The Room

[Xman490]

And yet Prof. Oak uses a Gen 1 rodent. Rattata is the most ferocious and terrifying beginning area rodent/small mammal. 1 Hyper Fang critical hit will kill anyone early on, except Geodude.

 

[DeadEyeDan]

Fairy type has a superior advantage over dragon type because we say it does.

 

[freaper]

This should be renamed to Room Electrode.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

There are only 151 Pokemon and there are 4 lights!

 

[Jedisolo75]

Thanks, I really needed a reminder of that, the nightmares were almost gone.

Seriously though, nice reference.

 

[Sejborg]

The Room

The Ministry of Pokelove

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Pretty sure you mean "Room 101" and not "The Room". The Room is an entirely different thing.

 

[Weaver]

As a side note, for those of you who didn't get it; you should totally read 1984. It's a great book and an important piece of literature (IMO).

 

[MrPhyntch]

My thoughts exactly, and that alone is enough to make me keep my distance. Then there is the possibility of powercreep with all these new pokemon. Don't know how bad it is or if it's even a problem, but I don't want to find out.

I do admire pokemon from a marketing perspective, though. Everything in it is designed to sell. The roundness of Pikachu to attract little kids (boys and girls). The fact that the pokemon talk with their names to help kids remember their names. It has to be one of the most clever marketing schemes of all time. Gotta catch'em all, after all.

Powercreep is actually not a problem. There are less things being banned from tournament play with each new generation (since DPPt, anyway). The meta game gets mixed up a bit (BW introduced some highly aggressive play that actually worked in the meta, and XY introduced the fairy type, a new way to counter dark, dragon, and fighting types, some of the most obnoxious in tourney play), but no real power creep. What mostly happens is the introduction of new type combinations and movesets, which simply shifts the meta, no powercreep.

Also, because I'm THAT guy, pokemon don't actually say their names. For the first time ever, Pikachu will saay "Pika pika" or some variant thereof on the battlefield, but everyone else still uses their "cries", which are more like animal cries than what the Anime would have you believe. Because as far as those into the games are concerned, the Anime is not, actually, canon.

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[Fox12]

Uh, was this humor? No seriously? Am I meant to openly laugh at this? Or chuckle a little bit and say "that's was kinda clever" or what? I know quality control on the Internet is pretty much non-existant but come on. Really?

It's actually, I believe, a Star Trek reference. Picard was doing a secret mission and was captured by the Cardassian who then tortured and tryed to brain wash him (or something as evil). The first step is to get him to admit that there are 5 lights when in fact there are 4. (youtube picard torture) It's a good episode.

It's referring to 1984. I think the Star Trek episode you mentioned was actually referring to 1984 as well. There's a scene in 1984 where the main character is being brain washed into thinking that 2+2=5. Both were inspired by the same source material.

 

[hentropy]

A Brazil reference would have been a lot more hip and cool. I'm disappointed in you guys. I thought you were cool.

 

[JoJo]

Freedom is the freedom to say that there are 151 pokemon. If that is granted, all else follows.

 

[The_Echo]

I thought a Pokémon's Dex number was based on when they were discovered.

Is that no longer true? Was that never true?

Wait... really?

I haven't payed attention since Red/Blue. Are there seriously 700+ of the little bastards running around now?

Yeah. (Though it may be worth noting that Digimon has had 1100+ for years.)

 

[Something Amyss]

Also, is anyone else confused on how Fairy types are supposedly "newly discovered" Pokemon? What, did the natives of Kalo's just not see them?

It's even more confusing when you figure that some of the old Pokés are now Fairy type. In Kanto? Useless to dragon. In Hoenn? Useless to dragon. In Kalos? IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!

Or maybe that's what they WANT you to think!

 

[nodlimax]

There are four lights!

....I think I just went off topic....

 

[katsabas]

From what I gathered, there is a reference to a book here but it anyone else also get a Game Of Thrones vibe ?

 

[Major_Tom]

There... Are... Four... Pokemon!

Wait, wrong torture.

 

[Something Amyss]

It's referring to 1984. I think the Star Trek episode you mentioned was actually referring to 1984 as well. There's a scene in 1984 where the main character is being brain washed into thinking that 2+2=5. Both were inspired by the same source material.

Further, the intro post mentions the Ministry of Pokélove, making it fairly obvious where it comes from. Also, the use of a Ratatta, reminiscent specifically of the rats from the scene[footnote]And the very creepy implications of a use for Ratatta[/footnote]. Pretty sure Star Trek doesn't use rats in that ep.

But then, we reach the obvious issue: More people on The Escapist are likely to remember the Star Trek episode than a book they only read because it was a high school requirement.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I'm in that chair right now. I am terrified. Help.