[MeechMunchie]

I'm feeling some bad vibes here, gang.

I genuinely have no interest in marching into people's art threads just to try and put them down. In fact, I've made a point of not mentioning the art itself for precisely that reason. I mean, come on, don't you think I have better things to do?

All that happened was I saw that HOMINIX, self-proclaimed Oddworld martyr and passionate, borderline creepy lore fanatic, had started an art thread. I popped in, and saw he'd drawn a Slig that contradicted official sources. "Oh dear," I thought, "that doesn't seem like something he'd do on purpose. I'd better give him a bit of info."

Imaginary HOMINIX: "What are your sources for this?"
Me: "The art book."
Imaginary HOMINIX: "OK, thanks, I'll bear this in mind in future."

I did not bargain on you trying to refute objective assessments like it was some personal assault on your interests... I suppose that was a bit naïve of me, considering that's exactly what happened last time.

I like wacky interpretations of designs. I think Sligs evolved to snuffle around in muck in lake beds, pulling bugs into their rasping, barbed sucker of a mouth - that's why their eyes are so tiny and useless, why they excel in an environment that provides them with a limitless supply of puréed meat by-products, and why they need vocalising masks to communicate with other species ("S'mo BS" is clearly a synthesised noise).

But that's just me, and I've got no problem with other people having their own ideas. If you want to draw a flock of ostrich-sligs, palms slamming into the hardened dirt as they sprint across the sun-baked savannah on the scent of warm flesh, more power to you. I'll look at it, and laugh, and only in a "that's endearingly bizarre" way.

All I wanted to do was give you some official information pertaining to your design. I thought you'd find that useful and/or interesting. Apparently I was wrong.