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Your Art / New art thread for new(er) art
« on: November 09, 2018, 05:52 »
Welp, since I'm back, how about I show off some of the stuff I've done in the meantime? I'm not sure I can post it all here, so I'll post some as links, but let's go! From oldest to newest.

First, this one is so old it's on my old dA account. I'm not the happiest with it so it's going in the spoiler tags so I don't have to look at it. Still love this character to death though. I mean, I better, I've made two seperate cosplays of him...

Spoiler: show


This one is a quick chibi style sketch of my tiefling nobleman from a dnd campaign a while back. He's a lot of fun to play.



I'm gonna put this one as a link. This is my monster character for a story I made for an rp group, who kinda grew to become one of my main oc's now. He's gone through a couple designs now and I love him.

Warnings for trypophobia (I've been told he triggers that, thanks to clusters of eyes). Also he's shirtless, if that makes you at all uncomfortable. Just want to give fair warning.

And my last one, here's my other main oc, my modern wizard boi, being scared of something. Doesn't usually happen but I wanted to practice lighting and this seemed fun.



That's about it that I can show! Tell me what you think!

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Say Hello! / Hello, my friends, I have returned
« on: November 09, 2018, 05:22 »
Hey, so, it's been a while huh. I'm bad at keeping track of time so I don't even know how long it's been ahaha. A couple years at least. I kinda just had the urge to come back here and say hello to everyone since this place was so important to me those years ago. I guess life just kinda happened...

Anyway, hello old friends who are still here, and hello new friends who don't know me! I'm dragoncat, though I may change that nickname soon, since I have a new thing I tend to go by now. I was a regular here a couple years ago, but then I guess life kinda happened and I just kinda stopped coming here for one reason or another. I did miss you guys though...

I suppose I should mention a few things that changed. Well, I forget what I was doing before I left, but I am now studying video game design in college. First year of it... again... I tried two times before but couldn't finish thanks to circumstances. Doing really well now though! I'm sure I'll finally pass this time! Let's see... Oh, I was still dating when I left, wasn't I? Yeah, that's changed. The person I was with turned out to be highly manipulative, and cheated on me with three different people, who also thought they were the only ones dating him. We all dumped him together. I won't go into it unless anyone asks.

Other then that, more of the same with me. I still write, I still draw, I still rp a lot (is the rp board active? Or is it as dead as before? Maybe I'll try to run one...) just all the same stuff. so, nice to see you all again!!!

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Sun and Moon / Pokemon Sun and Moon Competitive Predictions
« on: November 22, 2016, 06:42 »
Okay, so, I am no expert on the competitive scene, but sometime even I can see when a pokemon will be likely to pop up in competitive. Case in point: Golisopod



This lovely little creature (note, neither lovely or little, standing at 6'07" or 2.0 m and weighing 238.1 lbs. or 108.0 kg) is a tank. Just look at its stats:

HP: 75
Attack: 125
Defence: 140
Sp. Attack: 60
Sp. Defence: 90
Speed: 40

Though its other stats aren't spectacular, its attack and defence are terrifying! It's water and bug type, which gives it some pretty nice moves, including Bug-Type First Impression, which is a 90 power physical move that can only be used on the first turn and is its signature move, and Water-Type Liquidation, which is an 85 power physical move that lowers defence.

Its ability is Emergency Exit, which makes it so that if it goes below 50% hp, it will switch out. I could see this being used pretty well for clean switch ins. Plus, guess what. Leech Life got a huge buff! It is now 80 power! And this thing can learn it! It could switch out, come back in later, leech someones life away and heal, then, if things get bad, you get another clean switch in. Oh, and guess what else it gets. Swords Dance! This thing is a monster and I have no doubt you'll be seeing it in competitive.

What do you think? Do you think this pokemon has potential to be terrifying? And have any of the new pokemon stood out to you as potential great competitive pokemon?

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Since some interest was shown for starting this over again, here we go! The original topic is here

Like before, expect violence in this role play.

If you were in the previous version, you may use the same character as before, but please repost your form in this topic, it helps me keep track of everything.



It had been about ten years since Kanto was taken over. An entire generation was growing up who had never even heard of pokemon trainers. Talking about pokemon training, pokemon battles, and anything related to the ownership of pokemon was illegal. Even simply mentioning pokemon was risky. The gym leaders and even the elite four and the champion were nothing more than figureheads, no longer possessing any sort of power. The new government, formerly an evil organization, seemingly no different from any of the other evil organizations throughout the world, ruled with an iron fist.

They didn’t seem so bad at first, in fact they were once welcomed into Kanto. Cinnabar Island was home to a volcano, which was known to be active, but thought to be safe enough to build a city on. That is, until the day the inevitable happened. Most were able to make it out okay, but there were casualties, the leader of the Cinnabar Gym being one of them. Cities all around Kanto did everything they could to help, taking refugees in until new houses could be built. However, some 'Good Samaritan' from another nation swooped in to help. They built a rather large refugee camp in Pewter, supposedly off of donations from their home nation. But once everything was starting to settle down, they didn’t leave. Instead, they become the new police force of Pewter. More and more frequently, disasters started occurring, with Kanto’s ‘friends’ always there to save the day. They became more of a presence throughout Kanto, saving cities from disasters and then buying the cities out. Soon, they were all throughout Kanto. They used their new influence to establish new laws; they declared pokemon too dangerous for citizens to have and banned training, legally taking pokemon away from their trainers. Soon, they had full control of the nation.

Now with two nations under their control, Kanto and Sinnoh, Team Galactic had gotten farther than any similar organization had before.


You are old enough to remember the times before this happened, and you want those times back. You, and a group of others with the same goal, plan to take them down. You’re not sure how to go about doing that, but you’re sure you’ll all come up with something.



Like before, everyone will have a partner pokemon, preferably from Kanto, but nothing is saying it has to be from there. There are no pokeballs, so the pokemon will have to be loyal to you. It should also be easy to hide, since keeping them is illegal.

Code: [Select]
[u][b]Character:[/b][/u]

[b]Name:[/b] your name and/or nickname
[b]Age:[/b] 17 or above
[b]Gender:[/b] whatever you want
[b]Appearance:[/b] what you look like and what you are wearing and carrying with you at the beginning
[b]Personality:[/b] what are you like? feel free to leave room for development
[b]History:[/b] this can be as long as you want. try to include how you and your pokemon have fared since the takeover
[b]Other:[/b] (optional) anything else you want to add

[u][b]Pokemon: [/b][/u]

[b]Nickname:[/b] if your pokemon has one
[b]Species:[/b] try to keep it within reason. The smaller and easier to hide, the better
[b]Gender:[/b] if applicable
[b]Starting level:[/b] try to keep this within reason. lv. 30 or lower is preferable.
your pokemon will grow during the rp
[b]Current moveset:[/b] please update as necessary
[b]Personality:[/b] NEW if you did a form for the last rp, please add this.
what is your pokemon like
[b]Other Details:(optional) any other details we might need to know

[b]Starter Post:[/b] we are meeting on the Vermilion entrance of Diglett Tunnel.
Tell us how you got there and what you do once there.
My character will already be there

Age should be 17 or above. Too much less and it gets iffy how much they can remember from 10 years ago. If your move set changes during the rp, please update your current moveset in your form.

Accepted Characters

Anise Black - Dusk(Gastly)  (dragoncat)
Cole Alexander - Thread(Buizel) (SirBlaziken)
Elle Vargas - Raze((sh)Charmeleon) (DisturbedHaxorus)
Cameron Hite - Sickens (Ekans) (E.K.A.N.S.)

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Your Art / dragoncat draws stuff again
« on: March 07, 2016, 19:02 »
Been a while since I posted any art here, and I felt like drawing something, so here is a bunch of pawniards and a bisharp pursuing something



It's a little messy... My shading could really use some work. So could my backgrounds. But I'm still pretty happy with it.

Might post more stuff here later.

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Games General / New Mystery Dungeon?
« on: May 22, 2015, 01:48 »
So, apparently there is a new mystery dungeon game to be released this winter; Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon.

Not much more information about it yet, but what do you think?

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Random Randomness / What should I do about university?
« on: January 16, 2015, 08:00 »
It's a little late right now and I really shouldn't be up, but I really feel I need help with this and if I wait I may never actually do it. Basically, I have no idea what to do. I'm in university, but I feel like I can't go anywhere or do anything with it. I'm doing horribly and could very well fail out of it. It's not because I'm not smart enough, it's just, thanks to a perfect storm of mental health problems and learning disabilities, I just can't handle it. Even if I did manage to stumble my way through, what then? I doubt I could get a job and even if I did I'd never be able to keep it. I lack the conviction for it. No matter how much pressure I'm under, no matter how dire the situation, I just can't bring myself to care. Believe me, I try to get past it, I mean, you'd think all I'd have to do is put everything else away, maybe go somewhere else to work, but it really isn't. If I go somewhere else, I can't work as well and I get horrible social anxiety, really just going to university is hard and I always want to get out of there as fast as I can. But if I work from home I just get distracted. And really, I need those distractions to keep myself from self harm. I feel like I'm just making excuses for myself, that I should just be able to will myself through this, but if that was the case then should it really be this hard to change? Am I just not trying hard enough?

The other problem is, how can I tell my aunt (who I live with instead of with my parents) all this? How do I explain how hard it is for me to simply walk outside without having to mentally prepare myself? Just how can I explain the severity of my problems, especially since I've been majorly downplaying them for years now. Hell, it's hard enough for me to talk about it here. She knows about my problems, but she thinks they're getting better, which they are kind of, but they're better as in I'm actually capable of feeling positive emotions on a regular basis now and I don't feel that horrible empty feeling that would me me incapable of doing anything but lie on the floor and take a nap nearly as often as I used to. How do I explain that I just can't handle university, or at least can't handle it yet?

Am I being too open? Though I don't see the point in not being open about this anymore. Anyway, that's enough of my 4AM rambling that I will totally regret tomorrow. Sorry if I sounded whiny, I just really needed to get that out and talk to someone about it.

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Role Play / [Ad][Fu][P]Dark Days and Bright Nights[J]
« on: December 24, 2014, 21:02 »
That was the best name I could think of... Anyway, so, after some discussion, I decided to go ahead with this. This may not be the best time to start, it being christmas eve and all, but I may as well post it now.

Quick warning, there will be violence in this, so if you're not okay with that you may want to skip this one. There shouldn't be too many long, bloody fights, if any at all, but expect death, probably not to our characters, but expect it to happen. (basically, I don't actually know how much violence there will be, but expect at least some)


It had been about ten years since Kanto was taken over. An entire generation was growing up who had never even heard of pokemon trainers. Talking about pokemon training, pokemon battles, and anything related to the ownership of pokemon was illegal. Even simply mentioning pokemon was risky. The gym leaders and even the elite four and the champion were nothing more than figureheads, no longer possessing any sort of power. The new government, formerly an evil organization, seemingly no different from any of the other evil organizations throughout the world, ruled with an iron fist.

They didn’t seem so bad at first, in fact they were once welcomed into Kanto. Cinnabar Island was home to a volcano, which was known to be active, but thought to be safe enough to build a city on. That is, until the day the inevitable happened. Most were able to make it out okay, but there were casualties, the leader of the Cinnabar Gym being one of them. Cities all around Kanto did everything they could to help, taking refugees in until new houses could be built. However, some ‘Good Samaritans” from another nation swooped in to help. They built a rather large refugee camp in Pewter, supposedly off of donations from their home nation. But once everything was starting to settle down, they didn’t leave. Instead, they become the new police force of Pewter. More and more frequently, disasters started occurring, with Kanto’s ‘friends’ always there to save the day. They became more of a presence throughout Kanto, saving cities from disasters and then buying the cities out. Soon, they were all throughout Kanto. They used their new influence to establish new laws; they declared pokemon too dangerous for citizens to have and banned training, legally taking pokemon away from their trainers. Soon, they had full control of the nation.

Now with two nations under their control, Kanto and Sinnoh, Team Galactic had gotten farther than any similar organization had before.


You are old enough to remember the times before this happened, and you want those times back. You, and a group of others with the same goal, plan to take them down. You’re not sure how to go about doing that, but you’re sure you’ll all come up with something.


(One more thing about the characters, each will have a tamed pokemon with them. They can be anything but you should probably keep it small and easy to hide. The pokemon can be one you managed to hold on to, even without its pokeball, one you released and somehow found again, one you only tamed recently, or whatever else you can come up with.)

Code: [Select]
[u][b]Character:[/b][/u]

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]

[u][b]Pokemon: [/b][/u]

[b]Nickname:[/b]
[b]Species:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Starting level:[/b]
[b]Current move set:[/b]
[b]Other Details:[/b](optional)

[b]Starter Post:[/b]

Just a note about age, it should be around 18-25.
Also, while you can only start with one pokemon, you can get more later.
Other details about your pokemon can be anything, personality, habits, the reason behind its name, any unusual features, anything you think is important. It can be in paragraph format, or point format, whichever you prefer.

Accepted Characters

Anise Black - Dusk(Gastly)  (dragoncat)
Tyler Betancourt - Seymour(Scraggy)  (A Wild Scrafty Appeared)
Mark Hatten - Diesel(Furret) (Kpyna)
Kitsami Sarobin - Kenji(Lucario) (Kitt)
Elle Vargas - Raze(Charmeleon) (DisterbedHaxorus)
Anya Aonair - Saphira(Gabite) (Dorchadas)

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Role Play / Can there be only one? [Disc]
« on: December 24, 2014, 06:40 »
I have an idea for an rp I want to make, but I'm afraid it may draw attention away from the current rp. I don't know... I asked Blaze about it a while ago, he didn't think it was a good idea to start it now (or then...?) but it's been a while, and with new people joining the forum, some of whom expressed interest in role playing here, it seems like a good idea to start something now. Plus, it definitely would be good to have two rp's happening at once, since it would mean more activity on the board, and on the forums in general. What do you guys think?

Also, just a side note, I just realized the plot I had in mind is a lot like another rp that was started here, but never really went anywhere... It was only a few months ago too... that's a little awkward... Still, it looked like there was a lot of interest in that one, and I haven't seen the person who started it in a while, so, should I go ahead with it anyway? Or should I just try to think of something else?

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Trades / Legendaries needed for pokedex
« on: December 19, 2014, 23:15 »
I'm almost finished my pokedex, all I need are a few legendaries. I only need them for dex data, so I have no problem trading them back.

What I need:
Articuno
Zapdos (though I could catch this one on my own, if I could ever find it)
Moltres
Raikou
Entei
Tornadus
Landorus



There are other pokemon I don't have, specifically, Mew, Manaphy, Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, Victini, Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, and Diancie, but they're not needed, just would be nice to have for completeness.

I'm not sure what I could offer in return for helping me... Just say what you would like, and I'll see what I can do.

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Was going to put this in the "how ya doin" topic, but figured it would be too long, so I guess I'll put it here.
I'm getting really frustrated with my aunt (the source of most of my grievances). She knows I have adhd, she knows I have major depression, she knows I have a learning disability (we're not sure exactly what, but I think I may know what it is, but I want to wait for an official diagnosis before I start claiming I have it.), she says she understands, and she tries to be supportive. Until I do poorly or fail something because I was unable to do the very thing these problems make me unable to do. When that happens, all hell breaks loose.

I mean, when I mess something up like that I get very upset. I start crying, I'm mentally kicking myself, telling myself I'm useless, worthless, stupid, that whole thing. Usually by the time I see her I've calmed myself down. Of course once she finds out I screwed up I just end up right back where I was, only now much worse because someone is now confirming my thoughts of being useless, etc., even if she doesn't actually say it, or even mean to imply it, that's still the effect it has.

Her rants always go the same way too. In no particular order:
1. "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed" (because that makes such a difference)
2. "Are you even studying/working? How can I know you're studying/working if you're in your room all the time"
3. "It's because you waste all you're time drawing/playing video games/on the computer/basically anything I do to help cope with depression"
4. threatens to take said distraction(s) away
5. "I know you have depression/adhd/whatever, but..." (this one's only recent, it used to be her harshly telling me to stop crying, so I guess that's an improvement at least)

There are more, but those are the points that stand out the most. And even though I've heard it so many times, it still has an effect on me. I always feel I have to hide the fact that I'm doing things other then working, I can never fully enjoy doing anything without feeling guilty about not doing something else, even when there is nothing else I have to do, and of course I can't go to her about any of my problems because I know she won't understand, especially if that problem happens to involve me screwing up (she says she won't be angry if I went to her about those problems, but I know from experience she will).

I can't move out for a while yet, but I can't have this continue to happen, but I have no idea what to do about it...

tl;dr: I have problems, my aunt says she understands, she doesn't, she gets mad at me for having problems

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Your Sprite Art / Trainer Sprite Help?
« on: June 25, 2014, 19:04 »
I want to make a trainer sprite for my E4 topic, but I can barely sprite, and what I do make is not the right kind of style for a trainer sprite, so I was wondering if I could get a little help?

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Wireless Activities / Elite Four Member - Dragoncat
« on: June 09, 2014, 20:39 »
(Still under construction, but all the information you need is there. I'm using Ghost types by the way. And my signature pokemon is Aegislash. Sorry for the lack-luster intro, I'm still working on that. By the way, could someone help me make a trainer sprite?)

Rules:

-> No more then two Dark Types may be used.

-> Format: Single Battle

-> Clauses:

-Sleep Clause - No more than one opposing Pokeon can be put to Sleep by one of your Pokemon at a time. If they use a move to put their own Pokemon to sleep, this does not activate Sleep Clause
-Species Clause: Players cannot have two Pokémon with the same Pokédex number on their teams.
- Evasion Clause: The moves Double Team and Minimize, as well as the abilities Sand Veil and Snow Cloak, are not allowed.
- OHKO Clause: A Pokemon may not have the moves Fissure, Guillotine, Horn Drill, or Sheer Cold.
- Endless Battle Clause: Any moveset on any Pokémon that is capable of causing an endless battle is disallowed.

-> I can only be re-battled once a day.

Banlist

Arceus
Blaziken (speed boost & mega only)
Darkrai
Deoxys (A & N formes)
Dialga
Giratina (both formes)
Gengarite
Groudon
Ho-oh
Kangaskhanite
Kyogre
Kyurem (White only)
Latios
Lucarionite
Lugia
Moody (Ability)
Mewtwo
Palkia
Rayquaza
Reshiram
Shaymin Sky
Talonflame (Gale Wings only)
Xerneas
Yveltal
Zekrom


Information

-> Showdown Name: dragoncat
-> Ingame Availability: Soon
-> Availabilty: 6:30 PM - 3:30 AM GMT is usually when I'm available.

Wins:2                                          Lose:4

Winners:
Delicious_Scout
ShinyBlaziken2000




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Trades / Another trade shop (dragoncat's trade shop)
« on: April 08, 2014, 02:41 »
Well, I'm drowning in near-perfect pokemon (and Fennekins) here, so why not, I guess. Hope no one minds. Anyway, for now I'll just be trading away my rejects, but maybe I'll start breeding more regularly if things go well. I'd prefer if you matched IVs, but I'm not too picky, especially if you happen to have a pokemon I like/ am looking for/ is hard to get (or almost any shiny unless it's a shiny fennekin, then I might cry. I'd still take it, but I'd cry.)
Anyway, here are the pokemon I currently have:

-Honedge (mostly Quiet nature, but there are others too)
-Ferroseed (best IV ones are mostly Careful, lower IV ones have larger variety of natures, most have egg moves Stealth Rock, Spikes, and Leech Seed)
-Mienfoo (almost all are Jolly nature, egg moves Knock Off and Smelling Salts)

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Your Art / Dragoncat art thread
« on: March 18, 2014, 21:42 »
So, hope no one minds if I make a new thread to post some of my art. I hope this is okay. Oh, and critiques and requests are always welcome.

So, here's a half finished Giratina drawing to start (half because of backgrounds)


(on a side note, guess who can't figure out how to add an image to a post without uploading elsewhere first. If you guessed me, you're right and also good at figuring out the obvious. Help?)

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