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Hey there, this is Maecenas, the awesome fellow who's posted once or twice here in the past. This is a bit out of nowhere, but I have a few bits of in-game humor for your excellent section on it if you're still accepting them. I would've E-mailed, but it's my policy to only e-mail people I know personally, no offense meant. If I'm breaking some sort of rule by putting these here I apologize, go ahead and proclaim "Maecenas is an idiot" from the mountain peaks.
Anyways, the in-game humor: Whenever I run across something funny in a Pokemon game, I tend to think, "Man, I should submit that to TCOD one of these days," and I've finally gotten around to it. Consider it a Christmas present…
1. In the ONBS building in Pokemon XD, there's a bookshelf behind the staircase to the top floor (it's the one with an old man standing near it.) Examining the bookshelf will lead to the message, "There's a book entitled 'Survival in the Paperless Era.'"
The irony is priceless.
2. A good many of the Black Belts in Diamond, Pearl and Platinum have amusing things to say, most often poking fun at American perceptions of karate guys. My personal favorite is the one midway through Victory Road who tells you after you beat him, "I've gotten this far in life using the karate I learned on the Internet!"
3. In the Battle Tower (and probably the other facilities as well) there's a Collector who tells you "I put this team together with my Internet buddies. It took us all day!"
If you ask me, that's a reference to ShoddyBattle users and other Pokemon fans who turn to the Internet to create ideal teams in mere minutes.
4. In Platinum, I always liked your rival's line at Lake Verity: "Hey, we don't have any Pokeballs! You know, P-O-K-accent-E balls!" Finally the series gets around to referencing that crazy accent that's caused so many pronunciation train wrecks over the years…
5. A Black Belt in Maylene's Gym will say after losing, "I lost because I didn't eat enough pizza.
…no, anything I say will sound like I'm making excuses."
As I recall, Maylene also says something about being hungry, which makes me wonder about the Veilstone Gym's training regimen…
Well, that's all for now. Sorry again if I wasn't supposed to do this, and I hope you can use some of these!
Maecenas out.
Oh, and "Curse" was well-written but morbid, just like usual. At least you're consistent!
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Lookie lookie i got a latios
This is the most complicated thing I have seen in my entire life.
Gotta guess 'em all
Children are the real villains.
Cute and nice website! :3
I came here to read your HTML thingie and ended up engaged with other posts of yours.
According to The Forbidden Leaks(TM), Gibble was what they initially wanted to name it. It was rejected by legal, for whatever reason
This is easy
Very helpful calculator. Although knowing the odds can be more painful—I didn't catch a parasect after a full 30 safari balls (<1.3% odds by my working).
Aww, thank you! I'm always delighted when people who used to visit when they were kids come back and are psyched to see the site is still here and active.
Aww, thank you for a lovely comment <3 Always thrilled to hear I've helped motivate other people to create their own websites!
hi, Dragonfree! i just wanted to say thank you for your hard work.
i've been visiting TCOD for a long time - a poor-memory guesstimate puts my first visit sometime around 2006, though there's a very good chance i could have spied it earlier while roaming Pokémon websites.
reading the history tells me it was exactly the labour of love i always sensed it was, right down to the bare bones. you set out to make a website YOU would have loved to visit, and built so much on top that it kept me coming back and exploring different parts of the site for all sorts of completely unrelated reasons - creative inspiration from your art and writing, fun and silliness when i had loose time, to educate myself on game mechanics and trivia, to use the resources you set up, and… motivation to keep learning basic website building in my free time, because i got (and still get) the exact same feeling from TCOD as you did from Mew's Hangout back in the day.
i'm a big silly grown-up now, and even now when i'm roaming the internet or discussing Pokémon with friends, The Cave of Dragonflies is like a monument on a hill i can point to and say "oh, we should visit! let me show you!"
your dedication to crafting something that works as both a well-formed utility and an earnest, creative showcase is inspiring.
i think there must be hundreds of people just like me who feel this way about TCOD - i hope you already know that by now, and i'm definitely not the first to say it - but reading the Site History earlier made me realise i feel like a little part of its history, too. and i don't know if i've ever said so! so, here's one. cheers for everything.
OK, sappy comment over. roll credits. thank you Dragonfree! keep well!
oh btw i was doing the joke alola one, forgot to say xD
i got day of the trial guide, reign of acerola!! (best trial captain tbh. acerola ftw!!)
I just have to say how awesome it is that this site is still up. I used to spend hours browsing it when I was like, 10. I'm almost 30 now. Randomly remembered it existed and had to see if it was still up - so glad to find that it is!
The Beldum line has a catch rate of 3, like legendaries; you'll see the same thing for other Pokémon with that catch rate. The reason the capture chance doesn't improve with Great or Safari Ball is how the formula is rounded down at every step, as explained on the capture mechanics page; at full health, the final capture rate X is equal to C * B / 3, which works out to 1 regardless of whether B is 1 or 1.5. (If you lower Beldum's HP a bit, on the other hand, the Great Ball boost will be enough to make it better than a Poké Ball.)
I think the percentages are off for Beldum, Metang, and Metagross. Changing the ball to Great Ball or Safari Ball doesn't appear to alter the catch percentage. I believe these should increase the percentage, due to the 1.5x ball bonus. I see this bonus reflected with other Pokémon, but not with these three.
I don’t know what I expected but this was certainly not it
No weaknesses, 1090 BST.
Yoooooo sick I got the ultra beasts, my favorite Pokemon group!
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