If the Pokemon universe has water types with endless water generating abilities, why do shops sell bottled water?

the better question is
why are there potions that are less cost efficient than just bottled water

>>57960299 (OP)
I fucking hate these images

>>57960299 (OP)
It's carbonated

>>57960303
Pokejews.

>>57960303
The real question is how tasty is that soda that is more medically healthy than common over the counter medicine?

>>57960299 (OP)
Why would you drink water from a pokemon? You're basically drinking a pokemon's bodily fluids. They most certainly contain germs, parasites and bacteria. It's no different than pond water.

small independent studio, please understand

>>57960299 (OP)
The water water pokemon create most likely isn’t drinkable

>>57960387
There has to be something different with that water if Pokemon weak to water-type attacks can still drink water or get bathed

>>57960299 (OP)
*drinks straight from the Squirtle*
Glug, glug, glug, ahhh… that’s how it should be!

>>57960299 (OP)
Dang, I'm thirsty
Aight vaporeon
Spray your fluids directly into my mouth

>>57960299 (OP)
Pokemon water is salt water

>>57960507
Cloyster using Shell Smash to literally crack one open with the boys.

>>57960541
You're acting like that isn't the wet dream of half of this board

>>57960299 (OP)
its quick2evaporate water so it doesnt have the same molecular structure as human water or earth water your comparing PokeWater to Water 2 different things.

>>57960676
How do you know that? Don't watch the show

>>57960826
Calling something 'poke-' is a way for people to try and rationalize the cartoon logic of the anime and games. Pokehumans are more resilient and strong because Ash survives being constantly electrocuted, that sort of thing.

>>57960541

>>57960832
Could be cartoon logic / slapstick humor though.

wake up baby new schizo just dropped

>>57960299 (OP)
The same reason they do in our world. People are dumb.

>>57962037
People buy water under the pretense that it's clean. Drinking water straight from the well is how we got some of the first epidemics.

>>57960299 (OP)
Taste preference

>>57963534
Depends on how you treat it and what you believe is healthy. After the Renaissance, people mistook water as the source of pathogens and avoided bathing, instead using lots of make-up to prevent water from entering pores in the skin and parfumes to mask bad smells. So it's not farfetched that people would do - from our modern perspective - stupid things.

>>57961350
I know. It can be fun to come up with weird anime logic, but some people lose their fucking minds if you try to point out that out.

>>57963669
It's just difficult to distinguish between what's a joke and what's actually a character trait.

>>57965024
All cartoon characters, even the serious ones, have the shared trait 'can ignore the laws of the universe if its funny or cool enough'. You don't gotta take it seriously.

>>57960492
It can't be distilled water. Distilled water have a low electrical conductivity.

>>57960676
Maybe an odd connection, but given the fact that several real life fruits exist even though the series went the extra mile to invent PokéWorld equivalents, but whatever (e.g. apples, avocados, bananas etc.), we can assume the water in the PokéWorld is the same as its real life counterpart. If we take for granted that the RL fruits in pokemon are similiar in composition as the ones in our world.

So water types use ordinary water, but are either able to manipulate it or there's also some "enchanced" water (something like Holy Water; there's also the item "Mystic Water") that allows water types to do any kind of crazy stuff we know from the franchise.


>>57965652
Fair enough. Though, from a world building standpoint, having logic applied - where it's necessary in a fun and not too serious manner - makes the lore and series more coherent and thus enjoyable. If everything's just convoluted with all kinds of premises that seem rather farfetched and are only included to justify a new gimmick, then is hard to immerse. But that's just my two cents.

I'd imagine the water has to be purified first amd so you're paying for the convince of not having to do it. Very much a pre-cooked/restaurant type deal

>>57966475
I totally agree that it's fun to think about, I'm just jaded because the fanfiction thread often devolves into banal arguements about this exact topic all the time.

>>57966727
Hm, might have to look that up someday.

>>57961289
Damn hot!