WTF WEDNESDAY PRESENTS
Well kiddies, its that time of the week again and I've got an extra twisted bit of painful for you in the form of this f'd up animation from 00mosama00 about the horrors of Pokemon hoarding-- funnily enough I had a thought about this the other day.
Pokemon, originally, expected you to capture 150 Pokemon. As of today, to be a Pokemon Master, you have to capture 649 (with more to come in 9 months). The problem is that, if you actually put the Pokemon world into any sort of reality, trying to capture and own 150 Pokemon is not only difficult but dangerous! Its easy to think of Professor Oak taking care of all your Pokemon you left with him (since you can only carry 6 Pokemon), but let's actually consider the logistical problems that might actually help explain why Ash Ketchum hasn't caught that many Pokemon in the last 15 years or so.
First, let's start off with the fact you can only carry 6 Pokemon. I'm sure you've wished, at some point, that you could carry more. Now, imagine if you will, that you owned 6 dogs and had to care for them/show them attention every day. Now give them super powers and make them somewhere between the intelligence of an animal and a human (more or less in some circumstances). That's a pretty tall order on its own. You'd certainly develop a strong bond with those Pokemon, as you would with pets and friends, and would have difficulty sending them off to a Professor. Even if you could, let's think about the problems with that scenario.
In the Pokemon anime, Ash Ketchum sends most of his Pokemon (those that aren't with him or released) to Professor Oak. Gary, Ash's rival, does the same thing when he is starting out and it can be assumed that most trainers have to send their Pokemon somewhere. But the logistics of Professor Oak, and perhaps some staff, taking care of hundreds of Pokemon is kind of hard to accept. The problem becomes even more difficult when you consider there are supposed to be hundreds, nay thousands (and in fact are millions in our world) of Pokemon trainers that would need a similar service rendered to their Pokemon.
The only other solution is that they have to be stored in the PC, digitally. But it can't be ethical to just leave them in a PC box, in digital form, for months or years on end. Oh wait. *looks at pile of old Pokemon cartridges*
