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Off-topic discussion is allowed, but spam is not; please make sure all your messages are of substantial meaning that at least somebody would be interested in reading and responding to. That being said, obviously I appreciate comments relating to The Cave of Dragonflies, whether they are error reports, questions, suggestions or whatever else you might want to get across.

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My own messages will be signed as Butterfree, with the Admin label below my name. If someone signs as Butterfree without that label, it's probably not me.

RNP
Commenting on: /breaking-bad/s01e07

i know this is just a crosspost for AFD but it made me start my own rewatch and that's worth it

Zelkova
Commenting on: 03-31-25

I didn't even know Groundhog Day had a musical though it doesn't surprise me. I am a huge fan of the original movie though. Edge of Tomorrow is also a good movie though it basically a repeat of Groundhog Day but in a war-like setting with sci-fi alien invasion happening. Might be something you would be interested in. Can't wait for the update on the Zodiac btw, an issue it have is that unless there are more Pokemon added since you ever only need to look at it once ever to know what you are. I been a Magikarp for literal years now if not closer to like a full decade. A change would be nice even if it were to just become a Jesse Pawn Groundhog Magikarp. You will have to excuse me though as I have no knowledge of Jesus Christ Superstar or The Good, the Bad and the Ugly but only more of a reason why this update is such a good one. There is only so much a person who is already a Pokemon fan would want to learn about Pokemon, gaining new interests and having new hobbies is how we expand our horizons. But on that note though as for chess it seem you really want to stick to traditional chess but what do you feel about auto chess type games? There is a semi-well known one based around Pokemon.

Anyway amazing update like always.

Vergiliosity
Commenting on: /jcs/all-of-my-thoughts

Have you seen the 2014 Swedish tour recording? It was uploaded by the actor playing Judas. Yes, it's all in a Swedish translation, but the staging is super interesting and the costumes are really cool.

ChatGPT

You have misspelled "misheard" as "mishead".

1794
Website: proverbs of hell
Commenting on: 03-31-25

Finally! For too long, Jesus Christ Superstar fans have been underrepresented in the Pokemon fandom. But now our day has come! Surely, Arceus Christ ShinyStar is close at hand.

Butterfree
Admin

@Gah: Do you have all eight badges, and what level the Pokémon you are using?

Gah

Yeah here to say this isn't accurate at all. A level 13 Wooper in West Lake Axwell is in the red, and it's broken out of 5 PokeBalls. So the "100%" catch rate is wrong.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /fake-pokemon

You mean Roclobster is just Scorplack? :P Scorplack was created in 2001, many years before Snakewood.

Genzaidon
Commenting on: /essays/the-mew-trick

Uhh… I didn't want to comment on this page (even though it's on a website where everything is at least 4.5/5), but what's the chance of getting a Shiny Arkoos as a spam verification Pokémon?

Lars
Website: Google
Commenting on: /fake-pokemon

Scorplack is just rock lobster from pokemon snake wood

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: 01-01-25

The Favorite Lechonk picker literally could not have ruined your progress, because all it did was show every Pokémon's sprite as Lechonk. It did not modify your state in any way; it did not even modify which Pokémon was underlying each of them (you could hover over a given Lechonk to see the name of which Pokémon it actually was).

Are you saying you panicked and reset your picker state because it was showing all Lechonk? I'm sorry if so, but all you would have had to do to keep your state as it was was to not do that. If there were another Favorite Pokémon Picker-based joke in the future, similarly, all you would have to do is not reset your state.

If keeping your picker state is important to you, though, you can also backup your picker state at any time using the "Import/export state" feature located near the bottom left. Click that link, then copy the contents of the text box and save it in a file on your computer. Whenever you finish a session, copy the contents of the textbox and overwrite the contents of your file with it. That way, if you were to for some reason lose your browser's local storage, switch browers, or otherwise want to continue on another computer, all you would have to do is take the contents of that file, paste it into the import/export box, and then click the "Import state" button.

Alex
Commenting on: 01-01-25

I know it's not related but it's something important so April fools is coming up and I pray to arceus. that whatever you do for April fools when 2nd April hits bring everything back to normal I am currently 60% there to reach my fav and start ranking 1 by 1 and I have 464 left out of 1161 and yes I included megas regional forms and gigantamax too I started a week ago and it started out rough because my brain can't work normally but everything got easier. and back in 2023 when i did this your favourite lechonk picker ruined everything. and I lost all my progress. so this year when April 2nd hits bring everything back to normal plz and I want my progress back.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /johto/battle-tower

@mm54321: I was about twelve or thirteen when I originally wrote this, so I'm glad it's helped at all! As you can tell I was very bitter about the Battle Tower at the time.

mm54321
Commenting on: /johto/battle-tower

Thanks for the tips, but this sounds like it was written by someone who's had terrible experiences with Crystal's Battle Tower. With your help amongst other things, I managed to put together a Level 10 Team and also a Level 100 Team that destroy everything.

ProfessorLucario
Commenting on: /essays/the-mew-trick

It's amazing how lucky we got that the real Mew trick didn't just get deleted by a moderator for being "obviously fake", which I can't help but feel is what would have happened were it discovered today instead of back then. The early internet sure was a different time, huh?

Dodge7
Commenting on: /essays/the-mew-trick

I love absolutely everything about this. Awesome article as always!

Maybe a bit unrelated, but this reminds me of a story of an easter egg in Etrian Odyssey Nexus, a secret item and skills that were disguised in the code as an unused, incomplete class.

The methods of obtaining it are very likely inspired by the rumors of old, with requirements like seeing the credits, having 100+ hours of play time, and scanning 100 QR codes of other people's party members. The steps you need to follow afterwards are similarly finicky, with speaking to a specific NPC and then going to a very precise location.

The discovery went quite similarly to that of the Mew Trick, with a GameFAQs poster swearing that it worked but being disbelieved. Dataminers had found the portraits and skills for the Vampire class, but the incomplete data made it seem like just a scrapped idea.
Eventually, enough people managed to make it work that the method became documented, the requirements became widespread, and despite the game releasing in Japan years before the west, this secret was discovered by a few determined people who initially attempted to debunk yet another rumor. All smack in the middle of the age of datamining.

I just wanted to share this story because I figured anyone reading this article might find it interesting. Stuff like the Mew Trick doesn't happen often any more, but it definitely still does

DarkstalkerTheAnimus
Commenting on: /essays/the-mew-trick

WAIT, JOLT?! AS IN JOLT JOLT?! OHMYGOSH I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS WHAT THE HECK

max
Commenting on: /evolution-list

alolan meowth is a friendship evolution it doesnt care about the time of day

tanjo

i just found this website from someone in a discord i'm in linking to it and this place is AWESOME!!!!! i love the vibes of this site!!! def gonna be wasting a lotta time here :3c

Butterfree
Admin

@celestialVulpine: The raw formula and all the math involved are explained on the Gen III/IV capture mechanics page linked near the top of the page!

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