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."

Your 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.