Okay, a few things here:

-Firstly, and this is less about your topic and more about the content: fanfiction-related stuff belongs on /canalave/ for one.

-Secondly, the only place a "2003 earthquake" is mentioned is in this work of fanfiction. In canon, there's no officially known dating system, and certainly no in-universe reports of major natural, tectonic earthquakes.

-Lastly, Unova is already well-known to be explicitly based off New York based on geography and the social landscape. From Masuda himself:
"This new region was inspired by New York's Manhattan. I visited New York when Diamond and Pearl launched and I had the chance to wander around the town. When I walked through the streets, I saw a lot of different people having festivals and community events - Italian people, French people - they're coming from different countries and coexisting in one community" (Official Nintendo Magazine Issue 65 pp. 30.)

Not much to chew on here besides facts, and they pretty much already tell us everything we need to know on the matter.

>>591

I don't believe him.

I don't trust the Japanese, and for a good reason.

They constantly try to destroy the economy of the area where I live.

Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki... All of them.

We here in Detroit are born with an instinctual dislike of Japanese vehicles.

>>591

Oh, by the way. This is a rumor, so it belongs on the 'Rumors & Myths' board just as much as it belongs with the fanfiction.

Some things belong on multiple boards.

Hell, this could go on /beedrill/ as well.

>>592
>>593

Your racism aside, you realize Masuda is one of the people directly responsible for the creation of the games themselves, right? Not trusting his word on the region is like not trusting an author when it comes to their own book, or not trusting a director about their own movie.

This is a rumor/myth regarding one specific fanfiction's alternate version of Unova, not the official one and certainly not anything broader than that, so it really isn't best to have it in a board dedicated to the series as a whole and/or official canon.

>>2636

I know that, and I don't care.

I don't trust Rowling about the Harry Potter series, I don't trust James Cameron about Avatar and I certainly don't trust Masuda about his Method or his claims the Unova is based on NYC instead of either Shanghai, Tehran or even Istanbul for that matter.

>>2637

One more thing: Birdboy's "Pokedex" is actually based on real life (such as Ninetales causing the Boston Red Sox' 'Curse of the Bambino', Cloyster as a stand-in for St. George, Ledyba inspiring the game of Craps and Kingdra being responsible for the Japanese Earthquake of 2011). Personally, I can't wait to see how else he ties Pokemon into real life (and some of them are hilarious, such as Squirtle taking the place of Koopas, Sandslash armor being used in Dungeons and Dragon[ite]s, Graveler inspiring Katamari Damacy and especially Charmeleon's link to Leeroy Jenkins of World of Warcraft fame, as well as using Tentacruel to explain the fascination with tentacle rape.)

Thus, Timpani (who was inspired by Birdboy) is using the Bam, Iran quake of 2003 in the same vein.

Okay, I get it. This guy is mixing IRL and Pokémon, fine. That's in his one specific fan-work and doesn't extend beyond that scope. As for not trusting Masuda, particularly for the Method... the hard facts of the games' coding shows you to be wrong. You're entitled to your opinions and beliefs, but that doesn't make them right or defensible. Your first post of the three basically comes across as "fuck you Nona, I'm wrong and I know it."

>>2637
>citing James Cameron for Avatar
Oh well, I guess good taste is at a premium these days.

I don't trust the US government. I"m pretty sure there's a shadow organization that started with the founding fathers that's been running things. Aliens are among us, and we are sheep. Don't trust anyone but yourself, I'm fucking serious. Ever wonder why the free masons were so secretive? I think they were a resistance against the shadow war going on under our noses. There's hidden weapons all throughout DC, made invisible to the naked eye. You gotta use... some sort of light thing to see them. I saw some guy do it, he looked weird. Like some futuristic FBI agent or something. It's all real I tell you.

>>2640

The Masuda Method supports globalization, which is #6 on my list of "Things that are killing America". For that reason, I don't trust it.

>>2644
Globalization isn't killing America, poorly educated people borrowing inane amounts of money and being unable to pay it back are ruining America.

But I'm Australian, what do I know. My country is doing just fine.

Still confuses me as to how America doesn't have a goods and services tax on everything though. We pay a little more for shit here, but our shit is nicer, etc. not even kidding. When I was in new York last year all the police cars look old as fuck.

Plus free healthcare, etc.

>>2644
Wow, proposing isolationism in the 21st century? I never thought I'd see the day I met somebody so incredibly stupid and shortsighted.