GoGogoat
Commenting on: 04-01-24

Wait, the whole thing was real? I cross-checked with Bulbapedia (which also had a great prank) to make sure the roulette machine existed, but I kind of just assumed that everything after the first helper tool was fake, because <i>who in the heck</i> programs that much nonsense?! I miss the 2D games…

[02/04/2024 00:08:26]

Negrek
Website: Thousand Roads
Commenting on: 03-31-24

God dammit. Of course it would end up being something like this.

So hype to see all this posted at last! I didn't even remember that the probabilities are set to the player always wins in the long run. And the simulator came out so nicely! It's weirdly satisfying to put it on one of the multi-ball options and just watch all those circles spin around to their final positions.

The fuzz value… Something to do with cleanliness of the ball seems plausible. Or at least as plausible as anything else. DEEPLY wish I could pick the brain of whoever designed this minigame. I have so many questions!

Love the header. Chaos goblin Shroomish is everything to me.

I hope whoever asked for this one is happy! Surely they got way more than they bargained for, lol.

[01/04/2024 23:41:41]

Zelkova
Commenting on: 03-31-24

Roulette game honestly seem fun, the physics likely was used for Pokemon Pinball in some way, or at least that the vibe I got from it.

[01/04/2024 18:24:30]

Quilava
Commenting on: 03-31-24

Man, I really love your April fools jokes.
The article was great - it's so fun to see the bizarre logic that hides in some corners of these games. I also unironically like the layout, that Taillow is adorable.

[01/04/2024 15:36:09]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 03-31-24

@Umbral: Fixed, thanks.

@lucaa: If the battery is dry, the clock will have stopped - you can check the in-game time in your house in Littleroot.

[01/04/2024 05:46:59]

lucaaa
Commenting on: 03-31-24

i really loved this article!!! seeing the time of day factoring into the calculations made me wonder, though: does it make a difference if your cartridge has a dry battery???

[01/04/2024 01:43:22]

Umbral
Commenting on: 03-31-24

So apparently the new layout makes the catch calculator no longer mobile friendly.

[31/03/2024 23:28:51]

Shiny Mailman Scyther
Commenting on: 03-31-24

I'm glad you're finally decided to embrace this site's true calling as a means to confront your own roulette addiction. I gotta say, the new roulette minigame and layout really make my spurs go Jingle Jangle Jingle. They're a real Platinum Chip on the website's table.

[31/03/2024 21:54:37]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

They assume your Pokémon is the same level as the opponent, yeah, which seemed like the most reasonable baseline to use, given I wasn't giving you a form to input the level of your Pokémon. Though it does lead to somewhat skewed results, since it means the higher-leveled Pokémon in the location will show as having lower experience gain compared to the lower-leveled ones than they actually would in practice. Maybe I should reconsider.

[20/02/2024 17:36:02]

Kevin

How do the Gen V Locations pages handle the scaling experience formula? They still give an "Average EXP per Pokémon", but I don't know where the specific numbers comes from.

Do they assume your Pokémon is a particular level (maybe the average level of the area)? Something else entirely?

[18/02/2024 09:36:30]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

Thank you all! Very touched to hear you enjoyed this incredibly self-indulgent story, or my tutorials, or the BMF mention (we should talk!). These comments make my day every time.

[05/02/2024 17:03:58]

Madz Knight/Carmine/"SilverLatios" long ago

I just want you to know how excited I am every single time you post more Morphic. I've read it over so many times, it's ingrained in my brain chemistry, I feel like I've grown up alongside it, I'm still beyond stoked about the eventual coming rewrite, which I feel like I will be able to more easily foist upon my friends and partners just so I can talk to someone else about it for once. Thank you for the delightful Dave torment. The art you've done mentioning it has always intrigued me.

Or rather, "Wow, I loved Dave and Mia Discuss Timeloops!"

[04/02/2024 20:41:47]

B

the tutorials on your site are what got me to first mess around with HTML when I was a teenager and even though it didn't result in a complete site at the time, over a decade later I'm here again to look at those same tutorials and stylesheets as a starting point. it's really heartening to see that the cave of the dragonflies still exists after all this time :)

[02/02/2024 17:25:18]

Happy
Commenting on: 01-31-24

Oh I just knew that dave couldnt get a happy & hunky-dory ending including at the usual point any other character wouldve "succeeded" but it still hurt anyway GOOD stuff
I also love that like. Hes raging at why hes going through this. Sorry dave the answer is that god is actually ur writer & a bunch of readers rotating you in their minds going "if he was on the moon & killed or was killed by another guy with a rock would that be **ed up or what"

[01/02/2024 06:22:31]

Ayano
Website: Blue Moon Falls
Commenting on: 01-01-24

Happy very belated New Year!! I was opening your site to send a page to someone and I only just so happened to see this. I'm incredibly flattered to be named here, especially considering TCoD was one of my personal main inspirations for making BMF in the first place. I hope you've had a good January! I think we should talk sometime, to be honest.

[22/01/2024 00:00:53]

Melcharge
Commenting on: 01-01-24

Happy New Year! 2024 marks twenty years of me being in the online Pokémon community, and I'm SO glad TCoD is still around after all this time. Sad that most of the other sites from back then are gone, but I probably would have been amazed if someone told me I'd still be browsing TCoD after twenty years. This site will always be special to me.

[03/01/2024 06:24:34]

Negrek
Website: Thousand Roads
Commenting on: 01-01-24

Happy new year! It's been great getting to hang out with you and Shadey more recently. Hope we can continue that into 2024!

Best of luck to you in the new year! Thanks for being your wonderful self, in 2023 and always.

[01/01/2024 11:36:57]

Chaos

Hey Hey, a bit late but merry Christmas!!

[26/12/2023 08:25:40]

Rauf Mohammed

Hey, so I’d suggest adding in an "artstyle switcher" for the Favourite Pokémon Picker, so we can switch Pokémon artworks from the Ken Sugimori art, the HOME renders, the HOME menu icons, fanmade RBG-style sprites and 8-bit pixel designs. Find good resources for each. The selection of Pokémon remains the same, but their style changes. (Why not ask someone to make gen 9 RBG-sprites)?

[21/12/2023 14:18:24]

Ethan Schoales
Commenting on: 12-18-23

You saw the two new Paradox legendary beasts, right? Just switch the dinosaurs for Raikou and Entei and they’d fit your theory. Still no sign of Rainteicune though. :)

[19/12/2023 23:30:11]