This Reminded Me That I Had A Dark Theory If The Spark Is The Lifeforce Of A Creature And If It Gets

This reminded me that I had a dark theory if the Spark is the lifeforce of a creature and if it gets badly damaged, they'll start to cease function and die. Thankfully, Planet Feral's core has this said energy that attracts Sparks to the planet can revive and reincarnated them into a new form from using the planet core's energy so they can live a new life.

I didn't know there was canonical explanation if they managed to survive with a cracked Spark.

“valiance of sparks damage and disability”

WAIT is this really something that can happen to us if we go to battle?!

Colored model sheets of Andromon that was used for Digimon Adventure.

Credits to DigimonFandub from Twitter for sharing the high-quality character model sheets from the Complete Digimon Adventure Japanese Blu-Ray release! We finally got a clearer scan of Andromon's model sheet! Here's the original post that includes Andromon's model sheets, I cropped out the background that surrounded the image.

Artist: https://twitter.com/mas_square/status/1751558339396542694

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.

Me- me when- *disgruntled sigh* me when wiki-

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.