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They obviously cant stick to their schedule either. Seeing as the 16th was supposed to have a batch raffle for the community. Yet they made Taiyaki batch instead, of which one was preclaimed/sniped/bribed before the batch was posted. Which wasn't supposed to be happening anymore. Even trying to make a theme that was already taken! Makes me wonder if that's what happened to someone elses chow (they are no longer on the ML and it happened around the time saunt made the "copycat" announcment.) Makes me wonder if saunt is really the one copying (look at bamboo dragon & the other bamboo chow on ML. They are eerily similar). But because they are big and popular, they can get away with all this B.S.

Community really needs to start calling out the staff and saunt on this crap more often. It's getting super old. They keep introducing new crap (with no use still), but still haven't even gotten traits done yet.

Not only did they miss the initial date set for the 16th but the date Oko stated as the new one, the 20th, has passed as well. Saunt clearly has scheduling issues.

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im getting sick of watching saunt ignore her ask channel but have time to show off art shes getting from alcremie

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I hate that the store is still empty after 2-3 years? How long does it take to resgore these things??? Seriously.

Gice us traits back. Its tiring having to entertain events for crap that is always in stock, but you cant get anything out of stock.

The ones that are out of stock currently are seasonal ones. Hopefully they will continue to make them available yearlong like they did with the Marble Soda item.

It is really frustrating when you need a certain item, but it is not in stock and people refuse to trade.

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Saunt being able to "ghost claim" themes again feels like such a joke after the announcement they made about all claimed themes being public on the theme list

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Quit spreading misinformation. Lyra used an MYO and a dragon statue to void soda dragon to remake them as effervescent dragon. Anyone can do that.

The change logs on site show that Effervescent Dragon is the same Chowling! I will admit I am not sure how the rules of voiding and using another MYO work but LyraSomnium themself stated they were “given very special permission for this change due to it being a non-drastic ‘theme change’” and they “obtained a new Dragon Statue and MYO to put the old theme into fairly.”

The way it was written makes it sound like:

1) Soda Dragon’s theme was changed to Effervescent Dragon. This can be confirmed by looking at the change logs on site as it still shows logs from its initial creation from a year ago.

2) LyraSomnium obtained a new statue and MYO to remake Soda Dragon. Once again, confirmed on site by looking at the MYO Masterlist.

If the original Soda Dragon was voided, then the logs would show that Effervescent Dragon was “created” in June, 2025.

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Wow.

So staff are allowed special perms to change lineage apparently.

Kind of crappy considering the rule was put in place and saunt said they didn't know that it was even a thing. Had a full convo in art chat about it. Said it is fine to switch lineages, they always allowed it so long as you knew you needed a statue & would lose the old lineage.

No announcement either that this was a huge miscommunication on staffs part.

They should not be allowed to switch at all after they said something about "the rule has always been there!" No it wasn't, confirmed by saunt, the creator. "No announcment needed cause its always been a thing!" No, no it was NOT. Again, confirmed BY SAUNT.

So why the hell is staff allowed special permissions to switch lineages?!?! Thats utter speciality right there

How is changing the theme from Soda Dragon to Effervescent Dragon not considered a "drastic" change? The two concepts are not related in the slightest. This is such blatant favouritism from the mod team for their own it is honestly appalling to see.

As for the changing lineages issue, we have also seen disregard for these rules by the mod team, specifically Oko. They used to own Final Girl which was originally a Monster and then they changed it into a Fighter. And yet, Oko is the one stating that lineages cannot be changed?

"Rules for thee, not for me."

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https://www.tumblr.com/chowlingsvent/785179130972045312/will-any-event-come-out-on-time-the-new-monthly?source=share

Not delayed for single prompt. Delayed for the additional rules and regulations to go with the one prompt. Symps 2.0 drawing closer.

There was nothing wrong with prompts before. "Unfair"?! Members chose to do the art they did. Nothing unfair about an artist making their own choice to do prompts the way they do.

I don't understand how we factor in bonuses now either. Everything in percentage... How tf am I supposed to help them grade if I don't even understand the guide anyway? Will I still get my bonus if I dont type it in like we had to before?

Off topic: Where the CGA batches go? I feel like we are past due for one?

Comparing Symprite's prompt guide with Chowling's prompt guide just highlights how eerily similar the two species are becoming unfortunately.

Also, to put it into perspective, the last CGA batch was in September of 2024. It has almost been an entire year.

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Starting to wonder if people even read what others say in chat.

Are they just that blind? Or maybe they can't comprehend what they read? Idk, but the way some things come off is just 'high and mighty stick up the azz, silver spoon, jerks'. Tired of it. Horderers always seem to think they are better than everyone else.

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Will any event come out on time? The new monthly stuff is always late, its kind of annoying at this point

I do wonder why the events are routinely late. Surely there is enough staff to plan these things in advance. I had even noticed LyraSomnium mention in the Discord that they had been planning for June and July at the beginning of May. So, what is causing the delay?

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I think it's kind of poetic that after all their whining, Oz didn't manage to get an myo in the drop last night

It must suck to suck, just wait for the next raffle sale, I'm sure you'll be a winner again

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so they finally implemented a daily thing where we can get festival tickets which is great!

but still no foraging and the mechanic will be linked with a gacha (sounds similar to symps) but at least it sounds like the items we can get from the gacha will actually be useful (unlike symps)

im hoping foraging will come next, maybe their coder is finally becoming available more than just for symp stuff

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Hello new chow vent!

Came to say: I love the species.

But currently am pretty upset about how things are going.

Site is still in disarray even though it just had maintenance. Seems like everything is more broken than it was when they made the move, which is beyond dumb. Im sorry, but the coder seems to be more on about fixing symp site stuff than Chows. The sucky part is? The coder went on vacation or something irl, but was still fixing symp site stuff? Oh! And pretty sure there was a sale where proceeds went to the coder, but the site is even more broken now than before. Pretty fishy imo.

We STILL don't have foraging or trait items. But myo drops have been more frequent (thankfully). Even if it still seems the SAME people keep getting them, or even winning premade sales etc. Idk... Just seems like they're pumping out a bunch of useless shit (pavo, pyxis, etc) that have 0 use until everything is done... Just to keep people from crying.

And we did just have a suggestion thread about all this. There were some minor updates where they said they were working on things, and what the plan was... But they're also still releasing things no one can do much with until MONTHS down the road (stardrake things are best example).

I just wish there was better transparency.

I also wish people had talked to saunt about the lineage swapping. Saunt even stated it IS OKAY, that the rule was put in plave without them knowing. That they jave okayed plenty of lineage swaps. We still cant swap either because they've been talking about it. Seriously though? If the owner states something was put in place without them being talked to about it, that rule should be invalid period. That's a shitty move to whoever did that. And oko really should not be putting up any kind of "talk about it" kind of thing. Regardless of the status now, if that rule was not EVER THERE according to the owner/creator, than imo, they really do not have a say. It wasn't even supposed to be there in the first place.

Personally, I have never seen any lineage swaps outside of one (Final Girl) which was done by Oko themself. If there is an actual conversation going on between the moderators and Saunt, then they should be more transparent about it.

It really does suck to hear that Symprites has access to the coder more often than Chowlings does. If the coder is so busy as the moderator team claims, then how does Symprites get updates during these supposed "busy" periods.

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New Chowlings Vent blog!

Rules:

1. This is a vent blog centered around the closed species of Chowlings made by SauntProof. Keep any asks you send related to Chowlings.

2. You must provide proof for serious allegations such as pedo/zoophilia, racism, etc.

3. I am not responsible for people’s reactions to your vent posts. I will be posting everything that fits within the rules of this blog.

4. Name dropping is okay but death threats, harassment, and hate speech are not allowed.

5. All posts will be anonymous unless you specifically request to be off anonymous.

6. Positive asks are okay too even if this may be listed as a vent blog.

7. I reserve the right to shut down topics if I feel they have lost the plot, gone too far, etc.

This will be unbiased where I will post anything people may send in. I may chime in on some posts if I feel like it but most likely will not. Any of the asks are not a reflection of my own views otherwise.

These rules are subject to change as this blog grows.

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