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Evolution isn't linear. (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

More importantly, actual evolution doesn't change the individual. The "evolution" in Pokémon and Digimon should be called "development".

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or metamorphosis.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's better, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

That's actually what it's called in German. Never thought about the implications of the "X evolved to Y" screens.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And would have avoided so much pearl-clutching from right-wing fundamentalist busybodies.

God damn were the 90s stupid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unlike the following two and a half decades, which were filled to the brim with meaningful conservative talking points.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least we call bullshit now! Until the debacle of the W administration, the very premise of religious objections was nigh unquestionable. They had to move on to high-test crazy because nobody was buying the old brand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

high-test crazy

New favorite term discovered. Like high-test peroxide, but crazy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Japanese media is stupid too, Pokémon especially. South Park even commented on that when it was new. So it was stupid against stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In Italian Digimon it's called Digievolution