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It’s a surveying tool. It logs the creatures you encounter and provides relevant information as a reward when the special capturing device registers and tags the creature. From this data they can understand populations, territories, genetic variations, migration habits, etc.
It has to already have all the data in it; it’s not like Ash (or Red/Blue/etc) actually wrote anything in it. It just doesn’t let you access the data until you’re near or have captured a pokemon it had data on. Because it also doesn’t have data on some of the unique pokemon from what I recall from one of the movies. Tho it does have data on Mewtwo in the game, and that mofo was made in a supposedly top secret lab. Oak must have been involved in his creation… 🤔
In the show it already has most of the data, I don’t think it’s ever elaborated on there either. The pokedex can be used as a trainer id somehow.
In first handful of games it needs to be manually completed. Owning a pokedex is quite rare though so it’s not a crowdsourced task. Not entirely sure why it’s not. It’s made clear that the people with a pokedex at this time are favored by the professors. No connections or fateful encounters, no journey.
During the fifth generation I would say it had changed just based on the atmosphere in the first set of gen 5 games where it’s acknowledged that the professor works with parents to enable their children to go on journeys. In the following two games going on a journey really seems to become a rite of passage, compared to the first four where the player character is very fortunate to have the opportunity.
By generation 8 the pokedex is now a public application that can be put on your phone, meaning it’s probably crowdsourced at that point.
My god I’m out of touch. I have no idea what this is referencing, yet it seems so many people do.
The item edited into the top panel is a Pokédex from Pokémon. It contains information about the creatures you capture, but only after you’ve captured them. The character edited into the bottom panel is Professor Oak from the Pokémon franchise and inventor of the Pokédex.
The underlying meme is from an episode of The Simpsons titled 22 Short Films About Springfield (S7 E21). This particular moment between Superintendent Chalmers (top) and Principal Skinner (bottom) occurs after Principal Skinner claims he calls hamburgers “Steamed Hams”. He does so because he burned the roast he was originally making for an unforgettable luncheon, and to cover for this fact, he told Superintendent Chalmers that he was making steamed clams. Needing something else to serve in a pinch, he decides to pass off fast food burgers as his own cooking, then when questioned about the lack of the aforementioned steamed clams, claims that he actually said “steamed hams” before, despite the fact that they are obviously grilled, hence Superintendent Chalmers’ skepticism.
More hilarious lies ensue, but the point of using this meme is to convey disbelief at calling something one thing when it appears to be another. And now you should be fully caught up.
Pokemon
Kids these days keep creating new fads all the time. How are supposed to keep up.
😂😂.
Isn’t the whole point in the game that Oak just invented it and needs you to fill it up?
more like tricorder, but it seems to have data after you capture already, just like field work, reconfirming sightings or statistics(biometrics) of real life animals.
As an excuse to get you out of the house so he can spend time with your mom.
Like, he has a charmander, squirtle, and bulbasaur sitting right fucking there on the table. If it was actually about filling it up, it should have at bare minimum 3 entries in it
Too bad for Oak, she’s already taken by Mr. Mime. Unless…
Dint Dusknoir already taken his soul, like ripped from his body,.
Mr. Mime has terrible dirty talk game. On the other hand Oak’s bedroom talk gets her Squirtle going like Hydro Cannon.
I mean you said it he’s more about filling her up.
Which makes absolutely zero sense, and goes against the anime. Most of the Pokemon in the in-game world have already been caught by one of the various trainers, gym leaders, or elite four members you fight along the way. And in the anime, the Pokedex is used to identify some wild Pokemon before Ash or his friends capture it, not after.
More like the anime goes against the game, which was first.
The anime and manga are a little more accurate, in that some pokemon had no data, but all the common ones were easily looked up.
Basically Wikipedia
Crowd-sourcing the collection of data in a controlled, natural fashion through a non-scientist user is likely a lot more valuable and realistic than observing or collecting data about non-wild Pokemon in a laboratory, by themselves in the wild, or through other known resources.
If you didn’t organically and intimately interact with a Pokemon without bias/filtering the situation through the lens of science, how can you truly claim any understanding?
From the user’s pespective, the lack of available data by default ensures that the user collects the best data, even if it does briefly explain the Pokemon upon observation - likely to serve as a warning of potential danger or to provide a brief explanation to avoid user bias to appearances.
Aren’t most pokemon already caught?
And studied too, but the dataset and scientific understanding of most Pokemon is still mostly incomplete. There is a lot of data that can still be garnered from handing out the Pokedex and encouraging users to catch and interact with Pokemon.
It’s assumed that the Pokedex gathers some level of information autonomously on the interactions between trainers and the Pokemon they encounter and catch. The 6 Pokemon limit and sending excess Pokemon to the lab is likely another way to enable further research, with a steady supply of new subjects caught and interacted with in a specific, organic, and non-biased manner.
Instead of being taught about specific Pokemon prior to going out on their journey, trainers are taught about how to battle and catch Pokemon - the full breadth of literature could be sought out by them, but they are encouraged and incentivized to just go out into the world and explore.
I think the six pokemon limit was just because the most popular belt style could hold 6 pokeballs on it.
-total fan theory
It’s a regulation thing for Trainers and the League, normal people don’t have to worry about it.
Just as stylistic choices for the anime could be considered, it’d also be fair to point out that a lot of the universe was designed in line with the RPG elements of the games - and 6 was the maximum amount that made sense on the small Game Boy screens.
I’m definitely going further to rationalize everything in-universe here than I ever have in my head and everything just came out naturally with no prior thought or exposure to other fan theory.
Really everything I posted is wild speculation, but it’s a fun exercise to try to make sense of how the world in Pokemon works according to the anime and games. Not many fantasy universes are arguably akin to a utopia like Pokemon, but still have darker elements at play - with real world parallels if you look closely enough.
Oh, absolutely 6 was because of the game boy limitation, but in universe I think coming up with the wackiest of reasons is great. Sort of like the ‘ash is in a coma’ one.
Huh, never heard that one. I love it 😂
Thanks for sharing!
Oh, god. That’s like the original pokemon horror meme that I remember from 4chan. It’s a really fun ride.
In the show ash uses it to tell him about Pokémon
Professor Jimmy Wales.
