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@postgradmon-go
For the record, the postgraduates of Go labs came together to unanimously suggest a 'find three billion new interns' challenge prior to any massive catch challenges.
For the record we were voted down.
Happy Family Harvest to everyone in central Unova, and happy whatever to the rest of you.
Legendary dogs legendary feels I guess
Collective man-hours we have lost to the team leaders and staff collapsed in a chair crying about dog pokémon being So Good:
Snubble: 3, mostly Spark
Granbull: 3, mostly Candela
Houndour: 5. One of them was mine. In my defense it was super small.
Houndoom: 3
Growlithe: 7
Suicune: 24 and counting
(Professor Willow has never lost a single man hour. I mean he cries a lot about weedles being small and good but he knows how to cry and work)
I love my job ⚛❤
I wouldn’t be surprised if this was accurate…
It’s the evolution of the magic / more magic switch
STORY TIME
AV Blake here. So it's been eventful around here: Candela brought in a electrical architecture expert from Kalos to fix up the gym system. He and Dave vanished into a spare room and there were lots of sparks and the occasional shout of 'SCIENCE' and at the end of it we had the new gyms and some super-energetic pokémon who were stronger than any we'd ever seen before. The professor and Vera said: "Fascinating!" The textile arts professor who totally isn't a Kantonian mafia member in disguise said: "Won't the boss be interested in this!" The nerd from Kalos said: "What a fascinating discovery! I have to call Professor Sycamore!" And Fucking Dave walked past eating fucking chips and fucking said: "Oh, ya, like a totem pokémon." And just walked on. Which is how we all found out, readers, that in Dave's home region it is not only normal but a venerated tradition to send eleven year olds off to fight irradiated super-pokémon. He says he got a neat keychain out of it.
PSA
We here at GO labs would like to apologize for Professor Jiggly's tendency to sneak onto the lab computer without remembering to log out of tumblr. Professor Jiggly's accidental reblogs, while only sometimes embarrassing Tumblr bs, are not affiliated with the lab, Professor Willow, or the GO catch and release study. -AV Blake
All right, everyone, I know we've been quiet but the lab's still standing and I haven't been replaced by a Zoroark. (And I can prove it, because Professor W asked me for a blood draw. That'll teach me to try kindness. Next time I'm just sleep-powdering everyone.) It's been busy here. And I know you think it's always busy, because it is, but this is busy plus exam season, and Professor Willow has two bio classes on top of the GO study. 'But AV, you're not a pokemon researcher, you can't TA for Professor Willow, why would that affect you?' You're right, I'm not his TA, and neither is Dave. So during exam season the coursework all falls to the Professor, Vera, and the team captains-- and really only Candela has the right temperament to grade papers. (Spark can't grade papers because students don't take it seriously when you dot your i's with a lightning bolt. Blanche can’t grade papers because students take it way too seriously you write them a personalized three-page essay about their fundamental misunderstandings of the subject) So Dave and I and the medical staff-- and the undergrads who haven't quit and aren't taking their own exams-- are holding things down. It's busy, is what I'm saying. Right now Professor Willow is so tired that he gave an exam to a room full of rock types and asked Vera to ID chip a hundred and sixty undergrads. Vera's so tired that she actually graded the papers and managed to ID half the marching band before somebody stopped her. ...in related news a Kabuto aced Professor Willow's pokemon bio 201 final. Blew the curve for everyone. We're trying to get the paperwork through to hire it. Yours in Academia -AV Blake
so gentle. so wrong
The prof & Vera got a theory this sun is gonna bring choke grass types. Real excited. & we remember how the water flood ended. today in come Prof & Vera tauros-loaded up with bags of topsoil & start for the basement AV goes over & drops a hand on their shoulders and says "no" real kind. no judgement. just looking out for them. It worked tho only not like she hoped cause they forgot about the garden and now theyre trynna figure out if AV is a zoroark or just under hypnosis
You know, I have to give it to the professor. Politicking and cynicism don't come naturally to him, but when our grants are in trouble he does make the effort. Between him and Vera, they can be downright sly. Because just hypothetically speaking, "Professor Willow discovers that more types of pokémon can hatch out of the green egg group" is a way better headline than "remember when that rogue Jigglypuff put the entire human lab staff in a coma, the overworked medical staff took the opportunity to have a video game tournament, and a bunch of Dittos got out of their tanks and into the closely controlled breeding study for a week of whirlwind inter-regional romance? Why are we asking? No reason, anyway here's a bunch of random eggs and we don't know what the hell is in them, have fun" I mean, hypothetically speaking, that second headline is way too long. -AV Blake
Conversations from the Lab
AV Blake, law student but otherwise normal person: I can't believe Professor Willow spent three hours yesterday explaining his theories about the big surge of water pokemon and somehow forgot to add 'so I flooded the basement to make a temporary holding pond for all the magikarp'.
Vera J, kind human and decent colleague but deranged in that special pokemon researcher way: Oh, I didn't think it needed saying. Didn't you sort of assume he would?
AVB, despite having worked with this man for nearly a year now: No. Despite having worked with that man for nearly a year, I somehow didn't see this coming.
VJ, a competent but worrying person: It was the reasonable thing to do. Any pokemon researcher would have done it.
AVB, unsurprised but still sort of horrified: Would they now.
VJ, who is saying this all completely conversationally: Sure, a friend of my mother's works with Professor Juniper. When I was an undergrad she told me all about the kind of things that can happen in a pokemon lab.
AVB, edging away slowly: Oh, really. Sounds fascinating.
VJ: Sure! One time Professor Juniper's lab turned into a prehistoric jungle while they were cloning a fossil specimen.
AVB: Uh.
VJ: Unfortunately, then it burned down. But what they learned about prehistoric pokemon behavior was amazing!
AVB, whose parents still haven't forgiven her for not going into pokemon research because apparently this is the kind of life they want her to lead, which is a major reason she doesn't come home for holidays: That's. Amazing all right.
VJ: Isn't this field the best?
Conversations from the Lab
AV Blake, law student but otherwise normal person: I can't believe Professor Willow spent three hours yesterday explaining his theories about the big surge of water pokemon and somehow forgot to add 'so I flooded the basement to make a temporary holding pond for all the magikarp'.
Vera J, kind human and decent colleague but deranged in that special pokemon researcher way: Oh, I didn't think it needed saying. Didn't you sort of assume he would?
AVB, despite having worked with this man for nearly a year now: No. Despite having worked with that man for nearly a year, I somehow didn't see this coming.
VJ, a competent but worrying person: It was the reasonable thing to do. Any pokemon researcher would have done it.
AVB, unsurprised but still sort of horrified: Would they now.
VJ, who is saying this all completely conversationally: Sure, a friend of my mother's works with Professor Juniper. When I was an undergrad she told me all about the kind of things that can happen in a pokemon lab.
AVB, edging away slowly: Oh, really. Sounds fascinating.
VJ: Sure! One time Professor Juniper's lab turned into a prehistoric jungle while they were cloning a fossil specimen.
AVB: Uh.
VJ: Unfortunately, then it burned down. But what they learned about prehistoric pokemon behavior was amazing!
AVB, whose parents still haven't forgiven her for not going into pokemon research because apparently this is the kind of life they want her to lead, which is a major reason she doesn't come home for holidays: That's. Amazing all right.
VJ: Isn't this field the best?
o man u guys they r selling da best new hats @ da campus store i am so happy today
GODDAMMIT DAVE
o man u guys they r selling da best new hats @ da campus store i am so happy today
Hats?
That can’t be it. That can’t be all he has up his constantly rolled up white sleeves.
We all like the Professor, but when he gets a ‘great idea’ to boost study performance we wind up with black lung from loading up double stardust or something.
The hats are annoying, they’re dumb, I’m going to scream if I see one more person wearing them, but they’re not bad.
He’s lulling us into a false sense of security before he runs a ‘double stardust for your most-intern-traumatizing-pokemon’ event.
-AV Blake
Hey! Dave here!
Yeah AV tried to destroy every copy of these but u know what she can’t destroy? professor willow’s pokegram account. the internet is 4ever, AV.
we had dis great photographer @raposabranca come thru 2 take pictures for the uni & we got copies of the pictures today! i hear she’s available sometimes for team portraits of u & ur pokemon , u should check her out!
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It's quiet
Too quiet. I'm not complaining that we didn't get yelled at for the Valentines coma fiasco or the incomplete early Johto patch, but Professor Willow has this distant look on his face and Vera overheard him say "I have a great idea to boost participation!" So we're all waiting for the other shoe to drop. In the meantime I'm doing the work they actually hired me to do-- 10% grant proposals, 10% law clerking for the legal department, 80% ID banding all the new pokémon that are now included in the study. In other news a photographer came by to take 'candid pictures from a pokémon lab', so look forward to those showing up if I can't stop it somehow.
Nope
I’ve been going through the server update. The new procedures are written in a flavor of PSQL I don’t recognize, and the patch doesn’t work.
I mean, it works. But it doesn’t work. There are six identical but separate variables named ‘porygon’. Of type ‘porygon’. From hidden reference library porygon.orb.
Don’t bother me about the eggs being off or half the regional pokemon not showing up. I’m not touching this thing. I’m not even going to breathe too close to the servers. You get another update when they give me time to write one from scratch.
-AV Blake
Oh no someone rolled the Johto patch out that wasn't even close to finished I will not be held responsible for this
