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I remember talking to a friend of mine that Greely's notes back in Classic, specially his notes placed in the Chamber of Knowledge, Coral Canyons, and the Temple of the Ancients notes have interesting lore implications.

I'll start off with the Chamber of Knowledge note:

This implies that Play Wild takes place in a alternative continuity/universe of the original Animal Jam going by the "different worlds" implication. As if they're intertwined with each other due to similar events involving Lightside and Darkside as the Phantoms are using Darkside energy to rearrange things.

Second comes the Coral Canyons note:

This too implies the alternative timeline/universe connection, especially that it seems like there's no new Adventures in Classic, the Phantoms are still going about destruction within the Play Wild continuity.

The third and last note; The Temple of the Ancients note that talks about Juno's spirit being no longer having presence in the statue:

When Play Wild's October 2023 sneak peak came out, I speculated that the Lightside Arctic Wolf and Darkside Arctic Wolf were going to be unique NPCs represented Juno's spirit being split into halves when their spirit somehow moved into the Play Wild universe.

The Lightside spirit would've shown up if anyone joined the Lightside and had a calm-manner dialogue while the Darkside spirit would've showed up if anyone joined the Darkside and had a brash-like dialogue I've imagined what the two would be.

In my opinion when they finally showed up in-game, I was disappointed that they were just Arctic Wolves that players can purchase with real money and not unique NPCs that participated in the event.

Now onward to Greely's disappearance before the PW Greely's resign, these two Jamaa Journals from Classic by Peck and Sir Gilbert when the Lightside vs. Darkside was still going on within Play Wild:

The two Alphas mention that they wonder where did Greely went? Does this imply that the Greely from the original Animal Jam (Classic)'s universe somehow "leapt through worlds" and end up taking in the place of Play Wild's Greely during the whole Lightside vs. Darkside event? It's like Greely wanted to know what was going on with Classic's Jamaa Township getting rearranged by the Lines of Power manipulated by the Phantoms so he had to investigate somewhere but failed as the Lightside won and went into hiding wherever he is now...

Though it may not be the Greely of Classic that end up in Play Wild, as his statue and armor set is still seen in Classic Alpha Headquarters. Liza's comment in Classic's Jamaa Journal in Classic's November update; besides her and the rest of the Alphas concerned for Greely's absence, she wonders if the Phantoms are threatening "somewhere beyond their world":

In Play Wild's November update, a Jamaa Journal from Peck says she felt a "mysterious presence" working alongside them when everyone was connected to the Lightside:

Would this mean Juno's spirit was there during the whole time during the Lightside vs. Darkside event? I feel like they would get revived from the magical energies from the Lightside, like how the dinosaurs and their homeplace Mesoterra was revived through those Alpha Fossils.

This is all that I wanted to say.

im still so baffled greely just resigned. You can just do that???? correct me if im wrong but werent the alphas chosen by zios and mira??? greely just about to disregard the will of actual gods???? Okay :) Yay :)

Thinking about palworld & like how unashamedly it portrays slavery.

Like for sure, depictions of heinous things in fiction aren't necessarily an endorsement & don't necessarily mean ppl will go on to commit those atrocities.

However, I find it deeply concerning what this depiction of slavery means in a social context. The way it joyfully tacked this on as a game mechanic & made it very explicit about how this isn't just hard labour, it is slavery & how it extremely intentionally uses terms like 'plantation' rather than crop or farm.

I was watching ppl play this game just bc I wanted to actually see what it was all about & if it was as bad as I thought. It's worse than I thought & my worries about it were confirmed by just how quickly the shock of how this game portrays slavery wore off on the player & how quickly they began to joke about it.

I really sincerely think ppl need to let go of the pokemon shit for a second & think about the social consequences of how this game portrays slavery.

I think we fucking owe it to Black people & other people who have ancestors who were enslaved to talk about how serious this is.

I don't give a fucking rats ass about pokemon or plagiarizing trillion dollar corporations, who fucking cares?

I'm much more concerned about the impact this game could have on real living people with the way it carelessly jokes about this & how this changes people's perceptions of slavery.

Changing the attitude people have towards slavery is the first step towards people thinking that it's okay to enslave people, I think we really ought to be talking about that.

Oh so that explains why the designers made the kobolds of fer.al look more like werewolves than something reptilian looking. Especially the fact some of the developers had inspiration from various Japanese media such as the Shinigami's hint references Ryuk from Death Note.

This is a question that’s been bothering me, and after looking into it I think I get it

So kobolds first appear in Germanic folklore as domestic spirits. Kobolds are also considered mine spirits, causing cave-ins and tapping on things in the dark to scare miners

Think the elves from The Elves and the Shoemaker, but bastards

This association with mines and caves and bastardy gets them into the world of tabletop RPGs when Gary Gygax adds them to his fantasy supplement of Chainmail. Kobolds are later added to Dungeons & Dragons as a subterranean race of monsters

Here’s the important thing: due to a throwaway line in the rulebooks about the kobolds having doglike voices, the first artist to depict a D&D kobold gave it a dog nose

This is the beginning point in the divergent evolution

Kobolds in western TTRPG will notoriously become more and more reptilian with each generation, leaning on the interpretation of “chihuahua dragons,” but it’s at this time, heavily inspired by Dungeons & Dragons, that the video game series Wizardry begins

They brought the dog kobolds with them

Wizardry becomes extremely popular in Japan, inspiring JRPG series like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy as well as manga series like Dungeon Meshi. And while in the west the kobold has become increasingly reptilian with each edition, the Japanese kobold has become increasingly canine

And this is why in the greater fantasy genre, kobolds represent everything from

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Colored model sheets of Andromon that was used for Digimon Adventure.

Credits to DigimonFandub from Twitter for sharing the high-quality character model sheets from the Complete Digimon Adventure Japanese Blu-Ray release! We finally got a clearer scan of Andromon's model sheet! Here's the original post that includes Andromon's model sheets, I cropped out the background that surrounded the image.

The only monster Pal I care about