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The animé is not lame nor for kids only;
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Ash has had better accomplishments than silly leagues :
battle frontier, a few minor competitions, honorary citizenship, taking down most core-game criminal organizations as well as a few minor groups and poachers, getting the attention of a latias(yes, I deem it as an accomplishment ;P), and saving lives or the entire world multiple times...
Oh, allow me to clarify a couple things : may the Orange League not be that much of a challenge compared to, say, the battle frontier, it's still a league and Ashy-boi did, win it. Thus, contrary to popular misconception, Ash actually won a league, even if you probably don't care.
And the animé's first episode aired on April 1st 1997, thus if you thought Ash was an April's fools joke you got served;
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Mistakes and logical flaws through animé, games and other media make everything more amusing(
even if I wish I could jump ledges like the Almian ones...);
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Side-games that aren't GO are unfairly forgotten;
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Mystery Dungeon was betrayed by
us(PSMD getting positive reviews but selling less copies than GTI, the one hated by everyone? Both of them selling less copies than Ranger games, which always sat in the shadow? No surprise it was the last title...);
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GO, despite the fascinating concept, is overall poor and with little to do
(besides, sticking to a group and waiting for a raid to happen? No thanks, I hate groups and I hate waiting. I had a couple viable pokéstops to propose, but sadly it'll never happen because the service was made unavailable);
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There aren't any better or worse generations;
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Competitiveness is overrated;
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Players cherish pokédex entries and focusing on overall darkness because they enjoy sufference;
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If you deem a design as poor it's your fault : true-devs know what they're doing, investigate the designs instead of inappropriately bashing their works filled with effort, research and affection
(however, as former student, I admit I just cannot withstand the fact there's a pokémon based off the sand mausoleum from Giacomo Leopardi's Dialogue between an Icelandic and Nature);
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The goals of league and pokédex are overrated (besides, we mostly play for the sake of seeing the new setting, what is new and what has changed, contraddict me here);
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Many claim fan-devs and rom hackers do better than true-devs, and yet, we often get to witness the recycling of overused graphics(if you really must keep Red without changing the sprite, at least change the colours), without much that redeems the overall gameplay and the music being just core game music everyone is probably familiar with(okay, not everyone can be a composer, but wynaut using tracks from forgotten side-games? Makes most experience something new and will bring tears to the eyes of those who know where the track comes from).
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I need a hug...