>grow attached to a Pokemon
>get a shiny one with perfect IVs
>train it exactly right
>get as many ribbons for it as you can
>use it in all your teams
>max it out in Amie
>genuinely feel a bond with it
>remember that it's just a collection of pixels and code
>remember that you have no friends let alone a bond even close to that which you had with your Pokemon
You know, sometimes I think about the fact that pokemon are pretty much animals. Literally.
Animals don't have free will. They are sentient, not sapient, meaning they each react to exterior stimuli in various ways according to their instincts and that's it. That's a level of intelligence we've been able to emulate in AI from the get go, and pokemons are no exceptions.
In short, saying it's just a "bunch of pixels" is like saying animals are just a bunch of atoms.
Now, they're nowhere near their anime counterpart, but I feel no guilt in bonding with them regardless.
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>>28016995
You two should get out more.
>>28017026
Fuck off, reddit.
>>28016899
I hope that when we die,we can live in a dream like state,and I can finally be with my pokemon...