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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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Hi! I just read through the history of the site and found it fascinating. Even though I wasn't familiar with Mew's Hangout, it's amazing to see how that sparked everything!
I do have a question: how difficult has it been to manage and maintain the site for all these years? What were the biggest difficulties that you faced along the way?
If you go left through the grass and up before the Aroma Lady fight here, there is a hidden max repel when you click on the rock. That info was missing (currently using your amazing guide to play and found thus item). I thought you might like to know :)
It means that one of the encounter slots changes if you use pokeradar. If you don't use pokeradar, it uses whatever is in the "Not using pokeradar" box. So just don't turn on the pokeradar and you're good.
The encounter slot is called "Pokeradar" because the idea is that it can ONLY be affected by using the pokeradar, so time of day, swarm, and dual slot don't ever change what's in that slot. Only pokeradar does.
This surprises me beacuase I fought zapdos on my first ultra ball
Hi I would like to understand how I can capture a level 35 madicham
https://www.dragonflycave.com/locations/gen4/167/
while being in the pokeradar slot but also fulfilling the condition not using pokeradar.
I am very confused by this.
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I love creating Pokémon, and I wanted to share one. Please let me know if you like it if you have time!
Waviper
is inspired by a water snake. It's a water type. I was thinking about making it a water-ice evolution, but I haven't created one yet.
Appearance: It's light blue, with dark blue crystal-shaped scales. It has three bubbles on its tail that resemble rattlesnake rattles. Shiny is light green, and the bubbles are aqua green.
Pokédex: It was carried to land by the waves. It's loved by children and shares the bubbles it creates with them. The noise it makes with its rattles is reminiscent of sea waves.
Height (or rather length): 1.7 meters
Weight: 5.5 kg
Classification: Wave
Ability: Water Veil
Stats: HP 40 ATK 50 DEF 45 SP ATK 65 SP DEF 35 SPEED 55
tl;dr: https://imgur.com/a/o1cJYLd
this is fun
You have no idea how long I've been searching for one of these templates that isn't either AI or stupidly bad, this is so good, I love it, I wish you eternal cold pillows and eternal delicious food, thank you, and i will proceed to use thise 4 times and then completely forget about it
Great content, I especially appreciate the shoutout to Fisherman Tommy, where most people only speak about Fisherman Ronald for EV training attack!
Ack, I messed up the BBC tags. My apologies; feel free to correct on your end and delete this message if that's something you can do (if not I will shamefully accept my place on the wall of immortalized internet typos 😔)
Just to let you know, the link at the end of the Includes[\b] section currently leads to a 404 page
(I know what Clue 3 means but I still can't find the Secret Link. Surely I must be close 😭)
You might have accidentally typed an extra space after the name? Come to think of it, the game ought to just automatically strip it out if that happens; let me just do that real quick…
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#908: Meowscarada
You guessed: Meowscarada (invalid)
Wait, what??
I’m referring to legendary Pokémon in gen 3 (they all have the same catch rate). There’s no difference between exactly 1hp and 11 percent hp if trying to catch a sleeping or paralyzed mewtwo with timer balls or ultra balls.
That depends entirely on which Pokémon you're trying to catch! In the first generation there's no point lowering its HP past 33%, but in the subsequent generations the catch rate can keep improving all the way down to 1 HP, depending on how the rounding shakes out. No point lowering it beyond 12% might be the case with the particular Pokémon you were looking at, but if you look at a different Pokémon you'll see different catch rates and different thresholds for where exactly it maxes out.
So when catching legendaries, sleep and chuck is the optimal strategy (even if it's Mewtwo). Reducing the HP will have a minimal effect on the catch rate (22% vs 24%). Paralysis is viable too, though clearly inferior to sleep. And although Ultra Balls are best, Great Balls and even regular Poke Balls provide a decent enough chance.
So False Swipe is overrated as there's no advantage to getting the wild Pokemon to 1 HP versus <12% HP (and getting it that low is only relevant if you're using Timer Balls; you only need <25% with Ultra Balls). Super Fang is the way to go, unless you have a level 100 Farfetch'd or something crazy.
>Are you really Satoshi Tajiri?
>No
That's something Satoshi Tajiri would say…
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