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Maybe it's the fact that end-of-year is close and we are all busy (in which case I'd have to ask if is this a cyclical thing?), or people are moving to other forums (I'm temporarily moving to Pokéteca right now, for example), or we are getting mentally tired of insanity, or something like that.
I concur; I'm currently trolling The BBS right now. There's not much to do in the Lounge these days save, reminiscing about the good ol' days. I think, it's not so much of a case of getting tired of insanity than actually growing more rational or less friendly. Either way, activity is dying down.[/FONT]
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The thing is nowadays the Lounge is essentially the announcements and a criss-cross of bold topics. The last sort of insanity here was Misheard Whisper's Lounge drawing (so nice), and before that the one last actual, good, fun CRAZINESS was the whole "genitally gently stroking" Freudian Slip about three months ago! -- that' or I'll have to dig even deeper for the Index.
I'm inclined to believe we need to recharge the madness cells in our brains, which is why it seems that most Lounge people are moving away as well. Even Aurincha, who came back recently, seems to have moved to another forum, for example.
It's not something bad, I guess. A time for seriousness, and a period for new members to come without being scared of our particular style, it can be.
Yes, the drawing was nice. XD[/FONT]
[FONT="]It's time for madness recuperation. On that note, I miss Astinus. ;_; She hasn't been here in a while…[/FONT]
[FONT="]I guess that new members might not be scared, but then again, they might just view the Lounge as boring then. And we all don't want the Lounge to be
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Back to the clothes thing...
The reason why I chose the "it's just there" thing is that, after reading Farla's rants for some time, I am convinced that some things don't have to be dug up, or they result in a loss of quality no matter the gain in specificity. Heck, as a programmer myself, I have the belief that it is better to pursue quality (which can be assigned a discrete and finite measure such as Six Sigma) that specificity (which is an endless slope of backquestioning).
That, and the idea that it was humans who adapted certain Pokémon characteristics in the form of clothes (Kirlia), armor (Aggron), transport (Metagross), or weapons (Scyther) is actually relevant to my interests useful for my plots. My vision of the Pokémon world, the one I reference in my fics, is that humans are the "bonus visitor" in a world made from and for Pokémon.
Now, if I were to look for an explanation as to why some Pokémon appear to wear clothes or whatever, and I did not want to take the "Pokémon first" approach, the most likely answer I'd come up would be actually yours, Mizan. It may sound less logical, yes, but anything beyond that would require overthinking too many aspects to make it workable (not to mention it would become an unfunny progress in a story). For example, the "Pokémon imitates humans" approach forces one to work around whether Hitmonchan wear box pants right off breaking their eggs, or why would Cubone/Marowak have adapted usage of their parents's (?) skull from humans if they already had (according to one of over 9.000 fanon theories) weak head tissue beforehand.
It's that, or there is a conspiracy where they use clothes to secretly mock us.
No... that's even less logical.
And, seeing from the preview that Bay is ninjaing me, I better check on this. I support the idea that trying to describe what a Pokémon's clothes look like, or why are they there, is not something necessary nor helpful (unless you are writing a Genesis story).
Going to previous topics...
[/FONT][FONT="]I never said it was supposed to be logical. :P But then again, they could be mocking us. Or else, Furries! Xkcd reference
here.
We should welcome more people. What about a cake?
OMG Lulz, The Cake is a LIE!!! A bit late, I know but I just had to do it…
Also, about the lack of insanity thing, I can't really say much on what's happened to it because I am a newbie and haven't sufficiently contributed to the insanity of the Lounge save for the 9000+ posts celebration dealie that went on about 1300 posts ago.
Don't worry, most of us here are newbies anyway. Except for the veterans.
RapeShipping? In my Pokémon game/fic? Do want!
(Not to mention Wild Girl in PokéSpe...)
Seriously, some of these combinations are the win, particularly "drag hotel". It's unfortunate that you can't do that easily with the first/second gens unless you tie them together, and even then I'd be lost about what do we get. But we can start with something always
Find a conspiracy or bizarre occurrence having to do with pokémon, Da Vinci Code style..
Wait for it…[/FONT]
[FONT="]TOILETS AND BLADDERS!!![/FONT]
[FONT="]What is it with the Pokémon world, does everyone have super large, four-dimensional bladders or something? Or, maybe they never need to 'go' because they never eat? But then, why does Gold's mom have a kitchen? What about the officers in Saffron City? The government is suppressing the right to 'go'![/FONT]
[FONT="]Also, Soul Silver = Liver Souls[/FONT]
[FONT="]Game freak intends to infuse the souls of humans into Livers to make Philosophers Livers! FMA references. XD[/FONT][FONT="]
But I want some memorable times now! D: Well, I guess you're right on that. They will come. However, I noticed the activity in the lounge is dying down (even I'm less active in the lounge). That, and seems there's not much interaction except for bolds at the moment.
We're in recession right now. Just like the economy which I see, is starting to pick up. So maybe the FFL follows the economic pattern. By the way, Recession is cyclical for anyone interested. That's what someone said anyways.. XD
Yes. Now. No, wait - give it a week and a half when I can properly start contributing to madness for a week and we're good. =D
But yeah, probably is that a number of us are busy with stuff and all. Don't mean we can't have a cake though, no?
Cake!!! Madness!!![/FONT]
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Here's one how do people in the world not know where Pokemon... 'come from'? (Ignoring the 'it's a kids game that's why we NPCs are so naive' reason). Heck, even a professor, who has a family and a kid, acts completely surprised when he sees an egg. MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING HE'S NOT TELLING US.
Wrong prof - it's Elm who gets excited over eggs, not Birch. Birch just gets chased by Poochyena or if you're playing Emerald, Zigzagoon by all things. Come to think of it at least half of the profs come off as inept. Rowan seems to know what he's doing though, but he is forgetful with his briefcases and all.
And his (but all professors do it anyway) giving of Pokemon to young kids (one being your rival who seems to live on coffee). But that's canon for you. =D
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