i am home from pokefair and exhausted but i had a great time. at least one person heard about the event and came to it because of bluesky so thank you! very excited to do this again at pokefair next year (sounds like there might be two pokefairs instead of one... exciting)

some fun photos from today so far (i’ll still be here another couple hours!)

all set up at pokefair in gaithersburg MD today! come over if you want old gen mystery gifts (or anything else going on here!)

setting up the custom halloween themed event distribution for tomorrow

i’m aware this is a very last minute post but if you’re in the maryland area, i am going to be at pokefair tomorrow in gaithersburg giving out old gen mystery gifts! bring your old carts! (the photo below is from a prior event where i did the exact same thing)

question: has anyone ever used boot (dot) dev? is it actually any good for teaching how to program? i have no desire to use it, i just see it as a sponsorship segment in youtube videos a lot and was genuinely curious because you know. i make websites

before and after... this is definitely how i wanted these to look years ago but i didn't know how at the time. it's the small things in this refactor that are bringing me joy

last night before i went to bed, my girlfriend reminded me to also have fun and not just work all the time. they’re probably right, but i also didn’t know how to say “working on BMF is fun” before i passed out lol

finally taking a break after coding pretty much all of my waking hours. i'm tired. i think i'm all CSS and JavaScripted out lol. i got a lot done! i already have most of BMF's (mobile responsive) layout recreated from scratch with better code. still have a CSS to-do list but i'm getting there...

i am dedicated to keeping BMF 100% static HTML/CSS/JS, but i also want a little bit of the benefits of static site generators to make my life easier, so i wrote a script that dynamically places the sidebars and stuff on every page... and now my page template's body looks like this lol

i'm currently making a new template for pages on BMF and it feels so good to finally use CSS grid and have an HTML document that is semantically sensible for screenreaders, etc. using tables for layout is the worst holdover advice for indie webdevs. if you're doing that i'd learn CSS grid. please

I just want to talk about the future of Blue Moon Falls a little bit (don’t worry, all good things!) so I’m going to use this thread to do that. You’ve probably noticed that site updates have been nonexistent despite me officially coming out of hiatus. Well, there’s a few reasons for that:

i am still trying to source an extra shiny 'raidon code for a friend. i couldn't go to gamestop today... i literally slept through the restock. if anyone has an extra code and would be willing to work out a trade with me, please let me know...!!

i know a good amount of retro pokemon players use BMF, but especially because i've been so inactive this year, i keep getting jumpscared when people recognize me in the wild... joined a stream and was not trying to take attention away from the streamer but people recognized me oops haha

the 'raidon distribution has been awful for a lot of reasons but the thing i hate most about it is that kids are locked out of the event. it's a friday, kids have school, and the gamestops ran out of codes before they could even leave class. imagining the disappointed children makes me really sad

LRT, the distribution for these two has been an absolute nightmare, at least in the USA. i was extremely lucky to get my hands on a couple codes today! multiple stores near me were already out within the first hour of being open. just ridiculous... TPC needs to do better.

With no exaggeration, this is by far the biggest and most ambitious video I've ever done. 12 months researching and refining my script. 600 hours of hunting. >20 Gen 5 shinies. A full week of editing. I present, at long last: The Pokemon White Retrospective Badge Quest Movie. Enjoy.

raichu + quagsire ko-fi request!

AFTER 9 MONTHS 359,706 ENCOUNTERS 52 PHASES 39 SHINY GEODUDES AND 5158 DUNSPARCES SEEN I FINALLY HAVE IT 1% DARK CAVE DUNSPARCE!!!! #fullodds #shinypokemon

the childhood absol that @absol.standingintheodds.com traded to me IRL at super smash con in 2023 is finally a full ribbon master! it took a long time because i was redoing my setup from scratch, and was ribboning 10 mons at the same time. i'm still very thankful

If you run into me, I'm not unfriendly, I just basically can only talk about Pokemon. I need one of those "Introverted, but will talk about Pokemon" bumper stickers tattooed on my forehead.

not BMF, but i* made a tool that lets you easily look up contest moves in any of the relevant pokemon games. enjoy! #pokemon armastide.net/celeste/ribb...

i need to romhack pokemon crystal sometime where everything is the same but the quaxly line and farigiraf are in it

it's my white whale to shiny hunt the starter pikachu in yellow, clear stadium 1 round 2 with it to teach it surf, and then transfer it to gen 2

this is what four years of nonstop cuddling the quagsire comfy friends plush looks like

2001:mega woop?!🪽✨ #1日1ウパー

メガさん

fun fact: i never beat red on my first crystal file in 2021 with my original team. that first playthrough was like a religious experience for me and it changed my life, so i have this weird complex about never wanting it to end, and defeating red feels like the true ending

@/pikavees.bsky.social -> @mew.bluemoonfalls.com i remembered i can use my own domain for this! yay

if i changed usernames, would you guys still recognize me...? i'm aware it'll make people mentioning my personal username in older videos obsolete, but i picked this username as a collective decision back when this account was shared with my alters years ago. it's never reflected me as an individual

hi! you may be wondering where i've been for months TLDR; my mental health has been in a really poor place for a long time now. i keep thinking "this is when i come back from my hiatus!" but it never pans out. i'm trying, though. thank you for waiting for me here's a shiny vulpix i hatched though 💕

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...

i am quote posting this super late... but woah it's me!

well hopefully i’m not forgetting any (still a WIP)

happy Quagsire day to all who celebrate!!!!! 💙💜💙💜💙💜💙💜

I did it! I recreated Whirl Islands in R/B using ACE I plan to shiny hunt Lugia here via Missingno soft resets and stat checks :)

hey, what are all the instances of colored text in gen 4? does anyone remember any offhand other than the red/blue/green for cyndaquil/totodile/chikorita in the HGSS starter selection screen and the blue used to denote key item text/bag symbols? i'm totally blanking and need to know for a project

belated happy new year by the way! 2024 was pretty crummy for me despite some highlights so hopefully 2025 works out better.

ok, december ended up kicking my butt again but i just responded to all of the emails i got sent on BMF while on hiatus (aside from a tiny handful i need to respond to a little later) and also made a to-do list of priority bugfixes/corrections, then completed all the easy ones. whew

i miss shiny hunting. i’ve been really disconnected from the hobby and the community this year and i’m not sure why. maybe i just need more shiny hunting friends

making BMF has given me such an appreciation for longterm pokemon sites like serebii and dragonfly cave. maintaining all the pages on a site for years on end is a lot of work. i am only starting my fourth year and BMF is practically an infant compared to other sites and i still know this to be true

i’m thinking i might start work on redoing BMF’s entire codebase today. this would be the third time since the site’s inception, though the last time was a while ago in 2023. this is the issue with BMF being my first web project ever - i’m learning as i go and things get outdated.

Happy 3 year anniversary to the creation of BMF! I started working on this site December 14th 2021. It’s what made me trip and fall into realizing I want to do web development as a career and is bigger than I ever dreamed 3 years ago. Thanks for using the site!

oh god. i just realized. screw MY birthday, BMF’s turning three years old tomorrow!! i don’t have an update planned or anything because i forgot until now but wow

new icon... jelly...

my friend @zurpozurpy.bsky.social drew jelly for me for my birthday (my shiny quagsire on my original gen 2 team, very near and dear to my heart) and i need to show it to the world because this drawing is the best thing i’ve ever received. i’m tearing up. that’s my daughter

it’s my birthday! 🎉 i’m a quarter of a century old now. that’s crazy

i’ve been absent because this time of year is difficult on my mental health. in other news, my birthday is in a couple days! on the 12th. so that’s nice. i’ll be turning 25

why have multiple people told me on twitter that the pokemon center in NYC became a nintendo store and then implied that my wording about PCNY being defunct was misleading? do you think i did the research for this without knowing this? you seemingly don’t know much about these stories either buddy