Ask the Staff!

[General Hux]

To tess
Can you use Photoshop in Chickensmoothie art? this is for my brother

[Tess]

To:Tess
I don't really want to ask a question. I just want to say thank you for making such an amazing site, and thank you for having the patience to deal with so many things. I could never do that, which makes you all the more awesome for being able to!

Thank you very much! I couldn't do any of it without the help of our various staff and helpers

To tess
Can you use Photoshop in Chickensmoothie art? this is for my brother

Does he want to share his photoshop art on Chicken Smoothie? You can share art made in any program on our forum art boards like those in the Creativity section or Art Shops. The only place they can't really be posted is in the oekaki boards, since that is for art made using the oekaki software.

If you were asking about how Chicken Smoothie images were made, most of them were made in Photoshop

To- Tess

Is Totoro really your pet bird in Real Life? If so, she is really pretty!

Totoro was my real life pet years ago, but unfortunately I had to give her to a new owner when I moved overseas a few years back. She now lives with 3 other cockatiels and I think she's a mother too. I miss her very much, but at least I can still enjoy having her as a CS mascot character

To Anyone:

How old, exactly or approximately, is Totoro?

Our CS Mascot Totoro is ageless but in real life Totoro is approximately 7-8 years old now, which is still fairly young for a cockatiel. She could live to be around 15-20.

[Lillybear]

To Tess:

Do you still keep in touch with Totoro's new owner? If so, how's she doing?

Thank you for all you do! ♥

[arabella !!]

To: Anybody

Do you like to roleplay? If so, what is your favourite topic to roleplay about?

[Konata.]

Wow omg just reading these answers are really getting me to know the staff XD I thought totoro was a staff, I didn't know she/he was the actual bird on the Easter page !

Another question for Tess, because it seems so cool to have a chance to see Tess on this thread and answering questions : )

When people get banned for cheating by making another account to get more tokens or pets, do you guys actually show them that picture at the bottom of the Easter page? If so, that's hilarious!

Haha, this question is a bit weird but that's what I get for being too curious!

[acatalepsy]

To: anyone

What's the latest you've stayed up playing/helping with/maintaining ChickenSmoothie? Or, how many hours have you stayed awake due to pulling an all-nighter on ChickenSmoothie?

[raey]

To: Anybody
Do you like to roleplay? If so, what is your favourite topic to roleplay about?

Uh yes, I really, really love to roleplay <333
My favourite topics are everything fantasy related. Add a spark of magic and I am in.
I really love the mixture of historical with fantasy too xD
that's why we'd make a perfect married couple c;

To Anyone:
How did you think of your CS username, is it a reference, OC name or just a creative word? cx

My user name is partially my nickname which is Rea.
But a) this name was already taken and b) I wanted something a bit ...cooler and so I happened to play around with it and ended up with raey - and I am really happy with it

To Anyone:
Omelet or Pancake?
Tea or Coffee?

Definitely tea. I could drink tea the whole day xD
And pancakes over omelets too...even though I have to admit I like the German version more than the US pancakes xD

To: Any lovelies out there!

If you add up all your pets from each group, how many do you have in total? try not to use a calculater

totally did all the calculating in my brain because I am so super good at maths....not.....
...it's 7592 pets

[raey]

@ Pandle: I love you too lil' cinnamon bun <3333
and because...you know...pillow fights *wink wink*

[Tess]

To: anyone

What's the latest you've stayed up playing/helping with/maintaining ChickenSmoothie? Or, how many hours have you stayed awake due to pulling an all-nighter on ChickenSmoothie?

Me and Nick have frequently stayed up to about 4am the night before a new feature or event begins on CS... but I'm not really able to do late nights anymore because of my living situation so I've gotten a bit better about managing my time

Wow omg just reading these answers are really getting me to know the staff XD I thought totoro was a staff, I didn't know she/he was the actual bird on the Easter page !

Another question for Tess, because it seems so cool to have a chance to see Tess on this thread and answering questions : )

When people get banned for cheating by making another account to get more tokens or pets, do you guys actually show them that picture at the bottom of the Easter page? If so, that's hilarious!

Haha that would be extra cruel I think... we usually just ban people with a short message explaining why/what rule(s) were broken. But sometimes stuff like that gets pointed out when banned players contact us to complain about being banned... we used to have another comic like that one in the forum reminder

We'd really prefer that we didn't have to ban anyone ever, we just want people to play fair and not ruin the enjoyment for others.

To Tess:

Do you still keep in touch with Totoro's new owner? If so, how's she doing?

Thank you for all you do! ♥

I tried to keep in touch with the new owners for a while, but they don't really use the internet so it was pretty slow getting updates. I haven't heard from them for a while now. I tried to show them Totoro's stardom on Chicken Smoothie but I don't think they really 'got it'
I had Totoro and one other female cockatiel named Ponyo and they both went to a new family who had 2 male cockatiels. They have an indoor aviary set up in their home so there's heaps of room for them to fly around together as a flock. Totoro was really happy with that arrangement because she always wanted a boyfriend! She used to think I was her mate and would lay unfertilized eggs all the time and sit on them like they were going to magically hatch Tess-Totoro babies (but they couldn't hatch because she had no real mate). Ponyo was hand-reared and never really thought of herself as a bird, so she didn't really care about the other birds but she was a great pet for the family's children. I'm sure they're doing very well with their new family

[Lincoln]

Tess:

Do you watch YouTube? Who's your Idol? (On YouTube or on something else...)