Hello there and welcome aboard, justincharles. I really love your enthusiasm about joining in here and we're really much more excited than you are to have you here in our board! PC would be the place if you're looking for a hangout wherein you could discuss both Pokemon and other things and at the same time meet people and make friends with them! There are a lot of people here who knows a lot about Pokemon, don't expect too much from me though, I'm bad at remembering Pokemon names & stuff, haha
I suggest the Pokemon gaming boards if you're looking for interesting discussions about the games, these boards that I'm talking about are B/W, Fourth Generation Games, Advanced Generation Games, Metal/Color GBC Games, and the spinoffs as well! If you watch the anime as well, you might want to head to the Pokemon Anime board. The Pokemon Clubs is another board that I would recommend if you're a huge fan of a certain anime character or Pokemon, it's a pretty active forum and it's easy to make friends in there. ^__^
As what as I have mentioned about, PC isn't just about Pokemon, it's also about other things which means you can also discuss things that isn't related to Pokemon or in other words topics that doesn't have anything to do with Pokemon in any sort like other video games, anime, music, entertainment, personal life issues and etc.
Take your time to explore the whole place, there are tons of things that PC offers and I doubt it if you wouldn't like it here! Which is why if you need any help or if you have any questions, don't you hesitate to contact me, my mod partner, Megan or any of the staff member that you can see around usually those with the same username format as ours, NU/W Mods! :)
Get yourself with the rules too if you don't want to be in any trouble! If you have read it though, then that's pretty good.
Enjoy your stay here and I'm definitely looking forward to see you around the boaaard~