Thomas Ligotti presents: Pocket Monsters

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  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    Straight up all of the Pokemon Sun and Moon entries are these weirdly dark (compared to prior generations), depressing, or just weird comments.

    Dhelmise's entry has this charming picture: "Swinging its massive anchor, it can KO Wailord in a single blow. What appears to be green seaweed is actually its body."
    Bagon decides to be sad: "With its steel-hard stone head, it headbutts indiscriminately. This is because of the stress it feels at being unable to fly."
    Salamence, and Mega-Salamence, respectively, found the solution to despair in ruthless slaughter: "When angered, it loses all sense of itself and destroys everything around it. The destruction will continue until Salamence has tired itself out." "Anyone standing in its path gets sliced right in two, while this Pokémon continues its flight without interruption. Mega Evolution fuels its brutality, and it may even turn on the Trainer who raised it. It’s been dubbed “the blood-soaked crescent.”"
    Crabominable has rocket fisticuffs action: "It just throws punches indiscriminately. In times of desperation, it can lop off its own pincers and fire them like rockets."

    Rotom-Dex does not mess around and it's kind of hilarious.
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I never knew Pokemon was so disturbing
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
    That's what you get when your Pokédex is possessed by a ghost.
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    It was electrical. By God! I had had that very thought a thousand times in my musings!

    "Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"

    "I!"

    "And you are not you--you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought. I myself have no existence; I am but a dream--your dream, creature of your imagination. In a moment you will have realized this, then you will banish me from your visions and I shall dissolve into the nothingness out of which you made me....

    "I am perishing already--I am failing--I am passing away. In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!

    "Strange! that you should not have suspected years ago--centuries, ages, eons, ago!--for you have existed, companionless, through all the eternities. Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane--like all dreams: a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice and invented hell--mouths mercy and invented hell--mouths Golden Rules, and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him!...

    "You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks--in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.

    "It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream--a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought--a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

    He vanished, and left me appalled; for I knew, and realized, that all he had said was true.

  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    It's worth noting that Ligotti is a big fan of Letters from the Earth, so the lineage is more direct than one might think.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    I'd assume so, though the quoted passage was from The Mysterious Stranger
  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    man, who can forget that scene
  • My dreams exceed my real life

    man, who can forget that scene


  • Touch the cow. Do it now.
    right. that one.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Odradek said:

    I'd assume so, though the quoted passage was from The Mysterious Stranger

    I know that! I'm just pointing out the connection.
  • My dreams exceed my real life
    image

    Just keep bein' you
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Yussss. =vvvv=
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    >Press Y to Cry.
  • I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Rotom-Dex has inspired me to buy this game with my next paycheck.
  • kill living beings
    Is the unpossesed pokedex more normal
  • edited 2016-11-23 05:47:50
    Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I choose to believe that yes.

    Rotom-Dex has inspired me to buy this game with my next paycheck.

    And yet again I do Good Work.
  • Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.

    Is the unpossesed pokedex more normal

    it's not that much less creepypasta but as of sun/moon the pokedex entries have lost all remaining chill and it's great
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Drifblim will take you to the Other Side.
  • image Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
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    (Not mine, since it's the Sun entry)
  • fight. dream. horse. love.
    not even Pokemon is immune to the darkness of 2016
  • Splat Charger Specialist
    HOLY SHIT GAME FREAK
  • is it really a true Pokemon game without jarringly out-of-tone darkness out of nowhere at at least a few points?
  • edited 2016-11-23 22:45:10
    Splat Charger Specialist
    I mean no, not really, but usually dex entries are encyclopedic, if morbidly so, not a Motheresque paranoia inducing warning of your imminent doom.
  • yeah but it's Rotomdex this gen so I guess they felt they could get weirder with it than usual.
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    And I'm glad for it.
  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
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  • Munch munch, chomp chomp...
    I kept the subtitles in because I feel it works even better that way.
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