Gone Fishing

In the Pokemon Universe, people don't necassarily choose a career. Indeed, few people seem to actually work and the place exists like some sort of communist bohemia. However, that is not to say that life is without it's choices for the people of Unova.

Everybody but everybody has to make a choice in Pokemon and that choice is, 'What Stereotype or Category of Person Will You Be'? For example, if you like camping and your name is Terry, you will now be defined as 'Camper Terry'. If you like a good walk and you're named Winston, chances are that you will be generally known as 'Hiker Winston'...and of course if you like fishing and you happen to be called Brian, you sir, will widely be regarded as, 'Fisherman Brian'.



(An interesting side note is that outdoor activites rarely seem to have female Pokemon trainers - apparently all the hiker girls are concentrating on hiking, not Pokemon)

The point of this article is not, though, the fact that everyone gets defined by their favourite past-time. My actual issue is quite apart from this and a lot more specific to one guy.

In every single version of Pokemon that there has ever been, there has always been one fisherman that stands out against the army of other fisherman. This guy has a strong and stubborn philosophy when it comes to Pokemon - and that philosophy is, an entire team of Magikarp, and only Magikarp.

At what point was he sitting there fishing when he thought to himself "Boy I love my Magikarp. I wish I...no, I couldn't possibly...would society allow it? Would society allow me to train an entire squad of just Magikarp? Even at level 60, I could stop them from ever evolving. I'd be WORLD-RENOWNED"

What happens though, is that a young, shot-gun trainer, like Trainer Chaz for example, comes walking along, thinks "Oh, some experience for my grass pokemon versus adversaries like Seaking, Finneon aaand...um...Tentacool!" - but no, what I have to do is trawl through a never-ending team of level 60 Magikarp, who reward me less experience than wild Pokemon! And there is ONE of these guys in EVERY single version of the game. And I suppose what I want is for him to seriously question why he has become a pokemon trainer and not just dumbly say to me afterwards "I have no idea why I only catch Magikarp!" - ITS BECAUSE YOU'RE USING AN OLD ROD STUPID.



p.s. and while we're at it, fuck those Bug Catchers who turn up with a squad full of Metapods. I haven't got time for your tomfoolery, go back to Viridian Forest ya jerk-offs.