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Older Main Games / Gold/Silver Memories ThreadLast post by DrampardonMe - October 15, 2025, 14:08So, since today is apparently the release date for Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver in the US, I figured I'd make a thread celebrating it, and Gen 2 in general! What better way than to share some memories of our experiences with it? I guess we can include Crystal, too, even if it came out later.
What I remember the most is catching my first non-Gyarados shiny-- a purple Drowzee, on Route 35! I evolved it into a Hypno, obviously. They were both my favorite Psychic-types at the time, so it was that much more special to me. Then I goofed up the save file  I also think it was neat you could catch one of the Electrodes during that one part where you're supposed to make them faint to turn off some power generator. I always make sure to nickname that one "ROCKET", because, well, it was being used by Team Rocket. Other than the basic beats of the plot, I don't recall much, but it HAS been years since I played (Not counting their remakes, which as far as I'm concerned were "Most Improved", despite some weird character design choices...) so I may be forgetting some ancient memories I used to hold dear... Anyway, who else is big on Gen 2 and remembers their Gold and Silver playthrough(s)? #2
Your Art / Elite Four Shauntal for Spooky...Last post by DrampardonMe - October 12, 2025, 12:49In all fairness, I don't need it to be October for me to draw Shauntal, but anyway, here you go:
 Also in all fairness, I've only drawn her a few times before. I wanted to work in her book and pen, but I wasn't up to it, so I hid her hands  At any rate, I threw this together kinda quickly, so pardon if anything's wonky. Otherwise, lemme know what you think! #3
Random Randomness / Re: man, i miss the 00's inter...Last post by DrampardonMe - October 11, 2025, 02:04Mostly replying because you mentioned the Utack & Swampy comics, and I kind of regret not internalizing them a bit more. I remember liking them, but that's about it. Something about him mixing berries or something in one of them for a Berry Goop Trap or something? I miss Utack himself, too. He was a swell guy from what I remember.
The other reason I'm commenting on this is, on the topic of 2000s Internet nostalgia: I remember even outside of PUK, sprite comics were Really Big (believe it or not), and I used to dream of making one but with like, sprites made from the ground up. Unfortunately, sprite comics are even more frowned upon than they were back then (I... think? I don't see many new ones anymore, but then I hardly look, lol) so I just kind of got in the habit of trying to DRAW-draw. I need to find a newer tool for making sprites, though... and if I'm gonna do that, I might as well make this game I have in mind... but neither here nor there, I suppose! Wait, is this topic more for PUK nostalgia? Either way, I try not to look back at my old posts (whichever ones still exist from before my rejoining) because it does make me cringe a bit to look at them. But then, I had my ups and downs with this site, too. I think we all did. Gosh, I gushed more than I thought I would. Well, hope I've not been a nuisance myself, haha. EDIT: I could type an entire RANT on Homestar Runner dot com, but five months ago, they were basically making a video about Internet nostalgia themselves, which reminded me of this thread. Just thought I'd mention that. We're not alone, haha. #4
Gaming / Re: Super Robot Wars Y (spoile...Last post by DrampardonMe - October 11, 2025, 01:51^One of the Kamen Rider series is slated to make its official debut in some upcoming DLC for the newest game, and Kamen Rider, Ultraman, and Gundam have some crossover video game history together themselves. Plus, Zyuranger DID appear in a spin-off (if that at all counts, being a phone game and all) so there may be some hope for the Sentai series! ...but don't quote me on that (Unless it happens, in which case, you heard it here first, lol)
And honestly, I get what you mean. I had to slog through a main chapter focusing on a series I wasn't keen on from what little I knew about it, and its presentation in-game didn't help my impression. Where we might differ is, I find new favorites in the context of Super Robot Wars, even if I've never seen the show(s) before. Although, that's not for not wanting to watch (some of) them (L-Gaim's opening theme had me curious about it long before I played a game with that series in it. I'm curious what other shows you might wanna see represented, though. Here's hoping you get your Dream Roster in some way, shape or form! #5
Random Randomness / man, i miss the 00's internet ...Last post by sans the skeleton - October 10, 2025, 21:15i'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 #6
Gaming / Re: Super Robot Wars Y (spoile...Last post by Del - October 03, 2025, 16:35as a Tactics games enjoyer who also enjoys a few mech or mech-adjacent media franchises, I feel like I would probably enjoy SRW, but a lot of the franchises I would want to see just don't seem to turn up that often? You mention Gurren Lagann, which would be a big one for me, but I'm kind of surprised there never seems to be any Sentai, considering how many giant robots that franchise has pumped out. I've never gotten into Gundam or any of the other old school mech shows that seem to make up the meat of the series, so I've just never gotten around to trying them out.
Maybe one day there'll be a game with a roster that Appeals To Me Specifically, but until then I'll probably just continue looking at it from afar. At the very least, big crossover games in a genre I enjoy is a great idea. #7
Gaming / Super Robot Wars Y (spoiler-fr...Last post by DrampardonMe - October 03, 2025, 15:06To whom it matters, it's the first console release of the series in Western territories which actually allows for the use of giant robot shows like Gundam, Getter Robo, and whoever else they shove into any given entry! (wasn't 30 for Steam? I don't count Steam as a "console", per se)
Anyone try the demo? I had a positive-enough impression to get the full game, but then I'm somewhat of a SRW fan myself, lol. I'm somewhere in Chapter 3, enjoying mostly side missions! Not in a hurry to advance the plot, when most of the main plot points don't involve series I like or am able to tolerate... At least, thus far. I wonder how much of what I do actually impacts anything, but I'd like to find out for myself... More generally speaking, are there any giant robot shows you'd want to see in Super Robot Wars who haven't made it in? Or maybe you want them to handle your favorite(s) better in the next entry? I don't wanna go on another silly list of who I'd want in, but it's a shame Gurren Lagann has only appeared in the Z series and... X, I think? Might be fun to toss in Tank Police, especially after we got Cowboy Bebop, of all things. Other than that, just gimme a main-series debut for Sgt. Frog. I mean, if there's any DLC waves after the first two announced for Y, who knows what we'll get down the line. Personally, I'm wondering why Braiger and The Big O couldn't be in the same package as Jeeg... #8
General Pokémon Discussion / Re: How dead this siteLast post by DrampardonMe - September 19, 2025, 18:32Honestly, social media was never going to be a proper replacement for forums in their heyday, but I do think something happened in the late 2000s/early 2010s that caused people to be... more prickly, for lack of a better word? and I don't just mean here on PUK, I mean on the Internet as a whole. Well, maybe that's when social media started to bud, lol
I've been feeling like I wanna use this site more a lot lately, though. I know a made a lot of posts when I rejoined, but... eh, I don't wanna get negative here. #9
General Pokémon Discussion / Re: How dead this siteLast post by sans the skeleton - September 18, 2025, 21:30technically 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. #10
General Pokémon Discussion / Re: How dead this siteLast post by HereForNostalgia - September 14, 2025, 02:08It's a shame that everyone moved to Discord, I remembered this site recently and it holds so much nostalgia for me. I used to be on here constantly when I was a kid.
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