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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2011 19:05:33 GMT -5
This sounds cool, but it sounds like, if it's going to be ongoing and nobody actually gets eliminated, people will just be in constant competition to go up the ranks, and I liked it when people got disqualified in the last tournament. Also, are we supposed to nominate people for the top 10 ranks or is this decided some other way?
Anyways, if I join, I'll probably just use Shackles. I thought about using Cutlass, but he's only used to his full potential if he teams up with another character, and also for some reason I find him harder to draw than I do Shackles.
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Post by Shackles on Feb 9, 2011 18:16:41 GMT -5
Wait are we ALREADY planning on a second tournament? Or is this just like discussing ideas for when it starts a while time from now?
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Post by Shackles on Feb 2, 2011 19:42:30 GMT -5
Quinton sat up in his bed, sunlight was pouring through the gaps in his window shades and lighting the bedroom. He picked up his glasses off the dresser, setting them onto his eyes and adjusting them into their proper position. The sounds of the sirens outside were still echoing through the city. Quinton stood up, examining the clock on the wall. It was already the middle of the day. The sirens outside signaled that Saffron City was being raided. Quinton had been over the proper procedure of what to do during a raid with his mother, but none of that mattered now that he had a Pokemon. Now, nothing could intimidate him. Quinton grabbed his guitar case and lid the strap over his head, then put on his Pokeball cap. Quinton's items could be heard tossing around inside the case. He then turned back to his dresser. On top of it was the shiny, red Pokeball that contained his Gastly. Quinton walked over and picked it up, examining it one last time before he went outside. The transparent top of the Pokeball showed through to the inside. The cloud of purple, fizzy smoke still cloaked the mysterious Pokemon inside. "Great trainers can make due with weak Pokemon, and I'm destined to be the best trainer," Quinton said to himself. He slipped the Pokeball into his case and zipped the case closed. By now, Quinton's mother would be at work, she'd probably be worried about Quinton, being alone at home during a raid Quinton walked out the door of his bedroom, quickly making his way to the front door. He opened the door to the outside. The sky was covered with light, grey clouds that were illuminated by the sun's rays. They drizzled a gentle, sparkling snow across Saffron city. This was it, the day Quinton became a trainer. He closed the door behind him and prepared to aid his hometown in defending against the raid.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 31, 2011 18:58:23 GMT -5
Brawler of the YearI think Destructin has some very cool brawlers. They stand out and are just made better because Des is a good contributor and uses his brawlers frequently. My favorite of Destructin's brawlers is Steamy, so I'm going to nominate him. I like Steamy because spewing out hot gas seems like a weak/useless power, but Des still manages to make him a tough brawler. I really respect underpowered characters that can still become top-tier brawlers when used correctly. Best ArtistMVG. When he went from his little "cartoon" style a while ago, it seemed like people gave him a lot of shit when he started to draw all this anime stuff, and when I first talked to MVG I gave him shit about it too. But his new style has actually really grown on me, and even though he has made some lazy drawings, he's also shown he's capable of some pretty amazing stuff. His anatomy isn't the best, but not everyone really wants to have perfect anatomy and details. His art is cool and stylish and he's just an all-around cool guy. Best ModBoth Grent and Destructin are terrific mods, and they both have different things that they offer to SPB, so I will decide which I vote for Best Mod with a coin-flip. Grent- Since Grent became a mod, he was instantly helpful to the site and has been a very fair mod, as well as a nice guy. He's a good contributor and a respectable artist with an original and cool style. He's done a lot of work to try and get SPB it's own site, and he's done his fair share of work as a mod. Destructin- Destructin seems to offer less than Grent as a mod, but more as just a general user with his contribution and improvement as an artist. He did really well in the tournament and was (mostly) a good sport even though he lost a couple matches. He participated in a lot of new grudges and contributed a lot to threads like RvB. It might seem like I should go for the person who does more as a mod, but Des is great as a general user and he's a mod too, so it is up to the coin who I vote for. Des: Heads Grent: Tails Result: Heads. I vote Des for best mod. Worst ModI'm not even going to bother voting on this one. Not because I'm afraid to vote for who I don't think did well as a mod, but because there's 3 people who I think did equally bad as mods. John12346- John, I like you , you're a cool guy, but you definitely are not a top-tier moderator. I could say you contributed a lot, but really you only did much in one thread, 1 Week Battle, and it seems to me that it's only because 1 Week forces you to keep participating. As a mod, you've missed a lot of opportunities to actually moderate things, and it's clear that you aren't very concerned with your duties as a moderator. (Also, I really don't like that you try to enforce that "You have to do something in your picture for it to count" rule for 1 Week Battle, because you break that rule more than anyone else. Just saying.) McJ- It's hard to be nice about this one. McJ, you've done practically nothing as a moderator, contributed practically nothing since the tournament, and you're also just generally an asshole to people. None of these are qualities that a good mod has. At least, not the first two. Grim- I think you have a different problem from McJ and John12346. You participate a decent amount, and do a lot with your mod powers, but I seriously disagree with a lot of decisions you've made. You seem to make a lot of very biased decisions with your mod powers, particularly when dealing with MVG, and I do not approve of that. You also seem to lose your cool with some users *coughGHOSTcough*, and I think being patient is an important quality in moderators. I think some of your decisions make it seem like you're desperately trying to offer something as a moderator, like when you pointed out that you're the one who does all the Brawlio transactions, so that you can keep your mod status, and I think that if you were really a great moderator, you wouldn't have to do that. We Miss YouAlthough there's nobody that I really miss, there is someone that I think is worth mentioning. Dan Ratherman. He was a cool guy, participated a lot 1 Week Battle, although I don't consider posting tons of times in one thread as great contribution, it really stands out when he was such a new user at the time and he was able to keep up with the other people in 1WB. He was a respectable artist with an interesting character and an interesting style. The Newcomer of The YearSpudmeister. I met Spud a long time ago in a Tinychat room for one of those Facepunch threads, and although he doesn't remember me from back then, I still think that he's made a lot of improvement as an artist since I first met him. He's always quite a few steps ahead of me as an artist, and he is helpful to other users with his tips. Though I sometimes disagree with his standards on art, I think he's a talented artist and a good contributor for the time that he's been here. Worst UserKryten. Seriously, Kryten, I have a huge problem with you. You come around every, what, 3 months? You contribute close to NOTHING to SPB, and yet you still expect to get a sidebar on the SPB site by begging your buddies from FP to revive your ancient grudge matches for you. I know for a fact that the only reason you're trying to "participate" so much recently is because you're extremely desperate to have your art displayed on SPB.com. I know I have no say in it, but you are not deserving of that at all. Every time I think my respect for you is as low as it can be, you pull something that makes me dislike you even more. You've shown that you are not a good contributor, or even a good user in general for SPB. You've badmouthed me and probably other SPB users, and you took McJ's roster template without permission, and after all you've done, the last thing you could possibly do is fess up to your mistakes and apologize. No, you have to play it off all innocent and dumb. I also dislike you as an artist, and I find it absolutely infuriating that you say I can't draw a decent picture at all, when all of your characters are the same shaggy-haired quirky person with energy powers/guns that nobody cares about. Even your female characters are clones of your main character, and you lack structure in your art so you try to support it by adding tons of little scribbly details and dull colors. Kryten easily gets my vote for Worst User here. Best VeteranI will say Grent, for the same reasons I listed under the Best Mod category. He contributes a lot as a mod and he's a very dedicated to the new site and SPB as a whole. He's the only person who can draw with the curve tool and still be a top-tier artist. He's brought a lot of significant things to SPB, from the Really Tall Tower to his work on SPB.com. He is a cool guy. Coolest HatTo be honest, fuck hats. Hats are overrated. If I have to pick one, I will say DC's crown, just because crowns stand out a bit more to me. Parody Man has a crown too, but I like DryChris' better. It seems to really fit with his character. Mostly, I pick DC's crown because I am tired of tophats. Tophats are cool, but they have been done to hell and back. It seems like every other active member has a character with a top hat, and it's getting a bit old, especially the way that the tophat is always emphasized in some way on whichever character has it. Other people seem to be more casual with their hats, but then characters with tophats always have some special thing about it. Also fanciness is overrated. Hardest To DrawI'm going to say Gyree, just like everyone else. I know Zarth has been kind of mad because his character has been left behind for this category, but Gyree seems to have something about him that makes him extremely difficult to draw. There's something that I respect about Gyree's difficulty, I think it's that the reason he's hard to draw is just because of his weird shape and figure, rather than his tons of details and accessories that you see with Zarth and other characters. Best Thread1 Week Battle. I just enjoy that it has a different way of playing, and it always finds a way of reviving itself just because of how it's rules work. It's come a long ways as a thread and I like that people being forced to post there once a week really brings out their creativity (or sometimes their desperation). Worst ThreadOfficial Environment. I don't think it's a badly-constructed thread or a stupid idea, but I've already given my two cents on it. I'm all for the sharing of ideas, but not when half the ideas that come out are either overly complicated and unusable or extremely simple and underdeveloped. I really like the older arenas like Brawl City and Aerial Assault, and they seriously outshine all these new "biomes" and opposite-versions of everything. Best GrudgematchRIALTO VS. MALICE THAT WAS SOME INTENSE ACTION RIGHT THERE BRO Coolest UserEven though Rabies doesn't come around/draw much any more, I have to say that he's a pretty cool guy. I like his taste in music, Rockin' Rabies is my favorite brawler, and he just has that kind of attitude that makes him seem like a badass. Most Clever UserI don't know. To be honest, I really prefer straightforward, angry, violent brawling over people who try to "think outside the box". Battling tends to get a lot more energetic and interesting when people aren't caught up in using the environment to their advantage and combining powers and shit like that. Exploiting a brawler's weakness is the most complicated thing I like to see. Other than that, fuck anyone who thinks they're all "creative" and "special" just because they prefer cheap tricks and overly-complicated plans over lightning bolts and explosions. Most ImprovedDryChris. He's improved a lot in both years that he's been here, in both his drawings and his general attitude. He has a lot of determination as an artist and he's really pushing himself to compete with other good artists and to be an all-around good user. -Alright I've had enough of these summaries I'm just gonna give names- Best Pic of the YearBest ContributorDES Innovation of the YearANIMATED GRUDGES OH WAIT WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE Funniest UserNOBODY YOU'RE ALL UNFUNNY Most Explosive PersonalityMCJ GET IT BECAUSE HE DOES STUFF WITH EXPLOSIONS WHICH IS IRONIC BECAUSE HE IS ACTUALLY KIND OF A DOWNER Most Underrated UserCHOWDERBALBOA Most annoying userI'm pretty sure that the person who gets "Worst User" is also getting "Most annoying user", just because they're both awards that you give to the person who irks you the most. You don't despise someone enough to say they're the worst user on the site, then say someone annoys you more than they do. I'm just saying that someone you dislike and think did a bad job as a user is also going to be a person who annoys you a lot, whether it's through their logical fallacies or general douchebaggery.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 30, 2011 0:03:10 GMT -5
I think the reason that the tournament failed, is because people who lost their matches also lost interest, so it came down to the people who were still playing, being the only ones caring. Personally, I don't think the tournament failed, I think it did really well for a first attempt at it, but that's probably just because I won my fair share of matches. I will say, though, that it is way too soon to be planning a second tournament already.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 24, 2011 21:35:22 GMT -5
At first I was kind of desperate to find a serious weakness for Shackles' secondary power, but since it's a defensive power and Shackles is a defensive brawler, I thought that metal being able to pass through it unharmed (almost all weapons are made of metal) was a bit too much, so I changed the weakness so that metal is resistant to it and it has to stay in contact with Shackles or it will dissipate. If anyone thinks it's too overpowered, just say so and I can change it again.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 19, 2011 23:47:39 GMT -5
Quinton grunted angrily as he glared at the Nidoran trainer from behind his glasses, finishing the identification form. "Whatever. I'm destined to be a great trainer, and great trainers can make due with weak Pokemon." Quinton slipped his Pokeball into the case on his back, then handed in the clipboard to the Team Rocket officer. "Anyways, I have to go get my picture for my Trainer's Identification. Good luck with your Nidoran." Quint adjusted the case on his back and moved forward in the line, leaving the other trainer behind him.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 18, 2011 22:08:51 GMT -5
Quinton shrugged the other trainer's arm off of his shoulder, then dusted off his arm. "I'm not familiar with this Pokemon, sorry." Quinton said as he accepted a clipboard and pen from the Team Rocket grunt and began filling in blanks, then he glanced at the trainer's pokeball, the one that contained the Nidoran which he had been flaunting. "No offense, but I think your Pokemon looks weak. This gas Pokemon is probably a lot more rare if I've never heard of it," Quinton said, continuing to fill out the form.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 18, 2011 21:03:12 GMT -5
Quinton let out a sarcastic chuckle as he firmly grasped Dave's hand, then released him from his grip. "I'm not worried about it. Great trainers are destined to have great Pokemon, and poison Pokemon are the greatest," Quint said as he rudely wiped his hand on his dark-blue Haunter shirt. "Anyways, I'm going to go and get my Pokemon. Maybe we can battle sometime." Quint pushed past Dave and out of the crowd, forcing himself into the line of trainers. A couple people from behind shouted about "cutting". Quinton just casually crossed his arms as he followed the line, finally reaching the front of the line. "I'd like a poison-pokemon please. Preferably something strong like Grimer or Nidoran." Quint said to the Team Rocket member, placing his hands on the table. The grunt stared at Quinton wearily as he pulled out a pokeball from the box. "What you get is what you get." The Team Rocket emplyee dropped the shiny ball into Quinton's hands. Quint walked forward in the line as he placed his empty guitar-case on the table. The TR grunt slid a potion and 5 extra Pokeballs over the table as Quinton quickly slipped them into the case, zipped it closed, and walked away from the counter with his new Pokemon in hand. He held the glass sphere up to his face as he looked closely into the Pokeball, trying to see what might be inside, but all he could see was purple smoke swirling around inside the ball, hiding whatever was inside. "That's weird, I've never seen a gas Pokemon before."
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Post by Shackles on Jan 18, 2011 20:16:53 GMT -5
Quinton adjusted his glasses again as he knelt down to peer into the other trainer's pokeball. "I was on my way to get one just now, actually," he said as he stared back at the cycloptic creature, then stood back up. "You're lucky, steel pokemon have a lot of resistances. I'm going for a poison-type, though." Quinton set down his empty case as he reached out his hand towards the masked person, offering a hand-shake. "I'm Quinton Shade, soon-to-be Poison Trainer."
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Post by Shackles on Jan 18, 2011 19:48:48 GMT -5
Quinton forced his way through the crowd of new trainers, grunting under the constant noise of their chattering, and clenching the strap of his empty guitar-case that he'd formed into a makeshift backpack. He made his way over to the line of beginning trainers who were awaiting their first Pokemon. Quinton caught his first glimpse of the shiny, red spheres as the Team Rocket members passed them out to the line of children, their eyes twinkling with excitement as they peered into them. Pokeballs. Quint clenched his fist as he was overcome with determination, then marched towards the line. As he muscled his way through the last few people between him and his first Pokemon, Quinton stumbled into a small, awkward looking boy. Quint balanced himself and adjusted his glasses, looking back at the other new trainer. A short boy with a grey coat and a strange-looking mask covering his face. He had glasses just like Quinton, and seemed like the only person Quint would dare approach in the entire place. "Pardon me." Quinton said, looking down at the shiny Pokeball that was clenched in the boy's hands. "I see you already got your Pokemon."
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Post by Shackles on Jan 17, 2011 2:34:04 GMT -5
Hey guys what's the best pick-up line there is? "Does this smell like chloroform to you?" tee hee I was told that you use mainstream memes to pick up girls.
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Post by Shackles on Jan 12, 2011 20:25:31 GMT -5
Except draw her without clothes
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Post by Shackles on Jan 10, 2011 18:15:12 GMT -5
Name: Quinton Shade Sex: Male Age: 15 1/4 Physical Description: Biography: Quinton was born and raised in Saffron City. His father, a trainer, died opposing the E4. Quinton has a strong admiration for poison-type Pokemon. Personality: Serious business. Cash and items: -Potions x3 -Paralyz Heal x1 and an extra $350 Species: Gastly Nickname: Fizz StatsAttack: 1 Special Attack: 3 Defense: 1 Special Defense: 2 Speed: 3 Moves:1 Hypnosis 2 Lick 3 Spite 4 (edit): When I was taking the pokeballs off of his belt, I realized that he did not have a container for items, so Grent told me to give him an empty guitar case. (edit 2): I REALIZED THAT MY POKEMON IS IMMUNE TO POISONING SO I DIDN'T NEED THOSE ANTIDOTES
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Post by Shackles on Jan 9, 2011 19:51:57 GMT -5
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Post by Shackles on Jan 3, 2011 19:58:57 GMT -5
Quite possibly the best artist on the site. Except for me, right?
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Post by Shackles on Jan 3, 2011 19:39:41 GMT -5
Kick him in the testicles until he pukes
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Post by Shackles on Jan 1, 2011 22:56:44 GMT -5
Now back on my murderous pants, they like to play darts with my ass. Wtf I'm not their pincushion. They can't just stick needles into my buttocks and expect me not to say something about it. They also give me Indian burns in my sleep. One case was so severe I woke up with tire treads across my left and right arms. With "I luv u" inscribed on my chest. What the flatch. This is not funny, you have never been funny, and you will never be funny.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 31, 2010 3:51:20 GMT -5
Happy Birthday, DC. Here's that birthday picture that I promised you.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 30, 2010 22:49:50 GMT -5
HERE I MADE THE JACOB PONY FOR YOU
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Post by Shackles on Dec 29, 2010 2:46:03 GMT -5
Wow look at all that chest-hair
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Post by Shackles on Dec 29, 2010 2:30:48 GMT -5
In my opinion, the White Void should not be a planet, it should actually be an inter-dimensional void with a city in it, and everyone should be completely oblivious to the existence of Earth unless they originated outside of the void. Only a few places need to actually exist around the void, like the Cavern, Aerial Assault, and maybe the Wildlife Preserve as long as it was actually just a forest instead of a bunch of different places squished together (desert/tundra/other stuff that people learned about from their 7th grade science class or the Minecraft wiki). Also, we don't need different layers of the planet having cities in them, since nobody goes to those anyways. Even the one time that somebody actually broke through the surface of the planet and went down to where Globe City would be, they ended up in a river of lava instead. By the way, why do we have an opposite-version of every single thing in the SPB universe? There's the Negasphere, Dare City, and now the Black Void. We have just tons and tons of useless areas, I think the last thing we need is expansion. Not everyone needs some special little place to live with an entire backstory and shit, and not every single thing in the Brawl universe needs to have an explanation. Why not just make it simple, a void (not a planet) with a city in the middle of it, and everyone in that city fights eachother. We never really use anything outside of Brawl City, the White Void, and Aerial Assault anyways (unless you count fan-fics, but I don't count fan-fics). Making a place for Brawlers to be doesn't mean populating a universe with empty areas that people brainstorm into existence every time they watch some documentary on Animal Planet, it means making a few, simple areas that are true to brawling. Say no to Official Environment.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 25, 2010 23:13:39 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't notice the Highway one, but I thought Dare City and the Highway had been discussed a long, long time ago. Anyways, I don't like the rule because I feel like someone's going to make an extremely stupid idea that will go unnoticed, then they just wait a week and suddenly we have a moon populated by dick-shaped aliens or something. Even if that doesn't happen, having the one-week rule is just another way to get a bunch of new environments that people never use.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 25, 2010 21:39:34 GMT -5
RULE: If a theory or idea goes unchallenged for a week, then it can be modified into the actual Environment thread as canon. I vote against every idea that has been said so far, and I also vote against this rule. edit: Except Dare City, I do not vote against that
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Post by Shackles on Dec 23, 2010 1:04:04 GMT -5
Is this the one where they're only going to hire women with natural tits?
If it is, I'm not surprised that the one hippy-bearded guy won't be in it.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 22, 2010 3:43:21 GMT -5
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Post by Shackles on Dec 9, 2010 0:03:48 GMT -5
So, with the theme decided, I need some input. Where do you all want to start? Like, what city? I can either follow a "strict" guideline set out by the games and force you to start in either Viridian or Pallet, or I can be a little nicer and let you pick and choose, changing each route and Gym Leader (if you decide to fight the gym leaders) to fit your Pokémons'. I think it'd be good if we could choose where we start, that way if we want our starter to be a wild Pokemon we can pick an area near it.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 5, 2010 15:38:07 GMT -5
Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up. There's no need to be so rude, his response was actually quite polite. Besides I think he just meant that your machine could be larger than the one he drew, not necessarily a higher "level" Whatever, man. I'm still going to wait to post another picture until the OP confirms whether or not it's cheating. Doppler is actually two seperate characters, so I figured that saying they combined would be enough of an explanation. I actually would've just made it level 2, but it seemed like the way I drew it was too big (since a grown man can fit inside it's head), so I just made it level 3, like the robots combined when they were level 1.5 or something. Just saying that it'd be kinda out of place if their robot was already 2x as big as most other people's but is level 1.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 5, 2010 2:49:21 GMT -5
I'm sorry I didn't see you enter this thread with a lvl one, even if you "combined" your mech with someone else this shouldn't be allowed from the start. Its a form of cheating imo. are you even allowed to do this? If this was in the rules then I must've missed something.* If you integrate a kind of "explanation" into why your machine would be bigger than a starting machine, its allowed. Like say I wanted I a giant robot, if a character had a backstory for machinery, then having a giant mech here would be appropriate. Unless I read this wrong, shut the fuck up.
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Post by Shackles on Dec 5, 2010 2:23:13 GMT -5
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