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Most recent social media I tried was Discord.
Feel clueless on how to jump into the conversations. Ended up deleting it. |
Well... Bulbagarden also gave me weird vibes sometimes. I can't put my finger on it but it should be telling that I followed most of these people to the absolute worst of Tumblr.
As far as I know my account is still active, but I refuse to go on there because it's gotten even worse since I left. |
I have Discord but I barely use it. It's nice for some stuff on PC but actual normal conversations idk. It may be a little too fast paces for my taste. Feels very awkward being in a group chat, at least for me it does. ^^"
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honestly i found pc at age 10 and stayed here. never found a better internet home anywhere!
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Same here, and I've been here for less than a year. Something about the vibe of PokeCommunity just sits right with me. Any age is perfect for finding a home in PokéCommunity, whether you're 10, 16, 26 or even older.
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You do need to be at least 13 years old, though. Age restriction because of law shenanigans.
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Wait, is discord considered social media?
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Personally never considers Discord to be social media. Feels more like a chat program. Revolves around social aspects, but without social media things such as likes, viral posts, and sharing.
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Discord definitely covers the "social" aspect but not really the "media" part in the same way things like Facebook do. It puts more value in the community aspect while regular social media put the individual in the forefront.
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As far as I know, Discord isn't considered social media. I just called it that way because it was an extension of my Twitter life, since the people I used to be around reposted a lot of content from (their own and others') Twitter accounts.
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Talk about Discord huh
Idk much bout it since I've never even had it installed, but it's more of a chat program I think. As for other social medias I have a facebook account, which I use solely to dump Switch screenshots xD |
I used Discord for a training course group made server (an IRL group but we still had lots of fun with that server... whether or not we were at the same place ^^).
Then I tried PC's general server when I discovered its forums. I tried to come in as my character, hoping to bond, but didn't feel very welcomed. I asked then if we could have an In Character chat, but that was denied , so I didn't stay active in PC's Discord server for long. Still checking here and there, but... |
Yeah, I feel you. Having the Discord server is nice, but you don't really see the same people there are you do in here. I'd say it even feels more "equal" in here, being able to interact with most of the staff who are also regulars in the forums.
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All the cool people hang on the forums, ya know :coolcat:
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A benefit of the forums is that it's just slower. You have more time to think and you can always go back on a previous topic and stuff. Discord is a little bit more fast paced and in a way might encourage ingroups to get even more tight knit, making it harder to get into? Honestly, hard to describe my exact thought. But I'm also one of these people who have severe issues with any sort of group chat, always had. ^^"
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Forums are just perfect to write walls of text haha! Which is helpful sometimes ♥♥♥ Introductions and presentations on forums are so deeply different than on Discord, given that here everyone can make their own threads for example.
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It's gotten pretty hard for me to keep up with the forums lately 😅
I kinda neglect certain sections for days on end out of a lack of time. |
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Real life comes first, and we are on the forums for fun (mostly ^^)! |
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There are some sections that I should check more often than I end up doing, as well. ^^"
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I've barely been in Off-Topic at all last several months D=
On another note; I actually have to set my alarm clock on my days off now just so I can post the images for Spot the Difference on time xD |
I like checking out the role playing forum even though I've never roleplayed in my life.
It's unique and I like seeing the writing. |
I respect people who can create long coherent stories. Even when I just tried to make some really short stuff it always was way over my head. ^^"
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I like to roleplay and pretend I'm a human :coolcat:
I wrote some short stories way back in highschool, but I'm pretty sure they weren't that great 😅 |
Roleplay talk? :catlove:
Everyone starts somewhere haha, dw about it~ |
I loved writing as a little kid. Got older and fell out of the hobby. It's still really impressive seeing others do it.
I don't think my writing had any coherency yet somehow I got an award in 5th grade for it. |
I never even cared much about how good my writing was... oops! Hopefully it's good enough to win in this thread~
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There's only one way to win: someone has to close the thread. And then others can't post in here, anymore. You want that responsibility on your back? :3
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Does it get me the win ? |
Hmm... You're quite the bad influence ever since you changed profile picture, Megan...
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Maybe she misses having her beloved hammer at her side? =D
Where did it go anyway... at the shop for repairs? =o |
The hammer is never far away. Don't be fooled!
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Makes it all the more compelling to ask what's got in her head...
Maybe it's the power that comes from becoming a "princess" :3c (any reference is totally random) |
You'll see it when it needs to show itself. And when you see it it'll already be too late. :P
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You'll never see it coming...
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Then it can be announced for everyone to cheer. |
It could be turned into a ban-a-bot tournament! =o
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At the end all proceeds go to an organization dedicated to defeating spam bots.
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Megan sounding menacing right now...
By the way, I really should start banning more bots, it's been a while since last time I even got to do it... |
Getting rusty, are we? 😉
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I stopped actively doing it at some point and then Devalue joined and I just can't compete with them and Starlight both at the same time. ^^"
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B-but Rust in Peace is a very good album :thinkrem:
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I'm late to the party, but I've always been self-conscious about my writing despite how much I love doing it. Part of it is the stress of minding your use of a foreign language, and part of it is wondering whether your ideas will fly in the notably irascible fandom that is the Pokémon fandom. |
I tend to be critical of pretty much anything I make 😅
Be it a written story or one of my crappy drawings =3 |
ive never really been fussed about what the greater fandom would think about my writing tbh. i just know the story i wanna tell and get it written. people can take it or leave it haha and the block button can be used liberally if they fuss
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oh hi anna
you're one of the few people that i actually care about whether or not they like my writing, so i hope it's been reading nicely to you so far ♥ (but yeah, the greater fandom is a group too large and heterogeneous to worry about!) |
Anna is just like Chris Pratt (as described by the English translator in the Mario Movie cast reveal): so cool.
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(From the earlier bot banning conversation)
Winds up high on bot-slaying numbers due to cleaning out old visitor messages. Starts from one year ago and works forward. Gets super laggy if you go any further back. Tries to stay a few days ahead of the tipping point. |
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That's dedication... I lost that bot-banning drive over time :sadwick: |
To be a writer is my dream. I feel like I'm really living the things I write, and feel happier and fulfilled on days where I have written something, reading a great story also excites me, sometimes I literally jump out of my chair when I'm really into what I am reading, and when I am out of time to read, I still find myself daydreaming about getting back to that good book, and seeing what happens next.
The trouble is that I seem to have not enough time in the day to write and read as much as I I want to, something is always carrying me off. |
Is more of a reader than a writer. Engages little in both nowadays. Generally only reads books when away from home. Passes the time while waiting on medical procedures. Sticks to the old, simple books of youth: Redwall, Harry Potter, and Dragonlance.
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Definitely ate up the Harry Potter books. Fantasy is the genre I have always been most drawn to because I like to escape every day ordinary life I am currently revisiting Middle Earth, and rereading The Lord of the Rings, earlier this year had such a magical time picking up the Hobbit. I have always liked fairytale, myths legends and folklore since I was a kid too.
I need to get back into the Sword of Truth series, it was off to a good start. I have a bad habit of checking more books than I can read at once, and not finishing them. I also want to pick up where I left off with the Forest House, and the Homeric Chronicles. |
I wanted to try to write something in 6th grade after I read on the Scholastic magazine thingy that some teenager had a book published (it was Swordbird). I thought I could rake in big cash if I got my own book published. I wrote maybe 5 pages and ended up exhausting all my mental energy. Then I discovered ROM Hacking a year later on PC lmao
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Anyone ever write fanfiction?
I kinda want to submit something to the small writing competition again. I did I get an idea as soon as the prompt of past, present and future was given, but I have a tendency to come up with bigger ideas than I can put to paper by due dates, and think I probably won't have time for the project i would like to write, so I have avoided entering since I am not sure. |
Would my short "fact-checking pokédex entries" or little interviews count ?
Also, if you enjoy writing, with or without due dates, I say do it! |
As for fanfiction, I feel like I would only try to do it if there was some reward other than self-gratification, since I'm not really a good writer and I don't know how to appreciate the art.
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The short stories I wrote back in high school might qualify as fan fiction. They were set in a video-game I played a lot at the time and with characters from it.
Otherwise no. |
Never wrote fanfiction (in memory, at least). Understands the appeal. Feels weird to write for established characters, though, and perhaps restricting?
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I have to one day rescue one of my OCs in a Pokenon fic I wrote. I left the story on a cliffhanger, and she was quite literally laying unconscious on the floor of a burning building when i stopped writing. I want to return to that story, I liked writing it, and there were reviewers on ff who enjoyed it too, and wanted to know more, but I got busy. Now I worry that the story has been dead for too long to try to revive
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I think Pokémon is a great franchise to write fic for, especially in terms of writing canon characters, because like. We see enough of them to get an idea of their personalities but you can kind of do whatever else you want with them? There's just so much freedom in interpretation~
tbh people routinely pick up fics after years and years so if you want to finish it go for it! its more about what you want to do, really~ who cares if it's "late"! |
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(Coming from someone who used to wait up to 6 years for a fanfic update somewhere :p) |
So what events and activities has everybody been enjoying lately this get-together, or looking forward to?
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Enjoyed Eevee's Arcade and VG Trivia (despite probably knowing fewer answers this year). Also liked seeing Mind Read the Room results. Got some close ones in the Multiple Choice round.
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I really like the Fakemon Design Content, and looking forward to the next prompt. The Custom TCG card creation looks cool too.
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spot the difference is killing me but i do love puzzles lmaoo
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I have some tech issues right now. My computer is not working, I type on my phone a lot, but the provider I have throttles the speed, so web pages are really slow to open and images especially take a long time to view, and often appear broken for me, so because of loading issues I had to bow out of spot the difference. The puzzles are already super hard, and the problems I was having with graphics on top of it were too much for me to over come.
Cuz my connection is so weak I also have decided to avoid online games and activities where we have to chat live, I could drop out at any second. But I can't complain, there's still a ton of fun things to do. |
Unfortunate on the tech issues. Hopefully solves that soon. Is glad to hear you still managed to participate in some areas.
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I'm also waiting for a new prompt in the Fakemon design contest to see if I can get in. |
Yeah thanks, not quite sure when all of my electronic issues will be worked out, but i'm still here in spite of those setbacks, and happy to be here, and we're having good silly, wholesome fun.
I'm really glad organizers were able to make the get-together happen this year. It's been awesome. |
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Since my turn was up straight away for Paint & Describe I'm done for both. Bit of a shame as both are fun to do. Participated in the VPP community event and finished that too =3 Participating daily in the Forum Games & Pokémon Trivia Spotlight and I try to improve my score in Eevee's Arcade every now and then. The arcade event was fun last time round too, so I just entered it again straight away =P Quote:
I did have a bday to attend today, but I finished drawing Grumpig and Spoink and making a background before that, so afterward all I had to do was use one of the template thingies and turn it into an actual card =3 Which was kinda hard for me as I don't think I've ever actually played the TCG, only collected it. I just browsed around on lots of different cards and made an educated guess at appropiate damage and HP numbers =P Drawing the images for that card and making it was actually a ton of fun =D So I'm participating in 6 Events + running 1 myself. |
They are awesome, and PC forums are the best forums ever! I am also happy to see people here having fun!
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Paint and Describe is one that I'm in as well. I entered as a describer, but I suspect that the painter has more fun, and next year, if the game comes back I might try my hand at drawing. I had to take a peak at Rekoil's trading card, he knows that Spink is one of my favorite psychic pokemon. So even though images load slow for me, it was more than worth the wait seeing Grumping jumping up and down in the bouncy castle. I love it! Fabulous. I hope that the birthday party you visited was a happy one as well!
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I saw ReKoil's card too! I didn't know my favourite Glaceon is so good at drawing art!
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Though I am Team Guerreros that doesn't stop me from loving you two wonderful Team Arqueros members.
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https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=449660&page=2 Link leads to page 2, but there's drawings on page 1 too. Though before I started drawing things again I did do some other things in there too, so it's not solely drawings. I kinda draw infrequently nowadays out of a lack of time. Though I do have days where I'm just not in the mood too =P |
Awww... We love you too, you awesome and charming member of Team Guerreros!
*Hugs* Awesome! I will certainly have a full look at your showcase tomorrow, ReKoil. ^^ |
Ooh those are some cool drawings.
Also, what do people feel about math? |
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I don't know how to feel about something in which I once managed to succeed at the supposedly more complicated part of the test, but failed at the supposedly easiest part of it!
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EDIT: Though I mean this question is more open ended. If people want to talk more about niche and complex stuff it doesn't matter to me. |
Oh those were pretty dull, defnitely got more fun when looking into things such as mechanics and the like, where it was used more for problem-solving. That said, trig is kinda neat too!
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Well, I could go on about polynomials, but I already did in a certain other thread and am not going to just copy / paste! ^^
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Well that ain't no fun! Like is there anything in particular about them you like?
I also remembered thinking that matrices were cool the first I heard of them because lmao Matrix, now because of my job a matrix is one of the most annoying things in my work day... |
Though, I happen to have, right next to me, a book about sciences, including 23 pages about matrixes, logarithms, factorisation, the logic of the blur, etc...
Do you want some ? ^^ |
I would definitely like some!
I did fairly well in math in high school but I started skipping class in university so I don't have a good fundamental knowledge of linear algebra nor calculus (the epsilon delta stuff). Though I did really enjoy enumeration and combinatorics! |
I wouldn't want to do you the misfortune of parting with them - although of interest, why DO you have them?
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I don't even know what combinatorics are! ^^
Here is one : About the factorisation of 756 : 756 = 2 X 378 ; 378 = 2 X 189 ; 189 = 3 X 63 ; 63 = 2 X 21 ; 21 = 3 X 7 ; 7 = 7 X 1 So, 756 = 7 X 22 X 33 Where you asking this to me, Count Dracularc ? I am nowhere near good at science stuff, but I am still pretty curious to read about it and how it works (even if I don't understand the half of what I am reading XD )! |
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Pursuit of knowledge however is great! I used to dabble in Wikipedia articles until I realise 3 hours later I've just spent all of that time reading up on weird maths stuff lol |
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It is getting late for me though. That was fun! See you later! |
Bonsoir!!!
I guess keeping to the maths tangent - odds right now that the thread ends and our winner is decided? Otherwise... hello... anyone there? :pleading_face: |
I am here!
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qwerty hiiiiii hru
whilst you are here - you do realise your sig is like REALLY out of date right? |
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