Comment on Why are Pokemon Showdown Moderators SO against the discussion of "Eating Pokemon"?
PlzGibHugs@piefed.ca 2 days ago
I mean, while it is cannon, they mostly avoid it nowadays because there is so much weird stuff around it. While Pokemon are depicted as animals, many are suggested to be sentient and/or just as intelligent as humans, so things get very messy even within the universal canonical stuff, nonetheless stuff that they’ve swept under the rug.
“Mostly avoid it nowadays”, my ass!
It’s still a MAJOR part of the Pokemon franchise to this day! Sword & Shield, Scarlet & Violet, and even THE LEGENDS GAMES make all sorts of establishments where Pokemon are eaten, wether they’re in Pokedex entries to the literal food you eat in-game. So saying “they mostly avoid it nowadays” is bullshit.
T156@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People also get incensed about it, and at that point, there’s rather an open question about whether an actual productive discussion to be had at all, or whether people would simply start shouting at each other whilst everything goes up on fire.