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Still, unfortunately the damage looks to have already been done. the Industry pro has locked her account :/ and the parody creator guy definitely hasn't posted a public apology.
I'm gonna ask if I can RT his reply (that was only to me) for visibility but then again I have... sub 1k followers on birdsite anyway so... Dunno what good it'll do -_-
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Okay the parody creator guy apparently deleted the tweet, apologised as well, and recognises he did a shitty thing. Only took what... ten minutes max?... So that's something at least. I don't think I had much to do with that but it is something of a relief that he did recognise his fault there, and that it was immature.
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aaand of course me being me I couldn't help but go "...uh...Hey, You really gonna do this? You're gonna fuckin' let your huge follower base that's 100 times hers easily in size brigade her because she was a LITTLE bit snarky with some guy who should probably have not tried to tell her how to do the job she is literally paid for???"
aaand of course he replies "NO ACTUALLY I'M THE GOOD GUY HERE".
yeah . fuck that noise.
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Small follower base industry professional: *gets SLIGHTLY snippy and sarcastic with rando twitter guy trying to correct her at her own job*
SuperFan/parody creator: "GOSH DON'T BE SO PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE GOD HOW UNPROFESSIONAL CAN YOU BE??!"
Professional: *just outright blocks the superfan*
SuperFan: GOD LOOK AT THIS SHIT THIS IS SHAMEFUL *retweets and tags the Professional to his 56k followers*
fucksake. -_-
@soft_chomps corthana, byng fezze
and then there's Pokérus! Which AGAIN I thought was some kinda hoax/joke thing but NO, iT'S REAL and it hAPPENS and you can get inFECTED WITH IT and it's a GOOD THING!?
and THEN I learned about EVs and I just... My eyes just crossed and shit. I just cannot make head nor tails of it. it's ridiculous that there's these completely obfuscated mechanics and stats hidden away that are totally random and you get pretty much no fucking indication of in any of the games when they first existed (I think gen 2 or 3 had EVs first??) and yet they can be so integral to making good competitive pokemon
Realtalk though I don't play Pokémon nearly enough or even at all competitively to know what the hell I'm doing.
I just play them for the story?... or did at any rate. But yeah when I heard about Shinies first way back when Gold/Silver/Crystal came out I was like "pff yeah just like mew being under the truck hahaha" and then it turned out to be true and "WAIT WHAT!?"... the shiny thing at any rate.
"oh man GameDev Tycoon is really fun. I bet it'd be perfect as a mobile game too... Oh there actually is a mobile version. Oh. The only difference is the price and the controls are adjusted to be more mobile friendly... Huh. That's tempting"
Brain: "you should buy it and then you can play it on your phone any time you're not on your PC like on break and at night before bed or when you're out and about cause you lose so much time to it!"
Me: "... That's precisely why I SHOULDN'T buy it!"
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.