Someone, please explain to me why everyone is "worshipping" the helix fossil and hates Flareon.
Seriously, I just don't get it.
This is a lot bigger than I thought it would get, yesterday's xkcd comic referenced it.
The helix worship started before I began following the feed, but I think it was just their first key item they got, and whenever they got stuck on the item menu, they ended up examining it, usually multiple times. Being a key item, it was immune to being accidentally tossed, but it could be deposited in the PC. The joke is that Red keeps looking to the Helix Fossil for guidance, because he is obviously incapable of making up his own mind.
Flareon is much more interesting. By the time they got to Celedon, it was well established that trolls and chat lag could ruin everything. Even something as simple as buying an item or using the PC could have disastrous results. There was a debate about which pokemon they should get for surf, Eevee or Lapras. In the end, Eevee was picked up. The problem with Eevee was that it needed an evolution stone to evolve. Until you reach the elite 4, there is a finite amount of money available to the player, and evolution stones were expensive. And the chaos of battle meant losing was frequent, and your remaining cash supply was cut in half each time, so money was especially tight. For Eevee to evolve into Vaporeon and be able to learn surf, they needed to buy a water stone from a specific vendor in the department store. This vendor also had many other items. Well, they eventually bought an evolution stone, a
fire stone, and didn't have enough money to get a water stone. So Eevee was evolved using the stone, into Flareon. It was decided that Flareon was to be deposited in the PC to make room for Lapras later (since it is given by a person, it couldn't be sent directly to the PC). What happened was that their level 34 Charmeleon and a Rattatta were released. It was deemed that going for Eevee in the first place was what caused this disastrous turn of events.
Oh wow, watching red get about half way across the ledge, only to jump, and then about 20 seconds later a flood of "democracy" votes is hilarious! Seriously guys, all you need to do is not type 'down', you have even done it before! I don't see how it is that difficult. Huehuehue.
The problem is that trolls have disproportionate power. A single misstep could erase the progress of several proper movements.