Hey there droideka and welcome to the wonderful forums!
I hate when the user I want is taken already. I'm lucky this username isn't one alot of people come up with and that I was able to use it! We don't have name changes so that would stick if I ended up with a name I didn't like much. D: Either way though, I'm glad you found us cause we're a great community. With lots of friendly people, I'm sure you'll make a good amount of friends here. I'm not much into battling but we have a good battle community so you're in a great place to find battles. Just head over to the
Battle Center if you haven't already and you can ask for quick battles there. You can also get you competitive and in-game teams rated there so you can find people to help you improve and test out your teams on. And you can just discuss all things on battles in general. We have many other forums on Pokemon too. I've been playing Pokemon for about 12-13 years so just about as long as you have. I think it will be a very long time before I stop playing! Heck I may never stop!
Can't say I'm much of a gamer myself but I do play some other games too. Though my main series is Pokemon, I also have tried a few Mario and Megaman games. I have a Wii, Xbox360, and PS2 which I share with my two brother and personally own my own SNES, DS original, GBA SP, and Gameboy Color. I don't really play any of them much, most , my DS. I was hoping to get a 3DS though, mainly so I can play Pokemon X and Y, but there's other games that look really good. Anyway, you will definitely be interested in our
Video Games section. The gaming community is can get a good amount of people cause sometimes we need to talk about other video games besides Pokemon every now and then. :) There's some other boards above it for other hobbies you may have such as music, TV, anime and movies in
General Entertainment. You should have lots to explore here! ^_^
I hope to talk to you too sometime! If you ever want to talk to me just send me a message though PM or on my profile through VM. Have a wonderful time here and hope you meet tons of cool people too! If you've ever lost or stuck on anything related to the forum, you can let a
moderator know of your concern. See you around droideka!