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Greenumbreon

It still accurately portrays some people's views on pokemon. And a lot of the stuff in it is from other things that I've read before. So most of it has been writen by serious people. Some person just pasted them together to sum up the general religous-anti-pokemon-stuff.



Feraligatr for the spammifier. I wonder, does feraligatr's name imply that it's actually feral? Or is that feral part just there because it sounds better than Wildgator?

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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.

AshleyRoboBunBot

I got Metagross AS I'm shiny hunting Beldum, that's cool ✨💖✨

Goolix
Website: Greenfield City
Commenting on: 11-02-26

Congratulations on 24 years of running the site! An incredible achievement, and I'm happy TCoD will be able to freely rent cars of any type in just a year.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: Honey Trees
In response to: post by Glaceon0095

If slathering always results in a Pokémon (i.e. you don't have to reslather if you check the tree immediately afterwards), it sounds like you may be bumping into the 90% chance of X staying the same, i.e. giving you the same column as last time; that's very bad if you're looking for a Munchlax, because then the 1% chance of picking the Munchlax column becomes a 0.1% chance. You're going to want to ensure you slather or battle a Pokémon from another tree before you save in front of this one.

Since you say you're getting about the expected Munchlax tree percentages of Pokémon, that at least sounds like you are getting a different RNG seed each time, so presumably that's not the problem.

Glaceon0095
Commenting on: Honey Trees

Hi, I am trying to get Munchlax, but after 200+ encounters, I still havent gotten one :/
I have the right tree, I started taking notes on which pokemon I get, and the percentage looks similar to the ones you give for the Munchlax tree. I am on emulator, and saved before slathering the honey. I then start the game (morning) swith to evening, then encounter a pokemon. I also always encounter the pokemon. Shouldn't I get 9% no encounters? As it is in the same column as Munchlax, does it mean I won't get a Munchlax either? Im pretty confused and start losing hope

Kevin

Why Mr mime man… I like the reign of mespirit though :thumbsup:

Zorana/Silvester
Website: Zorana's Site
Commenting on: 11-02-26
In response to: post by Butterfree

Firefox (on what I believe to be the latest stable version), with a screen resolution of 1920 by 1080 according to my settings. It's only the email text box that shows anything on hover. It may be a weird Firefox issue since it doesn't show up when I check in Chrome.

geniusboyjohnny

Honestly Golurk is pretty good!

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: 11-02-26
In response to: post by Zorana/Silvester

What browser/screen resolution are you using? Most everything in Butterfree style has a background image, but because it's fixed in the bottom left, it should only be shown when the element overlaps with the background Butterfree.

Zorana/Silvester
Website: Zorana's Site
Commenting on: 11-02-26

It probably won't be an ongoing issue but I think the server move ended up sending out a bunch of RSS feed entries, since I got 6 (not including this one) that are older ones.

Also a tiny little thing that may or may not be a new bug, but hovering over the E-mail address input while writing a comment puts a Butterfree in it. At least, the feet of one anyway. It's kind of funny but I doubt it's intended.

RM147

Remember reading Quest for the Legend like 15 years ago. Glad this site is still alive.

Ryneer
Commenting on: The Secret Link
In response to: post by Ghazt The Mew

skill issue

grug

i genuenly got the most forgetable pokemoon

Butterfree
Admin
In response to: post by X2Brute

Wow, thank you. I had the 1 damage that you take on a critical hit in my original analysis notes and then it somehow got lost when I wrote it up again for this page and then I referenced that writeup in making the strategy analysis code. Will fix posthaste.

X2Brute

i appreciate the info but you made one error, if the opposing pokemon flees and you attack and crit, you still take 1 damage, so you should NEVER attack when you have 1 hp even if you just had a staredown as attacking is a guaranteed failure at 1 HP

BoneToPick

Hello!

Ee

So nice! I hate my Pokemon tho.😭

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: Free Quiz Scripts
In response to: post by Butterfree

Aagh, can't believe I forgot about BBCode, but hopefully you can infer what the start of the italic section is actually meant to be here.

Butterfree
Admin
Commenting on: Free Quiz Scripts
In response to: post by Quiara

Yeah, at the moment the scale quiz script works by putting the number of points the answer is worth in the value attribute of the option, so although you could technically make a multiple-choice trivia quiz with it, it's not built to be able to write in your own answers.

For the modification, you would want to define the correct answers in an object like

var correct_answers = {
"q1": "pikachu",
"q2": …
};

and then remove the whole "Validate the quiz form to prevent common issues" section (until the form.onsubmit = … line). Then you'd want to replace the first for loop inside the onsubmit handler with

for (i = 0; i < form_elements.length; i++) {
form_element = form_elements;
if (form_element.type === "text" && form_element.value.trim().toLowerCase() === correct_answers[form_element.name]) {
score += 1;
}
}

(The .trim().toLowerCase() bit is to make the answers case-insensitive and remove leading and trailing spaces; the correct answers should always be all lowercase, since the answer they'll be compared to is all lowercase.)

It'd be a little more complicated if you want to straight-up accept multiple different correct answers to each question.

Quiara
Commenting on: Free Quiz Scripts

This feels like a good place to ask a related question. (Not least of which because I get a cute little Magby for my trouble!)

If I was looking to make a *quiz* quiz - e.g., something where you ask "Who's that yellow guy who goes pika-pika-pi?" and the reader writes in PIKACHU - how complicated a modification would that be of the Scale Quiz? You'd have to change the radio buttons to a text input, which isn't too tricky, but having the script determine what counts as a "right answer" seems a bit harder.

Skiddo

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/

Sorry if you're already aware but might be a good idea to shut down the forum (and anything else that's PHP based) for the time being until a security patch can be applied. I know a Pokémon forum is not anyone's first target but in the age of automated LLM-based attacks still seems bad that someone could overtake the forum and add malware or get sensitive info to phish people with.

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