Pretty sure the author meant restitution but also, good point
Hey now, most of them give you free pokeballs. Professor Oak even sends out his minions to give you useful devices as you fill in the pokedex.
Ah, to live in the non-capitalist, non-comoddified pokémon society where most things are done for social good rather than self gain.
Well they also enslave their pokemon, primarily to fight each other to unconsciousness for their masters’ entertainment. In fact, gambling winnings from these fights is how the main protagonists in the games are able to make money. It’s prevalent and profitable enough that pokemon trafficking is the main enterprise of several organized crime organizations. All this is despite the fact that there are several examples of pokemon learning to speak and otherwise having an intelligence comparable to humans. Basically, it does not do well in the veil of ignorance test and only seems idyllic if you know you will be at the top of the hierarchy.
I think you’ve focused on the extraordinary conditions of the protagonists, and ignored the features of the world for normal people.
Most people do not battle their pokémon regularly.
Pokémon are partners, not slaves - and the people who treat their pokémon as objects are consistently bad and harmful of society. And you’ll note that this is an area that villainous teams focus on.
There is a lack of poverty, healthcare is free, education is free, and there isn’t hunger or homelessness.
Society works to support each other without the profit motive. Except for those who push into competitive battling, and criminals.
Jeez, that’s a thirsty series.
Many comic artists have side gigs to actually make a living. I could guess what this person does for their day job.
The funnier part is the idea that you could just… report a well established and ingrained element of a society… to that society’s ‘police’… and thinking that they would do anything other than laugh at you.
Only once they had a “human hospital” in the series, almost everything else is only for pokemon.
What’s stopping people from going in pokeballs?
I’m absolutely certain there have been many a naughty comic made about this idea.
Alright, I checked. For science.
The tag
caught_in_pokeballhas 5 pages of results on rule 34 dot xxx.
If she’s writing a thesis at the end of the journey it’s academia
Kids can’t contribute to FOSS because then it’s child labour.
‘Economical retribution’?
“Retribution” is a common false friend (faux ami) in English-Spanish translation, where English speakers might mistakenly use retribución to mean punishment, whereas retribución actually means compensation, payment, or remuneration.
And Spanish is not the only language where “retribution” means remuneration. English is the weird one here.
Sure, but this comic is in English…
By a Spanish-speaking person. Give them a break.
I actually enjoy all this cultural swap stemming from ESL people slightly misusing English. I love languages. I love how many words come from similar roots but spreading with slightly different meaning across regions.
Me too
One thing I’ve never heard any native English speaker say, but have heard from more than one non-native speaker is the phrase ”we perfectly know“. Something like “as we perfectly know, English is a living language”
I’m not sure exactly what word I’d substitute in there to make it “proper” English, but I do know I don’t want to
“We know perfectly well” would be a common way of phrasing this as a native US English speaker.
I’ve heard British English say “we all well know” as a canned phrase even though that isn’t proper English grammar. I suspect it’s borrowed from French, like a lot of British English phrases.
One of those people was French, so it’s possible
The artist is Colombian.
I’ve not seen a comic from this dude in so long
There was one posted here yesterday.
