What’s up, Showderp? I know literally no-one cares at all about this, but I’m really, really sick. I just wanted to tell you all since you’ve been a big part of coping with my illness for the past year, for better or for worse. I’m not going to be champing again, or at least for a long time.
I’ve had a chronic illness for most of my life, and it’s made doing a lot of things difficult for me. One of the things I could always do was go on the Internet, no matter how sick I was. Showderp sometimes made me feel bad for bullying kids on the Internet, but a lot of the times I had a lot of fun with almost everyone here, and it was a nice distraction from being bedridden.
Recently I’ve realized that my illness is making champing difficult. I’m not blaming my sickness on being a shit champ, because a 9-year-old child could play Pokémon at a competent level, and I’ve been sick for as long as I’ve been contributing to these threads. The thing is, I used to be a good champ when mami circular, dosh king, strokemesiter, and all them used to hang around. I first started to regularly visit /vp/ when Gen VI was announced, but didn’t come to a Showderp thread for a while because I mentally filter out everything that includes the word “derp” in it for being stupid. I would suggest Patrick Bateman Cloyster or Own Temple Numeo all the time, and eventually I mustered up the courage to champ. When I first started to champ I stroked, but I could laugh at it. As I’ve been getting sicker, I can’t.
Showderp hasn’t changed, and neither have I, and that’s the problem. I’ve been on here for over a year and my life hasn’t gotten any better. Showderp was an escape and it’s made a lot of my time spent being sick a lot better.
I hope I’ve been able to make some of you laugh, because that’s all I was trying to do.
--sNills
