hello everyone, my name is duom2 and welcome back to another video
Around when Sun and Moon were coming out, I checked out Smogon's forums for the first time to see what people's thoughts on the new Pokemon were. It was nice to check what all sets people were posting in the Pokemon threads and all that. One day while I was using Smogon, I instead felt like poking around all of the different forums to see what else the site had to offer, and I stumbled across this one called Pet Mods. "What the heck is a Pet Mod?" I clicked, found a few interesting threads, and soon enough found myself actually getting an account and becoming a regular poster for the subforum.
A lot has changed after that. I started getting a lot better at the game just from how much I was talking to people about it, I started back up on pixel art which I would have completely stopped with otherwise, I eventually had a budding YouTube channel that I've since lost interest in, and so on. If it weren't for this subforum I absolutely wouldn't have the stupid sense of humor I have today, with stuff like Fluxtape and like all of Roulettemons initially sparking that. Eventually I became a staff member here around two and a half years ago and then ended up getting promoted a second time around a year-ish later. Two and a half years sounds like a lot shorter of a time than it's actually been, but it really has become an extremely influential part of my life at this point.
But I'm sure you realize where I'm going with this at this point. I really would rather not go into too much detail but I've realized some things about the state of my life that have convinced me that I probably need to drop everything important I do here. Basically, I'm dropping my spot as staff here, as well as all of the councils for each of the Pet Mods that I'm running or helping a bunch with. I'm not going to be leaving this community entirely, in particular I'm going to still be working on Duomod updates, but I think it's for the best that I leave myself without anything I NEED to do as opposed to just having the option of coming by if I'd like. As such, I will probably be dropping Blindsided and will be leaving Fakemon Frontier under others' ownership.
I've had a lot of good times here, stuff I'll never forget - the complete sweep in PMPL1's Playoffs Round 1, the surprise of both days I got promoted on here, Roulettemons making it onto the main Showdown server, just everything about Duomod in general, and so on. It's not been without its bad days but that's how everything in life works, and this community has by and large been a pretty cool place to be. So for that, thank you all. This subforum has come an unbelievably long way over the time I've been a part of it and I can only expect it to get even better from here on out.
Around when Sun and Moon were coming out, I checked out Smogon's forums for the first time to see what people's thoughts on the new Pokemon were. It was nice to check what all sets people were posting in the Pokemon threads and all that. One day while I was using Smogon, I instead felt like poking around all of the different forums to see what else the site had to offer, and I stumbled across this one called Pet Mods. "What the heck is a Pet Mod?" I clicked, found a few interesting threads, and soon enough found myself actually getting an account and becoming a regular poster for the subforum.
A lot has changed after that. I started getting a lot better at the game just from how much I was talking to people about it, I started back up on pixel art which I would have completely stopped with otherwise, I eventually had a budding YouTube channel that I've since lost interest in, and so on. If it weren't for this subforum I absolutely wouldn't have the stupid sense of humor I have today, with stuff like Fluxtape and like all of Roulettemons initially sparking that. Eventually I became a staff member here around two and a half years ago and then ended up getting promoted a second time around a year-ish later. Two and a half years sounds like a lot shorter of a time than it's actually been, but it really has become an extremely influential part of my life at this point.
But I'm sure you realize where I'm going with this at this point. I really would rather not go into too much detail but I've realized some things about the state of my life that have convinced me that I probably need to drop everything important I do here. Basically, I'm dropping my spot as staff here, as well as all of the councils for each of the Pet Mods that I'm running or helping a bunch with. I'm not going to be leaving this community entirely, in particular I'm going to still be working on Duomod updates, but I think it's for the best that I leave myself without anything I NEED to do as opposed to just having the option of coming by if I'd like. As such, I will probably be dropping Blindsided and will be leaving Fakemon Frontier under others' ownership.
I've had a lot of good times here, stuff I'll never forget - the complete sweep in PMPL1's Playoffs Round 1, the surprise of both days I got promoted on here, Roulettemons making it onto the main Showdown server, just everything about Duomod in general, and so on. It's not been without its bad days but that's how everything in life works, and this community has by and large been a pretty cool place to be. So for that, thank you all. This subforum has come an unbelievably long way over the time I've been a part of it and I can only expect it to get even better from here on out.
