Frequently Asked Questions

Not all these questions are really "frequently" asked, but I've either gotten them sometime or just fear that they will be asked in relation to something and would rather be without them. Not all are really questions either...

Mistaken Error Reports

You can find the rest of the secret link clues easily after you've found one!

Yes, I know. And then what? If you're really clever enough to figure out anything at all from those bizarre clues of mine, you deserve to find the Secret Link itself anyway, even if you cheated a bit for the clues. :P

Your Fun Facts are wrong! Dark, Psychic and Fighting form a type triangle, too!

@_@ NO, THEY DON'T! STOP REPORTING THAT! ARRGHETWETPJAERPOAMEF!

...now that I got that out of my system, the reason for that is that while Dark is super effective on Psychic which is super effective on Fighting which is super effective on Dark, it doesn't go the other way. With Fire, Water and Grass, Grass is not very effective on Fire which is not very effective on Water which is not very effective on Grass. With Dark, Psychic and Fighting, Dark is not very effective on Fighting which is not very effective on Psychic which is ineffective on Dark. It breaks the triangle.

Seriously, why have people been trying to "correct" me on Dark/Psychic/Fighting even though the section itself clearly states that it has to go for resistances too to qualify as a triangle? I've now put a special notice in parentheses to tell people specifically that Dark/Psychic/Fighting is not a type triangle into the section itself, but judging by my results at trying to make people read the FAQ before reporting errors so far, this will probably just make people e-mail me about Water/Ground/Electric instead (which has the same problem).

When I generate my Zodiac images, it displays two images of the same Pokémon!

Yes. They are not the same. Look carefully and you'll notice that the Pokémon sprites are different. To be precise, they're the male and female versions of the Pokémon (or at least presumably, since all other different forms look different enough that you would have realized that was it). It's made so that you can choose whichever one you prefer.

Your game sections are missing [insert Pokémon game(s) here]!

This site does not and will never contain sections about games I haven't played or games about which I don't feel I have anything noteworthy to say. Additionally, some games I do plan to write content about but haven't finished doing so for various reasons (such as not wanting to write a review until after finishing the game). When did any page of this site ever claim to contain all of the Pokémon games? Just like this is not a news site, this is not a catalogue of basic information about all the Pokémon games ever published. A lot of other sites have that, but The Cave of Dragonflies won't contain any mention of any game until I have something to say about it. Otherwise I feel it's quite pointless.

Hey, in your Contact Me section you made a typo. You spelled 'evil' as 'ebil'!

That's not a typo. It's an intentional misspelling to indicate sarcasm. Yes, this is very frequently reported.

The Cave of Dragonflies

Hey, just a heads up, there's this new Pokémon game coming out called Platinum. It lets you go to another world and there are new forms of Giratina and Shaymin in it! Just e-mail me/go to Serebii.net for more info!

These are some of the most irritating e-mails I get. Why? Well, you see... it feels like, and I'm not saying it's intentional, but it feels like you think I'm stupid. Imagine you're somewhere out walking in the street, and suddenly this person walks up to you and says, "Hey, just a heads up, there are these things called sheep. They're animals with horns and hooves and wool and stuff. And then there are cows and horses too! Go to this farm to see them!" You'd find it rather ridiculous, mostly because this is a random person you don't know walking up to you and for some bizarre reason assuming that you don't know what sheep are and feeling the need to tell you about them. Yeah, that's approximately the way I feel when I get e-mails like that.

Yes, I know you're just trying to help. I'm sure the hypothetical sheep guy feels very generous to tell that innocent person on the street about sheep, too, and doesn't realize that it's generally rude and condescending to presuppose someone's ignorance about something that is really common knowledge. But given the fact that I link to Serebii.net on my link menu it strikes me as extremely odd that so many people (because I have had MANY people e-mail me in order to make themselves look smart by informing me about things everybody has known for months already, believe me) seem to be convinced that I've been living under a rock. I mean, what is it about me that makes people feel confident in presupposing that I don't keep up with the times?

Well, I do know what it is. It's because people come to this site and, dumbfounded, discover I actually don't have a poorly-written Serebii-ripoff "New Pokémon" section or an outdated section on the features of Diamond and Pearl like everybody else does (or whatever else happens to be in the Pokémon news at the moment). So clearly, it means I've never heard of any of it, right? I mean, what could possibly drive me NOT to put all the stuff I know about [insert new game here] on my website? And for that matter, what could possibly drive you not to wear a scarf with sheep facts written on it when you go out walking if you do know what sheep are, after all? It makes no sense! It has to be because you're ignorant about it!

This is not a news site. This site focuses on being accurate, interesting and original - emphasis on 'accurate' and 'original'. Your scarf isn't the place where you exhibit your knowledge about sheep; The Cave of Dragonflies isn't where I talk about upcoming games. I have a policy of preferrably trying everything in person before putting it up here to make sure it is accurate, and obviously, since I don't have upcoming games, I'm not in any situation to tell people information about it as fact. And this is not just me being weird. When it was revealed that Chatot was in fact a Normal/Flying type, I could lie back and say "I told you so" while watching every other Pokémon website on the net grudgingly withdraw their earlier newsflashy statements that there was now for the first time ever a pure Flying-type Pokémon (not to mention that I could laugh at all the annoying people who had been e-mailing me with "OMG HEY YOUR FUN FACTS ARE WRONG BECAUSE THERE NOW IS A PURE FLYING-TYPE, IT'S CALLED CHATOT AND IT'S IN THESE NEW GAMES CALLED DIAMOND AND PEARL, GO TO SEREBII.NET FOR MORE INFO, JUST THOUGHT YOU SHOULD KNOW, LOL!"). And as for originality - sorry, but everybody and their mom has a section about new games. If you want to see that you can go to those websites, but I have no intentions of doing that on my own site; if I put something on this site about any Pokémon game, it's because I actually have something to say about that game. Bringing you news is not what this site is for - I did put up a minipage called The Cave of Speculative Theories which basically does that except with my commentary on the news, however, if you reeeally feel the need to get your Pokémon news from me. Just rest assured that I'm every bit as up-to-date on Pokémon information as you are unless you work for Game Freak.

(And you future people reading this after Platinum is out, no, you do not need to tell me that. I just can't be bothered to update this question every time something is in the news.)

So do you also own that Veekun site?

No. It's my sibling site, but I own no part of it. The owner of Veekun is a guy who calls himself Eevee who is vastly better at just about everything than I am and is most definitely not me. (We have very different writing styles, for one.) We agreed to be sibling sites because we talk pretty regularly and his Pokédex needed some promotion. People seem to misunderstand the sibling site link and think either that I own both sites or that he's physically my brother, but no.

When are you going to update the site?

When I feel like it, have the time and have thought of something to actually update the site with. You're not in for much success if you ask this question. I can't just tell you when I'll update.

What inspired you to make your site?

Two things, really. The first was Mew's Hangout, the first good Pokémon website I ever visited, which convinced me that you can make a good Pokémon website with loyal visitors. The second, and probably more important in the end, was the plethora of horrid websites I had visited before I found Mew's Hangout and never came to again, which would give me the feeling that overall I find most inspiring of all inspiring things: "I could do much better than that." It does wonders for me; I'm a competitive person and that thought can always get me into action. So yeah, thank all those badly-designed sites with horrible grammar.

How did you make your site?

For the most part the HTML and CSS are hand-written in Notepad; recently I've started using Notepad++, and some of the internal scripting is done in VisualStudio. The site uses the ASP.NET framework for server-side scripts written in C#; I also have some stand-alone pages such as the Pokémon List Generator that are written in JScript. No WYSIWYG has been involved in any part of the site at any stage of its creation.

The graphics used in the site's layouts, although they aren't very many, are mostly created using Adobe Photoshop CS and ImageReady CS.

Then it just takes a lot of free time and "I could do much better than that" to drive me to write the content.

What's your host?

My dad's company has a dedicated server and we stuck my site on there too. If you're asking because you're looking for a host for your own website, it's pretty useless to ask me for help on that, since my site has never used shared hosting at all. I only very recently learned the basics of how FTP works. I'm not the person you should be talking to for hosting problems.

Can I be a staff member/forum admin?

The short answer: No, not in a million years. Sorry.

The long answer is that I love The Cave of Dragonflies - a creator's kind of love, of course, the same as I feel for everything else I've worked very hard over a very long time to create. I've spent years of my free time typing up all the content of this site, often many times over, creating the layouts, thinking of original ideas for it, learning all sorts of coding and generally pouring my heart and dedication all over it, and what I get out of that is something I can admire with the thought that I actually made that through my own hard work. This is what The Cave of Dragonflies means to me.

Sure, you only want to help, but the problem with that is that sections that you write are, ultimately, worth nothing to me. Do not misunderstand me; this is not some sort of an egomaniacal "They'll never be half as good as what I make!" thing. Your content might be great, and if you put it on your own website I might like that site a lot. But ultimately, what real worth is it to me personally? Is it any worth of the same kind that I feel about the content that I actually wrote? No. I don't love it in the same way because it's not my own work.

What is really the worth of having somebody else's content on your site? That you can "share the glory"? That the site becomes more popular if it has more content and is updated more often? Well, that's all fine and dandy, and probably true as well; in fact, I can't help strongly suspecting that this is deep down the motive that most people who want to be staff have - "sharing the glory", so to speak, of what The Cave of Dragonflies has already established, or that their content will gain much more publicity if it is posted at an already-established website. However, I don't care how popular my site is. The love that I feel for my site exists because I wrote the content on it, meaning content that you wrote would add nothing to that, and sharing the glory of somebody else's work is in my opinion wrong. This is irrelevant of the actual quality of that content. "So well," you ask, "what's the harm in staff, since stuff like that means something to them? If you're indifferent, then what does it matter?" The bad part is that I'm not indifferent. This is where it gets back to why I love my website: as soon as somebody else is writing half the content on it, it's no longer properly my website and I can no longer really love it as my own creation. I know this sounds awfully sappy, but bear with me here. This is what is important to me and why I bother with having a website at all. If there is staff doing the work for me, it just defeats the point. I don't want the glory for the content you wrote. Just keep it for yourself.

For short, my website is a highly personal thing, and I would very much like it to remain so. If you have wonderful content ideas, go make your own website! It is infinitely more rewarding, I assure you. And if you're good enough that I would actually consider making you staff even if I didn't feel this way about staff in general, you're probably good enough for me to want to affiliate with you, anyway.

(Mine... my own... my preciousssss... *strokes The Cave of Dragonflies protectively*)

You should get an oekaki!

Well, there are several reasons I've always said no when asked.

For one thing, it's the simple matter of originality. I consider it a very important factor, and I'm already affiliated with several sites that have oekakis. Oekakis just turned into a trend, and I do not intend to follow it.

Secondly, I just don't like drawing on oekakis. I hate tablets and can absolutely not draw with them, drawing well with a mouse is very difficult, and I feel that since I already have a top-notch paint program, I'm better off just drawing there. And if I'm not too fond of oekakis myself, I think it would be stupid for me to put up one. Same reason as why I don't have a chatroom.

Thirdly, as I said earlier, I'm already affiliated with several sites that have oekakis. Now, why exactly would I register at more than one oekaki? If I wanted to draw, why couldn't I just as well go to the one of them, register there and then always draw there? Would I need more than one oekaki account? What you do on an oekaki is to draw; you can't draw better on one oekaki than another. If you'd go there to comment on pictures and stuff, you could as well register at the forums and just hang out in Fan Art. Same thing.

Can you link to me?

If I like your site a lot and think it's really worth mentioning, yes. Otherwise, no. That's all there is to it.

Can I link to you?

You don't need to ask - linking to somebody's website can't do them any harm, so there's no reason anybody wouldn't want you to link to them. (Well, unless they have illegal content and don't want Nintendo to shut them down, but I don't.) So basically, yeah, feel free to link to me, as long as you know that affiliates are not the same as links. You can link to me under the title "Links", because then you're saying, "Hey, this is a cool site I wanted you to see!" You can not link to me under the title "Affiliates", because then you're saying, "Hey, this is a cool site I wanted you to see, and its owner wants his/her visitors to see my site too!" You can't do that if I don't want my visitors to see your site, i.e. have not agreed to put your link on my affiliate list, too.

Hey, your site is nice! But you haven't got anything on it other than Pokémon. You should make a Sonic section.

Umm... a Sonic section. Right. Yeah, I'll go make a section with everything I know about Sonic. Umm, he's blue. And he's supposed to be a hedgehog although there's no way I can think of a hedgehog when I look at him. I find him cuter than Tails, who is some kind of a fox who apparently has two tails. And then there's a black one called Shadow, but I have no idea how he connects to them. And then there's some red one too. And yeah. Wouldn't that make a wonderful Sonic section?

For short, I don't know a first thing about Sonic and nothing has ever even vaguely implied that I do. Okay, it would be sensible to suggest expanding the site to something more than just Pokémon... but suggesting a specific subject? And to top it all, one I've never shown any signs of being capable of making a website about? Not very likely to be successful.

And yes, a few different people have actually e-mailed me individually to suggest I add a Sonic section to my site. None of them could apparently comprehend the possibility that maybe I've never played a Sonic game in my life.

Okay, how about expanding the site to just anything other than Pokémon, then?

It would be possible, but I don't think so. This has always been just a Pokémon site, for one thing. For another, it seems kind of silly to make a website about two random subjects that aren't closely related. You know, like a Pokémon/Harry Potter website, for example. It would be very difficult to combine the two in any way - the site would function like two entirely separate sites, which defeats the point. It makes sense to make a site about Nintendo games in general or about animé in general or something like that, but I'm not a Nintendo expert or animé expert; my field there is limited to Pokémon, so I can't make that kind of site either. There is already quite a bit of content not specifically related to Pokémon, anyway, like the webmaster sections and the writing guide (although they do use Pokémon-related examples), and they're more general stuff. I do plan on adding more of that, but I don't plan to expand the site to any specific fandoms other than Pokémon.

Besides, I've always been kind of proud that this is just a Pokémon website. Every time I see a Pokémon website being converted into a general animé or gaming or generally not-just-Pokémon website, I think, "Hah, I'm more dedicated to the fandom than this guy." Somehow it's fun.

Your site needs some color. It's boring when it's just white.

Uh, why the heck are you using something called "Minimal Dewgong style" if you don't want white and minimal? o.O

I always thought I had put the style switcher in a very obvious place, so I'm always kind of puzzled when I get this question. Just change the style to what you feel like using, okay?

Hey, look! I pranked somebody by linking to your "Art Thieves, Click Here!" page with a link that said "CLICK HERE FOR DIAMOND/PEARL INFORMATION!" Isn't that just hilarious?

...No. Just no.

I am an official hater of internet pranks that involve taking unwary people through innocent or exciting-looking links to pages that say "MWAHAHAHA [insert person here] HAS EATEN YOUR SOUL!", make your browser window bounce around the screen and blast "YOU ARE AN IDIOT!" out of your speakers or trap you on with the option to either sit there for ages reading some stupid alerts or end tasking your browser. The point of the "Art thieves, click here!" is to express how ticked off I am about art thieves, not to trick people, and because of that I give people plenty of warning of what they're about to receive. The same thought is behind "Do not click here" pages that are built up like the "Art thieves, click here!" with a bunch of annoying alerts: it says "Do not click here", and people should be able to figure out that it's probably going to be something slightly annoying. The moment the viewer stops getting the warning, it's not funny. It's not making a point. It's annoying, it's nasty and it's pathetic. If I ever catch a prankster abusing my "Art thieves, click here" page again, I'm going to personally strangle him.

And no, I don't need to get a sense of humour. These internet pranks are the lamest jokes in the history of humour. You know, maybe you've never realized it, but when you're the only one who laughs at the joke you make, it's generally a bad one.

Hey, I like that "What Pokémon Are You?" quiz! Could you add [insert Pokémon here] as a possible result in it?

Okay, firstly, the way the script works is that there are exactly 36 possible outputs. Obviously each of them has a Pokémon assigned to it already. This would be a matter of either removing somebody else's favorite Pokémon to get yours in, which obviously won't help much overall, or completely recoding the entire quiz so that there can be 37 possible results. No, thank you.

Secondly, if I agree to add your favorite Pokémon as a possible result in the quiz, I obviously have to add everybody else's favorite Pokémon too if they ask; otherwise it wouldn't be fair. I'd end up having to make all 493 Pokémon possible results, for crying out loud. I'm just not going to do that.

Thirdly, why do you want your favorite Pokémon to be a possible result in the quiz? So that you can put it in your signature somewhere? But what are the odds that you'll happen to actually get your favorite Pokémon when you take the test honestly? You'd have to basically submit with random answers until you got your favorite Pokémon, and then it just defeats the entire point of a personality test. You can make an image showing your favorite Pokémon if you like and even write some sort of a personality description on it, but then you can't say "I got this Pokémon on this personality test", because you just didn't. So your favorite Pokémon being a possible result is just completely pointless.

So the short answer is no.

Hey, I like your [insert section here]. Can I put it on my website? I'll give you credit.

Well. I wouldn't consider your using my content to be stealing if you're giving proper credit for it with a link to my site, no. But... what the heck is the point? Why on Earth would you want to have a section on your website that's just an acknowledged copy-paste of a section on some other website? If you think the people who go to your website would be interested in one of my guides (what people usually ask this for), why don't you just link to my guide instead of pointlessly copy-pasting it? There are several advantages to linking, both for you and for me. On my side, it's always nice when it's, you know, my site that's getting the publicity for my stuff and not yours. Face it: any web traffic you get from people who only come to your site to look at content you copied and pasted from another up-and-running website is web traffic you don't deserve by any sensible standard. On your side, or rather on your users' side, linking will make sure that they always have access to the most up-to-date version of the section. There is no good rationale for you to have a copy-pasted version of my stuff on your site. The only reason you would ever want to do this is so that your website can benefit from having somebody else's content, and that, frankly, is just low and greedy.

So basically, you can technically do it if you want to provided you attribute it properly with a link back to this site, but your website will be a far better one if you just link and then write some of your own content to attract visitors on your own terms.

Hey, I like your [insert section here], and I own a Pokémon website in [insert non-English language here]. Can I translate the section and put it on my website with credit?

Now, this, on the other hand, does have a point, and I'm all for allowing people who don't speak English access to translations of my content. Yes, you can translate a section from my site and reproduce it on your website, but only if you make it extremely clear that it is a translation at the top of the section and provide a visible link to the original version of the page on this site. Technically the best place to put such a translation on your site is into a special section for content translated from other websites, or to otherwise indicate it clearly where the section is linked to on your site that it is a translation (e.g. put [translation] beside the link on your menu), since I know from experience as a webmaster that extremely few people ever read those disclaimers and notes you put at the top of a page. It would be nice if you dated the translation as well, although it's not a requirement; it would just help people not get confused if they see both a more recent English version and an older translation.

Spriting

How do you make sprites?

There's a section on the site called "Spriting guide". Read that, then ask me if there's something you don't understand in it and I'll try to help. And please don't just say "I don't understand your guide"; tell me what exactly you don't understand in it. Otherwise I'll ask you to tell me anyway.

What program do you use to make your sprites?

Adobe ImageReady, sometimes version 3.0 and sometimes CS. I use it mainly because it has layers and transparency, the ability to save good-quality web images, and it can animate if that's what I want to do, all in one program.

Oh, I only have Paint. Does that mean I can't make sprites?

Absolutely not. The only things ImageReady has over Paint when it comes to sprites are simply conveniences, like a long undo history, the ability to change all pixels of one particular color to another with a single click, and layers that allow you a little more messing-up without ruining your work and easier deletion of the original art when you're making a pixel-over. It all CAN be done on Paint. It's a little easier in better programs, but that doesn't mean it can't be done in Paint.

How do I make pictures transparent in Paint?

You can't, but I'm sure there are tons of free downloadable programs on the Internet that can transparentize images.

Wow, I love your sprites! Can you make a scratch sprite of [insert Pokémon here] for me?

Eh, I'm sorry, but no. I'm not good at making scratch sprites, contrary to some weird popular belief. I'm what I call a "lucky artist". I can NOT draw. Sometimes I miraculously get the shape just right, but that's a very rare occurrence and it's pure luck. I doodle practically all the time, but 99% of everything I draw turns out looking absolutely awful with anatomy problems that would put a three-year-old to shame. It's the same with scratch sprites, since after all they are just pixel-by-pixel drawing. Ever wondered why I have so few completely scratch sprites? It's not because I never attempt them. It's because I usually scrap them right at the beginning stage because they're complete rubbish, and if I continue with them, it takes me weeks or months to complete them and they still have anatomy problems. I'm sorry, but you really don't want me to make you a scratch sprite. Seriously.

Hey, I love your sprites! Can you be staff spriter for my fangame?

See above. I can't just make a good scratch sprite on demand, so I'd be a very hopeless worker for any sort of fake Pokémon project. Aside from that, my spriting mood comes in small bursts that are usually months apart, so I wouldn't be very productive even if I could actually miraculously get everything I attempted just right.

What do you think of these sprites I made? You can take credit for them and put them on your site if you like; I don't mind.

Okay, frankly, this is just plain offensive. By giving me "permission" to use your work in my name, you are implying that you think I would actually take credit for somebody else's work and pretend it's mine. As far as I'm concerned, "You can take credit for my sprites" means quite literally "I think you're a thief and a liar." Why on Earth would any halfway decent human being take your sprites and claim they made them if they didn't, permission or no? And yes, I have had a few people invite me to steal their work in this way. It feels a great deal more like a slap in the face than those occasional hatemails I get, which are generally pretty entertaining. Seriously, before sending me something like that, take a deep breath and think about what you're saying.

Websites

Where can I make a site?

On your computer. Just learn HTML and CSS, write some content and get a host. Don't ask me for hosting help (see What's your host?).

How do I make the visitors choose the style and then it is on every page?

I used ASP.NET with C# for it myself, but you can also use PHP or any other server-side language of your choice - or even just good old Javascript. Go here for a nice free Javascript (this is what I was using at the old Invisionfree forums). I might make a free server-side script sometime if I'm feeling like it, too.

"Can you rate/affiliate with my site?" "Can you rate/affiliate with my site now with the one new page I just added?" "Can you rate/affiliate with my site now after I changed my layout?"

Look, I really don't have the time to inspect your whole site every other day. Why don't you just work on everything I gave you in the last rating, and once that is done you can ask again? And please stop expecting me to affiliate with you after you've added one page since last time you asked. There is no strictly defined limit on what makes a site I want to affiliate with and what I don't want to affiliate with - if I refused affiliation, it's not because you need to add one more page, and unless I specifically tell you that I would affiliate if your layout weren't so awful it makes my eyes bleed, making a new layout won't make me magically change my mind either. I normally tell people why I refuse affiliation if I refuse - don't even hope that I'm going to affiliate with you suddenly when you fix just a small part of that. I am picky. Please just accept it if I turn down your affiliation request and don't ask again until you're really giving me something different to look at.

Miscellaneous

I can't decide what my favorite Pokémon is, can you help me?

Err... I can't decide what your favorite Pokémon is. If I pick it, it's not your favorite. Sort of useless to ask somebody else what your own opinion is. However, you should realize that there is nothing that tells you you "need" to have only one favorite Pokémon. Just name all the ones you can't decide between when you're asked.

Yes, I've actually gotten this question a couple of times.

What is that "Quest for the Legends" thing you keep talking about?

It's a long piece of Pokémon fanfiction that I've been writing since 2002 and stubbornly refuse to give up on despite the many things in it that gravely need fixing. Go here to read it if you're curious.

Are you really Satoshi Tajiri?

Err... what do you mean, really? I never said I was, unless you actually took that one conspiracy theory seriously.

To answer the question, no, I'm definitely not Satoshi Tajiri. o.O; And yes, I've gotten this question, too.

Can I make a fanclub for you?

Umm, if you want. (The last Dragonfree fanclub that was made, though, was not at all successful - it's on the very last page of the member fanclubs at Pokécommunity and got like two members ever and maybe three posts. So don't expect it to be too popular if you do make one. :P)

I'm your number one fan! [insert request here]

I'm glad you like me and all, but please don't suck up to me to make me like you and do something for you. It doesn't feel honest. Just being polite will make me likelier to do what you ask, but not claiming to be my number one fan. (That's very cheesy to say, anyway...)

Can I be your friend?

I only consider two people in real life my "friends", and a very select few online. I've known all of them for a long while, and none of them has at any point asked that question. People don't become friends when one of them asks: it just happens. That's how it should be, anyway. What if I said yes to being your friend and then it turns out you find me extremely unlikable or the other way around? You don't become my friend because you ask and I say yes. You become my friend if we talk some and are generally on the same wavelength. So no, I really can't say yes to this. If you have something in particular to talk to me about, you can talk to me, and then maybe after a while we could end up rightfully considering one another to be friends, but don't take for granted that it will happen.

Please do not ever ask me to be your friend, because I always think I'm hurting your feelings if I try to explain that I don't know you and can't be your friend yet.

Look! This site here, Pokémon Treasures, stole your Leta, Letal and Letaligon and edited them!

*sigh* No, they didn't. Look at their Credits page (which should seriously be the first place you look if you're investigating sprite theft). Look at "The Staff", the top table on the page. Look at the row called "Grunts". See "Dragonfree" there as the second-to-last name? Yeah, that's me. I work for them. I put Leta, Letal and Letaligon in their Pokédex myself. The sprites are not "edited", they're older versions of the sprites that I haven't gotten around to updating. Now, will you guys please stop e-mailing me about this? Or at least look at the "Credits" page before jumping up and calling it theft?

Do you think in Icelandic or English?

(This is a frequently-asked question, I swear! Don't ask me why.)

It depends on what I'm thinking about. If I'm thinking up something I'm planning to put on the Internet at some point (whether it's a post in some forum topic I read, a possible section for this website or just a LiveJournal entry), I think it in English - in other words, when I write the sections for this website, I'm not translating something I create in Icelandic, but simply writing it down exactly as I thought of it. If I'm thinking of random everyday concepts unrelated to video games or the Internet (basically, just thinking in general), I think in Icelandic. If I'm thinking about the Internet or Pokémon or something but not actually making up some text that I'm planning to post somewhere, it tends to become a hybrid - the general framework for the thoughts is in Icelandic, but various concepts I'm more used to talking about on the Internet (and thus in English) enter my thoughts by their English names.

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