 Hey everyone, Nate Chance here. We're going to talk about Pokemon and Junichi Musada here or Masuda or whatever. I know I butcher these Japanese names all the time. I apologize about that. There's a lot going on out in the gaming world that we could be talking about today, of course. There's some some interesting stories about Sony Skipping E3 again, which I guess they did it last year. So is that surprising? I don't really know that it's that surprising. But we could talk about that maybe another time. Some other rumors and reports out there potentially Pikmin 3 coming to switch and all that. We'll we'll get into that maybe in some future videos, but I want to talk about this because I am a video game fan first and foremost. I am a gamer. I like talking about video games. I like playing video games. I like watching other people play video games at times. And I like discussing the video game industry. Hence why I have this YouTube channel in the first place. And what I don't like about video game fans at times is we as a collective, this isn't to point out anyone individually, have a tendency to go too far. There's nothing wrong with criticizing games. There's nothing wrong with, you know, lobbing critiques and and doing so in in ways that make sense. But sometimes we do things that it just gets kind of old. It gets kind of stale. It's it's old hat. It's old news. People don't want to consistently hear about the same thing over and over again. Especially, you know, going on six months, seven months, eight months after a game come out, etc. Because it's not going to change the reality of the situation at this point. They already know our critiques. In this case, Junichi Masuda is trying to enjoy his birthday. But in trying to enjoy his birthday, people can't stop bitching at him about missing Pokemon from the Pokedex. This has been the biggest controversy of Pokemon Sword and Shield period is it is the first new generation of Pokemon games that does not have a global Pokedex somewhere. There's no ability to import every Pokemon that's ever existed into the game. Even though they're not, you know, normally available in the game, there's always been a way to have like this big national decks. And in this case, with Pokemon Sword and Shield, that's not possible. And fans are probably even more infuriated, if I had to guess, at the announcement of the DLC. Some fans are happy with the DLC, but others view it as there are some of the old Pokemon coming back in the DLC. And so they feel like Pokemon were cut to be resold to us in DLC. And that's kind of where the quote-unquote new wrinkle to be an upset about the national decks is coming from. But again, it's not a new complaint. It's just repackaging an old complaint in a new way. So let's get into the story as Nintendo Life reported it by Damian McFerran. I'll have a link to this article down below. Credit to Nintendo Life, they do excellent work out there. While Pokemon Sword and Shield has been a smash it all over the world, its release has been dodged by debates over what has become known as Dexit, a.k.a. the removal of legacy Pokemon from the games national Pokedex. Prior to launch developer Game Freak announced that it had made a decision to remove certain monsters from the game and later stated that it would be doing the same for future installments, which sparked backlash from certain parts of the community. Very, very vocal backlash. Not backlash that actually led to bad sales, but backlash that kind of uprising you get on the internet is just relentless. It doesn't stop. It still isn't stopping. The debate was revived last week when it was confirmed that the upcoming expansions, the Isle of Armor and the Crown Tundra, will feature over 200 monsters from past Pokemon games. Game Freak has stated that these monsters will still be available to those who don't purchase the expansion pass, so that's a key point. I get to trade for them, I believe. The news has still attracted a small but vocal negative response. Game Freak co-founder and head of development Junichi Masuda, who was working on every mainline Pokemon game since the series began, is getting a little heat on his birthday over the whole thing. And this was spotted by Video Game Chronicle. I wish him happy birthday on Twitter, which makes sense. You're wishing happy birthday to a public figure, an important person in the industry, maybe your Pokemon fan. Obviously, we do this for Agee and Omo for Zelda. We do this for Shigeru Miyamoto and others. Wishing happy birthday on social media is a pretty normal thing. So it's kind of like fans are reaching out and saying, hey, happy birthday. Big deal. That's kind of a stream of positivity to start your day. Do it for me as well on social media on YouTube. There'll be random comments saying, hey, happy birthday for those that remember that it happens to be my birthday. But one user, the only one that Masuda has replied to directly, and this is how you know he saw this comment. He actually replied to it. At the time of writing, decided to take in the task for the decision to remove old Pokemon so that you can make money from DLC. A clear reference to the recent Expansion Pants announcement. Masuda responded, it's a public holiday today, and it's his birthday. Can you let me relax? See, I'm fine in general. You want to lob a bunch of criticism at Game Freaks official Twitter account. But when it comes to the individual level of someone on social media, an individual person who represents an entire company, but isn't always the one making every single decision in that company, to keep going at him. Let's just open this tweet. It is in Japanese, so we're going to be using the translate feature on Twitter. So let's open this up and see the string of tweets here. So let's see here. It started with this tweet right here. So let's translate that tweet. It says happy birthday. So someone said happy birthday, and I assume that this was retweeted by Masuda. He retweeted the happy birthday. So this is on a tweet that's specifically about his birthday. This is what's so frustrating. I know people are going to lobby criticism at individual creatives all the time. But this is a post, a tweet directly about his birthday. A fan wished him happy freaking birthday. Alright. Let's see his official response here. Said thank you. So again, he retweeted, commented, said thank you for wishing him happy birthday. It's all happy vibes here, right? A fan reached out and said happy birthday, posted some Pokemon stuff, blah blah blah. Everything's all right in the world. But then this guy has to come around and please give a word about the removal of old Pokemon to make money as DLC. And not only that, it has 503 retweets and 368 likes. So it's not like this is a post that's being ignored. This is a person responding to a birthday tweet with demands and criticism about Pokemon. Responding to a birthday tweet. Let me repeat that with like criticism about Pokemon DLC. About removal of Pokemon. There are ways, folks, to be human about this. Because I think this is really prevalent on the internet. I don't think anybody would say this to his face if they knew it was his birthday. If Genichi Masuda is out celebrating his birthday and you're at the birthday party, chances are you're not going to say a damn word about this. You're just going to say happy birthday, thanks for all the memories, all that stuff. Maybe give him a present or something. You're not going to do this in person. People will not walk up to him in person knowing it's his birthday at a birthday celebration. This is a birthday celebration post. And do this. But that's not the way the internet works because we're all anonymous. I mean this person's username definitely doesn't look like a real name. It also has a cartoon avatar or an anime avatar or whatever it is. Maybe it's from a specific anime I don't recognize. But that is not proper etiquette for talking to another human being. And then I think on the internet we forget that these are real humans, they're not robots. Just because we're click-clacking away on a keyboard or typing on phones or whatever doesn't mean that these aren't people. I mean he clearly was talking to folks on Twitter for Android. These are people. These are actual people with real feelings and real lives. And they go well beyond what they do for a job. Gotta remember, him working at Game Freak and for the Pokemon company is his job. It's not who he is as a person. Yes, a lot of us can closely associate our work with who we are but we are not the sum of our work. We are the sum of everything else in life work being part of that equation. So I look at this as just a completely inappropriate way to lobby this criticism. You wanna tweet at him the criticism. You wanna respond to a different tweet that's about the Sword and Shield DLC or something and lobby that criticism. Fine. That's like the appropriate way to do it. Give the critique on the things that actually have to do with what you're critiquing. This is about a man's birthday. A man's birthday. And you had to bring this critique out. His direct response as translated by Google. It's a holiday today and it's a birthday, his birthday. And he let me relax. And this is even the worst. Like this guy, Herschel Nova. Look, he said, if you wanted to relax you wouldn't be looking at Twitter. Social media is a part of our everyday lives. Most of our everyday lives. I mean, you guys are here on YouTube watching this video. YouTube is technically a social media platform. So you're making YouTube part of your day today if you're watching this video. We all have our phones. Some of us use Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat. There's a billion like social, you know, Facebook. Social media is out there. Even ones that I've vaguely heard of but I have no experience with. Even for like business people, you know, that programmers that we have linked in and all that. It's interesting to me to see that the criticism is being excused because he chose to look at Twitter on his birthday. Something that is integral to our daily lives. You just expect, oh, it's your birthday, you're gonna stop ever looking at Twitter on your birthday. Even though there's some genuine people out there wishing this guy happy birthday and making him smile. So he should stop because others can't control themselves. Or maybe we should just talk about, I don't know, being decent human beings, leaving the man behind on his birthday. I have a huge problem with this type of criticism and this method of criticizing. Something with video games. It just doesn't make sense to me. Even, you know, you have this whole thing, you know, save National Day, bring my National Day. These people are just relentless. Relentless. If we give this man another chance he would just make even more BS excuses to cut content again. Like, it's just non-stop. This is on the tweet about a man's birthday. Why can't we be decent human beings on the internet? I seriously ponder this. Why can't we be decent humans on the internet and be, like, understanding of people and understand that we're all different and that, like, our lives aren't just about a singular thing? People on, you know, call it a slow news morning. People always complain, blah, blah, blah, blah. The thing is, I get the critiques, I understand the criticism. I get that it's not a good look to cut all these Pokemon and then resell them to you as DLC. I understand that I get the criticism and I get why people are frustrated with it. But I also think that there's a time and a place. I firmly believe there's a time and a place for this kind of criticism. There's a time and a place to talk to Masuda about this. And while social media is going to be flooded with people like this, and Masuda has to understand that, you know, he's the leader of a really popular video game. He's going to get crap. Anything that, anything he tweets, he's going to get crap. And maybe he needs a little bit of a thicker skin. I also think that just because maybe he can handle the situation better doesn't mean that it's a valid excuse for doing this. Let the man celebrate his birthday, including on social media, including with fans of his work. It's okay for him to celebrate that with fans of his work. I don't think it's okay to go on a celebration post about an individual's birthday, not even birthday of Pokemon, his individual birthday and blast him. Put him on blast. Get attention for yourself. And it sucks because they're making this video, you just got more attention. And I feel kind of bad about that because the reason I'm giving it attention is because I want to point out how stupid this is. And that people need to stop doing this. I've had it done to me. Others have had it done to them. All public fitters have it done. And it sucks every single time. And my plea to you Pokemon fans, my plea to any of you fans out there is that we lobby our critiques and our criticisms in the right places in the right forums at the right times. I think we should all be able to agree that on a post about someone's birthday, someone's actual personal birthday, then maybe we should leave out the critiques of some of their work because the person is not the same as the work. That's really all I got for you guys for this video. Thank you so much for tuning in. Let me know what you think about throwing the comments below because this happens a lot on the internet. And it frustrates me every single time. And I really want to hear your guys' honest to goodness thoughts even if you disagree with me. It's okay. Let's have a conversation. Let's spark a debate. So go on the console. Let me know what you think. I am Nate Jantz. Like, subscribe, comment. Hit that little bell icon if you want notifications on every video and every live stream. And hey, I'll catch you guys all in the next video, which I already named at the very beginning. A whole bunch of topics I still need to talk about. So man, things are moving faster now. There is just gaming news flying everywhere. It's going to be a great 2020. Let me tell you. Peace out, everyone.