I don't understand how anyone can say this when Pokémon trainers basically get to make a career out of goofing off with monsters. Sounds like most kids' dream job.

Funnily enough, in Pokémon Sun and Moon, there's a group of older, retired trainers who imply that they didn't make enough money off of being a trainer to earn a living, and had to go into other lines of work. And yet you can still make limitless tons of money winning battles and selling valuable items you find on your journey. Maybe those guys just weren't trying hard enough?

... One thing that I like about video games versus the real world is that in the former, you're always compensated fairly for overachieving. Anyone else go around collecting all the resources in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom? No? I may need to rethink my life.

Also, this makes me think about video game design in general and how sometimes I see games where the dev team put so much focus on things like incredible next-gen hyperrealistic graphics, super-advanced AI, and ridiculously detailed programming, that they forgot to actually make the game fun. Like, my definition of a good video game is something you can sit down with for a few hours to unwind at the end of the day, and come away feeling satisfied and refreshed and entertained. Things like graphics and tech specs should take a back seat (or at least the passenger seat) to an enjoyable experience. And that's why I'm such a big Pokémon fan--because the games are just plain good old-fashioned fun.

 I've had this idea on my mind for a long time, and finally was able to get around to rendering it. Whenever I see one of those "SHARE THE ROAD" signs, I just keep wanting it to say this because I have a really odd sense of humor.

Now I just want to do an entire series of Middle-earth road signs. "WATCH FOR FIGHTING ROCKS", maybe? "YIELD TO FELLOWSHIPS"? "DO NOT PICK UP GOLLUMS"?

 Those sly Rockets. Also don't invite them to Scrabble night. They have a surprisingly broad vocabulary.

(Yes, I know there are no female Team Rocket members in Gen I. While I tried to stay faithful to extant character designs when portraying actual in-game dialogue, I played around with character design a bit more if I had to make up my own characters for a scene. I guess my headcanon is that female Rockets have always existed, it's just that none of them appeared in Kanto in Gen I for some reason.*)

*Although, in Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee, there are quite a few female Team Rocket members, which sort of retcons their male-only population in Red/Blue.**

**I omitted Yellow because Jessie appears in that game, so it is not technically devoid of female Rockets. But at this point I've just become too pedantic. As my sister says, it's not that deep.

 I mean, they're a criminal organization and all, but that doesn't mean you can just jump to conclusions every time a crime happens.

 The constellation Triangulum has always incited me to rage confused me. It's arguably the second lamest of the constellations (only losing to its 16th-century Southern Hemisphere cousin, Triangulum Australe, which is even worse because it's a totally unoriginal knockoff of something that was already totally unoriginal).

So I was really surprised to find out that Triangulum actually dates back to ancient Greece. The Greeks were usually so much more creative than that. Triangulum doesn't even have a story or a myth behind it, it's just... always been a triangle.

Naturally, that meant I had to make up a myth for it. I guess I felt sorry for it.

 Oh, the Team Rocket Grunts. They had some of the most fun dialogue to work off of. I enjoyed portraying them as completely incompetent in so many ways, because let's face it, in real life criminals are pretty dumb. (And let's not forget the Team Rocket trio in the anime, who even after 25 years never figured out that trying to capture Pikachu was a complete waste of their time.)

I just like how this totally random Grunt in Mt. Moon thinks he's cool enough that he can complain to the higher-ups that a 10-year-old beat him in a Pokémon battle, and they'll blacklist the kid instead of firing him for being totally useless.

 I guess this pun only works if you have an Electric-type in your party. Which I did, so I could make the joke.