event-general

[hollow gull]

I'm the kind of person to put my pants on both legs at a time, over my shoes :)

[wind matrix]

you already used this. get new material

[hollow gull]

Real

[grand tusk]

Claws, you're the type of person to rub their nose and close your eyes while smiling smugly when someone compliments you

[hollow gull]

Thorns you're the type of person to throw it back real crazy right now

Hot girl shit

Slayyyy

[grand tusk]

slayyyy

[crude cedar]

No I'm the person to rub my face when I get excited about nothing

[wind matrix]

Blue is the type of person to constantly reuse the same joke despite no one finding it funny

[grand tusk]

Thorns the type of person to eat cold pizza straight from the fridge with a knife and fork

[hollow gull]

We should stop being so prescriptive in our statements

[crude cedar]

Thorns is the type of person to want to actually roast someone but lets them down slowly

[grand tusk]

Thorns the type of person to hold a cup on the far side and drink from the side of their mouth

[hollow gull]

Humans are multifaceted, they may exhibit behaviors that seem odd to us, but there is no such thing as normal.

[grand tusk]

Thorns the type of person of person to skip brushing on Sunday's because they're lazy

[wind matrix]

this doesnt even make sense

[crude cedar]

Blue is the type of person to drink seawater on purpose.

[grand tusk]

Thorns the type of person to swallow gum

[hollow gull]

That said blue is the type of person to get his tongue pulled on while he gets knocked on the skull Curly-style

[grand tusk]

no that's drake

[hollow gull]

I drink from the side of my mouth I think it's an autism thing

[grand tusk]

Im saying this is how Thorns holds it

[crude cedar]

Wyag is the type of person to fall face first into the pool

[fading lodge]

I also never use Roserade's base sprite.

[hollow gull]

https://tenor.com/view/three-stooges-gif-10001666

Y'all mfs fr

https://tenor.com/view/three-stooges-larry-curly-moe-gif-11627871

[crude cedar]

Blue is the type of person to drink mysterious red liquid

[grand tusk]

its not my picture, I was wondering wtf that was as well lol

is it like, cranberry juice?

[crude cedar]

maybe

[hollow gull]

Look can I say with confidence what that liquid is? No

Maybe it's black tea under harsh lighting, maybe it is cranberry juice

Maybe it's Maybelline

None can say for sure

[crude cedar]

maybe its watered down blood

[grand tusk]

Wyag the type of person to pull out their phone at a loud dance party to show someone a funny youtube video they saw

[crude cedar]

Claws is the type of person to ask Thorns how to get into the staff team...

so anyway @wind matrix how do you get into the staff team?

[grand tusk]

Thorns, i think Claws would like to know how to get into the staff team

[hollow gull]

I do not go to loud dance parties

Mischaracterized almost immediately

[ivory olive]

Carbon is the kind of person to eat 15 cheesesticks for breakfast

[crude cedar]

Claws is the type of person to eat Chocolate for breakfast and eat lunch at 2PM

[opal wadi]

Above time (14:00 NZDT) in your local time · Mar 5, 2023, 1:00 AM

[hollow gull]

Real as fuck for that

[grand tusk]

Wyag just um, actually'd me smh

[crude cedar]

OH SHUT UP

[hollow gull]

um actually I corrected you

[grand tusk]

Above time (14:00 NZDT) in your local time * today at 7:00 PM

[hollow gull]

2:00 pm

2PM

8PM

???

[crude cedar]

14:00 NZDT

[opal wadi]

Above time (14:00 NZDT) in your local time · Mar 5, 2023, 1:00 AM

[crude cedar]

FUCK

[grand tusk]

Above time (14:00 NZDT) in your local time•Today at 7:00 PM

seems correct to me

[hollow gull]

20:26 CST

[grand tusk]

that lines up with the current 3:35 time in nsdt

now 36 yes

[crude cedar]

In Olden Brittish Accent Yanmega I do believe you are an absolute twat that is full of bull's feces...

[hollow gull]

Wtf are they making fun of you for being from NZ?

[hollow gull]

In normal accent your mom gay

[crude cedar]

Normal aint a country bruv

[crude cedar]

No I had a setting on the bot where it does that and Idk how to turn it off

I also can't be arsed to turn it off

[ivory olive]

As an Irishman stop it or ill remove your intestines

[crude cedar]

America sure ain't normal tho...

[grand tusk]

we did it, we found normal

everything that is different from normal, IL is weird

[crude cedar]

wouldn't that make everything but Normal normal?

that that that that that that that that that

indeed mhm

[grand tusk]

thats assuming that everything that is different from Normal is the same

[echo crow]

Huh, I've been to Normal

[grand tusk]

but each different from Normal can also be different from eachother

[echo crow]

It's very..... Normal

[crude cedar]

Visible confusion

[crude cedar]

I've been to two places on that map... keep in mind I'm from New Zealand

[hollow gull]

We must assume they have in common that they are not Normal, however

[hollow gull]

Oklahoma City and Detroit

[crude cedar]

neither of them two

[hollow gull]

Memphis and Nashville

Normal and Chicago

[crude cedar]

nope

Chicago is one

[hollow gull]

Chicago is great

[crude cedar]

Chicago is bean

[hollow gull]

I live like 45 minutes out, it's amazing

[wind matrix]

[hollow gull]

There is indeed a large reflective oblate spheroid in Millennium Park that is commonly referred to as "the bean"

[crude cedar]

yes thorns it's your friend Yanmega

[crude cedar]

Face Fountains

[wind matrix]

by filling out the application

[hollow gull]

That too

[crude cedar]

did that 5 times

[hollow gull]

Those are weird, I've seen them a lot

[crude cedar]

not on the same one of course

[hollow gull]

Ever go to the art museum?

It's quite a place

[crude cedar]

...

lmaooo

wait

I mean the one with the dinosaur bones

not the art one

[ivory olive]

Dinosaurs are art

[crude cedar]

are you drunk like Thorns when she drinks her wine?

[ivory olive]

No? I believe that life is a lot like art, it's all unique and beautiful, and no matter how bad it could seem, we should cherish it all

[crude cedar]

Eh ig

[ivory olive]

Hey, things are subjective, we could just agree to disagree :)

[crude cedar]

Age is also subjective

Like how animals can have children at 5 yrs

[ivory olive]

That's different

[crude cedar]

yeh

I'm stupid

is that subjective?

no not really

[ivory olive]

Yes

[crude cedar]

crap

[hollow gull]

Field Museum based

[slow gyro]

Just my Regigigas got to round 2

Next contest I’ll take more time making the sprites and I’ll be invencible

[autumn epoch]

Sorry, if I’m missing something here, but what’s the cut off for a sprite making it to round two?

[slow gyro]

English isn’t my first lenguaje, idk what “cut off” means

[stray condor]

Whats the requirement for a sprite to move on to the next round

Basically, I think

[autumn epoch]

Yeah basically lol. Like, how many sprites per group move on?

[slow gyro]

The winner of each poll passes to semis, while second and third places passes to quarters

[autumn epoch]

Thank you! I’ll take quarters all day lol

[plucky arch]

look at these nerds making it past Prelims

cool kids stay here 😎

[lusty pewter]

oooh cool, so I have 1 of each, 1 got pass to semi, 1 to quarters, and 1 got neither. I'll take that :)

[grand tusk]

hell yeah out on first round represent

[zinc lion]

that happened to me too

[lusty pewter]

ayy nice

got some serious competition on semis doe, crossing my fingers I win :3

[stray condor]

Yo lets go my one shitty entry made it to quarters by one vote

[lusty pewter]

pffft

nice

[zinc lion]

almost got two sprites in quarters but i got fourth place

[shy river]

People voted for mine, yay :)

They're still both out, but that's fine

[teal grove]

Wow yall fucking suck at voting lmao

Yes you do

Have you seen some of the results?

Outrageous

[limber venture]

I don't even remember what I voted for but they were good votes

[teal grove]

Fucking

The first poll, for example, ill take two mons that didnt get enough votes to go to the next round

The fact that that beautifully sprited parasect/hydreigon got less votes than the fucking millionth gardevoir body fusion of that one custom base is a crime

So the simps are still around

[limber venture]

I'm 100% serious when I say gardevoir should be contest banned by this point

[wind matrix]

I KNEW THE SPECIAL EFFECT META WAS REAL

[teal grove]

Also, i cant fucking believe in poll 9 that the zapdos mimikyu fusion didnt even get top 3

But the fucking

I cant even say it because of rule 7

But it’s so shit

[limber venture]

That zapdos mimikyu is so good

I remember voting for that

[wind matrix]

rule 7

And don't be mean

so?

[teal grove]

In the poll with magnezone/blissey

How the flying fuck did that mamoswine/spiritomb beat shedinja/roserade

[wind matrix]

Senko, don't be mean

guys

comon

stop being shits

[grand tusk]

thats called being mean, also cope seethe and mald

[teal grove]

My first act as Contest Manager will be hosting a judged contest

[wind matrix]

@dusk schooner wanna help out here?

[grand tusk]

Husk, I too want you as staff, not because I think you're qualified, but because your opinion agrees with mine on a popularity contest poll

ok Senko, it sucks that your choice didn't make it

but like, this contest literally means nothing

the winner gets a role

[teal grove]

I saw it in the aegislash contest for the first time as a cheam win method and now i see it unfold in real time

[stray condor]

Hasnt it been real since like the SV contest?

[teal grove]

Thorns was right

[wind matrix]

as usual

[stray condor]

Honestly tho if we wanna keep contests where everyone gets to vote, idt effects meta is gonna be gone anytime soon

[teal grove]

Ok so here's my one problem with hosting a judged contest: i cant enter it myself unless there are multiple judges

[limber venture]

New rule that every coloured pixel on your sprite has to be touching another coloured pixel

[grand tusk]

I like Husk is angry about the effects meta, but Senko is angry about the snake

[wind matrix]

Senko, rule 7 was created because someone kept saying how shitty the sprites were to sway the votes

[grand tusk]

that has 0 effects

[limber venture]

This would kill the effects meta, i see no downsides

[teal grove]

It wouldnt

[stray condor]

Glow

Glow would still be a thing

[wind matrix]

YOU DID

[teal grove]

I would give an example but it would break rule 7

[dusk schooner]

Calling sprites shit because you simply don't like them is extremely uncalled for

[stray condor]

And as someone that abused glow in the aegislash contest I can say that glow does work

[grand tusk]

"Or shedninja ekans is shit and won his poll"

literally, we can scroll up

[lusty pewter]

maybe I'm seeing it wrong but didn't the hydreigon fusion has more vote than garde? it says B1 has (I think) 7 more votes than A5?

[limber venture]

Gen 2 palette contest along with the coloured pixel rule then

[grand tusk]

You sorry you got caught you little scamp

[limber venture]

That should kill the effects meta i hope

[stray condor]

This sounds good except I cant do gen 2 style

[teal grove]

You make a great point in me having completely looked at the wrong poll result

[limber venture]

erm,,,, rool seven

[teal grove]

I still dont agree with the one that had more since it also had special effects but

[stray condor]

Depends on how the effects are used

Some effects are just cheap

[teal grove]

Also

[grand tusk]

oh youre right actually

[limber venture]

i didn't use any special effects i'm a good boy

[teal grove]

In my humble opinion

[grand tusk]

I forgot this poll is over

not all the polls

lmao

[lusty pewter]

this sure is getting into a heated argument lol

[stray condor]

Seemed like it cooled down alrdy

[lusty pewter]

true

[teal grove]

But they fucking do

[stray condor]

I agree with this but the 4 forward facing sprites are just way too good

[lusty pewter]

I didn't want to say anything cuz lots of people are going here and there about stuff so I just watch until it's easier to go in

[grand tusk]

They look cool but should be fixed before/if they're submitted, simple as

[stray condor]

Shouldnt be in the game basically

I mean ik one contest entry has 200 colors

[limber venture]

Wat

[stray condor]

I thought contests dont follow pokemon spriting rules

[teal grove]

If special effects are weed, then those forward facing sprites are snoop dogg

[stray condor]

Not that, and idk if Im allowed to mention it

[grand tusk]

snoop dogg is funny so makes sense to me

[lusty pewter]

I think it's volcarona/torterra one

[stray condor]

He said it not me

[lusty pewter]

I remember it being in spritework and someone shows it having a billion colors there

if it's against the rule I can delete the message

idk if that one is what they're talking about doe

[grand tusk]

my cubone budew got 18 votes and 8% of the total vote

[lusty pewter]

I just know that one sprite, idk if others also have similar problem

[grand tusk]

ill be happy with that

[limber venture]

I almost hit top 3 in one vote, good enough for me

[stray condor]

Honestly from a certain sprite managers' response to me pointing it out in spriter general, I just assumed that contests dont follow the general pokemon spriting rules

[wind matrix]

you can talk about the sprites that didn't win. But you can't talk about the sprites that did win

[stray condor]

So I didnt see a problem with the front facing sprites

[limber venture]

Plus i was super proud of that sprite anyway so

[wind matrix]

I always vote based on pokemon sprite rules lol

[teal grove]

The problem is that we dont know how many will go to the next round

[wind matrix]

some are obvious

[grand tusk]

I thought it was top 3, but yeah probably should be doubled checked before I start talking about it

[teal grove]

I mean yeah the top 3

But it could be top 4

[stray condor]

Wondering if ya can talk abt them in DMs?

[limber venture]

Not like they can stop you

[stray condor]

True

[lusty pewter]

if it's top 4 I would be happy, cuz that means one of my sprite that didn't pass turns to a pass

[grand tusk]

oh my way to DM users propaganda posters on what to vote

I WANT YOU 🫵

TO VOTE WHAT I LIKE

[rare swift]

Since you're the one that's starting this, I'll break rule 7 for a sec to say fuck you and tell you to apologise. You should know better than to act like this

[grand tusk]

thats his sprite btw

I think i feel like I get why he might be a bit upset hmm

[teal grove]

I like the way you think

[grand tusk]

Listen, think about it, as soon as this contest is over, we're free to talk about it right?

so we can rev up the anti SFX posters

and it breaks 0 rules

[dusk schooner]

Yes if you really want that debate, atleast save it for the end of the contest. I would also ask to atleast not insult people's sprites when you do so

[grand tusk]

STOP POSTING SPRITES WITH SPECIAL EFFECTS! IM TIRED OF SEEING IT! my friends on tiktok send space sprites on discord its fucking fire! i was on a server, right, and ALL of the submissions were special effects! i-i showed my champion underwear to my girlfriend and the logo i flipped it and i said, "hey babe, when the underwear is light particles, HAHA! RING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING DING!" i fuckin looked at a trash can and said "THATS A BIT TRUBBY!" I looked at my sprite, I think of the contest winners, and i go "sprite? MORE LIKE particle effects! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[wind matrix]

there's no way to actually mod that so

[fading lodge]

Why this scream look like my face? I'm concerned.

[grand tusk]

are you the stop posting about among us guy?

wow, it's an honor to meet you

[rare swift]

Of course sprites with special effects, backgrounds etc are going to get more votes a lot of the time. It's an effective way to make a sprite look more appealing, more wow factor etc.

[fading lodge]

No, but apparently he's another of my doppelgangers.

[grand tusk]

please rate my meme, oh great among us meme guy

[fading lodge]

Yeah, but sprites without effects can get votes. My bubble got three votes.

[fading lodge]

Text too long, spilt into multiple memes.

[grand tusk]

it'd probably be better in video format but thats a lot of work and I feel IF isn't funny enough to have something worth doing that for

[fading lodge]

Well, the thought counts.

[grand tusk]

basically if you guys stepped up your game so would I

[fading lodge]

Anyways, I got three votes. That's 2 more than I was expecting. Well, 3, I missed my window to vote.

[grand tusk]

I think I got more votes then last time, maybe. Can't remember tbh

im more proud of my one submission then my 3 submissions last contest at least

2 of them were already voted out in main sprites voting too lol, ironically my least favorite one was spared

[limber venture]

I will hold my 26 votes close to my heart

[fading lodge]

I still don't know how I won the contest I did. Granted, this was a while ago, metrics were different "back in my day".

[limber venture]

At least your name is nice and purple though

[stray condor]

out of curiosity what were the metrics back then

and what sprite won you that contest?

[wind matrix]

old Jii being old again

[wind matrix]

*dark blue

[fading lodge]

I tied for first with 12 votes. And that was 37% of the votes in the contest I think.

[limber venture]

There's a hint of purple in there

[fading lodge]

I see more purple in spriter blue, but I don't have great eyes.

[stray condor]

damn

[fading lodge]

Thorns commenting I don't have great eyes.

[limber venture]

You guys suck and i hate you

There's more red than the average blue

It's purple

It's just a bluey purple

[grand tusk]

thats not purple

[limber venture]

Then your eyes suck

[grand tusk]

you're trying to gaslight us

[fading lodge]

Can we all agree that if this were ancient times and we required our vision to help us identify edible berries we'd die?

[grand tusk]

speak for yourself

i'd gorge on edible berries like a king

[stray condor]

definitely

[rare swift]

I'll also point out that my contest entries are all 100% drawn from scratch, so you're embarrassing yourself with stupid assumptions.

[teal grove]

Fucking lmao

[grand tusk]

I knew I could count on you to appreciate my art Husk

[teal grove]

@short dirge when are you gonna post your entries to the gallery

[wind matrix]

they never will

I keep having to harvest contest entries lol

[odd garnet]

But what if they don't want to? 🤔

[teal grove]

i just want them so i can study them

[wind matrix]

then they can tell us

[wind matrix]

you can get them from the dropbox then lol

[odd garnet]

Do you tell the users you're harvesting their sprites?

[wind matrix]

yes, there's a message that @s them

[odd garnet]

Aaah

[odd garnet]

So why did you guys harvest a Caterpie?

[uneven radish]

LMAO

[wind matrix]

I didn't harvest that one

[deft kite]

if one of your sprites getr harvested and you just didnt get the chance to post it, you still get credit right?

for say, completionist roles?

[wind matrix]

that's a question for Kiwi

[deft kite]

if we're allowed to take it down, it should count

or at least that's what im thinking

if a manager disagrees then i request to take it down then i'll post it myself 😈

[misty acorn]

If the number of your abandoned sprites that got harvested is so high that it actually matters when it comes to completionist roles, you probably have some bigger problems to think about

[deft kite]

what if i drop 42 sprites all at once one day, then get hospitalized and never be able to post them

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-dwayne-johnson-wwe-eyebrows-gif-11854628

[rare swift]

If you're hospitalized, you probably have more important things you're worrying about than completionist role

[stray condor]

Lad makes a good point

[dry garden]

It was on your bucket list tho

[deft kite]

give me completionist role itll be my dying wish

[stray condor]

If your dying wish is a role in a discord server I think you might have some serious problems

[rare swift]

if it's your dying wish, you should probably make arrangements to ensure that you can make it happen

before you're in a situation that makes it impossible

[deft kite]

https://tenor.com/view/need-spongebob-squarepants-please-dying-wish-help-gif-5465988

"comletionist"

[crisp cargo]

comletionist

https://tenor.com/view/sephiroth-minor-spelling-mistake-explosion-spelling-mistake-gif-24545790

[dry garden]

I'm halfway to teddiursa body completionist :D

[short dirge]

Later ™️

I am not at home right now so I can’t do much

Then start making effects

[honest tulip]

husk complain about every meta

cuz gear meta will nvr come

[teal grove]

No, meta is just an umbrella term here for cheap win conditions

[quartz locust]

There's still a contest going on, discuss this during the downtime between contests. 🙂

[teal grove]

what message did you delete?

i was pretty sure i didnt mention any sprites that made it through round 1

[thick jolt]

im relatively happy with my results tbf, everyone did so good :))

[quartz locust]

No, but talking about certain things that effect current sprites too is still against the rules and you know it is. Don't look for workarounds, because I'm far from in the mood to dance that dance again.

[teal grove]

But what was i talking abou

Oh me complaining about the new contest meta, that was probably it

[crystal hill]

I'm kinda shocked how few votes the scarab ho-oh/heracross got, I really like that one

[honest tulip]

yea that, but how is this not allowed but talking about people simping over a certain pokemon is allowed during the poll for last contest?

[quartz locust]

It shouldn't be, I just missed it.

[hollow gull]

https://kaboom242.github.io/PokemonInfiniteFusionTool/?id=374

[teal grove]

Basically what happens most of the time: the rest of the mods present say it’s allowed and then blaq comes in later and says no

[quartz locust]

Husk, I'm getting really tired of the constant aggression towards me now.

[honest tulip]

Then is talking about meta during submission phase allowed?

[short dirge]

no

meta is now banned

[teal grove]

Ironically talking about meta is, while meta itself isn’t

[limber venture]

Literally 1984

[hollow gull]

I don't think it's unfair to tell people that their submission will do better if it's has sparkles

[plucky arch]

true answer: special effects change nothing, its just that theyre good sprites

[grand tusk]

Well, I suppose the argument falls into being that a good sprite with effects will end up beating a better sprite without them, or something like that

and/or if said special effects even work into what makes a sprite fit with other sprites despite how amazing it can look

but you know, im sure this discussion will pop up again after the contest is over and all the sprites can be talked about lmao

[teal grove]

https://tenor.com/view/champoy-el-risitas-kek-issou-etu-gif-17837830

[hollow gull]

Look at literally every winner for the past year

They all have sfx

[grand tusk]

not really?

also keeping in mind previous contest winners had a way smaller number of votes then we do now, I dunno if it even applies as well to look at them

[hollow gull]

Real

[crystal hill]

the problem is that by pointing it out people might go "oh this is the thing that people do just because it works? I'm gonna go against that and not vote for it then" or something like that

talking about what people vote for influences what people vote for

and they want people to vote for what they like the most with minimal outside influence

[zinc lion]

i think that's greatly overestimating how flippant contest voters would be, but it is a fair point

i myself wouldn't change my vote because of one message a discord user sent

[crystal hill]

nah but if it's an actively discuss subject? I for sure think that after a discussion on it people with not very strong opinions will change their mind

[grand tusk]

This is why GamR quit 😔

[crystal hill]

||Just to be clear, I personally think the rule isn't a good idea not because I don't think it stops people from changing their mind but because I don't think that's a worthwhile goal to begin with, people discussing this stuff makes them think about their choice more and come to a more educated decision. But I do think it's effective at what it tries to accomplish and in the end it's just a different view of what should be prioritised in voting that I will respect so I'm not gonna say that you all should vote for any fusion with hoppip in it because hoppip is the most likely pokemon to become the next president of the united states of America and you want him on your good side||

[crystal hill]

probably

this stuff is hard and people are stupid and care too much about it

take for example me

I'm new, I don't know anyone, and don't really have experience with how these things go and I'm still arguing about this as if my opinion matters

I should probably just wait out a few and have a strong opinion after that

[grand tusk]

it's because without it, people default not to discussing the best choice, but to shitting on the ones they dont want to win

[crystal hill]

really? but they're all so good

[grand tusk]

if you have one you like over the other, you're inclined to point out flaws to make people not vote it

Pretty sure rule 7 was put in place cause of a user doing exactly that

[hollow gull]

At the same time? I objectively voted differently when I saw vote totals then when I didn't

No one wants to be on the losing side so if they see a pokemon doesn't have a lot of votes, they're less likely to vote for that

Even if we keep the vote totals hidden, people will just vote for the sprites being talked about the most

People like things that other people like (generally)

We need a social psychologist to oversee our next contest lol

[grand tusk]

new goal: make the entire IF server contrarian so they when people talk about what they like it doesn't get votes, now nobody will talk about sprites to avoid having what they like losing

[hollow gull]

Won't work on new people though

I think while there are downsides, the best system is just to not discuss while contest happin

[grand tusk]

we beat up new people and tell them to never come to this channel again

[warm mesa]

I mean if we're talking about the voting system I think things can be changed
for one, maybe a classic judging system with a strict criteria scored on a 1-10 scale (judged by a select few)
or category based voting where things are grouped into what sort of "style" they fit into
or we could do all of that and also keep audience votes

typically with audience votes it depends on what appeals to the masses. not a bad thing, but also, that means we'll see repeatedly "similar" winners which will get frustrating
like pop music, it's generic, but it's good, but also not so amazing that you'd wanna listen to it 24/7

no use getting pissy at people for not picking "the objectively best one" because appealing to the masses is also a contest strategy. requires a different set of skills than just art

[grand tusk]

rule 7 is there because my astronomical rizz would convince the world to vote my sprites

[misty acorn]

We do have a judging system that is used sometimes

But juding 100+ entries while explaining/justifying every score is kinda impossible probably

[teal grove]

Ok but if yall dont vote klinklang for the next classic contest poll that it’s in i swear to god

[grand tusk]

I dont want to do klingklang

poliwag has trapped me in hell already

[misty acorn]

Cringeklang

[teal grove]

https://tenor.com/view/dr-manhattan-gif-18899941

[warm mesa]

no need to justify each one tbh, unless in the top 20. just give a score from 1-10 and be done with it, average out the scores, then do an in-depth judging for the top few

[teal grove]

Nah that’s a horrible idea

Anyway, limiting the entries to 2 per person will already help a fuck ton, limiting it to 1 per person will guarantee the number of entries to be below 100

[misty acorn]

The good thing about anonymus public votes is that nobody can get mad at anyone in the end

[warm mesa]

idk maybe it's just me coming from the professional art industry POV but it's relatively simple to identify points of improvement and it's just frankly what happens

ppl dont spend a lot of time looking at art, thats how it should be for judges too

[grand tusk]

we should allow unlimited entries but make the requirements so convoluted and annoying people only wanna do 1

the illusion of free choice

[warm mesa]

contests in general are gonna end up with lots of people losing self esteem or getting angry so idk, maybe this sorta contest isnt rlly the best idea anyhow

[teal grove]

...so klinklang

[grand tusk]

you got me there

counterpoint, these rules should accomodate me

[honest tulip]

With a 1x1 canvas

[teal grove]

We used to do judged contests a lot more frequently before this server reached 20k members

[teal grove]

Loophole: 1x1 sprite canvas, never said 1x1 pixel

[warm mesa]

no reason we can't continue doing judged contests, more people in server just means you gotta recruit more people to be judges, then divvy up the work

[grand tusk]

damn, my 3d sprite canvas won't be allowed

[teal grove]

You joke but a while ago someone actually made a 3d rendered sprite

[honest tulip]

1x1 canvas… 3x3 pixel

[grand tusk]

I know, it was sick as hell too

[honest tulip]

Damn hope it gws

[teal grove]

https://discord.com/channels/302153478556352513/1070430676022722631

[autumn epoch]

Holy shit that’s awesome

[hollow gull]

I think that's just really convincing 2.5d

[teal grove]

Nah

They showed it spinning around in blender in a different thread

Used some special render method to make the pixels and colors work

[hollow gull]

Huh.

So what you're saying is it wouldn't be that hard to turn everything here 3d?

[teal grove]

That's not how it works

[grand tusk]

exactly, thats why it will be a rule for the future

[hollow gull]

Or did they start with a render and make it pixels

[teal grove]

They made the 3d model first

[hollow gull]

I see nevermind

[teal grove]

Then rendered it into pixels

[grand tusk]

all sprites in the contest must now be fully modelled in blender

[hollow gull]

Rip

[zinc lion]

You thought they did it by hand in pixel art?

[hollow gull]

Yea

I thought they were just insane

It does only look like 24 frames for like 2 seconds

So boom that's one completionist role's worth

[merry mica]

didnt realize i had to submit my entries to the drive but its too late now so just gonna set these two here for u all to enjoy while i perish ig

[ivory olive]

frendos :D

[hollow gull]

Gayass

But in a positive way

Is /p positive or is that /pos

[torn dawn]

/pos is often used as positive, but I always read that as piece of 💩

[grand tusk]

same

[plucky arch]

/p is platonic

[misty acorn]

/pppp is peepeepopo

[hollow gull]

Gayass /pos

[wind matrix]

I was wondering where they were lol

[zinc lion]

2nd round?

[wind matrix]

reported for spam

@cedar quest wanna delete this?

[limber venture]

oh noes am i gonna die

[storm grotto]

You have been dead for a while, we just didn't want you to know 😔

[grand tusk]

Thank you for letting me know, William Afton Criminal and The intruder from Mandala Catalogue

[limber venture]

Putting scary images on a pure white background surrounded by nothing else with default MS word fonts

Truly scary

[wind matrix]

the hight of terror

[cedar quest]

poof'd

[limber venture]

You were too late gamr... at least 10 of us are dead in the next two weeks

[cedar quest]

noooo

it should have been meeeee

[limber venture]

You yourself too actually

Unless you shared it to five servers, of course

[cedar quest]

it's too late for me

[limber venture]

Goodbye forever

[grand tusk]

[wind matrix]

rip all of us

[storm grotto]

It was decent knowing you all

[hollow gull]

Decent?!

[zinc lion]

Wait what is happening

[hollow gull]

Ignore

Inside joke type thing

[zinc lion]

Hey don't leave me out I want in on this

[limber venture]

Somebody posted an image saying you have to share it 5 servers or you would die in two weeks

It had scary images on it and it was the least scary image ever

[zinc lion]

Damn. We gotta make 10000 fusions a day to complete the dex now

[limber venture]

I'll get right on it

[merry mica]

yeah really upset at myself for not realizing that sooner

[limber venture]

I'm doing it already

[glossy wagon]

darn

[limber venture]

Unironically scarier than what was posted though

[crude cedar]

I have an Issue but its fine.

not for people to worry

only for me to worry

wait.

@wind matrix will I get in trouble about the dms I sent you?

because I don't wanna make the staff here mad

and If its okay I'd like to send something else.

[wind matrix]

Why would you get in trouble? Also you should be sending it to a contest manager, I'm not a messenger 🤣

[crude cedar]

right. sorry

but I'll still send you something I don't want them to see just yet

[grand tusk]

OK I only had 2 seconds but here's my 5 sprites

[glossy wagon]

you're safe

[grand tusk]

phew

[hollow gull]

I detect half-pixels

Oh also

?tag outlineshading

[urban knot]

Outlines generally follow the same pattern of shading as the rest of the sprite; where it's light, the outline is lighter, and where it's darker, you should use a darker outline.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/900865361191239700/931579561525776494/Screenshot_20211229-142824_Sketchbook.png

[grand tusk]

nobody said the sprites had to follow IF guidelines

[hollow gull]

It's heavily implied

[grand tusk]

show me where it's implied

[hollow gull]

?show servername

[tawdry oak]

@silver merlin are you alive?

[silver merlin]

barely

[grand tusk]

fair

[tawdry oak]

do you remember me>

I changed my account due to Discord TOS

so

I need roles back

• uh

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UC10slnds9_25iouPCEZzS6glpAzWJg6JDRmKIwybKo/edit?usp=sharing

[grand tusk]

I pulled an all nighter for my job on friday and I havent fully recovered

[tawdry oak]

A whopping 6 people XD

[limber venture]

i don't think they're accepting petitions

[tawdry oak]

yeah no probably not

[tawdry oak]

to be fair I didn't ask many people tho

it wasn't exactly public

It's still a document of all the stuff I wanted in my Application but idk If I had

[teal grove]

Hey wait

When did you lose your spriter role

[tawdry oak]

when I made a new account because my old one could get banned for being made when I was 8

I also had Great Spriter role

[teal grove]

Wait how old are you now

Hopefully older than 13 otherwise you cant have discord

[limber venture]

12.9

[tawdry oak]

14

[teal grove]

And the CM age restriction is what?

[tawdry oak]

Don't know

[teal grove]

Wh

I also dont really get why your account was banned for being made before you were 13, since it was banned when you were over 13

[limber venture]

It wasn't banned for being made when it was under 13, he just made a new one out of fear of being banned

[tawdry oak]

[limber venture]

Which is probably a pretty good fear to have

[tawdry oak]

and cas other people told me to

[teal grove]

Oh

[limber venture]

Eight is comically young to have a discord account

I shudder to think there's probably eight year olds in this server as we speak

[stray condor]

Have you seen gen chat?

Id be surprised if there arent any eight year olds in this server

[limber venture]

I avoid it like the plague

[teal grove]

I wonder what age Milofiktri is

[limber venture]

You could always ask him, he's still here

[teal grove]

I do not want to

I avoid him like the plague

And apparently he made an alt

[limber venture]

He did

And it was very obvious

The very first thing he said in spriter gen involved him going back to the message that got him banned and responding to it randomly out of nowhere

[tawdry oak]

I got my roles back

I wish I could become a Contest manager tho

totally not so that I could do Klinglangontest

[teal grove]

Welp, time to block him again

[limber venture]

WaterGroudon is who you're looking for

[teal grove]

The only enemy ive made in this server is that guy

[limber venture]

He ran away from spriter gen when everyone called him out for being an alt, so you might see him less if at all

[teal grove]

Good riddance

[lusty pewter]

I came here purely due to the sprites so I basically never enter any general chat (except this one)

guess I'm lucky as I don't need to deal with those type of people :3

[stray condor]

Same here lad

Except unlike you Ive never even touched the game yet

[lusty pewter]

ooooh, a dedicated spriter, nice

I played purely cuz I want to get 2 of my fav mon fused

[stray condor]

Eh cant blame ya lmao

[tawny moss]

same

[dawn ivy]

i try but i get stuck switching fusions over and over and just stop

[lusty pewter]

maybe just don't fuse to much? I at most fuse like 10 times during the game, most other fusion are just to finish quest that requires you fuse a certain amount of mon while other fusion I use come from wt

ik it kinda goes against the idea of infinite fusion (being able to fuse and get 176k dif fusions) but imo it makes choosing mon much easier

[wind matrix]

p sure that's how the game's supposed to be played

[mortal storm]

I think I kinda would be „lame“ and look up the like imo 5 best fusions for every Mon and then just use these as base for fusions… just to save some time while still getting the awesome designs

[plucky arch]

what happened over the weekend while i was busy what

[limber venture]

Milofiktri banned, then he made an extremely obvious alt

That's all you need to kno

[plucky arch]

hopefully that one was banned too thats Evasion

[limber venture]

It was I believe

Ya, based blaq as always

[quartz locust]

I didn't actually ban them. 😂

We all wanted to, though. Someone got there quicker. 😅

[limber venture]

Idk how someone can be so bad at ban evading

It's like they were trying to get banned

Couldn't have been more obviously them

[plucky arch]

jts so they can go to their other servers and talk about how they were banned here for "idk why" like they did All The Time here

[hollow gull]

I don't get how someone can be so clearly unlikeable

[torn dawn]

On another discord server I’m quite active on I witnessed someone getting banned, creating an obvious alt (with a similar introduction basically outing them) then starting over the arguments/discrimination the original account got banned for, getting banned and then repeating this process two more times

It was bizarre

[hollow gull]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix-dodge-neo-gif-13288848

Milo ban evading

[grand tusk]

except Milo gets hit by all the bullets immediately

[quartz locust]

Yeah but I don't understand why Milo was banned.

Wait, who's Milo again? Not me. 😅

https://tenor.com/view/puppet-awkward-looking-what-side-eye-gif-15476992

[grand tusk]

Considering what broke the straw to get Milo banned, do you wanna pretend to be a Milo alt as a joke?

Maybe I should post it here

[torn dawn]

Well I’m invested now 👀 and I have no clue what’s joking or sarcastic and what’s not

[quartz locust]

Milo? Who is Milo? My name is Guy Incognito. 🙂

[quartz locust]

If it breaks the rules, don't.

[grand tusk]

I sent you the stuff, you tell me!

[quartz locust]

I haven't got a DM or message request from you. 😅

[limber venture]

he sent it to your other account by accident milo

[grand tusk]

about drop the full thing not Milo, be prepared

[quartz locust]

I haven't got that message.

This was our last DM conversation. 😮

[grand tusk]

it was literally the first message I sent lol

you have the last part of the same convo

[torn dawn]

This isn’t looking good regarding the Milo alt allegations 👀 😂

[grand tusk]

now show them the middle part

[quartz locust]

Oh, you already sent it, I thought you meant you were sending something new. 😂

Yeah, we're not opening that can of worms again.

[grand tusk]

average Blaquaza moment

[quartz locust]

I've had three different variants of that conversation today alone and banned two people over it. Not again. 😅

[grand tusk]

nono, I think it would be a fun and engaging topic, with plenty of in-depth logic and healthy, mature discussion on it.

[limber venture]

i need to know what conversation topic that is

[grand tusk]

All I'll say is that it came about from pokemon wack, and that should tell you everything you need to know

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/no-bugs-bunny-nope-gif-14359850

[grand tusk]

Blaquaza stifling the engaging discussion that we could all have without any issues or need to warn users 😔

https://tenor.com/view/goober-spiderman-no-way-home-1984-gif-22813158

I dunno why it had that caption

but its funny so im leaving it

that was not said topic

[quartz locust]

It's not interesting when it's ended up in nasty discussions that have resulted in people being banned. Two today, in fact, which is possibly the first time I've had to ban two people in a day, and certainly so for the same issue. 😦

Also, yes, the obvious Milo alt was Milo. 😂

[tall moss]

https://tenor.com/view/oh-popcorn-eating-gif-18107571

waiting for milo 3

[grand tusk]

you should, so you can have a complex learning and understanding about how rule 2 is only a step away from the dystopian future the book warned us about

[balmy ibex]

looking at the votes, yea I got eviscerated lmao

[hollow gull]

"wackian" pain

I just join to get a help

Also those flags are 👌 a great touch /s

[plucky arch]

why do all of Milo's names sound like some scientific species name

[in nature documentary voice] "ah, the wild Wackian Milokaros in its natural environment, failing to evade its recent banishment from the rest of the tribe"

[hollow gull]

Real

Big day for Indonesian piss lemonade

[misty acorn]

who tf is Milo?

[storm grotto]

I'm so sad I don't get this reference, I'm missing the Milo Arc

[tiny trellis]

FOUR VOTES LET'S FUCKING GO

[hollow gull]

WOOO

[teal grove]

Someone we're not allowed to talk about due to rule 1984

[grand tusk]

We pretty much did though ironically, even Blaquaza did lol

[tawdry oak]

I got my own vote

[cyan bramble]

I forgot to vote in the last 2 polls

I was voting when the channel closed

[tawdry oak]

The polls were ending as I was voting lol

[hollow gull]

I'm confused why I tied with the two highest voted?

guess that makes me part of the 3 highest voted

like not trying to be humble or anything here I just genuinely don't like that fusion that much

I mean I'll take it but it weird

[plucky arch]

do not question the Council

[crystal hill]

milo these nuts
gottem

[grand tusk]

damn Tomate, Lonk just decimated you, must suck

[zinc lion]

Why does it take a million years between rounds

[hollow gull]

Because I'm in your walls

What if Gamr has like a funeral to go to

[thick jolt]

its only been like two days anyways

[ivory olive]

maybe there's internal problems with the bot

[grand tusk]

maybe he don't wanna deal with your whiny ass

maybe maybe maybe, try just waiting

[uneven radish]

so everyone can vote, probably

[thin dove]

whoa, i have a wacked sleep schedule for a few days and come back and something happened?
(also how's everyone doin')

[wind matrix]

you missed some fun drama

[thin dove]

part of me wants to ask what happened and part of me doesn't want to exasperate Blaquaza

[lusty pewter]

vote duration is only 1 day

[wind matrix]

Someone got banned, and made an alt account to get back in. It was super obvious and hilarious

[thin dove]

that sounds kind of funny. what were they banned for?

[wind matrix]

transphobic shit (also they've been an ass the entire time they've been here, and so many people had him blocked)

[tall moss]

i legit started adding code to the yanmega commands to check if it was that banned user triggering em cuz they spammed yag triggers and stuff

[lusty pewter]

yag triggers?

[wind matrix]

words that make the bot respond

[tall moss]

lile when you say "phone" in general

[lusty pewter]

ah alr

fsr I thought it's some kind of weird offensive slang for "yak"

[wind matrix]

yag is just Kiwi's petname for yanmega bot

[cedar quest]

The simple answer is because I am in no rush at all

I have my command on a copypaste

I have my sheets ready

I can do it whenever, and it takes like 10 mins to do so

But I'm tired of seeing y'all not have the slightest bit of patience and bitching at the littlest things

So I'm doing the polls whenever I want to

Besides, I'm retiring from CM anyways, what is someone gonna do? Fire me?

[grand tusk]

So i was right!

[thick jolt]

i dont blame you either honestly this chat is like,, the worst ive seen this server in my short time being here

[cedar quest]

Same, excpet cut out the "in my short time being here" part

[limber venture]

I don't really know why people are so bothered anyway

The contest is not that huge of a deal

[grand tusk]

cause they think they're gonna win lol

no pressure for me, i already lost

[thick jolt]

yeah like, ooo funny little pixel pictures get votes

ditto bonz

[grand tusk]

maybe I'd get it if I got to the next round and felt excitement for seeing how far my sprite could go

[limber venture]

Contests are like 10% of the reason to be in this server so you can just enjoy the other 90% while waiting

[lusty pewter]

one of my sprite went to semi, which is exciting, but I haven't said anything about the polls taking a long time

[wind matrix]

just do a week between votes for the fun

[lusty pewter]

tho granted it does make me more nervous the longer it take

[grand tusk]

it's simple, we set a time for the next poll, ignore it, and then when people ask you can respond with "I forgot" and then wait another week

who can stop you

[thick jolt]

i think its good tbf, people see the sprites again after leaving them for a while, gives them more opportunities to be like, oh wait, this isnt as good as i thought it was

[limber venture]

Can we make the next contest votes decided by whoever wins in bonk.io

[grand tusk]

whoever's sprites gets the least amount of votes in the first round gets another chance to put a new sprite in for the semi finals

the underdog clause

[cedar quest]

on an unrelated note: I'm not happy that I have to "punish" the people who aren't well, complaining. But I'd much rather do that then "reward" those that are, and encourage that type of behaviour

[grand tusk]

could always mod abuse them and give em a timeout for being annoying

I think that would be funny

[thick jolt]

yeah but its the attention

some people just want to be noticed

[grand tusk]

see how they get noticed next week when they can speak again

[limber venture]

Contest votes decided via rock paper scissors

[grand tusk]

I choose rock

[limber venture]

pAPER

I win

[grand tusk]

I no longer like your idea

[wind matrix]

spock I win

[limber venture]

Wtf you can't do that

[grand tusk]

spock more like rule 2 violation

[wind matrix]

[thick jolt]

i love reactions sm

[limber venture]

I'm telling

[thick jolt]

doesnt paper disprove spock??

[wind matrix]

It's been ages since I've seen the big bang theory

[thick jolt]

me too honestly i just watch the insta reels

[grand tusk]

I think I should be contest manager, my qualifications is that I can be a bigger troll then the complainers can be annoying to me

I would switch to google forms for the votes, so nobody can see the results but me

[limber venture]

Do not make me contest manager. I would subject all contest entries to cruel and unusual forms of going head to head with their peers

[grand tusk]

and if anyone asks I tell them i can change who the winner is and nobody would know

[limber venture]

Of course, if this sounds up your alley, please make me contest manager

[thick jolt]

spriting contest where the most cursed sprite that still follows all the rules wins

[tall moss]

you don't "have" to do anything but imo part of being server staff is doing the job you said youd do, and doing it as well as you can. putting it off bc of spite and holding it over peoples heads isnt super professional

[thick jolt]

miltank is banned

[grand tusk]

but it's also funny

I think that's an important note

I love doing things out of spite

[tall moss]

and very much a dick nove

[thick jolt]

every time i see kiwis profile picture i never see the kirby and just see like a sad pink frog

[grand tusk]

thats why I became a spiter after all

[thick jolt]

https://tenor.com/view/minor-spelling-mistake-gif-21179057

[limber venture]

you missed the joke

[thick jolt]

damm 😔

wait i dont get it what was it

[grand tusk]

spriter

spiter

spite

[thick jolt]

OH NO I WAS TALKING ABOUT THORNS nove

[wind matrix]

nove?

[thick jolt]

nove?

[grand tusk]

That was kiwi

not thorns

[thick jolt]

omds

im all forms of confused

[wind matrix]

LOL

[thick jolt]

apologies

[tall moss]

hi im thorns

[grand tusk]

absolute seaweed head here

[limber venture]

What are we talking about anymore

So much confusio

[grand tusk]

all that seawater making the brain go smooth

[limber venture]

n

[thick jolt]

i hereby resign from the discord server

[wind matrix]

I'm Kiwi now

[grand tusk]

Anyway, back to what I was saying

I will throw my hat into the ring as a sprite manager, out troll them yadda yadda. Also I have experience working retail and as a discord admin so I know what horrors to expect

[rapid sequoia]

people see the yellow name and forget to actually read it lol

[limber venture]

I think we should KILL all contest entrants

Straight up MURDER them

[grand tusk]

I think we should KISS all contest entrants

[thick jolt]

contest entrants are muted until votes are finished to prevent rule 7 violations

[wind matrix]

If I became contest manager, I would just end all contests

[grand tusk]

just mute contest general until voting is over is a great idea

[thick jolt]

then like

what is it for

[grand tusk]

we all suck here, even spriter-general is better then us

and its a general chat

[thick jolt]

still better than general general

[tall moss]

i lowkey wanna become a contest manager so contests happen more than once a year again

[limber venture]

Delete the server to prevent rule 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 , and 11 from being broken

[wind matrix]

You do too much already

[grand tusk]

yeah, but thats like saying this old apple is better then drinking public toilet water

of course its better then general general

[tall moss]

and yet id still have time to run contests consistently

[grand tusk]

what's the point running them consistently

contests smontests

[limber venture]

If we have contests consistently, I don't get to feel superior for not caring about when the polls happen

[grand tusk]

it's time for Duals-general

we have sprite fights instead

1 on 1's, winner has their sprite added to the gallery, loser must delete their sprite

[thick jolt]

sprite fights sound cool, get two people to do the same head/body

like main sprites voting but on purpose

[wind matrix]

We should have real fights instead

[limber venture]

This is already a thing

Sprite duels exist but nobody does them

[tall moss]

?tag spriteduels

[urban knot]

Sprite duels are informal, smaller versions of contests that are usually 1v1, and people will make sprites based on a specific theme, which the participants can either decide themselves or ask a third party to come up with one. You can challenge someone to a duel in #spriter-general.

When you've both completed your sprites, you can send them into #is-my-sprite-ready as a joint image and ask members to vote on which one they prefer. You can get feedback on them before finishing in #spriting-discussion as well.

Here is a link with all of the relevant information about duels, including theme suggestions. 😃

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F3_O2wM1upD-pnVHF7mIw1WsXRn25TZZ5WAYzbX_zbU/edit?usp=sharing

[grand tusk]

I would win in an unarmed fight

[limber venture]

So old it still says spritework-old

[thick jolt]

the more you know

[vivid sonnet]

:0 I'd kinda love to be challenged to a duel tbh

[grand tusk]

Rhys

you're a contest winner, i aint gonna try nothin

[vivid sonnet]

Aww shucks

[limber venture]

Can we renaissance sprite duels

Bring them back

[grand tusk]

We should have sprite 2v2s

[vivid sonnet]

Sprite double battles

[tall moss]

ok back to trying to sleep

[grand tusk]

you get half the 96x96 canvas to work on, your partner the other half

[wind matrix]

gl

[tall moss]

night nerds

[grand tusk]

you must work together to make a good sprite

[vivid sonnet]

Goodnight!

Hm. I think I'm gonna apply to be a contest manager

[grand tusk]

why would you do that to yourself

[limber venture]

I should apply. gamr loves me

[limber venture]

after i WHIPPED his ass in bonk dot io

[grand tusk]

that meets most qualifications

you do have to defeat the old contest manager to become the new one

[vivid sonnet]

I like contests and I like helping people, though I get the feeling I'm not gonna be prepared for everything

[grand tusk]

you'll learn to hate both if you do this

trust me, I worked retail

[vivid sonnet]

So have I

[grand tusk]

what kind of place you worked in

[limber venture]

I went to contest manager school

[grand tusk]

I was at a clinic, so mine was with sick people

[limber venture]

I'll be fine

[grand tusk]

weird they weren't so happy

[vivid sonnet]

It's hard to not become completely jaded, but I actively fight against it because I'm already depressed

[grand tusk]

I won't become jaded

[vivid sonnet]

I worked several fast food jobs and a gas station job

[grand tusk]

I'm blue, not green

https://tenor.com/view/avatar-the-last-airbender-zuko-thats-rough-buddy-thats-rough-gif-4264932

[vivid sonnet]

Alright, I submitted my app

Also I know the conversation has already moved on but please don't think I can't make bad/mediocre sprites just because I won one contest. I've lost more contests than I've won

[grand tusk]

winning a contest means you have a high skill ceiling

[limber venture]

Psssh.. I could win a contest,,, i just don't feel like it....

Don't wanna use 1% of my power, heh...

[grand tusk]

ill win the next one when I abuse the meta and make a gardevoir fusion with special effects that also references a popular franchise

[lusty pewter]

then use 2% :3

[limber venture]

I submitted an application also

If I become contest manager you better be ready for the rock paper scissors contest

[lusty pewter]

husk gonna whoop your ass

[vivid sonnet]

I only downplay my achievements because I want people to duel me, if dueling makes a comeback

[limber venture]

let me search from:rhys lynx in sprite gallery rq

Not dueling you

[vivid sonnet]

PFFFF

Thank you, it means a lot, but also damn

[grand tusk]

let husk try

husk can complain about the meta

[limber venture]

The duel meta

[grand tusk]

imma abuse the hell outta it

[limber venture]

The duel meta is killing your opponent

Bonz we should duel

The only issue with sprite duels nowadays is getting buried in spritework q's

There should be competitive sprite duels

[vivid sonnet]

Maybe duels should be formatted more like a surprise. No feedback until after both opponents have revealed their sprites

[limber venture]

You can do quickplay or ranked sprite duels

Ranked sprite duels will increase your spritescore

You get matched against spriters with similar spritescores

[grand tusk]

why would I duel you

you'd beat my ass

did you see that axew in cofag discussion

[limber venture]

Cofagrigus/Krabby was pretty dope i dunnooooooooo

[grand tusk]

I stopped cooking immediately

[grand tusk]

you should make a discord suggestion for a proper sprite duel channel

[limber venture]

I think they need frog approval to make channels, and he doesn't like making channels

[grand tusk]

we can kill a few of the chat channels for one

[limber venture]

Cause it clutters the place

[grand tusk]

who needs media or gaming or general

[limber venture]

And he would be putting a lot of faith in the idea of sprite duels coming back, which they most likely won't

[grand tusk]

not with that attitude

[limber venture]

Oh yea? Duel me then

https://tenor.com/view/yu-gi-oh-duel-come-at-me-bro-gif-11722651

[vivid sonnet]

I need to go to bed soon, so gnight contest gen

[teal grove]

Hello i heard me name

[wind matrix]

if we nuked general, everyone would go to spriter general

[teal grove]

Make spriter general spriter only again

[wind matrix]

they've been gossiping about you

[teal grove]

See the thing is

According to blaq we legally aren’t allowed to talk about meta during a contest

Because apparently it breaks rule 7

[limber venture]

We're discussing the duel meta

The meta for sprite duels

The meta that doesn't exist because who does sprite duels

[teal grove]

Are you sure about that, rezza

[vivid sonnet]

I wanna duel folks and I think Husk was suggested as a Worthy Opponent for me

[limber venture]

I'm just trying to stop bonz from getting BANNED

[wind matrix]

And according to other staff, it should only apply to talking negatively about a sprite

[limber venture]

It would be a shame if any MODERATORS saw bonz discussing the META during a CONTEST

That would SUCK

[teal grove]

Ok so im gonna screenshot this since blaq gets angry when i say he thinks differently from other mods

Im probably gonna get shat on by him for even typing that message

[wind matrix]

Every staff member is different, and has different opinions on things. We're not a hive mind lol

[vivid sonnet]

Welp, as someone with no mod powers I have nothing to add to a conversation about mod stuff

Gnight for real this time

[teal grove]

Can i use this to choose what staff i listen to

[wind matrix]

Husk basically acting like a kid who goes to the other parent when one tell him something he doesn't like

[deft kite]

https://tenor.com/view/kaiba-yugioh-dual-gif-5959874

hop on master duel

[stray condor]

isnt that like every kid atleast once in their childhood?

[quartz locust]

The rule's not one we enforce harshly especially when it comes to meme members. It's more for specific types of banned people. 😅

[quartz locust]

Oh come on now.

[dawn ivy]

i might just follow you with not joining contests blaq, i feel obliterated lol

[silver merlin]

if its not healthy for you then dont lol

[silk bolt]

Hi everyone 👋

[dawn ivy]

hmm, its inspiring, but with the amount of sprites in the contests these days its not fun

[silver merlin]

we did have smth planned to make the polls a bit smaller

just, dont expect contests for a bit as both me and skel'n are going to pause them for a while

with gamr leaving we need time to figure out a fucking system for this shit lmaoo

[silk bolt]

I don't know about it, will you tell me katten ?

[silver merlin]

(no

:>

[silk bolt]

Do it

[dawn ivy]

[silk bolt]

(im not sprite manager but if i can give a hand tell me)

[dawn ivy]

isnt it contest manager

[crystal hill]

damn I was hoping to join the next contest as my first one
guess I have to wait

hope you figure out a great system so that it's more fun when I join!

[silver merlin]

dw, we will have one more contest before the pause

and well, you'll see with the pause itself LOL there'll be plenty to do

[crystal hill]

oh nice

[silk bolt]

Can i suggest a contest theme

[dawn ivy]

ill see if i join but i might just not check the contests at all after that lmao

[silver merlin]

pinned

[silver merlin]

lmaoo i didnt join the revival contest either

its the first time i didnt join a contest in a while

(mostly due to my mental health but yea

[silk bolt]

Saw the link katten thank you 🫡

[deft kite]

https://tenor.com/view/surprised-pikachu-pokemon-shock-surprised-pikachu-gif-15357817

mod dont read pinned

[silk bolt]

Mod are just less problematic brat to deal with you know

[dawn ivy]

mines doing well these days, the moving really helped, but yea, this is kind of a huge downer lmao. Most of the contest things are fun and nice to look at, but im really not enjoying loss after loss lmao

[silver merlin]

its been going downhill for me lol, its why im not as active

[silk bolt]

Emisys being too competitive

I've never din i'm just second or third everytime

[dawn ivy]

im actually very competitive and a bad loser. It doesnt help, and i cant really get rid of it cause yay autism and interests

[silver merlin]

yeah i get that

[deft kite]

competitive bad loser gang

[silk bolt]

EMY STOP BEING TOXIC

[silver merlin]

what? lol

[dawn ivy]

IM A POISON POKEMON DAMMIT

[silver merlin]

🚎

[silk bolt]

Damn that salazzle abilty

[dawn ivy]

[silk bolt]

[dawn ivy]

nah, seeing m fave pokemon list i'd be water

[silver merlin]

i forced skel'n to assign a pokemon that fit most like me?? she picked swablu

[dawn ivy]

Swablu is cute

[silver merlin]

dunno what type fits me the most tho 🚎

[dawn ivy]

Katten tell me a pokemon that fits me

[silver merlin]

vaporeon oddly enough lol

[dawn ivy]

but whai

[silver merlin]

idk, prolly cuz of all ur fusions with vaporeon

[dawn ivy]

i havent even done that many lmao

[silver merlin]

WHATEVER

its what my brain thought of ok

[dawn ivy]

LITERALLY 4 KATTEN

LITERALLY 4

fair enough

tbf if you ask me my fave its Vaporeon

[crystal hill]

despite the internet?

[dawn ivy]

yep

These days anything gets sexualised, why would i care if its also about something i like

[normal oyster]

Miltank

[dawn ivy]

Not to sprite, that fits me

you calling me a momma milker?

[lusty pewter]

fluff calling you cursed

[weary pagoda]

(note it took me 30-40 minutes to find a Pokémon as accurate as possible, just did NOT want to fail it 🚎)

[honest tulip]

katten is blue and fluffy?

[silk bolt]

Emy moma ?😮

[silk bolt]

HAs a beak

[honest tulip]

and is round

[silk bolt]

Has little tiny feet

Yeah skel'n gave me a haircut

How do i look

Ah thx

I love your hat

Seems like a jojo ref wich make me happy

I know don't worry, for me cap is jojo
Everything is jojo in fact

Because you're basically dio

Part 4 is my second fav, ony problem is funky part is that it takes too long too introduce the main villain

It's a super like

Wanna mztch this blonde chad