aaaaaa I still can't pick a grand fest team

[youre_a_squib_now]

try your best to convince me to join your chosen team.

 

[reelrollsweat]

if all else fails random number generator

 

[Grushi]

All these people screaming about how you should "Live your best life NOW!!! Apply to team present!!!" when in reality... wouldn't you prefer living a better present... in the future?
All these responsabilities, why not put them off until tomorrow? Then you'll be living your best life, trust.

 

[OCTöHEAD]

as nin seems to go off results like these as the base idea for the next game.. what interests you more?
past - more lore. what was it? the great turf wars etc
present - what we've got now but just m o r e or developed ig
future - what'll happen in the future? huh? huh!?

also I think the winning team miight end up deciding who of the idol groups will be the main newscasters of the next game

 

[Neko :D]

One word???
The word: PRESENT
Thanks for your time.

 

[Cephalobro]

The future is inevitable whether we want it or not. So would you rather be left behind by picking Team Present, or will you learn to go with the times and pick Team Future?

Plus if Team Present wins, it will be a lot more likely to have the same boring concrete jungle we've had for 3 games in a row, and I personally don't want that kind of setting anymore. If Team Future future wins, we could get a really cool techno-like setting where tech is heavily involved. Plus we could get not one, but two DLC stories detailing both the past and present themes, because in the future, both already happened.

 

[banyochan]

Pearlina. I'm sorry Squid Sisters, but you belong in old single player campaigns. Deep Cut is as mid as it gets.

 

[sevenleaf]

i’m team present but if you want to buy an Official Grand Festival Tee (not from a scalper), you actively shouldn’t pick present, because the shirts are sold out on the nintendo store for present but not past or future

edit: medium through XL are sold out for past, but all sizes are in stock for future…

 

[Catloafman]

Join team past because in the splatoon world our human lifetime right now our past present and future exist in the past
also squid sisters

 

[Aiko.Octo]

Guess I'll throw in an effort for team Past since no one else has. Nevermind in the time it took to write this post someone else did, but oh well have it anyway!

The question here is "What is most important to you" and I would argue that nothing is more important than knowing and understanding our past.

Did you know that (this era's) octopuses might just be the most intelligent form of sea life; more so than we even know? They are unbelievably curious creatures, with limbs to manipulate just about anything and the ability to completely disappear into their surroundings with their color-shifting abilities. They can learn to solve problems by watching others, and have all the markers of a species that could be as capable as us, given the right circumstances. But if they're so smart and capable, why haven't they taken over all the sea and then some? Well, unfortunately they lack a key requirement: generational learning.

Unfortunately, octopus lifespans are incredibly short. A mother octopus dies around the time or shortly after her young are born; meaning that every time an octopus is born, it has to rediscover the world all over again. As incredibly capable as the brains (they have nine, a central brain and one for each arm) of an octopus are, as it comes into the world it has to learn everything from scratch, every time.

Imagine if we were like that! Imagine if every new child was born into the world with no guidance, no teachings, and just had to wander the world learning their best within a single lifetime, only for that lifetime's worth of knowledge to be completely erased as soon as they die. How would we ever move beyond the caveman days? How much progress could we make as a species if each new generation had to learn on its own how to harness and use fire, let alone more complex concepts like electricity?

Everything that we are today is built on what is done in the past. In the grand scheme of things, our lives are so short, but we can do so much more because of what has been built up in the past. We can learn even more and communicate even better because our ancestors developed writing systems as well as tried-and-true ways of teaching them to others. Each generation makes new advancements in science and technology, but additionally we celebrate the rich cultures that we have developed over hundreds of years. We pass down our stories, our songs, our values; absolutely everything that makes us who we are is founded in the past. We are only able to communicate with each other today because we are lucky enough to be a species that can teach its young, thus able to ensure that each new generation can take advantage of thousands of years of human history even within a relatively short lifespan.

Everything we do in the present we are adding to the past, thus building the story of who we are. By looking to the future, we can anticipate and plan, drawing on our past experiences and the knowledge passed onto us by others to determine what we believe to be the correct path to take or simply what we might hope for. They are all deeply interconnected and important; one could not exist without the others, and there's a strong argument to be made for all of them. But undeniably we are all chatting and playing here today because our species respected and valued the past.

One could even argue that objectively the past is most important to all of us, whether we are consciously aware of it or not.

Anyway, that's not even getting into other aspects like the more specific impacts of knowing our history, or how much our memories construct our entire sense of self, but I have to work so.... I'll end it here, hah. If you actually read all of that, thanks XD

 

[QuagSass]

you should pick past because then the squid sisters will cheer for you :)

 

[Grushi]

So after @Aiko.Octo singlehandedly destroyed team present and future, I started writing my own in depth argument for future... only to realize I'm a fraud and am secretly team present, send help. Oh and this is a very personal, heavy ramble, be warned.


I'm going deep very quickly but to be honest I've often found the past to be more of a burden than anything. Humanity has such a rich culture and history that it's kind of daunting to take in just how small we really are. In history, our lifespans feel so short, like we never truly have enough time to do it all. It also feels like a lot to live up to, most of us have such long and complex legacies inherited from our families and societies that it's hard to wrap my head around. I honestly wish I could start from a clean slate, without all this baggage. Though I also have a complex relationship with that myself.

The past is also a lot of lessons to learn, almost too many of them to possibly remember them all. We have so much history, and with every generation that passes, we're expected to learn more and more, despite all of it being... well, in the past. And I say that as someone that's been fascinated with history, but I'm getting more and more reservations on it as time goes on.

This is extremely cliché, but if we keep looking backwards, will we ever be able to move on from the past? Will there ever be a generation that won't be burdened by the knowledge of the world wars? Of all this suffering? Not to mention some of the past becomes lost, or idealized, compared to the truth. We can't preserve all of history, it feels almost futile to try, and is there much of a point now, with all the challenges that await us?

History just feels like a mountain to live up to more than anything, and it makes any of my achievements feel kind of meaningless, compared to the weight of it. I wish we could look to the future, live now, and not be as tethered to the past. I agree that there are important lessons to take from it, but I've always felt we were held back by our history, in a way.

Future's not off the hook here either. All my life I've always strived and cared for long term goals but honestly... I don't know if that's true happiness. I've always had the bad habit of planning too far ahead, of projecting far beyond anything realistic, and because of that, I never felt like I achieved anything meaningful, because it was always just a single step on a massive staircase, where the goal kept shifting further, and further.

I do care a lot about the future, but there comes a point where you care so much about the future you start neglecting yourself. I've always admired people who were able to dedicate their lives to making a better world because it takes a lot of conviction to dedicate your life to a cause that you may not see the results of.
Even in personal life, you must give up on so many 'meaningless' short term goals to instead work on long term time investments, that will only pay off in the future... and then what? I'll be 40 and I'll already feel like I reached the peak of my life, is there a point to it?

And I won't lie, the future seems kinda screwed people. We got climate change knocking at our door, and the chances of humanity going through it without any cataclysmic changes seems low, or at least very uncertain. Every time I look forward, I can't help but see this wall approaching, and it sucks. I wish it could be prevented, but the odds simply aren't in our favor. It's hard, thinking about our futures this way, planning ahead... when it could all be for nothing.


So screw this, I think living is about the present. Pearl's right, life's too short to spend it on looking at the big picture, looking too far forward, or focusing on what's already done. Our lives may seem meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but they only are if we keep comparing them to our history, past and future. I think what really matters at the end of the day is being happy in the moment, living while you can, because you never know if that will last. Go out, meet people, be unreasonable, take risks, and then when you look back on it all, you could say you've lived life to the fullest.


Sorry for the ramble, I think it's a very interesting topic, and there was a lot of heavy stuff I wanted to get off my mind.
Now whether I actually pick team present to stay true to myself or pick team future to play with friends remains to be seen lol

 

[Mp3]

choose present for a present

 

[OnePotWonder]

Team Future! Things can always get better as long as we keep moving forward.

Deep Cut deserves a chance at real character development; they have so much personality in behind-the-scenes interviews that their in-game reality is a painful heap of unused potential.

Also, we have a cool ink colour!