Denied Custom Sprites on Pokémon Showdown!

[skies]

Introduction

• Talk a bit what custom sprites are.
• The specific details of them.
• Briefly mention that they're for only staff.
• Talk about how it'll be expanded upon.
• Discuss briefly how it's very rare for anyone under staff to get them.
• Basically a brief outline of what's to come.

What is a Custom Sprite?

• Avatars that are customized!
• Often of a character from a game.
• Perhaps with a Pokemon, even!
• Mention that not everyone gets them, which has to be stressed.
• Discuss where they show up.

Who Gets a Custom Sprite?

• Drivers and above, typically.
• Voices, on rare occasions.
• People who contribute positively to Showdown!
• People who have been auth in multiple rooms.

Conclusion

• Talk again about specific details.
• Once again stress staff.
• Review the above two bullets.
• A motivational portion :D.
• Probably end with "And if you work hard enough, you just might get a custom sprite too!"

approved by pom to do a thing on sprites

 

[Zarel]

[15:53] %LegitimateUsername: "man look at how cool the staff are they get these special things"
[15:53] %LegitimateUsername: "sucks to be you though you have a regular avatar"

[15:55] Beowoof: "Who Gets a Custom Sprite?"
[15:55] Beowoof: that's a big
[15:55] Beowoof: fuck you
[15:55] Beowoof: to the face
[15:55] Beowoof: I honestly don't see this article doing any good

[15:57] +Amaterasu: like
[15:58] +Amaterasu: seeing that zarel is the only dude that has the permissions to do them (and by extension chaos but that's past the point)
[15:58] +Amaterasu: he'd get like 24920940929024 requests if this article was published

This is the impression I'm getting, too.

 

[Skitty]

Some of the information here is inaccurate, such as "Anyone who is staff is eligible", "Drivers and above", etc. I'm also not sure how comfortable I personally feel with a non-global staff member writing an article like this.

 

[Spy]

Yeah there's not much purpose for this since /faq ca answers most questions people have and the rest of it comes off as bragging about other custom avatars. Sorry, but this will be denied for the time being.

 

[Zarel]

I know, but readers aren't going to care what it was meant to come off as. That's the thing about being a writer, you have to manage what readers end up feeling about it.