Tom the slowbro

If anyone actually doesn't want me keeping a crazy man's diary on this page then I wish they'd tell me. I would stop right away and probably spend next-to-no time here. (Well actually I spend next-to-no time here anyway :) )

In effect I've been told to never start a thread in the one forum here where it makes any sense for me to post (since any thread I come up with would be 'stupid'). That's alright.

If anyone's interested in why I keep coming back here even though the vast majority of my experience here has been negative, it's because a person can grow by spending time in places outside their element. I am WAY outside my element here :) (And just possibly someone somewhere would enjoy reading my crazy man's diary.)

If anyone bans me, totally honestly at this point that won't hurt at all.

If anything I did were to ever hurt Smogon's Pokemon work somehow, that would hurt me. (But that'll never happen :) )

I have no desire to cause trouble here. I hope people realize that.

Hey Tom, thanks for accepting my friend request! The number three rocks! I have a quick question, though. If your favorite PKMN is Pikachu, how come your name and avatar include a Slowbro? Also, why was everyone talking about you almost getting banned? I was looking around your VMs and I can't figure out how you almost got banned. Please tell me what not to do! I want to live for the first month!

HAAAA, I was just going to start a thread in A Forum, but then I saw this message from a moderator in my most recent thread:
stop making stupid threads

I was going to ask people how they personally fit chatspeak and smilies (if they ever use them) into their grammar/punctuation, but that's at least as stupid as my most recent topic, so I might as well not, lol. (I know chatspeak is totally inappropriate at Smogon forums of course.)

At least this time I was braced for the possibility of a negative response :P

It is clearly for the best that I am not very active here. From my perspective this place is weird. For one thing there is soo much negativity.

But nobody has told me I can't keep a crazy man's diary in my visitor messages (yet), muaaaaahahahahaha!! So for now I can still do that.

Not really. Just to work out, read, that stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qga5eONXU_4, as of today at 12:10.

This will probably sound strange ... I still use Pokemon White a ton, but nowadays I almost never battle at all. Once in a while I want to level up a hatchling for trading purposes, so I bring it along with an Exp. Share to one of the sports arenas. That's the only battling I've been doing lately.

Heh heh, the GameFAQs thread "My Slowbro makes people ragequit" was interesting for me. I first chose the web ID slowbro at least five years ago, but only about one year ago (on Smogon's main site) I learned Slowbro is actually competitively viable.

I took a look at Smogon forums' Dream World pokemon list, and it's no surprise that their list is more complete than the list of DW pokemon I have obtained :)

It would be fun if I could actually help with something once, lol. I am the male Combee of Smogon forums.

still talking to myself ...

I've been watching a lot of Stargate Universe :) (on DVD) ... it's actually gotten a bit weird even for my tastes but that's fine.

I'm still not totally over the initial shock of what happened to me here, heh (the obsession or the occasional minor chest pain). Well I knew I'd never totally get over it. I'm mostly over it though, and as I 'promised' I never plan to post about it again anywhere except maybe this page.

I have seen many posts from considerate, sensitive (to other people's needs) individuals. I would guess it's a minority that actually likes A Forum's incredibly rough side. I could be wrong.

Hurting people just because they're dumber than you seems to me to be a pretty ridiculous pastime. Especially at a site that's supposed to be about people bettering themselves.

Hi. I saw from your post in the Roleplay Forum thread in the Suggestion Box that you were intrested in it. I have taken the liberty to make the Official Social Group, seen here

That's good to hear!

Heh, I've probably provided enough material for someone to write a short paper on mental illness during my time at Smogon :) But I'll probably never have the privilege of being someone's lab rat. Oh well. Normally I never think about the fact I'm mentally ill, but of course recent events have brought it to mind.

It would be totally fine with me if no one posts again in my suggestions thread, in fact that might be for the best; no reason to bump it. It'd also be fine if someone gets in the last word.

Obviously sometime soon I should send Shiny Mew2 another message thanking him for all the help he gave me. Hell I should also send Hipmonlee a thank-you, but I probably won't waste his time with that.

Yeah I'm back to feeling a lot better :) (and being a lot more stable). I'm spending lots of time with my cats, I'm getting enough caffeine from diet pop lol, I'm doing better. And I haven't been obsessed in recent days.

But I might keep posting on this page like the crazy guy I am for a while longer :) you know, in case there's actually someone somewhere who reads this stuff.

Dream World time ... my first hour is already going.

I think just about nobody here gives a hoot about me one way or another :) which is exactly as it should be considering how little I'm able to contribute.

If anybody who "massacres innocent bad topics" cares enough to look at this page, that proves you're a good person and I just don't understand you ... well I already know that I am not better than any person anywhere. That's my most fundamental belief.

Everybody everywhere, come listen to the crazy guy talk to himself! (not)

Dumb guy's log ... Stardate 06122011 ... talking to myself again ...

I thought of another Pokemon-related thing I'd enjoy posting about. Well I assume some Smogon members also battle on Wi-Fi ... I'd like to hear what Smogon members think of the common practice of disconnecting when people are about to lose, something often discussed on Another Message Board Which Shall Remain Nameless. Course I kinda doubt that question would go over well.

I like the signature I saw, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance." Indeed most of the members who come down hard on innocent 'bad' topics probably aren't aware of the damage they can cause. And of course I'm ignorant too.

no worries. no need to be sorry, sir.

I love it that Moody Bidoof is uber, heh. Who would've thought that when they first saw a Bidoof in Diamond or Pearl. But now it sounds like all the Moodies are even banned from uber.

I wonder how many other crazies besides me Smogon forums have to deal with.

The really awesome person/people behind Pokecheck has to deal with a young kid named Fibbles on their shoutbox right now, who wants to keep posting and posting and posting. I wonder who's the bigger headache, me or Fibbles.

Hopefully I'm just about over this whole thing. I'm physically feeling better today, my thoughts haven't been so filled with this one thing, hopefully I'm doing better. And my Stargate Universe final season DVDs should arrive within a few days (to give me something else to think about, lol).

Course I'll never be fully over this, but hopefully soon it'll be in the past :)

eh.. i was only instigating because some bad things were said about smogon on those links. you know how them smogonites are.

Don't go and get yourself banned. That would be bad. When is school out for you?

A little advice for anyone who cares to hear it ... well actually I doubt that anyone who needs to hear this will see it, but ...

The next time you're going to go flaunting your intelligence, try tempering that with a moment of consideration.

Heh, I'm probably just talking to myself here :) Well Shiny Mew2 might see this, but Shiny Mew2 certainly doesn't need that advice.

Oh neat, my kitty who's just as crazy as I am is coming to see me <3 She hides most of the time since other cats like to tease her.

I've thought of starting an 'invent-a-tier' topic in the B/W section, just for fun of course, but I assume if a topic like that would be a good thing it's probably already there. From my limited perspective I think Rarely Used is a good thing, by the way, you know, since it'd probably be good if more than 10% of Pokemon varieties actually get used.

Heh, I wonder if it would help me get over things if I were banned? So maybe I should bounce around breakin rules all over the place :P lol. I'm probably somewhat over what happened to me specifically, it just bugs me so much that it'll keep happening to other people, and some people probably don't even think there's anything wrong with it.

You're welcome. Do you have Star Wars Battlefront 2 for the PC?

That's cool. Do you listen to AC/DC or rob zombie?