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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

Team Rocket could make lots of money as a ransomware group

[–] kplaceholder 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is that canon? It seems that digitalization is not a thing in Pokémon.

In Legends Arceus they explain how Pokémon can naturally become smaller and Poke Balls are just empty containers which trigger that reaction. Kinda makes sense given that Poke Balls apparently were invented before anything digital.

Idk if any game ever explains how they are then stored in the PC, but according to PokeSpe, Poke Balls are physically sent and stored in literal boxes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

Literally in the first Pokemon game on the good old Gameboy there is the system where the Pokemon are send to and stored on "someone's pc". There is no post box system but just a PC where you can send (and retrieve) your Pokemon from anywhere on the continent in a split second, a speed not possible with the postal system.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Starting in Let's Go you can access the Box system from anywhere - and it's called the Box Link. Unless the trainers all secretly cart off their pokemon to a mailbox while we aren't looking with the menu in our way it's probably digitizing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pokemon is stored in the pokeballs

[–] meekah 5 points 8 months ago

But where are the pokemons that you catch when your team is full?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] NOT_RICK 8 points 9 months ago

It’s a save editor. You can modify or create new Pokémon with it

[–] slazer2au 10 points 9 months ago

Also you would hope they have excellent data verification methods for flipped and lost bits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I needed this today