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yeah! that made me really happy when they said that stuff the voices are... uh.... well...i mean i know youtubers gotta do silly shit to differentiate characters but i... just. try not to t hink about it mostly ;

Yeah, Dan and I have been watching it! I also read this thread sometimes. Sup. It's fun, and I'm glad they actually (usually) seem to be enjoying it~

i was gonna go ahead and answer that here but realistically i could probably just make a whole post about it, so hang tight. partners use the same AI as opponent trainers, so anything done to opponents benefits partners as well

hey guys! as notably the most popular club on the forum, i wanted to invite you all to do some kind of event for/during the summer social! i don't know if there's anything you guys had talked about for that, but maybe it could be like a wonder trade event or offering requests for users or some other kind of egg swap like at the winter party? if anyone is interested, let's see what we can make happen for the event! i'd really like to get some various clubs in on it and it would be great for this place to represent too!

the Gen 3 style graphics are likely popular with fangames just cuz that's what's natively included with Pokemon Essentials I tend to appreciate the newest game's improved graphics a lot because the full 3d models of each Pokemon open doors for them to do a lot more with them. But more importantly, when I was a wee tyke and Pokemon Red and Blue was the hottest new thing, I really wanted some kind of fully immersive 3d Pokemon game. That sort of thing was impossibly far off from the 4-bit era of red and blue where colours didnt even exist yet, but now we're always getting closer and closer and that makes me pretty happy. As far as more traditional graphics go, I felt that PMD2 was pretty crisp. One thing I'm surprised by is that gen 4 is leading right now because I pretty distinctly dislike their graphical style. the pseudo-3d thing just makes everything look rough, the colours are bland, and almost everything looks like jelly or some kind of rounded down toy model set. These are very impression-based opinions... I'm sure that's far from actually the case, but that's the feeling I've always had of it. For fangames in particular it's awkward too because the changing 3d perspective makes it difficult to properly/cleanly rip graphics from it... 1x is great and all but at the point that you have to clean everything up like that, just make a custom 1x tileset imo.

In a city like Reborn... crime never sleeps. And so can't we. It was a one of those summer nights when the sun set and forgot to take its swelter on with it. We was stewin' in the Main st office and the boys was all pinchin' their bridges tryna stamp out the stench of squalor that wafted up to badger us as if we coulda done something about it. I was consultin' the local desk fan when this broad strolls up to my desk, slams a fistful of documents down onto it, and looks me dead in the eyes. She says, "We need a lifetime warning point cap on Reborn." I look up. Her eyes is something fierce. Heavy. The lady means business. I didn't wanna give her none. I roll my cigar 'tween my finger tips and let dip into the ashtray. And you know what I said? I said That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. But nowadays, I look back on that night, when I couldn't tell which was stuffier-- the air or that dame. And I think, Damn, Reborn could really use a lifetime warning point cap. -- This is another post about the community's health and discipline. If that's not interesting to you, skip to the end for the TL;DR. When I talk about a "Lifetime warning point cap," what I mean is a significant change from the current warning/consequence system where warnings can count to a ban no matter how old they are. Right now, a user gets banned from the community if they reach 10 Warning Points at once. This has been a staple since the system was introduced. However, as any of you who have gotten a warning probably know, warning points fall off after a certain amount of time. This was a part of the system that was designed to let those users who would learn from their past mistakes and warnings fully recover from them provided they were on good behavior for such and such time. While this is a very forgiving system and I stand by its benefits, the truth is that unfortunately not every user is responsive to change or guidance, and the current warning structure is pretty notably inefficient at dealing with those cases. For people who's behavior does not improve, we tend to see one of two things happening: The user acquires some warning points but then leaves for an extended period of time on their own, coming back months later after the points have expired only to repeat the same thing The user hits the 7 WP threshold where they are mute and post-moderated for an extended period of time, but this inability to publicly comment prevents them from ever acquiring the last few points it would take for them to get banned, meaning the behavior repeats once the mute time (and thereby previous points) wear off. That second point in particular means that in most situations, unless a user is either a dickwad in DMs, or does enough dickly things in a short enough period of time that they jump straight from 6-10, it's almost theoretically impossible for a user to be banned under the current system. Indeed, the number of users who have ever reached 10 points to be banned can probably be counted on one's fingers. We've been going back and forth on the point of what to do about the effective inability to ban users for some time now. It's not that we have any particular desire to go off banning folks, but being able to do so at least in practical theory is a useful tool for us to keep the community tidy and kind. One of the solutions we have continually arrived at has been a rule that if a person acquires a certain number of points, expired or not, throughout their lifetime on Reborn, then they could be banned. This would mean that even if somebody is away or muted for long enough that all of their points fall off, we would still have a way to hold them accountable. For a long time I, and some others were against this kind of system because it put those who made positive changes to their behavior in some kind of jeopardy, or otherwise discouraged making those changes. However, after updating to a more stringent mute policy earlier this year, I've been really encouraged by the positive effects I've seen in the community following them, and I wanted to take action to make sure that these positive changes could last. So, the change is basically this: Whereas a user currently needs 10 active warning points to be banned, in the future a user will need to have gotten 10 non-etiquette warning points at any time in their account's history in order to be banned. Now I'll talk about that "non-etiquette" distinction. Most of the warnings we give out are just etiquette violations. That includes stuff like double posting, posting in the wrong section, off-topic posting, etc. This is normal keep-the-forum-organized stuff that most people, especially those not used to forums, sometimes forget. We aren't tryna hammer anyone for those, and we're also not trying to be too heavy-handed as a community. So, effective as of this post, all normal etiquette warnings have been changed to 0 points*. Further, past and future etiquette warnings will not contribute to the lifetime cap. In other words, you can't get banned for double posting or whatever. * The repeat offense variations, for after someone has already been asked to mind their posts and questions, do still have a 1 point value attached to it as previous. This means you can still get muted if you continue to do things like bump threads a lot or post irrelevant things in topics. However, even the repeat offense warnings don't contribute to the lifetime cap-- that is solely for temporary consequences. In other words, the only things that will contribute to the lifetime cap are things that fall in the realm of actually disrespecting others others or compromising the site's integrity as a community. For a full list of which warnings count as etiquette or otherwise, please see this updated warning list thread. For those of you with pasts more rocky than you might prefer, you might be wondering if you'll suddenly be banned because of how many warnings you have in the past. The answer is a solid no. This lifetime warning policy is manually considered, and we will only consider the total lifetime volume of warnings when an individual acquires a new non-etiquette warning point (also effective after this post.) This means that even if you have like, 83 old expired points right now, if you never get another one, then you're fine. please don't get another one. In the end, this change is only likely to expect a small handful of users, but I hope that it enables us to keep this a friendly and welcoming community far into the future. -- TL;DR: Users are now banned when reaching 10 lifetime non-etiquette warning points instead of 10 current warning points Etiquette warnings have been disarmed to 0 points No accounts will be considered for bans regardless of how many points they have, until another warning is received after this post. Thanks for listening. I always hope everyone can stay around for a long time and enjoy the site!

what is this vitriol mega ray and hoopa aren't in any wild encounters, unlike mew, and even if they were, like, the dude found a cool thing, let him be excited !!! still a no though one has to cheat to see mew in their dex in the first place

it knows what it did that summer. ripped out my heart and stepped on it i gave it everything and it gave me nothing and sought me out to stamp its stubby misery right in my face so now two play at that game.

i refuse.

i summon saiya, in face up attack mode.

this very well may be the single worst thing i have ever had the dishonour of seeing posted on this, or any other site. the moment you clicked "submit reply," 51% shigeru miyamoto's capillaries committed spontaneous mass suicide gamefreak co's stock plummeted in what can only be assumed to be a dramatic interpretation of the US' 2008 financial recession somewhere, somehow, a 101% accuracy attack missed a target with -6 evasion. a budew, i'd wager. of all the horrors the internet has ever known, this, above rick astley and the plague of loss memes, above the likes of meatspin and lemon party, and certainly above the cthulian intranet mind control regime of 872 who's existence has been so thoroughly erased from history books that most humans don't believe such technology even existed back then despite the incident having resulted in the complete destruction of several world powers such as atlantis, lemuria and xanadu and the complete alteration of the human body to suddenly need to defecate in additional to the already miserable curse of urination, this is the worst thing that has ever happened. please rethink your life choices.

was totally going to make a thread like this after a certain talk today and then i come and find sirius beat me to it, what is this psychicism, smh........ well, mine has to be that i really like being touched by others, like even just casually or platonically. it kind of sounds weird to say it or dwell on it, but after not really interacting with anyone IRL for so long, it just feels nice. often when it happens i just freeze up cuz i don't want it to stop but i also don't want to show i like it cuz lol that would be a little ;;; and i also always try to respect personal space so it's not something that would happen much anyway well at least not until past couple months, but still. enduring pattern.

hi welcome back jerbear!!!!!!! it's good to see you again for a few days!!!!!! oh hey super neat, i was trying out intermittent fasting like a year or two a ago and it was neat! i had been reconsidering it earlier today in fact, do you think it's made a noticeable difference for you? i only got away from it because i accepted that schedules are satan and i ain' about that time-sensitive lyfe

set both to be safe the reason that happened is actually because of a bug resetting those variables from dismounting tauros's's's so it's still being set right at the start... it just gets overwritten

i'm not dead on the outside

can totally still add anything like that but i think more people than not were happy to see wynaut go

me too dude @ eric text formatting button is restored, just had to remove other stuff to fit it again, wasn't actually sure how used it was but good to know now

not sure-- that might be core functionality but i'll fish around in case there's an option to check when i stop being bad ;~; (let's say look for it around monday-- p busy until then)

Whats UP LADIES GENTZ AND EXTRATERRESTRIAL ALIENS we have EMOJIS on the forum now and if you dont think that i'm gonna spam these emojis at every chance i get then honey you've got a big storm comin' let's have a run down of the new features on the orum-- moji 4ever the search feature has been upgraded to not suck like before! i haven't fully explored the details yet but see for yourselves! reports can now be automatically hidden band together to defeat those nasty bots !!! but a brand new invisible captcha should make it so there's even fewer of those bots than ever before in the first place :ok_hand: announcements can now be dismissed at any time with a single click tell me to shut up apparently only 75 emoji are allowed in a post. i suppose i have been told to shut up. that's no fun. i'll see if i can fix that later. the forums have a new option to filter by tags. i don't really know why we didn't have this in the first place, but, you know, now we do. member cover photos can now be clicked on to see the full image twitch.tv now has embed support okay! please emote responsibly and enjoy the new update! hopefully some other things are looking more stable as well, but only time can tell~ :clock12: :open_mouth: :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: