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It Takes a Lot Of Balls to be a Pokémon Master...
Ok, I mod over at Bulbagarden, and let me tell you, some weird shit goes on over there.

At Kanna's behest, I must post the sheer wank-n-weirdness of one such thread. Please to note that this wank contains events that have not occured in the English run yet.

Our story begins when Geodude posts a thread about something he saw in Nintendo Power and if it will affect a character on the show. (the character May is also the female lead in the Ruby/Sapphire games)

BenRG makes a passing mention that the show writers tend to shy away from giving the characters powerful Pokémon

Kaz begs to differ

BenRG refutes her

Not much wanky so far, but trust me, when it rains, it pours.

Kaz tells Ben he has "no plausable example" to use.

Ben says that he was kidding about his first example, but keeps refuting Kaz.

Kaz's reply gets the wank going at an even keel.

But Ben takes the ball and runs with it, so to speak, as he brings up the issue of Pokéballs and capture, among many, MANY other things.

And thus begins the wank.

Highlights include thusly:

Pokéball Peril...which, sadly, was the name of an actual episode. However, the episode did not include the wanktastic lines "What show do you watch?" or "I also think that you read 1984 too much."

You~~r posts~~ don't matter, in which Kaz yells at someone for posting truths rather than a common fan legend (see, in one episode, James suddenly has a Weepinbell that evolves into a Victreebell, but it wasn't said where he had gotten it in the first place. Rumors had abounded that he had stolen it from the place it was first seen and it was edited in the dub, but the truth was that the Japanese version was equally vague on how he got it)

Same fan posts telling her where James *really* got it (which *was* on the show, as the writers backpedaled three seasons late to fill in a plot hole.)

Kaz hates to be wrong, so she claims that James *really* stole it from the breeding center, despite the fact that the episode dispelling this had been shown in her country at this time. Her exact quote is probably the wankiest thing in the entire thing:
Oh no, Johto canon, help help, I'm so scared.

Ever seen "The Breeding Centre Secret", where, in the REAL [as in, Japanese] version, James STOLE it before he ran? And 4KIDS dubbed that it was his to stop the little kiddies stealing their neighbour's plants cos James does it?

Considering NONE OF THIS ever happened, and that it was PROVEN ON THE SHOW THAT HE DID NOT STEAL IT, and that the dub DID NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HE GOT IT, I wonder how she got to be a mod.

Yes, you read that right. Kaz, as well as BenRG and Geodude, are my fellow mods. These are not clueless newbies making these posts.

And I think that's enough for now. Read the rest of the wank for yourself. I have to clean my monitor.

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	gaisce 2004-01-18 08:29 am UTC (link)
	Rocketshipper: Wasn't the original reason you got into this debate because someone said the writers have Ash ditch all his "powerful" pokemon in favor of weaker ones? Kaz: Yes. Unfortunately, I can't type at light-speed with my left hand. ¬¬ sporfle Oh that was a beautiful faux pas. So true, so wanky. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	blackjackrocket 2004-01-18 08:34 am UTC (link)
	If you want more wank, just poke around the site. Look for topics more than three pages long, she's generally posted in them. There's a huge one that started about flaming in the fanworks lounge...and somehow wound up invoking Godwin's law alone I don't know how many times. (Reply to this)(Parent)

~wipes away a nostalgic tear~

kannaophelia
2004-01-18 03:25 pm UTC (link)

Thank you, hon - my power grows daily. Dear me. ~settles happily to read~ Oh, the wank nostalgia for the Pokemon days of yore. And I'm wondering if Kaz was actually the one who made me finally declare that I was leaving that bloody mess of a fandom and fleeing to the most obscure fandom I could think of. (Yay for Malory Towers.) I'm not sure it was her, though, so I may be libelling her.

Considering NONE OF THIS ever happened, and that it was PROVEN ON THE SHOW THAT HE DID NOT STEAL IT, and that the dub DID NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ABOUT HOW HE GOT IT, I wonder how she got to be a mod.

Because being a successful Pokemon fan means remembering that the answer to any argument, or to solving anything you don't like, or to correcting any apparent sexual preferences that are inconvenient to you, lies in typing very fast (with one hand, apparently): "HAVE YOU SEE THE JAPANESE EPISODE? IT WAS CHANGED IN THE DUB!" There's this fabled Japanese version in which Satoshi and Shigeu have regular hot sex and/or Satoshi is engaged to Kasumi, Kojiro is the world's most heterosexual manhunk, and Yamato and Kosaburo regularly mow down small children with machine guns.

Always extremely ~~irritating~~ amusing when someone who obviously hasn't seen it is using it in an argument against someone who has.

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Re: ~wipes away a nostalgic tear~

eris
2004-01-18 11:13 pm UTC (link)

and Yamato and Kosaburo regularly mow down small children with machine guns.

Hey, I have that copy, and not only do Yamato and Kosaburou mercilessly kill small, defenseless children, they also kick puppies!
Now those are MY kinds of villains!

...um, yeah. Eons ago I was big into Pokemon/Team Rocket/Yamato and Kosaburou fandom. Reliving teh wank brings a tear to my nostalgic self. *sniff*

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	Re: ~wipes away a nostalgic tear~ blackjackrocket 2004-01-19 01:12 am UTC (link)
	Oddly, the most violent character they've had seems to be horribly unpopular, despite people's urges to write violence into characters that don't really demonstrate it. Sort of like how everyone gets into shipping, but Magical Pokémon Journey--the shippiest series ever--failed miseribly. People tend not to like it when popular fanon stuff becomes canon. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)