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I legitimately believe Pokemon Sun and Moon was used to influence the U.S. Election.
- Thread starter Watch Da Birdie
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Steeped in a Sea of Games
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I could honestly believe someone would try to do this, but it seems like a pretty stupid plan. If it had ANY effect at all, it would mean there's already bigger problems in the electorate than someone actually putting a plan like this together.
LOL you believe in a joke OP meant to make fun of you. You deserve as much a serious reply as this Alex Jones prank you're rationalizing to yourself.
Whoa whoa whoa
What the fuck is that, you cant just drop lore and not link anyone to that
Give me the context please link a brother
Garrett 2U
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You're either overestimating the reach of Pokemon or underestimating the reach of Russian interference.
It was already linked on the other page.
friskykillface
Banned
What if we were all Russian all along
Atom Heart Mother
Banned
interesting
Demoskinos
Member
So pokemon truthers are a thing now huh?
Chû Totoro
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Brock Reiher
Banned
It's a portable so you could play it and read the leaks while voting.
Ivellios
Member
I think this the most bizarre thread i ever read here
It is 100% laughable.
BanjoLayleeYookaKazooie
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You cannot be serious what the heck I'm spiralling what isgoingonimtryingtounderstandboththesethreadsatOnCeMalfUNction I AM ERROR.
God bless this dumb website.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
I bought both at launch. What does this mean.
yanipheonu
Member
Not 👏 every 👏 thing 👏 is 👏 about 👏 Trump 👏 and 👏 the 👏 Election.
Brock Reiher
Banned
Do Trump voters hate Pokemon because of evolution
Natasha_c13
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kittenbreath
Member
What on earth did I miss?
Damn. Lol
UBs 👏 are 👏 illegal 👏 immigrants 👏 and 👏 SuMo 👏 makes 👏 you 👏 hunt 👏 them 👏 down.
What did he mean by this?
Member
If people would put off voting in order to read Pokemon leaks the they didnt deserve a free election anyways
Suburban Thug
Member
Lmao
hydragonwarrior
Member
Any form of popular media can and will steal attention from those who even have a slight interest in voting.
I could see it being the case especially if a new GOT episode was leaked on the day of the election too.
We gotta face the facts that entertainment will absolutely make someone not vote.
As for SUn and Moon, until there's more evidence, for now it's just a coincidence.
I could see it being the case especially if a new GOT episode was leaked on the day of the election too.
We gotta face the facts that entertainment will absolutely make someone not vote.
As for SUn and Moon, until there's more evidence, for now it's just a coincidence.
Professor Lexicovermis
Member
By the by, has anyone else ever noticed this comic has a reaction image for pretty much EVERY situation?
I don't know if the OP is wrong or right (he's probably wrong) but the fact that in the midst of site after site admitting that they hosted Runnian misinformation someone can still be treated like a tinfoil hat wearing psycho for questioning a mysterious data dump on the day of the election is exactly why Russia did and will continue to succeed with this stuff.
JinjoUnchained
Member
Wouldn't be the first time. Remember when MS released Halo 4 on Election Day to suppress the Romney vote?
-Pyromaniac-
Member
You guys are going to look real silly when this Mueller investigation is over.
Eggs on your fucking faces.
Eggs on your fucking faces.
Yoshimitsu126
Member
This makes more sense but also assumes Americans cared about Presidential elections back then too let alone game enthusiasts.
theAntagonist
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I'm sorry that most of the posters in this thread are bashing you, and it's plainly obvious that most of them didn't even read your post or if they read snippets, they just disregarded your premise wholesale.
I buy it. I buy what you are saying. As someone who doesn't particularly like Pokemon, I can believe it. If the timing of the release of the game/information to the web was the 7th to the 8th, and it was done via 4chan there definitely is a level of suspicion to be levied.
I don't think there's a grand conspiracy with games/entertainment, corporations and government, but I do legitimately think that video games such as Pokemon have had a pretty bad, unintended consequence on our Democracy. Games like Pokemon, MMO's, or Free-to-Play titles I think have had almost disastrous consequences to American society, and we are only just now beginning to see this.
This will probably sound like crack-pot bullshit 'NICE TINHAT BROO' to most of the posters in this thread, but I genuinely believe that psychologically predatory game design has greatly contributed to a 'dumbing down' and docilization of our democratic society. How? By extremely incentivizing group-think and large amounts of time commitment, almost slavishly, to these products.
Look at the loot boxes and all the threads popping up about them. The casino/gambling predatory psychological 'gaming' of games and their design is bleeding into almost all games.
Look at the thread about Lawbreakers only having 10 active players.
I can see the leaking of that Pokemon information being extremely calculated by operators knowing how western psyche works. We are slowly uncovering that Russia has definitively been doing this. They know the weaknesses, and they are pulling on the threads, wherever they may lie.
Steve Bannon creating a Gold Farm start-up when WoW was huge is no coincidence to all of this. He understood.
And yes, there is a very real danger of attributing Russian influence to everything, but damn if it isn't a scary place that the world is in right now. As a culture and society we need to be objectively, rationally, and with as little bias as possible, be thinking critically about the things we see and interact with, and how they affect us.