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Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.

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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Butterfree
Admin

GSDS/Typhloise: I have a field of expertise; it is rather broad and vague, but news are explicitly not included for some very simple, factual reasons: I have no connections in Japan. I do not know Japanese. I am not interested enough in most of the news to actually bother to write articles about them. Saying I am incapable of running a decent news site is not modesty or self-deprecation; it is simple fact.



It is also not about me feeling somehow inadequate compared to the big sites. The point is that I am not competing with Serebii or PokéBeach, or any other site for that matter, to begin with. I have a website so that I can have the things that I want to have on it. Sometimes I feel there is something other sites are lacking that I think there is need for on the Internet, so I do it myself. Other times I just want to ramble on about something I find interesting, so I do that. I have no interest in trying to make people visit my site instead of somebody else's. I just want to make my content and let those who are interested in it read it. Why must everything be about competition? Come to my site if you think my site has what you're looking for. If you think PokéBeach is a better source of news than the Cave of Speculative Theories (which you really should), then for Christ's sake just go to PokéBeach when you want news! I am not interested in just trying to provide everything that they provide so that people will visit my site instead of theirs.



I have things that they don't have; they have things that I don't have. People can come to my site for the things I have that they don't, and people can go to their sites for the things that they have that I don't. I am perfectly happy with that state of affairs.



The "spammifier" (though that's a word invented by guestbookgoers) is there to prevent bots from posting automatic advertisements. Since a bot has no idea what the displayed Pokémon is or even that you're supposed to be typing the name of a Pokémon to begin with, it will not be able to post.



KyuuFox: …uh, that's not going to happen? Why in the world would they do that? You might as well say, "What if in next month's CoroCoro they have a huge picture of a Cherubi with an eraser on its head saying 'HIIII'?" o_O I mean, it's technically valid speculation, but why would anybody take the possibility seriously?

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Messages

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.

b4tatamc

i got reign of meloetta,kinda cool

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Thedudeig

A base catch rate of 3 is equal to a legendary, so you could substitute a legendary in the calculator for that.

Alex Kirkwood

nice crobat is a cool pokemon

Thedudeig

Where are some glitch pokemon that have a corrupted catch rate? Like 'M, with a base catch rate of 3?

colliezip

day of typhlosion and reign of victini :3

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: Honey Trees
In response to: post by lolipop3000

That one's mostly just my personal playstyle showing, haha - I never run from battles so it rarely even occurs to me!

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Bryn

Considering the bunch of updates to my Pokémon website since she was born including featured sections on every page, a bunch of technical upgrades and tinkering, an April Fools' Day joke, several days in a row of Favorite Pokémon Picker stuff and a game mechanics geekery article involving assembly analysis, I would say I've had some time for my hobbies :P Other things I've been doing include 100%ing Legends: Z-A, playing various other games and watching some shows, a bunch of programming for my friends' intricate forum RPG, and working on an Ace Attorney fanfic.

Kids do cost money, but we didn't go for it until we were in a pretty good financial situation, so all in all we're not feeling the expenses too much.

Being a parent of an infant is overall a lot like being a pet owner except the pet can smile and laugh and tries to imitate and communicate with you a lot more. You still need to deal with them pooping and being a bit gross and needy but overall Caterpie is pretty charming and easy to deal with and in a good mood 95% of the time which is a lot better than I anticipated.

lolipop3000
Commenting on: Honey Trees

You mention to bring a high level Pokemon with lots of PP to move through the trees quickly. But can't I just run away from encounters I don't want? I've been doing two laps - one to encounter at every tree and another to reslather. If I'm running from every encounter, does that put me into the same column? Thanks so much for all of your hard work on this!

Bryn

How is being a parent? Do you still have free time for hobbies? And is it expensive?

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Bryn

Caterpie is doing well! She is ten months old and starting to learn to walk. We don't have much in the way of plans for her future; it depends what she turns out to be interested in and what she wants to do.

Bryn

How's Caterpee doing. Any plans for her in the future?

Félix Bunny
Commenting on: The Style Switcher

Eu quero ver meu pokémon favorito

peter
Commenting on: Sutoraiku High

this is so wonderful and fun

Pixel

I got Flygon, Pretty Cool imo

zowayix

Nice, I've always wanted to know how this part of the Pokewalker worked behind the scenes.

Altissimo
Website: Altissimo's Site
Commenting on: 07-07-26

Thanks again! It looks great!

sylvi

hello! I’ve never signed a guestbook onnansite before. But the idea is cool to me. I like this website a lot and I thank you for creating it. I discovered it through the “catch rate calculator” and I just finished the “found favorites” activity. In short, my favorite pokemon is Gengar! Thank you for having me 💜

67

Mine was a freaking monkey!!!

kethun

amo pokemon especcialmente o greninja e o septile

♥ Melcharge ♥
Commenting on: Gold or Silver?

This page makes me so nostalgic. It's almost entirely unchanged since I first read it twenty-two years ago, and I love that. It really takes me back, and I remember liking that you preferred Gold since that was the one I liked better (though I used to have both). RIP to my original Gold save that was deleted by Stadium 2 and the terrible, evil, glitchy Transfer Pak in 2003. May my friends Lanturn, Pikachu, and Typhlosion never be forgotten.

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