From Bringing Up A MMO Dedicated To Raising Monsters, It Just Reminds Me How Some Users Within The Animal

From bringing up a MMO dedicated to raising monsters, it just reminds me how some users within the Animal Jam fandom wants some sort of "V-Pet" mechanic for the avatar animals. I know that game alongside it's 3D counterpart doesn't count as a monster raising/collecting (maybe I should just call it as creature raising/collecting in this case?) If said feature was ever a thing, this would imply that the various animal avatars the player has brought is their group of animals they've befriended and raised.

Classic has a feature which a user can switch animals and have their own levels from leveling up in Adventures. Example: An elephant that's on level 3, but their arctic fox is at level one due to them being newly brought and played once in Adventures.

Though there's no turn-based battles and no stats for each animal the player can train to increase them, but certain clothing items equipped can give out more power to increase inflicted damage only on certain obstacles, they can't be used on Phantoms cause' the developers wants to make sure it isn't too violent for young players but yet throwing Boomseeds (which are like, organic bombs) to defeat them is okay strangely enough.

The only "V-Pet" like mechanic present within the series is only on Animal Jam: Play Wild! where you can take care of your animal's pets through the Pet Station or the PetSitter Pro to nurture a bunch of them. If the pets are fully nurtured and have enough energy, they can be used to sent out into Pet Expeditions to retrieve awards for you. Each pet has their own preferred location they like to visit, but some don't have any known preferred location. These are pretty much it on what you can do with them.

“Palworld is good actually because it gives Pokemon competition” you bitches couldn’t even handle Digimon. Scratch that you bitches couldn’t even handle Moshi Monsters.

AGREED

Thinking about palworld & like how unashamedly it portrays slavery.

Like for sure, depictions of heinous things in fiction aren't necessarily an endorsement & don't necessarily mean ppl will go on to commit those atrocities.

However, I find it deeply concerning what this depiction of slavery means in a social context. The way it joyfully tacked this on as a game mechanic & made it very explicit about how this isn't just hard labour, it is slavery & how it extremely intentionally uses terms like 'plantation' rather than crop or farm.

I was watching ppl play this game just bc I wanted to actually see what it was all about & if it was as bad as I thought. It's worse than I thought & my worries about it were confirmed by just how quickly the shock of how this game portrays slavery wore off on the player & how quickly they began to joke about it.

I really sincerely think ppl need to let go of the pokemon shit for a second & think about the social consequences of how this game portrays slavery.

I think we fucking owe it to Black people & other people who have ancestors who were enslaved to talk about how serious this is.

I don't give a fucking rats ass about pokemon or plagiarizing trillion dollar corporations, who fucking cares?

I'm much more concerned about the impact this game could have on real living people with the way it carelessly jokes about this & how this changes people's perceptions of slavery.

Changing the attitude people have towards slavery is the first step towards people thinking that it's okay to enslave people, I think we really ought to be talking about that.

Those guys don't wanna try cause' they're allergic to said series just cause' you can't enslave them with humans too, my gawn it really does show those type of fans are unaccepting jerks judging by how they love that mechanic within that game.

I don't get the people touting palworld as a clever deconstruction like no it just sucks. If you want a monster franchise that's sort of fucked up and yucky and weird and has guns and wants to talk about how war is hell. AND is actually fucking good and has a heart instead of just being like "lol look at how SHOCKING and CRAZY we're being". Digimon is right there.

Me- me when- *disgruntled sigh* me when wiki-

The only monster Pal I care about