[Video]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[The feed opens with JW sitting on the back porch of Handsome Jack's mansion. There is a Stunky asleep in his lap and he's smoking...something. It could be anything! He's holding the camera at a high angle but not looking at it. Instead he's looking at the wooded area behind the house.]}

Just your friendly reminder that none of you have had to deal with mosquito bites this summer and I think that's pretty neato. BYE.

_{[End feed.]}

Comments

[Video]

[bigsadwolf]

[That IS a valid point you make there, JW...]

At least they normally aren't so large as they would be if they were here.

[Can you imagine a five foot tall mosquito? No? That's because Arceus knew that while people could handle technicolor spiders, mosquitos were apparently a step too far.]

[Video]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[Legosi is rewarded with a SQUINT.]}

Now why'd you have to go and say that? I was having a good time. We were all having a good time.

[bigsadwolf]

I'm still having a good time. I like mosquitos.

[Okay so LEGOSI is just the weird one.]

Nobody likes being bitten by them, but they have their purpose, just like every other insect in the world.

[goldeneyeball]

_{[James wrinkles his nose up.]}

WHY? Sure maybe they do. My pancreas is doing something but I don't have to like it!

[bigsadwolf]

I like all bugs. [He replies plainly.] Mosquitos are a food source for other insects. Fish and other aquatic life, too.

[And they're a good source of protein, though...if a carnivore wants their protein intake, they usually go for something like ants if you'd like to skew that small.

Legosi, personally, prefers eggs.]

[goldeneyeball]

Well good for you! I'm over here enjoying a world without disease-ridden creepy crawlies!

_{[Time to get defensive for no reason!]}

Evidently SoCal started getting mosquitos in recent years

[fingersandteeth]

I was going to say that we don't actually have those where I live back home—at least not very many—but unfortunately that's not the case anymore.

It's nice to be back to being mosquito-free again.

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW nods sagely.]}

No chiggers either.

[fingersandteeth]

... what's a chigger?

[They're still not much of a SoCal thing.]

[goldeneyeball]

_{[JW pushes his glasses up and tips his head back toward his Poke'Gear. A small grin forms on his face as he realizes he has a rare opportunity. To tell someone who doesn't know about chiggers about chiggers.]}

They're these teeny tiny red bugs, almost too small to see. They live in tall grass and you won't know you've got 'em on you until they've already burrowed under your skin.

[Text]

[cyan_maid]

Now I am imagining the eventual reveal of a mosquito Pokemon and I'm kind of terrified of that.

[Text]

[goldeneyeball]

not you too stop it stop it youll manifest that shit

[Text]

[cyan_maid]

You can't manifest something that is likely already a thing but unknown to you!

[Text]

[goldeneyeball]

shut up you cant know that

[Text]

[cyan_maid]

It's just logic! I don't need to know something if it's perfectly logical - and despite how fantastical many things about this world tend to be, it still runs on a modicum of logic!

Re: [Text]

[goldeneyeball]

how do you get to decide whats likely and not likely anyway

i think its likely you give me twenty pokeydollars

[zukeini]

God, tell me about it. I had to stock up on lemon eucalyptus back home something SERIOUS.

[goldeneyeball]

that sounds like a pain

i was pretty mad when i showed up here but no mosquito bites. no ant bites. no chigger bites. if you get stung by a bee its your own damn fault because they're five feet tall and easy to spot

[zukeini]

You know, I'm thankful I have yet to see a Beedrill. I can't imagine consider how some Pokémon are real territorial.

[goldeneyeball]

i havent either not in person but i DID see a venomoth and i hated every second of that

text;

[tokenelfcharacter]

Mosquito bites?

[What are those...]

text;

[goldeneyeball]

annoying little bugs from home. they come out on summer nights and suck your blood

text;

[tokenelfcharacter]

Why would they need your blood?

text;

[goldeneyeball]

its what they eat its their food

text;

[tokenelfcharacter]

You're making that up.