I understand the Pokemon fanboys who lash out against Game Freak after years and years of dissapointments. I understand the Pokemon fanboys with tempered attitudes who enjoy the new products when they get a little bit better and sigh when they don't meet expectations. And I understand the Pokemon fanboys who will always continue playing Pokemon games, even when they have SwSh levels of quality, because fuck, it's Pokemon.

The ones I absolutely do not understand are those who seem to think TPC needs them to go out and just straight out fabricate lies about a game that apparently competes against the franchise they like. If they like a monster-taming franchise, shouldn't they be glad the genre is getting more popular, even through different avenues? What's the point in lying for the sake of a corporation that doesn't care about you?

What's even worse, is that after taking a look at the new, incipient Palworld communities there's also a loud minority that turns their apparent enjoyment of the game into disproportionate vitriol to spout against Pokemon. It's a shame, because both Pokemon and Palworld benefit from having large communities to discuss them with, but I'm absolutely not in the mood to sort between people worth listening to and emotionally dysregulated children.