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Nobody cares. You do your thing, others can do theirs. I could rant an essay like this about how I f***ing hate the Sonic franchise but it's not going to do anything productive.

A+ for calling Team Rocket asswipes though, that made me laugh. Also laughed when you listed Max as a good character when I find him the most obnoxious in the whole series (though I've mostly stopped watching since Sinnoh because it's trash).

It's a kid's game, man... you're looking way too deep into it... but I'll humor you anyway

Most of the gameplay mechanics you mentioned disliking are not at all unique to Pokemon. Half of them are pretty much any turn-based game, even down to the concept of IVs. Also, Pokemon games are like 20 hours at the very max, most of them you can clear in 10. Why are you spending "a handful of months" on them lol. It really just sounds like you don't like turn-based RPGs (which is valid, I don't either, with a few exceptions).

With the anime and manga - again, it's marketed for children. If you're an adult who still enjoys it? Good for you! But it's still meant for children. Not a big surprise you would outgrow it. It would probably be helpful if you didn't try to asses children's cartoons with an adult mindset. Children do not have concepts of "corny jokes" or "stupid plots". They just want to see Pokemon fight.

One more thing - "As you likely have noticed by the fact there's an entire Vizzed Board category dedicated to it, all of Vizzed is strongly dedicated to Pokémon."

Wat? by this logic, Vizzed is strongly dedicated to Books and Literature too...

Also also, since you made this public, I will too. Your grudge against some reviewers of this site (who left long before you were even active, mind) seems to run rampant and is blinding you to the point of bringing it up in irrelevant posts. If you really don't enjoy it here and think you're just above everyone else, then you can leave. I will not welcome your condescending mindset on a site where people are just trying to enjoy themselves. Not everything you see is meant to be professional.

Bruh, too deep man. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but to try to sound like it’s facts...

People outgrow things I get it, and people don’t waste time playing “s***ty” games. You may not like Zelda or ghost n goblins but others do, we like to invest our time to a game people spent hours working on to create for it to be enjoyed throughout the world.

Anime tho, of course it’s corny 4kids done the dub I can’t say anything about it but it’s still a fun show to watch, especially donuts. Jelly filled donuts are my favorite (hope you get the joke)

Considering the bulk of your opinions that I've read so far are disliking popular things... I'm not shocked you don't like Pokemon.

Allow me to correct you though, and give you a Vizzed history lesson.

There wasn't always a Pokemon Forum on the site. The Vizzed Pokemon Fan Club arose in the early 2010s, as a byproduct of spectergaj's wishes to have more Pokemon content on the site (it was part of the Video Game Franchises section of the site). Spectergaj hired myself to help grow the forum, and we did just that.

Fast forward a couple of years, and the rented forum was so popular (yes, it was a rented forum, like Innocent Town or Geeo's Forum) that David had little choice but to incorporate it as a forum on the main docket.

So it wasn't always a Vizzed-centric forum that is seen as a centerpiece of the site... the citizens of the site made it that way. If you don't like it... you can ignore it. Normally, I'd be doing that myself, since I don't like your post (and I'm not even a big fan of the Franchise myself). However, I can't really abide by slamming members of the site in what is an ad-hominem attack.

Maybe take a few chill pills and relax. If you've outgrown the franchise, that's cool, but you don't seem to even fundamentally understand "why" it's so popular. Which is fine. Whatever your jam is.

But if you want to be an ass, feel free to do it elsewhere.

I too don't like pokemon either. But i don't feel the need to rant in 2 separate threads about the same thing essentially.

Different people like and dislike different things... Who knew? +

Pokemon hasn't been in the best place in the fandom as of late, it has degraded ever since gen 5 in my opinion. You have a right to dislike something and that's fine. Though if you ever get the fancy to maybe give it another go, I do recommend the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, cause it actually has a good story, a shocker in this franchise.


At least Max isn't Tracey, that's what I keep telling myself.