>>55355705>>55355780>>55355871>>55356034>>55358360>>55358366>>55358383I've explained it three times, if you still pretend you don't understand it after this final time it's safe to say you're trolling.
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly is a normal dude, living in the normal then-contemporary 1980s, and through his friendship with Doc Brown he encounters a working time machine and is awed by it. A time machine is a futuristic hypothetical invention, yet the existence of the time machine in the 1980s of the movie doesn't make them a futuristic setting, in fact the DeLorean was a retrofitted rinky dink inelegant machine and it only served to get the plot going and get Marty back the the 1950s, which are also grounded and realistic despite now having the time machine DeLorean in them, in fact the whole movie is actually quaint and nostalgic trying to evoke simpler times and connect them to then-contemporary 1980s.
Similarly early Pokemon media is normal and grounded, and have the normal kid MCs come across crazy technology through their knowledge of a professor, yet the tech only serves to explain convenient gameplay purposes that would need to exist anyway, rather than being normalized and promoted in the setting i.e. despite teleporters existing people still walk everywhere (whereas in Futurama everyone travels through tubes which are prominent in the show), despite Pokeball technology existing its only purpose is monster battling etc. The technology is big and bulky and rugged and the games glorify nature and simple living despite having all the impossible inventions, just like BTTF.
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