Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 08-05-21

Thanks for the corrections. I simply disagree with your quibbles with the major/minor designations, though. The point of designating some form changes as major and others as minor is to let people pick between forms that they like more than others, without wasting their time making them sort through dozens of forms that aren't actually different enough for an average person to meaningfully like one but not another.

Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist's forms, for example, literally look identical; I have a very hard time imagining that there exist many people in the world who could meaningfully say that Super Pumpkaboo is one of their favorite Pokémon but Small Pumpkaboo isn't. Given this, making people rank five different sizes of Pumpkaboo as if they should really care is just wasting their time!

On a similar basis, I don't think I've ever seen anyone say that they like specifically Red Flower Florges but not Yellow Flower Florges, or Flying Arceus but not Bug Arceus. These aren't fundamental aesthetic changes to the Pokémon that would alter whether the Pokémon is appealing; they're just tweaks. Maybe you prefer Red Flower Florges over Yellow Flower Florges, but is there a Pokémon X where you distinctly like Red Flower Florges more than X but Yellow Flower Florges less than X? If not, then it's pointless to make you rank all the colors separately.

I'm sure there might exist people who just despise anything that's yellow and therefore hate Yellow Flower Florges specifically, or whatever - but I expect they're a vast minority compared to the people to whom ranking those partial color changes as separate Pokémon would just be a pointless annoyance.

[15/08/2021 10:16:18]

Jack-o'-ween
Commenting on: 08-05-21

Hi, thanks for separate forms of Pokémon. But I want to say the mistakes that I found.

The form of Unbound Hoopa is in the "other battle transformations", and this form not happen in battle, is out of battle. Should be "other alternative forms".

The forms of Florges and his evolutive family appears when the mark "major forms only" isn't cheked. Looking their forms with notable different colors, I think their forms have major differences.

The forms of Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist have the same case, only if the mark "only forms major" is uncheked. These forms have changes in their stats, so these forms have major differences.

The form of Ultra-Necrozma should be a "other battle transformation", it show when the mark "other alternative forms" is cheked, but this form only changes in battle.

The forms of Silvally and Arceus show with the mark "only forms major" is uncheked. They are a major differences, I think.

And the Fairy Arceus is not introduced in the 4th generation, it was in the 6th generation, when the pixie plate was introduced.

Is ok Zygarde 10% in "other alternative forms", but Zygarde Complete should be in "other battle transformations".

Male Indeedee show in normal an psyquic types and is ok, but female forms only show in psyquic type. Both are psyquic/normal type.

This is all that I want to comunicate.

[15/08/2021 09:11:19]

NOOT

It's the DAY OF MAROWAK BABEE!

I'm so happy to see this place still exists where so many others are gone.

Keep up the mood memories!

[14/08/2021 23:46:42]

five
Website: 5amgf

I really love your website! Though I started off by taking your quizzes, I spent the last few days reading your webmaster guides and enjoying them a lot. Hopefully I'll be able to implement your advice. After all, it's universally helpful, even for someone outside of the Pokemon fansite community like me. Either way, I'm really glad that The Cave of Dragonflies exists. It just exudes exactness and positivity.

[12/08/2021 08:12:16]

Galarian Champion Lillie

This is one of my favorite websites, and the fact that you made it when you were about my age is so neat!

[27/07/2021 17:11:18]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 10-12-14

You've got an extra {" in there, just before "id": "62", while a {" is missing just before id": "130". If you fix that, it's valid.

[22/07/2021 17:13:18]

Seamus T McCarthy
Website: Dragonfly Cave
Commenting on: 10-12-14

Why doesn't this import state I made valid?

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[22/07/2021 16:40:40]

G

Never would I have thought a random pokemon website I visited as a kid would be useful to me. I remember reading your webmasters section and wanting to learn html. Now I am actually making my first website, and I wanted to express my gratitude. I'm so glad to see this place still thriving.

[20/07/2021 10:34:34]

follow oil_draws on insta

I took your steel-type quiz and the last question was dumb as hell. Other questions were cool tho. Thanks for making a quiz that makes me look infinitely more smart and also cool than my sister who is dumby.

[28/06/2021 14:10:04]

Caelum

Wait, sorry for double post, I forgot to include this in the last post. I'm a pixel artist by profession right now (that makes it sound so professional, I just mean I do commissions and things for income) and for spriting, I use a tool called Aseprite. It's a bit expensive (10-15 dollars, last I checked), but it's a really good tool. It's made for pixel art, I believe it's open source, and overall it's very good. Thanks again for this site

[31/05/2021 15:12:01]

Caelum

Hey lads! I just found this site and honestly, it's one of those sites that makes Pokemon feel fun again. Pokemon's always been a huge part of my life, so I wanna say thanks. Peace out!

[31/05/2021 15:08:01]

Treacle

Thank you so much for running this site for so long. It sounds silly but I've been coming here for about 18 years now and it just feels like home. It's so nice to have a classic fansite to come back to in an era where they're so few and far between. Keep up the good work!

[10/05/2021 07:54:16]

Prim

Do you have any plans on updating the random sprite generator?

[08/05/2021 15:35:23]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

The Japanese word used is "shinka" which as I understand it is pretty much equivalent to the word "evolution", i.e. can refer to biological evolution or to progress.

[28/04/2021 22:35:24]

15

Was Pokémon "evolution" an error in translation from the Japanese term, or did the Japanese term also refer to its equivalent of evolution?

[28/04/2021 13:30:53]

SS
Commenting on: 04-02-21

“so that Pokemon other than Scyther can be your favorite” But, I don’t understand… why would we need that feature, isn’t everyone’s favorite Pokemon Scyther? XD

[05/04/2021 13:09:53]

qenya
Commenting on: 04-02-21

Holy shit, has it really been a full 10 years since the first Morphic April Fools joke? I feel old now.

[03/04/2021 11:39:23]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 03-31-21

I actually intentionally left the names when you hover so that if you wanted to use the picker for real on April 1st you could.

Opting out of the joke altogether would unfortunately be no fun, as it would require the page to acknowledge it's a joke. It was just for one day anyway!

[03/04/2021 11:28:07]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

@15: It was an April Fools' Day joke. What changed was the picker header said "Hey, your favorite Pokémon is scyther, Whats yours?" and every image was shown as a Scyther.

[03/04/2021 11:05:42]

15

What was changed in the FPP update? The interface and stuff look very similar. Is it a minor bug fix?

[02/04/2021 16:46:48]