Updated 5/29/2010.
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A QUESTION FOR TEAM SPROCKET:
WTF ARE FLUFFY AND MR. MITTENS? SSRSLY, WE REALLY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
ARE THEY IMPORTANT OR SOMETHING? AND IF THEY'RE MISSING, WHY DON'T YOU CHECK
YOUR EVIL BLOOD EATING MACHINE,
YOU JERKS.
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This is a barrel full of kittens.
This is what Sprocket uses for their new members' initiation.
What do they use these barrels of adorable kittens for?
SLAUGHTER.
Cruel, merciless slaughter to fuel their doom machines.
There's only one way to save these poor felines of fluff, and that's for YOU to join the war.
Saboteurs, take up your spanners and destroy their machine that feasts off of the blood of innocent kittens!
Engineers, grab your gears and start working on the machine so we can stop the enemy once and for all!
Gardeners, grab your seeds and make flowers grow so we can fuel our machine with 100% nature!
GO, TEAM GASKET! STOP THE MENACE KNOWN AS TEAM SPROCKET! -by PhoenixIllusion
And now for your daily dose of anti-kitten-killing speculation:
Sprocket.
Who are they?
What are they? To answer this neverending question, I have turned to the dictionary.
sprock·et [sprok-it]
–noun
1. Machinery.a. Also called chainwheel, sprocket wheel. a toothed wheel engaging with a conveyor or power chain.
b. one tooth of such a wheel.
2. Carpentry. a wedge-shaped piece of wood extending a sloping roof over the eaves with a flatter pitch.
Now, to simplify what this tells us, it means that a sprocket is the wheel part that turns a conveyor belt or something similar.
Does this sound right to you?
Well, to me, it sounds like a clever ruse. Remove the chain or conveyor and you've got a spinning wheel with teeth all around it.
Chainsaw, anyone?
To allow such an evilly disguised device to be the namesake of your team says something deeply telling about the members of said team. But, I will be fair, and I will attempt to break down our own namesake for the deeper meaning.
gas·ket [gas-kit]
–noun1. a rubber, metal, or rope ring, for packing a piston or placing around a joint to make it watertight.
2. Nautical . any of a number of light lines for securing a furled sail to a boom, gaff, or yard.
Now, I'm not that much of a sailing buff, but that second definition sounds very simple. The ropes holding down a sail that's not in use. The first is just as simple, and I really can't break it down any further. But, what exactly does this definition say about us?
It says that we are that which holds others together, that we stand against that which could ruin the things we care about. We stand against those who could hurt the people we care about.
We stand against Sprocket, who would dominate and destroy us.
Stand up against our foes. Defeat Team Sprocket.
-By Benjamin Mason
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