Hello Smogon!
My name is Joshua (friends call me Josh) and I'm 21, but y'all can just refer to me as Pharmasynth on these forums! I'm mostly active on Nuggetbridge, but I decided to check out Smogon to see what it was all about! I started playing Pokémon back in the original Ruby and Sapphire days, but I started playing competitively back in 5th gen. I'd call myself a doubles/VGC specialist as that's the metagame I mainly play and ladder on. Though I don't really play in events (thinking about playing in live events this year, but that may or may not happen as this is my last semester in college), I do play on the Battle Spot Doubles ladder, and I'd say I'm a pretty experienced player. VGC is such a fun metagame, and I love helping beginners with teambuilding and general doubles tactics, and I love learning and discussing the VGC metagame as a whole. I'm actually thinking about trying to ladder onto some of the other Battle Spot ladders like Singles and Triples for fun, and I think I can learn a lot from these forums and familiarize myself with these metagames!
Some of my interests and hobbies include Pokémon (obviously haha), electronic music (favorite genres include Trance & Progressive, all variants of House music, synth wave, and big beat), cars (I LOVE Porsche and BMW and basically all the Japanese manufacturers; not really a fan of American cars, though haha), tennis (Use to play competitively in high school, and I need to hit the courts again! Novak Djokovic and Simona Halep are my baes; I can't wait for the Australian Open!), pharmacology (I find drugs and the way they work fascinating. Hopefully I'll get into a graduate Pharmacology program when I feel I'm ready to apply to grad school), night life (dancing and alcohol lol), and Max Emerson (<3). I hope I didn't bore y'all with my introduction, and I'm excited to get further involved in these forums!