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You're really desperate to be uncovering some kind of a grand conspiracy.
The fact is that most people are good people and most things people do are done in good faith. People love to attribute things other people do that they don't like to those people's fundamentally bad nature; it's a known psychological principle called the fundamental attribution error. But in reality, they usually believe they're doing the right thing, just as much as you believe you're doing the right thing.
My mods are not bad people. Can they make poor decisions, act rashly, take out a bad mood on innocent members? Of course. That happens to everyone. People have bad days. People misunderstand things. People just plain make poor judgements sometimes. But they are not systematically evil or oppressive. I've made poor judgements, too. Yeah, I let Furret in after he'd abused far too many chances. Why? Because I liked him, I knew he could be a perfectly nice member when he put his mind to it, and I really wanted to believe he was sincere when he said this time he wasn't going to end up making trouble. Naïve? Sure. Poor judgement. Yeah, probably. Corrupt? Really?
I don't know where you're getting the idea that the members in general feel the mods in general are abusive. I received complaints about one mod a while ago (and subsequently tried to keep an eye on them), and one member left the other day because she thought a mod's post in a debate was rude towards her (which it wasn't to any particular degree; somewhat condescending and irritating in tone, perhaps, but not inflammatory and clearly less so than many other debating posts), but that's it. And seeing as you've given ample evidence for the fact you haven't even been a member of the forums in years, I can't help feeling generally skeptical that you actually have any idea what is going on at the forums right now; I suspect you're just basing this on some nebulous feeling that if you haven't been on a forum in some time, everything must still be the same as when you left. Things change. People change, especially teenagers. And people generally just aren't evil and out to get you.
Incidentally, the name Helen has no significance to me and has just been making you sound silly; if this is yet another thing that has something to do with something that happened in 2005, I've forgotten and whatever it is you're trying to do with it isn't working. And as far as I can remember, Nidokingu left on his own. My memory may be fuzzy on it because he left at least twice; the first time he definitely just deleted his account and then whined about getting re-admined when he came back. Maybe I did de-admin him when we broke up, what with having only admined him in the first place because he insisted he had some God-given right to be an admin because he was my boyfriend. I don't remember, I don't really want to remember because that was a pretty screwed-up time in my life, and it doesn't matter because like I said, there is no reason members should care if I de-admin somebody - even less reason than to care whether I admin somebody.
Also, I don't have a "modding system". Yet again, you keep acting like I have some special, unusual "system" in place for modding people, when I just don't. Some years ago we modded upstanding regulars as a kind of prize for being upstanding regulars even though we didn't really need mods, but again, that was years ago and since then about three people have been modded.
As for the limiting freedom of speech thing: First of all, you can't see infractions, so you have no basis for claiming X got an infraction but Y didn't. And second of all, we make a distinction between attacking a person and attacking an argument, which may be what's confusing you - "That statement is stupid" is not equal to "You're stupid". If you have actual specific examples where a mod clearly flames a member, point it out; don't just stand there going "this happens all the time, really!" with nothing to back it up. Maybe something really did slip under the radar and I'd be glad to hear about it.
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I won't particularly miss it. I don't always watch Eurovision, haven't watched it for the past couple of years, and honestly I'm mostly relieved. I do hope one day it will be possible again for Eurovision to be a joyful and apolitical event that's just about a mixture of cool and bad and deeply silly musical performances, but that time is clearly not now.
It would be cool if Iceland won sometime, so long as it was one of those times I actually like Iceland's song. We would figure out hosting it afterwards.
Will you miss seeing Iceland compete are Eurovision next year? Also, do you want to see Iceland win it ever, or would you be worried about the cost of hosting it?
Because a few people have now commented hopefully that they got a shiny verification Pokémon when it wasn't, I've now made it so that actual shinies will glow in the verification form, not just on the post after you make it. Hopefully that makes you more likely to notice if you do get a shiny, and less likely to think it's a shiny when it's just the Home render being a little funky.
This lil guy could be a shiny? His lil shrooms are pretty darn pink lol
I love what your doing this is all like a dream come true
Your site always brings me joy. I am an ancient Pokemon fan and Butterfree has always been my favorite ever since I played Blue for the first time in 1998. When I get sent a link and see the Butterfree I smile!!
and 73 great balls later i caught the 1hp heatran!
I luv this site
I never actually completed one, unfortunately! I should get around to that sometime; there wouldn't be that much to it. The biggest thing it would get into is to sort of consider the individual segments of the outline and broadly try to transition from segments of all black (outline shadow) to segments of mostly black but a pixel of outline base color on the inside of the outline to segments of the outline base color only to segments of the outline base color with a pixel of outline highlight color on the inside to potentially a segment or two of the outline highlight color.
I only just stumbled on this goldmine. I have 0 artistic experience but have started spriting for fun, and I actually have been doing pixel-overs thinking I was cheating lol. So happy to know it's a known accepted strategy and there's so many things here for me to try now.
Was there ever a detailed outling-shading guide made? It's something I struggle with the most. Thanks!
That doesn't appear to have been a shiny, unfortunately! Sometimes I do a double-take too but the Home renders are just like that sometimes, I think.
A majority of Icelanders want to boycott, me included.
I did see the film; it was actually extremely popular in Iceland, despite being a very inaccurate depiction of Iceland for the most part. The worries that having to host Eurovision would bankrupt Iceland are one of the more accurate bits, though. We could proooobably make it work, but it would have to involve, like, converting an old aircraft hangar into a temporary stadium, and really trying to fleece the tourists.
How do you feel about Iceland potentially boycotting Eurovision next year? If they do how will Icelanders likely react to this news?
Speaking of Eurovision, if Iceland ever won it would they be able to host it? (There was a film about Eurovision and Iceland (not sure if you've seen it) and they said it would bankrupt the country) Would it likely bankrupt Iceland?
I'm just commenting because I think I got a shiny and almost didn't notice.
This is even the old odds, I'm always playing pokémon and I never find one, and now I find one in a website? Thank you, for your features. I love it, specially the design, which remembers me of old websites.
Nice!
that is sad
Hi, first time on this site, I have a shalpha guess what it is
Got Vanilluxe for June 15th :D
Found a shiny Vanillite yesterday :)
cool
I like greninja
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