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Dr. Truth

@truthordeal.bsky.social

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Anime YouTuber doing Pokémon History. I have a PhD. Profile Pic: @waltermb.bsky.social.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · Jul 16

The rise and fall of the first generation of Pokémon fans roughly parallels the rise and fall of the first generation of consumer-grade Internet. This is the story of how those two trends collided, and the resulting shape of the fledgling Pokémon fan culture -- after the break. #Pokemon #anipoke

Pikachu, chilling in Iowa, with Pokémon-style text saying "A World Lost to Time" looms menacingly over him.

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Lewtwo @lewtwo.bsky.social · 15h

Pokemon Legends ZA has the most promising development for a modern game in the series, and I've spent the last few months on a video dissecting why.

🟣 The Savior of Modern Pokémon 🟣⬇️

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 21h

NUH-UH!

I moved out when I got into grad school, so there!

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Vladim! @vladim.bsky.social · Jul 23

My latest web project about the online history of Sonic fandom (1990s & 2000s) is now live!

[ #sonic #website #neocities ]

vladim.neocities.org/projects/osw/

Old Sonic Web

Enter the world of Old Sonic Web, the archive of Sonic community before 2010s!

vladim.neocities.org

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 1d

Short queens also deserve crowns.

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 1d

I misread your reply and thought this was Fafner. I hadn't seen that on her JP Wikipedia page, so I got too excited too quickly.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. Despite Not-Rena being the thumbnail, she doesn't show up much in the AMV.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 1d

The other bird site is currently unusable since Z-A was leaked. Even if all leaks were properly quarantined, the culture of stalking around trying to find any way to break into something and spoil it for yourself ahead of time seems perverse and wrong to me.

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 3d

My review of Sakamoto Days S2:

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 3d

Not my video, but it was fact checked by True Kanto Patriots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMNu...

Pokémon Used to Be Japanese

YouTube video by Caribou-kun

www.youtube.com

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 4d

*Whistles nonchalantly*

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · Feb 12

Hey, everyone on the other app was talking about anti-Asian racism in western media. I've been following it for a while and I want to talk about it re:Pokémania. Everyone knows about the Satanic panics and Chinpokomon, but there was a more sinister undercurrent in mainstream media. #Pokemon

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 4d

Oh my God, toys AND a movie?! IS IT BAD FOR THEM?

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999) ft: Poliwhirl, MewTwo, Psyduck, Pikachu, Charizard and Blastoise

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

Can I get an anthropologist to explain "yuri" to me so I can understand how Subaru cornered the lesbian market for automobiles?

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

"The 'otaku' is a category of individual that values obsession and collecting above all else." - Some Egghead

"Wow, how bizarre and exotic!" - Some Trekkie buying a TNG fanzine

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe it's the anti-Foucauldian in me, but I'm kinda tired of hearing people only talk about Japanese cultural exports as an implementation of "soft power." Some intellectuals in the 1990s really thought they were cooking with such insights as "Japanese people like cute things and shopping."

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

Van Daybreak never gets off a train like Rean Coldsteel or Lloyd Crossbell. Maybe Kevin Horizon does, but I haven't gotten there yet.

I don't know how to insert Reverie into this tweet without spoiling.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

This sequence is very Trails of Cold Steel-coded.

PLDH @pldhnet.bsky.social · 5d

We’re a week away from what seems to be the riskiest, most unique Pokémon game to date.

With Pokémon Legends Z-A’s honed focus on its setting and new combat system, Champions coming, and next year’s anniversary, it feels like the series' possibility space has never been wider.

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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 5d

Every once in a while, I see people wonder why, out of all of the available Pokémon to choose, Poliwhirl was so often shown front and center. Especially in the case of Pokémon's marketing in America.

Well, I'm going to do my best to answer that question now.

Retro Game Art 🎮🖼️🎃🦇 @retrogameart.bsky.social · Dec 27

Pokémon Time Magazine Cover (1999)

#retro #art #gaming #Pokemon

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

Around 2019 I cut social media out pretty much entirely. Everything everywhere all at once just killed my brain. Now that I make videos again I use it more, but I use it like a forum: checking in a few times a day for a few minutes while bored at work, and the connections I made are better for it.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 5d

@johtotimes.bsky.social nails it on the head again. The slower pace and more thoughtful posting style of forums leads to healthier/less centralized and therefore unmoderatable discourse. It's not just old-Internet aesthetics, it's a more civil platform.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 6d

Being ESL/multilingual probably helps more than it hurts. It gives you a better insight into how languages work and how to interpret them. It may suck that you don't know as many English words as a native, but we'll live.

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 6d

I was researching a certain fandom event the past few days for a video. I've learned that it is easy to intellectually understand "people were bad," but having to document it makes it clear how even "minor" Internet crashouts take years off people's lives. Miserable work.

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Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 6d

DAE shakespeare = fakespeare?

Dr. Truth @truthordeal.bsky.social · 7d

Someone really needs to teach the children how to be discrete about this shit. The move is that you take everything down, disappear for six months, then pop up with another name and learn how to not be stupid this time.

AaronMagica @aaronmagica.myatproto.social · 9d

Hasn't an unspoken rule been with this sort of thing is to keep yourself anonymous?

Also, yeah, you're not going to win against Nintendo's lawyers

OatmealDome 🏳️‍🌈 @oatmealdome.bsky.social · 10d

[Lawsuit]

Nintendo is requesting that a court award it $4,500,000 in damages from a Switch piracy Reddit moderator for operating multiple piracy sites.

The person refused to stop after Nintendo asked them to, which led to this lawsuit.

They also did not respond to the lawsuit.

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