Interview with Oglemi

Well, I'm a 21-year-old white male gay college student who lives in the smack dab middle of Wisconsin.

Not particularly lol, especially out in the country where I am surrounded by cornfields. I go to college in Madison though, so there's plenty to do during the school year. The summer is the best in Wisconsin though, I love just being outside, laying out on the lake on my raft. This year I'll be able to drink and sunbathe at the same time :o

That's the plan anyway 9.9 and skinny too (suck it joshe). I'm down 20 pounds from last year and I mark that as one of my better accomplishments, apart from you know getting into UW-Madison.

A lot.

The main thing I do is contribute to C&C. I've been contributing consistently for nearly the past 3 years.

Rising_Dusk used to post the "Recently in C&C" bits on the front page, and would provide the links to the small changes thread. I remember reading Heysup's Abra analysis, and finding a ton of mistakes, so I made an account to post in the small changes thread. I didn't come back for a while though. I posted my first analysis a couple years ago over the summer cuz I felt some of the analyses for DPP UU were horrible and outdated. So I posted my Solrock analysis and it sat without a single post for over a month. Eventually I posted other analyses and FlareBlitz and whistle began actually QCing them. My first analysis uploaded was Huntail, and that was such a cool feeling.

From there I started picking up old and abandoned analyses and started shoving them onsite. Eventually whistle and Eo felt they weren't up to the task anymore and whistle nominated me for C&C mods. I've been at the helm of various areas of C&C since—uploading, GPing, QCing, you name it.

I hadn't realized it until I was doing something on the SCMS about a year ago and discovered you could look at the number of edits people have made. It was then I realized I had almost caught up to the #1 editor at the time (Great Sage) and made it a goal to surpass him. Well that has come and gone and I've just continued chugging along. As to what keeps me going, I don't really know. I guess it's a combination of intense boredom otherwise and a desire to see the site be at a certain standard.

Ever since I acquired the ability to edit the site directly I've made it a kind of my goal to get the whole site at a standard where I can be happy with its grammar and standardization, and content too I guess. It's just really cool to see something you've put a lot of effort into put up on the "big screen" so to speak, for a world of thousands of Pokémon nerds to see. I remember seeing Smogon's analyses years ago and thinking it was really cool that somebody had taken the time to try and analyze every Pokémon, and now I'm a big part of that.

Now? No, myself, Great Sage, ibo, phil, R_D, C_M and all the other C&C mods have spent years working towards a process that works, and in my opinion, we've accomplished that. Sure the process can always be tweaked, but it's astounding how much better the process is now than when I first contributed 3 years ago, and it was already waaaay better then than where it was a year previously.

Exhausting to be completely honest; don't let anybody tell you leading a tier is easy. When I took the helm of the newly created RU tier I knew it was going to be a big job and tumultuous, which is why I immediately enlisted a second in command in Nails. It's been tough trying to make the right decisions as to how to: decide when a vote is appropriate, who to allow on a council, how to keep the forum active, how to keep drama at bay, how to connect with the other leaders of the site, and how to deal with just the shit, for the lack of a better word, for some of the stuff that goes on.

Good question.

I vouched right away when the talk for the creation of the tier began that I would lead the tier, and when it was made I stepped forward and made a thread in InsideScoop saying I wanted a subforum for the new tier that R_D had made with the usage stats and that was playable on PO, and I said there that I would lead the tiering decisions for RU. I guess the senior staff at the time was ok with it because I was recognized as such. There were definitely voices against its creation, but Arti (I believe) went through with it in the end and gave me the forum, added the tier to the Dex, and well here we are.

We'll see, I don't know if I'll be leading a tier in the next generation because I'll be busier than ever next semester with school. There's already been times this generation where I've been too negligent with the tier because of outside forces. As for the creation of a new tier, it'd take some serious convincing for this next generation, but for the one after that we'll probably see the addition of yet another tier just because of the vastness of the number of Pokémon we're going to have at that point lol.

"Only when broken"; the definition of which is a bit loose, but I've always felt it was when you can put the Pokémon on a team and have an immediate serious advantage against your opponent just for having it, even if your opponent is prepared for it or whatever, though they should be. The best example of which I can think was Venomoth in RU in Round 0. It was so easy to click Sleep Powder, QD, BP, destroy, or if you wanted to be tricky just sweep with it. Yanmega was a very close second lol.

The great thing about RU is that it is so extremely diverse, which is why I think it's the best tier to play; I don't know if I would have stuck around to lead the tier if it wasn't fun to play too. This makes it hard to pick out any in particular, but if I have to pick one, it'd definitely have to be Rhydon. The thing is so good and has been a part of a good number of my teams since Rhyperior left us for UU.

I remember it being the release of Issue 15 I believe, and they were backed up on grammar, so macle told me to get Smog access so I could GP some stuff. I helped them shove through some grammar and have contributed various things since. I've written over 15 articles for The Smog to date I believe, and have contributed GP to nearly every release since I started.

lol, but yeah the Smog article I'm most proud of is definitely my Top 10 Most Fabulous Pokémon, since I got to poke fun at gay people and Game Freak's designs (my gay comrades 9.9). I definitely wasn't expecting the feedback I got from it, but I don't regret anything.

I like this side, I had fun on your side and I was glad to help out but I think I'm glad to be done contributing in that aspect for now, not to say I'll never be on your side ever again 9.9

Never ;-;

This is tough because I'll shift from one day to another between three Pokémon. Today it'd have to be Simisear because I'm feeling pretty fabulous. Gardevoir is such a cool Pokémon and it's a good Pokémon to have Fatecrashers draw it cosplaying stuff (GardSue 4 lyfe). And lastly Onix has always been one of my favorites ever since I saw it in the anime, it was so cool when Brock broke him out (and no I don't think I like it because of some Freudian phallic lust). I just like it cuz it's a freaking giant rock snake that will smash your sorry ass. Too bad in the games he hits as hard as a Pidgey ;-; Oh well.

Just love thy neighbor and love thy world.