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#71

PKMN.NET / Re: All these guests, etc.

Last post by Joeno - June 07, 2024, 22:12

They are called spiders, yeah, although they're not just Google's - I believe a lot of them are LLM related (AI like ChatGPT). There's no harm there.

Despite appearances, the spam isn't worse than before, although it's more visible now obviously. We had a short period where they broke through some of our anti-spam measures, but I've changed some things around to stop them.

#72

General Pokémon Discussion / Snake Pokemon

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 07, 2024, 12:48

Which ones are your favorite? What kind would you like to see in the future?

Seviper's mine. I caught a shiny one while raising a regular one in Scarlet, so that was a fun coincidence! Shoutout to Onix for being cool, too. I wouldn't mind seeing a Water-type snake of some sort, if it's cool enough. Or a regional variant of Dunsparce. I'd rather it not be pure Water, but I'll even take that, if it's designed well.

#73

Media / Animation on the Internet

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 07, 2024, 11:38

It's quite possible I'm not looking in the right places, or maybe I've just been conditioned to only check YouTube, but I don't think indie stuff/passion projects lasting longer than a college endeavor are as prevalent as they used to be. I understand there are a lot of reasons, like platforms being rigid/unrewarding, people getting animation gigs, the fact that animation is hard work, general burnout, and so on, but it's still a shame.

It's obviously not exclusively an animation issue, but far be it from me to complain about the lack of free, high-effort cartoons/anime/whatever else at this point. Trust me, I have a hard enough time building up energy to finish any comics more than a few panels in length, let alone one of nice quality, and I'd argue comics (the way I do them, at least) aren't even an eighth of what animators have to do (though it's probably not a fair comparison, or fair to word it that way...) so I have mad respect for any who still makes an effort despite the odds and/or their upload schedule.

Like I said, I might be under a rock on this issue, so if the winds are changing, I'd like to know! What are some of your favorite projects or animators-- past, present, or whatever's in the works? They don't have to be fancy or plot-driven, mind you-- I enjoy a good Homestar Runner cartoon whenever the Bros. Chaps are able to get them out!-- but on the subject, and on something relatively more recent, I've seen a bit of Monkey Wrench, and it's pretty cool so far. I think the second episode's probably my favorite.

Addendum: I know Newgrounds is still around, and I even ended up watching something there today... which was a video game trailer that aired on YouTube months ago. How many projects end up on YouTube before anywhere else these days, or else get crossposted? In the trailer's case, it was one of those "Hi, I'm the animator and this was cool, now I can share it!" deals, but how many Newgrounds-ers are on Newgrounds for the long haul? I'm sure there are quite a few, but I'm guessing (for reasons I mentioned previously) you want to get as much reach for your stuff in that line of work, so posting across platforms seems almost inevitable.

Might as well ask if anyone on PKMN.net dabbles in animation, too. I'm curious.

#74

Random Randomness / Re: Nostalgia Thread

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 07, 2024, 03:13

Speaking of nostalgia for this site, it probably only really matters to me, but if anyone remembers: who was it who used to have in their signature, "Replace 'Steam' with 'PKMN.net'" and a link to a YouTube video about the Steam Forum rules? If it helps, whoever it was was a mod at the time.

Anyway, that kind of stuck with me. I remember not even knowing what Steam was at the time, haha.

Side note: It's only been a few days since I rejoined, and ten posts and a bunch of edits later, I've been browsing a LOT during my free time. I may have a slight problem.

#75

PKMN.NET / Re: All these guests, etc.

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 06, 2024, 20:29

^Ah, I thought "spiders" was the term. Thanks for clarifying, though!

It never really happened back during the sites peak because spambots just weren't as commonplace/advanced as they are now, I presume. compare 2012 Twitter to 2024 Twitter, for example.

That's a good point, too. I'd like to think spambots are still quite obvious to most people, but man, who knows what it'll be like in 2036...

#76

TV Series / Re: Why did people waste 20 ye...

Last post by Del - June 06, 2024, 16:38

mad respect, you've been hater-posting about Misty for over a decade now, keep up the good fight

(it's very obviously because she was the first female co-lead, and after Brock left and came back, people hoped she would too, since there was precedent for it, and also children like the things they like, and they liked Misty. it's not that deep)

#77

PKMN.NET / Re: All these guests, etc.

Last post by Del - June 06, 2024, 16:35

I'm pretty sure it's been said before that the majority of those "guests" are actually Google Spiders (I think that's the term?) that basically go around scraping websites for information to populate the search results? It's nothing particularly menacing or worth worrying about.

and yeah, we occasionally have spam bots sneak through the registration filter but it's usually not the worst, they get removed relatively quickly. It never really happened back during the sites peak because spambots just weren't as commonplace/advanced as they are now, I presume. compare 2012 Twitter to 2024 Twitter, for example.

#78

PKMN.NET / All these guests, etc.

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 06, 2024, 15:11

Apologies if it's an obvious question, but it's been bothering me for a while: are there really 200 or so people browsing these forums without an account, or is it mostly bots or such? Browsing through some topics and it seems like (a few years ago or so, at least) there were even spam posts by (I have to assume) bot accounts, as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the latter ever happened during the height of this site.

I know this forum is... markedly less active than in the past, so I'm asking out of concern more than anything. I'm also not the most technically-literate person in the world, so I'm not sure if "bot" is the right term here.

#79

TV Series / Why did people waste 20 years ...

Last post by precita - June 06, 2024, 04:29

Looking through the archives people wasted 20 years of their lives obsessing over Misty leaving pokemon, and she stayed gone for 20 years besides a handful of eps at the end.

Why on earth did people think Misty was important?

#80

Say Hello! / Re: Sign-In Book

Last post by DrampardonMe - June 05, 2024, 19:09

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.