I don’t know. I don’t think my parents would want me to have it. But I’ll be getting a computer soon for college and am starting a job that I may need Discord for, so I’ll probably get it. Who knows.
listen kid, as the father of four kids with a fifth on the way, I want you to know that if you're going off to college and you're still doing or not doing things because you *think* your parents wouldn't want you to do it, buddy you're going to have a rough and tumble time. Even at a 2-year institution that you're likely going to attend, you're going to learn that your parents are going to have less and less influence over you. i know t's scary, I'm scared for when my oldest realizes this fact, but it's something that you're going to have to learn at some point. If you're already posting a ton on these competitive pokemon forums, you're old enough to hang out in chatrooms. when i was your age i was in irc chats and xats and skype chats and i turned out just fine with my four kids with a fifth on the way. i dunno if you're gonna need a discord for your job, but at this point discord IS the community app for most subgroups from major forums and social media sites. you've ask yourself how much influence you expect your parents to have over your life at your age (assuming it's 17 or 18).
Now let me clear, I'm just a random forum poster who is a father of four kids with a fifth on the way. i don't know your circumstances and I don't want to be the one rando who tells you to disobey your parents lest they call the cyber police on me, but i need you to recognize that you're already talking with strangers on this forum. i'm not saying discord is better or worse, but here two things to consider:
1. you like playing pokemon and want to establish yourself, if the teams for team tours are on discord you're going to have to join them, i'm sorry, that's the way it works here. that's how it has been ever since the days of irc chats. if you're on a little league baseball team like two of my sons are and you're not even allowing them to go to the baseball field to practice and the dugouts to communicate with their teammates, how are they going to be able to play well? you're a team for a reason. if you're not being a team player you're bringing dow the success of the rest of your team. no one likes someone who isn't a team player. that applies to baseball and it applies to competitive pokemon. even in cap.
2. you want to be drafted for a team but you're not willing to meet the potential captains halfway? if you're not willing or able to do the bare minimum of what every captain expects their players to do, do you honestly expect to get drafted? and if you're not able to do so because of what your parents say, I respect your willingness to listen to them, but you need to stop complaining. frankly, just ask your parents if they care if you get a little mobile messaging app called discord and explain why you want to get it. it's a surefire way to a. get your parents to understand what you want and why while maintaining a healthy relationship with them (you're being open and honest about you want with them and they might well appreciate that their child who is going off to college is still honest and comfortable sharing their wants with them), and b. know for sure if you should keep posting these meaningless contributions of how "discord sucks". how do you know discord sucks? have you ever used it? clearly not, so stop judging it as if you have used it.
i'm telling you right now chief, i've been a cappl captain before and even before seeing you play i would have a tough time drafting you. it's the inability to meet the bare minimum necessities to be a team player, and the vocal unwillingness to try. i think it's important to maintain a healthy familial relationship, but I'd encourage you to stop assuming what your parents want and try asking them if you can, especially since you're about to go off to school in a space that is otherwise filed with adults (not unlike this forum!). as cheesy as it sounds, let this be an opportunity for you to learn and grow, you're going to have that happen a lot. I wouldn't want one of my four sons (soon to be five) wasting even seconds of their day to post on a forum about something they assume stinks when they've never even made an attempt to find out. I'm not telling you to grow up, you're going to do that anyway, but at the bare minimum you can start by recognizing how useless and annoying it is for you to post every other day about how "discord sucks".
