Thinking About Palworld & Like How Unashamedly It Portrays Slavery.

Thinking about palworld & like how unashamedly it portrays slavery.

Like for sure, depictions of heinous things in fiction aren't necessarily an endorsement & don't necessarily mean ppl will go on to commit those atrocities.

However, I find it deeply concerning what this depiction of slavery means in a social context. The way it joyfully tacked this on as a game mechanic & made it very explicit about how this isn't just hard labour, it is slavery & how it extremely intentionally uses terms like 'plantation' rather than crop or farm.

I was watching ppl play this game just bc I wanted to actually see what it was all about & if it was as bad as I thought. It's worse than I thought & my worries about it were confirmed by just how quickly the shock of how this game portrays slavery wore off on the player & how quickly they began to joke about it.

I really sincerely think ppl need to let go of the pokemon shit for a second & think about the social consequences of how this game portrays slavery.

I think we fucking owe it to Black people & other people who have ancestors who were enslaved to talk about how serious this is.

I don't give a fucking rats ass about pokemon or plagiarizing trillion dollar corporations, who fucking cares?

I'm much more concerned about the impact this game could have on real living people with the way it carelessly jokes about this & how this changes people's perceptions of slavery.

Changing the attitude people have towards slavery is the first step towards people thinking that it's okay to enslave people, I think we really ought to be talking about that.

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Those guys don't wanna try cause' they're allergic to said series just cause' you can't enslave them with humans too, my gawn it really does show those type of fans are unaccepting jerks judging by how they love that mechanic within that game.

I don't get the people touting palworld as a clever deconstruction like no it just sucks. If you want a monster franchise that's sort of fucked up and yucky and weird and has guns and wants to talk about how war is hell. AND is actually fucking good and has a heart instead of just being like "lol look at how SHOCKING and CRAZY we're being". Digimon is right there.

OH MY GAWN!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH AHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Someone asked for the full image of my HiAndromon OC, Murphy, so throwing that and a few other concept sketches of him I did back in 2017. He is a hybrid digimon, though doesn't stray too far away from the original HiAndromon design. Who he was named after should be obvious, and before he relocated to the real world he was more a detective than a peacekeeper.

In the real world he found himself doing much the same work once a joint human and digimon gov organization was formed to help with issues that involved digimon in some matter. He does anything from looking into missing person's cases, domestic issues, and tracking criminal movement to the stereotypical: helping old ladies cross the street and locating lost dogs. If he's on the scene, and there are no other pressing matters that needs attending to, he will offer his help, no matter how mundane the task.

Generally, a nice guy who is calm and collected. He's a little blunt, his humor often dry, and is known to give constructive criticism freely. He is also the person you want in the room when shit goes south, because his levelheaded and grounded demeanor helps others stay grounded, too. Has the patience of a saint, but has a habit of standing on one leg in a particular way when its stretched thin. He's quick to pick up on other people's mood, and does try to be motivating and supportive in his own way for those who need it.

He's a workaholic and happy to take on difficult or out of the way jobs that humans might put off due to lack of resources or manpower. On his free time he will go out to rural areas or places of nature to relax, observing birds and other creatures. Somewhat enjoys people watching as long as his surroundings aren't too boisterous, like the park, when he's unable to go out of the city.

People who only like the game for that one specific mechanic (the player can do it to humans too within said game) are an obvious, glaring, red flag to me and it says a lot about them when their true colors show up as they shamelessly defend the game from other people criticizing the game's flaws and go as far to sling out offensive slurs to them who voice out on it from what I've seen within the replies of Twitter posts related to said game.

Man... I'ma just be real with y'all. I don't give a shit about Palworld. It's all Ive funken heard about the past week or so and I just... I just don't care! On one side of the Halo 1 ass team death match y'all are in the trenches of you have the overly zealous Pokemon fans who will needle the game to death over the slightest shortcomings and similarities. Buddy, pal, friend... GameFreak will be fine. They're gunna be ok ...

But equally bad are the ones who will take any criticism of their new personality defining game as an attack on the sanctity of their marriage or something. I'm sorry guys, the game looks painfully boring, if it didn't look like pokemon with guns you wouldn't be playing it.

But this isn't why I'm tired... If that was all I had to say about this issue I wouldn't have made a post about it on what is supposed to be a tokusatsu blog... Shit this is supposed to be a toku blog... What episode of Kingohger are we on?... We're in the 40s!?...... Man I let that one get away from me... okay!!! Not the point, not the point, we'll deal with that later. The point is! We already HAD Pokemon with guns and murder and even more obvious furry bait.

WHERE WERE YALL WHEN MY MAIN MAN AGUMON WAS FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE HUH?

Look at em...

Y'all wanted a more mature Pokemon? Man we've had that since the 90s! We already have Palworld at home! We are not stopping and spending more money on edgy monsters when you barely play with the ones I got you last week! You want guns? You want your cute scrunkle squinkle toodle pops to have guns?

Do Gargomon and his funny little pants mean nothing to you?! Fucken ... This one is just a gun!

Gundramon is just 30 guns in a trench coat...

Death?... Ya want death and mature themes? Some real stakes and some real consequences for our sins and transgressions? Ya want to Nuzlocke and pop your way though a story where Fido can die if you forget to give him his ear medication?

Eat my ENTIRE ass.

Slavery? You want... Wait y'all want actually want that?... Like the whole putting y'all's dog on the assembly line to build Mitsubishi Outlanders thing has been in a LOT of the back and forth... I'm not sure what y'all are talking about.... Yeah...

Anyway yeah Digimon... Digital monsters. Digimon are the champions here. Play Palworld if you want, I haven't seen anything that indicates it's actually funding anything uncouth... And hate pal world if you want! I always advocate for more hate in the world. Hating things is fun!... Just... I don't care. I just don't care about monsuno for men. Bakugan for big boys. Telefang for taxpayers... Uh... Monster rancher for retirees....

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...are we really in the 40s with Kingohger?...

I remember talking to a friend of mine that Greely's notes back in Classic, specially his notes placed in the Chamber of Knowledge, Coral Canyons, and the Temple of the Ancients notes have interesting lore implications.

I'll start off with the Chamber of Knowledge note:

This implies that Play Wild takes place in a alternative continuity/universe of the original Animal Jam going by the "different worlds" implication. As if they're intertwined with each other due to similar events involving Lightside and Darkside as the Phantoms are using Darkside energy to rearrange things.

Second comes the Coral Canyons note:

This too implies the alternative timeline/universe connection, especially that it seems like there's no new Adventures in Classic, the Phantoms are still going about destruction within the Play Wild continuity.

The third and last note; The Temple of the Ancients note that talks about Juno's spirit being no longer having presence in the statue:

When Play Wild's October 2023 sneak peak came out, I speculated that the Lightside Arctic Wolf and Darkside Arctic Wolf were going to be unique NPCs represented Juno's spirit being split into halves when their spirit somehow moved into the Play Wild universe.

The Lightside spirit would've shown up if anyone joined the Lightside and had a calm-manner dialogue while the Darkside spirit would've showed up if anyone joined the Darkside and had a brash-like dialogue I've imagined what the two would be.

In my opinion when they finally showed up in-game, I was disappointed that they were just Arctic Wolves that players can purchase with real money and not unique NPCs that participated in the event.

Now onward to Greely's disappearance before the PW Greely's resign, these two Jamaa Journals from Classic by Peck and Sir Gilbert when the Lightside vs. Darkside was still going on within Play Wild:

The two Alphas mention that they wonder where did Greely went? Does this imply that the Greely from the original Animal Jam (Classic)'s universe somehow "leapt through worlds" and end up taking in the place of Play Wild's Greely during the whole Lightside vs. Darkside event? It's like Greely wanted to know what was going on with Classic's Jamaa Township getting rearranged by the Lines of Power manipulated by the Phantoms so he had to investigate somewhere but failed as the Lightside won and went into hiding wherever he is now...

Though it may not be the Greely of Classic that end up in Play Wild, as his statue and armor set is still seen in Classic Alpha Headquarters. Liza's comment in Classic's Jamaa Journal in Classic's November update; besides her and the rest of the Alphas concerned for Greely's absence, she wonders if the Phantoms are threatening "somewhere beyond their world":

In Play Wild's November update, a Jamaa Journal from Peck says she felt a "mysterious presence" working alongside them when everyone was connected to the Lightside:

Would this mean Juno's spirit was there during the whole time during the Lightside vs. Darkside event? I feel like they would get revived from the magical energies from the Lightside, like how the dinosaurs and their homeplace Mesoterra was revived through those Alpha Fossils.

This is all that I wanted to say.

im still so baffled greely just resigned. You can just do that???? correct me if im wrong but werent the alphas chosen by zios and mira??? greely just about to disregard the will of actual gods???? Okay :) Yay :)