The Pokedex is FULL OF LIES! (Pokemon)
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🗓️ 23 October 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Join Game Theory Host MatPat as he reveals the DARK truth of the Pokemon Pokedex.
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| 0:00.0 | The professors in the Pokemon series are complete and utter hacks. |
| 0:03.9 | Today I start my quest to expose their lies. I'm going to Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show whose primary strategy is flail. |
| 0:34.6 | You know, try as I might, I openly admit that I occasionally get things wrong on this channel. |
| 0:38.9 | When you've done nearly 200 episodes covering topics as diverse as helicopter physics to gemology and ancient history to hacking, |
| 0:45.6 | then you fuse those with franchises that have lasted literal decades with each installment involving 60 plus hours of gameplay per game and do that weekly to meet the |
| 0:54.6 | unforgiving treadmill of YouTube well things unfortunately slip through the cracks |
| 0:58.7 | hashtag excuses but you know what at the very least I have a better track record than the |
| 1:04.8 | Pocadex. Oh yeah I am calling you out you septile spewing Siri wannabe and the |
| 1:11.4 | more I looked into the decks's entries the more this realization started to hit that the |
| 1:15.9 | Pocadex this pocket Encyclopedia educating young trainers this storehouse of information that people take as fact is passing off legends and myths as hard facts at best and peddling in outright lies at absolute worst. |
| 1:31.0 | And while that might not seem like a big deal, remember this is one of the primary |
| 1:34.8 | ways information about these creatures is handed down. And who's out there correcting it? Not the |
| 1:40.4 | professors since as we know it's fricking written by them |
| 1:43.6 | imagine if Wikipedia was just filled with lies you'd never know and the false |
| 1:48.0 | information would perpetuate virtually becoming fact so like my ongoing series on the psychology of the Mario |
| 1:54.7 | verse today I'm starting a new series. De Bunk the decks where I deconstruct the |
| 1:59.6 | science of the polka decks one Garbadore fire entry at a time |
| 2:04.0 | because darn it, the 10-year-old Joe Toans need to hear the truth |
| 2:08.0 | that their Pokedex is full of lies. |
| 2:11.0 | Today I'm starting my one-man quest to debunk the decks with a generation |
| 2:14.2 | I haven't covered all that much in other theories. Sure we've done plenty of |
| 2:17.3 | Gen 1 and Gen 2 even some black white next y, but I've never really talked |
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