I dont know what was said or what arguments were made
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A lot of people care? We shouldnt be shutting down any other ways of doing things, especially when its far more popular and concise to be following those. Otherwise we're stuck in the past.
If we chased after everyone's tail we would be dead as a wiki by now, it is our personal takes that keep this place properly afloat. This isn't industry, this is subjective opinions, and using DB as a source is something you'd need to lobotomize me to get me to accept.
People who scale Pokemon outside of the wiki do exist. Professional researchers and global opinions do matter.
'Professional' 'global' are you hearing yourself right now? Seriously. These are like 5 dudes here, maybe 7 dudes over here, half of them in a basement eating tendies and getting grease over the keyboard. Stop treating this shit as politics when it's quite literally a pointless game-like hobby. The reason why we enjoy what we enjoy is precisely because we don't care about following some status quo.
Those do NOT prove Ash exists in the game-canon whatsoever. Making slight references and giving out meta-level rewards in-game through wifi etc.
Yeah no this is a bias at this point. I ain't even gonna entertain it. These were fully added and fully playable, these aren't just references, this is quite literally in the game. You can whine about it all you want but I ain't gonna hear out what's clearly "uhhh this doesn't count because uhhh I said so!"
Like i really gotta emphasise how including stuff from the anime into the games as little niche events does not mean the anime really happened in the same place as the games, and then that also means the games can then be scaled via anime logic. The anime quite clearly follows a varied version of the games' story, and that should be proof enough they dont take place in the same canon.
This isn't what's being argued, what is argued is that these events are taking place in a shared multiverse where generally things would be the same until a clear contradiction came. In-game stories across the multiverse are heavily different from each other as well, just take all the alternate realities in USUM. If Ash exists in the game world then nothing stops from there being a parallel timeline where he was the one taking the reins, especially considering we quite literally do see some of the protagonists in the anime itself.
Why cross-scale parallel timelines? Because they are not that different from each other where it matters. If something is different, sure, scale it differently, but a Bidoof in the anime isn't gonna be different from a Bidoof in the game. Why? Because if you go into the portal in SM to go to a parallel world, that bidoof will also be the same.