he is a fuckin loser
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you know you can just use the reply feature
Bo-ring.
come on it exists for one purpose
okay and so does the "take screenshot" button
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D:< you didn't screenshot it
FYM?
fYm?????
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Congrats to BlueFins for coming out in 1st place!
BlueFins - 10
peakmin - 7
tommy ege - 3
loretze - 2
Istil - 2
ThugKing25 - 1
wintminter - 1
BR4IN - 1
Bridget ggst - 1
proo gammer - 1
Gligar2007 - 1
Gymlead11b - 1
dino197107 - 1
scotteh - 1
...Also congrats on getting the most points of all The VGM Trivia events, at a total of 15!
BlueFins - 10
peakmin - 7
tommy ege - 3
loretze - 2
Istil - 2
ThugKing25 - 1
wintminter - 1
BR4IN - 1
Bridget ggst - 1
proo gammer - 1
Gligar2007 - 1
Gymlead11b - 1
dino197107 - 1
scotteh - 1
...Also congrats on getting the most points of all The VGM Trivia events, at a total of 15!
Hello,
We're almost at the end of the event... just a week to go?! Since the end is closing in, I wanted to make another design post. This one won't be as structured as the last, and will be a bit more personal than the last. I will give a brief overview of how most of the events thus far have run, and then we'll get into some other topics regarding the event as a whole, previous design philosophies and the future.
Guess The Song:
Spoiler alert, but the last event won't have a theme! The previous two did, and people got points for guessing it, however that being said not many people actually tried to guess it. It's a cool idea to have themes but people need to actually guess the theme, and that becomes a bit hard to have in moderation when you don't exactly want to give the theme out in chat. Other than that though, songs that are (mostly) relatively easy to guess, as well as a variety of genres is probably the best way to go.
VGM:
As mentioned in the first one, our first VGM event was quite an... interesting one. It was highly difficult, and as such people generally didn't enjoy it as much as the following ones. I got some feedback for it and was ready to restructure the entire other two events solo, until Archas chimed in and offered to help. This was a huge help to me as I... don't play video games and I don't have a great knowledge about Video Games. I make an effort to say thank you after the two VGM events, but I really must thank Archas immensely for this.
Who's That Pokemon:
The final dedicated WTP event will be later (at the time of writing this post) and not much to say, really. Event's just been fantastic. Easiest to understand and participate in. One tiny concern, but I'll bring it up later.
Trivia:
Only done 1/2 events so far, but aegii did a really good job with questions for the 1st event, and I trust the ones in the 2nd set will reap positive results.
Misc. games:
Pokedex entries was... alright. Like, it wasn't amazing but it wasn't bad? There wasn't a great level of "easy" and "hard", which was a bit off putting. If I had to toss up whether or not to include this event in a future event, I probably would, but only as a singular events like this time around.
Move Specifics is one we JUST finished up and the execution was a liiitle bit off, but I had to adapt in real-time for a user UI thing. It completely missed my mind that I was able to use HTML, but I displayed each prompt using !htmlbox and it worked perfectly. !code was what I used originally but it required users to click on the !code to actually read the content. All in all, the content and event itself was good! Would host again.
That's about it for specific event analysis. Now some general thoughts.
For those who are unaware, at the end of 2023 there was a Christmas event hosted that was a similar style to this. On the backend side, I wanted to have an event that didn't have a specific topic - ones that would appeal to numerous room groups. The first iteration of this event was handled rather well, this iteration hasn't been bad either but I feel as I drifted more towards catering to "On-Site games" as a Section. This, for its own event, is by no means bad, though. This does mean however, that given the emphasis on minigames, a future big event like this would likely delve less from this minigame like event, and more into contests. I won't elaborate on what that would entail, but it would be more community involved with sharing talents/cool parts of ones hobbies/lifestyles, like an art contest for example. By no means would I axe out all minigames, but I'd want to make it less of a spotlight.
Another thing worth mentioning and something that would work well with the latter is... I find these events fun, but it tires me out, and quickly. I don't often have sleep during the event interims, and they're at 11 PM, 5 AM and 9 AM AEST respectively. I wouldn't do this if I didn't enjoy it, but it's heavy and takes its toll, especially towards the end of each weekend. Contests would be a way to not have as many events scheduled during those late hours.
I don't have much else to say at this time, as I want to save some content for the final design post. For what it's worth, I hope you all enjoyed this design post this time around! See you with the next point updates/design post in the near future!
We're almost at the end of the event... just a week to go?! Since the end is closing in, I wanted to make another design post. This one won't be as structured as the last, and will be a bit more personal than the last. I will give a brief overview of how most of the events thus far have run, and then we'll get into some other topics regarding the event as a whole, previous design philosophies and the future.
Guess The Song:
Spoiler alert, but the last event won't have a theme! The previous two did, and people got points for guessing it, however that being said not many people actually tried to guess it. It's a cool idea to have themes but people need to actually guess the theme, and that becomes a bit hard to have in moderation when you don't exactly want to give the theme out in chat. Other than that though, songs that are (mostly) relatively easy to guess, as well as a variety of genres is probably the best way to go.
VGM:
As mentioned in the first one, our first VGM event was quite an... interesting one. It was highly difficult, and as such people generally didn't enjoy it as much as the following ones. I got some feedback for it and was ready to restructure the entire other two events solo, until Archas chimed in and offered to help. This was a huge help to me as I... don't play video games and I don't have a great knowledge about Video Games. I make an effort to say thank you after the two VGM events, but I really must thank Archas immensely for this.
Who's That Pokemon:
The final dedicated WTP event will be later (at the time of writing this post) and not much to say, really. Event's just been fantastic. Easiest to understand and participate in. One tiny concern, but I'll bring it up later.
Trivia:
Only done 1/2 events so far, but aegii did a really good job with questions for the 1st event, and I trust the ones in the 2nd set will reap positive results.
Misc. games:
Pokedex entries was... alright. Like, it wasn't amazing but it wasn't bad? There wasn't a great level of "easy" and "hard", which was a bit off putting. If I had to toss up whether or not to include this event in a future event, I probably would, but only as a singular events like this time around.
Move Specifics is one we JUST finished up and the execution was a liiitle bit off, but I had to adapt in real-time for a user UI thing. It completely missed my mind that I was able to use HTML, but I displayed each prompt using !htmlbox and it worked perfectly. !code was what I used originally but it required users to click on the !code to actually read the content. All in all, the content and event itself was good! Would host again.
That's about it for specific event analysis. Now some general thoughts.
For those who are unaware, at the end of 2023 there was a Christmas event hosted that was a similar style to this. On the backend side, I wanted to have an event that didn't have a specific topic - ones that would appeal to numerous room groups. The first iteration of this event was handled rather well, this iteration hasn't been bad either but I feel as I drifted more towards catering to "On-Site games" as a Section. This, for its own event, is by no means bad, though. This does mean however, that given the emphasis on minigames, a future big event like this would likely delve less from this minigame like event, and more into contests. I won't elaborate on what that would entail, but it would be more community involved with sharing talents/cool parts of ones hobbies/lifestyles, like an art contest for example. By no means would I axe out all minigames, but I'd want to make it less of a spotlight.
Another thing worth mentioning and something that would work well with the latter is... I find these events fun, but it tires me out, and quickly. I don't often have sleep during the event interims, and they're at 11 PM, 5 AM and 9 AM AEST respectively. I wouldn't do this if I didn't enjoy it, but it's heavy and takes its toll, especially towards the end of each weekend. Contests would be a way to not have as many events scheduled during those late hours.
I don't have much else to say at this time, as I want to save some content for the final design post. For what it's worth, I hope you all enjoyed this design post this time around! See you with the next point updates/design post in the near future!
Another day over, another sleepy atlas, and another winner!
Flinchhaxisgreat - 11
yeeter3199 - 10
JacobIde2832 - 8
tommy ege - 7
Gymlead11b - 5
Swawdost - 1
Totallity - 1
krztina - 1
UwU1v1 - 1
Istil - 1
Arcato - 1
BombPokeball - 1
kasdfds - 1
SquidSpring - 1
johankabi - 1
I will update the leaderboards when I wake up (so I'm less prone to making mistakes)
GG to Flinchhaxisgreat!
Flinchhaxisgreat - 11
yeeter3199 - 10
JacobIde2832 - 8
tommy ege - 7
Gymlead11b - 5
Swawdost - 1
Totallity - 1
krztina - 1
UwU1v1 - 1
Istil - 1
Arcato - 1
BombPokeball - 1
kasdfds - 1
SquidSpring - 1
johankabi - 1
I will update the leaderboards when I wake up (so I'm less prone to making mistakes)
GG to Flinchhaxisgreat!
Absolute LANDSLIDE victory today!
Alexander489 - 15
tommy ege - 7
MOONthatspellsmoon - 2
Istil - 1
Bridget ggst - 1
Siegfried - 1
yeeter3199 - 1
Doge136 - 1
Gymlead11b - 1
Grats to Alexander489 !!!
Alexander489 - 15
tommy ege - 7
MOONthatspellsmoon - 2
Istil - 1
Bridget ggst - 1
Siegfried - 1
yeeter3199 - 1
Doge136 - 1
Gymlead11b - 1
Grats to Alexander489 !!!
Akaru Kokuyo - 6
Embar - 5
tommy ege - 5
Ransei - 4
scotteh - 4
Flinchhaxisgreat - 3
Aris 64 - 2
Let's go shuckles - 1
juicycoutureangel - 1
Jadino - 1
Woolly World - 1
Congrats to Akaru Kokuyo for winning the (hard) Pokemon Games songs event!!!
That's the end for this week! ONLY 3 MORE EVENTS TO GO...
Embar - 5
tommy ege - 5
Ransei - 4
scotteh - 4
Flinchhaxisgreat - 3
Aris 64 - 2
Let's go shuckles - 1
juicycoutureangel - 1
Jadino - 1
Woolly World - 1
Congrats to Akaru Kokuyo for winning the (hard) Pokemon Games songs event!!!
That's the end for this week! ONLY 3 MORE EVENTS TO GO...
It's time for another staff interview! We're starting to get closer toward the end of our interviews - this time, let's talk with the staff member who's been a literal country before - Adeleine (formerly known as many things, including Finland)
Adeleine VS Atlas
Hey there! How would you introduce yourself?
I've been almost everywhere and done almost everything on PS – I hit my 10 year anniversary last year. I'm a university student who wants to understand herself and the world and has a penchant for unusual perspectives. I like video games (locally competitive Smash Bros. player), music, and critical analysis.
Oh! (Late) Congrats on your 10 year anniversary! I guess it's not just Lobbys anniversary, huh? Anyways, as I mentioned in the introduction, you went formerly by Finland - sorry for stealing your inevitable thunder, but how about the history of your username?
Oh goodness. I've had 5 main usernames here.
In 2013, I started with rp2865. This originated in the trivia site Sporcle of all places, where I was randomperson2864. If you care about that sort of thing, my quizzes have about 30K total plays, and I got a Curator's Choice and Editor's Choice.
However, that felt a bit impersonal. I soon moved to TheTiksiBranch. It's a reference to Generation 1 Pokemon, which mentions Silph Co. having a branch in Tiksi, the real-life Russian city, of all places. I loved Pokemon and geography, so it was a natural fit. As I got more established, I shortened the name to Tiksi.
After several years, though, the funny little reference wore off. I changed to Finland. You know, the country. My geography nerd tendencies come front and center with one of my favorite countries. I visited Helsinki one summer as well, and it was wonderful. This also corresponds to my username on another site, the MUTHEAD Madden forums, where I went by Finland Revenge. That was my second most important online community besides Pokemon Showdown. Among other things, I used the in-game currency to run an investment fund.
After enough years, I was ready to move again. Geography was not my core interest anymore, and there were a couple of minor disadvantages with the name. On one end, people did enjoy referencing that one Spongebob scene, and it was funny to me at first but eventually got a bit stale. On the diametrically opposite end, a decent number of people who actually live in Finland made reasonable predictions that I lived in Finland and/or spoke Finnish, and I was in an awkward position of "I kind of accidentally represent your country but do not speak your language or live there, sorry." They were always gracious, and my intention with the name was sincere appreciation, but it was a weird position I had inadvertently put myself in.
At last, then, I chose Adeleine. Completely shifting gears, I now represented one of my favorite games, Kirby 64, and one of my favorite characters from it. (My avatar also has the fairy queen from Kirby 64.) The game and character are important to me for their good-hearted, good-willed, sincere happiness, creativity, and belief, among other things. It's an ideal I strive to emulate with my own liberties.
(My secret sixth username is Ado, my Smash tag and thus the nickname some use for me. I don't use or possess the account on PS, though.)
Holy shit, you were Tiksi?! I had no idea, I'm such a big fan! Tell me, how did you find out about Pokemon Showdown, especially given how ancient of a PS user you are?
I found out from googling Pokemon's names and stumbling into the Smogon analyses. I thought I might like to try teambuilding and found the place where they did that.
Oh wow, luck by google search! What's your favourite part about PS, would it be something related to Smogon Analyses?
I've found a lot to like and dislike over the years. My favorite part is the friends and sincere connections I've made along the way. Besides some banned individuals, anyway.
Speaking of a lot to like and dislike, something I really like is learning about ones PS journey. So, what's your story? And, is Lobby your first/main room?
Strap in.
My PS journey maps reasonably well onto my username history. As rp2865, I was a pretty quiet regular in the Trivia room. I did some amateur teambuilding and was a not-good Pokemon player. As TheTiksiBranch, I rose through the ranks of Trivia staff and became Room Owner. I wrote many questions for official competitions in the Question Workshop and explored other gaming rooms like Game Corner, Mafia, and Wi-Fi, becoming room voice in each, as well as Scholastic. I tried starting up a Web Games room, but that didn't really take.
As Tiksi, I really hit the PS floor. I branched out more deeply other rooms like Lobby, Help, Pokemon Games (Sun & Moon), and Smash Bros. Eventually, I became mod in the first, Room Owner in the last two, and de facto Room Owner in Help–the position didn't exist yet. I became global moderator, fiercely active in global policy, discipline appeals, and user support. I helped develop sets for Random Battles – alongside the current generations at the time, I was the one who said "We should have Generation 3 and 4 Random Battles too" and did most of the non-technical work to initialize those. I was a capable Anything Goes player, moderating that room. Unfortunately, I fell out with Upper Staff and resigned, leaving the site for a while.
As Finland, I came back and set up shop much the same way as before. Room policy, global policy, user support, you get the idea. I continued work on Random Battles, moderating that room, and coordinated set creation for most of Generation 8 Battle Factory. To be clear, I was not making the sets this time – these represented specific Smogon tiers I was unfamiliar with. However, after enough years, I eventually burned out on routine global moderator work like discipline appeals, focusing more on broad site policy and my staffing rooms. After another falling out with Upper Staff, I resigned again. I would come back, but I was done with global staff for good.
As Adeleine, I've settled into my groove as a veteran user with targeted interests. I spend the most time in the Smash Bros. room, practicing, playing for fun, and chatting with users new and old. I've also returned to Lobby and joined Video Games, which I now mod, chatting and chiming in on policy. It's a more low-key presence, but one that matches my changing relationship with the site and increasing outside obligations, and it's a presence I'm happy with as it is.
That sounds like a lot, and I feel like this interview doesn't do your journey justice, haha! Sounds like you have a lot of things to be proud of - what's your biggest thing you're proud of?
Inside PS, I helped conduct several beneficial room transitions and helped a couple wonderful people be happier and more comfortable on the site. Outside of PS, I've learned to love myself as a person.
Aye, I love to hear that! You mentioned smogon analyses earlier, would you happen to play competitively?
I used to play AG competitively from XY into USUM. I made high ladder, did two RMTs, and joined a tournament, where I was the only person to take a game off of tour winner Chloe. We matched in the first round, though, so I didn't win any sets. I occasionally dipped my toes into other formats, like Balanced Hackmons and Generation 1 OU.
Nowadays, I'm an alright casual Generation 3 and Generation 4 Random Battles player.
Love Gen 3/4 formats! I apologize for cutting our time short, but my pizza delivery has just arrived so I'm going to go have dinner. Anything you want to add before we end it off?
It's been a trip down memory lane writing this. Rooting for y'all.
And that concludes this wonderful interview! Join us next time for another ancient user... It'll be quite the interview!
In 2013, I started with rp2865. This originated in the trivia site Sporcle of all places, where I was randomperson2864. If you care about that sort of thing, my quizzes have about 30K total plays, and I got a Curator's Choice and Editor's Choice.
However, that felt a bit impersonal. I soon moved to TheTiksiBranch. It's a reference to Generation 1 Pokemon, which mentions Silph Co. having a branch in Tiksi, the real-life Russian city, of all places. I loved Pokemon and geography, so it was a natural fit. As I got more established, I shortened the name to Tiksi.
After several years, though, the funny little reference wore off. I changed to Finland. You know, the country. My geography nerd tendencies come front and center with one of my favorite countries. I visited Helsinki one summer as well, and it was wonderful. This also corresponds to my username on another site, the MUTHEAD Madden forums, where I went by Finland Revenge. That was my second most important online community besides Pokemon Showdown. Among other things, I used the in-game currency to run an investment fund.
After enough years, I was ready to move again. Geography was not my core interest anymore, and there were a couple of minor disadvantages with the name. On one end, people did enjoy referencing that one Spongebob scene, and it was funny to me at first but eventually got a bit stale. On the diametrically opposite end, a decent number of people who actually live in Finland made reasonable predictions that I lived in Finland and/or spoke Finnish, and I was in an awkward position of "I kind of accidentally represent your country but do not speak your language or live there, sorry." They were always gracious, and my intention with the name was sincere appreciation, but it was a weird position I had inadvertently put myself in.
At last, then, I chose Adeleine. Completely shifting gears, I now represented one of my favorite games, Kirby 64, and one of my favorite characters from it. (My avatar also has the fairy queen from Kirby 64.) The game and character are important to me for their good-hearted, good-willed, sincere happiness, creativity, and belief, among other things. It's an ideal I strive to emulate with my own liberties.
(My secret sixth username is Ado, my Smash tag and thus the nickname some use for me. I don't use or possess the account on PS, though.)
My PS journey maps reasonably well onto my username history. As rp2865, I was a pretty quiet regular in the Trivia room. I did some amateur teambuilding and was a not-good Pokemon player. As TheTiksiBranch, I rose through the ranks of Trivia staff and became Room Owner. I wrote many questions for official competitions in the Question Workshop and explored other gaming rooms like Game Corner, Mafia, and Wi-Fi, becoming room voice in each, as well as Scholastic. I tried starting up a Web Games room, but that didn't really take.
As Tiksi, I really hit the PS floor. I branched out more deeply other rooms like Lobby, Help, Pokemon Games (Sun & Moon), and Smash Bros. Eventually, I became mod in the first, Room Owner in the last two, and de facto Room Owner in Help–the position didn't exist yet. I became global moderator, fiercely active in global policy, discipline appeals, and user support. I helped develop sets for Random Battles – alongside the current generations at the time, I was the one who said "We should have Generation 3 and 4 Random Battles too" and did most of the non-technical work to initialize those. I was a capable Anything Goes player, moderating that room. Unfortunately, I fell out with Upper Staff and resigned, leaving the site for a while.
As Finland, I came back and set up shop much the same way as before. Room policy, global policy, user support, you get the idea. I continued work on Random Battles, moderating that room, and coordinated set creation for most of Generation 8 Battle Factory. To be clear, I was not making the sets this time – these represented specific Smogon tiers I was unfamiliar with. However, after enough years, I eventually burned out on routine global moderator work like discipline appeals, focusing more on broad site policy and my staffing rooms. After another falling out with Upper Staff, I resigned again. I would come back, but I was done with global staff for good.
As Adeleine, I've settled into my groove as a veteran user with targeted interests. I spend the most time in the Smash Bros. room, practicing, playing for fun, and chatting with users new and old. I've also returned to Lobby and joined Video Games, which I now mod, chatting and chiming in on policy. It's a more low-key presence, but one that matches my changing relationship with the site and increasing outside obligations, and it's a presence I'm happy with as it is.
Nowadays, I'm an alright casual Generation 3 and Generation 4 Random Battles player.
omg im not the only one
Hello everyone! It's time for yet another staff interview! Today we have a very special guest! Let's talk with Ex-Lobby Room Owner and former Global (formerly known as Leader, technically) Administrator LifeisDank!
How would you describe yourself in 3-5 sentences?
A fuckin moron ♥
RELATABLE. What is the history of the username "LifeisDank"? Was it even your first name?
I hated the game Life is Strange it was silly and i made my name LifeisDANK to parody it
Lmao, that's a wild (but amazing) username choice! How did you find out about PS?
youtube lol
There's a level of dedication behind coming from YouTube... What's your favourite part about PS?
we all share the same bad taste
Yeah that's especially true with Lobby... I mean what? How has your PS journey been? Is Lobby your first/main room?
lobby first and main, i shitposted art in it with lenny faces on it. I ranked up to RO, and Admin on site and then deleted the role & and deleted Showderp and RP you are welcome you asshats
THANK YOU!!! And your biggest achievements?
Killing RP and Leader role
Okay but if you deleted Leader role, WHY do we have to have that ugly & symbol for global administrators!!! No one can take them seriously anymore!!! ... Anyways. You play competitively at all?
i play ranbats im too stupid to make teams and too lazy.
Relatable on both fronts, but maybe not specific to making teams... Anyways, I'll let you go back to your old retirement now, anything you wanna add?
Whenever you boil something like potatoes or pasta, add a bunch of herbs like Oregano, Thyme, add some garlic cloves ect and smoked salt. It will make those tatos, and pasta taste so much better. (poke holes in the potatoes to let em soak up the flavor)
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAH
Thank you LifeisDANK for participating! Next time, we'll have an enthusiast of the objectively worst spin-off game from all of Pokemon!
. . . Editors note, but this was a pretty funny interview. Hope you enjoy!
LifeIsDank VS Atlas
great interview!