Rainbows and Vodka - Well #42 - Oglemi and Jellicent

[Oglemi]

"Two strangers, drunk from partying too much, are being shown around a village that they have just become part of. They are shown a well and their guide says 'On any day except Wednesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer.' The men seem pretty impressed, and so they shout down, 'Why not on Wednesday?' Two voices from in the well shout back, 'Because on Wednesday, it's your day in the well.'"

Hi peeps and creeps! The name is Oglemi on Smogon and most of the Internet, but in real life my name is Mike. I'm 20 and going into my third year of college in Madison, Wisconsin to become a high school teacher. I'm originally from a tiny town in northern Wisconsin called Medford. I have a bunch interests, but you'll have to ask if you want to know more!

For Smogon I am a Super Moderator, with my duties consisting of co-leading the RU tier with SilentVerse, moderating, QCing, and GPing in C&C, writing and GPing articles for The Smog, and caching and managing entries in the SCMS (or, the program that lets us put content onsite, such as analyses to the Dex). I've been a moderator for almost 2 years now, and smod for just over 6 months I think.

I'm known around Smogon as being a general packmule because I've helped get a bunch of stuff, including articles and such, onsite (it's also how I got started on Smogon). I'm also well known for being gay (and yes I'm gay in real life too). (Nexus likes to use me as a scapegoat too, but that's another story.)

Also, since me and Jelli tied in the poll for the well, we're doing ours at the same time. So, be sure to specify who your questions are going for, or if you don't we'll just both answer! Coincidentally, Jellicent is one of my best friends here on Smogon, so this well should be a blast lol.

P.S. I won't be answering any "what do you think of me" questions. If you want to know what I think of you, get to know me!

 

[Jellicent]

"Two strangers, drunk from partying too much, are being shown around a village that they have just become part of. They are shown a well and their guide says 'On any day except Wednesday, you can shout any question down that well and you'll be told the answer.' The men seem pretty impressed, and so they shout down, 'Why not on Wednesday?' Two voices from in the well shout back, 'Because on Wednesday, it's your day in the well.'"

So Oggy and I somehow ended up in a well together. People need to stop listening to my drunken ideas... Forward all complaints to user: Oglemi :P

If I gotta a share a well with someone, it might as well be one of my best Smogon friends! Also, his hometown is Medford, Wisconsin? Oddly, mine is Medford Lakes, New Jersey (which is surrounded by the town of Medford). This is already shaping up to be an eerie well >.>

Anyway, I'm Jellicent, Smogon's premier boozehound. After lurking for about three years, I finally decided to make an account when I found out there was a need for grammar checkers. I then lurked another 2 months to get a feel for it before making my first post: an amateur GP check. Currently, I'm a mod for OI, RoA, and Past Gen's C&C, as well as a writer for the Smog and the Competitor. A Forum regulars probably know me more for Jellitales :3

Smogon stuff aside, I'm a 24 year old college grad that works as a waiter/busser in some south Jersey Italian restaurant. I live with my best friend in a Philly rowhouse, which is pretty cool. My ideal job would probably be an author or editor, and I've got a novel/novella/whatever in the works (stuck in 2nd draft hell, currently). I mostly dig post-punk, garage, and art punk, if anyone wants to talk music~

Expect some of your questions to be answered more drunkenly than others. I might slip a few sober answers in here somewhere... Maybe... Anyway, ask away ^.^

 

[Ditto]

/me huggles Oglemi and Jellicent :D

 

[Raseri]

@ Oglemi

What do you think of me and blarajan leading RU?

Why are you so awesome?
What does your name mean?
Do you ever play Pokemon?

 

[smashlloyd20]

@Jellicent: How did you rise up in the Smogon system so quickly? You've already got 2 prestigious badges and you haven't even been here a year yet.

 

[TheMantyke]

@Oglemi

Do you enjoy playing / spectating any sports?

Have you recieved any hilarious replies to infractions? If so, do you have a favorite and do you mind sharing a brief summary of its contents?

Also, this is shamelessly stolen from darkie many wells ago, but on an intimate night:

Which of these two Pokemon would you rather be?

 

[Cereza]

@ both
Lucky number
Favorite color
Favorite animal
Favorite pokemon -non competitive viable-
Credit card information
Goals you have here and IRL

 

[Gengan]

@ Olgemi: favorite ghost type?

@ Jellicent: favorite mod/smod?

 

[Jellicent]

/me huggles Oglemi and Jellicent :D

/me huggles Ditto~ :)

@Jellicent: How did you rise up in the Smogon system so quickly? You've already got 2 prestigious badges and you haven't even been here a year yet.

Not entirely sure... I started off just GPing a lot, and ending up making the team and getting a ladybug before I had thirty posts, iirc (I also didn't know what a ladybug even was, so it was kinda confusing). After continuing GPing, writing about 10 analyses, and pumping out an article, that turned into full contrib ^.^

Mods kinda took me by surprise as well. I had been talking a lot with Birkal on how to shape OI when it first came around, and somehow I ended up modding it with him, which was pretty cool. After a bunch of peeps complained about the state of RoA, I worked with Hipmonlee to get that into a functioning forum; he modded me, and then I spent a couple days clearing out the non-competitive threads (about 1,800 ;-;). I wanted to see more onsite resources for past gens, since I was still trying to get RoA on its feet, and ended up working with Oglemi to make that happen. Between that and my presence in C&C anyway, he ended up nomming me for Past Gens C&C, which was quite cool (thanks, Oggy~<3 [he also nommed me for ladybug and contrib, I believe, so if you have any more questions on the matter, ask the other guy in the well ^.^])

@ both
Lucky number

1,111

Favorite color

Green? I dunno x.x

Favorite animal

Pufferfish are my power animal (though capybaras and penguins are super cute >.>)

Favorite pokemon -non competitive viable-

Clefairy~<3

Credit card information

Sorry, I only have a debit card :3

Goals you have here and IRL

Here: basically just have fun. GPing is oddly enjoyable to me, so I'll be sticking with that. Other things like writing, running projects, playing battles, etc. are also a lot of fun, so that's what I gravitate towards :)
IRL: again, mostly to have fun. I consider myself a hedonist of sorts, as I always shoot for whatever's most pleasurable. Again, writing and editing are hobbies of mine, so if I could turn those into a career, I'd be happy ^.^

@ Jellicent: favorite mod/smod?

Pretty much all of the mods+ that I'm friends with. I can't really pick a favorite, cuz I like them all for different reasons :3

 

[phoopes]

Jellicent:

Why exactly is Jellicent your favorite Pokemon? (Well, I'm assuming it is.)

Oglemi:

Favorite RU Pokemon?

 

[Zacchaeus]

Oglemi: Hire me plox?
Top 6 favorite Pokémon?
Favorite food?
If you could receive any badge which would it be?

Jellicent: Top 3 favorite adult beverages?
Top 6 favorite Pokémon?
Favorite food?
Rank from best to worst: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple

 

[Espo]

@Both
Are you guys aware rainbow vodka is a real thing? It is soaking skittles in vodka until they dissolve.

 

[(makeup)]

@both

would you say checking the forums is a habitual thing for you?

top 5 cutest mons?

thanks!

 

[danilo]

@jelly- if you were gay who would you do
@oglemi- if you were straight who would you do

both- what's your favorite type of singing music? what was your first cellphone?

 

[v]

for ogle: FUCK YOUR

for jelli: do drugs with me some time, non-optional, non-question

 

[Kojax]

@Oglemi

Hi Oglemi, every year at least once I go camping up at Spearhead point, about 30 miles northwest of Medford on route 13. I also live just west of Madison (Verona).

Do you hope to stick around Madison after you graduate. I have been here a little over a year and really enjoy the area.

What are the biggest things you would change about the education system in America?

@Jellicent

Do you enjoy beer? Do you have a favorite style/brewery/brew?

What is something you think is challenging about writing fiction? I am not as interested in the process of getting published as I am in what it takes for you to get your thoughts onto paper.

 

[Solace]

oglemi and jellicent - favorite band

oglemi - top 5 guys

jellicent - top 5 girls

GO

 

[Synre]

Now that you guys are trapped in a well together, would you consider this taking your relationship to the next level?

Also Oglemi why didn't you come hang out with us when we were playing Pokemon in Madison last year :(

 

[kittenmay]

@both

are you guys going to meet up to get drunk together?
do you read?
what do you read?
who do you read?
what's your favorite book?
will you be my friend?
why are there so many questions?
will you drink with me?
when I'm legal?
yeah?

EDIT: Did Ray Jay get his questions from a website????

 

[Mafeking]

@Oglesworth:

- why are all of our VM conversations about Josh Hutcherson?
- hi Oglemi :3
- (serious question) what was coming out to your parents like? Any mishaps? Things you wish you could've done better? I can't really tell how close you are with them through creeping your FB (I do this a lot) so I'm curious.
- regardless of the pokemon in question, do you have an avatar from your recent quest to cycle through the pokemon that you've enjoyed the most?

@tits:

- are you okay with me still calling you tits / does it still highlight you on irc
- on a scale of 1 to 10, how excited for Skins 7 are you?
- favorite Skins season, episode, and favorite Skins character from each group?
- why aren't we friends on facebook do you even have one
- say hi to PQ for me!

 

[Ray Jay]

@both

Is it lawful to sacrifice a few without their consent to save many?

As a leader, is it better to be feared or loved?

To what extent should the law protect self defense?

Someone posts something completely asinine on Facebook, how do you respond?

You're in the car alone driving somewhere along a road in Kansas. What are you doing (besides driving)?

What if hypothetical questions aren't really indicative of personality?

 

[Hot N Cold]

@both:

Favourite Pokemon in RU (competitive)

Favourite badge and trophy

Thnx

 

[Oglemi]

/me huggles Oglemi and Jellicent :D

/me mega huggles Ditto :D

@ Oglemi

What do you think of me and blarajan leading RU?

rofl

o lord you two running a tier .__________________.

no but seriously, if you two were to run RU I'm sure you wouldn't screw it up anymore than I have at times!!

Why are you so awesome?

It's having the right balance of not caring, and caring

What does your name mean?

It's actually pretty simple. It's just a mash of my last and first name (last name Ogle, first name Mike).

It's just kinda cool how it creates a homonym for "ogle me", which means to stare or goggle at me.

Do you ever play Pokemon?

I do, I've just never been one for laddering lol 9.9

I'm also usually pretty busy, so most of my Smogon time goes towards either IRC or the forums (usually then C&C).

@Oglemi

Do you enjoy playing / spectating any sports?

I do, I watched soooooooooo much Olympics while they were on it was ridiculous.

I love playing tennis, and I played soccer a lot when I was younger (I was p. bad at it, but I was a decent goalie).

I like watching American football on T.V. (go Badgers!), but most other sports are p. boring to watch on TV. I love watching professional volleyball in person though, it's so intense!

Have you recieved any hilarious replies to infractions? If so, do you have a favorite and do you mind sharing a brief summary of its contents?

O lord, well there's the legacy of Some Person. Basically, he wrote an analysis like he was writing a grocery list, so I told him to take some time to learn how to write better before submitting anything else to C&C (I also revoked his analysis at the time).

He then proceeded to PM me the weirdest stuff over the course of the next two months or so, with which I would share with Nexus and laugh. Here's an example of one of the PMs he sent me soon after the incident:

"Oglemi, when will RU analyses be allowed? I want them allowed before the beginning of September, as school for me starts in September and I won't be able to complete analyses as well. Do I have dibs for the RU Typhlosion analysis? Also, has this ever happened to you before? Let me know as soon as possible."

"P.S.: This is completely irrelevant, but what is the most depressing book you've ever read? For me it's A Game of Thrones by George R.R Martin. Well, technically I didn't finish it but I accidently found out what happened at the end and I chose not to finish it. (If for some reason you haven't read it and you don't care about spoilers, go here, highlight everything, and read.) Frankly, it's not that depressing (from what I heard, stuff like 1984 is even worse), but it's the most depressing book I've owned or borrowed so far (The Children of Hurin notwithstanding, and I didn't finish that either.)"

He'd send me stuff like that regularly, with each one getting creepier and creepier, up to the point to where he just up and left and had his Location what it is currently: "Training to my death." leading me and Nexus to believe he killed himself (Nexus still likes to joke that I killed a guy). He signed on months later, so he at least hadn't died, but yeah...

Also, this is shamelessly stolen from darkie many wells ago, but on an intimate night:

Which of these two Pokemon would you rather be?

I'll also shamelessly steal what jrrrrrr gave as a reply (kinda, since I'm still a virgin :o)

It'd come down to the guy, both positions would definitely be fun and enjoyable. I don't think I'd always want to be top or always be bottom, but switching back and forth could definitely be awesome!!

@ both
Lucky number

66 (ironically close to 69 i know, but it's been my lucky number for as long as I can remember)

Favorite color

Blue, followed closely by Green, and then Yellow

Favorite animal

BABY HIPPOS

Adult hippos are a close second, I fucking love it when their ears wiggle :333

Favorite pokemon -non competitive viable-

SIMISEAR

Credit card information

ha, credit card ._.

Goals you have here and IRL

Smogon - To continue having fun and doing what I enjoy. I also want to get the current site content to a certain standard, which is why I've taken so much time working on past analyses (and C&C in general) and why I got my start here on Smogon clearing out the DPP UU C&C backlog.

IRL - So many goals ;-; I'll name four

- Get a job teaching something in social studies
- Move out of Wisconsin
- Get a boyfriend/partner - have sexy time
- To pass college with flying colors (doing good so far, GPA of 3.4 !)

@ Olgemi: favorite ghost type?

Ugh, this was a tough choice because really don't like any of the Ghosts, but because I have to choose:

For a few reasons: he's adorably competitively useless pre-Prankster, his animations on the 3D games is funny, and I remember using one on one of my first playthroughs of Ruby and I thought he was badass.

Oglemi:

Favorite RU Pokemon?

There are far too many cool mons to use in RU, but I think my favorite to use is Tangrowth. It's too bad that the rise in Nidoqueen and Moltres have kinda screwed him over recently, but he was such a bad ass to use previously. He's so damn bulky physically, and hits like a boss too. Plus, Sleep Powder is so deliciously good when used right.

Oglemi: Hire me plox?

9.9

Top 6 favorite Pokémon?

Simisear, Sudowoodo, Starmie, Onix, Wooper, Ledian

First two cuz fabulous

Second two because I always felt so badass using them competitively, and both were fucking amazing in the anime

Last two because they are sooooooo cuuuuuuuuuuute

Favorite food?

Nothing beats dark chocolate, nothing. Red Skittles come close, but not quite.

If you could receive any badge which would it be?

Ugh, so many cool badges to choose from.

I do love the IRC SOp badge, and it's pretty much universally agreed that it's the nicest looking badge. I love the TD and Researcher badges too.

@Both
Are you guys aware rainbow vodka is a real thing? It is soaking skittles in vodka until they dissolve.

LOL, now that you bring it up I do remember hearing about that. It sounds pretty gr8 !!

@both

would you say checking the forums is a habitual thing for you?

Yes.... unfortunately lol. At times I feel like I spend waaaaaaaaaay too much time on Smogon, but I love doing it, so I feel a bit conflicted at times. But yes, it's pretty much the first thing I do when I log on to my computer is check Smogon.

top 5 cutest mons?

thanks!

Ledian

Wooper

Spheal

Gastrodon (almost solely because of its in-game cry :3)

Tangrowth

 

[SPF]

@Both

Which are the 2 Pokémon you most dislike?

Being one of them competitive and the other one not.

 

[v]

have either of you ever pooped in a women's bathroom? I recommend it