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[baths]

damn i'm not sure if anyone even remembers me, but i used to go by pika-bolt or something of the sorts (or trevor if that is easier to remember)

i somehow managed to remember my login here and wanted to see how the forum was doing only to see it practically dead.. it's weird to return to a space you joined back when you were 12 and return as a 24 year to see it practically dead but i'm glad you guys transitioned to discord.

i joined earlier the server earlier today but if anyone wants to chat or just say hi, trevor#3443 is my user! hope everyone has been well :^)

[princezuko]

Hi! I'm new here, but I have played Pokémon since I was in second grade. I have a question: what is the best team to use in Pokémon Silver?

Hey, I know this is maybe too late but I would recommend Feraligatr, Jolteon, Miltank, Aipom, Taurus, and Dragonite. I know it sounds random but this was my original team 

[DrampardonMe]

I was going to make a generic "Hi" thread, but then I noticed this one here.

Long story short, I exiled myself from the Internet for a few years* to prioritize stuff IRL, as well as my art. Happy to report I've grown, am (HOPEFULLY) more mature, and uh, my drawings look better than they used to, too, I guess.

*To be more accurate, I still lurked, but not so much here. More really just never posted anywhere.

Nothing against anyone here, but I really only joined again because I had a rough weekend (though it was the first one in quite a while. Progress!) If no one remembers me, that's fine, but you'll probably not see me anywhere on social media or anything like that. Forums are totally rad, which I'm pretty sure was said earlier. I uh, don't know if the forums themselves will be as active as they once were, but I got a little carried away posting like they were, haha.

One day in middle school, at age 12, I convinced my non-Pokemon-playing friend to make an account here and I watched him make that "r u 12 " (there was an afro in the body of the OP) post with my own eyes. I told him it was a dumb post but he did it anyway, and every time I see posts talking about old times, someone mentions that thread. So I guess it's a good thing I didn't stop him.

I remember the title more than the thread itself. I see it as the little brother to "y r girls so hot?" (I remember reading that one, but not much else, let alone if I posted in it), but yeah, cool lore indeed.

[TheJudgeOfTheRater]

Hello. I am the Rater's new Judge.

[thunders]

hello, hello! i may be a little young to ever have truly engaged with the forum structure of the internet when i was a kid (perhaps i browsed a few forums and made a few posts in roleplay threads _{that were instantly deleted, because i was a little too young to understand what was going on}), but i've certainly found myself fascinated with them and their structure for a while now!

i've also been historically incredibly interested with places that seem "abandoned" or contain a lot of remnants of recent history. i peeked into this place and, based on the aesthetic of the website and the not-so-up-to-date "games" page to the left, i had assumed it was long gone... only to pop into the forums and find signs of life! since i was already interested, that drove me to also jump in and smell the roses!

i've, of course, got a discord just like everybody else... but big servers freak me out, and i have a bad habit of joining servers and then never speaking in them

as someone who first ever discovered that this website existed like two days ago, i'm so glad to see that it's still here, and that i'm even able to make a post in the first place. i even remember 40-something folks being online when i found it (and 40ish online right now, though i'm the only one with an account!)... and with the amount of folks on tumblr who are still passing around blinkies and stamps, and with the resurgence of sites like neocities, i think there's clearly a desire for an "old internet" to still stick around

in other words... i'm happy to see that this site is still here (even though this is my first time around), and i'm glad that its life intersected with mine! and hello to everyone who's just as new as i am, and hello to everyone who's been around for ages!

_{also, is it just me, or are the captchas here actually really hard}

[Del]

i've, of course, got a discord just like everybody else... but big servers freak me out, and i have a bad habit of joining servers and then never speaking in them

if it makes you feel less scared there's only like, 15 of us that post with any regularity, so don't be too shy! it's fine to just join and not post too

as someone who first ever discovered that this website existed like two days ago, i'm so glad to see that it's still here, and that i'm even able to make a post in the first place. i even remember 40-something folks being online when i found it (and 40ish online right now, though i'm the only one with an account!)... and with the amount of folks on tumblr who are still passing around blinkies and stamps, and with the resurgence of sites like neocities, i think there's clearly a desire for an "old internet" to still stick around

yeah unfortunately 39 of them are Google Spiders documenting the webpage for Our Overlords, if I remember the explanation correctly from like 15 years ago lol, pretty unfortunate but people just don't really wanna engage with forums much anymore, or if they do, they're "Happy Enough" with Reddit

_{also, is it just me, or are the captchas here actually really hard}

i don't know which captcha we have these days, but if it's the sign-up one, that's because we get a lot of spam bots lol

[thunders]

yeah unfortunately 39 of them are Google Spiders documenting the webpage for Our Overlords, if I remember the explanation correctly from like 15 years ago lol, pretty unfortunate but people just don't really wanna engage with forums much anymore, or if they do, they're "Happy Enough" with Reddit

i don't feel like reddit even really counts as a "forum," but the more that i think about it, the more that that idea just comes down to "it doesn't really evoke the Feeling of forums," which unfortunately doesn't really mean anything from a logical standpoint. however, if we toss logic out the window for a moment, i still feel like it applies! not to mention reddit has perhaps one of the worst communities on the internet from what i've seen. though i suppose that's where the "Enough" part of "Happy Enough" comes from

i don't know which captcha we have these days, but if it's the sign-up one, that's because we get a lot of spam bots lol

i think the sign-up one and the one for making a post are the same—for some reason it just took me a solid three tries on the captcha to actually get that post posted. though i also suppose folks are training AI to do captchas these days anyway

if it makes you feel less scared there's only like, 15 of us that post with any regularity, so don't be too shy! it's fine to just join and not post too

i'll Think about it. i'll Maybe Consider it. it certainly feels more personal—i guess to me it feels less Discussion focused and more Chat focused. which i guess isn't necessarily a directly bad thing, but it's sort of a gamble—on forums like this one, the topic tends to be a bit more focused, but in a discord server, you could run into any sort of folks—and "any sort of folks" can be a little iffy, sometimes!
perhaps i'm just going based off of somewhat negative experiences i've had in the past. i'll think about it..!