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Butterfree
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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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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.

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by Happy

Amazing. The funny thing is I was actually at a theme park yesterday (Tokyo DisneySea).

Happy

I had a dream that a "TCOD theme park" went viral. This still not existing or anything, but u started doing a bit where youd write about a TCOD theme park in an update. Youd be like, had this crazy customer experience today at the TCOD theme park, & then youd specify its location which was just on the cusp of being in a realistic major city but at a more out of the way address. So these so called customer stories started going a bit viral, but of course the inevitable followup question people started asking is "What's the TCOD theme park?" And youd just be like yeah come by the TCOD theme park its at ABCDE. And then the end of the dream was me taking the bus past that street & hearing other passengers say "Isn't the TCOD theme park supposed to be here?" LOL
I absolutely notice the redundancy in this proposed nomenclature roflll.
… And then I had one of those recursive dreams where I came to the site to tell u this, but your years' april fools prank was to change it to one of those pkmn news blogs back in the day that wanted to be serebii or kotaku & it had a personalityless white layout (NOT TO GIVE YOU ANY IDEAS). And you had labelled these posts with like a bunch of pretend new site staff also. And I was like alright let me just get past the april fools update to the guestbook.. but then you were impossibly rarely slow taking down the update, so I was like… Isnt it past april fools day now….. & it was like the 4th. & I started to get concerned about the permanence of this update ROFL.
So that's my incredible quantity of post-late night dennys haze TCOD dreams. 😂 (I don't even live in the americas… My country is like a complete regional isolate with like a leaderboard quantity of dennys branches.)

Joke Guy
Commenting on: /essays/the-mew-trick
In response to: post by TheScythe

Hello, your favorite Pokémon is Scyther, what's yours?

Jirachu
Commenting on: /fan-fiction/morphic/
In response to: post by RatonLeveur

Reminds me of my brother back in 2004. I used ta like hide my Pokémon games from him, way afraid he would delete my data and stuff…good times…

Jirachu

There should be a new personality quiz that’s more up to date👌

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees
In response to: post by Tribo

Not exactly; just get familiar with the route, do a few trees together like suggested in the guide to avoid flying between every pair of trees, and as you do it you'll get quicker at it.

Tribo
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees
In response to: post by Butterfree

Oof… that is going to take a while, any recommendation to make it fast ?

RatonLeveur
Commenting on: /fan-fiction/morphic/
In response to: post by Butterfree

Apologies, my younger brother snuck onto my computer and wrote this. I do not have any interest in writing pokemon fanfictions and much prefer playing the official games.
My brother tends to do stuff like this, deleting save files for my pokemon games, and such.


Apologies,
RatonLeveur.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees
In response to: post by Tribo

No, you'd need to slather or battle a Pokémon from a different tree first.

Tribo
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees
In response to: post by Butterfree

Thank you for the answer, now I wonder the best way to go about it, because its very time-consuming doing the route every day for 3 times, and having to repeat it to slather honey again is even more time-consuming, so I was thinking would a double slather solve the issue of getting a Pokémon from the same column ?

RatonLeveur
Website: RCL website
Commenting on: /marquee-of-doom

I've managed to get on the HoF 2 times already somehow

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /fan-fiction/morphic/
In response to: post by RatonLeveur

Unfortunately, I'm not particularly interested in writing that, and it wouldn't make any sense as an actual AU of this story (legendary morphs actually existing in this universe is right out, for one; legendaries are unicorn-level cryptids here that are not generally believed to exist, but if they did exist, how would there be Pokémorphs of them, when Pokémorphs exist only because of this one experiment carried out by a single group of scientists?).

But it sounds like you are interested and have a lot of specific ideas for what that story would involve, so I think you should go ahead and write it yourself! I would suggest you don't call it "Morphic: the flip side" because that could confuse people, but anyone can write about Pokémorphs if they want to; it's an entire genre of stories, not just this one. Many of the other existing Pokémorph fics out there are also less depressing and more action-packed and have romantic relationships, so if you look around you might find other fics you'd enjoy!

RatonLeveur
Website: RCL website
Commenting on: /fan-fiction/morphic/

You should make an AU called "Morphic: the flip side" in which there is a new cast of characters, such as cubchoo and charcadet, ots a little less depressing but still action packed (while adding in romantic relasionships), and they eventually meet legendary morphs such as zeraora or deoxys.

F
Website: F.com

Maybe don't include pulling not in a game, like leopard in gen 9

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees
In response to: post by Tribo

I believe it's just about whether you slather it immediately after fighting the Pokémon, regardless of how the battle finished.

Tribo
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees

Hi, I am doing my "Honey Tree Farming route" To see If I can finally get a Munchlax on Pokémon platinum, realize I was making a big mistake by applying honey immediately after each encounter, but now I have a question,
Does it make a difference between capturing, fighting or just running away from the fight, when trying to hunt for Munchlax ?

Menibaru

Your calculations are impressive and are clear that while AI is a threat to many. AI is incapable of solving complex problems such as this,I tried running these numbers through many versions AI ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, and DeepSeek they all said that 1 Bait was the best option but my own Xcel spreadsheet agreed with your numbers. GGs

Rayne Grimm
Commenting on: /sinnoh/honey-trees

Thanks a bunch for this, just got ahold of a platinum copy and I knew that finding a munchlax was gonna be a pain here's hoping this helps (I lucked out and windworks is one of my two trees so I can hunt early)

AcornTheChespin

I am *very* late to this page (like a decade or so), but I checked out this whole page *and* used the April Fools style associated with it, and I couldn’t take any of it seriously! Random comment, I know, but whatevs!

Princess Jirachu

(I duno I felt like using a fancy name this time lol)

I wish the forum here was more active. Maybe this entry will encourage some people to join it👌

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