Rejected A work friendly mode without any sprites and images

lemonademaker

lemonademaker

So I and assumedly lots of others play showdown often at work or in school. But having the sprites and other identifiable Pokemon stuff on screen at all times is 1) kinda embarrassing, and, most importantly, 2) can get people playing in trouble with their boss or teacher. Considering that the sprites and such are only there for aesthetic and convenience reasons and not for any functionality purposes, can there be a mode to turn them off. Basically making the game entirely text based, with the exception of keeping hp bars, cause I think it’s too inconvenient to remove them.

A good example to look at is shoddy battles ui. It was almost entirely text, with the only images being the sprites, party sprites/unrevealed pokeballs, background, and hp bar. Replace the sprites with the name of the Mon (bigger font for the one currently out), the pokeballs with the text “unrevealed,” and get rid of the backgrounds and that’s pretty much exactly what this mode should be. All the other images, like typings and move category, can be text like in shoddy battle

This only apply for actual battles. Teambuilder should probably not have this cause that would make it really inconvenient to use.

I have very little coding experience, but, if I’m correct, I believe this is simply telling the site to not render the spites plus some simple ui design, so it shouldn’t be anything crazy to code.

(Edit: or maybe giving each object a sprite version that’s just its name. Ie the option replaces the modern sprites with a sprite that’s just its name in plain text, like how we can choose to replace the modern sprites with gen 5 ones. Idk if that’s even plausible, just giving options)

Tl/dr- have a mode/option that replaces all the images with text for people that play at work or school
 
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This is meant to make my screen look like a terminal 'o.o
Code: 
span.username {
  color: white;
  font-weight: normal;
}
button.userbutton.username * {
  color: gray;
  font-weight: normal;
}
button.userbutton.username[data-away=true] * {
  color: #555;
  font-weight: normal;
}
img, div.infobox-roomintro * {
  visibility: hidden;
}
a {
  color: lightgray;
}
a:visited {
  color: gray;
}
a.subtle-notifying {
  color: lightgray;
}
.message-announce {
  background: #333;
}
.greentext {
  color: lightcoral;
}
div[class*='broadcast-'] {
  background: rgba(100%, 100%, 100%, 0.1);
}
div.chat.highlighted {
  background: #444;
}
div[class^='chat chatmessage-'] {
  margin-top: -2px;
}
button.button {
  border-radius: 0;
  background: none;
  border: 1px solid gray;
}
.tabbar.maintabbar {
  margin-left: 0;
}
.tabbar a.button {
  min-width: 0;
  font-size: 0.7em;
  font-weight: bold;
}
.tabbar a.button i {
  visibility: hidden;
}
.fa-times-circle:before {
  content: "x";
}
.userlist {
  width: 100px;
}
.chat-log.hasuserlist {
  left: 101px;
}
body {
  background: #888;
}
.mainmenuwrapper {
  background: #444;
}
* {
  font-family: Menlo;
}
 
lemonademaker said:
So I and assumedly lots of others play showdown often at work or in school. But having the sprites and other identifiable Pokemon stuff on screen at all times is 1) kinda embarrassing, and, most importantly, 2) can get people playing in trouble with their boss or teacher. Considering that the sprites and such are only there for aesthetic and convenience reasons and not for any functionality purposes, can there be a mode to turn them off. Basically making the game entirely text based, with the exception of keeping hp bars, cause I think it’s too inconvenient to remove them.
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It is nobody's job to help you more efficiently or safely break the rules of your workplace/school. If you're going to get in trouble for playing PS, then quite literally just don't play at that exact moment. It will still be there when you don't have to risk your livelihood to play. Do what you're being paid to do (or, in the case of college students, what you're paying to do) or accept that the platform isn't going to cater itself to your misbehavior and assess if it's worth playing on the clock ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
Um have you ever had an office job. Like a real corporate office job. Everyone is trying to avoid doing their work. Nobody wants to do what they are being paid for (at least not constantly for the whole 8 hours). If no wants to code this I get that. But we don’t have to pretend that playing on the clock is some kinda of “evil misbehavior” that we can’t endorse. You can just reject it cause people are coding more important things
 
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