>>55357621When the devs take time and effort to address some aspect of lore specifically in-game and on the exact same route the topic of discusssion is situated on, they intend people to comprehend the message.
I'm fully aware NPC's spout bullshit most the time, because most of the time they're route-dressing or developer in-jokes. Which is why when they lean on the 4th wall to say something, they're supposed to be listened to phoneposter. And the Japanese community understood that aspect of canon since 1999, just like they knew pokémon shrank from 1996, so they weren't repeating it for the Nips.
