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Holy throwback what up hope you been well

I am, thank you!
I hope you are too! 10 years later I see you're still getting up before the sun does for some reason :]

yea, gotta hit that weekday grind lmao glad you’re doing g

what do you do again? is it something to do with law?

Nah, business logistics shit more or less. Used to be more in sales

ohhh yeah I think I used to know when you were in sales. Business logistics sounds like a good gig tho :]

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do you know what ever happened to Adam (Rylian)? did he retire?

Think he stopped playing in 2016-2017

Damn. basically same as me then

Other than that, I just wanted to tell you how proud of you I am :)
I think I was around when you first got made a member of the OU council and I was like "what? nah. not the Finchinator I know" -- I admittedly was hating a lil bit lol.. but a month ago I watched a 5 year old video from Nathanlikeschicken that you featured on, talking about what makes a pokemon broken or not. And I see that you're a very competent pokemon trainer and person who's able to think rationally and critically and articulate those same thoughts and rationale. Wherever you go in life is lucky to have you as a person, and Smogon/Showdown is lucky to have you as an active and dedicated decision maker.

Lot of people aged out in the late 2010s tbh but smogon got repopulated with newer people during COVID or new generation releases

Lmao the Nathan video was fire, that dude was fun af

But thanks bro appreciate you big time, it’s been a blast on smogon and tbh one of these years I’m gonna be too old for this shit but still enjoying it in the meantime a ton and love the community

Makes sense

Ha we'll see. Idk how much people's priorities really change (from this) if they show a mind and understanding for it and they're already doing well professionally. Plus you have a youtube channel, so you're committed to Pokemon :]

Don’t really use it much tbh full time work + what I do on here is already a lot, but the game and community still are fun

Ah gotcha! I imagine the game is gonna get a lot more fun (or interesting) soon? I think I read Pokemon Champions is gonna support Megas, Z-moves, Dynamax, and Teras lololol I wonder how that's gonna look

Not sure how champions interacts with mainline yet but we also got Gen ten in 2026 prob

Fair. And true.
How does Showdown work anyway? When does Z-A become part of the official gen 9 meta?

I don’t think it ever does because it’s not mankind

Mainline*** oops