event-general

[white wagon]

Ye, gotta say this little experiment truly shows counting is just as hard as reading

[acoustic saddle]

u lie

[white wagon]

I'm lying bastard at least I got my collab lessons in the meantime and Real3 showed me how to make the water spout not crunchy

You'll be happy Mr NTS

[sly shuttle]

AI??!??

Guess we gotta kill you now 😔

[white wagon]

Sadly gotta admit

I use AI for counting and sometimes for reading, only for the hardest tasks

[potent sorrel]

Understandable

But we still gotta take you out back

[signal nexus]

< parrot

[cold bay]

Seal Horse was a mistake

[cyan gull]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-hard-choices-strong-wills-infinity-war-titan-gif-15154646

[white wagon]

Do I get yeeted now

[cinder stag]

yes

[jagged hinge]

I think you could actually get into trouble if wasn’t an autogen

[fallen light]

isn't an autogen

https://www.fusiondex.org/70.108/

[jagged hinge]

I think this is based on the emote it has some differences if you look close

[idle forge]

Nope

[near horizon]

i ate it

[wind matrix]

Lysander is a person!

[fallen light]

the autogen doesnt look like the emote, so i assumed it was this

[mellow wagon]

My Life is a lie

[spiral harbor]

and his name is LYSANDRE 😤 /silly

[white wagon]

Holy shit it isn't? I was positive it is

Maybe because it's scronched vertically

[urban siren]

will there be afd contest polls today

[cedar quest]

no

[formal river]

hey theres still a week left of the grunt redesign and we finally have some entries https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nlo2cdu8ExTt7BYnOasvKV4quXciEMFM

[signal nexus]

"away from desk"?

[urban siren]

[subtle moss]

I'm finally about caught up with Mergemay

should be able to set aside some time this weekend

[formal river]

neat

[glass reef]

it’s on alexander dot net or whatever

https://pokemon.alexonsager.net

this is where the emote is from

[fallen light]

ohhh it’s a different autogen site

[jagged hinge]

[sly shuttle]

I don’t like my starter from real name or username

[sharp mountain]

are there pills today

pills

pills

POLLS

thanks keyboard

[young bobcat]

pressing the up arrow lets you edit your last message quickly 🙂

[rapid knot]

The original Pokémon Fusion

[cedar quest]

oppa pillstein

[sharp mountain]

mobile in this case

[hot hare]

What site do you use for making sprites?

cant find a good one

[wary thorn]

paint.net

[sly shuttle]

Not a website, but I use Pixel Studio
This question belongs more in #spriting-discussion

[dense jackal]

you want to be careful about telling people paint.net is a "site". If you go to that web address i'm pretty sure it's kind of spam

[wary thorn]

oops

kinda forgot that that is how you can interpet it

[dense jackal]

all good, just worth thinking about 🙂

[dire summit]

Sonic

[whole arrow]

I went to Paint.net gave them my credit card info and social security number, what next?

[signal nexus]

dm me the same information

[whole arrow]

https://tenor.com/view/hulk-nod-here-you-go-taco-gif-14805610

[little cypress]

||Explains the bio ||

Real talk though, you ok?

[steady pasture]

I'm wondering... has any sprite that used a custom base not made by themselves ever won a contest?

[urban siren]

very recent
#contest-gallery message

[steady pasture]

Luvdisc bodies? Tbf, there's not alot u can do with those lol

[cyan gull]

That was also community voted

Cool sprite though

[limpid sphinx]

and the one who did the base is the one in 2nd and 3rd lmaooooooooooooooooooooo

[jagged hinge]

Oh happy bday cloud!

[cinder stag]

@whole arrow happy bday O:

[cinder stag]

does that mean i win the next contest

[limpid sphinx]

oh.... maybe?!

[cinder stag]

[whole arrow]

Thanks babes 😽

[hushed stream]

happy birthday!

[south meteor]

🍰

Here's to another year of wonderful concepts~

[whole arrow]

I HAVE TO STAY ANOTHER YEAR?? I THOUGHT I WAS FINALLY FREED

/j

[signal nexus]

you can only escape if you trick the next person into picking up your stylus

[whole arrow]

stylus is that one o' them rich city slicker fancee tewls? I gots me a mouse pardner 🤠

[potent sorrel]

Wired or wireless?

[whole arrow]

wired

my chains

[dense jackal]

Do you actually concept with a mouse?

[whole arrow]

i do it all with a mouse

[dense jackal]

Pixel art I get. It's not my personal preference, but I can understand using a mouse for it.
Concept art however.... I am surprised
But you use the tools you like and/or have available, so it's not like you can do art wrong

[whole arrow]

I used to favor the pen tool in Photoshop for accuracy sake, but 32 dollars a month is heinous, so I forced myself to learn how to illustrate in MS Paint

[dense jackal]

That's a very fair decision. Adobe is a dragon

[potent sorrel]

I use Paint 3D for concepts

You have to use old downloads for it now though since it got discontinued

But it's just better Paint

I use it for all my art

Other then pixel art, thats just Piskel on mouse

[whole arrow]

nice nice

[mighty stump]

I use pixilart, piskel, or libre sprite depending on how I feel or what I want to do for pixel art. Sometimes I even use all three for one sprite.

Illustrations and concept art I use Sketchbook Pro.

[plain wing]

If I have an event I'm making but haven't fully made, would a poll regarding an aspect for it fit better here or in #1222376526805209201

The aspect is whether or not I should score it (and subsequently have a prize for it) if that matters

[potent sorrel]

I mean
Prolly the mini events
But you could link the poll here

[plain wing]

Okay cool
I was originally gonna post it there then suddenly got worried that it wasn't the right place since it wasn't done yet 😅

#1222376526805209201 message

[rapid knot]

||You can do art wrong||

||Mainly the wrong way is whatever hurts you||

[signal nexus]

i assume everyone has a stylus because i assume they have wrists they don't want to bork up

[whole arrow]

oh yeah my first 100 sprites in piskel borked my wrists thats why i barely sprite by hand anymore

drawing with my mouse isnt too bad tbh, it just takes a lot of muscle memory to achieve line accuracy

i usually keep the color for erasing on the 2nd slot so i can quickly sculpt the lines if i mess them up

[cyan gull]

Over 1000 sprites and drawings on a mouse, here's to 1000 more

[urban siren]

i make my line references by stylus/finger then trace them by mouse

[rich hemlock]

mouse/touchpad spriter here My tablet is a pain to set up and is unnecessary for smaller canvases imo.

[limpid sphinx]

mouse meta is real

[signal nexus]

i pity your wrists

[autumn epoch]

My brother in christ I had no idea you used a mouse, how tf do you make such good sprites with it lol

[limpid sphinx]

oh i am a former fps pro player so i have some good coordination with the mouse haha

[mighty stump]

Wait how would mouse murder your wrist for drawing

Granted I use a track ball mouse which is usually not what others have

[whole arrow]

not sure tbh, nothing does my wrist in more than clicking

[steady pasture]

Even when doing digital art, i use a mouse

[mighty stump]

I use mouse for pixel art, and a pen on my computer for concepts. Using the pen for pixel art feels way more cumbersome than the mouse for me.

Doing either by finger sounds like a nightmare, I salute those of you that do.

[hushed stream]

i just hate using my laptp

that thang is for work

or at least that's what my brain thinks. so actually opening it is like. a mental hurdle

[rich hemlock]

I mean, as long you aren't spriting for long periods of time it's fine A stylus won't exactly save your wrist either if you don't take breaks

[south meteor]

Yay, fellow mouse spriters~

I just feel more accurate when using a mouse, especially when making corrections.
Though making large concepts with the tablet that later get shrunk is more of a recent thing.

[plain nexus]

I use a mouse to draw no matter what. I like the friction.

I did try a tablet and it wasn’t for me.

[cyan gull]

I have a confession

I don't use the brush tool

I always use the line tool and plot things by hand

[white wagon]

Ye I use maus

Tablet for sprites just wasn't hitting it. I make too big strokes, I tend to go pixel by pixel either way

[minor garnet]

I use touchpad

[jagged hinge]

I am a fellow mouse user

[fallen light]

i either use mouse (1px at a time boiissssss) or just tap on my tablet screen

[mighty stump]

One pixel at a time gang!

[rigid abyss]

Ur telling me that there's more ways than just clicking one pixel at a time with a mouse

[cloud solstice]

yeah you can keep the click on for tracing lines

I'm a mouse spriter as well, I do concept art with a tablet (no screen tho 🥲) thought I've made some with a mouse before

the most powerful spriters are the ones using the phone tho, the few times I did it it was a paiiiin 😭
if you use a phone for spriting big respect

[rigid abyss]

I've done a few phone sprites lol. Just minor edits

Only true phone sprite I did was mantine/altaria

However I do all my concept art on phone :D

[fallen light]

it's not too bad imo

i do them occasionally

[south meteor]

My fingers are too fat for phone spriting. 😔

What is that Contest Champion role? For non-sprites?

[jagged hinge]

anaconja also has it so it’s probably for winning any non-spriting contest (VGC, concept art and maybe Dex entries)

[fallen light]

got it for a dex comp

[cinder stag]

😎

[whole arrow]

I've got long fingers I'm sure holding a regular stylus would give me ultra arthritis

Need one pen sized at least

[mortal void]

Aren’t most stylus (styluses? Styli?) pen sized these days? you’re making me think of a ds stylus haha

But I already got big ass hands and arthritis likely in my future so eh I’ll draw while I can I guess

I use a pen and tablet for concept art but I am also part of the one-pixel-per-mouse-click crew

[whole arrow]

I suppose styluses started out DS sized because of phones and planners.

So that's how my brain views the default stylus size.

[mortal void]

Showing your age it’s ok I’m ancient too

Even back then I bought third party pen sized styluses for my ds, the default was too damn small for my giant hands

[signal nexus]

all the styluses that come with my tablets are pen-sized or thicker

[fallen light]

if i bought a stylus my monkey brain would chew on it like my ds stylus

[whole arrow]

I wish PlayStation made controllers Xbox controller sized

[carmine falcon]

I do EVERYTHING on mouse

Breathe on mouse too

Eat on mouse too

[pulsar musk]

xbox controllers were designed for the us market and ps for japanese I believe

americans being larger than japanese

I remember reading about the original xbox controller

which you needed hands like spades to use

I'm surprised there's still a noticeable size difference between the two in western markets

[cyan gull]

Imagine not using DS Stylus with absolute finesse

I have big hands, but I enjoy the DS stylus

It just feels natural, kinda like playing with a lollipop stem

[tawdry verge]

Just like me fr

I’ve done that absentmindedly with pencils too, mostly when I have too many things in my hands and I’m still trying to hold it

[steady pasture]

Hmm... April Fools contest not done being judged yet?

[urban siren]

it's community voted but the polls haven't started yet

[steady pasture]

Oh

Community voted for an april fools contest... that's gonna end well lol

[little cypress]

All part of the April Fool though

[urban siren]

~~it will need 2 years to finish ~~

[little cypress]

https://tenor.com/view/84-years-titanic-old-ancient-gif-5071803

[cloud solstice]

What April fool contest?

[urban siren]

the rule breaking contest

[whole arrow]

Never heard of that

[cinder stag]

yeah with vastly disparate things

canvas rulebreak vs datemade

gl lol

[steady pasture]

i'll take this chance to vote for any "waifu" sprite

Rule break contest my ass... can't even break rule 2

[tulip tusk]

im excited to see the voting for catagories where people submitted like 3 sprites

[urban siren]

all my 3 are waifus

[cinder stag]

if it is by category i might have a chance

i think i have one of the only color rulebreak

cause that one was weakaf

[tulip tusk]

I think collabs had a lower amount of submissions than I thought they would

otherwise I submitted for non-if and non-gen 5 style

[urban siren]

it may be a bit unfair if it's by category cuz the huge difference between categories

[tulip tusk]

im excited to get the 5 person collab sprite in game just to see the credits sites struggle

[urban siren]

there's also a 11 person collab this month

imagine the long collab credits

[whole arrow]

daena gonna be like

[mighty stump]

Daena is gonna fire me and everyone else who worked on it from spriting after having to credit it

Also I'm very excited for the April Fools polls whenever they get put up, especially since I have no idea how most of the sprites are going to be presented in the poll grid since they kind of break them haha

[cinder stag]

wait there is only two palette lmao

yeah by category is lopsided but category vs diff category is impossible to evaluate

i have no idea how this is supposed to work

also 10 color count wow

didnt think itd be that high

[urban siren]

cuz style can also break the palette rule like gen1/2 style?
and it can do more than simply using a different palette

[cinder stag]

yeah ig

[urban siren]

one surprising thing to me is the canvas rule got only 10 entries
it's so advantaged in both judged and voted formats

[mighty stump]

But beeg sprite = beeg time spent on it

That's why I made tiny little guy

(I could've definitely upscaled the baba is you style sprite and it would still fit on the 96 canvas with no problems but it was way funnier to leave as is)

[cinder stag]

yeah canvas is the cheat code but its a lotta work

i concepted back and forth on it but never had the motivation to actually make it

and you'd have to end up going against gasmaskblacky and yuma in it soo

[mighty stump]

Yeah, I'd personally lose that fight

I wonder if the spreadsheet fusion will be on the polls

[cinder stag]

hope so

[white wagon]

What?

How

[cloud solstice]

I wonder how the polls will be made, if they will be by rule break or not

[mighty stump]

The resistance to rainbow team rocket made a giant collab togetic absol

[cloud solstice]

No idea how you can do 11 ppl on a collab, with 5 it was hard to make sure ppl could do something to participate

[white wagon]

Resistance? From team silly?

[mighty stump]

Oh believe me it was hard to organize

[white wagon]

Exactly, I can't imagine 11 people working on a sproot unless you specifically divide who does what

[mighty stump]

I literally juat did the face

[cloud solstice]

Oh I completely believe you

[white wagon]

Like, this guy shades this 4x4 area and passes that further lol

[mighty stump]

We actually divided the shading into multiple people sbshanwjsj

[cloud solstice]

For the 5 ppl, we all proposed different CA, debated on the final design, one did the final CA, 2 split the sprite in two and made the sketch and the last 2 made the cleaning and shading

[mighty stump]

One person was concept art, one person was outline, one person colored the outline, I edited the face, someone else edited the face when someone thought it looked like a muk mouth, don't remember what the rest was

It was really fun but probably not the best to do for every sprite, there may be such a thing as too many cooks in the kitchen

[cloud solstice]

How do you get a muk mouth with Togetic and Absol

[mighty stump]

The eye and mouth was too close together and sort of flowed together so some people saw it as a muk mouth

It was a whole ordeal, first the ordeal was trying to figure out how the person was seeing a muk mouth and then there was a super long pass of edits from multiple people trying to figure out how to un-muk the face

[white wagon]

I hope we live to see the day of the last missing custom sprite being created, which would be Collab of all active spriters

[mighty stump]

That would be awesome

[white wagon]

I'm claiming the right pupil pixel (or if it's a Zubat or smth, f ck me then I suppose)

[mighty stump]

I claim the first blue pixel

No one let me down, make the last missing custom a pokemon with blue

[south meteor]

Reading this took me back to my days of making art on Miiverse.
Making those patterns in black and white took a lot of work, but it was fun.

[cinder stag]

or

instead everyone makes a sprite

and that one gets like several hundred customs

[subtle moss]

everyone gets to add one pixel

[formal river]

hey just a reminder theres still 4 days left to design a grunt https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nlo2cdu8ExTt7BYnOasvKV4quXciEMFM?usp=drive_link

[fallen light]

i think there are too many spriters for that, you might only get 1/4 of a pixel

[broken robin]

You say that but I wonder how many different spriters are actually contributing each month I’m sure there are a lot of inactive people

[jagged hinge]

there are 3000~ sprites each month, but idk what the average sprites per month for all spriters is

[sly shuttle]

Busilisk is actually asking for the spriters per month, not sprites
I asked Snrasha about it and they might put something together tomorrow to get the amount

[broken robin]

Cool

[jagged hinge]

Ohhhh that’s cool

[cedar quest]

I am those people

[cinder stag]

where april fools

[jagged hinge]

The joke of the April Fools contest is that they will never release de results

[cloud solstice]

the joke is that's is actually the little cup

[cedar quest]

buddy, at the rate life is happening - you're getting Hoenn before April Fools

I'll get to it when I'm available to do so, I thought last weekend I would have a chance - I didn't.

There is a reason I put this in the pins.

[rapid knot]

Kinda wish I could join, but I have too much else going on 😔

[dense jackal]

While I think the general premise of the grunt redesign is fun, the original hoenn grunts are just too well designed already- I can't top that

[rough kindle]

to all the people that entered hoenn contest.. I hate you r.i.p. my personal life

[urban siren]

imagine judging 200+ sprites

[rich hemlock]

I mean, when the contest is a month long with an upper limit of 6 entries and it's about a lot of freshly added mons... it was to be expected

[south meteor]

I didn't add 6, but sorry!

[steady pasture]

6 entries, and the only limitation being the fusion must use at least 1 of the new mons... yeah, it's too broad

imagine if u had infinite entries like LC lol

[little cypress]

Matt and Archie from ORAS would beg to differ

[dense jackal]

do they not like the grunt uniforms? Maybe they should have chosen different uniforms then 😛

[sly shuttle]

We would have just completed all of the new Hoenn with unlimited entries

[little cypress]

Matt didn't ever even get his new uniform in ORAS so he stole someone else's pants, and Archie was pretty sure that his uniform was mixed up with one of the boss uniforms the first time around.
Unacceptable on both fronts

[steady pasture]

That would require at least 36,160 different entries, i doubt we could

[cinder stag]

[cloud solstice]

Should have entered instead of judging

[steady pasture]

I want to try judging once, do i have to actually win an event to be a judge?

[cinder stag]

maybe get some experience in the smaller events first?

those accept "regular peeps" for some

[cloud solstice]

you need to have been on the podium or staff to be eligible for contest judge (older mime jr could also get the role but I'm unsure if new ones can ask)
I think you would need to ask Pory for more infos, since you have the contest gym leader role
otherwise you could try doing your own event (or join staff of one) if you meant you want to judge in general and not specificaly a contest

[steady pasture]

Hmm, alright, thanks

[south meteor]

I won't apply to be a judge until I win a contest. (Idk where to apply ><)

[white wagon]

Wh- I can?! Where?!

@cyan gull sorry if I ping for no reason, but I'm up to trying judging one day! Is there any paperwork to be done, signup or smth? And important thing is if you want me For hoenn contest I entered of course, but just asking for future

[cyan gull]

The only older mime got in by your request

And I will be reopening the apps for judges in June-July, I told you guys @cloud solstice

But you hate me

[white wagon]

Will that be announced somewhere?

[cyan gull]

No

But the selected will be pinged

Cuz I'm cool like that

[cloud solstice]

I forgor

[white wagon]

Damn, selected from where

[cyan gull]

This is all part of my circus act, I can't reveal all my tricks, can I?

[white wagon]

Ok, then I can now be considered part of the circus, thanks

[cinder stag]

🤡

[sly shuttle]

510 contributors in the last pack

Snrasha’s new tool is up

[broken robin]

Interesting

I think a 500 person collab where everyone adds one pixel is feasible then

[white wagon]

huh, I kinda expected less, I see the same wretched faces of y'all every day

tbh I expected 500 or whereabouts to be on and off for some months, but each month to be like 250

[white wagon]

oh yeah, and there's thew new gal, Otter, say hello Otter, everyone, say hello to Otter, chat please be polite

I as a klefki aim to build an army. Army of 9216 spriters to make the most ambitious collab in the server, and fill in entire 96x96 canvas with all sprooters effort

why do I sound like a villain
-# I should stop sorry

[signal nexus]

i wonder what the minior chart will look like at the start of Pride Rush

[south meteor]

I'll contribute a transparent pixel.

[sly shuttle]

You either get to add 2 pixels or erase 1 pixel

[south meteor]

Oh, like r/place?

[signal nexus]

that would be a fascinating and terrifying experiment
each person adds 1 pixel. no information is given what fusion we are designing. instead, it is designated afterwards

[young bobcat]

my suggestion on what the army should aim for: complete all fusions of 1 pokemon

[white wagon]

damn, that would definitely be a fusion of all time

epic win NTM style

[young bobcat]

gonna be missigno fusion

https://tenor.com/view/missingno-pokemon-fnf-gif-9061911800059810301

[south meteor]

Could we at least know the head so the palette can be limited?

[young bobcat]

yeah let's limit the palette and do xerneas

[cyan gull]

My face is not wretched

[minor garnet]

Thats EXACTLY what someone with a wretched face would say

[cyan gull]

No, people with a wretched face would shift the blame, wouldn't they, Eminemace

[minor garnet]

idk, I dont know anyone but you

[cinder stag]

thats called a rush and we do that several times a year O:

the next one starts in june

[young bobcat]

oh danggg!

[cinder stag]

thats how this happened

[young bobcat]

time to do a luvdisc only run

[white wagon]

yep, next is the gay rush which will provide completion to minior. not sure if both

[cinder stag]

i think core only

dual mon rush is pretty evil

[cinder stag]

enjoy bad stats and everything being watertype

but you dont have to worry about sprotes

even legendaries barely get the thing above 500

540 on UNecrozma is the highest i can find

gz you made... snorlax BST

[signal nexus]

luvdisc gets Soak though, so there's that

[broken robin]

Luvdisc is epic because it really just nerfs whatever you fuse it with

[white wagon]

uuuuh feebas buff

[broken robin]

at least feebas turns into something helpful

[whole arrow]

Luvdisc is the antithesis to Alakazam whos main stats will never be better for fusing.

[young pollen]

I fused it with phanpy and it’s adorable but I hate it

[tawdry verge]

What’s it look like

Also what’s BST?

[young pollen]

More of this tbh

[tawdry verge]

Awww

That’s a friend right there

[tulip tusk]

my freak son is trying his best

[lament matrix]

#1213539303876206643 message
To honor the fallen IF teams

[formal river]

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nlo2cdu8ExTt7BYnOasvKV4quXciEMFM?usp=drive_link 4 days left

[cyan gull]

🤘

we will be holding a funeral

[signal nexus]

what happen to 🐐

[cyan gull]

[signal nexus]

goats gone

[icy jasper]

Ultra beasts and crabominables gone as well

[broken robin]

SAD. well at least theres zigzagoon

[lament matrix]

Apparantly 5 non if teams clog up Spritework too much

But there is a non if server you can join if you still like to have a non if team for the game
Just dm me to get invited

[minor garnet]

They will never find out about my buzzwole dump

(Thats bc it doesnt exist

[young bobcat]

is there a post for this? I can't find it 🙈

[proven nova]

I think it should just be core. Makes more sense

[cyan gull]

They create harvesting issues, amongst other things

I tried defending you guys from the evil clutches of evil, but ultimately, evil won

[formal river]

Yup i been posting almost daily the yeast is we having a contest to redesign the hoenn grunts as test if frogman likes the resulta they get put in the hoenn game and we procede to do contest for the named npcs

[young bobcat]

can you link the post? I mean like the initial event post where the rules are etc 🙂

[formal river]

#event-general message

[young bobcat]

thank youu

[gritty cargo]

chat i have been drawing for 3 hours straight

it was worth it tho

wrong general lmaooo my bad

[cedar quest]

Refrigid....

[white wagon]

ICETYPE MAGIKARP?!

[gritty cargo]

sure close enough

[slate otter]

omg ive been saying for ages a fire type kangaroo pokemon would be cool

[gritty cargo]

nice

[echo peak]

Refrigaroo

[gritty cargo]

hsi names refrigid and also isnt mine

[echo peak]

Ah ok

[gritty cargo]

the drawing is mine but the guy is not mine

[echo peak]

It feels very Gen 5 esque. I could definitely see it animated in my head

Either way, I love the design

[gritty cargo]

it was apparently made in gartic exquisite corpse lol

[echo peak]

Neat

[white wagon]

Is it pronounce with g or j

Also why the hell do I know this design from somewhere

[cinder stag]

[white wagon]

Fr tho, I don't remember where the ice kangaroo comes from

[gritty cargo]

its from this sprite

myst and some friends made it so theyre probably the one you saw it from

[cinder stag]

what is that stat spread

holy moly

[white wagon]

Why is that such a thing that it gets fanart lol

[gritty cargo]

i just saw it in a meme myst made and i thought it was cute

[echo peak]

It'd be pronounced as "Re-fri-jah-ru"

[cedar quest]

There was a meme tournament with a whole bunch of really stupid stat spreads like that

[cinder stag]

i see

cause this is a "i made a fakemon how good is it????" spread

tho GF has been doing that these days too ahem flutter mane

[flint lintel]

not me completely not realizing there was a raffle for either of those mons

[cinder stag]

[shrewd dirge]

Meme

[formal river]

at this point i think everyone knows what this areminder for 2 days left https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Nlo2cdu8ExTt7BYnOasvKV4quXciEMFM?usp=drive_link

[dense jackal]

I am 50% through a submission for this, hoping I'll have time to finish before the deadline
(25% if I feel the need to make a magma counterpart I suppose)

[little cypress]

You could just say Ultra Beasts and Paradox Pokémon and you would still be correct

[formal river]

tbh if u need a day or 2 just tell me

[dense jackal]

Nah nah it's cool. I've got the pose done, scaled it down, and started cleaning it up. It's mostly just the easy bit left.
My only concern is that, although I've got the right perspective for a character in battle, I might still have gone a little too far with the posing for them to fit in with the grunts
(We'll cross that bridge when it's finished)

[subtle moss]

Had a question, if I made multiple entries that are kinda linked to each other, would it be a problem if I posted them in a single image?

[formal river]

No but make sure they can be separeted so dont post 1 over the other

[subtle moss]

Okay, I'll be sure to seperate them

...within the image

[formal river]

so the problem is if they overlap and frogman decides to use them then the overlaping part would need to be redone

[subtle moss]

Right, I'll show it off first before posting so I'm sure that I'm not doing anything wrong

[jagged hinge]

when does the minior rush begin?

[formal river]

tomorrow i think

[jagged hinge]

oh noted

[icy jasper]

Early dibs on _______________________________________

[lament matrix]

#1213539303876206643 message
To honor the fallen non IF teams

[icy jasper]

Before minior rush starts, can minior fusions use multiple colors (like red & blue) instead of just a solo body color (like blue alone)?

[marsh otter]

ive done so a lot 😅

[young bobcat]

I saw this minior fusion earlier and it made me excited for this lol https://infinitefusiondex.com/details/78.499

(by iaobug)

[icy jasper]

That's a really clever use of colors tbh

[subtle moss]

I'm not sure if I'll be able to get anything working in time

motivation is low

Maybe it'll be better after sleep

[rich hemlock]

Should be fine, at least I've seen plenty of other of artists use more than one color, including myself.

[formal river]

Theres still tomorrow

[dense jackal]

@formal river would you say that the enemy sprites are also broadly lit from the top left? The trainers in the banner seem to have pretty erratic lighting 😅

[formal river]

Yup the ligth comes from the same place the werid ligths like the shadowed face is just to show evil

[icy jasper]

I guess minior rush will begin very shortly since it's June 1st in other timezones?

[dense jackal]

thank 🙂
And also do you know of any good ways to test how they look in battle? Does the battle command work well on the size we need to submit them at for example?

[broken robin]

I’d probably line them up with existing grunt sprites

[formal river]

I don't know if the battle command would work since trainer sprites export at 2x instead of 3x

[dense jackal]

i can tell you that it renders it exactly the same whether exported at 2, or 3 times

i have now tested both

[formal river]

Ok cant awnser more today going to work at a creedence concert

[icy jasper]

Maybe head to the APSA website and check there?

[dense jackal]

all good. I fudged it by exporting it with some extra padding to make it sprite ratio and it works. Submitted it now (in the correct resolution for trainers of course)

[dense jackal]

That's not one of the ones i have book marked. Is there a tag for it, or do you have a link?

[icy jasper]

https://fiddlekins.github.io/aio-pif-sprite-analyser/

[icy jasper]

might as well leave this here for tomorrow

?tag minior

[urban knot]

https://i.imgur.com/LrHhZm2.png

[mighty stump]

🌈 Soon...

[south meteor]

Time to come up with a Palkia even if it won't be the first one.

[median spear]

Oh i have an excuse to make the minior chandelure ive always wanted!!

[plain wing]

Happy first day of Minior Rush everybody :3

Do we know when the thread/forum will be made?

[acoustic saddle]

where minor rush

[signal nexus]

[vibrating in anticipation of the minior claims sheet]

[plain wing]

I'm just excited to post my concept arts and sprites I pre made

[astral niche]

Image instead it’s a speed spriter contest themede around minior

[signal nexus]

for typedex i need
...okay, so copying something in an excel spreadsheet makes an image. alrighty then

[urban siren]

wishing to start later so i won't miss the first 2 hours to grab claims

[sly shuttle]

Showing up later means you get to claim the harder stuff

[signal nexus]

"get to"

[astral niche]

Since pride rush hasn’t started yet we can conclude that howls is homophobic

[gritty cargo]

fork found in kitchen

[astral niche]

[proven nova]

Will it be Core, Meteor or both?

[marsh otter]

Minior sheet has been out for quite a while so ppl can just go claiming on the Google sheet in the minior team chat🙈

[sly shuttle]

Just Core

[marsh otter]

Ive updated it today but im missing a few of minior core body there😅

[icy jasper]

Ping jumpscare

|| not minior ||

[subtle moss]

I posted my sprites on the drive, please tell me if the way I did it is wrong.

(They're a little unpolished, it's mostly just there for the concept)

[signal nexus]

[fallen light]

we didn’t do it during pride

RR stays winning

[icy jasper]

Ping jumpscare 2

|| not minior yet ||

[young bobcat]

#1378812681875886210 yess

I vote for everyone downvoting on the announcement to get banned btw

[true lagoon]

Anyone else notice that the admin for Ghetsis is still hostage?

[cedar quest]

@twilit trellis is hiding

@rapid knot add it to the lore

[rapid knot]

The admin for ghetsis?

Isn't Ghetsis already an admin?

[cedar quest]

pretty sure they meant the admin as Ghetsis, which I think would still be incorrect

[rapid knot]

Oh, you mean the pif staff?

Yeah, I think Team RR called the staff and staff helpers "admins"

Whatever makes sense to them I guess

Of course it would be anubistheory

After how mysteriously they appeared in the first place

[plucky arch]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-bob-esponja-gif-2904459546447199840

MINIOR

MINIOR RUSH

this is the greatest day of my life 🥹

[sly shuttle]

Are you coming out of retirement to partake in this rush?

[plucky arch]

when i could instead sit back and watch my desires be made in front of me with no effort from myself?

[sly shuttle]

Good point

I guess that means I need to participate since I don’t desire minior

[plucky arch]

minior my beautiful baby finally gets his love

@acoustic saddle dont quagless me without an explanation

not the trollgar too

[fallen light]

its their special move

[formal river]

It's the one that just says Grunts its perfect just add your name so we know who made it

[merry mica]

🔥 minion rush 🔥

[white wagon]

is that a kink

[cinder stag]

father i crave minior

[merry mica]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-crunch-cranch-meow-cute-gif-17368992236901678436

[cold bay]

It feels so wrong to make a sprite this saturated

[lament matrix]

[cinder stag]

https://tenor.com/view/pog-poggers-saturated-gif-24698754

[cold bay]

Ew

[cloud solstice]

Minior core/Barboach

[cinder stag]

true

[formal river]

ok guys this is oficially closed, thanks to everyone that participated

[dense jackal]

So what's your plan with it now?

[formal river]

im organizing them for the vote, i already have the other judges picked (obviously including frogman ) so we gonna have a winner when they all do theyre voting and frogman can pick if he wants to use them for the game and if i keep going with this contest for the named npcs (if we get the pass next contest is roxane)

[dense jackal]

Oh, big plans!
I honestly didn't know if it would just be a "thanks for participating folks, you all did great. I'll have some more NPC design events in the future"
Genuinely didn't know if it was judged or even a competition.

But that's cool though. I don't know if a gym leader will encourage more or less participation. On the one hand it's more specific and that might entice people more. On the other hand that might make people feel more pressure to perform so they avoid it.
Interested to see how this develops

[formal river]

i mean i cant promize nothing yet this is the proof of concept to see if froggy likes it

[dense jackal]

In which case I love my submission, but I am 95% sure it's not a viable game asset - so apologies if that contributes to the event seeming unproductive

[formal river]

nah dont worry i think having more to pick is better regardless of how viable they are

[tranquil fable]

#1379294907428114565 "reworked" some old miniors I did :), hope they're eligible for the rush

[white wagon]

Awesome!

[steady pasture]

Any news on either the April Fools or Hoenn contest results?

[white wagon]

You really expected April fools contest to be real?

[cinder stag]

april fools contest is LC 2.0

hoenn contest will take a while ig...

I'm rly curious how that will go since i feel i have some decent entries

[white wagon]

Surprisingly me too. I just want to see what judges think

[urban siren]

waiting for hat contest results too

[cyan gull]

Hoenn contest is big

And I started it later because I thought Gordo was going to start April Fool's

I was the fool

[sly shuttle]

April Fools contest is delayed
Hoenn contest is vast
Hat contest is forgotten

[cloud solstice]

tru

we're not getting any podium this month

[potent sorrel]

It means Test's Metagross can stay as the server image for longer

[cloud solstice]

pokemon infinite fusion but the server keeps a regular pokemon as pfp

[steady pasture]

Too much water™️

[whole arrow]

PIF cancelled
Internet turned off
Electricity cut
Solar Flare destroys the planet
My Pizza Pockets burn in the oven

[slender thunder]

what swear word should i look up to see how many times i have said it

WHY HERE

discord

how did I even get here

I was in spgen

[plain wing]

Sometimes Discord decides to send you through a portal to another channel
Sometimes another server in general!

[slender thunder]

i was so confused

actual mindbreak

it synergized with me not noticcing what cchannel i was in

i thought the convo changed

is anything even real?

[cinder stag]

no

its a simulation

you've been in a coma for 12 years myst

this is your family trying to contact you

we do not know how this message will reach you

please wake up we miss you

[broken robin]

The hat one is judged by just Frog right?

[signal nexus]

which hat looks best on a frog? 🤔

[broken robin]

Hang on I know

[mighty stump]

AWWWWW

[broken robin]

(It’s a toad but like, don’t worry about it)

[mighty stump]

So dapper

[white wagon]

Mine was there for like 25 minutes

[broken robin]

the non fusion server icon is kinda iconic honestly

[cyan gull]

The hat one will be done eventually

[sly shuttle]

You didn’t answer the question
Is it really judged by Frog alone?

[cyan gull]

No

[broken robin]

[gritty cargo]

looks like a mob boss

[broken robin]

sleepin with da tadpoles

[formal river]

Not even the grunt contest is judged by frogman alone

[broken robin]

isnt that... your contest tho malxire

[formal river]

Yes but because the contest result migth be aplied to the hoenn game frogman is main judge really

[steady pasture]

To clarify, i'm supposed to vote on which evo with the bigger picture best matches their evo line?

[sly shuttle]

Correct
The bigger picture is the FtL entry

[cinder stag]

its rly hard

theyre all very good

[steady pasture]

I agree. Personally i managed to filter it down to Arceus/Vibrava, Feebas/Arceus, and Rampardos/Lycanroc, but even then it was hard to pick one

[potent sorrel]

I had my favorite from when I was judging them all, but I was trying to be very very meticulous with my viewpoints on them so it helped narrow it
I did mostly look for what fit the line the best and the execution on fitting in

[gritty cargo]

i thought giratina/whirlipede was an easy w, it just looks like it unrolls into that thing

[proven nova]

We should totally have a Delibird Christmas rush

[sly shuttle]

Does Secret Spriter have room to run alongside a rush?

[signal nexus]

maybe it depends how many delibird sprites are left?

i think that's 58% for heads and 37% for bodies?

aw, that milotic could be main

[proven nova]

Probably, considering it'll last for all of December

[broken robin]

My spriting output always plummets hard in December

Too much irl stuff always

[cinder stag]

secret spriter... this year i will participate i think

i wasnt feeling it last year but i did a replacement

[plain wing]

Secret Spriter sounds fun

[cinder stag]

last year i was relatively new to spriting so i wasnt confident in my abilities

honestly, i'm still worried about getting a sprite. i struggle with getting gifts and such and i worry about if i dont like it that much and make the maker feel bad or sth

[pulsar musk]

it sounds fun

as long as I don't get something grotesque

[pulsar musk]

oh you mean someone spriting for you?

[cinder stag]

yeah

[pulsar musk]

just say you love it no matter what

[signal nexus]

Don’t ask for a pinsir, then

[cinder stag]

oh i know i can do that

but then i have to live with the lie youknow?

as i said i'm weird about these things

[signal nexus]

🤔 ask for something you don’t have any expectations about?

[cinder stag]

maybe i'll just assign myself to replacement duty

that would fit my wants

[pulsar musk]

I mean if someone asks me to do registeel tangrowth or smth

[cinder stag]

thats one of those fusions that only a handful can pull off

[pulsar musk]

I'll see if my ability to complete tasks ontime is better by december

[sly shuttle]

You could ask Gordo to give you something easy
He tries to give fusions relative to skill

[cinder stag]

? i am worried about the one made for me

i am confident in my skills these days ^^

[pulsar musk]

contest winner owns contest 2nd placer

[sly shuttle]

Oh

[cinder stag]

i miss the old testrun the humble testrun who didnt look down on us

[signal nexus]

Probably meant to reply to window licker

[cinder stag]

(jk)

[pulsar musk]

[broken robin]

Gordo has given me 2 legendary bodies both years I participated 😭

[pulsar musk]

yeah I will put myself in the easy baby category

[cinder stag]

i did a replacement sprite that was two legendaries fused

[sly shuttle]

I just and move on if I’m not impressed by what my secret spriter made me

[cinder stag]

this is the rational way to do it i'm just a weirdo lol

[signal nexus]

Sometimes legendaries are easier than just a flucking orb or generic quadruped

[broken robin]

Depends on the legendary…

[cinder stag]

true sometimes their large size or abundance of elements helps

[signal nexus]

Hence: sometimes

[signal nexus]

How bad was zekrom again?

[pulsar musk]

i love my creatures with an abundance of elements

[broken robin]

Putting a basic pokemon head on a legendary body feels bad because what do you do?? Recolor??

It’s too much

[signal nexus]

Or bird body

[cinder stag]

honestly it wasnt so bad i was just making it an onstacle in my head

i need to recite the credo

[pulsar musk]

me every sprite

[cinder stag]

JUST SHADE BRO

always works

[signal nexus]

i thought my poochyena/lugia was pretty good

[cinder stag]

texture helps a lot

[pulsar musk]

that's because you're one of the best to ever do it worm

[broken robin]

At least it has fur texture yeah

[cinder stag]

also lugia is hella flat already so its only up

[broken robin]

I’m going to bring up my wigglytuff/kyurem travesty again sorry

[cinder stag]

show

kyurem body is the funniest shit

[signal nexus]

Oh wigglytuff is the worst.
Just a pink blob

[broken robin]

[cinder stag]

i am very happy with mine i made such an accursed creature

[sly shuttle]

At least you get to make something small when you have 1stEvo/Legendary

[cinder stag]

(does anyone here know what i made ?)

[signal nexus]

Alas, my phone is a potato and doesn’t show forwards for whatever reason
I’ll have to check it out after I get off work

[cinder stag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/737765817474744350/1380303411391500318/40.351.png?ex=6843633a&is=684211ba&hm=ec47cabe2e0f188f5aaa69a8e4988071d03e5c14ed8cb2381a3cc8203aed65ed&

[pulsar musk]

when your guy gets 2 reactions and the one below has 20

[cinder stag]

this work?

[pulsar musk]

[cinder stag]

another day in the mines

[signal nexus]

Yes
Oh my
🤔 moon stone?

[sly shuttle]

Ice bird 🫵
-# I looked it up

[broken robin]

lol I deleted the forwarded post because it should not be in this thread twice

[cinder stag]

for secret yes, i meant kyurem body

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/543958354377179176/1363471584517558332/83.351.png?ex=6842cc5d&is=68417add&hm=40f0700a20520560b8eee477806f5aa9556270ab7b07ca2a997104af97d03e8d&

[sly shuttle]

Ooh, that’s pretty

[pulsar musk]

onion

[broken robin]

See farfetchd has the leek thing going for it, that’s great

[cinder stag]

i was grinning the whole time

a propper silly

[sly shuttle]

Also, how dare you suggest I was ever humble

[cinder stag]

[near horizon]

#1380306310293356544 feedback please

[cloud solstice]

@pulsar musk CUET?

[pulsar musk]

i must suffer the mockery of my peers

[thin cobalt]

Suffer the mockery of your Pears

https://tenor.com/view/azumanga-daioh-kasane-teto-pearto-teto-pear-gif-1052051726708826722

[plain wing]

Erm... The past seven days have been intermittent rainstorms and hail....
Inaccurate!!!!! /j

[signal nexus]

Teach your team something other than Rain Dance and Hail, geez!

[plain wing]

You're right my b

[potent sorrel]

Sandstorm

[plain wing]

Lmaooo

[mighty stump]

I think there was a thunderstorm in my area last night haha

[potent sorrel]

We got a pretty bad storm going on currently

[sly shuttle]

I had 2 storms just today

[acoustic saddle]

fame and money do change a person 😔

[acoustic saddle]

:3 u r beautiful, before and now

[formal river]

Git gud

[acoustic saddle]

technique problematic

[idle forge]

And running a criminal organization durng the month of April

[white wagon]

[plain wing]

I have posted Unown Soup if anyone is interested
#1222376526805209201 message

[gray mango]

👖

[signal nexus]

[slender thunder]

lol

👖

[merry mica]

👖

👖

👖

👖

[sly shuttle]

👖

[errant yarrow]

👖

[icy jasper]

👖

[signal nexus]

💪
👖

[rapid knot]

Testrun ran a criminal organization?

[swift token]

👕
👖

[mortal void]

👕
👖

[signal nexus]

your name sounds like what it's saying

[idle forge]

I don’t even remember anymore

[rapid knot]

Man
Vibes

[hazy tapir]

Not me trying to find my own loading screen after they got added and luck hates me

This is after 12 minutes of trying and like 50+ reloads or something

[slate otter]

i saw all but number 2 when i was testing it

[hazy tapir]

I just wanna see mine aaa

I get number 4 almost constantly

like

on many occassions I got it several times in a row

[slate otter]

i got 5 alot myself

which was funny cause i was working as tech support when playing it

[white wagon]

There are multiple loading screens now?

[hazy tapir]

Yeah, it cycles through

#contest-gallery message

You can see here which ones were chosen

[cyan gull]

Fusion Day is a series of events that starts on 8/8 and goes on for about 3 weeks

[plain wing]

Like a Triathalon?

[ancient palm]

what the FUCK do you mean we’re already close to the next fusion day it JUST happened

[cyan gull]

More like a series of small events

With some bigger ones mixed in

[plain wing]

Hmmmm
I think I understand?

[signal nexus]

think of the Team Rainbow Rocket takeover

[cyan gull]

Except less theme, more event

[signal nexus]

no rping 😔

[broken robin]

SAD

[cyan gull]

You can have a little RP

As a treat

[plain wing]

I didn't pay attention during that at all

I know all the events still happened during it? But that's about it

[rapid knot]

That's about all you need to know in this case

There were a lot of events, that time there was a fun theme

||If you call getting kidnapped by Team Rainbow Rocket and thrown in a cell while everyone celebrates Hoenn additions without you fun||

[broken robin]

I was super busy during the rocket takeover tbh, alas

||..... hat results when||

[signal nexus]

N made yuma read his fanfic

[plain wing]

F

[idle forge]

[cinder stag]

whos yuma

[cold bay]

Great question

[fallen light]

NTM duh

[cinder stag]

aah

[cloud solstice]

who's NTM?

[fallen light]

yuma, duh

[plucky arch]

i feel old

what is a fusion day

https://tenor.com/view/so-old-gif-27277116

[sly shuttle]

8th day of the 8th month
A series of events, movies, etc. throughout the month

The first Fusion Day kicked off the Jangmo-o mon batch

[plucky arch]

,,its, its on,8/8?

https://tenor.com/view/sweating-bullets-nervous-breakdown-gif-13165264

whats the, reason

[broken robin]

In honor of vriska from homestuck

[sly shuttle]

Gordo like the idea of using the infinity symbol

[signal nexus]

it's H twice for H2O
reminding us to hydrate
i don't remember the reason, but i doubt it's nazi stuff

[sly shuttle]

For Infinite Fusion

I just got that…

[plucky arch]

im barely involved here so i cant exactly tell yall to change it but i prolly wouldve had second thoughts

[broken robin]

I mean? Why should the nazis get a day

[signal nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/office-space-michael-bolton-why-should-i-change-hes-the-one-who-sucks-gif-17148462

[sly shuttle]

Air your thoughts with @cedar quest in the room

That day is also the first known ascent in a hot-air balloon (indoors)

[signal nexus]

🤔 fusion is all about celebrating the joining of the different. ergo: inherently philosophically anti-nazi
there we go 😌

[plucky arch]

sorry for being too woke smhsmh 😔

[signal nexus]

nah, i see where you're coming from
jumping at shadows is a legit reaction when your enemies are known to use stealth

[plucky arch]

wise mystical tree

[signal nexus]

i came up with that one a while back and am pleased to have a chance to use it 😌

[cedar quest]

pk sp ok so the y way youre talking about this means I missed something clearly

but what

[signal nexus]

i presume you saw the explanation the bot timed me out for?

[pulsar musk]

88 is neo-nazi code for Heil Adolf

it would make sense not to use it if this was a specifically WW2 game discord or something

but regardless of the fact it's thematic for infinite fusion, you can't take an entire 2 digit number and day of the year out of commission due to fear - or being offended on someone else's behalf

that gives power to it for no reason

[cyan gull]

It was part of Gordo's and my prediction that 500h from 8/8, we'd hit 500k members

[pulsar musk]

I know it's not going to be changed or anything just my general thoughts

[cyan gull]

And 8 on its side is the infinity symbol, so infinity^2

[pulsar musk]

it's frustrating seeing this logic crop up

[cyan gull]

I am aware of other things it could be confused with other things, but the same could be said about a lot of things lol

It's down to interpretation

[pulsar musk]

sorry for dodging the bot but I'm guessing H_____ is blocked

[cyan gull]

Well yeah

[steady pasture]

I agree, i shall strive to say 9-11 more often with no regard to context

[pulsar musk]

idk if that's a joke or a snarky comment disagreeing but the tone is appropriate for neither

[naive sorrel]

I doubt anyone is going to think it’s a Nazi thing when 8 is the infinity symbol ♾️. It’s inherently tied to this project (with that said, I’m new here)

[cedar quest]

Oh dear

Not good

[cinder stag]

there is no reason to assume it in this context so worrying about it it spointless

like window licker said, just associating it in any context is weird

it's "murderers drink water" logic

[cedar quest]

Fair

And no one else said anything the first time around out of like, the thousands of people in the Discord

So you're right

I'm not going to worry about it

But I'll apologize for the awful coincidence, I just liked the theming of using the ♾️ symbol

[signal nexus]

i got timed out for attempting to explain, so i can confirm

[pulsar musk]

what did you guys do for fusion day last year

[urban siren]

new mon vote
huge contest wave which winners get to choose mons for a separate vote
and new mon reveal

[sly shuttle]

#announcements message

[cyan gull]

Loads of smaller contests

Is voting on/suggesting contests something you guys would be interested in?

[potent sorrel]

Would like to ask
If we got less Hoenn mons in the last pool of newbies
Would we have just had more Pokémon

Or was it just the fact that a lot of them are already in might as well finish the bunch kinda thing

[cyan gull]

That's a Frog question, and I don't know the answer

[potent sorrel]

I ain't pinging Mr. Frogman

Im feeling bold, but not insane

[cyan gull]

But we got the Hoenn mons because it fits Hoenn

[cyan gull]

He's not a rabid dog, you don't have to fear him

[potent sorrel]

It'd be funny if one Hoenn mon didn't get added

[potent sorrel]

I mean yeah, but Im still gonna feel bad

Dude prolly gets a lotta pings

[cyan gull]

-# Dustox almost got left out of the list by accident

[potent sorrel]

XD

[cyan gull]

So what's one more

[potent sorrel]

Fine
But i legally get to blame you for peer pressuring me

[cyan gull]

I'm just saying you can, not for you to do it lol

[potent sorrel]

@vast jay
Pory told me to

[cyan gull]

But if I were in your position, I'd ping

At least ask the damn question ffs

[signal nexus]

worm retroactively yeeted from the base contest
EDIT: no, "preemptively". i mean "preemptively", not retroactively

what was the one that was superfluously put on. kecleon?

[signal nexus]

which Hoenn 'mon would you "accidentally" omit?

[potent sorrel]

Relicanth

Not that I dont like the guy

He's awesome

[signal nexus]

but coelacanths!

[potent sorrel]

But I feel like itd be the most unnoticeable if they weren't there

[signal nexus]

~~makes sense. coelacanths were unnoticed until 1938 ~~
-# well, unreported. might not have been unnoticed

[cyan gull]

Illumise and Volbeat are right there

[potent sorrel]

Volbeat is cool tho

And if Illumise isn't there but Volbeat is then people will notice

You'd need an unpopular, single stage, that isn't a gift

If you weren't directly given Castform in Hoenn, id say that

[signal nexus]

people will notice if the beloathed bugs aren't present, same as if castform were missing
i keep forgetting about wingull+, taillow+, and gulpin+

[potent sorrel]

People will notice the two birds missing
And the meme people will hunt for Gulpin

[subtle moss]

If you had to omit a single mon, Spinda would be a choice too

[potent sorrel]

Yuma would bite my arm off

There aren't really any dedicated Relicanthers yet

[urban siren]

i can't forget wingull line cuz the drizzle ability

[potent sorrel]

Politoad

But a lot of people are gonna notice one of the first few mons missing

Relicanth is what, dive only

[fallen light]

it's also on some of the water routes in the rain iirc

[potent sorrel]

Ah

Still tho

[cyan gull]

I was the one who lobbied for Relicanth lol

[potent sorrel]

You haven't made a single one

https://tenor.com/view/fraud-fraud-alert-gif-10331511155902777493

[subtle moss]

I've made only one so far

then again I've made only one or two for most of the new mon

[plain wing]

Personally yes
At the very least, the order they're done in

[cinder stag]

fun fact smogon was originally a n*zi site

[potent sorrel]

https://tenor.com/view/ayo-sidetalknyc-what-gif-24178816

Why do you possess this informayotion

[cinder stag]

at least so i heard

[signal nexus]

i saw a youtube video about it

[vital socket]

What a time to eavesdrop this chat

[signal nexus]

tl;dr, "smogon" is the german name for Koffing
the, uh, Poison Gas pokemon
the site has since moved on from its origins
i can dig up the video i watched explaining this if you want.

[potent sorrel]

No thank you

[signal nexus]

looks like everyone wants the spoilers 😌

[young bobcat]

44% is hardly everyone 😂

[pulsar musk]

as ex smogon staff this is not true lol

however they did practice... light touch moderation with regards to other things illegal in 170 countries

[signal nexus]

ah, so less "nazi site" and more "started by edgelords"

[pulsar musk]

chris monsanto was a bit of a 4chan edgelord I'm sure but to be fair it was 2006 or whatever

I haven't watched any vids I've just read lots of old/private threads

[signal nexus]

:nodnod: that's more accurate to what i heard about, regardless

[cinder stag]

yeah seems to be a mix of truths and smear campaign idk

[pulsar musk]

the mentally unstable are overrepresented in online pokemon communities

[signal nexus]

oversimplification via shorthand as well. "full of edgelords using nazi jokes" to "nazi site"

[pulsar musk]

and smogon has had so many people standing for so many things over a 20 year period

it's not hard to find something you wouldn't like about it

[signal nexus]

well, from what the video i watched said, the original logo was a koffing with the swastika in place of the skull

which definitely tracks with "edgelords making edgelord jokes", but i wouldn't consider it equivalent to commenters making edgelord jokes in the fora

[pulsar musk]

yes the nazi themeing is not fantastic is it

🚨 someone talk about an event

[signal nexus]

uhhh
Prize Hunters recently updated and now i need to figure out how to sprite a cofagrigus/lickitung

!
actually

i was hoping the monkey brain neuron activation of filling out a chart would be enough for folks to help me with my dumb spritelocke challenge, but i haven't got too many takers. i was wondering is anyone had any ideas to gather interest

[pulsar musk]

I think dhelmise/bayleef was done wasn't it

[signal nexus]

i can check. there was a concept art

def a concept art: https://discord.com/channels/302153478556352513/1334219892110659724
the reverse has been sprited, but i'll check the numbers in case there's a typo somewhere

[pulsar musk]

I was probably thinking of the concept

[signal nexus]

i checked the numbers and it's not there, yeah

[signal nexus]

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[fallen light]

beat me to it by like 30 seconds

[vast jay]

Pretty much this yeah

[cyan gull]

[cyan gull]

Wdym by the order btw?

[fallen light]

i think they mean like the order the events are announced/occur

[cyan gull]

I mean, I don't know how I could put that up for a vote, I hand-structure it to minimize overlap where I can

[plain wing]

Ah

[potent sorrel]

Thank you for the answer Mr.Frog man

[signal nexus]

what sort of order were you thinking of? some broad-scope thing of "i wish speed spriter weren't at the very end" (frex) or more granular?

[plain wing]

Have you ever watched MCC?

[signal nexus]

https://tenor.com/view/quagsire-blink-blinking-gif-25635243

...magic...cake...competition? i have no idea

[plain wing]

Minecraft Championship…
Basically just vote for which event happens immediately

[cyan gull]

See, you didn't even get bit!

[cyan gull]

It doesn't really work for our model, since that'd mean you guys could stack a bunch of contests in like, a week

[potent sorrel]

Idk how
I taste pretty good

[signal nexus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlEzvdlYRes

[cyan gull]

But I am working on a scheduling solution

[signal nexus]

no idea if that's the original upload

[cyan gull]

Aka Google Calendar thing that will let you guys mark contests in your Google calendars (or other calendar apps)

[plain wing]

Well like-
The way it works in MCC is you vote for the event you want to do first, play the event out, then vote again
(I don't necessarily care either way I just want to be sure the concept I'm suggesting is understood)

[cyan gull]

I get how it works, I just don't think it meshes with how events are handled, is all

[plain wing]

Yeah nw

[cyan gull]

But what I was offering is of you guys wanted the opportunity to either vote from some options, or suggest contest ideas

I don't think a vote would be effective because of how much I tweak the event calendars for cramming events, but I am open to event/contest suggestions

[plain wing]

That sounds fine! I was just saying if that wasn't a wanted option then it'd be cool to vote for the order
But since that's off the table, voting for the events is cool

[plain wing]

Ahhh

I mean I'm cool with wtvr

[cyan gull]

If I do have votes, it'd be for smaller stuff, y'know

Like speed spriter themes and whatnot

[plain wing]

Still sounds fun!!

[livid cloak]

would people be interested in playing a metagame where all stats are set to 100/100/100/100/100/100
a big problem about certain sprites is that they have terrible stats so if everything was the same it would open the doors to a very diverse set of viable mons

[potent sorrel]

Me like

[cyan gull]

Banished to #showdown-general for eternity

I love the idea, it emphasizes move sets and sprites

[livid cloak]

https://tenor.com/view/severance-milchick-run-running-dash-gif-1009742907016893263

[mighty stump]

I'd be interested!

I make a lot of silly little guys who don't exactly have stats that can stand up to something like Arceus normally

[livid cloak]

can i see them

[mighty stump]

Behold

[livid cloak]

this is crazy

[mighty stump]

silly guy army

[livid cloak]

now while i cant say these would actually do well in this hypothetical meta theyd definitely do better than in the vanilla meta

[mighty stump]

Yeah XD

Spheal skitty would get nuked in regular meta

[little cypress]

Regardless of battle prowess, making such amazing sprites, especially for the sometimes underserved Pokémon, is amazing. These look great!

[mighty stump]

Thanks! That means a lot.

[white wagon]

True, 80% of my fusions are like some middle stage shit you'd probably ditch after getting anything better, or just won't get in the first place

Like, why would you do that to your legendaries for example

[mighty stump]

Ooh you did such a nice space effect with that palkia beldum

Love these, they're really fun, especially the psyduck rayquaza

[pulsar musk]

I personally think this wouldn't be very fun because of all the speedties and lack of role variety

I know you were on the scalemons council, how did that meta play out? could be more appropriate as a base

randbats level scaling is a similar idea and would probably be the thing I'd explore first

[dense jackal]

What if it was everything has 600bst but it's distributed with the same ratios as the Pokémon has normally

[pulsar musk]

that's exactly what scalemons was

[dense jackal]

hah, fair enough. I have basically 0 knowledge of competitive/alt formats

[pulsar musk]

Yeah I have no idea how I pulled that one out of the memory bank but when I looked at the thread anaconja was one of the organisers

must have been right when I stopped using smogon

anyway as a core concept I think a meta where more fusions are viable is a fun idea

probably beyond the scope of #event-general but if the convo picks up elsewhere feel free to tag me

[stone solar]

did we ever get the april fools contest results?

[urban siren]

s♾️n

[cinder stag]

i like fusing weaker stuff with legendaries

cuz its boring making a >600 BST monster that trivializes the game

legendary fused with junk is actually fun to use and not OP for once

[white wagon]

Also

It allows you to play with Rayquaza stuck in 3 water tubes

[livid cloak]

didnt like scalemons so much with how radical the stats got

[cyan gull]

What, you don't like Munchlax with 5 million HP and eviolite?

[livid cloak]

more like i dont like this

[cyan gull]

Omg WB Shadow Rider!

[pulsar musk]

that's why i think the randbats level scaling is more promising if technically feasible

[livid cloak]

idk how youd formulate that

[cyan gull]

I think it's by usage stat

But I could be wrong

[livid cloak]

o

[cyan gull]

But I don't think it's worth the effort

[livid cloak]

naw it doesnt really equalize enough imo

[mighty stump]

Oh my god 203 special attack gastly

[livid cloak]

yeah gastlys stat spread is so minmaxed that scaling it up would lead to ridiculous numbers

i prefer the idea of averagemons bc it gives everyone a literally even playing field

[potent sorrel]

Can't wait for the frame 1 Spore, HP/PP and Thick Club ban

[livid cloak]

this is true

well spore is already banned

[potent sorrel]

The Frame -2 then

[livid cloak]

🤯

[potent sorrel]

Move so fast it hits you in the past

[thin cobalt]

Past Sight