Yeah, that's what I used to quesion myself when I first watched the movie as a kid. Nowadays I know that this was more realistic than I thought.
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Do you think people in the Pokemon world spam social media with this meme every time an evil team gets foiled by yet another teenage prodigy?
I mean, they've gotta start taking it seriously eventually, right?
Why do Midwest sports fans always make it so personal? Every time I see Midwest sports fans bantering about their teams, it always seems to become about more than the teams on the field. It's not just your team that sucks; your state and city suck, too. I don't get it. Even the Northeast, which has belligerents like Philadelphia and Baltimore, doesn't seem to do it as much.
Growing up in Illinois, then moving to Wisconsin, I have some funny experiences with this. Wisconsin's Baseball team, The Brewers, consider their main rival to be Illinois, that being The Chicago Cubs. The thing is, I literally never heard of The Brewers until I moved to Wisconsin. The feeling is not mutual. But it gets better. Sure, they are overshadowed by The Cardinals, who most Cubs fans consider their rival, but there is a secondary rival that is also not The Brewers, it being The Chicago White Sox. Wisconsin considers Chicago to be its rival, but Chicago feels a much stronger rivalry with itself than Wisconsin.
it's nice that the cubs can have rivalries with teams that they might actually beat
in more serious news, i think midwest teams in general lack the glitz and glamour that draw in fair-weather fans and undecideds. aside from the bulls in the mj era, even when midwest teams are consistently good enough to compete for titles (eg rodgers packers, modern wolverines, giannis bucks), they are seldom forming championship dynasties to attract sustained bandwagoners. even the rodgers packers only got one SB appearance and one ring. there's not even a dallas-type team that is bad but still chugs on as a wide, famous favorite through inertia. therefore, if you're coming into the midwest fandom, it's probably personal, becoming more a part of your identity because it's more connected to where you came from / your family / miscellaneous grudges
in more serious news, i think midwest teams in general lack the glitz and glamour that draw in fair-weather fans and undecideds. aside from the bulls in the mj era, even when midwest teams are consistently good enough to compete for titles (eg rodgers packers, modern wolverines, giannis bucks), they are seldom forming championship dynasties to attract sustained bandwagoners. even the rodgers packers only got one SB appearance and one ring. there's not even a dallas-type team that is bad but still chugs on as a wide, famous favorite through inertia. therefore, if you're coming into the midwest fandom, it's probably personal, becoming more a part of your identity because it's more connected to where you came from / your family / miscellaneous grudges
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I still cannot believe there are kids out there who get to grow up with this show as their first action-adventure cartoon. Absolutely unreal how good they have it
I still cannot believe there are kids out there who get to grow up with this show as their first action-adventure cartoon. Absolutely unreal how good they have it
oh God oh fuck
also, heres something to ruin your day
fuck off man you can't just tell me that
I remember some of the abominable memes that my generation latched onto. The kids are gonna be alright.
Well, they're not gonna be totally alright, but they'll be alright in this respect.
drink their tears in front of them
In what way?
in the way that it's just the same 5 OPs the entire time
Sonic.exe is the pure incarnation of chaos theory in action. Imagine crossing over to an alternate timeline where that thing never existed and trying to explain all the lore, they'd never believe you. "Yeah so some guy in the late 2000s cobbled together a really shitty and juvenile scary story about a haunted Sonic game except somehow it exploded in popularity, received an armada of fangames and forever defined videogame-based horror. It eventually died down after getting stale and made fun of, but then over a decade later it became more popular than ever off the modding community of an early access indie rhythm game and now there's an entire expanded universe of variants brought to life via fan animations with a collective viewcount in the tens of millions." Genuinely a conversation with someone from a reality where Jeb beat Trump in the primary and won 2016 would be more coherent
I'm not sure about this one. Are we really giving it more credit for the state of modern horror gaming than, say, Slender or Five Nights at Freddy's?
I was talking other fanmade horror versions of non-horror game franchises, not original titles
Some clarity would have been nice: When I saw that phrasing, I assumed you were talking about horror video games. Something like "creepypasta games" would probably be better.
trying to explain to someone from another reality how trump, someone incredibly transparently evil with no background in politics and who had six bankruptcys won an election, would also be hard.
