Hey guys, Tobin here to explain the joke.

So basically, Fireworks SHOULDN'T be a joke and 100% shouldn't give out joke ninja like the cats.

It's neat that you've compiled up a list, but don't give them the idea to make fireworks worthless for a week because it gives out a worthless cat.

I find it hard to believe that the majority of players would be willing to waste a fireworks week on a practical joke that people would use like, once every two months. Yeah, I don't disbelieve that adding cats to fireworks is a suggestion that others have aside from you, but I am 95% certain they are a minority rather than a popular opinion.

If I wanted to make a funi haha meme troll team, I'd use some outdated farmable unit instead, or someone who was actually in the canon anime.

If I wanted specifically to get a meme unit, it would be better on like, a Myoboku trial event than a Fireworks week.

"People" as in "100 people out of the 10,000 that play this game", sure. Whatever you say boss, you do you. "People" may want it, but it's far from the "majority" and I have no reason to believe that more than 50%... no, more than 35% of players would genuinely want a fricking meme unit over someone more useful. If you feel like proving me wrong, then now's your chance boss. Show me the stats, show me some meaningful numbers before you brag about one lucky example.

Seriously, you can't be genuinely telling me that people WANT the gently caressing CATS in fireworks, all for a joke that wears off after 20 minutes that you're only going to use maybe once every 3 months. Look me in the eye and tell me with good faith that people would be willing to give up a chance at getting a legitimate character, who was actually in the Naruto anime, for a dumb joke that gets old faster than I can say "Daiske".

Yeah, of course they're going to give the worse choice. Because they pretty much amount to nothing more than a living embodiment of a very specific section of Freud's psycho*ytic theory. You being okay with this is only reinforcing their behavior even further than it has ever, ever needed to be. This horse was beaten dead long, long ago, and you should know that by now considering how long you've been around.

Hey guys, Tobin here to explain the joke.

So basically, the meme characters like the joke cats are now important enough to be judged at the same level as filler characters? That seems kind of unfair to the filler characters if you ask me. Not to mention the fact that none of what you said is relevant to the cats, since they are completely useless in actual matchups and aren't good whatsoever.

You can say "others asked for it" as much as you want, but that won't get any closer to convincing me that the majority of players, or even more than 25% of the playerbase, would actually be happy to see the cats there in place of a ninja whom they could actually use.

I'm very well aware of how little the majority means, but I did not intend to debate by the cramped constraints of Oasis's rules and behaviors when I started this discussion. I'm saying that I think this is how it should be theoretically, in a more ideal world. We may not be in that world necessarily, but pushing for progression to that state is never a bad thing. The viewpoint you're holding is incredibly cynical and completely counterproductive to practically any positive change that the community could try to push. It's a 100% understandable mindset considering this company's track record, but I still don't think that "this will never happen" is a viable reason to not only give up, but actively try to shut down others who want to enact positive progress.

Like, personally, I believe world peace is impossible to get because humankind is just too individualized to not get into fights over stuff. Does that make it pointless to try and create world peace? I dunno boss, it's still a good thing to reduce the overall amount of conflict in the world, even if it's never going to be completely gone. Either way, it feels like we're getting nowhere. Might be a good idea to just drop it and agree to disagree, but if you want to continue I'm all for it.

Hey gamers, Tobin here. Today I learned that if I get a piece of literal po0p in the mail and want literally anything else else, I'm being greedy, because I should be grateful for getting mail in the first place.

Joking aside, I think the cats aren't funny in the slightest, and I can't stand seeing them, but that's just me and myself. Like I said, if I was gonna make a joke team I'd use actual canon characters, aka anyone who isn't a cat or a Hebihime.

I feel like whenever this type of discussion comes up, there's always a group of people who think we should be grateful for getting free stuff in the first place, and a group of people who think we should be getting more. Honestly, I can see where you're coming from to some extent, but I still think that saying "we should be grateful for this" is like saying "we should be happy that we have lunch breaks at work". Anyways, I think that's about all I'll say on this matter.

I think that's a rather vivid and over-the-top @nalogy for a browser game, but let's roll with that and go on your terms boss. If I'm the abused girlfriend who speaks out and tries to reform her boyfriend, then you're the abused girlfriend who does nothing, who has already been broken and just su.cks it up because she's happy that she has a boyfriend at all even if he's terrible. I could say the exact same thing to you – if you are willing to use such an extreme @nalogy to describe the devs, then why don't you just leave too?

No an@logy is necessarily perfect, but this @nalogy doesn't 100% mesh with the cir*stance because the relationship between an individual player and a company isn't in a vacuum. If we really want to make this accurate, then put the abusive boyfriend is in a polygamous relationship with 1000s of people, so that if some lucky girl actually DOES get him to change, it affects way more than just their relationship. It affects all the other ones too. Think of it like reforming a toxic family member. Not only do you have one less negative presence in your life, but the rest of your family doesn't have to deal with them anymore too.

Edit: Kinda hypocritical of me to bring up an equally vivid an@logy, huh? I'll add the disclaimer that this particular scenario isn't half as intense or important as the toxic family member example. I brought it up to make a parallel point regarding the mechanics of the dynamic, rather than the intensity.