Mr Cat Dog
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What do you imagine life as a Pokemon Trainer would actually be like?
In nearly all iterations of the franchise, trainers have seemed to have relatively good lives, for the most part. There are no complaints from the protagonist in each of the gaming series, and the anime characters never really complain about their surroundings in their quest to be Pokemon Master or whatever vague title there is.
But if Pokemon were real, surely there'd be more things to complain about? Finding suitable accommodation for each new town/city to travel to; there'd certainly be more public transport, and transport issues in general; and then there's the matter of funding one's travels: taking half of an unsuccessful opponent's money upon victory seems ultimately barbaric when applied to the real world. I dunno... life for a Pokemon trainer feels very Hobbesian to me: nasty, brutish and short. But what does everyone else think? :D
In nearly all iterations of the franchise, trainers have seemed to have relatively good lives, for the most part. There are no complaints from the protagonist in each of the gaming series, and the anime characters never really complain about their surroundings in their quest to be Pokemon Master or whatever vague title there is.
But if Pokemon were real, surely there'd be more things to complain about? Finding suitable accommodation for each new town/city to travel to; there'd certainly be more public transport, and transport issues in general; and then there's the matter of funding one's travels: taking half of an unsuccessful opponent's money upon victory seems ultimately barbaric when applied to the real world. I dunno... life for a Pokemon trainer feels very Hobbesian to me: nasty, brutish and short. But what does everyone else think? :D
(KWC #9)