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Have you ever looked at the Smogon admins and wondered what they were like? Do you want to know about the experiences, opinions, and thoughts of the people who run the forums? A few weeks ago, you guys were given the chance to ask some of the admins their questions, and here are, over the span of three articles, the answers from tennisace, Hogg, and Sam!
I play softball in a beer league now, but I may try and make a comeback at tennis soon. It's just really hard to find a place to play without having to pay membership fees + 30 bucks a match.
MajorBowman's name to MåjørBjörkman.
Remove themselves from the franchise and let a legit dev have a shot at making a Pokémon game. Like, raise your hand if you would kill for a Devolver Digital 8 or 16 bit Pokémon game. As for an actual feature, please take any iteration of the Rotom Dex and throw it in a landfill, and give me back DexNav.
It's not particularly heavy because I'm more busy IRL than ever, but I'm working a lot behind the scenes on some stuff and trying to get it done before Sword & Shield. The biggest responsibility an admin has as opposed to a smod is that we're the final stop for user disputes.
I've quit and come back twice. The first time I was heckin burnt out towards the end of high school, the second time I was going through a really bad time in college and made a dumb decision to leave. The "next time" I quit will probably be the last though, as it'll be when my real life responsibilities become too time consuming for Pokémon.
My grandma's meatballs were heavenly, and nobody's come close.
When I was 6, my parents got me Pokémon Yellow + the special edition Game Boy Color. I couldn't figure out how to get downstairs because the graphics were... ambiguous, so I had to ask my parents for help.
Admin badge because deep down, who doesn't love a bit of anarchy >:)
Best way is straight up pan fried imo. Salt and pepper all sides of the steak, cast iron pan with a bit of olive oil, butter, garlic, & rosemary. Sear it on both sides + render the fat on the edges. Rare to medium rare. Simple, classic, can't beat it. The only way to ruin a steak is to overcook it.
I have an apartment, I own my own car, I have a full time career, and I'm on the way to a PE license. I'd call that about an 8.
2 pieces of advice. My fraternity had a semi formal dress code for most meetings & events because "when you look good, you feel good," and that's stuck with me, because if you put effort into your appearance even in casual settings, you feel confident and you gain respect quickly. The other is from my grandpa: "you gotta do what you gotta do." One of the best ways to make connections in life is to be reliable. If I need to do something, then I make sure it gets done if at all possible. If I make plans or volunteer myself, then I make sure I'm available and follow through with it. I've gotten jobs solely because my previous boss gave me a glowing recommendation on my reliability.
Sounds like someone wants to throw hands.
Cheese555.
What? Is that how you communicate with people? You walk up to them with a canned line and hope they all laugh or nod appreciatively and ask you to join them?
I don't know if it's my absolute best memory, but when I was growing up there was a weird building in the middle of the city that was surrounded by tall locked gates, and while you couldn't see into it at all, every now and then fancy cars would come in or out of the lot. We always used to say that it was the mafia or something. Anyhow, one time in early middle school, we had boxes of candy bars to sell, and me and a friend kind of dared each other to push the buzzer. It turns out this was the original Sugar Hill Studios where the Sugar Hill Gang recorded everything. It wasn't called Sugar Hill Studios anymore, but it was still a recording studio, and people took us in and showed us all the old records on the wall, including all the awards and gold records from Rapper's Delight.
Either go for a bike ride or hang out with my son.
It's a bit trite to say "the people," but definitely the people.
I tend to get on kicks where I listen really heavily to one or two artists for a couple of months. Just coming out of a big Bruce Springsteen kick, for example. Recently I've been listening to a lot of American folk revival, especially Odetta and Lead Belly.
Emerald.
I'd like to be able to time travel 30 seconds into the past, like an edit button on posts.
Western Colorado near the great divide.
Do we actually learn from our mistakes? That definitely has not been my experience.
The Glacier Badge is probably minty and refreshing!
Last gen it got a bit of play on mono-attacking DD/Sub/Roost sets to try to exploit Multiscale for free setup. This gen it's all about that Supersonic Skystrike, though.
I honestly like the aesthetics and colors of the CAP badge, and I think the Sim Mod badge is the ugliest. Don't think I'll ever get the CAP one.
If time and investment isn't an issue, I'd like to learn Mandarin because a lot of my friends speak it natively.
I first started playing with a few friends in like 2010 or so, right as DPP was ending. I had a friend who heard of Pokémon Online and wanted to play with the new BW mons.
Eww
Yeah, I have some friends who know. Most of my friends aren't really that into Pokémon, but it's just come up in conversation sometimes I guess.
If you wear jorts you really need to reflect on how you got to that point in life.
Well there's a lot of ways I could answer this on like, a big picture scale. I don't think I could pick one specific thing I'd like to do instead of just causing like, a change in the way of thinking or something.
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