If it was in the US, it would quickly turn into palworld.
I haven’t played Palworld but I’m told that you can capture people and force them to work for you. So technically the US is already ahead of this.
I think he meant pocket monsters with guns
That is correct, you can capture mercenaries for combat, and townsfolk can be relocated to your base (although risky)
But with guns!
Bitchin cool!
The only thing I know from palworld Is a screenshot of a bunch of pals sitting in front of a conveyer belt and another screenshot of a pal with a gun
Someone should make a ROM hack where Pokémon centres charge a game-world fee equivalent to what a person would pay for healthcare for serious injuries in the US, with insurance and loan sharks.
Do the rom hack right.
- Toll roads everywhere. Paid each time you enter.
- Pokemart is a monopoly and gouges you.
- Arceusism is the state religion and others are barely tolerated.
- Gyms are privatized and cost per attempt.
- Pokemon sweatshops.
- PC access is a freemiun model where you get the first 5 for free, but beyond that you have to pay for Pokestorage+ and pay monthly. Also pokes come out hating you so pretty sure they getting abused. And occasionally pokes get lost.
Cost per attempt? Gyms require an annual membership fee, and good luck ever canceling
The fee is just to “challenge” the gym master for your badge. You still have to pay the subscription to even get into the door.
Pokémon Sweatshops
I think that was literally a plot point in one of the earlier games or anime? That one will be easy to adapt, just make Team Rocket the heroes for being shrewd businesspeople and you the villain for daring to question the will of the free market.
And all the rocket goons are just police protecting the capitalists
Some of your items no longer function as the company that makes them went out of business
Dont forget its a defacto state religion not dejure … just to make it more infurating
In fact where it is dejure religion, nobody actually follows it or believes it.
Wait That last one is just Pokemon home lmao
Make it so that you can appeal the results of battles
I read the end part there as Bender “with blackjack and hookers”
There would be no rioting in the US. Just corporations scamming you with „insurance”
The U.S. has been trained to see protesting as a bad thing, so now we all just take the hits and blame neighbors whose political values don’t line up with ours.
It’s amazing how many people I meet who think so highly of the American revolution, but are completely aghast at the idea of fighting against the government now.
While simultaneously opposing any form of gun control so they can fight… something?
Apparently the only protest worth anything is one where you’re shooting at someone
Shooting at people is an American tradition. We can’t let our kids forget what this nation was built upon.
only if the people doing the shooting arent gay or something
Did some digging and I think the original author is https://www.instagram.com/sephko/
thanks i will add that
Fun fact: This happens in Pokemon Sun and Moon, when Team Skull takes over one of the towns. They charge a whopping 10 Pokedollars.
I upvoted, but maybe !comics@lemmy.ml or !webcomics@lemmy.ml
Charizard used Eat the Rich. It’s super effective!
Why would they pokemon be on the side of the government during riots? Are pokemon stupid?
I mean, why would pokemon be on the side of team rocket or whatever other villainous (often apocalyptic) group the games have? They just follow whoever catches them no matter what.
Exactly. In game, Pokemon follow people of a certain strength.
There’s a documentary that may help explain this, iirc it’s called Paw Patrol
Have you never heard of police dogs?
Why wouldn’t they? Team Rocket/MagmAqua/Galactic/Plasma/Flare all have pokemon fighting with them. They listen to the trainer, not the moral obligation of the society.
Yeah but they get less healthcare then, because now it costs money.
Federal thugs get free Healthcare because they act as the enforcement arm of the capitalist state.
Sign me up!
And that’s why cops and pokemon betray the working class
Well they got me at “thugs”.
There are many people who have jobs they hate because they get good benefits, like healthcare & dental.
The Pokemon are just the abused working class.
Why are suffering lower/middle class people opposed to protests for better social security and medical systems? Are they stupid?
But fr tho sometimes people are just blind. If you have been a slave (pokemon) for life then its hard to break your chains.
Yo, the last major outbreak of violence against the government was when the far right lost an election. This is pretty damn on the ball.
A price on healing means my trainer won’t be so inclined to make me fight!
Pokemon in all versions of Pokemon are literal slaves. They have no free will if they are in a Poke Bowl. And depending on the movie - that free will can be overwritten again by a Psychic Type Pokemon.
Tell me what the “pokemon” should do.
Join in the revolution against the capitalist government.
Omg, I love this
Underrated
If course Blastoise would be a cop.
Not like anarchist queen Charizard or vegan king Venusaur.
I’ll give you Venusaur but Charizard is a dyed in the wool fascist.
PokeRiot would totally turned into an all out civil war. I wonder if they have a signal jammer but for pokeball? 🤔
Choosing squirtle makes you a cop, I will take no further questions
The guy that made Trailer Park Alien did a short about this. https://youtu.be/DJWooGhvSl8?si=U4mePYgRrJ7H_RVg
Fall of the Soviet Union (1991, colorized)
