeling and refurnishing them because it increases customer satisfaction at almost no price.
Also the pokemart company puts vaporized honey into the air to attract pokemon, therefore increasing the amount of balls, potions, and repels people need to buy.
Plus, famous people donate to pokecenters to look good.

they were lab-grown, either in the "precursor" comic Capsule Monsters or in the planning stages of the the first games, i dont remember.

Bitches don't even know about welfare

I still think these two are a pokemon human hybrid. Pretty sure all of these are government funded. Not to mention things like electricity can be gathered from electric rodents. public education is replaced by 10 year olds wandering the world. You can stay in school if you want, but learning how to tame monsters that have full control over the elements and reality warping powers seem to be a bigger concern. How much water do can a squirtle hold before it needs to "refill" it seems like a metric shit ton. Money and economics in pokemon probably work very differently.

Pretty sure murder will get the heat turned up on your operations.

Now thats the right idea.

healing machines need power and nothing else to run according to the center in po town, so they're cheap enough to be funded by the government
since the world runs on pokemon, the benefit to running them for free probably heavily outweighs the cost of supplying them with power

it's japan, so you have both parents, but your dad is busy working 12 hours a day on the other side of the country
norman's the same, his job is just closer

How often do people use Dittos for purposes other than battling? What if some stunt doubles for films are Dittos, or mascots actually being shapeshifting Dittos? Would people ever have to deal with the temptation and legality of using a Ditto for sexual purposes?

They probably deal with the temptation on a regular basis

That holds no baring on offical canon outside of the likes of Mewtwo or Porygon, and even then wild pokemon existed in the beta concept just you could also buy them.

Isn't that why Jessie wanted to steal a ditto?

maybe that's why nobody has a father.
in the pokemon world men spend their time fucking their waifu dittos and once women got irrelevant men gave them 2 choices, either die or raise children alone

Wasn't there some theory about the world or at least Kanto going through some Great War-like event? Since hearing that I had figured Pokemon Centers were established to keep an eye on trainers so that they didn't grow in power too quickly. I mean if there was a war, it'd be pretty bad if someone started accumulating large amounts of powerful pokemon with seemingly no real reason behind it. Even with the "gotta catch them all" mentality, most trainers would cut their losses before diving to the bottom of the ocean or going to the top of a volcano to hunt for something powerful. But just in case they do, the centers are nearby to monitor things.

For example, let's say Timmy and his team of generally decent fighting types has been hanging around route 4 for a while now. His visits report injuries that are standard for pokemon battles and as such the goverment doesn't really give too much of a shit. Suddenly Timmy and other trainers are coming into the center more frequently with fainted pokemon that are covered in dust or burned up. Well then this sets off a flag that maybe activity in the area needs to be monitored more than usual. A bit of investigation reveals that a bunch of trainers are going after some strong fire type, and means are taken to keep an eye on whatever trainer manages to catch it so that he doesn't go nuts with power or something. That's why the main character keeps running into powerful gym leaders or E4 members later on in their journey: some little shit from the booneys just cleared all eight gyms in a few weeks, and has a team of really strong pokemon with no hints that he won't just keep getting stronger.

But hey, that's just a theory. A half-baked theory!

We could also use some sort of net.

Wait… wait… you're telling me that Pokemon, a game where 10-year-olds force creatures with enough power to destroy the world to battle as a sport isn't realistic?

Oh no!

the healing is free but its subsidized by over priced pokeballs and potions

Look at the Luxury Ball, its not any fucking better than a regular Pokeball, but autists buy it because of the look alone and the goy thinking of 'more expensive more better'

This is how Pokemon centers are funded

Its funded by the government and the Pokemon leagues IIRC. Government makes cash on taxes and the leagues get competitors. wealth distributes thanks to kids leaving home and beating people up for it and then buying things.

It's Japan, not America; they're nationalised.

I thought it had a small buff on specific Pokemon? Not that I ever bought one, but I remember reading something

It makes pokemon caught it in friendlier faster.

Military training.

Gay, real men carch everything in a normal pokeball

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I think their costs are set off by donations from silph co and taxation.

Also like most hospitals that don't abuse local healthcare, other services/products. I.E. the pokemart.

I hope you like watching your wife get fucked by fascist corporations, shitlord.

I think you're from a country where medical services aren't regulated by gov and your politicians say to you ridiculous things like: state wide medicine is communism! while taking money from drug concerns. Probably, when you brake a leg you will need to sell your house and you will still be unable to pay your bills. As Dave Chappelle once said: get yourself a canadian medical card.

What do you think an open source road would look like?

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I always assumed that adults use pokemon as work animals, so the power to run each town is provided by a couple electric pokemon that each town has. The poke center is free because the community as a whole benefits from all these trainers running around leveling up pokemon in battles, only to store them in a poke center when they find something new.

Every town has access (via the poke center) to hundreds, if not thousands of mid-to-high-level pokemon who can be used as work animals temporarily. We know that catching a pokemon in the wild when you have a full belt allows you to store the pokemon in the box remotely, so I suspect that the townsfolk use these 'box' pokemon as cattle or whatever until they're requested by the trainer, kind of like a bank.

what is this meme

Payed for by tax payer money or shady side business like pokemon trafficking.

Yeah as a child I was wondering what the fuck was it with the divorced parents in EVERY Pokemon game. Even though my parents were divorced, I thought it abnormal.

It's complete shit and nobody does anything because they're waiting for somebody else to fix the road, for free. Pointing out that said road is shit has a bunch of neckbeards on the sidewalk sitting right next to bags of concrete telling you "if you don't like it then why don't you fix it :^)?"

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A trail in the wilderness.

I always at least in red when surge mentioned the war that the players dad died.

There is only 1 Pokemon Center per town, what the fuck are you talking about?
They're funded by The Pokemon League, The Pokemon League is who gives out trainer licenses to trainers. The League in turn gains profit from the Poke Marts and through sponsorships.

We don't know jack shit about the local government though. There is speculation the regions are actually ran by The Pokemon League and the Elite 4+the League Champion are a parliamentary system run by an executive official

You know, you would figure the games would put more emphasis on raising pokemon, despite the fact that they keep making it easier and more simple.
My Sableye only consumes the finest cut gemstones dug up from the bowels of the earth. How the hell does it not starve to death while you're sailing in the ocean for days on end? Why is training a Milotic barely any different from raising a Primeape?
fuck Pokemon vidya, it's holding itself back

Something respiratory according to his parents.

It makes more sense that the Pokemon League is in charge of operating Pokemon Centers.
It works like churches. They get revenue from tourism (towns that have centers attract trainers to buy things, so they pay to have one), partnerships (Slyph Co. would go out of business if there wasn't a league and vice versa), and tax writeoffs (trainers keep wild and legendary pokemon from blocking roads and stuff).

I think if it was Civ, the pokemon nation would be one trying to go for a culture victory.

How does anything in the pokemon universe get done? seems like chaos.

because in the game you are a trainer, your character WANTS to fight even if YOU don't.

Holy fucking shit, why did you fucks let this reddit tier thread get past 100 posts? This is fucking disgusting.

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haha so fanny Xd

Funny, where I'm standing you look like the redditor telling other people not to engage in speculative worldbuilding. Perhaps you should stop posting and lurk this board for a few days.

Why do you have to pay a trainer if you lose a battle anyway? Is there some sort of law, kind of like how you can't steal pokemon?

Now you're showing how autistic you are, especially with a post like

maybe he breathed in vaccines

Because economics is fun.
Also because fuck you.

Could be that it's just extremely rude to challenge someone to a battle and not give them any prize for beating you.
This even explains why Team Rocket and the other baddies still do it; they may be criminals, but they're not fucking rude.

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What economics? People pulling shit from their autistic asses in some stupid Game Theory tier fashion?

It stimulates the economy, of course.

Yeah, that's why your non-autistic ass should go back to your shitty normalcy website. This is a den of autism and degeneracy, newfag.

Because all your pokemon have been defeated so there is nothing stopping them from killing you except a few poke.

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I always assumed the father was dead.

Fuck off, cancer.

Whats wrong with you? does algebra piss you off? Hide the damn thread ya mook

This is all good and interesting, but the real question: Are pokemon fuckable yes or no

Also you'd think that places like the sinnoh ruins would be protected to protect dumb kids from being incinerated by demigods

No.

Well aren't you just the life of the party.

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And I bet you play video games and dont even think about what your playing! I bet you voted for Hillary

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His head starts hurting when he tries to wrap his head around the complex and intricate details of the Pokemon universe, like some kind of simpleton or mouthbreather.

you sound like the autist who got triggered on the waifu thread

Why don't you do something about it, faggot?

I think marrying pokemon is in the lore.
But pokemon have different cell structures than humans, since they transform into light when you throw a ball at them. So pregnancy is out of question.
But you can fuck anything with a hole or a pole, so yeah.

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isn't pokemon marriage canon?
isn't pokemon world women getting wet as shit over machamps canon?

You should be able to find an "abandoned" lab somewhere and fund a mad scientist's research (on the order of millions of pokedollars). Once it's done, though, he'll modify every aspect of your Pokémon free of charge (because you funded him).

As much as a chicken

Face it, you're wasting that time, anyway.

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Yeah in GEN 4 it's implied Humans and Pokemon married each other, It also said Humans were Pokemon at one point.

Seems more likely that it's morally or legally objected to, especially in a setting where pokemon are treated as companions mostly.

Right? I'm glad you agree with me.

You know how you can store Pokemon in a PC? Well, each pokemon center is also a datacenter, and your PC is actually nothing but a terminal/thin client connected to a pokemon center's servers. Nobody reads the ToS, so what they don't realize is that all of your stored Pokemon can be used by the corporation running Pokemon Centers. They're farmed out for labor, energy, essentially slave work. Higher-level pokemon that are stored are used for fighting in third-world countries - Jamal's raggedy warband with rusty AKs doesn't have shit on a crazy monster that shoots lightning out of its ass.

Because they also control healing facilities, they can just restore any "used" pokemon to their original state. In fact, since there are a limited number of species, all pokemon can just be indexed in a database - if somehow a pokemon dies during slave labor or in a fight, they just replace it with another one. If you stop playing the game, your pokemon are essentially abandoned, and can be handed off with no repercussions. Besides, do you really keep track of every single Weedle that you've caught and dropped into storage? Nobody ever notices if a trash pokemon goes missing.

Autism

with that logic pokemen can just be easily cloned

The only third world country in the Pokemon universe is Orre.

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Nobody gives a fuck what you think. Go home.

The parents pay a subscription included with whatever documentation is required to train pokémon, and in turn the poké centers allows them to track their kids current location. The same goes for every related service like gyms, pokémon storage and the random loot you find along the trek.

Pokémon training is probably a common, though mildly expensive, vacation service for younger kids. You're well-monitored, you follow safe roads that conspicuously aren't fit for proper automobile movement, you fight gyms that just happen to grow in power as you do, and for whatever reason the elite 4, the supposed cream of the crop that would fight and win a lot, doesn't use level 100 pokes. It's roughly the equivalent of a sports camp for kids.

There probably is an actual adult pokémon league where the gyms are fully decked with level 100 pokemon and such, with a proper regional/world championship that gets broadcasted on TV with sponsors and all the general sports crap.

As for the criminal group, they're either actors hired to make the vacation exciting and the so-called legendary pokemon aren't unique, just rare ones that are also added on the vacation package, or they're weak because they have to rely on counterfeit pokéballs with lower catch rate than the standard ones and have little time to train their pokemon between all the criminal stuff they do.

The rest is stupid but that part's canon no matter which game you play.

taxes. so what you are saying is. these kids/young people who don't pay any taxes since they don't making income due to traveling everywhere use those pokecenters that are funded by their parents?

They are probably funded by profits from the pokemon league so they'll always have new contestants and keep making money by selling tickets

The government has levied a heavy tax on all Pokémon fight betting, and require all trainers to file tax returns for their winnings. As the nation depends on such gambling for its primary source of income, the Pokémon Center network is a publicly funded service provided free of charge in order to encourage gambling among the population. They even encourage children to breed pokemon to fight and bet on, and to gamble on slot machines. The system pays for itself.

Team Rocket were never the crooks, the real criminals are the cabinet of Poké-era Japan.

It's even better if you read it in Eggman's voice.

I always assumed it was because your pokemon wasn't ever treated for something serious. Think about it, the worst thing that happens to your pokemon despite all the potential shit that gets thrown at them is that they faint. Nothing broken, no serious diseases.

Given that fainted pokemon can be brought back by simply sleeping, I doubt they could really justify the cost.

If you came in with something life threatening then I would assume the price would be steep.

This is why the video games are shit. There's the potential for dangerous, bloodthirsty Pokemon fights that still make sense within the world, but even a Magikarp getting hit with a STAB Explosion from Arceus can walk it off in the games.

Post-scarcity economy built on the backs of pokemon-based labor, because what the hell else would a human civilization do with a world full of super-powered wildlife that is naively trusting.

To be fair though. Its mostly regulated battles. Gym leaders, elite 4, and most trainers function under rules and regulations to prevent serious injury. In fact out side of a few instances, your pokemon's lives are rarely in danger. Those instances include from the top of my head:

Ghetsis trying to directly kill the player (bw2)
Lysandre's activation of the legendary weapon (xy)
Shadow Pokemon in general
Deoxys' attempt at crashing a meteor.

That is also why the games are shit.
All these violent, territorial Pokemon are just gonna let me waltz through their mountain without even trying to eat me and my cute buddy? That shit doesn't make sense.

pokemon is made in japan where everyone is asian

Or, you know, applying real world races to a fictional video game world is stupid as fuck to begin with. But this thread is stupid central so.

It makes sense, the really violent pokemon tend to be in the later routes that are often restricted by guards. The games imply that the player is a genius trainer as most trainers with pokemon above lvl 50 are considered aces, experts, and older then the player characters age. Its likely that you wouldn't be allowed in if you didn't have so many badges, were the champion, or some other in-game justification like catching bloody GOD.

It's funded by legendaries. The protagonist might be good enough to fuck with them and win but your average NPC is going to get wiped out. When a trainer whites out they lose lots of money, which the legendary takes. It then invests that money in Pokemon Centres and PokeMarts. Trainers won't get cocky and fight tougher pokemon if their friends could die, so Pokemon Centres are there to get NPCs wasting their money biting off more than they can chew. PokeMarts are more obvious, they're usually the only shop in a town so they get lots of customers.

There is no such thing. The regional government is the Pokemon League, and its proxies are the Gym Leaders.

State funded. Taxes. You know how you amerilards have to pay for healthcare? Well, it's free in a lot of countries

It's not free if you pay for it by another name.

underrated post

There is actually a doujin about this

Yeah.

When is there not?

Well, free isn't really an accurate description. It's more like. Heavily subsidized and below standard. There's a very very good reason why the only thing we trust the government with service wise is the mail.

It's cheaper, certainly. The prices for healthcare in the US are ridiculous. You can go to a private clinic if you want anyway. It's a really good option for people who can't afford one. Burying people who don't earn as much money in deep debt for some condition they acquired is not very humane.

Fair enough, but at the same time I'd have to bring up the fact that most of that "burying people in debt" has to do with most hospitals and clinics being given incentive to milk more of that mandatory medicare money, it's kind of like how auto insurance is/was in America, there was a notable uptick of how badly you can get screwed when medicare coverage was basically declared mandatory and taxable.

Hence “mad” scientist.

Nah, it's uninsured people using the emergency room because hospitals can't turn emergency cases away and then not paying the bill. Emergency medicine is really fucking expensive so emergency rooms are a huge black hole in budgets that has to get filled somehow, and as long as you're gouging people why not do it a little harder and have some for yourself.

Well, you know. There's a big reason it's been an American meme Until Obamacare went into effect, to go to canada for medicine.

The drugs there are much cheaper because of price controls. No two hundred dollar Tylenols.

Guatamala's the place these days anyway, my cousin and her husband flew down there to give birth and the bill came to $1700. Would have cost them $30k in the US even with insurance.

But then you have a kid who's Un-American garbage, why would you want that.

I remember when I learned trigonometry and calculus all by myself one day.

b-but user i am a retard with shit parents

You need to fuck off.

I went to khanacademy and watched videos for 8 hours
I actually learned trig in one day

I love how much that triggers.

Pokemarts being inside of Pokemon Centers in Gen V immediately answered this retarded question that can easily be waved away as being funded.

trig is easy tho

Doesn't also just going home and resting have the same effect?

just because a sperg sperged the fuck out doesn't mean waifu threads should exist on Holla Forums
why are they even under the protection of king jew himself
all the waifufags are admitted newfags

Another reason why gen 5 is the best generation, by far.

Gym Leaders pay them to operate.

You see, Gym Leaders mug everyone that loses to them. People that lose to them go to Pokemon Centers to heal their pokemon. Gym Leaders need Pokemon centers close by otherwise trainers won't want to challenge them. So Gym Leaders fund Centers to keep the cash flow coming.

Learning trig is doable in an evening, but calculus?
Sure, you can learn the basics of differentiation, but you won't be able to learn all the situations where you need to apply all individual calc rules and in what order and shit in one day unless you have fucking perfect memory and just go off that.
Calculus is about practise, more than any earlier field of math.

Because the Pokemans world is actually just another version of The Matrix. The people are all plugged in to be used as batteries and processing power for the robut overlords. Their minds are put into a near-utopia with all these fantastical things to keep them from questioning their reality. Occasionally they patch in new content to keep things fresh and to distract the people that caught em all.

This also explains why new designs aren't even creative, because it's just robutts slapping shit together based on what is known of the world pre-domination. As well as explaining why no one really dies.

Or it's just a god damn video game for kids.

there's a pokeball factory in kalos

Who gives a shit? It's a fucking video game. And a bad one, at that.

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There really needs to be more rape art surrounding this concept.

that would make sense considering there is always that one battle building leader with the legendary trio

I can wave that away with my "it's the Matrix" wand.

Do you really expect me to defend my utterly baseless and outlandish theory with more baseless theorizing? I don't be having time like that, niggers.

a matrix within the matrix

Then how can you call yourself a true autist? Get out of here, Norman, you have no power in this place.

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Thank you user.

Do autists also respond to things by pointing the obvious and leaving it at that?

Did you miss me the first time? Begone from this once-great board.

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Normalfag spotted. Come back when you can understand the subtle intracies of imageboard relations.

It's a meme, you dip!

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I always assumed it was a government funded service.

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Welcome to Holla Forums, enjoy your stay

(You) are a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

Well he is right about waifu threads being cancer

Nigga according to that Maccargo is hotter than THE MOTHERFUCKING SUN

They can

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True, but at least they arent as bad as 4am

Probably just being autistic here but I always thought it was odd how the pokemon universe almost entirely revolved around pokemon. Like, wherever there was an opportunity to jam a pokeball into a piece of architecture they'd take it

What if the fuckups of the pokedex are due to the localization team being retarded?

Pokemon used to be something that humans married and fucked. Then they sort of just turned into animals.

No, it's just homo erectus evolved into homo sapiens.

Pokemon are basically gods, resources are not an issue

Yes, they are government funded, and yes, they can afford that

Kinda like the jews

They literally worship their pokemon

How could they not? These things are basically gods….

From Gen V onwards, the PokéMarts are integrated into the centers, so there's at least some revenue from trainers needing Potions and all that. Gen VII Pokémon Centers have cafés where you can buy various food and drink items, so there's that, as well. I like to think that the centers in the other regions started to follow Unova's model, but who the fuck knows or cares.

FREE HEALTHCARE

Also, Poke-centers and Poke-marts are linked.

Note the brand "Poke", they're both apart of the same international branch. Also their healing is instantaneous. The marts make and sell the goods, while the pokecenters are a side branch that acts as eternal PR gain while taking a hit to profit that's just slight enough to maintain.

The Pokemon world revolves around fucking Pokemon in all aspects of the daily life, so it's just the way things are.

My fucking Riachu didn't have autism until I took him in for a checkup

It doesn't matter my friend, once your party is full your Pokemon gets automatically transported to the local PC storage system. The Poke Balls themselves are part of the PokeBotnet

wish it was like a pokemon center…

You have to go to a world that respects your freedoms, such as digimon

I DON'T LIKE 'EM PUTTIN' CHEMICALS IN THE WATER THAT TURN THE FRIGGIN FROAKIES GAY

URGH, ARGH, SICKA THIS CRAP

A shitload of Pokemon society revolves around Pokemon because they are so goddamn useful. Machop, Machoke and Machamp are used in manual labour, including construction work and moving, flying Pokemon are affordable, non-polluting transport, electric Pokemon at the very least make great emergency generators, and probably a ton of other stuff that can only be imagined.

Running Pokemon centres, even at a loss, can only be a net benefit to society to keep the Pokemon workforce healthy and active. Much like real world universal healthcare

Last I checked the Pokedex entries are pretty much the same in Japanese. It's the writers not checking their numbers.

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user can't into IDs apparently.

Hey sweetheart, ready for a PLOWING?

Do you promise to say no homo?

You should definitely sue.

There's a fucking reason he#s a low-test no confidence pussy with the Gardevoir.

Mild Aspergers, or /lean gay/trannies

Funded by philanthropists. I only played pokemon red.

An attempt was made and it was unfunny, ignorant shit.

Seems implied it was asthma.

Actually in the Gen 3 remakes it's a Gallade.

underrated post

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Socialized PokeCare

You don't know what that word means