>>53541863>as well as relying on headcanon like the time machine requiring the AI or the book being the key to turn on the time machine and not the ID inside it.First thing's first: The AI directly states that they're part of the machine after you fight them - they just didn't realize it. Second: You DO need the book - specifically the professor's copy - because the ID that functions as the activation key for the machine isn't a separate key card that was just conveniently left inside it. The key is most certainly an embedded RFID chip like the ones used in modern-day passports, woven into a page or one of the covers of the book itself, hence why the AI has to put the whole book into the slot and not just remove a key card, or why Arven never noticed something was in there the whole time he was carrying it around. It was a hidden key that nobody would ever know was there so that only the Professor themselves could control their machine.
>The problem is no one can create a real issue with time travel without creating new rules and limits that were never stated in the gameFalse. Scream Tail CANNOT have come from a time period one billion years ago, even though we're told that's where the machine pulled it from. Walking Wake CANNOT be from the past, either - ignoring the whole Ho-Oh thing, it's directly stated to have been entirely the product of the artist's imagination and never actually existed. There's plenty of other holes that have been brought up repeatedly that don't rely on 'new rules or headcanon' to still be disproven - you just keep ignoring whatever you can't rebut. The only thing that makes sense is that the Pokemon weren't real to begin with and were fabricated on demand, with their origins being complete conjecture by Heath, the Professor, and the Occulture magazines because they don't actually have a clue as to what they're seeing or where they really could have come from. Also, none of those three sources are reliable narrators.
