because that whole "we don't care that you don't like being singled out, we're going to call your character what we want" with them calling my character and ONLY my character by their last name when they called everyone else by their first name was RUDE AS FUCK

like it takes SO MUCH MORE EFFORT to argue about it than to just change it

and the whole "what do you think our intent was?" I SEE YOU TRYING TO SET A TRAP, YOU AIN'T SLICK

they were jerks about the app too, I mentioned his "connecting his heart with that of the Pokemon" ability and they were like "no, he's not psychic, he was just using a metaphor, he never had this ability"

like not even "he can't use this ability in the game" just "you must retcon your character to never have had this ability because WE say we he was using a metaphor"

if the setting wasn't so bomb I would have gone out the door then and there

again, that's the problem with playing popular or at least well-known characters -_- there's an established fanon and god help you if you deviate from that

for example: most people headcanon Professor Oak as a widower

but like... it's been 25 years and NO MENTION OF A WIFE (as far as I'm aware of)

even giving him a wedding ring would be a tiny character design change to let us know "oh hey this guy has been married at some point"

so I can only conclude that he's a bachelor, not a widower

but yeah... like if it's some tiny change that ultimately doesn't matter but makes a player more comfortable, why so resistant to do it?

I can only conclude it's an "I'm big, you're small, I'm smart, you're dumb, I'm right, you're wrong, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT"/"RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH" thing

gonna check "professor oak: relatives" on bulbapedia real quick

Speaking purely as someone outside the situation without full context and doesn't want to see someone get dogpiled on, I'm really hoping that this doesn't come across as trying to pick a fight. Because you know some folks will take any excuse, even honest venting, to do just that.

:<

they're anon, how can they get dogpiled?

nono I mean someone seeing this, spreading shit, and dogpiling you.

...oh wait I thought you were like "I'm gonna say something and I hope you don't take it as me trying to pick a fight" but now I think you meant "I hope other people don't see this as you trying to pick a fight"

but yeah because of the anonymity I think the only people who will really be upset about this are the anon mods themselves and anyone who knows they were anon mods

(happened to me before, doesn't feel good.)

like... anonymity is a double-edged sword

you can talk shit without damaging your reputation but people don't feel nearly as bad as talking shit about you

XP

but yeah I checked sam's entry on bulbapedia, no "unknown wife" on there, so I'm confident there is no mention of one in canon

Preferably the less shittalking the better

the real mystery is how he has a grandson (honestly I don't think there's any canon information on if they're blood-related other than the strong family resemblance in the anime, so he/his parents COULD be adopted, we don't know)

yeah just venting :<

I try not to use anonymity to talk shit

See, I like to think that the more nebulous a character's backstory is, the more room for interpretation there is and the more fun you can have thinking about the possibilities for it. Fanon doesn't mean shit when it's your own personal pretendy funtimes.

exactly

it's free real estate etc

I'm still scraping together bits and pieces of fun ideas for Felix and for Philip because we only really have glimpses into key events for them.

<3

when it comes to different interpretations on canon characters, I'm basically "does this interpretation reasonably follow from canon, even if it's not my interpretation? okay then you're good"

(Philip's another one I'd maybe throw at you some time tbh, he's a good boy and he's NOT squeamish about bugs x])

BUG FRIENDS

confession:

I love spiders in real life

they cuties

Me toooo

babieeees

there was a little spider in my bathroom near the bathtub for a while, I would talk to it while in the bath

I'd like a tarantula, but we've got cats that would not appreciate that. My dad would not appreciate that either.

I also once had a black widow living in my window >>

like between the screen and the window itself

Love me a daddy longleg

no idea how it got there

I guess it blew in as a baby?

I think jumping spiders and wolf spiders are my favorite

I love jumping spiders, they're so cute

they actually look at you <3

so smart too

I can handle most bugs too, except cockroaches for some reason

and it's not even fear, just extreme disgust

I just keep thinking about an exchange I had with a friend that was getting an enclosure for his new tarantula and apparently he had a "coupon for one free whip scorpion" and if you know what a whip scorpion looks like you know why my first thought as "that's not a coupon that is a threat". Even though whip scorpions are harmless babies.

can't even bring myself to touch/get near them in order to kill them

gonna look up whip scorpion

oh wow yeah that's kinda freaky lookin

I can slap the shit out of roaches mostly bc for a hot minute I lived in a house with such a thorough infestation I was still finding roach bits and egg casings in my belongings for MONTHS after I left

yeah whip scorpions are wild.

eurgh, roaches are just the worst D:

I hear they lay their eggs in cardboard >> so having a bunch of cardboard around makes roach problems worse

y e p and the smell soaks into everything and never goes away

what kind do you get, I have the big brown ones that can fly a lil bit

in that house we had the little ones that breed by the millions. No flying, but wedged into everywhere

yeah ours are about the size of a quarter or so

thankfully we haven't had bug problems in this house. dad is obsessive about it. He's very squeamish.

I have to food real quick but shouldn't be more than a few minutes

food!

back!

Now Sam and Felix can chat and you can tell MEEEEE all about your headcanons for him

I know one that might come into play pretty soon considering they're eating :3

(I headcanon him as vegetarian, because we never see him eating meat even when meat is available, he only joked about eating Krabby and the anchovy-pineapple-spinach pizza was a dumb joke that I do not consider as canon)

so if there's meat in the food he's just gonna. quietly sliiiiide it onto Felix's plate XP

Anchovy pizza as a joke is definitely the thing. I don't think I've ever once seen an actual anchovy pizza.

I personally like sardines but can't actually remember ever eating a anchovy in my life.

I did try a pineapple spinach pizza once, the pizza place brought us the wrong pizza

honestly I like spinach pizza as long the spinach is chopped up real fine

I like pineapple on pizza, I love spinach on pizza. The two together seem odd to me

yknow what's great? spinach and feta pizza.

as far as pizza goes I prefer plain cheese the most

not even pepperoni, MAYBE hamburger but cheese is better

(pepperoni is good on its own though)

man now I'm thinking abt spinach mushroom and feta pizza. Now that's good stuff (but I'm one of those weirdos that really likes mushrooms in general)

I don't mind the taste of mushrooms, it's the texture for me

Yeah I hear that a lot. Definitely understandable.

anyway I don't actually know what they're gonna eat, I'm just like. Camp cafeteria food. Probably a little boring but they're doing their best.

bet they have those rectangle pizzas.

and probably not many vegetarian options XP

rectangle pizzaaaaa

Probably not

sam just. sadly picking hamburger bits off his pizza

What if, normal entree type dealie and small side salad with some fixins and as soon as felix realizes sam's avoiding his entree he just offers his salad in trade.

yeeee <3

salisbury steak/chicken fried steak maybe? that seems like a good "cheap food"

Yeah that seems good. Though I now wanna ask what your thoughts are on regular animals existing in places where there may or may not be pokemon, or pokemon as food sources besides chancey eggs, miltank milk etc

yup animals are good

k. Because I've seem some wild discourse on the subject.

I think the "official" stance is that animals don't exist, but like there are canonically animals mentioned/shown in the anime, just less and less as time goes by

until we have Pokemon filling out ALL the spots in the ecology web or whatever it is, animals HAVE to exist, right? XP

I like to think that, just like bits of the world that haven't shown up yet, there are just animals and things that don't show up because that's not what's up in the regions of pkmn canon we know about

yep

Delta Species

bc we needed fire snakes.

I remember the "fire starter pokemon align with the chinese zodiac" theory, and thought we'd get one eventually XP even made a fire cow fakemon to go with ox

but with fuecoco (the new gen 9 fire starter) I think that's not a thing anymore, because now we have two dragons

my immediate mental image was Tauros But On Fire

lol

well the "theme" for the three starters I was making was mythological creatures

so I had a grass cat (DAMN YOU SPRIGATITO) that evolves into a grass/flying lemassu/shedu (a babylonian one that is a winged lion/bull, lion in this case, with the face of a human)

water snake that evolved into water/dark naga

and fire cow that evolved into fire/poison catoblepas

which is cow but poisonous and scaly and big mane and I think it's RL inspiration is water buffalo? some big african herd animal

Entei attacks Professor Oak | Professor Oak Funny Mo... <-- Sam being reckless

"OH BOY AN ENTEI, IMMA HUG IT"

look at his arms even, he was definitely trying to hug it

he is just too wholesome

I TOO WOUL DLIKE TO HUG AN ENTEI SIR

entei so fluffy

maybe... TOO fluffy?

is there such a thing?

Unfortunately fluffy, for something that wants to set you on fire

maybe it just didn't want to be hugged...?

sir pls respect pokemon boundaries.

(of course sometimes they attack him for no reason, or even when he's trying to help them... but he does usually bring it on himself XP)

Thought: Sam makes a bad choice about what he should and should not hug. Felix patches him up and Sam has a moment of "how do you know how to do that so well"

yeee

I imagine he has the know-how to patch himself up but having others to help is always good especially if it's a part of your body you can't reach well on your own like your back

Exactly

and Felix can find out about his many Pokemon scars (the dub has dialogue alluding to this, I'm not just pulling it out of thin air :T) though I imagine Felix has a lot of scars of his own as well

Of course he's got scars, pokemon are first and foremost wild animals and he's a very hands on person.

yeap

wild animals with superpowers

I like to imagine that when he was younger he had a real Coyote Peterson streak

showing WHY you don't handle certain animals

that's the guy that gets bit by bugs on youtube right?

like on purpose

Yeh

there's a theory that the entire "Ookido's lecture" series is like that, where he's messing up on purpose to show kids what NOT to do

Nice to know I'm not the only one that got that impression

it's either that or accept that the world's leading pokemon expert is THAT incompetent >>;;;

if we must entertain that he's incompetent then perhaps his expertise is pure book learning, data compilation, the hands off stuff that is still nonetheless important.

(oh if anyone else is looking in and reading this, the "I wish they weren't anon" thing isn't "I wish they weren't anon so I can harass them", it's "I wish they weren't anon so I can avoid them", just to make that clear .D.

...goddammit plurk the b wasn't even capitalized

well I can't change the privacy on this thing (wish I'd thought of that before) but I can change who can comment on it... kind of dreading what kind of hate I might wake up to >>;;;