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7/23/2025, 6:45:39 PM
>>58033944
You still haven't elaborated btw. If it's so obvious, it should be really easy to explain, right? NTA but entertain me.
You still haven't elaborated btw. If it's so obvious, it should be really easy to explain, right? NTA but entertain me.
7/17/2025, 12:32:48 PM
>>58004307
imagination schizo shit aside because that guy isn't worth talking to or about:
obviously parallel timelines are established in the series, i just don't think they have anything at all to do with SV or its story, which is extremely up-front about being about time travel. the contradiction in the DLC has already been explained re:mistranslation discourse in this very thread so i don't feel like wasting breath on it, and the fact is the game is telling you it's about time travel constantly, telling you the paradox mons are time travelers constantly, telling you on numerous occasions that the crux of the plot is a time machine, and literally all secondary media (anime, TCG, etc - also previously posted in this thread) has doubled down on all of this.
it's telling that the other pokémon game that actually does deal with alternate universes is not subtle about it at all, Gen 7 talks about alternate universes in regards to ultra space and ultra beasts as frequently as Gen 9 talks about time travel in regards to the literal time machine and paradox mons. if this game was about alternate universes they would have been extremely obvious about it because it's made for fucking kids, there's a clear precedent for that.
all of that vs a throwaway line in the crystal pool scene that isn't even in reference to paradox mons, has been under heavy scrutiny from day 1 for its liberal translation of phrase that - as i understand it - had previously been used to refer to time travel in the base game; a scene which has been, in some form, adapted into the anime where it's again clarified to be straightforward time travel... and the japanese aren't even having this discussion because in the game's native language it's clear that it's about time travel from start to finish, crystal pool scene included? i don't know what this sounds like to you but if it was me looking at the facts, occam's razor would lead me straight to the conclusion that the game is about time travel.
imagination schizo shit aside because that guy isn't worth talking to or about:
obviously parallel timelines are established in the series, i just don't think they have anything at all to do with SV or its story, which is extremely up-front about being about time travel. the contradiction in the DLC has already been explained re:mistranslation discourse in this very thread so i don't feel like wasting breath on it, and the fact is the game is telling you it's about time travel constantly, telling you the paradox mons are time travelers constantly, telling you on numerous occasions that the crux of the plot is a time machine, and literally all secondary media (anime, TCG, etc - also previously posted in this thread) has doubled down on all of this.
it's telling that the other pokémon game that actually does deal with alternate universes is not subtle about it at all, Gen 7 talks about alternate universes in regards to ultra space and ultra beasts as frequently as Gen 9 talks about time travel in regards to the literal time machine and paradox mons. if this game was about alternate universes they would have been extremely obvious about it because it's made for fucking kids, there's a clear precedent for that.
all of that vs a throwaway line in the crystal pool scene that isn't even in reference to paradox mons, has been under heavy scrutiny from day 1 for its liberal translation of phrase that - as i understand it - had previously been used to refer to time travel in the base game; a scene which has been, in some form, adapted into the anime where it's again clarified to be straightforward time travel... and the japanese aren't even having this discussion because in the game's native language it's clear that it's about time travel from start to finish, crystal pool scene included? i don't know what this sounds like to you but if it was me looking at the facts, occam's razor would lead me straight to the conclusion that the game is about time travel.
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