If You Said You Haven't Seen Much Of It At All, Let Me Tell Ya, There's An Option Where You Can Capture

If you said you haven't seen much of it at all, let me tell ya, there's an option where you can capture humans in the Pal Spheres and enslave them and there's some people who unironically love that mechanic. Whoever loves said mechanic shows what kind of person they are.

I don't understand what the big scary deal is about Palworld. Given, I don't know much about it, so I may simply not know enough to understand. But some criticisms I've heard simply confuse me.

I have seen people express upset because the pokemon-like critters have guns. But, uhm...

That's nothing new. Digimon did that twenty years ago, and nobody cared. (As a matter of fact, I think there was actually a Digimon that was literally made entirely out of guns.)

People also seem mad that the critters are basically slave labor. Which, hey, yeah, that's pretty dark, but:

1. I thought they were animals? Do we not still have oxen pulling ploughs around irl? But maybe there's an aspect of Palworld I've not seen...if so, let me know.

2. The game everyone compares this game to--Pokemon-- is literally a dogfighting game. You are pitting two animals against each other and making them beat each other up. Is THAT not slavery? Is that not abuse? How can you suspend disbelief for one game and not the other? I don't follow.

I think that people are upset that you can eat the critters in Palworld, too. If so...does no one remember this moment of Pokemon Season One?

Besides, people eat meat. Meat comes from animals. I feel like maybe being reminded that your food once was alive, that sacrifices were made for your upkeep, isn't a bad thing.

I understand criticizing the game for being unoriginal (to put it lightly) is utterly valid, but I can't fathom how it could possibly be the violent, grimdark nightmare people say it is.

That said, I haven't actually experienced the gameplay past about two hours, so perhaps there's some other horrifying aspect of the game that I'm missing. If there is, then I'd like to know. But based on my limited experience with the game, a lot of the responses I see just look like pearl-clutching.

love it that he's expressive here

Oh so that explains why the designers made the kobolds of fer.al look more like werewolves than something reptilian looking. Especially the fact some of the developers had inspiration from various Japanese media such as the Shinigami's hint references Ryuk from Death Note.

This is a question that’s been bothering me, and after looking into it I think I get it

So kobolds first appear in Germanic folklore as domestic spirits. Kobolds are also considered mine spirits, causing cave-ins and tapping on things in the dark to scare miners

Think the elves from The Elves and the Shoemaker, but bastards

This association with mines and caves and bastardy gets them into the world of tabletop RPGs when Gary Gygax adds them to his fantasy supplement of Chainmail. Kobolds are later added to Dungeons & Dragons as a subterranean race of monsters

Here’s the important thing: due to a throwaway line in the rulebooks about the kobolds having doglike voices, the first artist to depict a D&D kobold gave it a dog nose

This is the beginning point in the divergent evolution

Kobolds in western TTRPG will notoriously become more and more reptilian with each generation, leaning on the interpretation of “chihuahua dragons,” but it’s at this time, heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, that the video game series Wizardry begins

They brought the dog kobolds with them

Wizardry becomes extremely popular in Japan, inspiring JRPG series like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as well as manga series like Dungeon Meshi. And while in the west the kobold has become increasingly reptilian with each edition, the Japanese kobold has become increasingly canine

And this is why in the greater fantasy genre, kobolds represent everything from

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From bringing up a MMO dedicated to raising monsters, it just reminds me how some users within the Animal Jam fandom wants some sort of "V-Pet" mechanic for the avatar animals. I know that game alongside it's 3D counterpart doesn't count as a monster raising/collecting (maybe I should just call it as creature raising/collecting in this case?) If said feature was ever a thing, this would imply that the various animal avatars the player has brought is their group of animals they've befriended and raised.

Classic has a feature which a user can switch animals and have their own levels from leveling up in Adventures. Example: An elephant that's on level 3, but their arctic fox is at level one due to them being newly brought and played once in Adventures.

Though there's no turn-based battles and no stats for each animal the player can train to increase them, but certain clothing items equipped can give out more power to increase inflicted damage only on certain obstacles, they can't be used on Phantoms cause' the developers wants to make sure it isn't too violent for young players but yet throwing Boomseeds (which are like, organic bombs) to defeat them is okay strangely enough.

The only "V-Pet" like mechanic present within the series is only on Animal Jam: Play Wild! where you can take care of your animal's pets through the Pet Station or the PetSitter Pro to nurture a bunch of them. If the pets are fully nurtured and have enough energy, they can be used to sent out into Pet Expeditions to retrieve awards for you. Each pet has their own preferred location they like to visit, but some don't have any known preferred location. These are pretty much it on what you can do with them.

“Palworld is good actually because it gives Pokemon competition” you bitches couldn’t even handle Digimon. Scratch that you bitches couldn’t even handle Moshi Monsters.

The weirdest part is how the Digimon Reference Book info of the Andromon (the species as whole) states "it possesses neither will nor emotion, and it is faithful to its programmed behavior." despite the various individual Andromon that had appeared in various media greatly contradicts it;

V-Pets - They have a happy and angry emoting sprites. I assume the sad sprites reuse the eating sprite, but I'm not so sure cause' I never had a V-Pet unless someone has one and corrects me on that.

Anime - Obviously the Andromon of Adventure is seen emoting, such as getting hurt (Inflicted by Biyomon's Spiral Twister; blink and you'll miss it! Taking a blow against Machinedramon/Mugendramon's Giga Cannon; he falls on the right side of his face and is shown with eyes shut as he's in pain, Surprised(?); When Birdramon when she talks about fighting Machinedramon he looks up in surprise, himself, Tai, and the others are looking at Piedmon while facing right, witnessed the catfight of Angewomon and LadyDevimon, and smiling; Episode 7 of Digimon Adventure 02. The Andromon in Tamers obviously was in fear that his Gatling Attack failed to make a scratch on Orochimon and pained expressions from taking so much damage from said Digimon. Though I'm not sure about how the two Andromon talks in the original Japanese dubs of their respective appearances (and I'm not talking about the robotic filter over their voices!) It's their speech patterns, it's possible it might be different there, so far, I'm only aware of this one from the Andromon of Tamers. Until someone can point out the Adventure Andromon's dialogue in Japanese (anyone please tell me so I can gather more in-depth info!) And the infamous Andromon that was in Digimon X-Evolution movie (that one was a jerk!)

Manga - The Andromon of Digimon Next has to be the very expressive Andromon that has ever been depicted in official media! He even sheds a tear that the Digimon that got hurt by Barbamon's army that he and the Guardromon had to take care of! The Xros Wars manga alongside the Re:Digitize manga doesn't depict any of their Andromon having expressions.

Video Games - Digital Monster Ver. S depicts Andromon's happy sprite that its smiling with its mouth open while it dances. Dialogue wise as far as I can tell from the Andromon of Digimon World, the three Andromon from Digimon Digital Card Battle (they also have expressions going on within their mugshots!), the player(s) own Andromon within the DS World/Story games and Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory. There's an Andromon in Digimon ReArise in a event who regrets his actions on why he didn't ask Agumon help at first to fight against Machinedramon.

The only way to make sense of the DRB's info on Andromon is that every info of Digimon there is written in the perspective of a researcher, you know, cause' it isn't written in an omnipresent perspective, cause' if it was, said "speaker" would've known everything about them. I can think of the researcher(s) saw the first Andromon created and that one was the one that didn't possess any emotions or free will unlike the other Andromon that came after it, like the ones being raised by Tamers themselves.

Though this does make me wonder if this is one of the reasons HiAndromon never got to debut in an anime is that their respective Ultimate (Perfect) form is depicted to be self-aware, but yet said Mega (Ultimate) form's DRB info describes it that it was Andromon that became self-aware within that form...

Are these guys autonomous? Do they have thoughts and feelings? Are they sapient?

Because if so, Gennai hijacking one of them is much funnier and much, much darker.

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.