#whereistheplot

I´m through with Pokémon Shield after one long week and I feel.. underwhelmed and slightly irritated after the last battles.. good thing the the world is so damn pretty that I cannot get enough of looking at it...

What I missed the most:

- The Plot! The f*cking plot that started so mysterious and all, but never really since the Wild Area picked up.. I´m so mad, because I´ve hoped for some  really cool plot & then we´re just running from city to city, little smalltalk here and there, but nothing ever happens >_> 

- A real challenge... seriously, I did almost no training -that bit at the beginning in the wild area was more playing around, honestly - and my pokemon were still above the gym leader´s pokemon. It has never been this f*cking easy to beat everyone, it´s frustrating.. 

- So many interesting character designs and I´m crying because they did (almost) nothing with them T_T The water gym leader? Seen twice only, before and after becoming champ, nothing else added to her character... Hop, I swear his personality just.. his team got more changes than his expressions!

- When I get options for answers, I would really appreciate a different reaction >_> But, oh wait, there´s no need for another reaction, because both answers were (almost) always the same just worded differently - exception: Opal, because you actually had to give the right answer..

- The “real evil” antagonist... honestly that was disappointing on so many levels, I don´t know what else to say except: please, give us back the usual grunts and their evildoers, because I really missed them! And a better reason for trying to destroy the whole region, please T_T The worst part: we had to do it twice! Yes, there´s not only the president who needs to be defeated, no! After championship comes the real deal - which means: the real disappointement.. I´m so done with playing right now just because of this whole developement >_>

What I loved:

- The world! I love the designs of all the cities so much! Ballonlea with the mushrooms is so beautiful, Hammerlock like a real medival castle, Circhester a calm winter wonderland, Stow-on-Side a desert with artist had a cool flair, too.. it´s really sad there wasn´t much to explore in them..

- The Wild Area of course and the camping! I´ve never liked camping before but with pokemon and curry it´s cool xD 

- The character designs, especially the gym leaders... and Bede, because at least he had some “asshole”-traits and got a (not so unexpected) new role.. I love the idea they had with Bede, I´m totally supporting that, but otherwise... no real development.. Marnie is a cool character, real chill and all, but I honestly wish there had been more to her than her brother and team yell.. and her pokemon team..

First off, we need to look at what each function means:

I-E functions are important because they’re about the source and direction of a persons energy;

N-S functions are the way people perceive information, how they see the world around them;

T-F is how a person processes that information; and

J-P is how they implement what they’ve processed.

In our opinion, questioning the importance of F and T is questioning the importance of how a person processes information, and since every single person on this earth processes information constantly, we think it’s incredibly important to know how that’s done. Taken literally, the T-F axis determines whether a person is “heart over head” or “head over heart”. F-types will often act on morals and take into consideration the feelings of other people when making decisions, while T-types take the more logical approach through facts and figures. This doesn’t mean F-types aren’t rational or T-types are unfeeling, but the extent to which these factors dominate is largely based on a person’s percentage of preference for the T and F functions. We think that’s important.

For example, an INTP with a T-preference of 25% would consider the feelings of others more than an INTP with a 50% T-preference. This doesn’t mean the 50% one doesn’t do it at all, it simply means they don’t do it to the extent of the 25%. Similarly, a person with a stronger F-preference than another F-type will act more on emotional grounds. They don’t have an absence of logic, they just rely on their feeling function to a greater extent.

Breaking it down, a T-preference of 50% means a person is 75% thinking, and 25% feeling. Similarly, an F-preference of 50% means a person is 75% feeling and 25% thinking. The preference of the T-F axis determines the extent to which a person uses logic/feeling when decision-making, but does not mean a person is without either one.

Taking away the T-F axis, we have 8 types: INJ, INP, ISJ, ISP, ENJ, ENP, ESJ and ESP. Taking an ENJ for example, we know their energy is directed externally, their focus is on what can be rather than what is, and they prefer to work first and play later. But we don’t know what their driving force is: whether they are in touch with their emotions, or work from a rational point of view. Determining a person’s driving force is super important, and without examining the T-F axis, it’s not expressed as part of their MBTI and therefore their behaviour cannot be completely discerned.

As typology is a study of human nature and behaviour, and human nature is a big and complicated thing, MBTI types are often only guidelines and predictors for the behaviour of certain personalities. They outline a person’s tendency to act in a certain way and do particular things. That said, people of the same type can vary largely in behaviour, and this is often explained by a person’s preference for each of the four axes. The problem is, when looking purely at whether a person is an F or a T, people think that they are either purely thinking or purely feeling. This is not true, as all people are both moral beings who follow their feelings and logical beings who look at the facts, but which one they rely on more is determined by where they lie on the F-T axis.

Whoa, essay. Hope this clears some things up, and sorry if we didn’t quite answer your question. Feel free to ask for clarity on certain points.

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