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It's 12:30 AM on March 6th.
Pokemon Black and White come out today.
GUISE, POKEMON. TODAY. OHMAIGAWD.
I pre-ordered Black, if anyone was wondering~

'Tis only 11:28 on the 5th where I am.
I preordered White.
Zekrom is much cooler than Reshiram.

But Reshiram is so pretty :3c

I don't have a DS… So no Pokémanz for Lanthus ;A;

My nephew's hyped about it.
Personally, I stopped playing after R/B/Y.

YOU MEAN THERE ARE GAMES OTHER RED VERSION THAN THOSE THREE?

Once again, Gabe & Tycho take a video game I don't play and still make humor I can appreciate:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/7/

'Ethics of pokemon catching'? I haven't got the game yet, so i'm not getting it.

I got white. I have the third gym badge and four lvl 25 pokemon.

I'm starting to get used to how stupid some of the new pokemon look. I really like this one though.
It's called lilligant.

the names are starting to sound less like pokemon and more like LAME PUNS

"I’m going to play the ole' new pokémon look ugly card. I really like the porn of this one though because it's vaguely shaped like a female.
It’s called Lilligant."

But you see, I've never played Pokemon at all, and I found it hilarious. If you don't get it, I'm not sure what to say. They say that explaining a joke kills it, but I'm bored and waiting for something to download, so I'll indulge in some humor slaughter.

As I understand it basically, the premise of Pokemon games is that you run around capturing little animals to make them engage in gladiatorial combat for your own amusement/prestige/whatever. This alone, if it were a real-world activity, would probably be considered highly unethical (think dog fighting rings). However, since it's a video game, these sorts of questions are rarely raised, and Tycho thinks it's interesting that the folks who are designing the Pokemon games have decided to enter this sort of territory.

The retorts that Gabe gives Tycho in his rant are playing off of other cultural phenomena that have shades of moral complexity that can be annoying to people who don't care about such issues. The phrase "granola shit" would be insinuating that only hippies would care about moral issues in regards to Pokemon. The phrase "free range" refers to the concept often proposed by animal-rights activists that if we're going to eat animals and/or use them to produce goods for us, we should at least let them live in a fairly natural environment. The phrase "shade grown" refers to a method of growing coffee plants that allows coffee plantations to be integrated in an environmentally-friendly manner with local rainforests. The phrase "second hand from this amazing swap meet" refers to a sort of hipster sensibility that insists that it is better to never buy anything new, but rather deal whenever possible in second-hand goods, thereby reducing overall waste in the economic microsystem.

Of course the final panel is largely self-explanatory; after parodying what he considers to be hippie-dippy BS, Gabe uses blunt words to express that when he plays Pokemon, his aim is one thing, and one thing only: ruthless and total domination.

Now do you see why it's hilarious?

Damn. That's dark humor if you ask me.
Most people would be TL;DR, but not me!

Ready for another tl;dr post? So last night, I had a dream involving Pokemon. It was a rather long and complicated dream, but I'll share here only the Pokemon-related parts of the dream.

I was at "this amazing swap meet" and I had been asked by a friend of a friend if I could, as a favor, pick up a Generation V Pokemon for him. Seriously, there was a booth where a guy had real live Pokemon in cages that he was selling, and he had a bunch of the new ones available. So I picked out this snake type Pokemon, and not being a Pokemon collector myself, I didn't have a Pokeball to put it in, so I was forced to continue my shopping at the swap meet actually carrying this live snake in my hand.

Finally, at one point, I lost my grip on the snake, and it bit me on the right hand. I shoved it into a shopping bag that I had since picked up, and went with my friends to a hospital. I explained my situation to the reception desk, and they kept me waiting. For three hours. In the meantime, my hand was changing colors; I mean like at one point it had turned blue, and not the blue that your skin turns when it gets really cold, but like Blue Man Group blue.

When a doctor finally came to see me, I explained that I had been bitten by a snake Pokemon, and he seemed unconcerned, saying, "Oh, Ekans venom isn't particularly powerful…" I said, "No, it wasn't an Ekans, it was some Generation V snake Pokemon, a green one, I don't know its name." So he pulled a Pokedex out of his pocket, read it for a minute, and then started mumbling things like, "Oh… that's not good…" Finally, he said, "We need to get you treated right away! Go back to the waiting room, and someone will come and get you very soon."

…and the rest of the dream was rather unrelated to Pokemon.

I'm a lazy bastard.

And yet I bet you watched the entire video about staring at breasts that I posted on the other thread.

@pink I didn't yet. Maybe later. If I feel like it.
@Thread I already got the 5th gym badge and all my pokemon are past lvl 31.