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minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down1·6 months agoMore importantly, actual evolution doesn’t change the individual. The “evolution” in Pokémon and Digimon should be called “development”.
minus-squareGenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up83·6 months agoOr metamorphosis.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·6 months agoThat’s actually what it’s called in German. Never thought about the implications of the “X evolved to Y” screens.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoAnd would have avoided so much pearl-clutching from right-wing fundamentalist busybodies. God damn were the 90s stupid.
minus-squaredogsoahC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 months agoUnlike the following two and a half decades, which were filled to the brim with meaningful conservative talking points.
minus-squaremindbleach@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 months agoAt least we call bullshit now! Until the debacle of the W administration, the very premise of religious objections was nigh unquestionable. They had to move on to high-test crazy because nobody was buying the old brand.
minus-squarethreelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months ago high-test crazy New favorite term discovered. Like high-test peroxide, but crazy.
minus-squareorphiebaby@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoJapanese media is stupid too, Pokémon especially. South Park even commented on that when it was new. So it was stupid against stupid.
minus-squareRinox@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 months agoIn Italian Digimon it’s called Digievolution
More importantly, actual evolution doesn’t change the individual. The “evolution” in Pokémon and Digimon should be called “development”.
Or metamorphosis.
Yes, that’s better, thank you.
That’s actually what it’s called in German. Never thought about the implications of the “X evolved to Y” screens.
And would have avoided so much pearl-clutching from right-wing fundamentalist busybodies.
God damn were the 90s stupid.
Unlike the following two and a half decades, which were filled to the brim with meaningful conservative talking points.
At least we call bullshit now! Until the debacle of the W administration, the very premise of religious objections was nigh unquestionable. They had to move on to high-test crazy because nobody was buying the old brand.
New favorite term discovered. Like high-test peroxide, but crazy.
Japanese media is stupid too, Pokémon especially. South Park even commented on that when it was new. So it was stupid against stupid.
In Italian Digimon it’s called Digievolution