✩ Club Espeon V2 ✩ - Back and better than ever (Always Accepting!)

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Logo done by myself

 

Welcome to Club Espeon V2.
 
After dropping into obscurity during the past 2 years, it's time for it to return...better than ever before.

 

 

Before I forget, if I mention any dates, it'll be using the USA date format (month-day-year). That means if I write something like 10/12/2013, it means October 12 and not December 10 for those of you who use the other format.

[spoiler=Active Topic]

Pokemon XY (Anime/games)

 

Suggestions for topic ideas are listed on post #3; I may start implementing that some time after XY airs. (This will still be a general Pokemon club, but I am open to discussing stuff outside of that if discussion gets low.)

 

Tentative Schedule (this is subject to change)

 

Sunday - Tuesday are YGO-related stuff (anime/manga and if you guys want to, some minor set stuff)

Wednesday - Saturday are Pokemon things (XY, B/W while episodes still exist out of Japan, TCG, maybe the video games and some online stuff if we get interest in that)

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[spoiler=FAQ]
Why is it named Club Espeon? Because I like Espeon and I wanted to make a club with a Pokemon name.

What do we do here? As the name suggests, anything related to Pokemon (including the games, anime/manga, TCG and some other things; maybe competitive battling) and whatever topics members want to bring up.

 

We might discuss YGO stuff since at the time of this post, there isn't really an active club that caters to that topic (more so, just someplace to discuss anime/manga outside of the current forum instead of the DN stuff/meta stuff [you have TCG and some other places to deal with that]).

 

Depending on member interest, we may have some mini-contests (card making, GFX, RP, whatever); again, that is to be determined as we go along.

Who can join us? If you're not on this club's banned list, then you can join us (Although you can be rejected if we see that you're a spammer or get in constant trouble with other members).

 

Membership in the previous version of this club (linked in history) is NOT REQUIRED to come here.

Any club events? Yeah, there will be a few, though that depends on whether or not there are enough people that are interested.

 

(P.S. Some of this stuff came from V1, but revamped)[/spoiler]

 

[spoiler=Espeon History]

2/19/2011 - Club Espeon is first created...

...

10/2/2013 - Club Espeon V2 is born.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=+ Rulebook +]
I don't like to make a lot of rules, but there'll be a few listed below (they should be pretty simple to follow).
 
1. No flaming/trolling other people.
 
In the past, this club had a reputation of being well-behaved (and being stickied at some points in time) so let's keep it like that.
 
2. Stay on topic
 
Occasionally, we might stray from the topic at hand but please keep this to a minimum. I'll usually keep the current topic in here, but might forget to update it at times so please check the posts to see what we're discussing.
 
3. Be active.
 
I know most of us are busy with academics, life or whatever, so I'm not going to strictly enforce this, but please try to be here when you can. I don't want a repeat of what happened to V1. (If new games come out or you have life to deal with, I'll allow some leeway but overall as I mentioned, post in here when you can).

 

I don't like forcing people to post in here to keep activity high, though if things start getting bad, I may have to start doing it.

4. No spamming.
 
Like with rule 2, stick to the topic(s) at hand. It's okay if you mention something off-topic but make sure you include something relevant. Do not turn this thread into 5 straight pages of non-related posts, alright?
 
5. Respect other members.
 
The lack of this by other members in certain sections is what causes some of us to either leave forever or take a long break to reconsider our opinion of this place. Remember the Golden Rule, "treat people like you want to be treated".
 
6. Have fun.
 
This is meant to be a place where you guys can relax, discuss stuff and have a place to voice your thoughts w/out worrying. It's not like the club staff or myself is moderating everything you say/do (though there are limits to what is allowed in here; should be common sense)
 
7. No posting porn or illegal content
 
Don't post ROMs/game hacks/classified documents/sexual images/etc. You do remember that we have members younger than 18 on this site (and because the site rules already forbid them).
 
8. Neatness counts
 
Essentially, make sure your posts/app form are readable. (Also, when posting, please try to write at least 1-2 sentences)
 
9. YCM Rules apply
 
Anything that's listed there also applies here (though most of this club's rules already mention them in short form). In regards to rule 1 over there, that applies to clan leaders/moderators: If we see you breaking one of the other rules and ask you to stop; then please abide by it.
 
You're allowed to advertise your contests/card sets/RP/fan fics; but just don't link it to your personal sites, etc.

 

10. No posting unless you're a member or writing application

 

Unless you're an accepted member, plan on joining Club Espeon or one of the mods posting about club behavior, etc., please refrain from posting.

 

 

Any spam bots will be reported on the spot.

 

If more needed to be added, they will be; however notice will be given.[/spoiler]

[spoiler=Ranks]
Sakura Espeon (Leader) - Can accept/deny members, runs club events, warn/ban members, invite people, overall keeps the place running
Arcanite Espeon (Moderator) - Can accept members, warn members, invite people
Espeon (Member) - Can post, invite people

Eevee (Rest of you) - Can read/apply for membership if you choose to join.
 
There isn't any rank system based on your post count here (unlike V1). If club gets really active, it would prove hard to periodically update this post with your new post ranks. Moderators/co-leaders will be chosen based on your behavior/activity in here[/spoiler]
 
[spoiler=Application]

Delete stuff in parentheses

[b]Username:[/b]
[b]Nickname:[/b] (If you rather be called something other than your current username, what would you like to be addressed as?)
[b]Do you understand our club rules?[/b]

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[spoiler=Member List]
Sakura Haruno

Zextra (well, you are a YCM mod already so guess that elevates you to Arcanite already)

Princess Talaya (Miror B.)

~ British Soul ~

Sasha Braus (Sasha)

iHop

Raem (Smeargle); can't type the unique characters in name

Sweg

Shiny Tentacool

Bassa

~RoboticClover~
Jolta

Mr. WHAM[/spoiler]
 
[spoiler=Warning Levels]
Much like how this site's system works, each member has 10 warning points.
 
If you break a rule, then your warn level goes up a certain number of points, based on how severe it was. Keep in mind that each of the staff members in here, including myself, have a different scale on how we'll warn you (and when that warn will get removed). If you do reach 10 warn points, then you'll be temporary banned from club for a week; however you can return after that but keep in mind that it'll be a strike on your record.
 
You get 3 strikes; then that's perma-ban from club (much like in life).
 
Current Warnings
 
(none, let's keep it that way)

 

Current Member Bans

(none, let's hope it stays like that)[/spoiler]

 

When more members join, then more things will be added here (i.e. Affiliates/Current Club Events/etc). I'll add up the older banners from V1 later on as well.

 

 

Have fun, everyone!

[Zextra]

Yay, Club Espeon's back!

 

Username: Zextra

Nickname: Whatever you feel like :P

Do you understand our club rules? Absolutely

[Miror B]

We need a full day for the TCG
 
Username: Princess Talaya
Nickname (what do you want to be called): Meta, Miror, Miror B., pick one idc xP
Do you understand our club rules?Wait rules? *scrolls up* oh oh yes of course. "don't be stupid" got it.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Both accepted and yeah Zextra, it's been a while since Espeon was around. 

 

As for the TCG, we can have discussions on cards (though as a slight warning, I don't play DN/tournaments a lot so in terms of talking about card combos, etc., might fall a bit short on it; though I'll do my best to say something about stuff [one of the reasons I only browse TCG and not actually post]. I do pay attention to the upcoming sets and all; including anime cards, so not completely ignorant on that. (ignore this part; took that to mean the YGO ones; apologies, though I might not say much on this subject since I don't play it)

 

For the topic stuff, I was considering doing something like this:

 

Sunday - Tuesday are YGO-related stuff (anime/manga and if you guys want to, some minor set stuff)

Wednesday, not decided

Thursday - Saturday are Pokemon things (since XY anime premieres on a Thursday; though we can still discuss BW while it still airs outside of Japan; in addition to the TCG/manga, etc)

 

Though once we get more people, then you guys can decide on how you want to format the topics; this is tentatively how I'd like to set the topics, so we're not stuck discussing something for too long to the point it gets boring and we have a way to keep the place orderly.

 

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Anyway, since The Origin aired today (and I put it as our discussion stuff for the time being), some words on it. I thought it was a good episode and pretty much kept close to the games like they said; though I was a bit surprised to find out that Red is voiced by a certain ninja's VA.

[~British Soul~]

Username: ~British Soul~

Nickname (what do you want to be called): I don't mind really.

Do you understand our club rules? Even though I skimmed through them, yes.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Accepted.

Basically our club rules = the site rules, except rewritten for our purposes (Just act like you're supposed to + you'll have no problems)

[~British Soul~]

Even though my post said I skimmed through the rules, I actually did read them thoroughly, hehe.

 

One thing I noticed whilst watching Origins was that the guy who waved to Red when he was on his bike resembled the Fan Club director from the Adventures Manga.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I think I missed that part (really need to stop skipping around the manga b/c things like that happen [I don't relate characters here to the manga b/c I don't see them]. Or that was in episodes 2-4, which I didn't watch yet b/c no subtitles.

 

A different Red than the silent one in games that a lot of us idolize/compare Ash to a lot (pretty obvious that this is kind of similar to episode 1 with Ash, but not exactly). Probably close to that of his Adventures counterpart in the beginning [except this Red has Charmander whereas adventures had Bulbasaur]. At least Blue/Green is same, but it's close to the games (which I haven't played, most likely since I didn't get into Pokemon until maybe 2000/2001 [so yeah, not a fan from the absolute start])

[~British Soul~]

I think I missed that part (really need to stop skipping around the manga b/c things like that happen [I don't relate characters here to the manga b/c I don't see them]. Or that was in episodes 2-4, which I didn't watch yet b/c no subtitles.

It was towards the beginning of part 2, yeah.

Another thing I thought was interesting was that the TMs/HMs looked like floppy disks.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Yeah, even though nowadays floppy disks are obsolete (though considering this is based off the games in 1996, they were still being used [since flash/USB drives never existed).

 

In the games, they look like colored gears [from the overworld anyway]; don't know what they actually look like. Maybe X/Y will show a 3-D rendition of them, but we'll have to see (maybe they'll look like that; maybe they won't). 

 

I gotta watch the rest of the series; though I'll wait for subtitles since I still don't understand Japanese that well yet.

[:^)]

Username: Sasha Braus
Nickname (what do you want to be called): Sasha/Sasha Braus/Multiloquent/Potato Girl
Do you understand our club rules?Yes!

[Miror B]

As for the TCG, we can have discussions on cards (though as a slight warning, I don't play DN/tournaments a lot so in terms of talking about card combos, etc., might fall a bit short on it; though I'll do my best to say something about stuff [one of the reasons I only browse TCG and not actually post]

Er...I meant the pokemon TCG so idk what DN has to do with that >_>

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Sasha, accepted

 

@Talaya: Sorry, I mistook that comment for stuff related to the TCG section over here, my bad. (But nonetheless, we can still discuss the Pokemon TCG; though as a warning, I might not say much about that subject since I don't really play the TCG)

[ihop]

Hello there, JK, been a while.

[b]Username: +iHop[/b] 
[b]Nickname (what do you want to be called): idc really, just call me iHop[/b] 
[b]Do you understand our club rules?: Of course[/b]

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Hey iHop, been a while

Accepted.

[:^)]

(But nonetheless, we can still discuss the Pokemon TCG)

 

The Pokemon TCG is ridiculous, every card is so expensive comparative to YGO, like in YGO there is Dracossack which is bloody expensive, but the rest of the cards for your Deck are in the under $20 Price Range, however for the Pokemon TCG every card that you will want is upwards of $15, stopping sometimes at $50 just for one card. However, I havn't played Pokemon in over a year (competitively) Some things would have definitely changed since then. 

 

When Computer Search came out I remember people wanting to pay up to $50 for it, now it's worth $10-$15. It's not bad, but since it's and Ace Spec you can only have one per deck.

 

[Miror B]

Sasha, accepted

 

@Talaya: Sorry, I mistook that comment for stuff related to the TCG section over here, my bad. (But nonetheless, we can still discuss the Pokemon TCG; though as a warning, I might not say much about that subject since I don't really play the TCG)

Don't worry I figured you did.

And I don't really play the game much either, but the thinking isn't hard to get into when you start looking at what some cards do vs others.

 

The Pokemon TCG is ridiculous, every card is so expensive comparative to YGO, like in YGO there is Dracossack which is bloody expensive, but the rest of the cards for your Deck are in the under $20 Price Range, however for the Pokemon TCG every card that you will want is upwards of $15, stopping sometimes at $50 just for one card. However, I havn't played Pokemon in over a year (competitively) Some things would have definitely changed since then. 

 

When Computer Search came out I remember people wanting to pay up to $50 for it, now it's worth $10-$15. It's not bad, but since it's and Ace Spec you can only have one per deck.

It isn't that bad for every card :/ A lot of decent-ish cards are cheap. Of course all the good amazing cards are going to be more expensive, that's just supply and demand after all.

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Yeah, the good cards being expensive hold true for all games (there are some exceptions to that, but not always).

Though in terms of the game concepts, energy being needed to use certain moves is kinda similar to the mechanics of Naru CCG (which I am familar with to an extent; however it's a dead game now).

 

The mention of another CCG aside, there's only 11 types (as opposed to the currently 18 existing in anime/console games) from what I saw on Bulbapedia; some of their weaknesses/strengths/etc. are similar to what we already know from the 17-18 types in BW/XY with exceptions.

 

TBH, I owned a few cards but most, if not all of them, were just basic stuff.

 

 

On-topic with the Origin discussion (until Sunday, Pokemon-related stuff), I almost cried near the end after Red got rid of Tearm Rocket in episode 2. (And replying to British's earlier post, yeah the guy does look like the Pokemon Club director from Adventure [I remember seeing him])

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

I hate doing this, but BUMP

[Zextra]

The Cubone/Marowak story had always made me sad, but after watching episode 2 of Origins, that just made things worse. Poor Cubone :(

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Yeah, they actually showed Team Rocket killing the Marowak (well, showing Team Rocket getting ready to hit her or something).

Probably one of the few moments in anime that I actually had to keep myself from crying over (b/c it was just that emotional)

 

As for episodes 3/4, well pretty much Red fights Giovanni in a similar vein to how Ash is at some points; loses then challenges him again at the gym. Episode 4 is kind of like FireRed/LeafGreen (then again, Origins IS based off of the original GBC Red/Green in Japan so not too surprising). The Mew2 part is new though (and they previewed Mega Evolution in there)

 

Either way, it was a good spinoff and hopes to the future that XY will be good (and Ash matures a bit)

 

EDIT: If you guys haven't already seen the 3rd/4th episodes due to not having subtitles, here's some links: http://tv-animes.com/pokemon-the-origin-episode-3-english/ and http://tv-animes.com/pokemon-the-origin-episode-4-english/

 

As for the activity level and other stuff, hopefully we get more members [and discussion in here]; otherwise this version will eventually go down the road like V1 did.

[:^)]

Thank you for links to Episode 3 and 4, however they don't work.

[Zextra]

Here, try these:

Episode 1: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-1/

Episode 2: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-2/

Episode 3: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-3/

Episode 4: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-4/

[:^)]

Here, try these:

Episode 1: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-1/

Episode 2: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-2/

Episode 3: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-3/

Episode 4: http://www.animeultima.tv/pokemon-origins-episode-4/

 

Thanks heaps!

[Flash Flyer - Sakura]

Thanks Zex. (Links were working fine yesterday; not sure why they aren't now)

Other than that, I'll go say some stuff about XY; both anime/game-wise (though I want to finish B/W before moving on; so stuff goes in sequence)

 

Like my last post says, hopefully Ash ages (and gets more mature) in this season [and stop using baby Pokemon (or 1st stage stuff) against much stronger Pokes that you know will kill him]. For the female companion part, let's hope she's not like Iris to some extent. Ash being related to Serena is going to be interested; just have to wait and see.

 

Game-wise, hopefully more of the type chart for Fairies is revealed (and hope they get weaknesses to psychic). Like a lot of people, not too thrilled about Dragons being ineffective against Fairy-Type; especially with some of the stuff that people don't particularly care for being retconned; but guess I can treat this like the Psychic buff in Gold/Silver since it's not that much different [though I didn't start playing games until around Gen 3/4]. As for the new stuff; just have to see their stats/movepools before I decide to use them or just get them for dex.

 

As for the topic stuff, how do you guys want to have it set up? (Have stuff discussed on certain days or just change when interest gets low. I put a tentative topic schedule in post #3 of this thread; might make the Pokemon section of the topic list start on Wednesdays, since there's nothing there right now and this IS a Pokemon-themed club; even though I said some YGO stuff might come up.) I'll let you vote on it