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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:12:18 No.53490634 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>53490647 >>53491356 >>53493714 >>53494266 >>53495742 >>53496544

>"Golem"
>is a rock turtle thing with no resemblance or connection to actual golems
I never got the name of this pokemon. It always seemed so random and out of place

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:15:21 No.53490647 Report

Quoted By: >>53490656 >>53492184 >>53493714

>>53490634
Golems are stone monsters.
Golem is a stone monster.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:17:39 No.53490655 Report

Quoted By: >>53493219

A lot of gen 1 English names are just weirdly lazy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:17:50 No.53490656 Report

Quoted By: >>53490662 >>53490699 >>53491143 >>53492184

>>53490647
Golems are made of clay

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:18:22 No.53490659 Report

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It would probably have a name like Tectonne of something if any other gen

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:20:02 No.53490662 Report

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>>53490656
anon...

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 00:29:48 No.53490699 Report

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>>53490656
>Golem is part-Ground type
Still fits.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 02:18:30 No.53491143 Report

Quoted By: >>53491861 >>53493547 >>53494123

>>53490656
Clay IS rock after it dries. You use it as a brick. It's hard, solid.

Pokemon is wrong for having made Golurk, Claydol and Runerigus Ground Type. Ground makes sense for WET clay, but all these Pokemon are the finished, hardened product, which is very fucking clearly a rock.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 03:21:31 No.53491356 Report

Quoted By: >>53493375 >>53495818

>>53490634
"golem" is just a close romanization of Graveler/Golem's JP names, which are just onomatopoeia of the sound of rocks rolling

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 06:23:06 No.53491861 Report

Quoted By: >>53491876 >>53492112 >>53492321

>>53491143
Still not as bad marowak being ground when it's fucking hard bone

>marowak used bonemerang
>pidgey is immune

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 06:30:57 No.53491876 Report

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>>53491861
I've thought about that and I'm pretty sure the reason Marowak is Ground isn't directly because of bones or graves but because it uses its bone to smack the ground, causing shockwaves that make earthquakes

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 08:34:02 No.53492112 Report

Quoted By: >>53492447

>>53491861
They should make an exception with those bones moves because they can be thrown in the air. Make them deal neutral damage to flying types.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 09:18:26 No.53492184 Report

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>>53490656
>>53490647
Golems are americans

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 10:44:18 No.53492321 Report

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>>53491861
have you tried hitting a bird with a boomerang? I know that was the intended purpose of the thing but it is actually pretty hard to the point where throwing a rock is better

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 11:43:01 No.53492447 Report

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>>53492112
Should they make an exception with Mud Shot or Mud Bomb aswell? Next thing you want is for Thousand Arrows to hit flying types. Don't be silly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:24:11 No.53493219 Report

Quoted By: >>53493368

>>53490655
>lazy
That word again

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:57:14 No.53493368 Report

Quoted By: >>53493604 >>53496063

>>53493219
Is he really wrong though? We've had testimony from actual members of the localization team for gen 1 straight up say they had no idea what they were doing (for a game that many thought would flop with american audiences at the time) and in many cases they just did whatever. Golem, exeggcute/ggutor, gastly, mr mime...

And even then, japanese names were even lazier in some cases (crab, showers, thunders, thunder, etc).

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 16:59:39 No.53493375 Report

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>>53491356
Should have called it Rollem, then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 17:46:12 No.53493547 Report

Quoted By: >>53493582

>>53491143
>Clay IS rock after it dries.
A sentence this stupid could have only come from American fingers

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 17:59:46 No.53493582 Report

Quoted By: >>53493586

>>53493547
Google clay, it will tell you the hardened version of it is classified as a type of rock

U r bitch

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:00:51 No.53493586 Report

Quoted By: >>53493705

>>53493582
its wet sand retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:07:54 No.53493604 Report

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>>53493368
>japanese names were even lazier in some cases (crab, showers, thunders, thunder, etc).
This is a western perception because these are foreign words so it sounds cool to them. Moltres is called Fire but Fire is not the japanese word for fire.
The X-men superhero is called Pyro which is just the greek word for fire and yet it sounds like a real cool name to us

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:40:46 No.53493705 Report

Quoted By: >>53494110

>>53493586
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK SAND IS, IT'S FUCKING TINY ROCKS

TAKE TINY ROCKS, BAKE THEM TO RECOMBINE INTO ONE LARGE SINGULAR PIECE, IT'S A FUCKING GOODAMN ROCK

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:43:59 No.53493714 Report

Quoted By: >>53493726

>>53490634
At the time it is the best thing that the localization team came up with, they never expected that a true Golem would appear in the franchise (I mean Golurk, the Regis are more Elemental since they were not created by humans) their Japanese name is a onomatopoeia for rolling rocks, they didn't have much to work with.

Regarding its design, there are several elements, such as kaijus from Ultraman (takkong), tortoise, a boulder, Tsuchikorobi (A yokai that rolls into a ball and throws people down)

>>53490647
Clay, by this reason Golurk is part ground type

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:47:49 No.53493726 Report

Quoted By: >>53493772

>>53493714
Clay IS fucking stone after you harden it why are you people such fucking morons, you make BRICKS out of clay, you make STATUES out of clay, wet clay is more like a soil but by the time you have actually used it as a building material it is hard and very much a rock. Not even LIKE a rock, it IS A ROCK

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 18:57:10 No.53493753 Report

Quoted By: >>53494133

The word golem has long surpassed the classic jewish folklore tighter definition being sucessfully hijacked by modern fantasy to refer to any mineral based monster independently of anything else

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 19:03:57 No.53493772 Report

Quoted By: >>53493916

>>53493726
I guess plastic is a rock too since it's made from oil. Fucking retard American.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 19:36:17 No.53493916 Report

Quoted By: >>53493952

>>53493772
Ok eurotrash, try and keep up here. What is oil made of? Dinosaur. What else is made of dinosaur; besides your mom's stanky ass pussy? Fossils, bitch. Fossilmons are rock types. Plastic is rock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 19:51:30 No.53493952 Report

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>>53493916
Diamonds are made by carbon, carbon must be a stone, and so all living things are rocks. America teaches so much, thank you.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 20:28:45 No.53494110 Report

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>>53493705
This game series differentiates stone from sediment. That's not difficult to understand, even if it does feel like it's sort of just splitting hairs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 20:32:32 No.53494123 Report

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>>53491143
You can literally snap hardened clay in half with one hand, it's not hard at all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 20:34:49 No.53494133 Report

Quoted By: >>53494146

>>53493753
This. There's a reason we often refer to the gen 3 region trio as the legendary golems

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 20:37:11 No.53494146 Report

Quoted By: >>53495862

>>53494133
But that's literally because of what he said doesn't happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 22 Mar 2023 21:04:52 No.53494266 Report

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>>53490634
Name should have been Goround. Yes it sounds gay like merry go round but A) It's the rolling ground pokemon so the pun makes more sense, and B) It's a shitty pokemon anyway and ruins the geodude line and it should be ashamed

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 02:58:50 No.53495742 Report

Quoted By: >>53495812 >>53495837 >>53496129

>>53490634
Gen 1 in general is kinda low-effort in places. Really feels like growing pains. The series just needed to find its footing. Remember the pokemon literally named Mr. Mime? Or how some pokemon just evolve into more copies of themselves?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 03:18:06 No.53495812 Report

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>>53495742
You should see the Japanese names

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Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 03:18:26 No.53495818 Report

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>>53491356
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rawhide!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 03:22:57 No.53495837 Report

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>>53495742
Forward thinking Nob pointing out if they have genders that Mr. Mime isn't good, and gets ignored, only for the very next game having female Mr. Mime.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 03:27:48 No.53495862 Report

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>>53494146
They are artificially made lifeforms make of inorganic materials. Why wouldn't they be golems?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 04:14:27 No.53496063 Report

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>>53493368
Boy, you must've never played other RPG's.
DQ has Ghost, Fat rat, Bad apple, etc.
Not judging, just saying that Pokemon's naming scheme was not unlike other RPG's. Though I guess I shouldn't be surprised since Pokemon fans don't play other RPG's released before 2000

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 04:29:09 No.53496129 Report

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>>53495742
Gen 1 was a passion project, it was made by a small team of people who wanted to make a great game.
Judging by the fact that we're here today, I'd say the succeeded.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 06:25:18 No.53496544 Report

Quoted By: >>53496555

>>53490634
No one had an issue with this until people complained about newer designs so they forced themselves to dislike older designs out of spite.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 23 Mar 2023 06:28:49 No.53496555 Report

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>>53496544
No way I remember plenty of people bitching about Golem's design over the years. It was always one of the original 150 that people thought was kind of weak from a design perspective that seemed to come out of nowhere from Graveler (who looks much cooler) and it didn't help that it was a trade evo to boot

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