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[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

mouse-elves, says "oh master we love being slaves!"

You can just say Harry Potter. I'm not going to defend JK Rowling.

so it's utterly bizarre you're concerned about the imaginary welfare of animated fantasy monsters

If you're critical of Pokémon's lazy handling of its own premise, why are you castigating people for being critical of this one?

If people are making pro-worker or anti-animal-abuse arguments, and "wow, animal slaves isn't cool" is certainly one of those, embolden them. What are you doing?

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

I don't even know what your position is anymore. It's bad for a very tongue in cheek game to make a joke about lack of labour rights for monsters in their advertising, but it's fine for other monster collectors to just not acknowledged how disquieting the premise is because they explain it away by lore, but when Rowling explains something away by lore it's not excuseable because lore doesn't have any material impact on what people are implicitly writing about?

I think you should probably just learn about the game before having an opinion about it. It is very unserious. It is parody homage, and also just dumb and cute. It's like getting worked up about mario kart encouraging teen destruction derbies or something. We're not looking at something like the skeezy line blurring between Hollywood and the usaian MIC as the usaian department of war requires films to adopt pro imperial stances in order to grant access to military hardware which in turn makes movies more visually appealing.

It's just a ridiculous little toy going "Monster collectors are very silly hey?" where you can pat the cute mammoth in the spa and also work 100 cats to depression making bombs.

This doesn't have any meaningful impact, if you want to improve the world go do a weekend at your nearest animal rescue, volunteer your time teaching your local language to migrants, or promote a Union at your job.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Oh you know what actually, this post might help you understand why I am the way I am.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sigmarxism/comments/11wt3kp/the_plague_of_diegetic_essentialism_or_how_i/