>>47944342I mean I guess that's an elegant way to explain it, but it's stupid as hell. Plus a creature inventing concrete which is basically just a mixture of stone and sand versus a mechanical creature made of metal hardware is kind of a different thing. I mean that's like saying that humans didn't wear clothes until Sawk and Throh came around. It just seems more far-fetched than possible
>>47944279I'm not arguing that magnets didn't exist back then, the ancient Greeks knew about them. It just seems like it's such a stretch to say that a mechanical construct Pokémon like Magnemite just sort of popped up out of nature. Yes, Pokemon is a different world and it's a kids game and all that crap. But it just seems like a simpler explanation is to say that people started making them and then they started breeding on their own or something like that. Or maybe there was a Pokémon that existed before them that was augmented or changed itself, sort of like what is implied with Voltorb.