Maybe I should resurrect the rant thing on TCoD to do a bit about how people are too quick to call things glitches. The ones that have survived the various purges until now are really old and quaint and not very well written (I may go and rewrite them), but I have plenty of other Pokémon opinions.

Something really bugs me about how people talk about the 1/256 miss chance from R/B/Y. People will go on about it being a glitch or a programming error and how they didn’t realize 100% accurate moves actually had a chance of missing…

Someone was bored last night trying to do SQL injection on my crossword form

Have been musing on the evolution of forum spam recently. For the past couple years I've been getting a lot of AI-written posts writing something shallow on the topic of the thread and then pivoting to, like, "This reminds me of playing [link to some random online game]!"

www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-20... The site is now finally running on Python 3 instead of 2.7. Ideally this means nothing you would notice, but I feel a lot better now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNuz... I love how we are still discovering funny bug and behaviours in these games decades later.

Thinking about "the Pokemon discourse" again and how the idea that "Pokemon makes a lot of money so it needs to be more AAA" remains an indescribably dumb idea.

TCoD still has a Twitter account, but it’s become very noticeable that basically all the engagement is over here now. Increasingly tempted to just finally ditch Twitter, given all the everything.

www.dragonflycave.com/update/11-02... The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-three years old today, and to celebrate I went and added some related pages to the bottom of every page within the layout - picked by hand for each one, because I am slightly mad.

Charizard is my favorite Pokémon since my first game, Yellow. On that game, I was training my team to level 100 when, at level 96 or so, my cousin restarted the game and saved. Charizard never made it to the finish line.

Successfully completed all main missions, side missions, and the Pokédex in Legends: Z-A. Maternity leave is good for playing video games, it turns out. (But also, they just did a good job with this game and making it stay engaging to play.)

Absolutely dying at the Pokémon Legends: Z-A kid at the school who asserts she can recite every name she's ever heard and it'll take six minutes, and if you still maintain you want to hear it it just plays the game's credits

I wish every website that hits me with a choice of "Accept all tracking cookies" and "Reject and purchase subscription" a very getting sued under the GDPR for 10% of their annual revenue

Pokémon Legends: Z-A NPC dialogue is sometimes oddly deep and sometimes absolutely unhinged and I love it for it.

My favorite thing about Z-A so far is the return of our Pokémon helping us get around in the world. That's what I always missed a little about HMs, much as I understand how they used to frustrate people.

So far, Z-A has contained a Scyther and a Charizard. I approve

Both kids are doing math homework. My 11yo daughter laments: “You’re doing number lines. I liked number lines. I miss them. One day they just stop.”

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My incandescent rage every time these e-mails take it as a given that I have a “price per post”

We soft launched the Johto Times community forum the other day, and we think we are about ready to share the link a bit more widely! Check it out here: forum.johtotimes.com (Note: If you don't receive a confirmation email, please check your spam folder)

Only three more days left to vote in the Grand Final of our Favourite Pokémon poll (2025). It is still extremely close between certain Pokémon in the top ten (some are even tied currently) Your vote could literally change the outcome! strawpoll.com/GJn442R1Ynz

Just two weeks remain to vote in our Grand Final! I can confirm we have now received over 20,000 votes in this final stage of the poll. There is currently one clear winner It is EXCEPTIONALLY close between the top five, with one vote between them in some cases! johtotimes.com/posts/featur...

There's just a few more weeks to vote in our Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025! Which Pokémon will be declared the winner? Please share with your friends and loved ones, and let's discover the result together! johtotimes.com/posts/featur...

What is the Khert? 🔎👀 There's limits to Pymary, and the Khert is here to direct against the impossible! With the First Language, wrights shape Aspects with the Khert. But if something goes wrong with it, it gets... weird.☕ UNSOUNDED ends funding on the 4th! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I've added some more extra angsty Morphic drabbles! www.dragonflycave.com/update/08-24...

Here are the preliminary results of the Johto TImes Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 (a thread) In total, a total of 582,516 votes were cast Every single Pokémon in our poll received votes, not a single one was overlooked! Here are the top ten Pokémon, and their votes:

The Kickstarter was fully funded before I even got to it, but here's your regularly scheduled reminder that I love this very good fantasy webcomic featuring rich worldbuilding, actually interesting fantasy politics, nuanced characters, and bits that make me cry, and you should back it.

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Johto Times now has a website! We've been working very hard behind the scenes for the past few months getting this ready for its launch today. It contains everything we've done so far, and we will slowly transition over from our current home, to our permanent home More details:🧵

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HALF A MILLION VOTES! Our poll has really blown our expectations out of the water. Thank you everyone! If you still haven't voted for your favourite Pokémon, there is still time! Voting ends on July 31st, 2025 Total votes so far: 502146

earlier today there was a group of 10 year olds on the train saying stuff to each other like "i am 31 years old" and "i just turned 34" and laughing harder and harder each time

Our poll has now reached over 300,000 votes! A huge thank you to everyone who have voted, and to communites such as @bulbagarden.net @bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net @pokecommunity.com @pokejungle.bsky.social and many others who have been helping this thrive! First round of voting closes July 31st, 2025

Pssst. Hey. Hey, gang. Surprise. The ICC Summer 2025 Kickstarter has been announced. And it's a DOOZY. www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

it's the 10 year anniversary of a very important study

Every time people complain about grinding in old-gen Pokémon, I'm like... okay but grinding is a choice you make. If you don't like it you can just not? If you are underleveled you can grind or you can try to win without it. Don't choose to grind and then complain about it, you know?

This gentleman has a strategy all laid out for optimizing Mew trick analysis for better visibility. Amazing! Where are they hiding all the other essays they’ve optimized about this specific video game glitch from 1996?

The Johto Times Favourite Pokémon Poll 2025 Vote for your six favourite Pokémon from each region The top ten from each will go through to the grand final Runs between now and July 31st, 2025 Grand final will take place this August! Please share this poll with everyone you know!

This poor person not only wants but *needs* a guest post on my website, which does not have “posts”, much less guest posts. A tragedy.

Johto Times has just reached 1000 subscribers! Thank you to every single one of you who subscribed since we first began, in February 2023. It really means a lot! johto.substack.com

As always, a reminder that there are many great Pokémon fansites out there. Some are more popular than others, so let's give those smaller communities some recognition and support too! Check out this Starter pack, and discover some additional accounts to follow! go.bsky.app/9ZYmKgz

Update: We now have a social media account! (Hi!) If you've never visited Nose Club before, why not peruse some of my artwork? noseclub.bluwiikoon.art/thebest.shtml #pokemonart #pokemonfanart #indieweb #neocities

Thank you to the folks over at Johto Times for doing this interview with me. It was a lot of fun!!

www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-21... Boring meta update: I've made a number of updates and improvements to the commenting feature on the site.

the article speaks to a phenomenon i have been watching with horror: our sources of information nowadays, being ad delivery platforms, have realized it's more effective to show us what we *want* to see (or more specifically, what drives us to engage more with that platform) rather than what *is*.

Johto Times is only 46 subscribers away from 1000! It has been a slow climb but I am thankful for each and every person who takes the time to read! If you haven't already, please consider helping us reach a step closer to that huge milestone (but only if you genuinely want to): johto.substack.com

Hope you all enjoyed this year's April Fools' Day joke! I've now added a writeup to the joke archive, while the 131,500 words of new content will remain accessible (though off the menu). www.dragonflycave.com/update/04-02...

Whoops, guess I didn't repost this yet

I was interviewed for this week's As the Pokéball Turns podcast... and also for a speculative fiction podcast coincidentally also released today, Synthesized Sunsets! open.substack.com/pub/synthesi...

New page on the site about the Stadium 2 move reminder! There's some never-before-seen trivia in here since I took it upon myself to datamine Stadium 2's learnset data. Sorry for inactivity, I started college in January and it's been kicking my butt a little bit. bluemoonfalls.com/pages/genera...

TCoD's Bluesky account is now at @dragonflycave.com as it should have been from the start (I set it up in a rush and then didn't get around to doing this until now), and this personal has also been punted to the domain, since I have it.