I'm still here, I'm still here! The school quarter is winding down and some final projects are dragging me down with them, so I haven't had a great deal of time to update lately. I don't have a lot of time to update now–I'll wait until the quarter is over to bring up all the stuff I need to, and as you can imagine with a gap this long that's rather a lot–but I'm just posting this news item really quickly to let you know that I *do* have some new stuff planned in addition to everything else I wanted to say. One of my school projects is easily adapted into what should be a pretty entertaining game; it's all programmed and everything, and I just need to add a little bit to it before it's ready. I'm hoping that I'll be able to add it to the site sometime next week, at which point I'll also be able to cover everything else I wanted to say. Hang tight until then, and I'm sorry for keeping you all waiting for a month.

EDIT: ...have I ever actually had more than one thing to report in a single day before? Wow. Anyway, dcNET has its first affiliate: Floatzel.net! In case you haven't heard of it (and if you haven't, why not?), it's a big, booming site with a lot of great content, covering Pokémon, Mario and several other topics. Among its attractions are a popular series of "Let's Play" videos and the most hardcore Pokémon fan quiz I think I've ever seen. Give them a visit if you haven't already.

First of all, I finally got around to cleaning up the last of the sitely pages that was in dire need of a makeover (under "Main" to your left). Nothing drastically new or fancy there, but now they're more up to date and I am less embarrassed to say that I wrote them.

More importantly, I've made a pretty big update to the ASB reffing calculators. They've been woefully bad (especially the energy calc) for the longest time now. I was originally just going to fix the formulas in the Instacalc calculators that were already there, but in the end I just decided to put the poor things out of their misery. I've completely redone them in Flash; they are now more intuitive, cleaner, slightly less ugly and, best of all, impossible for you to mess up by accidentally changing the name of a variable or erasing too much in one of the fields. The damage calculator is more or less the same, but I have changed the way I calculate energy so that it actually makes half an ounce of sense. If you've been using the old calculators, stop that and go play with the sexy new ones instead.

I will probably also be adding a written version of the scale to the site for reference (after all, it's not that great an idea to use a scale without knowing how it actually works).

I kinda burned myself out after rushing to get the Phoenixdex open, so that's part of why there hasn't been anything new. I'm working on stuff, though. In the meantime I've added another one of those sexy pictures to the art gallery, so you can go distract yourself by staring at the pretty Lugia for a few hours.

...oh, and I added a new battlefield to the ASB Stock Arenas. I'm planning on coming up with a few more like it eventually; the idea is too much fun not to explore any further.

I've decided to put the Battle Factory page on hold for now; I'm not ditching it completely, as another new project I'm not going to tell you about could potentially make it useful, but it's officially been shoved to the back of my list of priorities so I can work on other things that are more current/relevant/um. This does include the ref guide, which I am coming to realize is slightly more relevant than I first thought it would be, but I am once again upset with the way it's structured and so will be rewriting it *again*. I'm also going to be rewriting a few of the other pages around here, like the "About" pages and what have you, so that they are less ridiculous and embarrassing. Get your laughs in now, kids, they'll be getting an overhaul soon enough.

Ohey look I finally finished that fakedex website I've been telling you about! The dcNET Phoenixdex is (and will be for a very long time) a huge work in progress, but no reason I can't show off what I've got so far, right? The link has been added to the menu as well.

In addition, I've decided to open up affiliation. On the off chance you want to see your button over there on the left and wouldn't mind advertising dcNET, well. There you go. (Yes, I know that there's no "affiliates" section on the menu right now. An empty section would look pretty stupid, don't you think? I'll add it in when I get my first affiliate.)

I still have a few days left on my break, and now that I can stop rushing through getting the Phoenixdex up I *should* have time to do some more stuff around here.

Just a little update to let you know that I've added a second Firefox persona download to the Free Goodies page, this one based on the picture of a Jolteon in a thunderstorm you can see in the fanart gallery. Bigger and better stuff will be on its way soon, though!