ctrl-f'd "scarabeet" in the code and found the list of test species chatgpt created without asking. fairly funny! well half of them are. desertlark, sandpup, ra-hound and mini-scarab aren't quite right, those are more like rpg enemy names.

i still intend to just make a fangame with real pokemon for now, but i think ill keep scarabeet, sphixling and mummat in, and maybe ra-hound, as a tribute to chatgpt for doing the heavy lifting here in terms of code. scarabeet sounds like a kriketot/volbeat mid size single stage bug to me, and i could see an evolution tree that goes sphinxling --> ra-hound --> mummat, i think you can picture sphinxling yourself, and probably ra-hound, just from the names -- at first a puppy with a sphinx type mini mane, then a slender somewhat adolescent classic middle stage with a more "pharaoh anubis" vibe, and then mummat is the adult that starts to get leathery peeling away skin from all the desert winds and stuff. i'm picturing sort of sandstorm hunters, ground type, maybe ground/dark, or maybe just mummat is ground/ghost and the others are ground...they hunt in packs by whipping up sandstorms with their howling and then blending in with the sands to nip and exhaust things until they collapse blinded by the sand. scary!

however, i will ask chatgpt what it was picturing when it made up these mons, without telling it my interpretation. curious what it will say.