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Okay, here goes nothing.. Not like anyone will read it though xD

Well, my real name is Chris, I'm 18 (10th Jan 1989) and fresh out of College. I'm about 5ft 9, too slim even though I eat a lot and I live in Manchester, England, which rocks because Manchester is amazing to be honest. I know everyone wants to live here really. :) I live in a small town called Clifton, which is part of a town called Swinton, which is part of a City in Manchester called Salford. :) Yes, quite complicated. I attended a Primary School called "Clifton County" until I was about 11, had many good friends, but we all know everyone in our class in those early years. Though, my 4 closest friends all went to a different High School, even though my High School of choice was the most popular choice from my school as it was the closest. I got pretty average results in the Primary School exams, but oh well.

So off to high school I went. I attended "The Swinton High School" and quickly made a large group of friends. Whom I would hang out with at break times, as most of them were in a different form to me. I finally started to find out who I was in High School, I could draw, so obviously I excelled the most in Art and spent a lot of my time drawing. I started to love music in High Schoo, but couldn't play an instrument at the time so never took Music any further. I also loved athletics and football. I wasn't the greatest at football, but I was alright. I was a very fast sprinter though, breaking the school record for the 100 metres in my final year with a time of 10.97 seconds. I did quite well in my GCSE's, as I've already said I'm pretty average. Getting C's in the important subjects (Maths/English/Science), and a B in Art. I was 3 points off an A in Art, because the school didn't have enough mod-rock left for me to finish a project (although it would've been handed in late anyway, but my teacher was cool). I was actually rather lazy and did most of the 2 year course in the last 2 weeks with two of my friends (who also left it until the last minute), so I was pretty chuffed with my result but still felt capable of an A.

Off I went to Pendleton College, to study Art & Design further. My best friend Luke went to Eccles college instead, which was a bit lame, but my other best friend Dale came to the same college and was in the same class. My first day of college is something I will NEVER forget. I met this goth girl called Abi on the first day, we got on alright and on our first break time, we went to the park behind the college. It was a little shocking at the time since I'd known her for about 3 hours tops, but to put it bluntly.. She sucked my cock, right there in the park. I felt a little guilty since she had a boyfriend, and the fact that I started dating another girl the next day, but oh well. Lasted about 5 months, was a good relationship really, one which I don't regret. I was shy throughout High School, but I seemed to come out of my shell in College and it was usually me who made the class laugh. College actually seemed easy, and only having one lesson left me with a lot of free time. In which I tended to do nothing... I spent a lot of time on Pokémon really.. much like I do now. Probably too much, but it's what I like to do. I fell ill in my first year, missing about 2 months with a lung disease, which caused me to become even more lazy and spend even more time browsing forums. I still maanged to pass the first year though, which was good. I started playing Bass during this year, and formed a band soon after which lasted quite long.

The second year of college was cool, everyone knew eachother really well. I actually had more friends who were girls for the first time now, and quite a few girlfriends during this year. I had 2 girlfriends, lasting about 2 months each, I was never really serious about any of them to be honest and it was me who ended both, though I don't take pride in that :P. The best thing to happen in this year of college, was meeting Kirsty. Who I am still dating now, but more on that later. Long story short, I once again was lazy and left most of my work until the last minute. But still came out with a Merit (B) yet again. I was also in a few bands during this year, but they never got anywhere, and my latest band broke up not so long ago.

So, I'm out of college, never had a job before in my life, so I'm trying to get a job somewhere, anywhere, at the moment. It's really hard to get employed when you have little to no experience in the world of working. I can't be arsed going to Uni because I know I'm not committed enough and I can't leave work until the last minute if I go there, which I know I will. My life is quite boring, I have no money so I never go out with friends, I spend most of my time indoors, on my PC, or with Kirsty. Though none of us have money to go out anywhere.

More on Kirsty :) she's the best girlfriend ever. Been together over 9 months now, and I decided to propose to her at a concert, she said yes. Love her.

I'm currently job hunting, applying at the MEN Arena in Manchester next month, and this week hopefully River Island as the pay is good.

Can't really think of anything else to say, so bye. :)
 
My name is Mark and I am 17 years old.

Hmm when it comes to school I’m among the top of my class while putting almost zero effort. But putting in next to no effort doesn’t always make people happy. But other than some of AP students that can’t stand my “study habits” I’m a very well liked person. My key classes are math and science which is why I wish after high school I plan to go to a college with a good engineering program

I am really into sports, the main two being Football and Baseball. But I also like hockey, although I don’t get to watch that much and I am really starting to like to watch tennis. My favorite sports teams are the Yankees and the Giants. I watch sports center too much. But even though I’m really into sports I’m not athletic enough to play any for school. I used to play baseball and football when I was younger but baseball I just wasn’t good enough when I got to high school and football I just am to small. I used to play Line both offense and defense but being too small killed me and not being fast enough to play another position reduced me to sitting on the bench so I quit. And quitting football is one of my biggest regrets as it is my favorite sport and I wish I could play again. But I try and stay active and play as many sports as I can.

I smoke weed. It used to just be here and there but over the last year it has become an every day affair. Thinking about it now it has been 2 days since I last smoked and it feels like an eternity. I don’t care if you think it is wrong that’s your opinion you’re entitled to it. But smoking is something that makes me happy and is something I like to do. I also like getting drunk. I consider my self to be pretty good at Beer Pong (Beirut) but than again anyone who has ever won a game of Beer Pong talk shit.

I live in the suburbs of Long Island, New York. Sure it’s a cool place to live everything is close and the beach is about 10-15 min away depending on which beach you go to but it just seems like nothing is ever going on in this town. But I’m sure it’s just like that everywhere. I surf but I’m not too good. I’m nasty at snowboarding. When snowboarding I can just clear my mind and have fun. Just feeling the board carve into the snow feels so good. But after going out west to snowboard the last couple of years all of the mountains on the east coast seem like a joke.

Personality wise I’m a pretty lazy person, but my friends keep me active and according to my friends I’m close minded but they don’t know what they are talking about. They are wrong about everything. I have a good sense of humor and I like to make people laugh. I wouldn’t consider my self a funny person as much as a witty person.

I don’t believe in god, I like to read, I like playing my wii, I love watching movies, I watch too much TV and TMNT fucking kicks ass.
 
Myself

hi! My name is David, im from spain so i think you could forgive my painful english writing. I've been searching the welcomer's post but im totally blind xD so ill put a description here.
Well im 20 years old, i have played NB like 1 year ago (more or less) and one friend told me to come here for see various interesting moveset , challenging people, etc..

I live in Vitoria (basque country) and im a totally fan of hiphop culture ^^ , the old not the new , four example: 2pac shakur, krs one, das efx, and a large etc (Dont say eminem plz xD)
Im studyin the Empresarial carrer and for the moment it has been a very good experience.
I could define myself like a jolly guy , i like parties a lot, also go drinkin with my friends on saturdays sundays, and also practice one my best sport passion football? no (but i like very much) basketball? no :P, ..... "wtf is he thinkin about" do you think eh? yeah Skateboard ^^. But im also fan of "Deportivo alavés" (football team, someone know about the fuckin piterman that have a team called californy victory outside ¬¬ [fucking bastard]) also im fan of "baskonia" a very very know basketball team ^^ (yeah, theyre the best : ) )

But im gonna turn with my true passion ^^. I used to skateboard to the limit when i was 14-15 years old but i have serious problem in my knee so i cant practice this sport no more... yeah it hurts but i always remind when i get into the first trick , ollie, flips, 180's... the accident occurred in a rail, small rail by the way there was 4 big stairs behind it, well i was ridin and i do a little ollie , the problem is that the table unexplicabily breaks in the air and one part of that hit my knee by falling 4 stairs. yeah, terrible and tragic. So if u practice risk sport remind go stoppin? nah, always to the limit ^^.

in pokemon, well someones thinks is for freak people, others for child, bah , i think each one have to take his own conclusions and do what they want without people care. ^^.
I started with red and blue and yeah i did the truck trick to see mew, trained a nidoking at 100 etc , xD. Next year i buy my first GBC and i played GS with a little trick-machine called xploder (like gameshark : ) )
i went to one tournament here and scores 2nd place , but there werent 2 much people..... like 40 more or less.
I get lost with the RU/SA versions coz i hadnt a gba (and i havent a ds xD) so D/P is pretty new for me (i hopeyou guys can help me :o)
Other of my greatest passion is the manga-anime, i have in my room saint seiya collection, rurouni kenshin, shaman king, bleach, kanzebans, one piece, and a large etc xD (yeah can call me freak if u want :P)

well thats all... omg when im writting this lines a 20 years old football player A. puerta (of sevilla FC) has died in the hospital, he was in threatment for a match shock, without explication he was walking, fall in the ground and was very very "in dangerous" , Rest In Peace.
 
I am Wilhemina, those who visit Gaia Online may know my name, but it doesn't matter if you don't. I primarily post there as it feeds my ego to know more about Pokemon than many there, mostly because I'm always lurking around here.

I am a college graduate with a silly liberal arts-ish degree and currently learning to be an accountant. I don't know if it was after three years of exploring the concepts of Pokemon's mathy metagame after buying LeafGreen out of nostalgia (granted, I usually steal EV spreads from here), but somehow balancing financial statements became an inherent strength of mine.

Generally, I merely lurk here in Smogon as at first I was too newby to really voice an opinion, and after watching too many tantan255 YouTube videos I'm far too interested in gimmicks. However, I've been reading consistently nearly every discussion, research, and analysis thread since my import copy of Diamond arrived in the mail; I've done my homework enough to beat up the Gaia and random PBR kiddies.

I live near Seattle, Washington and even got the chance to work as game tester for Nintendo in the past year. I feel relief/remorse that I didn't get to get paid for testing a Pokemon game, but then I wouldn't be able to talk about it for six months. The truer hardcore players are better at finding remaining post-production bugs anyways. ;P
 
I'm Mike Bomberger(BombErrGrr). 18.


Life was pretty much shit growing up. I was really energetic then my moher would freak out, wanting a prescription for everything wrong with me. Ritalin caused intense depression, something other made me hyperactive, and that led me into this type of 'special class' all because continual doses of medicine backfired.

Inbtween that, mom and dad divorced in 2000. They constantly were fighting with each other and when that settled down, she started taking it out on me constantly. That also ruined my personality from junior to highschool. That pretty much settled down when I did some shit that made my mother call the police (well not really, she freaks out easily), and I was made to go to a psych clinic. She was the one who was labeled insane after I talked with them. Stupid bitch she is :\...


I guess my dad was really stressed out after that event because he'd easily get mad at what I'd do (one or two things on the floor, big shitfest!). And it, along wioth the aftermath of my mother, ruined my sophomore-junior year at highschool.It took him a few months to understand me after going to a psychologist.... And the whole course of my life, only my senior year at high school went smooth.



I'm in college now and loving it. Really social, just overall better at talking, and mindful of my overall hygiene all the time. All thanks to getting out of that shit which is living with parents ;[
 
Hey, I'm Chris...and I go to school at UAlbany in...Albany(didn't see that one coming, did you?) I am an avid gamer, and play plenty of strategy, strat RPGs, RPGs, and some platformers and action-games.

My love life sucks because I'm one of those nice guys girls always seem to say they want, but never actually do, but I think I'm getting better at it. I am an eternal optimist in all things. If I wasn't, I would be pretty depressing, especially being a Bills fan. I am of the opinion I shall suffer a heart attack as the Bills line up to kick a game-winning field goal in...hmmm...some Super Bowl LXX or later, and never live to see if they make it. Because I'm undoubtedly a terrible person;), part of my punishment would be to never know whether or not the kick was good.

The Myers-Briggs personality test said I was a "Healer-Idealist." That's me. It's probably part of why I am unsuccessful in love, because I tend to want to help damaged goods before they want to be helped. That was the result of my last ill-fated "romance." She's in France until next year, but I hope to run into her again

I am a history major, meaning I have at least three years of school(I'm currently a junior) ahead of me unless I want to hang my diploma on the inside of a spacious cardboard box. I am a decent student, but not naturally motivated, so I tend to ignore boring classes. I'm also terrible with numbers and am thus reliant upon calcs to tell me what does what in competitive battling.

As a battler, I tend to be hesitant and out-think myself, which is rooted in my great ability in indecision. I can be wishy-washy in action, but rarely in thought. I am stubborn and will fight a point until I feel it has been disproven, though I have little love for actual conflict. I am not so much arguing to convince my opponent as to convince my audience(maybe I have a future as a tobacco lobbyist?:naughty:) I can be extremely indecisive and tend to deal poorly with outside pressures, especially from people close to me. I am naturally high-strung and have been described as overly-dramatic. I have an very poor grasp on time, which is why I often forget birthdays and the like, only to sheepishly remember they passed days after.

I am also told I am a good writer, and I think my strengths lie in my dry wit(being a Bills fan tends to engender a certain amount of sarcasm) and my ability to paint an overall picture, though details aren't my forte, I am not bad with them either. I am obsessed with fluency over all else when writing, and have occassionally argued down my English teachers when I could be bothered.

I am no social butterfly, but I do consider myself blessed with a number of excellent friends.

Oh yeah...I visit all too many online communities, and use aliases such as the one I'm posting under, Lance, and ElatedVenusaur...

Oh, and I'm 20. Gonna be 21 on April 2nd. I half expect my elder cousin Lani to show up at my dorm on that date and get me drunk off my ass, whether I want to or not....
 
Hey, this is Doomsday. Portuguese, 16 years old. I'd rather not give out my real name here, but those who I talk to on irc or on msn know it.
I grew in the middle of nowhere; a small village in the center of the country. Had a very peaceful and happy life! I consider myself lucky, my family rocks and I never had any kind of major problems or issues in my life.

I like to read comic books, draw, listen to music, obviously play videogames and occasionally watch a movie in my free time. Favorite comic would be Ultimate Spider-man, favorite music Sonata Arctica, Twilightning and Megadeth and favorite movies probably Jay & Silent Bob: Strike Back (if you got my avatar before this, you rock) and/or Blazing Saddles. Favorite videogames range from Kingdom Hearts to Tony Hawk skate games.

I consider myself a witty person - more so in real life. Sometimes I can not quite joke in english... I usually fuck it up with my bad portugenglish. That's one of the reasons I like picstories/photo-stories/whatever so much - I find it easier to express myself that way (at least here in smogon). I value 'funnyness' above other stuff, I think it's important and extremely fun to laugh!
I'm lazy. Very lazy. I'd get so much more stuff done and get much better grades in school if I wasn't so lazy. I consider myself a smart guy, not genius smart but, you know, cleverer than the average joe. My grades aren't that good for reasons already mentioned. Maybe I should stop being so lazy, it'd help me SO much in life, honestly.

Probably the only two problems that haunt my life right now are that I'm very clumsy with girls, and therefore I am not one of the guys that keeps making out with them in parties and shit. My other issue is that it's really hard to find someone irl that understands me. Portugal is a dumb country with dumb people, save some exceptions, and finding someone with the same interests and that's not generally ignorant is sort of hard. I'd wager this is one of the reasons I like Smogon so much, I can relate to some people here.

So uh, that's it, it's probably filled with all kind of grammar mistakes and typos but fuck it, it's readable.
 
My name is John. I am a thirteen year old Filipino kid in the eighth grade. Please don't rape me.

My life is pretty decent. I like it moreso than I hate it. I grew up with a mom, a dad, a sister, and another sister. Uh, I'm shy. But once you get to know me, I'll be messing up your hair, hiding your stuff, and annoying the hell out of you. People say I'm intelligent for my age. And they also say I'm really short for my age. I'm 4'8-9, it could be because all of that stuff that's in my brain is weighing me down or I just drank too much soda during my life.

I enjoy guitar, basketball, and videogames. Mostly Pokemon. I don't think you've ever met a basketball player who likes Pokemon. And knows everything about Pokemon as well. I'm a geek, I know lots of basketball and Pokemon trivia. I think I could pass with full marks on a quiz on those subjects. I've recently started playing guitar, I know the basic stuff. But I probably won't master it until 2-3 years from now.

I'm very athletic for my age and height. Which is probaly why I'm good at sports and whatnot. Surprisingly, I'm a very slow runner. I run a mile in about 7-9 minutes. I don't work very hard in school, I find it rather boring. I do get C's once in a while(Cause of Algebra). But those are only on my progress reports. On the real report cards. The real stuff. I work and hard and try to get all A's if I can manage. I want to study Criminology, or be a policeman or an engineer when I grow up. Or be a basketball player. But who wants to see a little asian dude with vision problems in the NBA?

Girls like me. Who the hell likes a short asian kid with vision problems(yes, I wear glasses)? I guess it's cause I'm(not trying to be cocky or anything) smart, cute(shaddup), good at sports, and nice. I'm a ladies man too, I can write poetry and say corny stuff when I want to. And i always try to be repectful when girls are around.

I'm the clown in school. I make everybody laugh and smile. But most of my humor involve getting someone hurt. So I have to downplay the laughs for a while. I try to act tough online because I'm not very tough irl. I want to be a mod, but a nice mod(I'm not saying Smogon's mods are bad). And if i ever get into an argument with anyone online, there's a good chance I'll win it.

People say I'm more mature for my age. I guess it's because usually, when they're online, they see all these n00bs who are thirteen screaming random stuff, and all I do is speak like a 23 or 35 year old. Yeah, if people don't know my real age, they always expect me to be older than I really am.

I have weird habits. Like if I'm writing something big down, and we're allowed to shorthand words. I don't shorthand, I write the whole thing down for some reason. I don't drink or smoke either, and I don't plan to. I want to be famous for some reason, and I wonder why the kids on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon are famous even though I'm clearly more fascinating than them.

I'm extremely lazy, and I hate doing chores. And work. And basically anything that makes me stop doing what I love. But that's my life, and I have to live it.

And there you go, that's Shift for you. <3
 
My name's Mark, I am 18 years old and at the moment of writing this I'm in my final year of what ye Englishmen would call high school. Can't be arsed to explain how our system works here but you can assume that means I am a pretty busy guy, which seems ironic and odd when you look at my post count, join date and activity in the past.

Because "in the past" I have always been very attached to Smogon. I was (and still am, somewhat) very shy, I hate talking to people on phones, I hate looking people in the eye for longer than a few seconds, I hate telling someone I didn't do what they asked of me. Every new school year I make resolutions to change, and so far all have failed more than last year. I've had to redo last year, and the second time around I actually skipped school for weeks before teachers and stuff started to notice. Just to show you how bad it was. I am not dumb or anything, my marks are above average. I just have a total lack of initial motivation to cop with.

But now I am organizing myself, sorting everything out, really trying to change. And it's working so far...never thought a personal agenda would be that handy.

So yeah, I am usually very friendly to people I know well, sadly many of the ones I grew attached to are out of sight. I am polite to strangers, usually a bit of a joker when I try to fit in but nothing seriously offending. I can be helpful without expecting much in return, and whenever I'm in a group of people I don't know I manage to make an okay impression.

For what I do in my spare time...I've been doing karate for a good 12 years now, so that would be since I was 6. It's been developped from 90 minutes of child's play via sparring people a little above my age to full grown men (though I'd say they are about equal at difficulty). I still do 90 minutes per week, every Friday evening. That combined with my regular visits to the gym (I've been doing that for about a year with breaks now) keeps me in decent shape. I used to bike all the way to school, back and forth, which makes 22 kilometers per day, but with the awful weather circumstances during half the school year that doesn't happen that often.

I also play drums. Haven't had the time for that recently but I used to do it a lot, I got my own electronic drumkit. Ever since my old kickass teacher quit I've been a bit demotivated to play on it. Usually the urge to play comes at night, and that's when other people get the urge to sleep. :(

Recently I have also been appointed karate teacher for a group of 6-year olds. All of them are hilarious and cute (in a totally normal way) and I always enjoy seeing the four of them entertain each other. Makes me want to have children later as well.

I enjoy reading when not forced (i.e. literature). I used to be into Donald Duck comics but I've grown out of that (about time, I'd say), and in the meanwhile I've acquired a big collection.

I think that will do for now.

EDIT: Also I met several people from here. To be exact, Hipmonlee, McGraw, kiera2, Lexay and Altmer. Fun people, all of them.
 
Hello, my name is Robert and I'm from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. I'm 19 years old (20 on october 5th) and I'm in a stage in life where things could be worse and things could be better. Come to think of it, my life seems to always be this way. I've never had a girlfriend, but it's not because I don't try. I think it might be because I try to hard. Well, anyway I've devoted my life to quite a few things and have a couple of goals so I'll explain a little bit more in depth.

1) Marriage/Children: To me, this is really the most important thing in my future. I'm not sure why, but I love the idea of being a family man. I grew up in a messed up family, so a part of me just wants to have a family that is not all garbaged up.

2) Career: As a career, I want to teach in high school. I actually would like to teach math, social studies, p.e, and health(245 combined credit hours in college). I know it is a lot to accomplish but I have a four year full ride, and normally if I did pay it would be inexpensive to go to school. My motto is buy four years, get four free, which is how it will work out hopefully. Im a sophmore at Shepherd University, which is about 125 miles East of West Virginia University, if that helps people see it on a map better.

3) Everything else: Honestly, I don't have any real hobbies that I'm extremely devoted to. Instead, I have many different hobbies that take up an equal part of my time such as raquetball, pokemon, other video games, studying, APO(a co-ed frat that i am joining), the NFL, fantasy football, MLB playoffs, etc. Honestly though, nothing normally stands in the way of goals one and two. Out of all the things in #3 i probably enjoy pokemon the most, and even then I still don't play it that much.

That is a very small introduction to my life I suppose.
 
I can relate to a lot of that rbygsckid.

Shockingly enough, my name is Lee. Like rbygsckid above me, I fall into the category of 19 year olds that have never had a girlfriend, which sucks to be honest but I've never let it get me down. His description of life as "could be better, could be worse" also struck a chord with me. I mean, things haven't been going my way lately, but fuck it; things will work out in the end. And I'll be a better person for it when it does.

My life pretty much revolves around physical exercise, but other interests include soccer, running, boxing, Linkin Park and Pokemon! Despite being one of the more intelligent students at my college, I managed to fail spectacularly. Partially because I'm a lazy bastard and partially because I decided that pen-pushing wasn't for me. I plan to enlist in the British Army as a Paratrooper in the next few months, which is pretty damn specialist and might get me killed but it's something I have been 100% set on for the past few 3 years. I'm pretty miserably short at 5 foot 6ish, and slightly above average weight for my height. Once again, I don't let it get me down. 8)

In the past, more than one of my tutors have described my main weakness as an inability to trust people so that is something I'm working to overcome.

So yeah, that's me in a nutshell. I think I just depressed myself. ~_~
 
I'm a 14 year old Asian-American (my mom being asian, my dad being european), originally from the Philippines. It used to be my naitive tongue, but I've forgotten it all since I left the Philippines. But just because I'm asian doesn't mean I'm short! I'm really tall- not as tall as my dad, who's about 7'4". Throughout middle school, I had all AP classes in 7th grade, and in 8th grade I went to the near-by high school for some of my classes since I was so advanced.

I love to play basketball. I'm on the freshman team this year. The only reason they put me on the team is my height- I'm the tallest Freshman at my school, at 6'4". But I'm a natural klutz- give me a ball and it will either:
a) do something miraculous, like go into the net
b) hit someone in the face
c) get stolen
d) suddenly burst into flames. (this one has been happening a lot lately =D)

I also am a musician. I play most woodwind instruments. My main instrument is the E-flat Alto Saxophone, with my secondary instrument being the Contra Alto Clarinet. I also can play oboe, bassoon, flute, bass flute, and trumpet. In Symphonic Band I'm a Contra Alto Clarinet, in Marching Band I'm a Tenor Sax, and in Jazz band I'm an Alto Sax.

I started playing Pokemon back when it first came out in the US. I played Pokemon Blue, and started with a Bulbasaur. But my first run-through wasn't all too great- I got to the fifth gym with only one good Pokemon: my level 55 venusaur.

But what I think is funny is that no one at my school knows I play video games. They think of me as that really tall kid that plays instruments. And most of my friends are older than me since I was at the high school so much last year. So yeah, don't expect to be on here much- my schedule is really cramped every day except Sunday.
 
Let's see if this turns out any good...

Well, I'm now a sophomore in high school, born, raised, and still living in southern California. I love it down here, because in the summer I get to go to the beach, and in the winter I get to go snowboarding up in the mountains. All the time in between is pretty much taken up by school, Pokemon, and well, pretty much a regular teenager's life.

I've played Pokemon since I was a little kid, playing Red and Blue, and I've come a long way since then. (Complete info in how I came to Smogon thread)

I'm 15 years old, turning 16 at the end of March. ^o^ I'll be getting my driving permit soon, so I'll be happy when I finally get it. I get pretty good grades in school, and plan on going to college after I graduate high school. I would like to go somewhere local, but also I want to go somewhere far, like NYT or something like that.

I love to travel, and I've been to Argentina, Paris, Connecticut, Utah, and Mexico. There are probably a few more but I forget easily. All but Argentina and Connecticut were for leisure and tourism.

I want to go out and see the world (that sounds corny). I would love to travel to China, Thailand, Taihiti (sp?), and more. I'm a sucker for Asian food, eating Thai whenever I can.

I like to run, even though I'm not too good at it. It helps me clear my head of my regular teenage frustration. I love running at night, with peace and silence engulfing me into another dimension of only me, allowing me to clear my head.

Well, that's pretty much all I can think of right now, so sorry if it's kinda bad, I never was the best at writing.
 
I am alex, a caucasian guy from the middle of england, I'm 16 and about 6ft 3. I live in a very middle class area and my family is middle class rather fittingly though my dad is from working class roots.

I'm studying for my as levels in eng lit, history, politics and physics. I regret taking physics as I am hugely out of my depth but hopefully I can wing for a year then drop it.

I have a smallish friend circle of about 7-8 people at school with whom I spend most of my time inside and outside of school. I usually have at least one earphone in at a time, and I like listening to an eclectic mix of music. My favourite films are city of god and pulp fiction. I like pissing about on the net and playing computer games, current favorite being Quake Wars: Enemy Territory. I enjoying playing basketball and football (soccer) with friends though I am mediocre at best in both of them.

I have a dark sense of humour which would border on bad taste, I'm cynical apparently and not trusting of others. I'm very easy going and it takes quite alot to get me going, though when I am angry... I tend to flail ineffectively (though I can take a punch). I can come over as callous and unemotional but this is merely because I stuff my feelings away.

I've never had a serious girlfriend and I'm not too bothered. This is mainly an upshot of not being arsed to put any effort in or somehow offending them. I could probably get a girl (god that sounds arrogant) but would probably mess it up in the first month. I don't smoke and I don't drink too much.

The first pkmn game I played was yellow and I played each generation since. Pokemon is one of the few things that I can get obsessive over, Warhammer 40k used to have to that effect but I snapped out of it. I'm kinda new to Competive battling and therefore shit, but I'm working on it.

In the future I want to go to Uni, doing what I don't know, nor do I know to what I end I would be studying. Basically I have no clue.

Maybe I'll find some more threads I can post in...
 
hey, how's everyone doing? I'm a 19 year-old Mexican kid from Riverside, California. I was originally born in Los Angeles, and I'm glad I didn't stay. my activites are usually to use the computer, play my (borrowed) DS, try to keep my room clean, and look for a job. I'm waiting for a call-back, but that's a completely different story. I would describe myself as intelligent, stubborn, loud, sexy (just kidding), creative, lulztastic, and a myriad of other things. I'm usually the first one to crack the jokes, and to try to get to know you, but if I don't like you, beware, because first impressions mean alot to me, and I'm trying to change that. my comedy is just some straight-up vulgar shit; I love getting reactions out of people. in high school it scared and intimidated alot of people, but some awesome people were drawn to me because of it. I don't like getting close to people, I don't know why. the only person I've been close with is my best friend, and we've known each other for 5-6 years, which is amazing to me. some of my passions are music (Amy Winehouse, Björk, M.I.A.), video games (anything Pokémon, Zelda), reading (The World According to Garp), art (Monet and Dali are some of my favorites), and trying to get as much information about anything I can. I'm 6'3, and I have alot more to love :p I'm a big guy, but I never use my physical appearance and strength for anything bad, but I hate it when people are scared of me ;_; I'm the tallest in my family, and my parents are short, so I don't know why I'm so tall. I've never been in any sort of relationship, and I'm ok with it. I'm hoping to buy a laptop as soon as I get a job, as this computer is a piece of shit. I'm trying to get stable Wi-Fi too, and my own DS Lite. well, I don't know what else to add, so I'll leave it at that.
 
I'm 21 and a Graduate Student of Political Science. I remember my fascination with the Pokeymans began in Middle School and had ended in High School. Upon buying a Nintendo DS to break the monotony of traveling, I decided to purchase Pokemon Diamond as well. I don't regret the purchase although it has kept my focus and subsequently my concentration perhaps more than I had hoped.

As far as myself and personality are concerned, I am taller than Yuri Gagarin and about as short as Rod Serling (not tall). My interests are primarily in Philosophy, Politics, General Science, and Physics (note Oppenheimer). I am neither a social recluse nor an outspoken person when it comes to sociability. I have only ever experienced one girlfriend in which we were both sharing the same frequency, and the others are unmentionable. PC/Gaming is part of my life as breathing and thinking is, I find it's a hobby that while practicing, is fullfilling and also practical.

I am at a point in my life which I am determining whether or not I would like to become a professor or a lawyer; I'm leaning toward lawyer. I would like this profession, as in my idealism, would like to be accused the same crime as Socrates -- making the weaker argument the stronger. Logic and argumentation come second nature for me and always has, and I see the lawyer as a profession in which one cannot only compromise their own ethics should they have any, but also live to create controversy through argument, and help represent those unable to represent themselves in the process.

Regarding Pokemon, I find it hard to tell others I play as it's normally associated with children and teenagers. I believe this stigma is wrongly applied, as the game requires extensive and creative ventures into the realm of strategy (IVs/EVs/Battle/MoveSet). If only those who hold disdain towards Pokemon because of its target audience could put aside their position, they'd surely find hours of enjoyment.
 
erm well what can i say lol

well im Claire,im 16 and i live in Huddersfield (in England) i go to Huddersfield New College where im studying IT,im really enjoying it and i have loads of friends in my class! I have many hobbies and interests but my big ones are Rugby League and Graphics.

Rugby league will always be a big part of my life, I have been brought up in a rugby league supporting family so its in my blood! I support my hometown team (Huddersfield Giants) which i love to pieces i've supported them all my life and through good times and shit times! I go to all home games and most of the away games (apart from Hull KR,Harlequins and Catalans)

Graphics is another main interest, i need it in my IT course! i am self-taught in Photoshop,Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks! so i have many skills. i can make from avatars to sigs! I dont tend to make them for people anymore so i just do them for myself and try to learn new things!

On weekends i always go watch the giants (but not til feb now as the season is over :pirate:) and i also like to go round town with my mates and be a total nusense with them! We always go bowling and have a laugh and a good time,i'd be nothing without them! i also like to play on my computer and ps2 or watch a good film :D

I got into pokemon at the age of 7 i remember collecting the cards and playing pokemon in the playground at primary school (we all pretended to have our own pokemon and go round battling with them) i still got my charmander doll which i got when i was 8 ( i call him charder hehe)
I still have my gameboy games which is till play now and again! but tbh now i think im falling out of love with pokemon as i dont get the same buzz i used to get! but people are different!

When i leave college i want to go to Leeds met uni or somewhere in Wales and get a degree in IT then become an IT Technician, i always wanted to be one since i was 11 it seems a really cool job :toast: then when i have enough success i might move over to Australia and start a new life there!

well i hope i've coverd everything if not let me know and i will add things
 
Mhmn. I'm a 17 year old girl who lives in California. My name is Ryou, but it isn't, because I don't like my real name at all, which starts with an A. In real life I do about as much as I do online, almost nothing most of the time with short bursts of activity. In real life, I show livestock, which is a lot like having one of those hacked Mew that don't obey you and trying to beat the Elite Four with it at level 50. I've shown sheep, swine, and poultry. I don't like cows because they're gross, though they do taste damn good. Their noses drip really gross and you probably wouldn't like them either if you'd been around them as much as me. My family isn't a farming family and no, we don't live out in the country. They just sort of tolerate what I do as long as "nothing EVER comes home, understand?"... I go to El Capitan High in Lakeside, California. No one has probably ever heard of it since Lakeside is like if Missouri was airlifted into California. Not the weather, oh god no, just the people.

I play Pokemon mostly, though I quit after my boyfriend (BlueKiKatana) owned me too hard. =( So I don't battle. Ever.
I still breed, I breed a lot. My new wi-fi shop should be open around January next year, at least my new official one. Just working down the Pokedex now. I hate Pokemon and I love it at the same time. I've played the games since I was like 9 or 10 and it's sort of nostalgic, but in a way it isn't since I play so differently now. Sometimes I'll start over one of my Red or Silver versions just to play through without caring about IVs and such. It's almost like the whole game is numbers to me now, and well. It is, I guess. But it's not really a game in that sense. I have 975:18 on my Diamond right now, and I can't find my Pearl or I'd put that up, too.
Last thing I bred was Bulbasaur, obviously because he's #1 in the Pokedex. Took two days. Got Calm 31/31/29/23/28/31 and Bold 21/x/29/31/31/30 HP Ice 66

I'm absent-minded. I lose things, I forget which way is left, and I forget what I was doing when I walk into the next room. One of those "High IQ, low on common sense" people, I guess.

At school right now my favorite class (besides Agriculture, which always is) would be AP Calculus. Math is great. It's boring, yeah, but there's ONE answer. And I don't have to get into interpretive stuff like in English. I also like Spanish because I've picked it up rather fast, though it gets annoying when my classmates ask me too many questions. I get impatient with people who don't seem very bright sometimes. And uh. Running out of things to write. I like cats. My kitty Shenzi has her own bed. It's a twin.

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Friend holding my lamb, Monster. (who is lamb chops now. :[ )

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Piggies. The Yorkshire cross is mine. (The one with the spot on the face and back, equally dead as the lamb...)

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Shenzi on her bed.

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RyouChan why you so ugly?! =( =( =(
 
((I hope I'm established enough, and can conjure enough to say for this thing...))

I'm 16 years old, live in Lakeland, Florida, and I am a Junior in High School. I'm an AP English student, and I also do computer graphics. My career aspirations would to either do computer graphics, or design skateboarding shoes. Which brings me to my next topic.

My hobbies include skateboarding, collecting shoes, spriting and other graphics. I do all of these things frequently. You can see my sprites in the main spriting thread, as well as on many of the users here avatars. Here are some skateboarding gifs.

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That should also give you an idea of my size. I'm about 5'5, with medium-long brown, curly hair.

Obviously, I play pokemon. My favorite types are Poison, Fighting, Normal, and Fire. My favorite pokemon are Zangoose, Toxicroak, Absol, Nidoking, and Muk. I've been playing since Red first came out, and I've had every game since, except Ruby and Sapphire, but I beat Sapphire, and own an Emerald. I don't own Diamond, but I have Pearl, so whatevs. Other games I like to play include Drakengard, Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, and Rachet and Clank.

I listen to a fair bit of music, and I have an overall eclectic taste. I listen to a lot of obscure bands, that not many people have ever heard of, but as far as mainstream goes- I like 80's and classic rock. I also enjoy quite a bit of 90's. My favorite bands are Guns N' Roses, Black Sabbath, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and (old) Metallica.


Is this good enough?
 
Ok...

Ok lets see if i can pull this off haha....

Well my names Jono, I am a 15 year old student currently studying GSCE's at Landau Forte College which is located in Derby in England (So ye im British haha). I am studying English, Maths, Triple Science, DiDA (which is advanced ICT), Spanish and Performing Arts (Music and Drama). After my GSCE's i am planning on going to A Levels to study Performance Studies, Biology, Chemistry and either Physics or IT i dont know which yet.

I have a range of different hobbies besides Pokemon. This consists of Music mainly so playing the Guitar, Drums and also Didgeridoo. I also enjoy taking part in outer school productions. I am currently in a musical and also in a pantomime. Being as im in a musical, ye i like to sing haha. I enjoy other games aswell as pokemon such as Super smash bros melee (Cant wait for Brawl!!), the Metroid games, the Mario Party games, and others.

I have played pokemon since the dawn of the game. I first got red and absolutly loved that, couldnt keep my hands off it haha. Then i got a gold game which was even more thrilling (ye you can sort of guess its going to keep getting better haha? duh! lol). Then i got ruby (Its all themed of reddy sort of colour) and then Diamond (dam i broke the trend lol). My favourite pokemon has always been since ruby, milotic but i never battle with mine. My favourite pokemon in my team is probably carrot, my heracross.

I have a very very wide music taste ranging from Classical to Death Metal haha. Types of music i like are Classical, Blues, Funk, Jazz, Folk, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal, Power Metal, Folk Metal, Battle Metal, Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore. I dont and have never liked rap. Theres only one group if any i would listen to. And that would be Run DMC (Old Skool :justin:). My favourite Bands are Machine Head, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Nile, Finntroll and Cannibal Corpse. A few of them you have never probably heard of lol.

Well thats me done. :) bye
 
My name is Timothy or Tim for short, I'm a 16 (nearly 17) year old white male living in Cambridge in England.

I'm currently in my first year of A levels studying Double Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. I'm an above average student but don't apply myself as much as I could. At the moment I am thinking about studying medicine in the future.

Outside of school I play tennis three times a week, I play in tournaments but not as competitively as I used to. I'm also a video game fan, I am ranked #35 on the Mario Kart DS Players Page. I have pokemon pearl version, which I play as well, although I don't play on it enough to be much good. I started pokemon with pokemon red version, all those years ago, but stopped after about 2003ish. Recently though, pokemon pearl has reminded me how good the games actually are.

Another interest is piano, which I played for two years when I was 10 and 11, and I passed grade 5 before stopping. Now I just play every now and again. My favourite type of music is rock music, and my favourite band is Muse, because they own everything.

Work sucks, I should be doing coursework right now :P I actually miss my secondary school these days, good laughs.....
 
Hello all. I am Alexander Farrugia.

I'm 28 years old and live in Malta. Malta is a tiny island in the centre of the Mediterranean sea. I'm in possession of a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a Master of Science degree in Mathematics (a postgraduate degree). I analysed the spectrum of so-called self-complementary graphs in my thesis, noticing certain relationships with their main eigenvalues in particular. My thesis can be viewed here. I currently work at MCAST, at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, as a mathematics lecturer.

A few years ago, I was also a contributor to pojo.com. I used to do Card of the Day there, as well as used to write probability articles about drawing cards for the Pokemon TCG. They can be accessed here, if anyone is interested. I was also a Head Tournament Director there, at one point, and was also a moderator in their chatroom. I won the National (Malta) Pokemon TCG tournament in 2005. I then decided to quit the Pokemon TCG and concentrate more on the battling aspect of Pokemon, and that is how I ended up here. I am currently contributing my mathematical knowledge to this website.

I have been an avid programmer ever since I was a kid, and used to design and implement games using Turbo Pascal 7.0 and (when I was a kid) ATARI Basic. Currently, I just write a few applets in Java.

Around 10 to 12 years ago, I also used to be rather good at chess, but I have now forgot most of everything that I used to know about the game.

I listen to a lot of music. My tastes differ from alternative rock to electronica. Radiohead are my favourite band. At around 2 to 5 years ago, I used to listen to much more music than I do now, but I'm still a fan. Now my music listening is limited to just popping in that CD in my car CD player. I also used to play bass, but now I don't anymore. I have also recorded a few 'songs' that I performed on a kids' synthesizer (really!).

That is me, in a nutshell.
 
Me? I'm that redhead kid named Will living in California (now you get it, right?) that everyone seems to know, yet doesn't care about. I'm currently a 14 year-old freshman (yeah, I know, you can start the maiming now) at a Catholic High School, even though I'm not Catholic. Which is weird, considering I've had first communion.

Anyway, onto the parts of my life that aren't completely boring. I've been playing videogames since I was about 3 if I remember right. Thing is, my first gameboy in 1996 with Pokemon Red in it changed my life forever. Before I picked that up, I wanted to be a pro soccer player. Now, even though I still play from time to time, I want to be a game designer, if for no other reason than making other kids experience the fun that I had as a child playing games. I'll be one one day, you just wait.

But enough of my dreams, lets talk about my interests. I, like I said, enjoy playing soccer and, uh, gaming. But, I do much more than that in my free time. I'll often make new videos of whatever the hell I feel like/is laying around, and seldom put them on the web. I also love playing a range of other games like capture the flag. Oh, and I suppose I should mention that I go camping at least 3 times a year with at least 30 members of my family; it's a blast. If I had to pick, I'd say that camping, next to gaming, is my favorite thing to do. I simply adore the outdoors and nature, even though I often times stay inside for days when I get a new game. @-@ I dunno if you can tell or not, but I also love writing. So much so that I might add to this post later if I remember things that I feel should be known.
 
21 year old guy in Ontario, Canada. I'm currenty working on my grade 12 at Loyalist College; which I was deprived of, since I'm not a good writer, and everything form grade 10 onwards has essays out the wazoo.

Lost my fiancee because I'm an idiot, so games are pretty much all I have left these days. I spend a LOT of my time trying to unravel the mysteries of the universe, and I've hit on a couple of them already (42!).

I play Pokémon because I believe it's one of the greatest RPGs ever created (you take a team of infinitely-customizable beasts and pit them against each other...what's cooler than that?), and I intend to make my own RPG someday...when my friend comes back from college for computer programming, I'm gonna start my serious work on the project.

I work on psychology and psychiatry, the latter being my current specialty. I've been a diplomat and a peacekeeper for as long as I can remember, and I've become pretty darn good at it.

As for religion, since it seems to have been touched upon in here...I consider myself an Athiest, though my belief system resembles Buddhism most closely...so I guess one could call me a non-practicing Buddhist.

Past that, I can't really think of anything to add...if you're really interested in anything I have to say (most people aren't) feel free to ask.
 
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