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How Pokémon Got Enlisted in the Israel-Gaza Conflict

by Steven Tucker
9 October 2024 9:00 AM

The theory that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery is about to be formally tested in a Japanese court of law. The big news for gaming fans of late is that the Kyoto-based video-gaming giant Nintendo has just instituted legal proceedings against the far smaller rival publisher Pocketpair over the content of its hit recent title Palworld, often described as being “Pokémon with guns”. As Nintendo own exclusive rights to the Pokémon series, Pocketpair’s bright idea of handing over Kalashnikovs and Mausers to Clefairy and Psyduck was unsurprisingly deemed by Nintendo’s lawyers to breach the firm’s intellectual copyright.

Yet this is far from the weirdest such lawsuit Nintendo has ever been involved in. If you don’t know, the incredibly popular games in question involve players wandering a cartoon world and capturing cute little animal-like creatures called Pokémon inside magical balls, before tooling them up to fight one another in battles against competing Pokémon trainers. It is now 25 years since the original Japanese GameBoy titles in the series were released in America, an occasion celebrated earlier this year by the ‘Pocket Monsters’ making the front cover of Time magazine, the excuse being that, so popular are the critters, they are now the highest-earning global media franchise ever, raising $100 billion in revenue up to 2021. 


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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

People in other countries look at this stuff, the transgender agenda and think the West has somehow become deranged. Of course the explanation is even worse than that because it is simply an exposition of the venality of a corporate culture whose values have pervaded and occupied everything else. Like a Financial Times editor said, financialization is like a species of parasitic wasp who lays its eggs in a caterpillar and the offspring feed off and ultimately destroy the host. This is what we have allowed to happen. It is grim to accept but without this acceptance then no remedy is possible.

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Free Lemming
Free Lemming
1 year ago

Tear it all down. Burn the whole f*ckin thing to the ground. And watch the parasites scuttle from the flames.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

You won’t be caring about names and designations in the horror to come. If you do then you won’t last very long. As if western liberalism is full of vim and verve, If you occupy yourself with subject matter like this then you aren’t looking at reality. People under siege or bombardment tend to develop a very politically incorrect mode of discourse just in order to survive. This was noted in the former Yugoslavia. If you are discussing issues of this kind then you aren’t really living at all. It would be wise to make some preparation.

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RichardTechnik
RichardTechnik
1 year ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

In other words, as I have said to the annoyance of the right-on crowd, no-one cares a sh1t about pronouns in places like Bakhmut or Mariupol in Ukraine.

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mariawarmth
mariawarmth
1 year ago

Labour will change it back! and make it worse, as they will prosecute those who ‘misgender; so well done to Kemi short term only sadly.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  mariawarmth

Not really. As other people have pointed out: This amounts to an official recognition of the effects of Stonewank and Weremaids being allowed to proselytize “among schoolchildren” from elementary school onwards. Children wouldn’t “question their gender” if they hadn’t been told to. The solution to this problem is “drive them out”. They’re entitled to preach about their religious convictions. But only to those who are willing to listen and not to closed groups of children assembled in a certain place very much against their own will by threats of sanctions by the state.

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Tintin
Tintin
1 year ago

Unfortunately there are still too many woke politicians and lawyers who would continue to push their pink hair nose ring bad wig poor painted fingernails etc ideology across the country. Just look at the evil app called TikTok, or listen to Peter Thatchell spew false facts about trans issues…. Douglas Murray is right: the west is destroying itself from within.

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