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Kill me if you want, but I've always wondered why do we call this feature (and thus the article) "happiness" and not "Friendship". I mean, In-game I've seen few (if any) hints about it being actual happiness, but lots of | Kill me if you want, but I've always wondered why do we call this feature (and thus the article) "happiness" and not "Friendship". I mean, In-game I've seen few (if any) hints about it being actual happiness, but lots of references towards merely making your Pokémon strongly bonded to you, thus "friendship": | ||
-Dr. Footstep is supposed to measure your Pokémon's happiness, but his dialog has NOTHING to do with your Pokémon's actual happiness; instead his interpretations of your Pokémon's thoughts are always about how much they like your or how attached they are toward you. Just the same, every other in-game happiness indicator deals with you and your Pokémon being friends rather than your Pokémon being happy ("your Pokémon seems to like you" and so on). | -Dr. Footstep is supposed to measure your Pokémon's happiness, but his dialog has NOTHING to do with your Pokémon's actual happiness; instead his interpretations of your Pokémon's thoughts are always about how much they like your or how attached they are toward you. Just the same, every other in-game happiness indicator deals with you and your Pokémon being friends rather than your Pokémon being happy ("your Pokémon seems to like you" and so on). | ||
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-On a similar note, all of the Soothe Bell bag descriptions say it boosts the Pokémon's friendship, not happiness: "A held item that calms spirits and fosters '''friendship'''." from RSE, "An item to be held by a Pokémon. A bell with a comforting chime that makes the holder calm and '''friendly'''." from FRLG and "An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a bell with a comforting chime that calms the holder and makes it '''friendly'''." from GenIV. See, where is happiness ever mentioned? | -On a similar note, all of the Soothe Bell bag descriptions say it boosts the Pokémon's friendship, not happiness: "A held item that calms spirits and fosters '''friendship'''." from RSE, "An item to be held by a Pokémon. A bell with a comforting chime that makes the holder calm and '''friendly'''." from FRLG and "An item to be held by a Pokémon. It is a bell with a comforting chime that calms the holder and makes it '''friendly'''." from GenIV. See, where is happiness ever mentioned? | ||
So from this (I mean the | So from this (I mean the latter two) I assume the official in-game term for it as a status/condition is "Friendship", not "Happiness". | ||
I know a lot of articles link to here and changing all of them would be a hell, but I think Bulbapedia's policy is to give preference to correct information over comodity, so here's my contribution to the 'pedia. Think about it.<small>- ''unsigned comment from {{u|Veggietable}} ([[User talk:Veggietable|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Veggietable|contribs]]) ''</small> | I know a lot of articles link to here and changing all of them would be a hell, but I think Bulbapedia's policy is to give preference to correct information over comodity, so here's my contribution to the 'pedia. Think about it.<small>- ''unsigned comment from {{u|Veggietable}} ([[User talk:Veggietable|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Veggietable|contribs]]) ''</small> | ||