Tempest

I need to stop getting wild ideas in my head. So I think we can all agree: Discord is the better chat system than Showdown. It lets you change names on a whim, change avatars, has better notifications, lets you scroll up to see history, and on the whole, is just nicer. It's also far more ubiquitous, and I'm willing to bet at least some of you are in more than just Reborn's discord. That being said, Showdown has one major positive over Discord: it has battling. It's Pokemon-centric, let's you make teams, see ladders, et cetera. So why not try and combine the two? That's what I am going to try and do. I haven't fleshed out all the details yet. Here's the different ideas I've come up with: - A simple bot. This already exists in some form. All it does is text based, and you tell it what move you want to use by typing it out. - The bot with a twist, using pictures or GIFs to at least show animation and make it a little more interesting. - Butchering Showdown and making it hook into Discord. You'd be able to use a bot to challenge someone else, and it would pull open a Window in a web browser to a custom hosted Showdown. This would give the best battling experience, but is probably the most work to do. - Something else entirely, starting a battle sim built from scratch around Discord. Also a lot of work, but perhaps the most flexible option. The reason I'm saying this now is I want your thoughts about what I should try and do. Should I try for Showdown-esque thing, or would a bot be enough to satiate needs? How would people want channels with these battles going on to work? I've found some stuff that does something like this, but nothing that works overwhelmingly well, and they are just a simple bot at the end of the day. If any of you guys know of anything I should look into as well, I'd appreciate it. In the end, I'd want this to be able to supplant Showdown, and just have Discord be the one-stop-shop. It'd be the paragon of chats for Pokemon. Even if it doesn't get used here, I'd still have places for it.

That's what we're down to now... but I can't actually get any of them to do hard mode with me now, since they're still not good enough for that, I'm not a fan of doing it with randoms, and they won't just do a normal raid because it doesn't benefit us... which is true since all of us have our main character at 395+, and both me and another guy have all three at 400.

I probably spent 30 hours on Atheon before we actually beat him, and we beat him after probably 7 hours at 3am... my raid group really, really, sucked. The guys I play with now are much, much better.

Happy Late Birthday Sparky! Hope it was a great one!

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I played Destiny for 20 hours straight one time... from 10am to 6am the next day. I needed Bad Juju damnit.

I'll just have to fuck up your predictions, sorry. Maybe I'll bug Micky to show up.

6/10, mainly because the GIF jumps on the background and it annoys me. New avatar... even though this one is definitely an old one

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She'll never come back. Micky.

Hey look, I'm alive. Is Micky still active?

Dell P4317Q monitor. It's a 43" 4K monitor that can be divided into smaller monitors, like 4x 1080p monitors. Beats Bluetooth eartbuds Xbox One headset Some HDMI headphones and matrices A lot of really nice clothes Giftcards and money Lots of candy I'm really fucking happy about the monitor

It seems to me that only games that get utterly massive get hit with a C&D... Prism had 1.5 million views on its trailer. Before this, Uranium had 1.5 million download and eclipsed sun and moon (no pun intended) in search traffic on Google. Essentially, as long as a fan game doesn't blow up and get huge, it seems to survive... not even Insurgence or ZO, or any other of the massive rom hacks -- like glazed and light platinum -- got hit. It seems they're only worried about fangames getting too big, at least for the time being, and not all fangames. Also hell, even Uranium is still in development. The original devs left but a subreddit has picked it back up and maintaining it, and doing a pretty damn good job by the looks of it. Even if Nintendo does try to come down hard on all fan games, which I doubt they will, they won't outright disappear. People will still develop them. Only extremely large fan games are in any danger if current trends hold true.

Sorry. I know I can't stand in for Micky, but I hope I'm good enough. Spine, how's your day going?

Happy Birthday to the naked chef!