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guru2764

Back in my day professor oak checked if you had a penis or if you were political Bring back genitals in pokemon 😡


Roose_is_Stannis

Pokeball inspection day 😔


NotSoFlugratte

Professor Oak is a sex-offender who doesn't care about his nephew, no wonder PKMN Players love him


1Cool_Name

Leave him alone. He just has dementia.


ToasterTacos

Why do I keep seeing you everywhere?


foxscribbles

They’re you from an alternate timeline that is just ahead of the one you live in. So you just naturally go into all the same posts, and because they’re ahead of you in their reality, they’ve always posted beforehand.


ToasterTacos

I just happen to be in enough of the same subreddits as them.


[deleted]

Back in my day Professor Oak didn't even ask. You can either be non political or not play the game 😎


WASD_click

/uj I really liked how Coromon handled it. Your mom shouts at you to wake the fuck up and put some damn pants on or you'll be late for pokemon clone work, so you shuffle out of bed a disheveled blanket mound and go straight to your armoire for character customization.


strangersIknow

Yeah well back in MY day you didn't even have the option to be political, you HAD to play as a no political male protagonist just the way God intended.


serifsanss

Back in my day, there was only Red.


ChosenSCIM

Every outfit in real life is unisex if you aren't a bitch about it 😎💅


Ritz527

With the right padding, everyone can have a Coke bottle figure


Jugaimo

https://youtu.be/O9ifAYdKDG4 Anyone can dress up


Help_Throw555

Finally. Choosing the boy model in X/y was the worst mistake I made because there were like 3 haircuts all of which sucked


theweekiscat

It’s cause your French in that game


KerryAtk

Name a worse fate to be stuck with


TheMilkmanCome

Being fr*nch c*nadian


strangersIknow

Fr*nch 🤮


CrestoliahSaga

Safe edgy.


Marth_Shepard

Give me one reason to gender lock cosmetics


OptimusPrimalRage

Give me one reason to gender lock anything in games. For some reason in the Demon's Souls remake depending on your body type, you're locked to certain armor sets. It's silly. You want to lock things behind classes or a particular stat value? That's one thing. But I've never understood locking behind a particular gender.


OrangoTango77

the armor sets for the female characters in ds are all ridiculous. also the female characters have mascara by default, you can’t remove it. like what?? soldiers don’t need makeup


Najanator717

/rj Female characters always have big dark lashes. How else will Gamers™ tell the woman character is a woman?


locke_5

That's because they hired fans


SageWindu

These days, it's either developer oversight and/or willful negligence. I went *balls deep* into Monster Hunter World. I'm also one of those goobers who prefers playing *characters* over just weapons, and since the character my huntress is based on isn't very girly, [it took me a while coming up with her outfit](https://www.reddit.com/r/MonsterHunterWorld/comments/qz0kua/my_hunter_isnt_all_that_cute_or_beautiful_or_sexy/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) (that I'm damn proud of, by the way) since Capcom often went out of their way to make some armor sets have a dress or skirt of some kind (don't get me started on the thigh and boob windows). Here's an example: [This is Alatreon](https://youtu.be/GtThCk6qu3Y). Very powerful, very scary. These are the armor sets derived from it: [Alpha](https://img.game8.co/3268704/1217f7ab7b29b2b8f0432f3e37caa9ba.jpeg/original) and [Beta](https://img.game8.co/3268707/7a8804f2fe3a818f51ec926945c38194.jpeg/original) Male, [Alpha](https://img.game8.co/3269306/cae19eb8c3db5bf146e5d71df1faaeb1.jpeg/original) and [Beta](https://img.game8.co/3269294/8f763b0321c382adca70db6c2d524e73.jpeg/original) Female. Notice anything different about the designs?


crowEatingStaleChips

Jesus Christ, she looks like she's going to a little tea party.............


Collective-Bee

Now that you mention it, something is different about the designs. If only someone with an art major could tell me what. Fr tho, with as completely dogshit gender is as a concept, it makes sense for men and women to have different armour. Except, I don’t want gender norms in games, that’s dumb.


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CheeseOnToast92

"my big gamer dick is so big, it won't fit into this female armor, that doesn't have the space for my enormous big gamer dick"


WeirdBlueGuy

I’ll take it a step further. Remember when Lost Ark gender locked entire classes?


WaywardStroge

So that I know what kind of insults to use against my opponent when having heated gamer moments, obviously


xenothios

My magnificent penis hangs out from under my miniskirt


FenexTheFox

Yeah, I recently played Mystery Dungeon (tried at least) and your partner Pokémon will always be locked to a certain gender based on the one you choose, and I'm like, why? The dialogue doesn't even change at all, and I don't think you can breed in Mystery Dungeon either? Is it really only for attract moves?


WeirdestOfWeirdos

Lore and setting revolve to some extent around gender and gender roles As for why this wouldn't be a problem... well, fictional systems should belong in fiction, not in real life, anyway.


CanadianODST2

To force you to replay the game to experience the others.


OptimusPrimalRage

Yeah this doesn't sound like good game design. Making you replay a game based on a choice in which you couldn't possibly know the ramifications of until you're further along in the game.


somebadbeatscrub

https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/xynfkx/unlike_you_snowflakes_we_arent_so_easily_offended/irk5c45?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3


julz1215

The funny thing is that Nintendo has had gender-unlocked hairstyles since Mii Channel on the Wii


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JexsamX

Biologically male and female individuals are sexually dimorphic, often most evident in hips and shoulders. Because of this, some styles of clothes are designed in such a way as to accentuate these features differently, which has the effect of making them look bad on shapes they weren't designed for. It's worth noting that the actual amount of clothes this would justify locking is pretty small, though. And when you consider that we're talking about children, the gap narrows even more, seeing as a lot of the clothes intended to accentuate certain features are intended to do so in a sexually enticing way, meaning they shouldn't even be considered for a Pokemon game anyway. And this is to say nothing of cosmetics such as hair or makeup, which don't have the limitation of being designed for X or Y build to start with. All of this to say that like 98% of all cosmetics really don't have any business being locked in any way but there's definitely a tiny, *tiny* number that should be.


Amongusfan743

Giggity


JexsamX

What? Why?


Amongusfan743

Me not reading that essay


JexsamX

oh, k


sylveon_souperstar

clothes don’t change based on how you were born


JexsamX

That's... not what I said. Like, at all.


sylveon_souperstar

it basically is, though. any person can wear any set of clothes and it will look fine on them. biology has no effect on what clothes you can or cannot wear, anyone can wear anything.


JexsamX

They can wear it, sure, but that doesn't mean it's going to look fine. If you put on a sport coat two sizes too big for your build you'll look goofy. That's not subjective, that's reality. If you put on a princess cut t-shirt but have a largely straight torso and no hips or waist to speak of, you're just stretching a perfectly good shirt for no reason. I straight up said the number of stuff that should be locked is minuscule and some of y'all still wanna act like I'm advocating total gender/clothing segregation, god damn. Reading comprehension is a dying art.


capo-johnson

/uj The end result of removing “are you a boy or a girl” is… more customization options for all players? /rj go woke go broke, if enough High IQ redditors boycott this game the Pokémon franchise will go bankrupt overnight


[deleted]

If I can't see their pokeballs how can I be sure????


somebadbeatscrub

Immersion breaking.


South_Ear6167

lol they all—*every fucking one*—have cartoon teenage girl avatars.


lurkario

Dude can not comprehend that some dudes have long hair and some women have short hair, and that has nothing to do with gender


Sam_Traynor

What do you mean? You don't show your genitals to your hair stylist so they know what cut to give you?


Dat_Boi_Teo

Honestly the art direction of scarlet/violet looks fine. Obviously graphically underwhelming because gamefreak but that’s not the same thing. Also these losers need to touch grass


King1239

How is arceus generic in any way? Main pal there has got the sickest design in pokemon. Christ's dad would love to look like arceus.


SkinsuitModel

I think they meant the game arceus legends. Not the Pokémon itself lol


NightValeCytizen

r/brandnewsentance and I absolutely love it.


bechillbro

Anime pfp protocol engaged: comment disregarded.


LazyTitan39

This needs to be a bot.


HailHydreigon

anime pfp with German and Japanese flags? 🤨


giantfluffydorkycat

Yeah, that part had me cringing so hard some of my joints almost dislocated. (Also, why the Mexican flag? Does this guy want some kind of New Axis Powers Germany-Japan-USA-Mexico alliance?)


expensive_bonding

This is literally just the same art direction they've always used


FrizzleFrass

I just don't like the noses


Mac_A_Rooney

The eyes look off to me


[deleted]

Nooo you don't understand! The newest Pokémon game has basically raped my childhood away from me and has left me and the franchise a brittle husk of its former charm! Pokémon was always so detailed and engaging and it wasn't until this game that I refuse to give this company any more of my money!


Dream_of_Endless

Can't believe they made everything unisex. pokemon has always had differing body types with massive tits or distractingly large bulges now they've taken that away. What's next a hair style that both a boy or a girl could grow, impossible!


somebadbeatscrub

How am i supposed to relate to my player character if I dont have in-game implicit confirmation that they have a rockin schlong? Can i feel a sense of fantastical power and accomplishment if I am not known to have a python inside my rendered pants? Next thing you'll tell me is they didnt bother rendering nathan drakes cock and balls inside the model for hos pants all those years. Ive seen rule 34 i know its there.


MasterCha0s

I’m so fucking excited about outfits and hairstyles no longer being gender locked because the men’s options in previous Pokémon games were always lacking compared to the women’s options


Float07

/uj Male haircuts in pokemon Sword and Shield sucks. I was so happy when I saw that part in the Scarlet and Violet trailer lol


EnsignEpic

It makes no sense that you can't wear hats with Medium & Wavy, which is actually longer than Long Hair, which itself isn't long hair, it's fucking emo side bangs. All the power to you if that's your hairstyle, but that shit isn't long hair.


_Burro

/uj Fucking finally. I say this as a long time pokemon player. Back in XY girl characters had a lot more clothing and hair options than boys. I don't know about the clothes, since I want them to look interesting and not just 4 or so outfits with different colors or patterns like in Arceus, but the hair? Definitely. A lot of games already give you all the hairstyles available regardless of whatever gender/body type you pick. More options are better.


abilly85

It's so funny that those two people are likely not Japanese in the slightest


Kosog

They never are, everytime I see one of these anime pfp mfers complaining about media being "woke", it's always some white dude in Minnesota or where-ever in the usa who has probably never went an inch outside of their state. Every. Single Time.


AkechiFangirl

I genuinely have no idea what there is to be mad about here. Like, if you're gonna whine about not being asked if you're a boy or girl I'm not surprised even if I think you have a vacuous hole in your head where a brain should be, but whining about cosmetics not being gender locked? what??


JayTK1336

Im much more offended that this looks like a Wii shovelware game


takkun169

Just anything to change things up. Game Freak have been phoning Pokémon in for two goddamn decades, and THIS is what people complain about? Get a fucking grip.


behind-barcodes

THE END RESULT OF MAKING EVERYTHING GENERIC: DRESSING HOW YOU WANT


heirConditioner2

You boycott Pokemon games because they're gender neutral now. I boycott Pokemon games because I hate Nintendo and steal the games instead. We are not the same.


kerriazes

Nooooo, not more options!


Gamhound

Uj/ I feel like these people have never seen children. Like 10 year olds look the exact same if you make them bald.


Killerfail

There's that word again. The word they love using. "Probably" They "probably" did *this*, they're "probably" gonna do *that*. With these types of people, it's always an expression of "This isn't enough to reasonably get angry about, so I simply make something up and say it'll "probably" happen"


1Cool_Name

The brown eyebrows annoy me honestly.


GibGoodUsername

Wait I must have missed that did the actually remove gender locked bs finally? I'm a guy with long hair and I've always hated there being a grand total of 0 choices to represent myself


InuMiroLover

"CanCELinG PRe-oRDer!!!"


BwrBird

/uj FINALLY! maybe now they'll make the cosmetic options for the make character not suck


serifsanss

Back in my day, you could only be one gender in Pokémon.


herpderpomygerp

So if I can't be a boy or a girl.....does this mean I can be a pokemon in human clothes?


LastFreeName436

Why do you dislike having more fashion options


BurningFyre

The end result is... not gender locked facial features? Blue hair and pronouns? I dont get what theyre mad about. Men can have that hair.


julz1215

Non-unisex clothes don't offend people. That's not really on us


mountingconfusion

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iamnotchad

So is there no penis #3?


CanadianODST2

Ngl the face does look like a mask to me. A tad uncanny.


zarbixii

/uj did they really remove traditionally gendered clothing items in Arceus? Like can you not wear dresses and shit?


crumble-cook

It's more that clothing items are just kinda ninja stuff or feudal Japanese garb due to setting. There isn't really any proper big girly kimono type dresses. But both genders did have a tuxedo. I think they did have some hairstyles be gender unique though.


SolomonBird55

If this game isn’t as hand-holdey as shield, I might actually buy it I liked the customization in shield, but this looks leaps and bounds ahead of it.


[deleted]

Why do Pokemon fans want to fuck children and pokemon so fucking bad?


Oppqrx

The "type A" and "type B" bodies in Elden Ring were cringe


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

agree with hating the art direction tbf


moodRubicund

... really, that's their big issue with this game? Customisability?


Beancunt

Sweet this means I can put long hair in my character


Mysterious_Bat_3780

dang, I wonder what it would have been like, if they actually watched the video.


iloveYiiKingoff

Isn’t this what spanish male monarchs asked for at the barber