Ontology:Q3840
- pronounced [S2] Applin is a scam 1-1-1
Characteristics in draft
Properties
- item type
- S2 (pronounced C) 1-1-1
- label (en)
- pronounced [S2] Applin is a scam 1-1-1
- alias (en)
- Pokémon Go's Applin event is a scam (2025)
- QID references [Item] 1-1-1
- Q11840 Applin
- color swatch references [Item]
- fantasy work
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Components
- model combines claims
- [S2] Mobile game events are an excuse for microtransactions
- model combines claims
- [S2] Rarely-appearing goals inside microtransactions bring more microtransactions
- model combines claims
- [S2] Companies intentionally create further unsatisfying experiences to make more money
- model combines claims
- [S2] Any game activity that costs money but takes a long time is a scam
Wavebuilder combinations
- pronounced [P] pronounced Wavebuilder: forms result [Item]
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- along with [Item]
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Usage notes
This is a fun one because the tonal whiplash between the image of an oddly-specific Pokémon with a perfectly innocuous appearance and the serious accusation that happens to be associated with it is especially funny out of context. Applin. Apple Core Pokémon. Grass/Dragon. Scandals: 1.
Whether a claim of this form is true in any objective sense is complicated. If you think that activities can't be a scam if they're things people do socially, you won't believe microtransactions are a scam. If you have enough money to somehow enjoy some particular event along with other people, you will make excuses that any case of somebody sorting you into a particular activity and then owning it and making bad decisions about how much to charge you for it is generally okay if that person "created it". It depends on whether somebody feels positively or negatively about the notion of microcolonies.