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I tried to e-mail this to you in response to your complaining messages sent through the contact form, but apparently you didn't give a real e-mail address even on your original account, so I'll put it here where you'll see it:
We're all for second chances. That's why it takes a few infractions to get banned, and even if you do get banned, you can come back in three months.
You, however, abused these chances. You reacted to the first infraction you got in the most immature possible way by throwing a fit over it, spamming and flaming people, pretending you didn't do it, and knowingly breaking further rules seemingly just to annoy us about it. And when this got you banned, you didn't sit back and think about how you could change your behaviour: you made more accounts to spam and complain more. You clearly have no real will to follow the forum rules and be a civil member, and that's what results in permanent bans. And because you kept making more accounts to complain while even actively threatening that you would never stop, you were IP banned.
You have given us no reason to trust you when you now claim that you're sorry and won't do it again. You've shown that you don't stop to think about consequences before you do things and that if you're reprimanded you will simply get angry and resist harder, not think about what you're doing and change your behaviour. You've given every indication that you would get into trouble again if we let you back in now.
I don't care if you come back at some point and have by then become a better, wiser person who never breaks any rules. But rushing to register five more accounts the moment you've been banned is not a sign you're a better, wiser person. Nor is thinking you can make everything better by registering yet another account to make a long tearful message about how much you want to be unbanned. It's a sign you don't understand at all how forums are run and have a long, long way to go before that point.
And I don't believe that second account was really your sister. I'm sorry if it actually is, but trolls and troublemakers come back pretending to be their siblings all the time. Telling your sibling to register at a forum where you just got banned is a terrible idea because the administration will be forced to assume it's actually you. The hypothesis you're lying about the sister is further supported by the fact that you had already responded to being reprimanded by lying, namely by editing the offending statement out of your post and claiming it wasn't there. Any reasonable person would conclude at this point that it's actually you, and it's a further reason not to trust you because you're trying to trick your way back instead of acknowledging that you screwed up in a truly monumental fashion.
You can be in the guestbook if you want, provided you don't make trouble here, but stop trying to get back onto the forums. Being so insistent on being let back in is extremely counterproductive to the goal of looking like you've properly realized why your behaviour was unacceptable and your ban was justified, which is the first step to seeming like you could become a rule-abiding member.
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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.
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
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