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I like Moltres a lot as well, and either the pinocchio or the Spiritomb 3rd for me
I've done only three for the contest because I know it is hard to choose
I don't have a Spiritomb lol
oh wait
I meant cofagrigus
just got confused on names for a bit
I think the pinnocchio is a really neat take on the theme honestly
All the non-Roserade fusions are movie references Lol
but it's also one that is a reference yeah
obv all 3 have to be roserade 
Depends of your time zone
Oh yes
Definitely
I WANNA SUBMIT THIS BUT THERE'S NOT REVIVING ABOUT IT xD
reviving the previous competition theme 
true
Xeno are you just posting all your potential entries here to see which ones people like most to then submit those specific three
cuz im not sure if rule 7 allows that
specifically in this channel
No
That never crossed my mind
I just shared them like everyone else does
Besides I already have someone to help me with that
AKA my sibling
no reviving just vibing
Ask chatgpt
why is this an actual character design
cuase funni
It's not
but it actually works as one
There’s an ai that turns pictures into anime chicks, originally meant to steal your face data but apparently it also works on other things
give it
I do not know its name
I wanna make a Chris Pratt
I do know it was used on that classic Jeff the Killer pic and a swastika
I am very interested in the latter
it's also spyware I think lmao
What i said
so you did
exactly why I wanna use Chris Pratt
please excuse me, im a DBZ fan I can't read
that doesn't connect
Iirc it was made by the chinese company Tencent, the same people that made PUBG, after they were contacted by the Chinese Government to create software for face recognition on street cameras
Including slave laborers
given the Chinese government, not surprised
dude I already hate them, stop digging when you've struck oil
I was making a joke about chinese slave labour
oh
I know
I just wanted to point this out, since that's a game people actually like
anyways, I don't think Tencent is really known for usually levels of slave labor for a big tech company? idk really tho, I don't keep up on that much
Considering it’s a megacorporation and its offices are largely within china, it’s to be expected
136 ENTRIES WHAT THE FUCK @cedar quest
contest managers gonna be buried under a pile of sprites again 
watch it almost double
167
1670, damn
im almost done w my 2nd entry
I'm debating if I should press the " add special effects " button on this entry
roserade got 167 and just immediately numbed everyone to anything less
"oh only 136, damn"
I'd rather have 167 chicken nuggies than only 136 chicken nuggies
people giving me hassle because I use actual outlines for fire again, smh
your outline style is UNPOKEMON-Y... disqualified
I tried to warn people to not sprite Roserade because it sucks but nobody cared 
there should have been at least ten more cofagriguses made for this contest
im disappointed in you all
can we just finish Roserade so we get different submissions
gamr and iridiscentmirage get my utmost respect
im not talking about that specifically
this is not the cofagrigus meta, I'm sorry to say
you use quite dark outlines and make them work, gives your sprites a nice personal style
i like it
though i dont know how to make it work myself
it's kinda the same style as a kingdra fusion i saw a couple weeks ago, hold on
but it is true I am allergic to light outlines
credit to quote.lass
but light outlines are awesome
die senko
I'm possibly biased because
discord has such a dark background, and light outlines look shit on it
so a lot of times I post stuff and I'm like "fuck that outline is too pale"
say riviera, would i be able to ask you to show me how you do the outlines? cuz ik you dont just use pure black outlines
kinda wanted to try it out on #1079113406352728154
I hate this
good
do you mean in the sex way or the cannibal way
I have no idea
but one of those is very clearly nsfw so I assume not that
and the other one is bad for other reasons
though going by the internet, eating people in general, if not cannibalism, is still nsfw because of fetish connotations
cursed subject, let's move on
Feebas looks like a good fish for food
how
feebas = bass
and bass are good fish for food?
y e s
that feebas looks nothing like a bass
wouldn't you eat it?
no
bad
it is brown with random splotches which are a feature of 90% of fish and still not even inspired really, arguably
"oh torchic isn't based on a chicken!"
torchic actually looks like a chick though...
AND FEEBAS IS A FISH
It's literally the same stupid name scheme!
torchicken
feebass
torchic is a chicken chick it is indisputable
feebas is a fish
not a bass fish, a regular generic ass fish
A LARGEMOUTH BASS
magikarp at least has carp features
even if there's some creative liberty
which I acknowledge is a case for feebas but
magikarp
it clearly has largemouth bass features
like what
it got them big ol lips
Feebas is a bass
pain
I did actually find one pic that shows feebas with a big mouth
which is the manga
if feebas had a mouth like this consistently I'd be on board
but this is the only place it does
Look they're clearly taking the general color and body pattern and using it
they changed it up because obviously thats what pokemon designs do
but its fucking called fee-BAS
like BASS
you aren't considering it has that name purely because it was the available fish pun
not because it is a bass
id like to bring this bass photo to the table
what other fish could feeble mix with
oh you're right, magikarp isn't a carp, it was just the only available fish name
Tee has a better case but I also doubt the designers looked into specific rarer species of bass for it
....but magikarp has carp features
also koi
largemouth bass also arent the only type of bass
yeah, there's a lot of different types of bass
plus with fish, they can kinda just, mesh a lot together and call it good
but not well-known in the cultural domain
name one other fish pokemon that's name isn't shared with the inspiration
that wouldn't prove anything but I can try
it's more proof then anything you've said
which amounts to "eh, i don't feel like feeBASS shares enough features"
I mean the argument here is just on the fact it is called feebas and has a generic dull colouration
which isn't a huge argument but it is one
it clearly has the spotty pattern that bass have
bass have a transverse band of spots, except for the species Tee brought up
I haven't bothered to think about basculin
wonder it's supposed to be bass + sculpin
sculpin is a pretty common fish in Japan and known well
we have bulbipedia for basculin
fuckers used largemouth bass for it as well as feebas
lazy wikipedia
basculin was just kinda thrown in at the end
basculin does actually have the green colour, giant mouth, and horizontal line of spots though
so what im hearing is Basculin is a mix of a Salmon, Bass, and Piranha
even though it's clearly a little piranha-influenced
bassed
aka Pokemon rly just likes mixing a bunch of fish together and calling it good
it has the classic piranha fin morphology
two sharp back-pointing fins
all the Characids have that too but piranha is the one people know
"Origin
Feebas seems to be based on a bass, possibly the largemouth bass. It also resembles the marine hatchetfish. Its drastic transformation when evolving into Milotic may be inspired by the classic fairy tale The Ugly Duckling, where a small and feeble duckling is treated as an outcast by other animals until it eventually grows up to be a beautiful swan.
Name origin
Feebas may be a combination of feeble (weak) and bass. It also sounds similar to phoebus (Latin for shining one), possibly alluding to its evolved form.
Hinbass may be a combination of 貧 hin (poor) and bass."
So the japanese name uses bass too
And the hatchetfish thing is like.... ehhhhh
I wouldn't say there's any hatchetfish resemblance
Not really?
I'd be more likely to call feebas a bass than a hatchetfish
cause it is a bass
"I dont feel like it is"
generic ass fish mixed features with bass name just cos
the only argument for it being a bass is the generic pattern
magikarp has the square mouth and barbels and tough skin so it's got all that, it's something
feebas's only bass trait is the name, imo
i think i agree with Riviera
yeah but the people writing Origin in Bulbapedia are guessing many times
it's a hit or miss
if its a simple fish pokemon its just kind of an amalgam of fish
It's clearly not just the name
seriously, I bet they just were like, here's a fish, what name can we give it
you just refuse to accept the body color and spotty pattern are bass traits
brown is not a bass trait
"uhh its a weak fish, feeble one could say, oh bass is a type of fish, Feebas"
brown is the trait of like, every dang fish
there's reasons why bulbapedia writers use words like possibly and seems to be when they arent certain
they do the jp name first which is hinbass
if feebas was green, now we'd be talking
because even though there are brown bass, those are pretty rarely known ones
and the spots are completely random, not in the bass pattern format
so could equally be random markings
welcome to the IF server, the only discord server where you can argue about the biological inspirations of Feebas
Bass can 100% be brown
why is this debate in contest general
Due to this shift in pigment, largemouth bass can camouflage themselves when ambushing prey or when being pursued by a predator. If they are in clear water with plenty of weeds or cover, they usually have darker or clearer markings. When they are found out in deep water or even shallow muddy water, the pigment moves further away from the skin and can take on a faded or bleached out appearance.
because everyone uses this channel for everything
yes I know, I have studied bass
but that's the intensity of the black pigmentation
not a change from green to brown
the kicker is that this isn't even #spriter-general
so the markings on the lateral line change and sometimes they gain new pigmentation networks from the camouflage, but it's not relevant to feebas
...last I checked, people treat this channel as a sprite-general-2 anyway
and chickens aren't orange and have arms but nobody denies combusken being a chicken
most contest questions are "direct contest sprites to somewhere else" or "just read the sprite-contest channel"
they clearly took parts of the bass and went wild with it to make it ugly for their ugly duckling reference with milotic
guess we'll never know
and where did you find feebas in gen 3? rivers
ok
and what does a fish being in a river have to do with it being bass
bass are more commonly found in lakes not rivers
they usually enter rivers when lakes flood and carry them into rivers
well, moreso that's its a freshwater fish
Feebas is just a dumb ugly generic fish
Does Hoenn even have a lake?
Why the hell are we taking about Feebas in contest general???
why the hell are we debating the logic of Feebas at all
no clue i just joined the discussion
This is a spriter general topic 
I said I would eat a feebas because bass sashimi is good and Riviera disagrees that its bas(s)ed on a bass
even though its feebass
I mean every topic in here is spriter general topics
and I never shy from drama on topics with 0 importance
and I said feebas is just called bass because it's a funny name not because it is actually a bass, cos it has zero bass features
feebas is a normal "let's make a fish" fish
which I find stupid because they don't do that with any other fish pokemon
barely any is prob more accurate than zero
barely any being the colour scheme and markings
feebas is brown because it's supposed to be dull and ugly
that's the whole concept of it
yeah, they took a bass and made it ugly(er?)
just like how they took a chicken and made torchic
because the funny thing is that pokemon designs take an animal and change it
it could easily yes it's an amalgam an they took some aspects from bass
I wonder if the dex entries answer this at all
Feebas's fins are ragged and tattered from the start of its life. Because of its shoddy appearance, this Pokémon is largely ignored. It is capable of living in both the sea and in rivers
interesting that it lives in marine too, has that ever happened in the games?
wow the dex entries for it are depressing
theres go promo art fo it in ocean
yeah they went hard on the dull, ugly and useless lore
even more-so than they did for magikarp lol
here's the part that's missing for me
if it was a bass
there'd be more bass-like lore for one thing
It eats anything, so it can even live in polluted streams and lakes. No one pays any attention to it.
there's no mention of them being good game fish or sport targets, no mention of them having a big mouth, or chasing after large prey, or having camouflage
Yeah I dunno about that, pokedex entries aren't exactly the most well thought out thing
you'd be surprised
but that doesn't help feebas's case for me
in Japan, bass are stocked in healthy waters and associated with clean streams that are popular with fishermen
well it's lore is kept quite similar to magikarp
yeah, which admittedly, might be something they focus on so hard it conceals any bass inspiration they could have used
Magikarp is a pathetic excuse for a Pokémon that is only capable of flopping and splashing. This behavior prompted scientists to undertake research into it.
jesus christ pokedex
can we agree on something though
we need more aquatic pokemon
it continually bothers me that there's an entire god damn ocean of inspiration and most gens hardly introduce new ones
ALMOST FORGOT TO SUBMIT MY LAST ENTRY
it's ok you have more than a day left to forget
NO I DONT I CANT USE THIS COMPUTER TOMORROW
Water types have the largest number in pokemon though im pretty sure
I had this whole huge fangame idea I wrote a design doc for once, basically just an entirely ocean pokemon game
oh yes
vampire and firefly squid would both be cool
IGN's bane
thatd honestly be really cool
(IGN was right)
0/10 too much water
id play an entire pokemon game where its all underwater
but you'd basically be on a research vessel and there were two paths
(as long as its not all Water types)
you could become a researcher or a pirate and join the other team
one was more battling, one was more exploring
like Stunfisk proves you can live underwater and not be water
Well without random encounters water based world is more appealing
Ocean is scary
IGN was right about too much water, water areas were the worst parts of hoenn
Reminds me of a horror story i once read about a submarine exploration crew
I have a huge list of open ocean forms for stuff like taillow and deep ocean form luvdisc
nobody likes random encounters of the same 4 pokemon every 2 seconds
They basically got really deep and picked up weird readings and the lights broke for a split second
They got the lights to go back on and they looked outside
Saw a huge, black reflective surface in front of them
And then it blinked
Iron Lung is a good short horror game that came out recently
Was just thinking of Iron Lung
Piloting a submarine with a limited view on an alien planet where there’s an ocean made of blood
And your only visual is a crappy low res camera that you can take pictures with every few seconds
Subnautica is also one of my favorite games just cause i do love me some ocean
Endless ocean 2 was one of my faves
so a whale
Raft is also a good ocean game
how bout that endless ocean
lots of good games where the premise is "Ocean" huh
Well considering the submarine was the size of a bus and the black thing they saw was the pupil, it was much bigger
oh
That's the horror part
@cedar quest so when is the next contest
||New contest commemorating gen 5 with two different categories: black, and white. And you can submit 3 entries either between both or all into one||
I think it should be a feebas tournament so that the previous discussion counts as being on topic 
Kling to the Klang 
Can’t vote for it if it’s not even there 
FUCK YOU
I’m so down to try some klinklang fusions
Look if due to Contest Manager decisions Klinklang is omitted from the next classic contest poll ill just put it back in with my next win
That’s the spirit
I would love to choose klinklang if I won a contest but I would ah e to give my choice over to marshtomp first
I think
Middle evos need some love
I can submit my sprite tomorrow, right?
id choose galvantula tbh, also yeah pretty sure you can
I think so, the original message was made the 20th with 7 days to submit and tommorow is the 26th
No
I despise klang
You got much more you can do with klinklang
Except less colors and no ring
we can chuck the red
Well id be tempted to use extra colors anyway
i need to make a badass klinklang fusion sometime
hello there, i was wondering if i should submit either my goopy Gardevoir Grimer or my other Goopy Gardevoir Ditto
I'm not nearly as fast as a lot of you so i don't have nearly as many done
Do any have to do with the Theme?
Revival:
for Ditto: Ditto tries to recreate his dead trainer over and over again but can't get it right
For Grimer: guy tries to recreate his dead wife, what he gets is a melted goop (sort of like FMA when they try to resurrect the mom)
both are trying to be "revival gone wrong"
Havent seen the sprites but the concepts sound 
Ditto sounds like it would be easier to understand tho
gardevoir/grimer & gardevoir ditto
....there's another gardevoir ditto???
i knew there was a first one that i had inadvertently made a mk. II for but now there's a third one. this is quite stressful
this contest is wringing my heart I swear, this is the third time in less than 3 days that this has happened to one of my contest ideas
When are submissions due again?
Like the Homunculi from Fullmetal Alchemist (the 2003 one)? 😅
sorta?
Which, actually, would be pretty cool takes on the theme. An evil rebirth. 😄
i did try to make possession! Gardevoir alts too with Giratina but idk how well they read
Is there a difference to the 2011 one?
Yes, in the 2003 one, they're ||the products of human transmutation. Ed and Al's mum is Sloth, for example.|| 🙂
oh yeah, how do these brackets work exactly? are they open to everyone, everyone in IF, just spriters, or something else?
Everyone, spriters or not. 😄
In IF though, obviously, because it's an IF-run contest. 🙂
Ah, I didn't know that the story deviated that early
I always thought the first few arcs were the same until the 2003 version ran out of manga to adapt 
23 more hours to think of an idea then
i thought it was monday that was the cutoff?
since there still hasn't been an official full deadline posted, who knows
it was supposed to be a week from the announcement, but the announcement wasn't posted at the time at GameR said would be the finishing time
and no date has been given as to when that time falls
Its a big conspiracy for sure
what are the contest managers hiding?
what is their secret master plan?
everything they say and do is perfectly planned and part of their master plan
we just gotta connect the pieces
this is why you do not leave it to the last minute
easily solved
then do it now and don't feel called out :D
or give into the despair and realize you'll never win because there's going to be 200 entries
...and just make it anyway because why not
you can do it!
I believe in all of you!
DONT GIVE INTO THE DESPAIR
choose hope (but not Nagito he corrupted the concept)
rezza is going to win and claim a victory for Team No Dithering
the one with dithering is the best one
oh lol both of my entries so far have dithering out the wazoo
does it matter if I post my entry in the gallery or in the drive first?
dithering is an auto-pilot thing for me, I don't even consciously know what ones I use it on
you can post them to the drive first
I think some of us are posting in the gallery later
people are posting theirs exclusively in the drive, i don't know why
...what's wrong with that
Some people might feel like their sprite is too focused on the contest and not on the game
threads here don't tend to get feedback unless there's a lot wrong with them
so it's usually kinda pointless
unless you want a lot of "wow that's awesome"
but what if i want a lot of wow thats awesome
Also, I assume I don't actually put the .png in the name if it's already a png 
imagine posting in spritework q's couldnt be me
a lot of software do not let you save without a .png in the name
so that depends
if you are using a . already I mean
my sprites are all so perfect i just gallery them straight away actually
like in aseprite and csp, if you save something as "100.140".png it will break it
and you have to add the extension manually
why we need to save things in a broken format like that I dunno
I mean in general, you don't save things with a period dot in the name, that's silly
and it causes problems
aseprite doesnt break for me when i save like that
my question is, if it's already listed as a png file in my files, but doesn't have .png in the name itself, is it fine?
it gives this error if I try
i use export rather than save
it's caused by a misplaced extension which is what happens if you add a "." to a file
it thinks you are putting .200 as the extension name
because that's what the period dot does in a file name
we should be saving stuff as 100-184 using a hyphen
yeah so you CAN save it that way on export only if you actively select the base folder
but yes I generally use a dash and then rename it after export
i always select my base folder cause otherwise it goes into like the weird aseprite export folder
yeah, most of the time you don't see extensions on windows. you can turn it on optionally
I have this but it's just procrastinating with every excuse
Like
Oh I need to start a whole new limb? Time to put this down for 4 hours
You love to see it
i also have "oh i need to try this new thing? let's start an entirely new base"
my canvas is filled with half-done fusions ;_;
i mean posting them just for the contest and not the game 
some of us are shy about our entries 
i would think entering them in a contest would be a lot more pressuring
also more paranoia that people will steal ideas
it still makes zero sense to me that people share their submissions around
that defeats the whole point of a contest imo, especially an art one
in 12 something years of sprite contests, this is the first time ever I've seen a community allow sharing and feedback of submissions
i enjoy it tbh, im not very confident in my spriting abilities so its nice to have feedback
that being said i have had people finish fusions i was working on before i finished them up in the past but that wasnt for contests
yeah i get that part, but never posting it in feedback even after the contest is weird
personally when i see sprite ideas in spritework that i had, it incentivizes me to do a different idea but perhaps i'm a special case
whats the countdown i wanna finish that mew sprite but i have school work to prioritize
it's probably under 24 hours
or close to
here's my countdown that's 7 days from the announcement posting
but the actual deadline may differ from this
okay thanks
man this sprite still looks too unlike dusknoir im gonna need to change the palette
i think i might make it shuppet at this point
Mmmm maybe for it's belly it could have the same colour as it's hairs and the yellow can be used only on the small things like the stitches
But other then that it looks cool
What's this?
Dusknoir/Mewtwo?
i was a fool. i thought i could do a mega rayquaza sprite in a day...
How far did you do?
Custom mega ray? That’s a pretty complex sprite to do
Probably not as bad as steelix but still up there
Definitely not as bad as Eternatus
is this supposed to be an FMA reference? lol
it isnt but everyone thinks it is so maybe ill make an alt
its supposed to be yeah but im thinking i should change it
"fu.. ji.. oni.. san.."
i mean. making pokemon fusions is kind of like making chimeras
you aren't wrong
Let's not discuss the ethicallity of fusing two Pokemon like it's fusing two living beings without their consent now xD
worm
ooh worm
too many hours
Are we allowed to post our sprites here?
not really but people seem to do it anyway 
8 pm
just in time to watch last of us
8pm tomorrow or the next day
and what time zone
You still haven't decided on a time zone?
I forgor to turn off ping
Beautiful
I just notice I should may start with the contest entrys XD
Dude there's 1 day left
don't know about 3 sprites but you def can do at least 1 sprite, just gotta rush :)
especially if you keep the design fairly simple
mhm
142 entries but there are 2 drawings in the drive @cedar quest
Both by @eternal turtle
theyve been pinged over it like 4 times now i think
wait-
looks like they're new to the server, maybe they just don't get the contest? that or they're purposely joking fsr
rule 7 
had a dream the new sprite contest was already announced and it was just 'make sylveon lopunny'.
polls haven't started yet 
not even lopunny sylveon, just that specific fusion
(ok fine I'll move it lol
pfft
read faster
rare footage of staff member deleting their own message
after being called out by another staff member 
COME ON DEADLINE
COME FASTER
DON'T LET THE ROSERADE CONTEST BE THE ONE WITH THE 2ND MOST ENTRIES
next contest...
Hey guys, lets start the next contest! since our last attempt to limit the entries still resulted in too much entries, this time we will have a limit of only 0 entries per contestant. good luck :D
Either way theyll get deleted
yeah
Even with 5 entries per person i fear the klinklanklontest wont reach 100 entries
unless they... idk... replace the file with pixel art like right at the last second
The nth klinklang/roserade
Yea cuz klinklanklontest won’t happen with klinklang not in the poll so u’ll get 0 entries 
i don't know why more people aren't doing roserade/klinklangs
gears.
yeah true
Die
Im putting it back in as soon as i can
Besides, you're not helping to make klinklanklontest a reality
wdym, I tried before unbeknownst of the poll system 
yea hopefully the next winner plop it back
The contest ends at 8pm today, correct?
if we assume the day the contest start as day 1 then yeah, but I think that counts as day 0 so tomorrow is the deadline. not sure doe
Given how many contests there have been I’m amazed this sort of basic communication hasn’t been figured out yet
How many hours left though?
usually there's a timer but @cedar quest doesnt wanna put it
iirc someone post a timer? wait hol up let me scroll up
He doesn’t even want to clarify the ending date and time either 
I posted a timer timed from the announcement
Am I just seeing things
Or has the amount of gardevoir entries went up from last time?
Which is usually the time it ends but not this time
here found it
not sure if this is correct or not but...
My timer here is a week from the announcement
¯_(ツ)_/¯
yes there is, so simp votes would be diluted
Which apparently we now know is not the actual contest end time
the timer shld be q accurate
well fortunately for me I already submitted my 3 entries so I should be safe
Great so I don't even know if I have the time to make my third sprite
just look at the time the announcement was made and add 7 days so posted on 20th feb would be 27th feb
unless shits start happening again and they delay
Apparently the announcement time was normally at the time of contest ending, but this time GamR procrastinated and posted it at 1am instead
So it actually finishes at 8pm est
1am pst is 4am est
As my first contest this isnt setting a very good precedent
Which means the contest either ends 8 hours earlier, or 16 hours later
Are contests always this messy?
Because we don’t know the exact day
FINALLY FINISHED MY CONTEST ENTRY HOLY FUCKING SHIT
No idea but it’s my first too
this assume the announcement date is day 0, if they count it as day 1 then it be 26th. but then again idk. I'm (relatively) new to this server and this is my 1st time entering a contest so idk how u guys usually do this
huge weight lifted
Nice timer aint it
If they posted the announcement at 1am it could be late from previous day or early for the current day
good work, good luck with your sprite (whichever it is)
Either way the announcement does not specify date and time and this is pretty important basic knowledge for us to have
…more important for people who do it last minute, granted
jus... jus add 7 days guys it's more or less there
if you're doing it last minute then you deserve to miss your chance 
You don’t understand, they said it ends at 8pm est
Meaning the announcement time is either 8 or 16 hours off
That’s a lot of time
true, ig that is a bunch of time wasted...
I pretty much speedran 4 worlds on mine last minute
but damn Im so relieved rn
The votes start tomorrow then? 

man this is the most stacked contest by a lot
And that for 3 entries max lmao
Is the quality of entries usually a lot lower?
And because I've not entered 😎
if i say yes, would that indirectly insult the past contest participants 
"Revival? Welp, let's use the zombie!!!" -Literally everyone, apparently
Maybe it's a good thing I procrastinated so long, since I doubt my ideas would have gone far anyways 😔
I thought there'd be more phoenixes than zombies ngl
Zombie easier to draw than feathers
shoulda done more skeletons
i for one would really prefer to know the day the contest ends
Same here
I'm hesitant to even work on my third sprite bc I might only have 7 hours
imagine missing the deadline when you don't even know when the deadline is
Missing the deadline when the deadline itself is missing
i think regardless of when the contest ends it would be fair to give an extra day since gamr should've been transparent from the beginning
fair for me specifically
I think it would be fairer if everyone except me got disqualified actually
we had like 5 extra days last contest lol
he shouldve used one of those discord time embeds
doesn't it say "you have 1 week to enter"?
I should have my vote counted as 300 votes
Uh
feathers are easy wdym
Why are there 2 non pixel art drawings in the drive
people bring that up every hour
just ignore it
contest mods will deny it when the submissions end
I see
we don't know if it's exactly one week or one week after the announcement
it's a bit of an important distinction especially since it's as short of a timeframe as this
sorry i don't understand
i think it ends in about 13 hours
what is the other option?
If you need more time, just ping a contest manager and they'll probably extend the deadline by a day or two
would they do that for one person?
alright
@weary pagoda @cedar quest please extend the deadline
a bit more time wouldnt be bad
well i shot my shot
How much time do we still have?
no idea
~13 hours?
it end somewhere tomorrow
oh sh** that means I have to do mine in the next 4-5 Hours since I have to work tomorrow XD
and its like 8pm XD
last minute entrants scrambling and panicking at the last minute
IF the announcement time is the same time it ends, then there are 12 hours left
also lmao imagine if it ended sooner, people would murder
Same and i still need to correct my last one
Its just when you come home at 7 pm from work and you still have to write essay it kills ya
the possibly ending range is basically 12 - 32 hours at this point
@cedar quest for the love of all that is holy please clarify ending time AND date, 8pm today, 8pm tomorrow??
A week is just a bit crap if you go to work
ive just kinda given up on finishing my sprite on time if its soon i have schoolwork i gotta prioritize
how long do y'all spend on your sprites
2 days
imagine knowing the passage of time
I got distracted by the Siren Song of "having a PC that can run games”
i havent played video games since i started spriting for this
i have time blindness so thats my excuse
While spriting i dont draw stuff correct the first time and it annoys me and i change it a few times
people also get the siren song of "I'll just do it later"
I should rlly start drawing it out instead of making the design while spriting it
Focusing on something is both easy and hard for me
siren song of fuck around and find out
me trying to make my sprites make a lick of sense
my steelix took me 20
on my end I finish them all in 2 days and spend the remaining 5 days distracted waiting for the voting to start
so either way I accomplish nearly nothing in the week
the super mario one? im not surprised
steelix is a hugely optimistic one to choose for a contest deadline
if gamr isn't active tomorrow but retroactively disqualifies my 3rd entry once he is imma riot
KLINKLANG FIRST
Steel type only contest? 
Monotype themed contest would be cool
gamr doesn't seem to be active in general
tbf the only staff member i see more than like once a day is thorns
because of this lack of communication we should all be declared winners
who'd have the server icon though
me
Every winner gets 1 pixel
i call dibs
it changes every hour
boom
everyone
just make a collage of every sprite and that's the icon
or make an animated one that flickers between all of them
RIP folks with epilepsy
it doesn't have to be fast
the submissions are being reuploaded so much today lol
this is funny
Hey
We should do a specific type combination next time
Like everyone fuses random crap to make an electric/grass type
and then you just gotta be creative
i think its a classic contest next time
Mmmm
Tasty
Wow this contest has forced me to improve a lot
I don't think my first sprite will make it past round 1
tbh I think the person joking about winning being rng might have a point
because unless you can accurately predict what people want to see, and fulfill the contest simp meta, even a really good sprite might not go far
both of my entries got pretty far in the last contest and that was my first one so i have no idea what works and what doesn't
yeah same
also what's the classic contest? one mon?
or classic being demakes to gen 1 style or something
first thing
but it can be a head or body
personally i find the head fusions much more interesting
I assumed it had to be head
all the finals were heads I think
except for the one that won, so go figure
There will be a poll of 5 mons (each choice chosen by past contest winner) and we have to make fusion of the mon that won the poll (head or body is fine)
imo there could be some really fun contest ideas like making an original mega evolution for a self fusion
depends how well u can execute i guess, if u get a gardevoir classic contest, the body probably has more potential
lmao
there was i think? idk
lopunny too
don't think it's about execution as much as a really solid idea
which can be very tough
If I win(not gonna happen lol not even close) I'm probably gonna suggest Dusclops
Really cool shit can be made with dusclops
there are lambs yes
Good luck
May the phantom deadline be kind to you
Im sure I can finish Lambert in time and the other 2 ideas are pretty easy to do too and they are also good ideas
this brings me a feeling of genuine chaos that im absolutely behind
I think I can already tell how they will do XD
And yes it will be hella chaos I love Chaos
There are people who get that close to the deadline?
I had a busy week okay XD
Finished my second entry whooooooooooo
One more to doXD
my english starts dieing lol
Should I just say F it and dont add my last idea? It would be Able the SCP a fusion between Cofagrigus and Gallade
Whew! Got it in with two hours (speculation) on the clock!
Wasn't my original idea but it'll have to do for now, I can do the other idea later
I submitted something, so I think I'm satisfied 
Best of luck to everyone who entered!
Im not gonna sleep tonight cuz I want to do my 3rd entry and if I sleep now and work tomorrow I wont be able to submitt it
Except it is still open to send stuff in tomorrow at like 8pm (living in germany using my time)
But if its exactly 7 days it will end tomorrow 10 am my time
Nah I will just sing dumb ways to die while I drive to work
I cant let the people wait longer cuz I had a helle busy week
And I cant do act like im sick cuz I didnt work for 2 months cuz I was in Winter Vacation
Or can I🤔
If I act good enough my Mom allows it and my working place can understand it if I tell them many people in my family are sick (whats actually true atm)
I already tried that
No 
You have 1 hour 
Don't cry, your submissions were badass
Now we can
Make Aegirocassus
After like a few other fusions
I must suck to work with lol 😅
Still try to get a sick day tomorrow
I think a lot of you were overthinking it
If the announcement was made on the 20th (my time), then why the hell would it be today? That
That's not even the full week yet 
this is why you need to make the fancy time thing for the deadline announcement 
byeah
Gamr why were you the only member in this server with that information
Not even the other contest managers knew
I was counting from the 20th 😅
inhales
announcement posted at 4am est, saying it'll last a week
"guys I told you it ends at 8pm est, not 4am est"
this is a whole 16 hours different from the announcement time
everyone is confused, not even other contest managers know for sure
then you tell us "you guys can't read" despite this information not being presented anywhere until now
I still have a day!!!
Me too
I mean im happy I thought it would end sooner it made me finaly sit on atleast 2 entrys
shoulda done a discord time embed 
your so right
anyways, deadline ended yesterday 
Honestly, if this is what the new age of contests is gonna be. I don't want part of it.

Like it's just so much complaining
Didn't we get extra time for the roserade entries?
I feel as though if you are managing contests, you need to make peace with the fact that some participants will be annoying
Oh i'm not complaining, I'm just trying to remember
I don't remember there being an extension for the Roserade contest, but I could have just not been paying attention
I know there was a delay for trying to have a new poll system, so I can't remember if that meant extra time
Cause I had already finished mine
As far as I can tell, the contest ended at the intended time and the contest managers struggled to come up with a polling method after
the real solution is to just finish all your entries the day its announced
The Contest team is already the smallest Staff team in IF, we are still looking for people, yet all that still happens is mass complaining
So, as it stands, this contest will be my last contest
And I'm retiring from being a CM
well shit
Hm! Very well, take care of yourself. What would a person need to do to apply for a contest management position?
Ngl I wouldnt want to be one
Looking that everything works
Trying to make it right for most people
Its for sure a shit task to do
I mean I genuinely hope that a simple request for a stable deadline is not "annoying"
I'm new here so I have absolutely no say for everyone else
But still, I'd like to wish you a happy retirement, and apologize on the behalf of all of those who made the position unbearable for you. 
I also like the time embeds from before, but having folks constantly ask about it does sound annoying at the very least. No hard feelings here
I feel like you overthought the time a little bit riv
yeah but it's the difference between 16 hours more or less time
also its 8 hours not 16
overthinking or not, that's very significant
4am to 8pm is not 8 hours
8pm to 4am
well, that's the other direction
which was another reason I wanted it clarified
I don't care about the deadline because I finish stuff fast, but there were a lot of people here confused and I wanted this resolved for the good of everyone
shoulda just got it done before the last day then 
if it was a couple hours, fair enough, nothing to overthink about
but 8 or 16 hours is a huge jump in deadline
and yet you still overthought it
I overthought something that was important for the contest and no one knew?
Was it not just time of posting + 168 hours
I mean I can't be the only one who thinks that wanting to know the duration of the contest is not to be dismissed as "overthinking"
I've only been here for a month but I'd be more than happy to fill in as contest manager if you're feeling pressured gamr
I do apologize if my actions resulted in this outcome, but I do still believe that this was important information that needed to be addressed
unless we all want to laugh at the last minute entrants who can't figure out the deadline
no just the guy who submitted drawings
no this date was the most obvious and logical choice, you just went braindead over it
8pm est 7 days later
Don't know about most logical, but either way, we shouldn't have to guess
We do realize arguing about it isn't going to solve anything
I like arguing
well if this is a contest issue it can still be fixed for future contests
I won't argue that as a suggestion for future contests to add a timer
but I don't see how the logical option was assuming that the deadline was 8pm the previous day from when the announcement was posted
4 am on the 20th -> 8pm the 27th, 7 days
you said it was 8 hours
trolling isn't particularly productive to this conversation
neither is being so annoying you make someone quit
especially since a contest manager might be leaving because of the issue
i dont think this conversation is particularly productive
good
🪦
Don't tell me this type of arguing is common for contests
it's not, usually we stick to spriter general for mundane garbage drama
if yall would like to carry on feel free to take it to dms but seriously?
Ew DMs
if there's no agreement or resolution at this point, it is better to just drop the subject
At this point, it seems like Riviera's stuck on this one contest situation even though he himself said he doesn't care about the deadline. I think it's time to move on
Well, forgive me for caring about the other participants :'D
I only used that for helping that one guy wih DB Legends or for sending mods info that I don't want users to see and try to delete to hide their actions
I would never use DMs if I could help it, I want the world to hear my voice (even if its text)
Caring for other people is nice, but arguing about a single point for a single contest isn't really helpful
Cofagrigus contest when
Anyways
well it's nearly finished now
cofa contest would be fun but your team is smashing it with the entries so by the time we get it thered be no fusions left
he wants to stop at 300 though
We ARE slowing down tho
Snubbull contest when 
he's trying to buckle at the last stretch 
It would be suuuuuuch a shame if everyone started making cofas so i couldn't get 84 before it's done
it'll get towards rhyhorn family not being done and then stall for weeks
I would be so sad
Erm... rhyhorn and rhydon are done already
It's just rhyperior as always lol
Rhyperior 🤢
Victor you do rhyperior
i kinda want to do a proper rendition of munchlax snorlax, working on my smough inspired one was acc quite fun
You're the rhyperior guy now
You did one rhyperior and this is all you will be forever
I did Pyukumuku/Rhyperior to fill the Rhyperior part of my personal chart, never again
(why is rhyperior hated on?)
He's annoying to recolor and edit
He destroys the spirit of the line.
Besides from the fact that he really is ugly and does not fit with the rest of the line
this one is too hard idk what to pick
haters don't like that rhyperior is 10 times cooler then the other 2
its the other 2 that dont fit with him
Okay, make Team Rhyperior then
I could try my hand at Cofaperior once the contest concludes
...that part of the form is a bit outdated 
i like the extremely blurry picture of a dabbing slowpoke at the top
How muck money would you need in compensation?
🫡 Good luck soldier on non-contest endeavors
You still gonna be mod? Cause I feel you then
out of the frying pan and all that
Enough to buy a pc that can actually play IF 💀
That's.... Sad to think about
Admittedly, don't dislike Rhyperior as much as I dislike Magmortar
I still maintain that Fraxure, as the mon with the least amount of fusions, should have a contest
unless a new unloved idiot has won
At least Magmortar has the decency of following the lines theming
Are you saying there are less fraxure fusions than Stantler!?
stantlers in this?
rhyperior is way better than boring rhydon and rhyhorn
It doesn't have a little beak mouth tho...it looks...extremely unfortunate
Sadly, yes.
you will be boiled
apparentely
you can't stop the truth, hater
You see, you think of Stantler when you think "oh, I want to do a forgotten Mon" so at least it has that going for him
Which is not Good either, but you know
Middle evos have it rough
They really do
they deserve it by being ugly 80% of the time
we can't all have a grovyle in our life I suppose
Some get stuck with rhydon 
I was going to say Combusken
I would like to see a Deoxys fusion contest
I haven't seen many Deoxys fusions that make my jaw drop