Your Forum life! Page 2

Started by BeachBoy April 23rd, 2008 8:50 AM
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Ho-Oh

used Sacred Fire!

Age 31
Female
QLD, Australia
Seen June 5th, 2022
Posted April 23rd, 2022
35,988 posts
17.5 Years
I totally should base this on screenshots, but I can’t be stuffed. Or can I? Actually I can’t. XD;

Anyways, according to my profile, it began off on November 15th 2005. But before that, I … wanted Pokémon jukebox and kareokemon or however both are spelt. Those songs that were on at the end of Pokémon episodes, I liked them, and for some reason I couldn’t find all of the songs (I think I wanted the actual episode part, meaning whatever Pikachu or whichever Pokémon was doing at the time the song was on… if that makes sense) I think I found PC through the episode requests thread, and then made my way through that to find the first place I could to ask for the episode ending songs. This was probably… somewhere. Oh, and I signed up as simpsonqueen because it was going to be nicadogs, but I liked the Simpsons. XD I dunno, I didn’t really care about PC, and didn’t care about getting along with anyone, just as long as I got what I wanted. Though, later, I made a thread, which was pointless relating to toasted TV and Pokémon… I think that was because I might’ve wanted to… just let people forget about the other pointless, repeat threads I made. And, then there is… http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=55904, to further get through the point that I was sorry about posting wrong and stuff. XD; I seriously have no clue what else I did… but according to the threads I created, I found my way to MCG, and started creating clubs… pointless clubs. XD And then… I went to other sections, creating more pointless threads. (Basically my entire first couple of months at PC were pointless. XD) Um… what next… I forgot what comes next, the… oh, I’ll just explain it in order of remembering. XD OKAY, so, I remember my first friend was A-one. Back when there were friends lists members could type in >_> And sometime around the beginning a person randomly PMed me to pair with him… There was also three threads, the Dragonair club, and the Arcanine club… where I posted Growlithe images I think. XD Oh, and in either of the two, there was a kinda debate about what Arcanine was, dog or… tiger. There were also… ep cards. Which obviously… meant something I’ve forgotten? XD There was the club for gold, silver and crystal. I made up a guessing game within that thread, and Kylie complained that I did, so that’s when I learnt never to mix games with clubs. I think. But the answer was Miltank, obviously. Though I think I got letters mixed up and nobody knew what I was on about. Also, the person who started that thread (username forgottten) got banned, and pretended to be his sister and pretended to be his friend o_o It was funny though. Next club… um… Plusle and Minun. Created by a fan of May from Pokémon… her and… someone else were breaking rules a lot within that thread, being offtopic, etc. XD They also got into a fight and were talking about real life… and stuff like that. NEXTLY, (or probably not in order of these events) was April fools… when PC made the forum black, but I was determined to post in my subscriptions. I was like, worried or something, but it sure was exciting. Better than any other PC April fools events I’ve seen.

Sometime after that… came my FC… which is still alive-ish. Following that, was the Poochyena/Mightyena club, and meeting May and Tali. May’s n00bish banner of Altaria/Typhlosion was funny. XD; After that… well, I kinda knew Rene around the time when I joined, but mid 06 is when I basically got to know him/May/Tali. Then Jae came and… did stuff. Jae/Tali brought on the zomg stage of things… meaning, zomgies, zombies and zomg. Um… and there was also spelling vegemite then, and wanting to get a showbag of vegemite at the royal show. XD; Who else from around then? Oh yeah, meeting Kenji, which didn’t mean as much as Tali, etc then. And, somewhere towards the end of 06, PC wasn’t working for a while, and May asked me to get Jae’s email (or was it Tali… wait, probably May) and, while PC wasn’t working, May got her dog, Misty. XD; I thought you’d all be interested by that. Anyways, sometime… in… whenever, Tali got Skype, and expected all of us to get it too. Which we did, but then she couldn’t talk to us on it anymore. D: Because of her parents, because of that, I decided to get BF a cbox, (which was created august 2006) I got this because I wanted to talk to Tali directly… um… okay, on October… well, between the 10th and 20th, Jae left MCG, which eventually led to us following him to the DCC. I also got my username changed for the first time to ×× Nica ××… Oh, and at some point, for some reason, I met Macy too. OH, and at BF: We had a Christmas party, it was fun. May, Tali, etc attended. We made graphics for a thread, though all I offered was… pictures of my animals. XD 365 people world… which only had about two people… but yeah, about January 2007, Tali and I decided to try speed posting etc, to raise our DCC post counts. We were successful at raising it until Jolty and Matt teamed up to take us on… and we lost that. Okay, 7th of January… Jolty PMed Tali and I, telling us not to post in the DCC… but that didn’t stop anything, so we continued posting, but way less. Following that, we came into the interesting stuff… okay, first was Shayla, who posted in Tali’s FC thinking she was an Altaria or something. XD That was awesome. Next, Marz PMing me to post in his Espeon club… (26th of feb btw… I’d go find other dates for other events, but it takes too long to look for. XD) Then there was the Lugia in banner thing… skipping to April… well, April fools sucked. XD Then… 5th of April – 10000 posts. Also, I got a new account, ditching my main one, the new account name was Kawaii. April 28 – BF got 100 members. 8D Oh, and I got into trouble on my birthday. XD Then… stupid ebil xylophones. May 20th – Used the Tali one month inactive banner (even though she was inactive for a month the next day… XD)

May 22nd… Tali said she’d come back to PC, though sadly on May 23rd she said she wouldn’t be back ever again. WELL GUESS WHAT? SHE WAS WRONG. Which I’m glad about :D Second pair. I made 2007’s June DCC (The second last monthly one.) Another pair… Ryouki bet I couldn’t survive not using XD for a week…and in June also, TCTI got created, which was really the remake of the never ending counting game, but we’re not talking about remakes of previous threads. XD And it only got created cause I couldn’t be stuffed to, and asked Mage to create it for me. XD; I made a poll in that months DCC for a reason… XD Also in this same month, I created the Police-y Staff, which is a story about the staff being police. (Well, not all, cause some weren’t… and it was incorrect a lot of the time, so I needed to keep editing usernames etc in the story. XD;) Made a graphics shop sometime around then… just dunno when. July 12-th, left PC as a joke… returned July 14 (This is called July fools cause of… yeah.) The Police-y Staff also had a new version, new members, it was bad, and mainly because of the poisonous full stop idea that wasn’t even my idea. XD Um, a song about PC… XD Changed username to Nica-chan, which was copying Tali basically. XD Sometime… I also came up with pairings of people that don’t match. TPOT appeared at BF… which was important at the time because… of something. It got people re-interested in BF and, later on TPOT was thought to be psychic or either understood me. Which was strange at the time, because… not many people understand me. XD; Cookie party idea thing. XD I made a quiz about The Police-y Staff, Rene answered that the year it was set in was June, but too bad for him, he lost the quiz and Went won it… with only two participants. XD Username change to Nica-chan³, which didn’t last many hours. In October, stupid idea for the squared club being created, copying the cubed idea… Went was the only one to agree to doing so. Astrid said eating with her family is romantic. Physital… TSA being a password to the world of anime… PC tax return… XD In November, I got TCTI’s 10000th post. Tali was online! I created pokmns r the rulerz for TCTI specifically. On the last day of November, paired with Kenji. December… username change back to simpsonqueen. Also said that TSA’s suicide was true… my FC got closed because of Shika. XD The day before Christmas, Tali properly returned. And I also made up a screenshot of her returning on a Monday, which she did. Made TCTI FC. XD Cedrik… at BF said he had a daughter. Pachi’s and Bellossoms. PC was hacked by these people… it was funny. XD I created an account called Bellossom… which had swapped username with HFK… so therefore, Bellossom became xx Nica2 xx. I quit PC (But actually I returned… over a month later.) On the 27th of January, HFK came into existance (my username) In February… I posted in BF’s cbox that I’d return to PC, but then Went screenied, meaning I had to. On the 18th of feb… (well, the day before I used Kenji’s account to view PC) Went wanted me to post on PC so he gave me his password to post on PC on his account. And… Midnight Winged (I think) didn’t believe it was me. So yeah, later on that day I returned. Quad-Triple-y²… March 25th, got 20000 in TCTI though dedicated the post to Went cause he wanted it or something. Forgot. Spamming on someone’s forum for the fun of it… XD Another account, ayepreel-fyewls, on April fools. XD YunaDances x munna idea… got support, and then they got together. Oh, and at some point in April, another account, Fifailre. YunaDances came up with Nica x Went to counter YunaDances x munna. Bridget created Came as opposite of Went, but I didn’t think that was the real opposite, so I created Arrived. And… Devil. XD Akari said she was the God of Went and I. So then I paired with Went. Germaneze… the dead dog that is non-existant.

AND THAT’S MY PC LIFE UP UNTIL NOW. I’ve been meaning to reply to this for a while… and… yeah. I probably forgot stuff too... but I tried to include the important stuffs XD;
Age 26
Male
Somewhere, Over the rainbow
Seen October 14th, 2013
Posted October 14th, 2013
150 posts
15.3 Years
My story begins 2 or 3 years ago at Duongens of Storms (A sonic, Pokemon, Rockman, Yugioh, Yu Yu Hakashu fan site) and I joined under the name of BeatlesFan247. I got a crowd there with little posts, that was the only fourum that I've been in in which I admitted that I had Aspergers Disorder (Google it). After that, I made an account on youtube called conicteamtv using my one man organiztion name, conicteam, but before that, I had one called haoxfun247, and I deleted that account. Before I joined MFG, I joined 1emulation and fooled them into thinking that I was John Travolta, but I ended that trick after a few posts. I then joined MFG once I got into Mugen, but after about 2 months, a user condsidered for me to go to IMT. The crowd was very kind and suportive.

A year later, I joined Nintendo Worlds Wi-Fi forum. I then joined the forum I post in today, but some of those forums I still post in.
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Usagi-Chan~

What are you doing my love?

Age 25
Non-binary
US
Seen March 7th, 2023
Posted August 23rd, 2017
626 posts
15.8 Years
My PC life began at about August 07' when I joined as treeko3605, a young noob. It all started when I joined my first rp made by Lash. I was denied because of my atroshish spelling, mainly cause I needed help with spell check. I held a grudge that made me leave for two or so months. Then I started my own RP which was sucsesful. Then, or so I thought Lash and I made up, It was like nothing ever happened. But he lied. Then in late December we had a fight because of that lie. Later on, out of spitefulness I called his birthday crappy( if you read this,sorry again), so I got in trouble with mods but then Lash and made up after we both confessed we had family problems. Then in early February I changed my name and became an pair with tsuchi-chan. Which is about all. On a side note I also joined a now dead Naruto RP.
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Age 31
Male
Santa Isabel, Mexico
Seen July 7th, 2018
Posted February 2nd, 2016
4,000 posts
18.9 Years
Back on '04, I was looking for tips on Pokémon Ruby and was directed to PC by a friend whose username in the forum was Golden Groudon. I was a young fellow eager to make friends aswell, and met lots of people. I made great friends with Sachi, Castrainer, John (sugarPUNK) at first. Then time passed on and I lost interest as many of my comrades had left. I got disconnected for a while.

When I came back, I met oni_flygon, who shared many of my interests in music and life in general, as well as PC. He was a mod at the time, but quickly became an s-mod and then an AA before quitting shortly after. His spots on OW and OE were free then, and I was somehow considered and chosen to mod them the last day of '06. I agreed. oni is still probably the best comrade I've had in my online life.

After a couple of months I think, I was offered Pokémon Fan Fiction aswell. I tried to develop new rules for my forums as well as higher stantards on writing and strictness as a moderator, which got me many n00b haters for a while.

Things had been normal until around October of last year, when OVP was taken care of by Sammi and the whole Poll Of The Week thing was going on. I wanted to help her so I offered to take OVP as well, but I was promoted to orange a few days later instead.

Since then, It's been pretty much trying to improve stuff here and there around the forum withany help I can provide. I've been somewhat inactive the last few months, though.
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Age 36
Male
Argentina
Seen March 15th, 2011
Posted December 24th, 2010
1,955 posts
17 Years
I wonder if I can write as much as you people... Let's see...
NOTE: Please refrain from reading this if you dont like stories about videogames, videogame making, or rom hacking. This one is filled with a lot of that.

Spoiler:
---INTRODUCTION: What was I doing before discovering Pokecommunity?

I was always attracted to videogames, specially those where you can edit stuff. And, out of those games, I always loved RPGs. That's why as soon as I got a computer, I searched for them and I ended up discovering the world of RPG Maker 95, I was probably 11 at that time. It was good but it really didnt fit my needs.
Then, RPGM2000 came out and I started to have so much fun with it!

So, I searched web pages around and found a lot of games made with RPGM2000. That motivated me to keep working on some project and finish it. The bad thing was: I lacked the courage to show my work, so in the end, I left my projects abandoned to always start a new one.
However, I kept at it, and, even when the 2003 version of RPGM came out, I still was hooked to 2000, dont know why.

Now, where does Pokemon fit in? I think I played Red in an emulated version a lot of years ago. It was a freaking awesome RPG, then the series came out and it was good as well (at that time, then we know what Nintendo did with everything), anyway, while Pokemon was becoming more famous, I kept working on many failed projects for RPGM. Then, the idea of making a Pokemon version out of RPGM crossed my mind, so I started to work on it. It was going good, till...

---PART2: How did I discover Pokecommunity?

...I dont remember which forum was, but there was a post which said "rom hacks are better than RPGM games". I felt so insulted by then, that I had to prove the post wrong. That's what motivated me to search for "rom hacks" around the web.
I think it was around the end of 2004-start of 2005 when I found the first rom hacks, they were for GB, and one of them was Pokémon Brown, by someone called Coolboyman. The game was quite different from the original, so I thought... "hey, this looks interesting, let's search a bit more..."
So, I started to look for places with rom hacks. And Pokecommunity was one of those random places that search engines gives you as results. So, I took a look around, and, apparently, GBC hacking had already started (while GBA hacking was at its diapers), changing some texts, and maps, mainly (there was people still looking for mapa data to add to Gold Map ^^)

By that time I was just another lurker, never really joined, looking at everything and downloading some tools. I tried to make my own GBC hack, but, well, since I couldnt make as much as I wanted, it also ended up as another failure. That's when I decided to give my Pokemon-like RPGM game another chance, forgetting about Pokecommunity.

And that continued till the first months of 2006...

---PART3: The real "joinage" to Pokecommunity!

You find me again, looking for more rom hacks (after being bored of playing RS, and a bit bored of RPGM). Apparently GBA hacking was doing great, and I found the first finished GBA rom hack: Pokemon Quartz, by Baro. Again, I saw it as something really interesting and that's what brought the name "Pokecommunity" back to my mind. After a while of checking how the forums had changed, it seemed that there were a lot of projects around, and specially, a lot of new tools. The bad thing was that I needed to register to download some of the tools, so, reluctantly, I joined PC. Yes, I had joined a forum for the first time in my life, seriously.

My first months around PC were pretty lame, I admit it. I dont think I have posted in like, one or two months. But as I was looking at the projects, it seemed some guys were starting to work on a Gold remake for GBA. Since I always loved Gold, I became obviously attracted to those projects. I saw Christos' Liquid Ocean and specially, an event with Deoxys and thought "hey, we can do our own events? WOW!"
And, after playing As_Stars_Go_Out Gold remake, with awesome mapping, but a serious lack of scripting, I decided "alright, I want to do something like this, but scripting will be my priority and I'll do things MY own way"

And so, I embarked on the heavy task of starting my own Gold remake, of course, as usual, I was afraid of showing my work, so it took a while till I made enough work to feel some confidence. But after two months, I had enough to have a Beta ready, and enough to have more in store for later.

And that's how Shiny Gold's thread got created...

---PART4: The lurker can speak!

...Of course, it was created but it was taking a lot for it to appear... "What's going on???"
After a few days, I took some courage and PMed the only guy that seemed to be active around the Hacking area, Scizz. He replied "your images arent showing, that's why your thread didnt got approved". I didnt understand, but still, I changed the server and reposted the thread. Finally it showed up and I started to get a bunch of replies from people who, like me, always loved Gold remakes, but...

Meteor struck PC, and a heavy backup was made, deleting my thread. Oh no...

Anyway, I reposted again and that thread is still here on PC (you'll find in one of the first posts "what happened to the thread?", proof of the first thread being destroyed due to the backup... XP

Basically, after that, the whole story becomes about Shiny Gold, mainly. I probably never got out of the Rom Hacking section during the first months, but after being there for a lot of time, and, having a lot of other sections to look around, then, why dont we check'em out?

---PART5: And zel can also expand to other areas... maybe a bit?

While working on my rom hack and being mainly active at the Rom Hacking area, I started to feel interested in the Other Chat and Other Voting Polls. Then, as I made a few friends who were starting to expand themselves out of the rom hacking area as well, I found about the Member Fanclubs...

...and that's pretty much like it. Since I dont own any of the latest Nintendo consoles, I dont find any interest in the gaming area. And also, it's not like I'm a very talkative person (despite this long post, which, as you can imagine, was done first on Wordpad >.<), that's why I dont think I can really expand more than that.

Anyway, a lot of stuff (related to my hack) happens after that, like, getting stuff from someone who didnt ask permission to the original creator (I had to ask them personally), wanting to leave PC due to some frustration, getting a virus and having to restart from an old backup, closing that second thread (due to spamming) which I was highly attached to and starting the third (and current) one, and also some bad stuff like what happened on last December of which luckily it's all in the past now ^^
And of course, how can I forget the horde of friends that I've made along the way. Even two of them becoming mods! (such kind of things make me feel proud in some way)

I dont think the rest of my forum life is interesting, each time I log in, I check PMs, check my threads, check some other threads if my Uni life allows me to, and then log out. Basically, like everyone else.

---ENDING: The future is bright and shiny... Shiny Gold! >o<

All in all, I had a lot of fun since my strange joinage almost two years ago, and I'm sure I will keep having fun as long as you youngsters dont think a twenty-something guy can still fit around you :P

I'll still work on my hack till it is finished, after that, I'll plan on something else while still being active because, I said it on some other thread, to me, PC is like an addiction. Does anyone have the cure? Yeah, I thought so...

TO BE CONTINUED...

...IN A FEW YEARS ;)


Age 31
MA
Seen July 26th, 2008
Posted July 26th, 2008
1,123 posts
16.3 Years
...I would be thrown at Murderface to be paired with him, and that didn't work out (I don't even know what happened).
...I'm not even sure what happened there, actually. All I know is that it was the best damn 23 minutes of my life <3

XD alright, here's my story:

One night at about 3 AM, while intoxicated and caffine-high, I was bored, so i started playing through my fire-red game. I go stuck, and didn't know wtf to do next, so I started looking for a walkthrough of it on google. Somehow, one of the links to it brought me to this site, and I started browsing around for a while. I started posting around in the "pokemon fanclubs" for a while, then passed out at my desk out of exhastion. The next day I was on my computer, and saw this website in my IE history, and was all like "...wtf?" and clicked back into it. I had nothing else to do atm, and just started browsing around a bit. I was posting in some Poke-fanclub like some little newb, and met up with DarkIllusion. We started talking for a bit about just...random poke-related crap (y'know, the whole "LOL I LEIK MUDKIPZ" shizz), and she intruduced me to Marz.

...We hated eachother at first, but started growing on eachother, and began to talk more after that. That's when I met "Kikyo" (or veronica, or...whatever...) in a FC Marz had made for Espeon. We started talking, then she attempted to brutally e-rape me through MSN text chat. As it turns out, she was actually someone I know who lived down the street from me, got freaked out, and blocked her. After that, me and Marz had this like, 2 hour MSN chat about how messed up it was.

Then there was FLY...oh god...FLY...I still have intense feelings for her <333

...She called me and Marz gay, then I started flirting with her. This lasted about three days, and then she eventually left this forum because of it. It was amazing. After that, I hunted her down on the "Cave of Dragonflies" forums (where I met my current pair <3), harassed her a bit more, got her LJ (which I was banned from, btw XD), and started playing "furcadia" with her. Horrible experience, btw.

XD Flash-foreward a few months later, in this time, i met some other great people, like Arisa, Harmony (Under the name "Cosmic" then. We all thought she was a dude ._.), Midnight Beat, Chikara, and Klippy (we met outside of MSN in an msn chat.). Kouyuu and I met up in the "Leaving/Absence" thread, and started talking a bit in my old FC about how much ass CoB kicks a while later.

Anyways, that's basically it, not getting into explicit detail.

wakachamo

Seen February 15th, 2020
Posted August 10th, 2019
2,709 posts
17.9 Years
Wow... certainly an interesting thread. Great to hear everybody's stories and experiences in this very distinct forum. :'D

So I became interested in Ruby/Sapphire right about when it was first released. I had all the previous games, but it was in 2003 where I really became a fan of the franchise.

So, later on to 2005 where FireRed/LeafGreen were the next new thing, I found Serebii.net by doing a couple random Google searches, and then eventually SPPF. I joined, I made a few posts, broke a few rules because I was so stupid (I was 11 at that time - didn't have absolutely any idea of what the world was like XD), and, coincidentally, found the PokéCommunity due to a fellow countrymate I found at SPPF - QFred.

So yeah, I joined PC June 13th, 2005. (FG's birthday omg) Was a happy-go-lucky little nub, new to the world of the interwebs. I made a few posts, and then eventually became inactive. I became interested in gaming in general, and just moved on to other sites.

So in September, I tried paying PC a little visit... And I made the first step to making myself completely addicted to the boards.

I joined the IRC chat.

Being the suck-upish little innocent prick that I was at that time, I had never talked to an actual PC staffer before, and thought that they were comparable to like, holy messengers of God or something, so you can imagine my reaction as I first saw Signomi on the chat.

"OMAHGAWD IT'S SIGNOMI? WTF XDDDDDDDDDDD OMG GIVE ME AN AUTOGRAPH NOW HAHAHAHA"

And that very quote started me off at PC. I became a regular poster, a regular IRC chatter, and so on and so forth. For a good, solid year and a half I was making about 2 posts every day, getting involved in almost every type of conversation that was up on the forums.

Moving towards the beginning of 2007, I discovered a board called the Diamond/Pearl forum. For some reason I fell in love with it. Maybe because I was able to help people in need, to answer almost every question that was out there, or simply due to the fact that I was very, very hyped for the game itself. I dunno, I just liked hanging around there and making a couple reports every once in a while to help the mods keep it in order.

June 2007, I was promoted to moderator of the Diamond/Pearl forum. I honestly wasn't expecting it, seeing as I didn't really give a good impression out to most of the PC staffers... XD

August 2007, I screwed up. Due to something personal that had happened, I broke a severe rule and was demoted. From then on, I started going less and less to PC, until I eventually became inactive for a while. Still lurked every once in a while on the chat, mind you.

And now, I'm just... here, I guess. Apparently I can't really separate myself from this forum seeing as, like Signomi said, I've been through a lot here and it's probably the website that's really impacted me the most and shaped me to make myself who I am now.

I don't think I'll ever forget about PC, not because it's probably one of the friendliest out there, but because the friends I made here were, and still are some of the best friends I've ever made, be it online and off.
Age 33
Male
Seen July 15th, 2015
Posted June 30th, 2015
8,343 posts
18 Years
Even though I enlisted in June 2005, my history here actually started sometime around March of that year. One day, I asked this girl named Eliana what "PC" was, and she happily gave me the link to this forum; after doing some initial scouting as a guest, I decided to put off enlisting for a while. In June, I was given the link again, and it was then that I finally decided to get an account here. I had an initial advantage in that I actually knew some of the people here from other places; my integration into forum life here actually went smoother than most. Back then, I was quick to make new friends; before long, I was paired with someone, and I ended up with a nice little network of contacts in both the staff and the civilian population. We would spend large portions of time spamming the DCC and talking about Stargate SG-1, Tales of Symphonia, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, and whatever anime happened to be airing on Adult Swim at the time; the irony of being a member of a Pokémon forum while not being interested in Pokémon at all has not been lost on me, even after all this time. I also made some forays into roleplaying.

In May 2006, I was banned just one month shy of my first anniversary here. A friend of mine made the mistake of enlisting a few days afterwards; due to confusion over IPs and a very poor choice of words on his part, my own ban was extended until July. When I was allowed back in, I came back to find PC a slightly different place; about half of my friends had left or otherwise disappeared from the forum in the interim, and a bunch of strangers had sprouted up in their place. Blaming them for the degeneration of the forum, I steadily grew more hidebound and militant as the months passed. Finally, in October 2006, things finally came to a head, and in the span of just a few minutes, I had lost everything. I was supposed to have been banned for just three months; however, due to the involvement of that "friend," I ended up getting banned for half a year.

When that second ban was lifted in March 2007, I just decided to keep my head down and try to covertly rebuild what little reputation I had left. However, I was quickly found out by some of the members who still remembered me; that exposure proved to be of little consequence, though, as the vast majority of members here just don't give a damn about their predecessors. I've managed to rebuild to some degree by getting myself a new pair and some new friends; however, I think I've made even more enemies in the time since my return, and many of those people are either in the staff or otherwise enjoy a great degree of popularity amongst the rest of the population.
Seen April 20th, 2011
Posted October 19th, 2009
976 posts
16 Years
Ah well I don't mind sharing. It's been a while too...

Anways, I joined a Pokemon forum, not this one, Serebi. I joined it because I thought it would be a fun place to be. I think I joined around Aug. 2006. I will refrain from revealing my identity at SPPf, so please do not ask. Anyways, at SPPf, I remember my most favorite thing to do there was going to this person's shop who's username was Amazingkiss. I remember her graphics were amazing. She was the first person I looked up to when it comes to graphics. So after cruising around the Fan Art Shops area, I went into the clubs section. There I met the person how you now know as Michii (She had a different username but I will refrain from revealing her username too). She was the one who ran a club and we became really good friends after that. I even remember her giving me a Christmas present 2006 too. ^^;

So anyways, after that, Michii made a forum and I could not resist from joining. You see, at that time she was banned. And I wanted to know what was going on. So I joined and to ask her. After all of that, I spent most of my time on that forum. And on that forum, I became a mod, as well as my other friends. And we desisions on how to make this forum better ect. So a few months has past after joining Michii's forum. We even had people advertise at SPPf. And who knew? Who knew that our advertisment would lure mods in to our forum? Well even though that may not sound like a bad thing, it actually was. One mod in particular, which I have had a grudge on ever since then, always made fun of us. Always made fun of the people who were helping Michii's forum. And it was quite hard to resist, unfortunatlly, the mod told nearly all the staff to join just to make fun of us. I actually know why the mod made fun of us. 1. I believe she was suspicious when she knew my name was Kisa. As many Furuba fans know, Kisa is a character from that series. The mod had a likeing in Kisa. And the mod thought I was copying that mod. 2. One of my best friend's pair stole the mod's pair. I believe that's one of the reasons why the mod made fun of us. Now notice I did not mention the mod's name or gender because I will keep this as unrevealed for now.

After a few months, we finally got the mod off our shoulders. Until a new person came by, which I will also refrain from revealing the name. I guess you can say I was jealous. So I decided to leave that forum and SPPf. Since I also remembered from being banned as well at SPPf(And guess who did it). So after leaving that forum and SPPf, I joined PC. I was quite lonely on PC because I didn't know anyone here, until I met MiSs~KoN, pink-tiger, and Midori Chi. I was friends with them until they weren't online. So I decided to make a shop from my skills I learned from my friends, Michii and Sammi (No, not Sammi the admin). So I did, and who knew that I would get so many people to know me? So I also became kind of jealous, so I tried to make friends. Unfortunatlly that friendship with this "clique" did not last. Even now.

I went back to the forum Michii made and I realize she was not as active as before. I became quite angry so I made a forum myself with Chikara and Midori Chi. Unfortunatlly, that forum died. I went back to Michii's forum, I can see it, half-died. So I decided to leave, permenently. And then on PC, I saw Michii joined! (The WTF you took my cookie! banner made me realize it was her) It made me happy seeing I had a long lost friend come back.

Then after a few more months, I met Akari, Ayumi-chan, and Jack'O Neill. This was kind of the result of my Lulu fangirlism. xD;

And during the same time, my friend Sammi came up to me on MSN.
"Hey Kisa, why wouldn't you go back to the forum Michii made?"
"-I answer to the above statement I just made to her-"
"Well if that's the case why not SPPF?"
"Why should I go back? People hate me there."
"Nobody will, they won't remember you. And besides, I might be in a shop with you."
"We'll see."

So I might go back to SPPf.
once upon a time there was a boy named kisa.
Olivine City
Seen April 21st, 2009
Posted December 11th, 2008
232 posts
15.5 Years
The first forum I ever joined was the Quiet World. It was a forum for fans of Lemony Snicket. I learned a lot about forums there. Those people there were WEIRD though, so I began to disturb the peace in the forum. Everyone knew who I was, I felt so popular. But then, one day, I had the nerve to talk crap about the Administrator, Micheal, and like a lvl 5 Magikarp against Raikou, I was gone! But I came back. I kept coming and going, but it was the final straw when I picked on a moderator. I cleaned up my act a lot since then, I mean I was only 13, now I'm 16 and more mature.

I joined PC as my second forum I could call home and prove to myself that I was mature enough to be a part of a forum, and I think I've done well here so far.


Click here to level up my card!

Jigglypuff - The most powerful pokemon. Maybe someday others will realize her power.
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Anti

return of the king

Non-binary
Kobe's Reality
Seen March 6th, 2022
Posted January 17th, 2022
10,818 posts
15.8 Years
Oh boy...my forum/internet life IS PC, so here we go.

On my birthday in July of 2007, I got a new computer. I usually don't get much, so this was an awesome gift. I was trying to beat the battle frontier in pokemon emerald, and I was having trouble (since my last competitive battling experience was when Ruby and Sapphire first came out, and I didn't play on Netbattle very long). I saw an article on gamefaqs about competitive battling and I decided to build a team. Now I needed feedback, so I used google and found the pokecommunity forums.

My mom said that I could join as long as I don't give away any personal information (oops!), so I joined the forum back when aragornbird was S&M's only mod. I tried several times unsuccessfully to build a 3rd gen team, despite Netbattle (and all memories of it) being mostly gone. I honestly don't know how I forgot so much (probably because I had somebody else build my Netbattle teams originally, back when it had even more bugs than it has now). I was quite the newbie, and I had to be one of the most annoying raters in PC's history.

After joining PC, I also joined pe2k and Smogon, but I never got active under either account. I was too busy driving everybody here off the wall.

I went on a lot of double posting sprees, and even went to triple and quadruple posting. I got in a few arguments (most notably with the forum's old ADV whiz, Mullet), and finally help from Alter Ego and Rubberbandman made my teams not suck as much. I thank you both tremendously for that ^_^ I downloaded Netbattle again and eventually started to get good at battling, though I was still a horribly obnoxious team rater. I was banned sometime in this time period, and it really sucked since my grandfather died during my 2-week ban and I didn't have my friends here to help me get through it.

When I came back from my ban, my attitude changed a lot. I made an honest effort to not be so mean and annoying, and to some extent I was successful. Finally, I downloaded shoddy battle and made a rather mediocre team. Still, I managed to get some victories over some of our better players and I started to lean towards DP and away from ADV battling. Still, I obviously was still stupid enough to act like a jerk to Syaoran and leave because I love to overreact to things. Of all things I've done at PC, that is my biggest regret (being a jerk to Sya, that is - leaving helped me a lot).

After that, I eventually befriended Dark_Azelf, Loquacity/Blueberry, and Syaoran. After coming back, my attitude improved a little more and as time progressed, my n00bishness wore off and I started to get good enough at DP where I could actually compete with our best battlers.

As time has went by, I've replaced n00bishness, arrogance, and overall idiocy with narrow-mindedness and being very opinionated, but overall I'm happy with how things have gone on PC. I still regret so many things though, and sometimes the way I can act today really baffles me. Meh, I at least make an effort to not be too much of an idiot anymore.

I still have a lot of things to say, mostly things involving "I'm sorry" or "I regret...," but this is about forum life, not a pity party. lol

Today, I'm a fairly active Shoddy battler and occasionally Netbattle as well, and I try to stay active in Strategies and Movesets. I lurk on Smogon and post a bit on pe2k since S&M isn't as active as it used to be. Otherwise, I don't really do anything on the net. So that's my forum life, full of regret, sorrow, friendship, and triumph. Joining this forum I Googled at 2 AM has been so worthwhile though :)

Ironically, I never actually accomplished the goal I came here for. I probably could beat the frontier with my new fountain of pokemon knowledge, but I gess I don't really care anymore 0_o

Ninetales1

Japan-flavoured Europhile

Age 35
In a country I currently despise
Seen August 27th, 2013
Posted August 27th, 2013
723 posts
19.7 Years
WHY didn't I see this thread before?!?
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The first forum I ever joined dates back to 2001, when I was looking at Digimon websites. I went to one that was on a site called The Otaku. That site had a feature where you can create your own Digimon, but it said that in order to submit it, you had to be a member of Otakuboards (the forum there). BOOM! My first forum. That one had all sorts of different anime discussions, including a Pokemon section. I spent most of my time chatting about Pokemon or Digimon (or occasionally Yu-Gi-Oh); my username was even Nefertimon. This got me used to the idea of posts and board rules and moderators... chatting was fun.

Later on, I joined a second forum. I forgot exactly what it was called, but it didn't last very long... I was a moderator there, but most of the people were spammers... so I just abandoned the site...

Then there came the day somewhere in 2002 when Otakuboards started something called an "Adventure Arena", a section dedicated to RPGs. I became interested in the idea of collaborating on stories, but I came out as very n00bish at first. My very first post in that section was in an RPG I didn't even sign up for, and people were pissed... I also posted in an invite-only RPG where I wasn't invited, and my post quality was a tad poor... Not to mention that most of the RPGs were written like plays, with dialogue and everything. One particular one used a lot of smilies too. Memories... But I did earn quite a name for myself over time, and spent most of my time in RPG's, creating new characters and having fun all the while. I was even in two RPGs that actually ended, one of which was a Digimon RPG of my creation.

During that time, I was searching for Pokemon websites, and came across Pokemon Safari, which at the time had lots of screenshots for the anime. I also noticed that there was a forum called Pokecommunity which focused on Pokemon. By that time, for some reason, the Pokemon section of Otakuboards closed... so I decided to join Pokecommunity for Pokemon discussion. My favourite section of PC was the Trivia/Games section at first--I practically lived there, and people even told me to post in the other sections.

Then I discovered the RP sections on Pokecommunity. The first RPG I ever created there was one about a Pokemon race... so fun indeed; too bad it didn't last very long. Over time, I began to join a few more RPG's there. I remember hoarding all the Pokemorph RPG's with a Gardevoir/Alakazam fusion Pokemon. Of course, the best RPG's I joined were still in Otakuboards, but these weren't bad.

2005-2006 came along, and not only did my RPG quality improve, but I discovered a new forum: the Serebii forums. That one had an RPG section too! Unfortunately, there was a silly feature of the forums where one's username is deleted if he/she is not active for a certain period of time. As a result, I went through three different usernames on that site, the third and still-surviving one being Kiruria... The RPGs were memorable, especially the large number of X-Men and Harry Potter RPG's I joined there. My most memorable RP experience there was in a Harry Potter RPG I created... but it died, sadly...

During the year of 2006, the RPG quality of all three forums (Otakuboards, SPPF, and PC) was about the same in my opinion. I also started saving my RPG posts at this time. Although I occasionally did things elsewhere on the forums (in PC I remember making a trainer card shop and a personality quiz to determine which element you were), I spent the majority of my time in the RPG sections, because I had gotten quite a love for creating characters. I had no friends on any of the forums, but at least I had a good time.

But in 2007 things started to change. First of all, I went on a pretty long hiatus from RP'ing for the most part; the only RPG I ever looked at for a while was one called "The Space Shield Crisis", here on PC. After the hiatus, starting in late 2007 or so, two things happened. First, the length of my RPG posts and especially my signups increased drastically, from then to the present... Second, I found an RPG called Tohea, which simulated a Pokemon adventure. In it, I could sign up as a character, pick a Pokemon as a starter, then start my journey. Instead of other members posting in it, a referee would... well, the system is rather complicated, but I really got into it.

By that time, I had abandoned SPPF, because the RPGs went too fast, and I wanted to pay more attention to my Otakuboards and PC RPG's... But, Otakuboards was declining in membership, activity, and RP quality... so I joined fewer and fewer RPG's there. So by 2008, PC became my number one site for RPGs, next to my occasional posts in my Tohea journey. The first four months of 2008 were glorious--I joined several RPG's, and even had friends on PC at last. Phanima became my first friend, having met through RPG's. Trainer Kat followed, and... well, I was so happy...

However, by late April, I found three other Pokemon RPG's like Tohea, and began posting in them a lot. It was in those RPG's (Tohea, Althea, Mistree, and Sokuyo) that I posted my longest signups in RPG History (Lupin's signup in Althea, omg...), got even closer to my favourite characters, etc. etc. But as a result, I pretty much abandoned Otakuboards, and didn't post in PC very often...

That situation continued until the present; however, things are beginning to change again. Mistree and Sokuyo are dying, so I probably won't be posting there ever again. My signups for Althea are done, so I don't have to spend as much time there as I did before. Occasionally, I still check Otakuboards to see if there are any good RPGs, or just things to talk about. And I think I will start to become more active here on PC as well.



[size=1]^^Banner by me!
Age 31
Seen March 14th, 2009
Posted November 30th, 2008
224 posts
15 Years
I can't even remember the first time I joined a forum. Lets start with why I started communicating with people over the Internet, I had a best friend for ages and she just suddenly decided to stop talking to me one day without a reason (NOT KIDDING, Not a single word and we had been inseperable for 2+ years). So, my trust in myself with people was even more dented then we got a computer and I fell inlove with the Internet. I mean, it was just amazing, I could find anything I want with the tapping of a few keys and the click of a button! (OH THE POWER!!)

I used to be fanatical about Neopets but it got incredibly boring and it changed so much that me didn't like it anymore, anyway neopets had got me into the whole Graphics making side of things (With the guild layouts and whatever) so I decided to look around for somewhere else to talk about Graphics.
This was about I don't know 5-6 years ago... after spending much time jumping around forums, never spending more than a month at one because I needed to find the right one, I came across the game Pokemon Crater and I think that was on May 06 2006 (I THINK) and it had a forum too (YAY!). Something just clicked with that place and I stayed there until it closed just before this Christmas *sniffs*, during that time, I made tons of friends (Okay not tons, a few good friends that I still talk to, some role models etc.), got really into spriting then out again as I explored signature-making and I also became a moderator there as well. Loved looking at the art of one member called Nocturnal Moth. The Spriters were just great, off the top of my head, I can remember....Fury, Albert, Biohazzard..so many and I can't remember how to spell some of the forum names so I won't say anymore lol OH YES... how could I forget.. ESEPIBE! I loved his infection series (I think it was called that), and the rest of his art work.
Moderating there was pretty funny at times Some people just can NOT read rules. No matter how many times you direct them to the rules after warning them, 5 minutes later they break another rule! Just incredible. It was alot of fun at this forum, just so many memorable memories (I think those words together work XPP).

After Crater shut down I played neopets again briefly as an Avatar Collector. It had changed so much, it was just awful in my opinion.
After getting bored of Neopets again, I joined Aisenfield (A forum), and it is serious hilarious there. I enjoy it alot.
Oh and I also joined The Manga Volumes forum because a friend made me laugh enough to join it, and I occasionally post there.

Inbetween all that, I have joined quite a few forums, but Crater happens to be the one I've probably been most active at. Since I can remember, I've used a forum name with the name Renn in, I can't remember where I got it from. Its usually funkeh_renn or Renneh.

And then yesterday I decided it was about time I join another pokemon-related forum and this is how I landed up here. Its been great so far ^^ Lots of warm welcomes.
Age 31
Male
Minnesota
Seen February 1st, 2023
Posted August 31st, 2011
504 posts
19.2 Years
Okay I guess I'll post my history here just cause it seems like a cool idea.

Hmmm....
If I recall correctly my forum adventures started out around 2001. I had be playing on a Pokemon website known as Pokemon Crater, then I referred through them to another online Pokemon RPG know as TPPC. There I was 'recruited' to a proboards based forum known as "Draciel Elite" and was based around BeyBlade and Anime, through that I meet a friend Gold who I idolized at the time, being an influencal (sp?) twelve year old, (he also sparked my interest in anime as a sidenote.) but I followed him to two forums one known as Final Fantasy Extreme which I became very active on for a few years and they helped me improve my roleplaying abilities. The second forum which I joined was Melody's Articuno Forum. It was a conforums based forum and admit I acted quite like a n00b at the time, but they put up with me anyways and I made some good friends there.

Over the time I spent in the proboards and FFE I also created a few various forums of my own but they all died the same. Then on Melody's I heard them talking about this "PC" and I became interested and finally asked one day what it was, they told me and gave me the link and soon after I joined under the username Silver (Yeah, you could say I idolized Gold and wanted a similar username) but here I became active in random threads posting a good deal for about a year or so, then I sorta forgot the PC and went on to join other RP forums and GAIA Online (in 2003), and after being active there and improving my roleplaying for maybe a year and half, I vanished from the forum community. When I finally emerged about year later, PC had reset it's self and my account have been deleted so I quickly re-registered with the same name, made a few noobish posts and dissappeared again, only to stumble upon it when I got back into pokemon when I bought Diamond, that sparked my memory that I indeed had a PC account and went back to check it out. I didn't really do much, just lurked for a few months but now I have decided to become active once again and enjoy my time.

-- Silver

Victoria~

surrender to my s o c k s~

Age 29
Brazil (forgive my bad english)
Seen March 30th, 2020
Posted October 5th, 2008
129 posts
15 Years
Hmm.. I started my e-life basically in some music forums. It was great, not just because I got to know a lot of nice bands and all, but also because of the friendships I made.
One day, I discovered that is possible to play pokemon in emulators :OOOO And started my peregrination on the internet to find one; soon, I came across a nice pokemon forum and was like love at the first sight (I'm a total nerd, as you can see). I registered as Mia and soon became popular there (maybe because I was the only girl in the forum so far), despite my noob²²²³ beginning (to have an ideia, my three first posts were "... Yay, dis fórum iz nyce :~D").
I frequented this forum for quite some time, almost two years; it was a beautiful time ;D My Light Era. Everyone knew me, I had a lot of friends, I was a global moderator, everything was just fine. Then my crappy computer broke and I spent two months without using it. When I came back to the forum, I was nothing more then a blur of what I used to be /dramaqueen
Nah, i never really cared about popularity there. Really, be free, even if you're not the LEET MEMBER. I mean, it was just a pokémon forum. After my two months absence (some of my e-friends even thought that I DIED at a PLANE ACCIDENT in last year's july.), I couldn't find any motivation at all to post a lot like I used to. I'm still posting there, but reaaally few posts.

Well, then in May 28th I was innocently searching for some PokéSpe scans for me to download and theeen.. I found PC! Nice, huh? x]] I liked the forum's stile, and although English isn't my first language, i'm trying really hard to be understand by the other members.
now I'm still a newbie member, a junior DD:" Not a great member, but i'm happy this way :3
next week's theme: insanity
current week's theme: colors
Being colorful is IN
where I belong
Seen November 4th, 2015
Posted August 10th, 2012
3,472 posts
18.1 Years
Ah, my forum life...
It started back in 2003, when I joined a Brazilian Pokémon community website called PokéStar Evolution, and started to work there as a newsposter/newsfinder. Since I had the best english out of the members there, it was usually my task to 'investigate' foreign forums and websites for exclusive Pokémon information. And then I found this place.
Back at that time, I had like 5 contacts on MSN and everything was so innocent. And here I had found a forum with a steady growth in members, activity, and a lot of people who shared the same interests as I. Soon later, PokéStar Evolution died, but I continued to come here.
My first year on PC was marked by a single thread: the Crush Thread. It's a shame that a thread of those proportions will never exist again... everyone should have the experience of posting in a thread that's pure, chaotic fun. In that thread alone, I met a lot of people and had great times- PC was basically the Crush Thread. If you started posting there, soon you'd know all the cool people.
Well anyway, during that time, many things happened- pairings and unpairings, 120+ MSN contacts, 200 posts a day... Maybe too many things. And as time passed, the staff were starting to lose control over that thread, and it was finally closed. Not many months later, I had my computer taken away from me. Sad times. Three months later, on Christmas day, I was back. Yay.
This is the time when they tried to remake the Crush Thread- but it just wasn't the same, so it failed horribly. Everyone from the CT had moved to the new 'great thread', the Daily Chit-Chat. It was almost like a Crush Thread, except it had... rules. We could live with that, though, and the DCC was our new hangout. Me and some friends even called ourselves the DCC <censored> (lol) the greatest group to ever exist on PC. (awesome.jpg)
After many trials and hardcomes (but not really), I was promoted to moderator, but not many months later had, again, my computer taken away. My parents were really worried about my health at that time, because of respiratory problems I used to have, and they believed the excessive time in the computer was making them worse. Months later, I came back kinda unmotivated, and the state of the forum didn't help either. Many had left, many weren't active, and it just wasn't that fun anymore. Then, in December that year, I decided it was finally time to get the fug out, and got myself banned out of pure irritation. :D If I had to tell you one positive thing about that, it helped me find out who were really my friends (those who still wanted to talk to me), and who were the 'others'.
Outside of PC, I was a member of a couple random forums. After I was banned, though, I started to become active at the bRO, Mt. Moon Community and Gaia Online forums. bROf died, Mt. Moon is dying, but Gaia deserves special mention. I joined there because some of my friends from here had a guild, and I wanted to keep in contact, y'know. During this period, I had a lot of "meh the internet is boring" and "HOLYPOO I NEED THE INTERNET" phases, but eventually decided to stick with the latter. That's when I started to frequent anonymous image boards and dedicate my time mostly to downloading anime- my number of 'now watching' series jumped from 4 to like 15.
Those in-between years were spent on random small communities around the internet. Nothing really big, but I had fun exploring all kinds of places and making friends from everywhere in the intertubes (also watching just like every anime I could :B).

Now, all those years later, here I am. There's nothing more to it- I'm just here again, and I promise I'll behave this time. :3

I'd like to use this opportunity to say a big Thank You to my friends who never stopped talking to me, even after I was banned. You probably know who you are.

~ | there is no need to be upset.

Aden

Lucario's best buddy

Age 31
Australia.
Seen November 11th, 2011
Posted November 11th, 2011
87 posts
16.4 Years
Okay heres my forum life.
Around September-October 2006, I was looking for a good Pokemon Forum to join, and I came across Mount Moon Community, a up-and-comming Pokemon forum, with great members and awesome moderators.

I signed up, and posted a bit.
I got a name for myself pretty early in the picture, because I started off to be quite n00bish.
After a while, I settled down though, and posted a lot more.

In late December 2006, a freind of mine got modded over there, and I became very jealous because I wasn't modded.
I didn't relise that I made very spammy posts in the past, and that I'd really only just improved.

Anyways, in early January 2007, I looked for new forums, because I decided to ditch MMC with my 900 or so Post Count.
I found PC, decided to join and start a new.
I didn't really like this place back then so I returned to MMC.
People would have seen me around, a lot more, and I kept up my posting, until, once again, anther one of my freinds got modded, and in a jealous act, I decided to flame him over MSN, and get him fired.

The plan back-fired, and I ended up getting into a bit of strife.
I still continued posting on MMC, and stuff, hoping for a miracle, or something, for me to end up being modded.

A couple of other people got modded, who wern't close to me, and I accepted that, and became more active.

My closest freind, became a Moderator over there then, but that was short lived, since one of my other ex freinds, who were a mod got him fired.
My freind told me what was going on, and we soon got the other moderator fired too.

I kept up being active, until I had to go to study, which was about June-July 2007.

I came back in October-November 2007, and noticed that a newer member, who had joined in August 2007 had been modded.

I was peed off, so I left.
I came back in early 2008, and posted a bit.

I managed to get 3.6k posts, and came up with a plan to become a moderator.
the plan got foiled, however, after the admin dismissed it, and locked the topic.
I left then, and became a bit more active over here, since I needed some relief, plus they were talking about how strict it was over here, and I wanted to see if it was freindly or not.


In Febuary 2008, The moderator who joined in August 2007 got fired, and I tried to get his placement, but it was never given out.

I left my life on the computer completely in about May 2008.
But only recently, I came back here, to stay here, and I've ditched MMC forever.

Melody

Banned

Female
Cuddling those close to me
Seen March 4th, 2018
Posted March 2nd, 2018
6,459 posts
18.6 Years
Well, All I can say Aden is that chasing Modship on a forum usually gets you look over when it comes to picking mods.
That, I've learned from experience.

Anyways, Here's my forum background.

I joined here in October of 2004, I was, very much depressed and friendless. So, PC is my 'home' forum irregardless of how much I hate how some things are done here. I've since learned the serenity to accept the things I cannot change about this place, But I'm not afraid to try and speak out for change when I can
In January of 2006, I lost the ability to get here on PC. I wasnt too happy about that but it spurred me to find other forums. I joined OCRemix but found most of the members too rude for my tastes, After 2 failed attempts at creating forums with friends from school I moved to ExPost, a nice little forum my friend had recommended. It was a pretty nice forum withb a lot of interesting intelligent discussions and such. This was...yet again sadly short lived and the forum quickly died in the power vacum left behind when the founder of the forum left.

For a while I didnt do too much with forums other than learn how they worked. I built a 3rd forum with another friend and we hung out there quite a bit, Just us 2 admins. From that I've gained immense skill in operating an ACP.
Time passed and I found myself back online in April 2007.

I returned to this forum hopeful that my friends would remember me. I was wrong. The ones who hadnt left had changed. A lot. It wasnt long before I found myself stabbed in the back by the ones who did get to know me when I returned. I tried and failed a few relationships and such.
As I did so, I created my own website, forum and all, while this was happening. It quickly died because my staff members did not stick around. But in building this 4th forum I learned a lot more.
For a while, all was darkness.
In November 2007, I Joined a small forum called Digimon Spirit. This place proved to be full of friendly people and was laid back. I found myself going back to it for a long while. But, In Febuary, I got too busy to visit there often, However I still dropped by. Then, I returned to Digimon Spirit full force a few months later.
It was just recently I got modded there. I'm still there and I'm pretty happy I must say. Not because I'm a mod though. Because I enjoy being at that site.

I'm learning exactly what it means to be a mod at a forum these days. It's not all glamor and fun as some of you might think. >_> It's a tough job because sometimes people forget you're just another member...most of the time.
I'm sure the staffies here at PC will agree.
Seen June 25th, 2008
Posted June 25th, 2008
215 posts
18.7 Years
My forum life began with the Sonic Heroes board in Gametalk about 5 years ago. I remember starting a noobish fanfic that was fairly popular at that time. Then I lost interest in Sonic and eventually found my way into Serebii. How I stumbled onto Serebii, I don't know.

At Serebii, I divided my time mainly in the Ash Club and my first Pokemon fanfic, "Byron's Path". It starred my first-ever Gary Stu, Byron, his starter Machop, and how during the first leg of his journey he encountered a Team [Name] Grunt terrorizing a town and beat its Tyranitar. Since my inactivity was usually equal to a rock, I spent majority of my time probably lurking around and posting pictures and collages of Ash Ketchum in the Ash club.

Then PC began to gain popularity at Serebii since PC and Serebii share the same fandom. I decided to join and, once again, my inactivity didn't allow me the sight of a high post count. I recall starting an Elite Four story here based on the manga. The plot was that the Elite Four were trying to take over the world with an "Emerald Orb". I also recall Tate and Liza fighting Phoebe. Then there was the PC version of the Ash club. Majority of my posts there were either random pictures or hideous collages. (If you want, you can check out my past posts to see them. I've been that inactive.)

Then I lost interest in Pokemon as well. This account would probably be considered dead if I wasn't posting this. I may not be as interested in Pokemon as I was, but I thought I'd do some nostalgic foruming for now. (Until I forget about this account later on, that is.)

Youji

Game Designer

Age 31
Male
Germany
Seen June 21st, 2020
Posted July 15th, 2015
599 posts
16 Years
My forum live began at June 7th 2007 when I searched resources for a hack which I never wanted to publish. It was just for me. That was the time where I had to share my internet with my brother. We always switched the cable from my lan port to his. Someow I found "The PokéCommunity - We are still working on a better slogan!". I thought "OMG what is that. I came in the Simple Questions & Answers thread and I never used a forum before. I haven't known how to browse and use it. But I signed up anyways and thought I will just get my resources and leave this place again. But it came different.

I didn't know where the thread was after my registration so I serached...and haven't found it. I googled it and tadaa I was back in there again.

I asked how to enable the national dex at the beginning of FR/LG. I got a nice reply which I haven't uderstood since I haven't known anything about scripting.

I searched and found out how to make own scripts. And after just 2 hours I got it working that May stands in front Vividrian Forest and updgrades your PokéDex. I was so happy that I searched the forums again. I found "Pokémon Shiny Gold" which I immediately downloaded and patched to my ROM. I played it and way impressed and thought "How did he made that?". After a few posts in there I wrote my first PM. It was to Zel and the subject was "Could you". I don't know the exact message but i was something like that:
"I read that you learned scripting of a friend and I was asking myself if you could teach it to me". He directed me to the tutorials section were I soon learned to create own trainers. I got very familiar to the script and soon helped other members to create trainer scripts. After that I saw a thread called "Nationaldex help" from Micamon 2 (Now Reaper 6). I explained him how to and soon I met the very first staff member.

It came so. I spammed the thread a little asking how old he is and where he is from. After I got redirected the post was away. I posted it again and Scizz started to post.
"Please keep private discussions under PM and don't SPAM this thread".
Well I didn't knew what SPAM means so I replied to his post and he closed it with the words "I watched this long enough now". The I started to PM him. In english at the start since I haven't known that he's German like me.
He said not to SPAM and that I should read the rules. He posted the link to the rules as he knew I was very new to PC. I reda them and understood the most.

Then Micamon 2 and I started to PM each other. We started a hack called Pokémon Legend which died after 3 weeks (Lol it was the most sucking hack here). I met quite a few friends in this thread. Someday I wanted to have it closed and just searched a staff member. I found Signomi. I asked her to closed it. She said that's not her section and I undestood it so that she wasn't allow to moderate there. Not that she is unable to. I asked her again...well then she explained me. Since she, Scizz and Morkula were using the same "profile" theme. Signomi(Trucy Wright), Scizz(Apollo Justice) and Morklua(Miles Edgeworth). I asked Scizz if the staff must pic a staff theme when they get staff. (lol so noobish) After he told me that it isn't like that I asked Signomi if she knows any staff at PC who is German. Well and like it was destiny Scizz was. I PMed him immediatley after she told me if he haven't noticed I'm German because my English was very bad that time. Also I had Germany next to my location just like now. He said that he noticed the Germany but he wasn't sure and as I was asking in English he replied in English.

After that I went on searching PC and find nice threads. I posted and posted and had a few PM conversations with Signomi and Scizz.

I wanted to open a Scizz fanclub with her but she said that she wanted to earlier too and he didn't want to. I PMed her back that he seems to be one who doesn't want to be in the spotlight. She agreed. The next day he was somehow banned. I won't start this discussion anymore since I had around 20 PMs asking higher staff why. I opened a thread and it got deleted and Morkula told me not to ask again as it's stated in the rules not to ask about baninng reasons.

Well I was sad but found Scizz's board. I signed up and asked him what happened. He told me what happened but well not much so but like I said no discussion about that anymore. It's fine.

After that Signomi dropped her Mod position and Scizz was deleting his homepage. Well then I hardly came on PC anymore complaining that it's just an unfair Forum. So I started my first forum on a host with phpbb.

Soon I got some members over there but not more then 20 xD. I quitted it starting many other forums and copys of PC with the headline "We're fair and friendly" which should say that PC is unfair and unfriendly. Well after that was no success I quitted it and started PokeParadise in January 08. It wasn't successful at the start but it got when Horus gave me my own domain and a better host. Then I started to present the site here on PC for a week now and I got a boost of ~30 members where 1 is Staff at PC. The thread creator himself BeachBoy came and likes it.

Well yeah that's it. Oh and after I quitted my copy forums of PC I just noticed PC isn't unfair and unfriendly...

Oh yeah I forgot. I asked many stupid and pointless questions to Jake (Hiroshi Sotomura) and at MSN I wanted to apologizes for that but well I think he hates me xD.

Ahh right I forgot, too. I have my own theme on PC. It's created by me and edited by PPN Steve. It's PokeGeneric2. It's not that nice as the others but I was proud of having my own theme here.

Well now it's over. That's my story at PC.

22sa

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Male
Canada
Seen January 11th, 2023
Posted November 9th, 2022
8,421 posts
19.7 Years
Ah, my forum life...
It started back in 2003, when I joined a Brazilian Pokémon community website called PokéStar Evolution, and started to work there as a newsposter/newsfinder. Since I had the best english out of the members there, it was usually my task to 'investigate' foreign forums and websites for exclusive Pokémon information. And then I found this place.
Back at that time, I had like 5 contacts on MSN and everything was so innocent. And here I had found a forum with a steady growth in members, activity, and a lot of people who shared the same interests as I. Soon later, PokéStar Evolution died, but I continued to come here.
My first year on PC was marked by a single thread: the Crush Thread. It's a shame that a thread of those proportions will never exist again... everyone should have the experience of posting in a thread that's pure, chaotic fun. In that thread alone, I met a lot of people and had great times- PC was basically the Crush Thread. If you started posting there, soon you'd know all the cool people.
Well anyway, during that time, many things happened- pairings and unpairings, 120+ MSN contacts, 200 posts a day... Maybe too many things. And as time passed, the staff were starting to lose control over that thread, and it was finally closed. Not many months later, I had my computer taken away from me. Sad times. Three months later, on Christmas day, I was back. Yay.
This is the time when they tried to remake the Crush Thread- but it just wasn't the same, so it failed horribly. Everyone from the CT had moved to the new 'great thread', the Daily Chit-Chat. It was almost like a Crush Thread, except it had... rules. We could live with that, though, and the DCC was our new hangout. Me and some friends even called ourselves the DCC <censored> (lol) the greatest group to ever exist on PC. (awesome.jpg)
After many trials and hardcomes (but not really), I was promoted to moderator, but not many months later had, again, my computer taken away. My parents were really worried about my health at that time, because of respiratory problems I used to have, and they believed the excessive time in the computer was making them worse. Months later, I came back kinda unmotivated, and the state of the forum didn't help either. Many had left, many weren't active, and it just wasn't that fun anymore. Then, in December that year, I decided it was finally time to get the fug out, and got myself banned out of pure irritation. :D If I had to tell you one positive thing about that, it helped me find out who were really my friends (those who still wanted to talk to me), and who were the 'others'.
Outside of PC, I was a member of a couple random forums. After I was banned, though, I started to become active at the bRO, Mt. Moon Community and Gaia Online forums. bROf died, Mt. Moon is dying, but Gaia deserves special mention. I joined there because some of my friends from here had a guild, and I wanted to keep in contact, y'know. During this period, I had a lot of "meh the internet is boring" and "HOLYPOO I NEED THE INTERNET" phases, but eventually decided to stick with the latter. That's when I started to frequent anonymous image boards and dedicate my time mostly to downloading anime- my number of 'now watching' series jumped from 4 to like 15.
Those in-between years were spent on random small communities around the internet. Nothing really big, but I had fun exploring all kinds of places and making friends from everywhere in the intertubes (also watching just like every anime I could :B).

Now, all those years later, here I am. There's nothing more to it- I'm just here again, and I promise I'll behave this time. :3

I'd like to use this opportunity to say a big Thank You to my friends who never stopped talking to me, even after I was banned. You probably know who you are.
o.o

Ah well I don't mind sharing. It's been a while too...

Anways, I joined a Pokemon forum, not this one, Serebi. I joined it because I thought it would be a fun place to be. I think I joined around Aug. 2006. I will refrain from revealing my identity at SPPf, so please do not ask. Anyways, at SPPf, I remember my most favorite thing to do there was going to this person's shop who's username was Amazingkiss. I remember her graphics were amazing. She was the first person I looked up to when it comes to graphics. So after cruising around the Fan Art Shops area, I went into the clubs section. There I met the person how you now know as Michii (She had a different username but I will refrain from revealing her username too). She was the one who ran a club and we became really good friends after that. I even remember her giving me a Christmas present 2006 too. ^^;

So anyways, after that, Michii made a forum and I could not resist from joining. You see, at that time she was banned. And I wanted to know what was going on. So I joined and to ask her. After all of that, I spent most of my time on that forum. And on that forum, I became a mod, as well as my other friends. And we desisions on how to make this forum better ect. So a few months has past after joining Michii's forum. We even had people advertise at SPPf. And who knew? Who knew that our advertisment would lure mods in to our forum? Well even though that may not sound like a bad thing, it actually was. One mod in particular, which I have had a grudge on ever since then, always made fun of us. Always made fun of the people who were helping Michii's forum. And it was quite hard to resist, unfortunatlly, the mod told nearly all the staff to join just to make fun of us. I actually know why the mod made fun of us. 1. I believe she was suspicious when she knew my name was Kisa. As many Furuba fans know, Kisa is a character from that series. The mod had a likeing in Kisa. And the mod thought I was copying that mod. 2. One of my best friend's pair stole the mod's pair. I believe that's one of the reasons why the mod made fun of us. Now notice I did not mention the mod's name or gender because I will keep this as unrevealed for now.

After a few months, we finally got the mod off our shoulders. Until a new person came by, which I will also refrain from revealing the name. I guess you can say I was jealous. So I decided to leave that forum and SPPf. Since I also remembered from being banned as well at SPPf(And guess who did it). So after leaving that forum and SPPf, I joined PC. I was quite lonely on PC because I didn't know anyone here, until I met MiSs~KoN, pink-tiger, and Midori Chi. I was friends with them until they weren't online. So I decided to make a shop from my skills I learned from my friends, Michii and Sammi (No, not Sammi the admin). So I did, and who knew that I would get so many people to know me? So I also became kind of jealous, so I tried to make friends. Unfortunatlly that friendship with this "clique" did not last. Even now.

I went back to the forum Michii made and I realize she was not as active as before. I became quite angry so I made a forum myself with Chikara and Midori Chi. Unfortunatlly, that forum died. I went back to Michii's forum, I can see it, half-died. So I decided to leave, permenently. And then on PC, I saw Michii joined! (The WTF you took my cookie! banner made me realize it was her) It made me happy seeing I had a long lost friend come back.

Then after a few more months, I met Akari, Ayumi-chan, and Jack'O Neill. This was kind of the result of my Lulu fangirlism. xD;

And during the same time, my friend Sammi came up to me on MSN.
"Hey Kisa, why wouldn't you go back to the forum Michii made?"
"-I answer to the above statement I just made to her-"
"Well if that's the case why not SPPF?"
"Why should I go back? People hate me there."
"Nobody will, they won't remember you. And besides, I might be in a shop with you."
"We'll see."

So I might go back to SPPf.
Cool, I didn't know you were at SPP before this!

+++respect

It's sad how I choose to do this over my homework >_>
Mine's short. Mostly because my internet history started with PC :/

K umm... PC was my first forum ever, and I joined on October 19, 2004. I don't even remember my reasons for joining, I think I googled something at school, and BAM there was PC. All I remember from back then was being numbers in my name, and being a nooblet. People enjoy bringing up my noob days. And they all seemed to start enjoying it around the same time... Hmmm....

I was quite the little pairing <insert adjective> way back then. This was because I didn't understand what pairing meant, and when I asked, the people didn't know either so I just did it XD;

Then I learned and stayed unpaired for a few months ._.;
THEN CAME MY JAPANESE MUSIC ADDICTION YEARS. They're still here, but they started in 2006 with my friend gave my a CD with the Inuyasha and Yugioh songs. I was amazed at hoe effing awesome all the songs were. From then on, it's almost all I listen to, but I'm broadening my horizons. I started listening to some Chinese, Korean, and Spanish music, but after I while, I went back to Japanese. I dunno, they just have a different way of playing I guess :/

Somewhere during this time, I met my besite, Arisa. We were NOOBS <3
We met in the Fruits Basket fanclub, back when I bolded all my posts(ew), and we talked a little through private messages, and because excellant friends through AIM. Then we stopped talking and I (I'll admit) completely forgot who she was until we started talking again one day XD;

I THINK this was the friendship that put me in the chat with Marz, Harmony, Murderface, Aere, and others. Maybe after... an hour in that chat Harmony suggested me and Marz pair up, and neither of us really CARED at all, so we were like "lol k" and got paired. We survived to halfway up the pairing list (go us <3) and then we like... stopped being paired so I would be thrown at Murderface to be paired with him, and that didn't work out (I don't even know what happened). Me and Marz got paired AGAIN.

Drama happened, and I thought he was gone, so I took him out of my sig a few hours after everything happened. Then I was paired with Aere. I always mess up how that happened, so I won't go into it >_<

Um.

I love how more than half my history is my stupid pairing history XD;
Yeah, I agree it's stupid. Aere's the rich boy right? You paired for money!

J/K

I joined PC in May 2003 because it looked awesome pretty then, with its Plushe theme. I had Godly enthusiasm at the beginning, but unfortunately that only lasted 4 month, before I finally had enough and slowed down. =/ It's funny how I was counting all the posts at Serebii, PE2K, and PC as a comparison of performance then to my surprise my work was actually being recognized by people. Syrus, specifically, who talked about my work. Very cool summer 2003 was =]. I regret not saving a lot of stuff from back then... I seriously do. :\

. きみさえ~ いれば

Tater Tot

I used to be popular here~

Age 15
Male
Seen January 15th, 2017
Posted June 24th, 2016
2,572 posts
17.9 Years
I'm surprised I didn't post in this before. It seems interesting.

It all started back in about the beginning of June-ish 2005 maybe. My brother; as you all know him, The Hunk, had joined a website called "The Pokecommunity." He started off with a crazy username, Spyro- something-another. I had been dieing to join, but sadly, "No! You're too immature." Many a times we had fought over joining, but he wouldn't budge. Then the news came, he had some sort of weird, crazy plan. That involved me to join.

So, I made my first appearance. Not as the guy you know and love, Tater tot, but as the noobish, immature, no coma, period, or capital usage whatsoever, Mandy's Apprentice. Yes, the noob infested day came, July 11th, 2005. (Whee! It's almost my anniversary. XD) My first post,
Hi everyone, I am The Hunk's brother, and he finally let me join. I want to be friends with everybody.
Was actually not made by myself, but was made by my brother. If I had made the first post, it would've turned out rather like this, "hi evryone i am the hunks brother and he finally let me join i want to be freinds with evrybody".
Boy, wasn't I a joy? XD My second post, was in "The Teen titans Fan club" I believe. Which was post 438, page 18. And then my third post, which was later on in this thread. So I went on and on with my noobish months, and realized, as people were growing tired of me and my posts, I was growing tired of PC. I quit for almost two years, which may have been a relief for some. But I came back when I started talking to Midori Chi over PM. No one knew of my whereabouts until my life on the internet started once again, on this date, on this post.
I was still a noob, but a very excited; happy noob. But rapidly, I grew fast to the ranks of a popular, well known; well liked member. And here I am today.

Kylie-chan

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Age 29
Non-binary
New South Wales, Australia
Seen December 3rd, 2022
Posted October 5th, 2016
14,976 posts
18.7 Years
This is... Not exactly the same as the memories thread, so it wouldn't be redundant to post in this one as well, right? >_> Nostalgia threads = win.

Once there was a little girl who was bored and rejected by everyone and was an uptight, know-it-all nerd. Then some drama happened in her life and she became sad. Instead of becoming an alcoholic, she started using the internet, finding solace in some weird psuedo-goth crap that she is ashamed of :x She moved from other fandoms back to Pokémon, which she had loved since she was even... littler, and by this time she was ten. She first found SPPf, but saw a link to PC in someone's signature and drifted over here. Her brother actually signed up before she did, but he never posted and he's a loser anyway. D: After getting herself into a few stupid scrapes by being this über nub ~_~;, she slowly began to make friends -- third person sucks, so I'm going back to first person --, Karli, Jeremy, Jolty, Lily, DM [someone who doesn't come around here anymore], Rudy, Tabby, Carlito, Yami, Max, Lance/the other Max, Blade, Ty-Ty, Sparkles the bunny... Unfortunately, I had the most stupid username in all of existence except a few I could mention, and I'll just say it before someone else does ;~; Dark_Pikachu lawl *flail* Ewww. When name changes were introduced, I quickly changed to Kylie-chan. It might be insanely weeabooish, but... it's what I'm known by, and I'll keep it. ^_^

Anyway, I kept fighting with a particular person, who had recently been made mod of MCG, and whom I'm awfully glad I didn't ruin my friendship completely with <3~ I brought it onto PC, and about one flame was exchanged, but due to a... series of events, I ended up banned. Permabanned, in fact! Except there was some interstaff... disagreement over it, and I got a reduced sentence. From two weeks to one week to four days. XD; I came back and I was so happy -- I cried my eyes out like a loser when I was banned, seeing as PC was all I had in my life still. I had school -- which sucked --, family -- which sucked --, Girl Guides/Scouts -- which I stopped attending because I retreated into reclusedom --, and the internet. ~_~; Then the second PC Elections were held, and Eli [the Eliana Jack mentions] was appointed my campaign manager. It seemed like I was probably going to get Vice President -- Toto was totally going to annihilate the competition --, and then we both got modded! o_o; Other than Cody/Joutarou, I think I was actually the youngest mod, probably still am since then, seeing as I was still eleven. Wait, was Cody twelve when he was modded? I... don't remember. ._.; Anyway, I was an abysmal mod -- overzealous, impulsive, overemotional, overdramatic, but I was active, my time zone was a plus, and I was dedicated. I was given the post of Other Chat overlord, even though I wanted MCG more, because I'd basically become one of the most popular MCG posters due to... posting in everyone's club. I was way less shy then! @[email protected]; Also, due to some crazy cannibalistic conversation I'd had with Yami and Blade, Yami and I ended up these muffin enthusiasts, and muffins ended up my 'thing'. Later other people kind of stole it from me and I didn't hang around PC much anyway, but those who know me from then will know I was the Queen of Muffins. :p

After awhile, I still hadn't been fired o_o;, so I was promoted to MCG mod as well. I was pretty happy. XD I remember Jorfe telling me when I was originally modded to go lie down before I threw up; I was spazzing that much. :3 My original modship was actually only a month after my ban, I think. Nice. ~_~; I was given sig-editing powers along with someone else [Avatar, I think?]; for some reason, I think abuse by someone, the powers had been removed from all the other mods before I joined. Then they made me s-mod, which nearly gave me a heart attack when I saw my orange name. XD I love Erica's orange! It's beautiful. 8D

We still had Praetors then -- renamed Assistant Administrators --, and then they made me one about a week before my twelfth birthday. Don't ask me how I got promoted -- I was a pretty unpopular s-mod, and for good reason. Who got promoted again? *thinks* David, me, and... Bobby? Hmm. I quit a number of times though, and one time I was reinstated as an s-mod, due to the number of times I quit. I also had the crappiest computer luck ever, so I was fairly inactive sometimes.

After ages I just... lost heart for PC -- it was changing too much, and I became fairly bitter and whiny [PC Veteran Syndrome], and I stirred up a bit of drama once from the outside, and I left. Got fired too for certain reasons XD;

I went along without PC -- something I never could have imagined in the past -- quite contently for, what? Two years?, with only the odd posting incident -- I had LiveJournal [lol], GaiaOnline, and MSN to keep me perfectly occupied. Then, the other day, Klippeh<3 and I were talking, and he said I should come back to PC. I was hesitant at first, but then I was like ^___^ okay, as long as I won't be totally ostracised XD;;;, and... I'm back now?
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