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i'm mostly just talking into the void here, really, not expecting a response (but hello if you decide to respond anyway!)

it's been a long time, PUK. we've gone through our highs and lows. we've gone through our pillars and our trolls. we've had our fair share of pokemon moles and i vividly remember utack and swampy's comics like it was yesterday. i remember all of the cringe-y posts i used to make, that i had like, lost my password like twice just to swing right on back because i made up the emails, too. i was stupid and thought that the email inbox would create itself if i just made anything up. yeah i don't know how that would've worked at all now, but hey.

i still wonder what our resident forum genie joeno's up to, or typhlosion, or honestly most of the regulars and mods and everyone who made this site tick. i thought y'all were so cool, even when i became the 'elder' of the next forum generation i GUESS. i was in that funny little age, i think. it feels so weird to join the internet when MSN was a thing, swing into skype, go directly to discord, and then have fourms die at a random point between all of that.

i used to remember vividly wanting a high post count because i had so many things to say, but y'know. time moves on regardless. some things you don't get to say in the moment, you'll come back later, and suddenly everyone's moved on and the forums have died. gosh darn my procrastination!!! but honestly, most of all, i miss the vibe. everyone's gone and moved on, got married, had kids (WHAT) and got jobs, whatever, some of us have potentially also passed away but time marches on at such a pace that i couldn't ever know, any more.

ironically, for some reason, i keep finding my own posts when trying to look up archives of this site.
in a roundabout way, i think past me would still be like waow at my current post count. i didn't think i posted that much, but apparently the yappening keeps happening. ah well. i suppose i'm just feeling a bit nostalgic about a site that no longer exists the same way it used to... and admittedly, missing the archives of the 06-2012ish era of PUK.

honestly there were RPs i still vividly remember. the very first RP i remember on here, albeit i don't think i got to officially join, were some really cool x-men influenced sort of academy thing. i think there was a neko / nekomata character with black hair and wore red (?) or something. i think she had pyrokinesis or something. she was very cool. i was so sad when that section of the forums got deleted forever. or well, to be more accurate, the very old posts were eventually deleted and not backed up or something? its been so long i don't remember the specifics, i just remember the vibe.

but yeah feel free to walk down memory lane here if you want

technically the site was mostly dead pre-discord too.
forums have been dying for a while. social media kinda became a vacuum and killed a lot of forums re: activity.

i really miss 2000s pkmn net. activity was banging.

I was looking into some of his lines (because darn if my memory of X and Y isn't rusty, too...) and... yeah, it does seem to be the extent of his character. I guess I just filled in the blanks myself since then...

Since you like Shauna, I'm curious what kind of Pokemon players you think she represents, if any. I think me not being able to see that is what bothers me most about her character-- the best I can come up with is "Those With Enthusiasm for the Franchise", but other than what I said earlier, I just don't recall enough to say if that makes sense. I dunno, I'm probably overthinking this whole thing a smidge, haha.

she probs represents the players who do the side content rather than rush to the end

shes described to not really have a clear goal for herself and floats around doing various things, offers trades, etc.

whereas trevor might be about dex completion/more about the info, and tierno - well, he just likes dancing, so i guess he's the memester or their approximation of one. like the one guy in smogon that only uses meme teams or whatever.

real life happens to everyone
i dont think its gonna be passed on
it was my childhood dream and i'm 29 now for reference's sake lol

hi chat

feels funny making a new forum topic on here after like a million years lol. i know, i know, the forum's asleep. but its also still open to posts, so i'm gonna be a menace and post again anyway. nostalgia is fuelling me on this day.

im making a thread for anyone who might be in the same boat i am. anyone who just... wants to write about their current projects really. we can make this one of those chat topics and maybe we'll see each other now and then.

I'm currently writing a fanfic that's going to be cobblemon (a mod of Minecraft that adds pokemon), particularly a modpack that makes it a lot like stardew valley. overall cozy vibes, but with lots of adventure. themes of found family and such. the main issue is that its going to be using characters from dead by daylight, which has some elements i don't quite think are within the rules of the site here (due to potentially violent content), so i don't think i can actually advertise it here. but if i leave out the potentially against the rules content, and just talk about stuff that's within the rules, surely there's no harm.

so basically the survivors and... i don't even know if i can say the word, but the hunters we'll just say, are all pulled into the cobblemon universe and it goes from there. entity's trying to get itself summoned in there so it can bring the realm back into the fog - some of the hunters are on board with that (so they cause more harm and serve the entity) and some others (who were forced to be hunters) enjoy the freedom - and in some cases healing - and don't want to go back in there. good deal of the survivors and killers end up with pokemon and rebuilding society in some places, in other cases anarchy and stuff. im pretty excited with the idea. I've started writing out a plan and i might upload it to AO3 and fanfiction dot net.

feel free to talk about your crossover projects here too of course, that's what this threads about

Hang on, TODAY is the birthdate of the site?! I guess that makes it 22 now, or is my math that bad?

I logged in for something completely unrelated, but in lieu of having anything prepared for the occasion... *kazoo sound* [confetti flies everywhere] *applause* [cake is passed all around] Am I missing anything? Oh yeah, Happy Birthday to PUK, lol

On a more serious note, it makes me wonder what all the founding fathers of the site are up to these days... but at any rate, let's all have a good one!

oh crap, i missed it!? (22 years?)
dang!

i'm still around. wouldn't call myself a forum founder or anything by any means. maybe a vaguely annoying menace turned lurker. coming up to 21 years since I've been on the internet then.

dropping in to also say its the anniversary of platinum's release today. i remember being so excited when it came out!
i really need to get back into playing platinum again.

It's a server I use for several different things, so the cost is priced in to me keeping several other things open. I got a decent deal on it, so it's pretty manageable at the moment. I try to fix problems where I can, but the site may have an issue occasionally (I still have a PHP 8 upgrade I need to do that requires a lot of code fixing).

But yeah, as far as I'm concerned, it'll stick around for a long time. I'm not really investing in anything major, but let me know if there's something quick I can fix and if anyone ever wants to put anything up, I'm happy to do my best to help out.

And as said, a lot of us hang out in Discord now. I'm not as visible, but reading along and dealing with bits where I can.

And I should figure out the Name Rater some day.

hey joeno!

glad to hear its working out, but don't hesitate to let us know if we can help at any point as well <3 thanks for being cool.

if you need help w/ name raters to start getting the queue down i can help, always been a dream lol, but not demanding ofc. i don't even know how to do it, but willing to learn. might help with some of the traffic if its a route you wanted to go down.

i lurk now and then, but i weep for what once was. though surely this is super expensive for joeno (?) at this point... its been so many years.

also petzbreeder you can put multiple lines on discord by holding shift as you press enter, it will make another line

Reading this in 2021 has really brought me back. I joined back in 2005/2006 and used to post under the name Tim|Legendary Beast. I was about 12 so was in full on cringe mode. If anyone remembers me, I frequented the Role play board among a few others and talked a lot to people like Akari. One of those people who was very into using "teh" instead of "the" for some reason. I also started the "Laguna pwns Cloud" war. That is a surreal thing to type.

I remember having a dramatic moment of deleting my account. And then briefly came back? It seems like a different lifetime. A couple of other memories come to mind:
-"Y r girls so hot???"
-Sappy and the comic he made. I think I was a Cyndaquil in it haha.
-The live pokemon role playing board, where you had a team and llinked in with other people's adventures. I remember writing a whole load of stuff for that. Was it called pokemon live... something? Pokemon live connection?
-Wasn't there also a pkmn.net card game at one point?
-I remember there was an april fools where if you typed "pokemon" it changed it to "digimon". Still makes me laugh.
-Also the girl someone else mentioned a few pages back who was really into Drake and Josh and Paramore and used to angrily shout a lot for some reason.

Anyway, was nice to see some familiar names and hope everyone is doing well.

EDIT: Just found the live connection board and the thread about the card game. Can't believe that's all still there.

i remember you!!! been a while.

in your opinion yea

i remember when the forums weren't just alive, they were t h r i v i n g
i spent like all of my free time at that point in forum games, rp forums and random randomness ahah.

don't slander avril like this nalty

i got in touch with pika-empress who is still insisting her sister/dog/whatever did 'it'
whatever 'it' is

Really? Well, today I learned! I've been a fan all of my life and I never knew about the happiness boost in the met location.
Can't believe I missed it.