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Hey, Butterfree! I just randomly noticed a cached page on your site from… eh, 2009 or so. And, you probably don't remember me, unless you remember Stareon's Hideout that I used to actively update. Anyway, I saw that someone named ShinyRiolu was causing some trouble with you. I helped her make a site a long time ago, but I don't think she ever did do anything with it. But, I just wanted to make it clear that I never hated you or your site, and although I made a layout for Shiny, I take no responsibility for her stealing pictures. I tried to teach her about plagiarism, and I think in her case, anything that happened with that was an honest mistake of hers. Anyhow, I haven't really been online for a long, long time now–just because of personal issues and whatnot–but I still do really honor and respect you and the Cave of Dragonflies. The only reason I'm back online right now is I'm trying to open up my fanfic site again, which is actually pretty pathetic right now. But, yeah, just wanted to clarify that I never said anything bad about you, have no hard feelings, once again, and I hope that it's cool that if we ever cross paths again in the future, perhaps we could work together or help each other out, or I don't know anything. I just don't like to have any enemies; that cached post just came up in a random search for something and I know it's really old, but I just wanted to make sure that we're cool. And… I wish you the best with whatever you are doing now. The fact that CoD is still open says a lot about you as a webmistress, and I admire that. I wish we could all be as determined as you. Have a great day! Best wishes!
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I don't think forums per se are very popular in Iceland today; hugi.is used to be a major one but I think it's fairly dead today. But there are Icelandic subreddits, Facebook groups, etc., and some of those are about video games. I'm in an "Icelandic women's video game society" Facebook group, for instance. (Most Icelanders are on Facebook; I'm not a big fan of it but I kind of had to be on there to get event invitations, etc.)
I post in English on the personal social media accounts that I use under my fandom usernames and are followed by fandom people - Tumblr, Bluesky, Twitter, etc. I post in Icelandic on my personal Facebook account under my real-life name, which is mostly followed by my Icelandic friends and relatives.
Nobody in Iceland speaks Danish day to day. We learn it at school but it's the stereotypical most hated subject and people use it mostly only if they happen to move to one of the other Nordic countries to study or work (which a lot of people do). Maybe some people will brush off their Danish if they meet a Danish (or Swedish/Norwegian) person in Iceland, but I expect a lot would instead speak to them in English. I would definitely go for English myself rather than attempt to make myself understandable in Danish.
I have a few language questions.
Are there any Icelandic forums about video games? Like forums where the members make posts in Icelandic?
Also, on your personal social media, do you make posts in English or Icelandic?
And in Iceland how often do people talk in Danish there?
glad to see the site is still up after all these years. happy holidays, admin butterfree! :)
This is a very cool website and awesome spam check
THEY'RE CATS!
I haven't ever played this, but it reminds me a lot of Pokemon Shuffle for mobile phones and the 3DS, except there is less of a plot in Shuffle.
This guide taught me basically everything I needed to know about spriting when I was like 10-11… and 15 years later all my pixel art still looks like Pokemon, lol. But I'm happy with that, and kind of amazed that cutting my teeth on Pokemon sprite-editing, guided by TCoD, still has such an impact on my style.
Thanks for this post; this is probably my favourite glitch in all video games. It's awesome how it lets you catch all pokes including some glitch mons. It's awesome how it lets you fight glitch trainers and rosters (Prof Oak included, although it's tricky to get a high enough special stat, need to use the ditto trick). It's awesome how speedrunners use a variant where you faint to a wild pokemon in front of a trainer to trigger a similar effect to be able to beat the game in under 12 minutes. It's awesome how much it seems like a fanciful rumour yet somehow actually works.
Congrats on all the updates! I know you've been meaning to get that review guide rewrite out forever in particular. Very interesting to see the "Proving Sprite Theft" in its new context, too. It could almost be a more general "how to prove art theft" article, but not quite.
I bet it feels satisfying to get those items off your place! Especially the trailing slash thing, one of those annoying little bits of technical debt. Congrats on getting it all done!
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.
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