I've never been here from the start, I have a 4-digit-member number, so maybe some of the "old skool" posters will say I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

When I cam to this forum, it was a place full of posts discussing pokémon. Research, team rates, strategy. I enjoyed it very much. Most people were friendly and nice. I found Karp Park weird at first, but soon I enjoyed it as much as the other forums.

What do we have now? Well, the RBY forum is almost dead, the GSC forum gets a few posts, Research Lab is pretty dead as well, basically, all forums except Karp are pretty dead.

And Karp Park is full of b0rked wangs, pictures of sliced dicks, people writing bad stuff about other people etc.

Maybe this always was going to happen. GSC has been out for quite some time now, RBY as well. And people grow up. I'm not sure if this is the case, but I think that some of the people who used to play has now stopped, and is only posting in Karp.

I can only think of two things which would make things better:

1. Azure gets GSC data (I know this is unlikely and that it has been discussed before)

or

2. The release of Pokémon Advance.

Do you agree with me, do you also think this forum is dying?

Or am I just an asscrab, or a fucking moron?

It will be tough to find a new hobbie, but everything dies (except pong )

Unless of course they make a new game, more new and weirder then today's G/S. If they did make the elite four (in the game) the same level as your highest pokemon, then things get interesting.

The could have also put the mobile adapter in Crystal, that would have kicked ass.

But they didn't, and they pay the worst thing imaginal to bussiness kind.

Complaints and total failer.

Just like Mircosoft.

And they make a good episode every once in blue moon.

Like Microsoft.

And they come up with cheesy titles and characters.

Pong was an old video game (if you can call it that) that you hooked up to your TV and it was I guess a ping pong simulation.

It's not like we're asking the mods to do all the work.
Most of the info will probably come from other board members who send in data they've collected.

The least that could be done, would be too put up a page explaining basic things like G/S/C moves, pokemon, etc

I'd mostly likely help. </non-asstouching mood>

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I lost interest in RBY, the forums rocked when I cared.

I never had much interest in GSC
Nintendo's lack of decent events forced me to not want to hone my skills.

Karp Park sucks now due to my lack of postings lately.

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Originally posted by Lark84:

Or am I just an asscrab, or a fucking moron?

Please reply with your opinions/thoughts.

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the reason a decision hasn't been reached is because r/b/y is not yet complete. the guys here would like azure to be VERY complete before they move on. they're still working on stuff, it's just a bit slow.

I won't even get into the Way Off Day Off RPG. :P

Could we split up the GSC work among a few select members who know game mechanics well? And if editing is a problem, we could select a few members with really good spelling, grammar, etc. to edit the pages. I think we can handle a few pages apiece... or not ^_^;

Edit: I didn't think this was worth a whole post, but... I just "recruited" two members... Speedy563 (from TPM) and Pooka (from Pojo and Pokezero)... heh, sorry, guys...

Plus, the thrill is kinda gone. When we first started work, we were making major discoveries all the time. Now the things we'd be working out is stuff like which move has precedence over which other move...and all that isn't so interesting because neither of us are that into G/S/C. I've been playing my Silver a bit lately, mostly just to get thru Stadium 2.

I don't really love my new team like Team Wiggly. For me, G/S/C just wasn't different enough from R/B/Y to make things interesting for me.

Well, interesting enough to play but not interesting enough to devote hours of my life to every night.

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Originally posted by MewtwoSama:
In essence, its all my fault:

I lost interest in RBY, the forums rocked when I cared.

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I do think that some of the new features and moves are nice. I love breeding and I like (now that I've played with them some) the idea of items. I also like that Psychics aren't the super bad boys they once were. On the other hand there are more things I dislike about the new games than I like. I hate how they have screwed over Amnesia by making it pure defense, Slash and Razor Leaf don't Crit Hit for me anymore, and Nintendo can bite me over putting Blizzard's accuracy down to 70. I can see why they might have made these changes but I'm just so old school that I can't get by them easily.

Add to that the lack of Nintendo support for the fans. I understand that Pokemon is supposed to be dying off in popularity. We can all see it isn't the super fad it was two years ago. But at the same time I don't see it as dead. The Pokemon series is the only WB cartoon airing today that was airing in 1999. What does that say? And yet Nintendo does nothing. With Red and Blue we had the mall tournaments. With Yellow and Stadium we had the Stadium tournaments. Hell, I even went to a Pokemon TCG mall tour and was able battle Nintendo reps with my Game Boy for prizes. Then with the Olympics we had the awesome World Championships. I drove from Savannah, GA to New York City the night before with just the hope that I could be one of the trainers allowed in (I did make it in and lost in the first round to my friend who's Pokemon I had trained myself during the drive up). As it has been said here, Gold and Silver are almost a year old now. And all we've gotten from Nintendo was the Six Flags tour which had no tournaments, no organization that would have allowed many trainers to gather and battle at the same time, and the Nintendo reps there were worst than normal because I really got the feeling that those girls had never raised a lvl 100 Pokemon even with Rare Candy or GameShark.

Is it any wonder why the board is dropping down and Azure will never post G/S info? DVs and max stats didn't change between games. There are no events to post war stories about. And a lot of your more seasoned members having either left because of life's calling or are just not as interested in G/S as they are in R/B/Y. And by the same token it is hard to focus on R/B/Y because if you meet up with someone to battle with your Game Boy chances are you'll need G/S/C to do it.

I contend that a lot of these "Azure is dying" threads are caused by people who are just burning out on the site. I mean, when you first get here, there is a ton of stuff to absorb. After a while, there's not so much that's interesting any more.

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Originally posted by Mr. K:
I contend that a lot of these "Azure is dying" threads are caused by people who are just burning out on the site.

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That's true. I'm burning out. I know almost everything vital to RBY, but nothing GS. Thus, when the RBY forums "die", I have no place to go other than Karp.

Recently, however, I've started studying other GSC sites. But...

I don't like GSC. The game was fun to play through once, but there's no replay value. The thing it's good for, is breeding for maxed pokémon/GSC tradebacks, which you can use to totally rock RBY. Perhaps that'll change when Stadium 2 comes out. Unlocking Dodrio mode would certainly help.

RBY is still my all-time favourite game. I can't believe they shut down the Safari Zone, deleted Cinnabar Island and removed the lookout spots at the town gates.