event-general

[silver merlin]

mean what

[tall moss]

im not sur what youre confused about 👀

[brazen pawn]

I actually really like this idea

[fallow bough]

I don't understand part 1 or part 2. 👀

[tall moss]

part 1 you make a custom sprite

part 2 you make another custom sprite

part 3 you use a sprite from part 1 as the head, and a sprite from part 2 as the body

[silver merlin]

And Retro judges the last one

[tall moss]

yes

[fallow bough]

I would absolutely ask him to do that.

[fallow bough]

In this instance part 1 and part 2 are basically the same thing though. 👀

[silver merlin]

and Kiwi judges it too

~~And Snivy ~~

[tall moss]

yea 😂 i dunno how else you could separate this tho

wht would be an easy thing for part 1?

that isnt, make a whole custom

[silver merlin]

I mean making a custom sprite would probably be a smart one

[brazen pawn]

maybe part 1 says use the top 30-50 mostly used heads and make the custom body and vice versa

[fallow bough]

Making a custom sprite is a difficult thing I feel. I mean yeah, Retro fires out high quality ones, but you don't see that many others.
BTA and I'll think of something.

[brazen pawn]

Kiwi, knuckles, scarecrow, katten, bla, scrapi,bb,tene all did good ones

[silver merlin]

contest for 9 people

[brazen pawn]

howls aswell and I think many others could do great

[tall moss]

i think everyone could make customs though

tracing anime screeshots or official art is always a good option

[zenith matrix]

the shape aint the problem, the shading is

at least by my observations, ppl being afraid to do custom, lack in those regards

[tall moss]

spritework exists 👀

doing a redline for shading is easy, ill help :y

[zenith matrix]

u just want to be involved

in every entry

[tall moss]

[zenith matrix]

Ultimate Kiwi: Sprite Contribution 100%

https://tenor.com/view/menacing-anime-jojo-anime-menacing-jojo-bizarre-adventure-gif-14798257

[brazen pawn]

but it also would mean good sprites

[solar garden]

When you lack in both regards and still try to make customs 😎

[nova nebula]

why's there straight up a togepi without the toge in the contest drive

[mild furnace]

Mimikyu probable

[nova nebula]

togepi with no brim

[mild furnace]

toge with no pi

[thorn robin]

topi with no ge

[weary pagoda]

with no togepi

[compact saddle]

uh, i already got one entry and two partners, can only collab if for fun

[weary pagoda]

No fun allowed.

[thorn robin]

or collab and give all the credits to skel'n

[brazen pawn]

https://tenor.com/view/teen-titans-go-nofun-pop-balloon-gif-11338824

[thorn robin]

[compact saddle]

agreed, its a contest, no fun allowed

[fallow bough]

[compact saddle]

oh no its ee saq

[burnt bane]

Eye sack

[quartz locust]

@fallow bough Tracing poses from the anime is an easy way of doing it. 🙂

[brazen pawn]

yeah

[compact saddle]

[burnt bane]

and lazy

Wait what

Who said that

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

[compact saddle]

you

[burnt bane]

Who?

[compact saddle]

i'm not you

[burnt bane]

Indeed you're not

[compact saddle]

true

and you're stan

[burnt bane]

Indeed

[quartz locust]

Work smart, not hard. It's efficient and generally still looks good. 😛

I don't think it's fair to say it's lazy. 😦

What's lazy is polishing beta DP sprites to make new customs. Who'd do such a thing?

[burnt bane]

Mmmh maybe thats why I wasn't serious huh

MMMMH

[quartz locust]

With you I can never tell.

[compact saddle]

someone in the custom sprite drive

[burnt bane]

That's actually really bad cause 9/10 times I'm sarcastic

[compact saddle]

good for you

[quartz locust]

And somehow 0/10 times funny. 😂

[burnt bane]

Shut up crapi

[quartz locust]

I kid, Stangela Stanaconda. 🙂

[burnt bane]

People find me hilarious blaq, shush😦

[compact saddle]

how hilarious to phisically and emotionally hurt me

[burnt bane]

Thats what I do for a living

I live and breath to hurt you

[compact saddle]

and then people complain about me

[burnt bane]

I was born for the sole reason of destroying you and your self esteem

Once I've done that, my role has been completed and I'll cease to exist

[compact saddle]

you already did that multiple times

apparently you also have alzheimers then

[burnt bane]

Seeing as you're still here

My role hasn't been completed

yet

[compact saddle]

a bad vase does not break

[burnt bane]

My next plan is destroying the fusion idea and lineart you'll make for the duet

[burnt bane]

Whut

[thorn robin]

i was born

the end

[burnt bane]

If I throw you hard enough

[compact saddle]

alright @weary pagoda still wanna collab?

[burnt bane]

It will

[thorn robin]

scrapi i did the base for our collab

[compact saddle]

then dm me it, fool

[burnt bane]

Whats the fusion you're doing?

[compact saddle]

no

[thorn robin]

yes

[compact saddle]

dont reveal

[quartz locust]

@weary pagoda Did you make a jester-based Sunflora or did I imagine that? 😮

[compact saddle]

totally

[thorn robin]

no head yes body

i just realized blaq changed my name

[quartz locust]

Who said he did?

[compact saddle]

https://tenor.com/bfYEF.gif

[thorn robin]

yes

[compact saddle]

no

[thorn robin]

https://tenor.com/view/coconut-coconut-malled-coconut-mall-mario-kart-lovro-the-coolest-gif-20290663

[solar garden]

Could we ban legendary fusions from contests

[compact saddle]

[thorn robin]

[solar garden]

Dang you guys like your gods

[thorn robin]

some of them are really cool for fusions lmao

[compact saddle]

im an atheist but what can you do when the majority prefers the gods

[solar garden]

I feel like it can get even cooler when you exclude the gods

Cause then you gotta get weird

[compact saddle]

if you participate the drive gets weird enough

[solar garden]

I know, but I must convert all to my likeness

I can't keep making contests weird by myself

[quartz locust]

"Can we ban Katten from this contest?"

[solar garden]

Perhaps

[weary pagoda]

Sorry for the late answer 😅
Yep, I did one, just as you suggested

[quartz locust]

Did you submit it? I couldn't find it in the gallery. 😦

[weary pagoda]

I did, you should find it at the top of #contest-polls ^^

[quartz locust]

But did you submit it to the gallery? 😛

[weary pagoda]

Ugh, no I mean

I didn't submit it to spritework yet

Sorry huehue

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/arnold-schwarzenegger-do-it-now-gif-11700430

[weary pagoda]

If I could do it, I would

But I'm on phone, I don't even have it

[quartz locust]

[silver merlin]

Not if i get banned from the Server first

[weary pagoda]

Big ohyes

[silver merlin]

I uh

@quartz locust collab?

[compact saddle]

lmao

[quartz locust]

Not for this contest, Chinchou isn't my scene. 😅

[silver merlin]

banned

[burnt bane]

fuck our tortechou then crapi

[weary pagoda]

And you can't enter to the third one either

[weary pagoda]

Before collabing with someone, end your other collabs 🔫

[silver merlin]

oh, then i won't be able to collab ever again

[weary pagoda]

🔨

Verdict : B A N N E D

[solar garden]

I'm not collabing yet

[acoustic hare]

@brazen pawn you got your snorlax/weedle numbers reversed

[brazen pawn]

not in the gallery tho

[acoustic hare]

🤷‍♂️

[compact saddle]

how funky is it that i already have all my entries for the next phase

[silver merlin]

scrapi moment

i have 1 done

[compact saddle]

yes

speedrunning the contests

[thorn robin]

Me too

[burnt bane]

Same

[thorn robin]

Scrapi only did 2, cause he did half of two sprites and one alone

[compact saddle]

[tall moss]

man there are so many entries 👀 i love it

theyre all so cute

[wicked onyx]

wait there was a contest

[tall moss]

make a sprite 🔫

[wicked onyx]

uhhhhhh yeah actually i have free time

ill try

O h i t s d u e t o d a y h e r e g o e s

[tall moss]

i belieeeve in youuu

[wicked onyx]

speedrun

[wicked onyx]

thaaaanks

hey i have an idea

fun

[rain stump]

it's a friday night here

[patent lance]

😎 reported

[compact saddle]

to the cool people department

[thorn robin]

🕶️

you dropped this scrapi

[wicked onyx]

-Last words before being banned

[compact saddle]

what the hell did i drop

[thorn robin]

[fallow bough]

Retro: wants a custom base contest
Also Retro: makes all possible custom bases beforehand

[dull crater]

got like 4 hours to the cutoff, right?

I have another cool idea, but not sure I can pull it out in time...

[fallen adder]

You probable can

[thorn robin]

you have 6 hours still

5

[dull crater]

despite being small, it'd have to be very custom shape-wise.

[thorn robin]

i forgot my laptop was on a different time zone lmao

[dull crater]

Oh right, dst happened so gmt moved relative to me.

[misty acorn]

You can never have enough custom bases tho 👀

[tall moss]

having 2 different drawings of the same pokemon?? preposterous

[fallow bough]

BTA ignored my DM about a custom base competition.

[thorn robin]

we all know retro or kiwi would win that contest tho

[dull crater]

Custom base contest would be cool. I like doing them.

[tall moss]

ive only won 3 of the 16 contests ive participated in you guys need to chill

[fallen adder]

I forgot I looked at the message

[thorn robin]

i've only won one of the X i've participated in

[fallen adder]

I have one 0 of the however many I have participated in 🙋‍♂️

[silver merlin]

"only"

[tall moss]

its not like i dominate everything all the time

[thorn robin]

mammuth did

i miss mamuth

[strange oasis]

Hes gone?

[brazen pawn]

@fallow bough thats how logic works, right?

[silver merlin]

you miss losing to him every contest

[brazen pawn]

XD

@tall moss would you like to collab for 1 entry in the next phase?

[thorn robin]

i did not loose to him in every contest since he didn't always get first place (but he was always on the podium tho)

[acoustic hare]

gonna make more small bab sprites,cause these are fun.Even if i cant enter them

[tall moss]

yeee

[mild furnace]

damn retro you beat me to it

[tall moss]

i got all 3 spots filled now

[mild furnace]

Who would I like to collab with

I can't think of anybody that doesn't already have all three entries filled

[rain stump]

I haven't done any at all 👀

[mild furnace]

Me neither 👀

[fallen adder]

Same 😏

[mild furnace]

Will wanna do a budew/chinchou? I call dibs

[rain stump]

what are you saying katten

[silver merlin]

you're ded

[rain stump]

hmm

[mild furnace]

If I'm not doing it with you I'm doing it anyways

[rain stump]

we'll see what we can come up with

[fallen adder]

I'll help anyone make something cursed for the next comp 👍

[rain stump]

take this to dms?

[wicked onyx]

:Squint:

[fallow bough]

anyone?

[fallen adder]

what mean

[brazen pawn]

this idea sounds nice (time to seal it) (jk)

[fallen adder]

*what imply

[mild furnace]

He's implying you can help him

[mild furnace]

What about a lickitung/chinchou where the tongues are the tail? 👀 that's pretty cursed

[tall moss]

i wanna make cursed chinchous 👀

[thorn robin]

too bad

you already have 3 entries and i can't let team chinchou win the battle

[calm quail]

chinchou is so cute

[brazen pawn]

and there is my second collab parnter (? if you wanna)

[fallen adder]

It is difficult to find a pokemon to combine with chinchou that would be complex enough for cursed

[mild furnace]

well I just gave one, didn't i?

[calm quail]

me?

[brazen pawn]

Girantina is always great, make all the rings lamps :

§

[calm quail]

i have some time before i go on vacation for a small sprite

[brazen pawn]

@calm quail If you wanna, I love our collabs ^^

[calm quail]

sure ^^

[fallen adder]

Hm... ⚙️ ⚙️ ⚙️ ... Sceptile

[burnt bane]

Miltank chinchou

Those head things? Now they're nipples

The light bulbs?

milk

[fallen adder]

Not sure I want another sprite in that direction xD

[mental ingot]

I'm mostly done with a Cubone/Chinchou that someone could team up and help maybe fix up.

[solar garden]

My man I also enjoy making cursed things

[burnt bane]

Wack

[fallen adder]

no u

[burnt bane]

I know

[dull crater]

Milk thick enough to form huge drops... Milk with a skin.

[burnt bane]

Oh no

[fallen adder]

The lamps are just milk drops

[dull crater]

I'll absolutely team up to make that happen.

[thorn robin]

why did i read milchick

[fallow bough]

Milthicc

[mild furnace]

Oh no

[brazen pawn]

When do polls open

[silver merlin]

8PM GMT or a little later

[fallow bough]

An hour and a half from now.

[silver merlin]

[fallow bough]

If BTA's bot is finished by then.

[silver merlin]

hurry up bta >:c

[fallen adder]

👀

[cedar quest]

👀

[tall moss]

👀

[fallow bough]

58 entries. 👀

[silver merlin]

I think the new ages™️ solved all ya problems 👀

[fallow bough]

I think it was the cool names I gave the contest parts.

[silver merlin]

Yeah, BTA's part didn't help or anything like that

[fallow bough]

Yeah but I agreed with all of his ideas. 👀

[burnt bane]

Damn

That's gonna be a lot of brackets, a lot of semi's and a lot of finalists

[fallow bough]

It'll be four preliminaries as it always is when I host a contest.

[burnt bane]

next interglacial contest gonna get 20 again

[outer prism]

Ah fuck, missed the deadline

[fallow bough]

I mean, there's issues with the bot just now if you want to DM me your sprite.

[tall moss]

1 more late entry and we will have 60 👀 👀 👀

[fallow bough]

Actually he sent me two.

[tall moss]

[outer prism]

2 was the max for this round, right?

[burnt bane]

yep

[outer prism]

so yeah

[dull crater]

@burnt bane dms tho

[leaden cradle]

Oh I didn't know that about the voting.

[fallow bough]

Neither did I.

[burnt bane]

oh we getting voting polls 11th of april?

[tall moss]

bot doesnt work huh

[fallen adder]

To be fair. It works. There are just kinks that would make it trash if we started using now 👀

[tall moss]

i wanna see the fuck ups

[burnt bane]

why did we even need to change the bot btw?

[fallen adder]

For weighted votes

[dull crater]

weighted how?

isn't voting already limited to spriter rolls?

[quartz locust]

Weighted votes are the best votes. ❤️

[quartz locust]

No? 😛

[dull crater]

Oh

[compact saddle]

what are weighted votes

[dull crater]

Well then, weighting spriters more than non would probably be a good thing.

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/brilliant-i-like-this-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-richard-hammond-gif-18951630

[dull crater]

As they are more likely to consider technique and quality

rather than just cool

[quartz locust]

That's weighted votes; one gets points, another gets more points. At least I think. 😄

[quartz locust]

I don't like the idea of excluding people from voting. 😦

[tall moss]

will we be able to rank all the sprites in a bracket, from fave to least fave? 👀

[dull crater]

Right, and weighting solves that.

[tall moss]

or onyl like a top 3

[fallen adder]

three votes. going from 3 points to 1

[dull crater]

Oh that kind of weight.

Just implement single transferable vote 4Head

(this is a joke because programming that would be a PitA)

[tall moss]

but,,,,, all the sprites

[fallen adder]

https://tenor.com/view/hell-nah-i-give-you-the-wag-the-finger-wag-gif-13733000

[solar garden]

3 votes spread across every bracket?

[quartz locust]

If it was three across every bracket it'd defeat the point of brackets. 😛

[acoustic hare]

colour me confused

[solar garden]

^

[tall moss]

ok new plan 👀👀👀👀 what if, 20 brackets, with 3 sprites in each of em eh? eh?

[sharp mountain]

does it gotta be a infinite fusion mon

like one in the game

[tall moss]

for contests? no you can use non-IF mons

[rain stump]

women aren't real kiwi

[tall moss]

there are no girls on the internet

[rain stump]

stop denying it

[mild furnace]

kiwi:

https://tenor.com/view/peace-disappear-vanish-gif-9727828

[tall moss]

guess im trans now

hi im uh, kiwo

[mild furnace]

Kiwo?

The streamer?

She's also a woman

[tall moss]

👀 thats a real person

[mild furnace]

yes

[tall moss]

wtfs the male version of kiwi then kiw

[quartz locust]

Gregor. 🙂

[mild furnace]

How the fu--

[tall moss]

gregoriwi

[mild furnace]

Greg for short

https://tenor.com/view/greg-gif-18420710

[tall moss]

the name greg has long been ruined for me

thanks onision

[mild furnace]

what is onision

[tall moss]

nothing

nevermind

[mild furnace]

Change your pfp to greg from diary of a wimpy kid 🔫

[tall moss]

ah yes a thing i never read

[rain stump]

[mild furnace]

Yes

[tall moss]

i know literally nothing about this guy 👀

[mild furnace]

https://tenor.com/view/doodle-deflate-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-superhero-gif-8481266

[tall moss]

also #spriter-general

[rain stump]

I changed my pfp to a random ass anime character for a day because I did the image below will be my new pfp thing

[weary pagoda]

Day 2
Dear diary,
The contest polls have been gone for a long time now.
Will I have the chance to see them again ?
If only I got to say farewell...
But it's too late.

[wicked onyx]

An onion

[umbral rune]

I forgot about onision

[wicked onyx]

i did too until i got reminded of him

[silver merlin]

@fallow bough

[fallow bough]

No it was BTA.

[quartz locust]

I have a concept for a Chinchou fusion, anyone up for it? 🙂

[fallow bough]

What's the concept so I can steal it and give you no credit?

[quartz locust]

Damn, Kiwi's already made one. 😢

[solar garden]

Sure

Oh

[surreal owl]

what was it?

[quartz locust]

It involves Chinchou. 😛

[fallow bough]

Kiwi's made lots of Chinchou fusions, in fact.

[misty acorn]

Thats this contest in a nuttshell

[naive summit]

I have concepts jotted down just dunno if I'm gonna have the motivation to participate yet

Comes n goes lmao

[quartz locust]

It was gonna be Chinchou / Rayquaza with lanterns for the turbines. 😅

[surreal owl]

I wanted to make another eevee sprite but it already exists :(

[naive summit]

Lol

[solar garden]

You just gave me an idea

[compact saddle]

@thorn robin @burnt bane already uploaded our entries

[thorn robin]

Nice

[compact saddle]

im tellin ya, im speedrunning the contest

[quartz locust]

Scrapi.

[solar garden]

Does anyone wish to assist me in making Pineco a lantern?

[surreal owl]

spriter%

[compact saddle]

what

[surreal owl]

but yeah still stumped on any chinchou ideas

wait i have an idea

if it's already made im going to cry

I'm going to cry brb

[fallow bough]

Kiwi making people cry since 1990.

[compact saddle]

isaac making my existence better since 2020

[silver merlin]

isaac making my existence pain since 2020

pesky katten flatten emote

[surreal owl]

i'm convinced that all my ideas have been already been made

[compact saddle]

kiwi deminishing my existence since 2021

[silver merlin]

kiwi since 2020

[compact saddle]

i was banned

[silver merlin]

yes i know

[leaden cradle]

I'm up for it, I have no ideas of my own right now.

[quartz locust]

Kiwi's already made the fusion. 😢

[leaden cradle]

Damn.

[burnt bane]

@fallow bough are you bta btw?

[surreal owl]

~~i would collab but i'm too anxious i'll be a bad partner ~~

[fallow bough]

No?

[burnt bane]

oh

[fallow bough]

BTA wrote the message but went to bed without posting it, so I posted it for him.

[silver merlin]

BTA emote when

[cedar quest]

If anyone new to contests, and need a collab partner, I'm free

[fallow bough]

[solar garden]

I'm not new but I do be wanting a partner

[cedar quest]

Oh

sickkkk

I too would want a partner

[fallow bough]

Wait are you the soup guy? I thought you'd left.

[solar garden]

I did

[solar garden]

What are you thinking of?

I have a few ideas, and I've never done a collab before

[fallow bough]

But you are back. 😄

[solar garden]

Yes I am

[cedar quest]

Well, I already had some ideas set up for a self-entry, being a Chinchou/Magnezone aquarium

However

I think we could def think of something cool together

[solar garden]

I have a few ideas

[cedar quest]

We can move to DMs if you want 👀

[solar garden]

Turning pineco into a mining lantern

Alright

[cedar quest]

[compact saddle]

im still banned, unfortunately

[misty acorn]

It will be even worse for the Beedrill and Clefable sprites and I'm looking forward to it

[cedar quest]

Scrapi banned!? (not clickbait)

[fallow bough]

Why, how many heads are left? 👀

We can always cancel the contest at the last second, don't worry.

[misty acorn]

52% Clefables are done and 48% Beedrills

[fallow bough]

That's 100% in total.

[misty acorn]

damn

[compact saddle]

i should finish my unofficial request and get to work on my [redacted] head fusion

cant waste time for the third phase 🙏

[wind topaz]

@fallen adder Thank you BTA for being on time

[quartz locust]

Time to get Togekiss to 100% then.

[sharp mountain]

....BTA?

I don't get the meme.

[compact saddle]

bigtimeang

the like, only other contest manager

[sharp mountain]

lol

[compact saddle]

hes oftenly the member who most pops out here, inbetween the useful people

[fallow bough]

He appears to go by BBC now.

[sharp mountain]

I'm gonna pray no one does the fusion combo I want to do

[compact saddle]

bigbannedcontest-manager?

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/cue-dots-tv-ad-break-marker-cue-marks-bbc-production-gif-16799784

[sharp mountain]

@ him for the ultimate power move

[thorn robin]

Not if hydreigon gets 100 first 🔫

I'm crazy i'll probably be able to finish it

[sharp mountain]

are you gonna do both head and body with hydre

[thorn robin]

Only head first

Then body

Join me and you'll be truly powerfull

[sharp mountain]

I'm not a good enough spriter gomen

[thorn robin]

Not untill you embrace hydra

Heil hydra

Oh god

The unintended reference

[wind topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/bh187-captain-america-red-skull-failing-fail-gif-19613837

[compact saddle]

punko will now be stuck in vormir

[solar garden]

Spelled wrong

Banned from hydra

[thorn robin]

Hail hydra hydreigon/castform confirmed

[strange oasis]

So what kind of Fusion should I do for the Contest? Any Ideas?

[quartz locust]

Breloom. Bioluminescent. 😄

[cedar quest]

Team Spiritomb when? ||Answer: Never||

[sharp mountain]

i'm just surprised clefable has so many fusions, it's a big fav. first pokemon i ever evolved (into)

[rain eagle]

can we submit something even we're not a Contest Participant ?

[misty acorn]

yeah

The role is just to get notifications. You want it?

[rain eagle]

Yeah

Didn't know that ^^'

[sharp mountain]

Do you think it's okay to add/exaggerate features to make something look cool?

[compact saddle]

you should look at the contest gallery and think about the question you made

lmfao

[sharp mountain]

I MEAN TRUE

[wicked onyx]

:squint:

[wind topaz]

Big Bime Cng

[sharp mountain]

Hmmmmm.... What's the logic behind Chinchou's eyes, in regards to the placement of the brown pixels? When I try to do it, it always looks too "cross-like" and never flowy enough, and the brown doesn't seem to work out, but it also feels wrong without it, considering all the sprites use it.

[sharp mountain]

What would you name the sprite/file, then?

[compact saddle]

number.nameofnonifmon

or the reverse

[mental ingot]

its pinned in #event-announcements

[compact saddle]

or name.name

for this contest it'd be name.170, 170.name

[sharp mountain]

Gotcha. I saw the "use its name", but wasn't sure if it was like, for both, or what you said

[fallen adder]

Bet you guys loved my contest opening post 😎

[compact saddle]

your best one so far

[sharp mountain]

Still relevant, but now i take break and sleep zzz

[tall moss]

you just gotta try every possible arrangement of pixels and pick the one that looks the least bad

[fallen adder]

Just spent about 10 minutes making a new palette because I enjoy the gen 2 chincou blue 😏

[calm quail]

i was wondering, now that round one is closed but its not up for voting yet, are we allowed to talk about the entries before the vote opens?

[thick atlas]

"This also means before voting begins, so no discussion on sprites until they are out of the voting or until voting is done."

[calm quail]

ahh sad

[quartz locust]

It's worse than usual because of the delay in the bot, but for the most part it's an okay rule. 🙂

[acoustic hare]

are fusions that already exist alowed?

[quartz locust]

Yes. 😄

[acoustic hare]

cool.started a chinchou/rayquaza then saw kiwi has made one

[quartz locust]

That was my original idea too. 😂

Someone should do Machoke / Chinchou where the lights are weights instead. 🙂

[thick atlas]

Chinchou hitmonchan and the bulb is a punching ball

[sharp mountain]

Do you think it's in bad taste to request a sprite of your own? Not for the contest, obvs

[sharp mountain]

I'll ask this one more time before I get started. Brown pixels hard.

[plush vale]

request yes post prob not

[solar garden]

Don't aim for a cross, aim for a wiggly x

You'll end up making the eyes by accident that way

[sharp mountain]

👌

Hmm... The length of Chinchou's...lantern rope things.... isn't consistent either.

I didn' realize they were so far on its back, too.

[tall moss]

theyre tails

[fallow bough]

Or Chinchou is just constantly rotated 90 degrees in the wrong direction.

[solar garden]

The strangest thing is that chinchou is only semi aquatic

Nothing about this thing makes sense

[fallow bough]

I hear those words and a full song begins playing in my head.

[solar garden]

Record label now

[dull crater]

wow, a whole lot of chinchou fusions are wrong then. Most people (myself included) thought they were off the head more or less.

Doesn't help that they ARE off the head on Lanturn...

[solar garden]

Lanturn is weird

It loses the ability to walk

[dull crater]

Can chinchou walk? those 'feet' seem more like fins.

[sharp mountain]

they can walk in anime and some other media but in the games they have no footprint and are obviously deep sea pokemon so

[dull crater]

False swipe can KO in the anime

[fallow bough]

And Swift can miss.

[solar garden]

Chinchou have been shown to walk in everything but the games

And a bunch of their sprites even have the flippers under them

[tall moss]

what about in hgss when it follows you?

does it walk or float

[sharp mountain]

60% sure it floats

[solar garden]

Maybe Chinchou is just so stealthy it doesn't leave footprints

[sharp mountain]

floats

[fallow bough]

Chinchou in the anime:

[solar garden]

But honestly tho

If they aren't feet then chinchou just can't swim at all

[dull crater]

https://tenor.com/view/toe-dip-cold-pool-gif-8799475

[solar garden]

Its side fins are horizontal and its feet are facing too far down for forest propulsion

Best it can do is swim up real fast

[mild furnace]

Chinchou is a semi-aquatic, egg-laying 'mon of action

[tall moss]

chinchou is a mess of a design

its great

[wind topaz]

Submit this please

[compact saddle]

does the april fools thing already have chinchou

[wind topaz]

Dang, it does

Just a cute drawing

[wicked onyx]

alright alright hear me out

look at this hyperrealistic wailord

[wind topaz]

We already have Wailord

[wicked onyx]

ah damn

do you have wailmer though?

[sharp mountain]

put hyperrealistic eyes on....uhh
one of the mons

[quartz locust]

I don't think we do. 🙂

I accidentally deleted the Cloyster because |I thought it was a misnumbered Gastly repeat. 😢

[reef patio]

Lol

[quartz locust]

Also, we're over halfway there. 🙂

Why is this in #event-general anyway? I just realised. 😂

[burnt bane]

Scrapi started it

[compact saddle]

i don get it

[burnt bane]

You broke the most important rule here

[compact saddle]

wh..

[burnt bane]

don't ask me what it is cause pffft, I don't know or follow the rules

[outer prism]

So?

[burnt bane]

so we dont need another

besides, mine is perfect

[wind topaz]

I was talking about #announcements April fools

[outer prism]

Rh?

Eh?

Whaddapen?

[burnt bane]

check #announcements

[wicked onyx]

Sweet

[sharp mountain]

I wonder what Pokémon to do for round 3.... I mean, which leader to pick is obvious, but not the rest.

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/bow-manners-pokemon-togekiss-gif-12951300

[burnt bane]

https://tenor.com/view/clefable-dynamax-pokemon-power-up-gif-14283806

[fallow bough]

https://tenor.com/view/bee-cute-animal-dancing-bee-bee-dance-gif-11954471

[weary pagoda]

One day... one day...

[sharp mountain]

mystery dungeon npcs just hit different

[thorn robin]

that's a weird looking hydreigon

[burnt bane]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-angry-anime-power-mad-gif-9035050

IT HASNT BEEN MADE BEFORE?! TOGEKISS LUXRAY HERE WE GO

[thorn robin]

oh boy

[sharp mountain]

I don't know which to pick, hmmmm

[weary pagoda]

Don't you see it's not Hydreigon ? Hydreigon's hairs are slightly different

[thorn robin]

https://tenor.com/view/hydreigon-pokemon-fire-blast-ポケモン-gif-12252336

banned

[weary pagoda]

no u

[thorn robin]

uno

[weary pagoda]

Oh, Neverused

[sharp mountain]

I wonder what combos everyone else is doing... I've narrowed it to five, but I feel like some of them might be taken, haha

[tall moss]

the results for "chinchou" in the gif search are something

[silver merlin]

https://tenor.com/view/chouchou-gif-8743385

i

uh what

[fallow bough]

Says "Kiwi".

[patent lance]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/802281935308849192/825251846728843274/540316408098324480.gif

[sharp mountain]

Ideas for Round 3 are
||Clefable Head with
Articuno, surrounded by pink fairy/ice crystals
Electivire, probably with a slightly more fluffy look and again, pink electricity and stuff
Machamp(??? I fear doing Machamp, dude) but I'd probably make one of the hands do a cute peace sign by its face or something. Maybe another holding a star shaped belt, or it just wears it cursed idea: give it "chest hair" that's pink/spikes
Slowbro
Krookodile||

[brazen pawn]

Thank you for that

[wind topaz]

How dare

[quartz locust]

You have betrayed Togekiss and are therefore banned. 😦

[weary pagoda]

I already know what I'll make but it might take some time

[sharp mountain]

Imagine doing Clefable/Togekiss tho

[fathom shore]

Oh, all entry need to be done in the past week

already have entry with Clefable/dunsparce

He totally got the leader vibe

Laying on the ground chilling

[sharp mountain]

multiple entries?

[fathom shore]

for the next part

[brazen pawn]

The moment when nobody uses your chinchou base for the contest :/

[sharp mountain]

Wasn't entirely sure if that was ethical, haha.
Also, it's at a pretty unique angle.

[brazen pawn]

It is :3

[wind topaz]

How many people are even making Chinchou bodies?

[silver merlin]

Not many 👀

[tall moss]

make mooore

[burnt bane]

leave the heads to kiwi

[tall moss]

im really loving all the entries so far tho

[strange oasis]

I made two

[strange oasis]

Hm i now have four Chinchou sprites... which one do i exchange for the lightsaber?

[wind topaz]

You can only submit 2 anyways

[strange oasis]

"I am BTA, and this is a reminder that you can pair up for this competition, with a limit of **three **sprites being submitted by each person."

[wind topaz]

Why did they limit it to two for the first segment then? @fallow bough, you really are chaotic neutral

[burnt bane]

Probably bc teaming up?

although 3 for the first stage would be fun, that'd give us a shit ton of entries

[strange oasis]

I guess i kick egg-boy for the lightsaber

[fallow bough]

Because it's different for each part because people asked for a bunch of different things regarding contests and we aimed to please as many people as possible?

[wind topaz]

you really are chaotic neutral

[acoustic hare]

so will all voting happen after all the phases end?

[solar garden]

ye

[acoustic hare]

and what is this about weighted votes?

[quartz locust]

That's why voting is delayed, they're trying to get the new system working. I'm sure they'll manage. 😄

[acoustic hare]

but like what is it?

[tall moss]

youll be able to vote for 3 sprites instead of just one, and rank then 1st, 2nd and 3rd

and theyll get 3, 2 or 1 points each accordingly

[quartz locust]

I imagine it's like this:

First vote = 3 points
Second vote = 2 points
Third vote = 1 point 🙂

[tall moss]

were echoing

[brazen pawn]

No it means Mods and helpers have more weight in there votes then others (just kidding)

[tall moss]

im disqualifying you

[misty acorn]

Well, the mods part is kinda true to be fair. At least for the 3rd round of this first series

[quartz locust]

I'm disqualifying everyone who submits a non-Togekiss sprite.

[brazen pawn]

Fair enough xD

[tall moss]

wait were collabing

[brazen pawn]

:p

[tall moss]

im undisqualifying you

[brazen pawn]

[tall moss]

😂

[acoustic hare]

So three across the whole sprites?

[quartz locust]

^

[acoustic hare]

so will there not be brackets any more?

[tall moss]

nonon

there will still be brackets

you just will have the ability to vote for 3 sprites per bracket now

[rain stump]

oh god what did you do

[tall moss]

wdym 👀

[acoustic hare]

If it was three across every bracket it'd defeat the point of brackets.

[tall moss]

blaq was responding to someone who thought it was 3 votes for all the sprites, as opposed to 3 votes per bracket

[leaden cradle]

Well, deadline's coming up and I still have no ideas. Anyone wanna team up?

[compact saddle]

i could give you ideas but im already out of entries

[tall moss]

chinchou is officially #4 most used head get fucked gengar

[compact saddle]

way to treat one of my favorites

[tall moss]

get spriting then 👀

make more gengars

[compact saddle]

i actually dont use gengar heads

i just dont like the sentence at the latter part of your message

[tall moss]

then get left in the dust of the far superior chinchou

[compact saddle]

for obvious reasons my entries were only chinchou bodies, lol

[tall moss]

[compact saddle]

i dont like chinchou's palette

[tall moss]

a lot of my fave mons are blue for some reason

i dont even like blue

[compact saddle]

says the one with the blue role

dont worry, my favorite mon is steely blue

[tall moss]

matagross?

[compact saddle]

actually, chinchou head on that would be kinda sick

can i request you

[fathom shore]

you mean bootlegross

[compact saddle]

bottlegross

[tall moss]

ye you can request :y

[burnt bane]

She did it

[tall moss]

i didnt

i just went thru the drive and marked the entries as done on the sheet

the fuckin power of friendship did it 😎

[compact saddle]

oh. that actually says alot by me not using heads

[burnt bane]

Scrapi be like

https://tenor.com/view/vine-so-no-head-angry-mad-throw-phone-gif-16162067

[tall moss]

what were you thinking for this btw 🤔 i wont be able to do it til like, after the contest also entries be time-consuming

[compact saddle]

a giant sharp chinchou with maybe some glowy bulbs on legs

you do you if you wanna do the cross or claws and such

[tall moss]

hmmm 👀 4 big ass bulbs sounds super fun

[compact saddle]

yes

[rose zinc]

anyone wants to collab for the contest?

[quartz locust]

Sure, if we do a Togekiss. 😄

[burnt bane]

[rose zinc]

ok, no problem 🙂 who will make the sketch of it?

[quartz locust]

You. 😉

I'll do the spritey bits. 🙂

[rose zinc]

kk, i'll try to sketch smth tomorrow

[quartz locust]

Great stuff, take as long as you need. 😄

[rose zinc]

togekiss/chinchou or chinchou/togekiss?

[quartz locust]

Togekiss head. We cannot fuel the other team. 🙂

[rose zinc]

all right 🙂

[quartz locust]

Togepi eggs for the lights? 🙂

[rose zinc]

yeah, good idea

[candid lantern]

do entires for each series get made separately or do you have to apply once and are signed up for the 3 parts?

[fallow bough]

Each part is a separate contest with separate entries. Normally voting would also be done separately, but we had some bot issues.
Basically the only thing that connects them is a loose theme.

[quartz locust]

@rose zinc I submitted the Togepi egg rather than the red and blue egg one, is that okay? 🙂

[foggy harbor]

@fallen adder What's the contest about?

[quartz locust]

#event-announcements

[foggy harbor]

Ah, thanks

[rose zinc]

Yeah, no problem :)

also sorry for late response, was aaleep

[quartz locust]

That's fine, I messaged at 1am my time which I think was 2am your time. 😅

[rain stump]

sup

[brazen pawn]

not to comment on it but i think it has half pixels

[thorn robin]

Dunno why you say that

Looks fine to me

[silver merlin]

Ah damn, i love that sprite

[foggy harbor]

Oh hey, that's my sprite

[brazen pawn]

i mean the idea is good, but maybe take a look at #spriting-discussion

[foggy harbor]

You'll have to excuse me then, this was the first Pokemon Sprite I've edited, and it took around a few hours to complete it

The arm doesn't blend well, The shadow looks weird

[quartz locust]

For a first sprite it's not bad, but yeah, #spriting-discussion is the place for this. 🙂

[foggy harbor]

Should I re-post it in #spriting-discussion then?

[quartz locust]

Well you'll just get told about the half pixels and to read the pins, but if you work on a new sprite then that's where to go. 😄

[foggy harbor]

I have been thinking on making the sprite I've requested, Togepi/Buneary and it's counterpart

[wind topaz]

You should learn to avoid half pixels first, read the pin about them in #spriting-discussion

[brazen pawn]

this is unfortunate

both are good

[silver merlin]

Oh yike

Yeah i love both sprites

[burnt bane]

Rule 7 boys

[silver merlin]

They aren't being voted on

[tall moss]

the one who gets the most votes out of the two shall get to be the official in game one 👀

[burnt bane]

Exactly

[silver merlin]

[silver merlin]

No need to rub it in

[tall moss]

you broke the rules katten!!!

[silver merlin]

oh no

[tall moss]

yo cant read the rules katten

[burnt bane]

Its payback for only complimenting kiwi🔫 👀

[silver merlin]

hey kiwi nice animated sprite

you did really well

[silver merlin]

guys bye, i have been the banned

[burnt bane]

Yeh that kiwi also made an amazing chinchou ho oh

Great job

[silver merlin]

yes

amazing job kiwi

[tall moss]

rule 7 boys

[sharp mountain]

can we talk about how cool everyone is 👀

[fallow bough]

Just follow the rules for once. Every contest lately, someone jumps in with a "man I really like [vague description that could mean any sprite] ".
Although I guess I shouldn't expect any better from you, Stan.

[quartz locust]

Mutes will be happening soon if it continues. 🙂

Do not test me. 😄

[burnt bane]

You right there

Shush

[tall moss]

39 entries already 👀 these longer contests were a good idea

[leaden cradle]

Oh shit, the contest is still going!

[burnt bane]

You got a bit less than a day yeh

[leaden cradle]

Welp, I never got any ideas for chinchou. Oh well.

[fallen adder]

I did like nothing with my sprite

[tall moss]

finish eeet

[fallen adder]

Aside from the concept stuff I literally only took away the eyes, added a thing to the head, and changed the colours

[tall moss]

you still have plenty of time

[fallen adder]

https://tenor.com/view/trying-try-im-trying-ball-catch-gif-5139192

[tall moss]

I BELIEVE IN YOU

[fallen adder]

The cursed juices are not flowing

[tall moss]

[mild furnace]

[fallen adder]

If I continued it then it would just be... a normal sprite

[tall moss]

youre allowed to make non-cursed sprites too

[fallen adder]

They aren't as cool tho

[mild furnace]

Can someone upload this file to the drive please, for some reason my computer won't let me.

[cedar quest]

If it hasn't been yet, I can

OK, it has

[tall moss]

anyone wroking on last minute entries 👀

[crude cedar]

how long left?

[quartz locust]

If they are then the deadline was 7 minutes ago. 😛

[crude cedar]

ok

[burnt bane]

tad too late for that 😉

[tall moss]

i can dreammmm

[burnt bane]

-9 minutes late entries

[silver merlin]

no

banned

[tall moss]

[fallen adder]

I hate that almost all of the gifs for "dream" are the minecraft guy

[quartz locust]

I don't even know who that is. 😮

[tall moss]

a minecraft speedrunner 👀

who got caught cheating

[quartz locust]

Oh he's that one. I've heard bits about the story. 😅

[tall moss]

i only know of him cuz of the drama 😂

[quartz locust]

Same here. 😂

[fallen adder]

Jesus 60 sprites in that first comp

[quartz locust]

That's a lot. 😮

[silver merlin]

Thats awesome

[quartz locust]

I definitely think the longer timespan and dedicated rounds for smaller Pokémon were great ideas. 😄

[fathom shore]

noice

productivity

[quartz locust]

#contest-polls Sure is interesting right now.

[fallen adder]

what mean

[quartz locust]

I'm just watching the polls form slowly and it's really cool. 🙂

[fallen adder]

https://tenor.com/view/robert-deniro-meet-the-fockers-point-looking-at-you-im-watching-you-gif-5145428

[wind topaz]

@fallen adder What do the ❗and 🔁 do?

[fallen adder]

Why are you asking here

[burnt bane]

bta how does the bot work

[fallen adder]

The first resets your votes, the second you don't need to care about

[quartz locust]

I tried typing up an explanation but it made it sound more complicated than it was. 😢

[weary pagoda]

Huh, it popped out

[silver merlin]

It gone

[burnt bane]

huh

i was still there as well lol

[fathom shore]

where #contest-poll XD

[tall moss]

im still in it

but my votes dont count

[burnt bane]

poll struggles most likely

[fathom shore]

okay

[quartz locust]

Wait it's broken? Damn it, I just voted 18 times. 😂

[burnt bane]

same

[fathom shore]

DemOcRassy

[fallow bough]

DOR?

[fathom shore]

Damage On Ravioli

[misty acorn]

bureaucracy

[cedar quest]

Does this mean I gotta react 3 times to each thing, or???

[quartz locust]

Yes. 🙂

[cedar quest]

[weary pagoda]

Why ?

[burnt bane]

First question is already here👀

[fathom shore]

Why can't I see #contest-poll ?

[cedar quest]

Wait, where the polls go?

[weary pagoda]

They're in vacations

[burnt bane]

Still the same as before fyre

Be patient

[fathom shore]

oh

sorry

[burnt bane]

Fixing a bot takes time😉

[cedar quest]

True

[burnt bane]

Cause you can vote for 3 fusions instead of just 1 like normally now

[quartz locust]

I really like the 3 point system. 🙂

[burnt bane]

And itd be unfair if you wouldn't vote on all 3 while others do

Means less votes for certain sprites that they otherwise could have gotten

[crude cedar]

where is the contest

[weary pagoda]

That's good actually. Getting into a bracket with a heckin nice sprite left no chances for other entries

[burnt bane]

This is why poll is gone

[quartz locust]

Now a sprite could get a few 3s but not from everyone, but one with consistent 2s could take the top spot from that bracket. I quite like that added level of fairness. 😄

[crude cedar]

this is my second contest

last i entered i got 2 votes

[weary pagoda]

The quality of your sprite is never all about the amount of votes

[crude cedar]

i had a great teacher and i think i improved

[quartz locust]

Who was the teacher? 😮

[crude cedar]

why is it smoll contest what happened to lampi

chinchou

[tall moss]

im not getting any dms from the bot 👀

[crude cedar]

that person isnt very liked on here but he got me in here to start with

[tall moss]

🐑

[quartz locust]

Say no more.

His style isn't the BW one.

[leaden cradle]

Oh we're voting for the first part before starting the third?

[burnt bane]

@fallen adder got the same poll twice?

[fallen adder]

what mean

[fallen adder]

Is it removing your reacts?

[tall moss]

lampi is its german name? oh no i love that

[weary pagoda]

The images don't appear for me

[fallen adder]

reeeee

[tall moss]

yes

[burnt bane]

small contest was the first, chinchou was the second

[crude cedar]

?

[crude cedar]

yes

[leaden cradle]

Oh, brackets 3 and 4 are identical.

[crude cedar]

i see

[burnt bane]

Yup indeed

[leaden cradle]

Which do I vote on?

[weary pagoda]

Gone again

[burnt bane]

no shit

[tall moss]

rip

[silver merlin]

Gone moment

[burnt bane]

Neither of the 2 cause its being fixed

[leaden cradle]

Okay.

[wind topaz]

Why do we have to vote for 3 for our votes to count

What if I only like 1 or 2 sprites in a bracket?

[burnt bane]

This is why

I just explained this smh

[fallen adder]

Too bad

[quartz locust]

Spread the love. ❤️

[wind topaz]

Bad bot

[burnt bane]

You would like only 1 of 2 and absolutely hate the rest?

[tall moss]

we all know knuckles doesnt like anything anyway

[burnt bane]

Good point

[weary pagoda]

Fake

I think Knuckles likes Jojo
And that's a really good point

[burnt bane]

That says enough already

[crude cedar]

Very confusing seeing so many small sprites

[weary pagoda]

When you see them, sure

[tall moss]

scroll up on #event-announcements youll see the old contest post

[burnt bane]

I'm too scared to vote this time

[fallen adder]

@tall moss is it still not pm'ing you?

[fallow bough]

It'll be fine. It just needed a few goes so BTA could work out some kinks.

[tall moss]

nope, no dms

[fallen adder]

What are you pm settings?

[burnt bane]

He has some odd kinks..

[silver merlin]

Bot needs to do the work

[tall moss]

i allow dms from server members 🤷‍♀️ it was DMing me just fine before

[fallen adder]

hm

[weary pagoda]

Try to reload Discord

[lime latch]

so much voting

[weary pagoda]

First time it didn't work for me, then I reloaded it

[leaden cradle]

Wait, can you vote for more than one sprite in a bracket now???

[fathom shore]

3 and 4 are the same ?

[lime latch]

yeah 3

you can vote 3 times best to worst

[burnt bane]

Reload discord

[fathom shore]

Thx ^^

[tall moss]

that worked 👀

[leaden cradle]

Do the votes we already made still count?

[lime latch]

so many votes

[burnt bane]

no

[weary pagoda]

Wall of votes

[leaden cradle]

And what was that about best to worst?

[burnt bane]

Veegee can you read stuff please

[lime latch]

you give 3 points, 2 points and 1 point

[burnt bane]

#event-announcements

[lime latch]

its also in the polls description

[burnt bane]

And it says how it works at the top of the poll

[lime latch]

Choose your favourite small bois 6
-Please vote three times for your votes to count.
-Votes count from best to worst; giving 3-1 points
-If your votes count in the wrong order, please wait until the bot responds to each vote

[thick atlas]

@fallen adder bois 3 has no option J

[leaden cradle]

Wait, I HAVE to vote 3 time? That's really weird.

[fallen adder]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-baby-frown-cry-tantrums-gif-4649018

[burnt bane]

No it isn't, as explained earlier

Also damn polls will be gone again huh

I'll just vote tomorrow lol

[leaden cradle]

Explained where?

[fallen adder]

I'll just announce to react with a j

[burnt bane]

Again, try reading stuff

Searching stuff

Scrolling a bit

Not everything will be handed to you on a silver platter in life

[quartz locust]

Won't it be apparent how many people voted for it then? And the points can't be given out? 😮

[leaden cradle]

Bruh, chill, it's just a question.

[fallow bough]

The bot still deletes the reaction.

[fallen adder]

It removes whatever is reacted 🤨

[burnt bane]

You've been asking very easily findable stuff all this time tho

[burnt bane]

But here it is

[tall moss]

stop being rude stan

just answer the questions nicely

[quartz locust]

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-band-geeks-lets-be-smart-bring-it-off-dont-fight-gif-18786852

[tall moss]

or dont answer at all

[surreal owl]

Why is the third poll blurry?

[leaden cradle]

I don't see anything about why you have to vote for 3 in #event-announcements or #contest-polls, where else am I supposed to look?

[quartz locust]

It's not for me. 😮

[fallow bough]

Probably an issue loading due to the gif. It looks fine for me, but it might take a minute on some devices.

[surreal owl]

Mobile discord acting up

[leaden cradle]

Oh, it's gone again.

[weary pagoda]

Blame Stan

[burnt bane]

This time I'm actually the one to blame

Damn

[surreal owl]

Once it’s back up do we have to vote on polls again

[silver merlin]

Works every time, baby'

[fallow bough]

This is to be expected. This is like, the first time this bot is being used in a non-testing environment.

[burnt bane]

Yep

[hasty mauve]

BTA is a hot-mess

still hot tho

[fathom shore]

Cat defusal

[fallow bough]

No, he's just reposting them due to issues.

[burnt bane]

Yep for this btw

[fallow bough]

Literally no to this.

[lime latch]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/606816272252141598/826471376029483030/IMG_20210330_170104.jpg?width=778&height=583

[burnt bane]

Why did bta say that we should in #event-announcements earlier then

[quartz locust]

No. 😄

[burnt bane]

Whut

[fallow bough]

Stan just read, find things out. Not everything in life will be handed to you on a silver platter, you have to do research on your own.

[burnt bane]

Oh

Heh

still also counts for fire then hahaha

[quartz locust]

@fallen adder Letters are missing on 6. 😮

[fallow bough]

That time wasn't even a bug with the bot, that was just Discord being 🔥

[burnt bane]

Like I said, ill just vote tomorrow lol😂

[fallow bough]

Discord is displeased. 👀

[fallen adder]

Give it time to react

[tall moss]

practice what ya preach 🙏 uvu