And, from an artistic perspective, all the people who were "artists" who have been doing nothing but modern art type trash for years or pretending modern art wasn't utter trash get what they deserve with the AI art destroying them.
I don't care if an AI artist makes money off of making their AI art personally. Now as a buyer I sure wouldn't pay as much as say someone who painstakingly painted every drop of paint on the canvas vs a paintng that a guy maybe spent a few hours getting the exact settings right to have the AI generate it lol.
Heck though, sometimes that AI stuff makes an actual better quality product than someone by hand. If so and someone wants to buy it what do I care lol.
Besides, these artists wanted art taking seriously they shoulnd't have been pretending "modern art" was ever good anyway and actually developed real skills. They did this to themselves lol.
That is a big myth really. If you do a prenup right they actually are very powerful. There are ways to do it right though.
The reasons prenups do get thrown out when they do are often for a few specific BS reasons, but there are very few basic things you can do when doing a prenup to prevent those BS reasons which makes them incredibly difficult to dismiss.
Barry is officially the rival of Diamond Pearl btw.
I will give you I did miss Bianca as she is depicted as both with and without a skirt depending on the version of the game, but not far off. Either way the rival was just a throw in thing that a number of them and even the first female rival was not wearing a skirt.
Also, no I was wrong about one of my 20+ examples, and even then only sightly as I missed that sometimes she does and doesn't wear a skirt depending on the game version. That is bad logic to just dismiss everything cause I was 50% off about one of my many many examples. Just google it. All the rivals and protagonists are on bulbapedia or many other locations. Acting cause I got one out of 20+ slightly off means I was wrong about them all lol.
And Dawn is not officially considered a rival in DP but Barry is. There is an actual specific list.
Also, fine if you want to focus on the weakest of the massive list of evidence I even gave the rival [this was about main characters anyway, the rival was just a side throw in of evidence] and googling the rest is too hard because I was 50% wrong about one specific case of bianca who is depicted in BOTH ways not just with a skirt in the actual games, here is the list for you for the games of female characters not in a skirt:
Crystal, HGSS, RS, E, ORAS, BW [specifically the first one], SM, USUM, LGP/E, LA, and of course SA.
That gives you 11/19 female player characters without skirts through the game history, including no skirts until the FRLG remake or DP. All the early rivals were skirtless so this is such a stupid argument to act like girls without skirts is some new thing in pokemon due to wokeness.
Of official list of the rivals there are more skirts, but of them: 6.5/9 female characters are not skirts by default. the 0.5 given Bianca in BW has a skirt, but not a skirt in BW2. Even if I give you that the other girl is a rival in DP, and Bianca doesn't count cause in one of her appearances she does, that is still 50% of the female rival appearances are without skirts. Even though this isn't even about the rival but the primary character more importantly.
I'll even take it a step further. Kanto region: 2/3 or 3/4, if you count Koga's replacement later, of female gym leaders no skirt.
Johto: 3/4 female gym leaders no skirt [I am counting a dress as a skirt for the purposes of this where Jasmine does have a dress, which if anything this generously works in favor of your argument if I were to be nitpicky about it]
Hoenn: 3/4 female gym leaders no skirt.
Sinnoh: 50% of female gym leaders no form of skirt or dress.
Only one female gym leader has a dress or skirt in BW1 and only one in BW2
50% of female gym leaders in Kalos no sort of skirt
SWSH: Only two gym leaders have a skirt/dress with 5 female characters not having one [more gyms due to version differences in this one]. Bede does not have a dress she has a giant coat which is very clearly not a dress btw.
Even so, this argument is about the player characters themselves mostly which heavily favor one direction especially early in the games series.
So clearly, unless you want to just be hyper skeptical cause maybe one I got 50% off then so be it, but I have clearly shown in what takes half a google search that it is actually more traditional from pokemon games FROM THE FREAKIN' BEGINNING to not have girls in skirts compared to having them in skirts, so your argument that this is some new woke thing is utterly absurd.
Especially when you consider the rate of girls in skirts actually INCREASES in the later games compared to the early games overall. The closer we get to the modern wokeness, there literally are MORE skirts at a higher rate. It is seriously the opposite of your entire thesis is true.
Female professors are 50/50 on skirts/dresses, moms are pretty mixed as well. The ONLY example more in your favor is that most of the elite 4 female characters had dresses of some kind. But not all do, but also even the recent games kept that. Heck the one member of the elite 4 that is a female still does even in the newest game has a little skirt/dress. Once again proving the point.
Also, of the female champions, including the first one in Cynthia, are about half dresses half not, once again proving my point.
In every category of significant characters in the pokemon games a simple google search shows just how one directional this is and goes against your entire argument. It is actually shocking how much it does as I didn't expect it when I decided to do a quick google search on this.
Look, I am not saying there is not wokeness somewhere or there wont' be going forward and isn't a concern, but it just isn't there in the way you say and this is a downright moronic argument if you just take a few seconds to look at all the official character drawings that are very well compiled on the internet by game and by role.
Maybe but I am just not seeing where that is in this game. I just played through most of it, I just beat the elite 4 but haven't gotten to the final crater in the middle of the map maybe it is all there, but this has had less woke stuff than I have seen in any game in recent years. There is maybe one somewhat androgynous character in the entire game but that isn't anything new even for pokemon nor most japanese forms of entertainment, and it isn't even in your face, nor does it seem like they are trying to make anything of it and feels more like just it being sorta japanese style anime than anything woke.
Maybe I missed a random bit of dialog SOMEWHERE but I sure as heck didn't see it. Nothing of the character creator is that out of the ordinary even as of like 10 years ago + compared to video games with character creators even back then.
Look, I don't deny that they probably will try and push it woke but if anything I saw much more woke stuff in sword and shield than this game that had two somewhat androgynous characters at most. If anything this is pulled back less woke from sword/shield and those characters almost did feel more trans than generically androgynous like the one in this game.
There are reasons to have complaints about this game and the direction pokemon has gone, but this is just silly and not there. I don't even like a lot of the way the visual style has gone, but I can hardly call it woke for what they have done.
I agree it looks sorta silly, but so can most character customizers that have been in games for like 15 years that have allowed you to put weird female hair on your dude. It isn't even a woke thing this has been allowed in video games for a long time just to make your characters look silly and horrendous :P
I just have trouble caring about that one given that is in about 50% of games that have had a character creator had this option since as long as I even remember.
Heck I remember old MS DOS RPGS that you could pick a gender but then have a picture of an opposite gender just normally without any importing or anything. This isn't anything new.
Dude 11/19 or 10/19 [one maybe is debatable but it really isn't a skirt I would go with 11/19 is more accurate] of female protagonists in the core series of pokemon games didn't have a skirt. Including 5 out of the first 6 female playable characters of which the only one of those was the fire red leaf green remake that had a skirt. It wasn't even until Diamond/Pearl and or FireRed/LeafGreen that there was a female protagonist that had a skirt. [just in case you want to claim this is recent only]. If anything the female characters had more utilitarian almost climbing/hiking gear type clothes for most of the early games cause they were going on a long distance hiking adventure.
In addition, while there is a smaller sample size even a number of the female rivals didn't have skirts including the first few. There is no female rival with a skirt until XY gen 6. Also, many if not most of Ash's female traveling companions in the anime, including the very freakin' first one Misty most definitely did not have a skirt.
And no, the frills at the bottom of May's shirt do not count as a skirt.
If anything it is more traditionally pokemon to NOT have a skirt as a main female character. Normally there is some sort of tights/shorts thing the female player wears, which actually you can buy tights and wear in this game and the school uniform shorts totally are appropriate to earlier character designs.
Also female school uniforms without skirts are not uncommon even in before "now adays-wokeness" In many countries and areas. Many places have non-skirt based uniforms and have had for many years.
Look, I hate the wokeness as much as anyone else but this just isn't even close to damning enough. Maybe they did do it for some woke reason, but even if they did this isn't even anything that different from the core series.
Honestly I have been playing the game and the wokeness level sees pretty dang low compared to most games these days. I think if there are any problems with the game, which there are, this is the least of any issues.
I think the bigger problem with the character customization is that you can ALMOST not actually change most of your outfits. You have 4 seasonal school uniforms to change from, and it is the same for EVERY character [per version, the color is different in scarlet/violet] and then beyond that you can only change hair, hats, gloves, socks, boots, and facial features. The school uniform thing is pretty set in stone.
Now, it looks like they made it so they will prob add dlc to change all that later, but as of now it is a pretty strict system of you have your school uniform + you can customize things that are not directly the uniform.
Honestly, it isn't that woke. Only real thing they did was they didn't make any hairstyles exclusive to body types or whatever which honestly I don't care many games have done that or years honestly even before the woke stuff. If they did add skirts it would actually probably make the game MORE woke cause they would probably allow boys to wear the skirts too given what they did with the rest of the stuff.
Personally I will say I am enjoying the game a lot, despite its issues, but it does have a few. But, just seriously not seeing the wokeness in it be it any dialog really or anything. Maybe there is some random line I missed. Oh there always is, but I am normally pretty sensitive to woke junk in games and I am just not seeing it.
Oh I think there is potential for it in pokemon heck yeah, but I just don't think I am seeing it that actually manifest in the game.
Honestly game is probably one of the most fun games I have had in a pokemon game in ages, despite serious problems with it that I wish they would fix that they have been having for years [no more national dex, elite 4 is a joke, the "evil team rocket style team" is barely a thing anymore, underwhelming story, ect].
There are ways to be critical of the game, but just not seeing the woke part sorry.
I mean, you are asking a good question but actually I could see someone having a generic dream job and this just happened to fill it. Like: "My dream job is something that pays a lot, and I just sit around and I don't have to do any real work".
I mean it is a pretty shallow dream job when it is generic like that but could be.
But, yeah it is still not unreasonable to laugh at how stupid that sounds and looks.
Totally agree. I just ignore them when they say this sort of utter nonsense. When they do this stuff that they just proclaim despite it contradicting the established cannon, or inductively contradicts it, or just isn't generally supported by the cannon in any significant way but they just want to throw it in [say Dumbledore is gay thing originally] then I just ignore it and let my mind go elsewhere. They are just cheapening their own product when they do this stuff.
Some of that is just lame retconning when they decided to make games worse than super mario world.
I never got that reasoning though, super mario world was an amazing game and it was like after that game all they wanted was to do stuff that wasn't anything like super mario world.
I guess I get the turtle thing where he means he is kinda a de-facto turtle since that is a shell on its back, but that is also stupid regardless. Especially when you consider actually quite a few animals had shells on its back not just turtles. If anything it just shows his ignorance. Wait, and don't some I don't know... DINOSAURS have shells on their back too? That doesn't make them a turtle. Honestly though I bet that is just a stupid statement by someone who thinks they are being clever but actually makes them look dumb. Seriously some people I swear get off on "correcting" people in the stupidest ways. "WELL ACTUALLY......" and then bring up some BS nonsense.
But like other people said, it is a lame tactic to just proclaim things after the fact that were never given any reason to be the case. Often for political reasons or to be like "lol I told you so stupid fans how dare you know things the normies don't" or something like that. Like the toadette thing I figure that one has to be purely just stupid political retconning. What is next all coopas are genderless too and Wendy Koopa was secretly just a transvestite? Actually I may believe Wendy was a transvestite, as it kinda looks like a lot of them :P
I am not saying this is how the law would see it....
But the idea of "preferring" one thing but then saying both have an equal opportunity is an outright contradiction and an absurd thing to say. Oh the law may let them get away with that contradiction but it is still nonsense and dishonest.
I will admit I am out of the loop. I didn't even know G4 was trying to be a new thing again till a week or so ago, but who the heck is this Frosk person? lol Anywhere I can find a summary of what lead up to all this ?
Wait wait wait.... couldn't he have just like.... used the stones to provide infinite resources to the universe and NO ONE would have to die? I am no expert on marvel stuff, but if that actually is the power of having all the infinity stones.... da hek?
I mean with those he even could have literally made more "space" and more planets for people live on so not even that resource could have run out.
I never got this. I have been called every single freakin' think on the internet since I starting using it when I was a tiny little kid. I dealt with it and moved on.
If I got to get public outrage sympathy every time someone called me a bad word, gosh I would have been downright famous for the things I got called playing Halo 2 on the original Xbox. And it was sure as heck worse than things like "you should die". I would literally get banned from reddit for repeating what I was called on a daily basis lol.
Weren't they even on the record that they don't know how to write courtroom dramas too xD?
I mean how do you even hire these people for this show? Maybe there is a place they could write [cough cough prob not judging by this show] but not a freakin' show about a lawyer who has to do stuff in court super hero or not.
They couldn't have found ANYONE who knows how to write a courtroom drama?
Lol guns are not that hard to use. If you are really concerned just have a basic guns safety sheet come with each one that has basic concepts of gun safety.
Also, basically the manuals pretty much do that anyway. They are actually quite good and explain well how to use the gun, and are often overloaded with safety information including all the gun safety concepts. You don't have to have "training" to use one of them. They are not that complicated. Just read the dang manual if you really don't know, and if you are too cocky to do so then you are going to hurt someone or yourself anyway with something else regardless. Even more so if you get a basic revolver which takes about 3 seconds of looking at it to figure out how it works in most cases with modern ones.
Not to mention the idea of something being a right and having to get a permit is ridiculous... even if that is often enacted by law.... but many laws are ridiculous.