As I was sipping my coffee and doing my morning doom-scrolling before starting my day at work, I came across this:

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2085683370894430663

Now, certainly Nintendo's lawyers are going to go nuclear on this, as they are prone to do. But the first thing that came to mind was that this is what the original Pokemon Online was trying to achieve during the Bulbagarden era. Bored 18-year-old me would have loved to see this come to fruition.