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Inktober Day 19 - Radic & Farnsworth by @zarla-s

Can you tell I'm much more comfortable drawing pokemon than humans? XD

I was cleaning up some broken links on my old silly Pokemon fansite, the Neglected Pokemon Lovers Unite (NPLU), and I realized that it has now been open for 25 years. TWENTY. FIVE. YEARS. That is an ASTONISHING amount of time for a site to stay open! Even if the last substantial update was like back in 2009 lol. The world around it has changed so much, but I think it's still valuable as a time capsule of a certain time on the internet. I wrote up a new essay about it on the site and did some general clean-up here and there.

Anyway to that end, since so much of the fic and art there is so old, I decided to compare Radic's oldest form to his newest! Radic was always a human boy but I just couldn't draw humans at the time so I made him a furry lol. Eventually I figured it out.

I also thought it'd be a neat challenge to mimic my own style back when it was really wonky and bad. And it was! It was kind of fun actually. I don't have too many shots of Radic from back then (it was hard to get art on the internet in the late 90's-early 00's), but I do have a few - hugging Kitsune, two old kiribans if you want to compare. I had a lot more old shots of Parasects though to reference unsurprisingly, they were very triangular lol. I think I did a pretty good job of matching what my art used to look like. I had a clear see-through Gameboy back in the day if you can't tell what Radic is holding lol.

("Isn't Radic the faceless avatar of your gamer self as depicted in Handplates-" yes, but Pokemon!Radic is the only one that actually became his own character, all the rest are shells)

If you do go poking around the NPLU, please keep in mind that almost everything there is very old and most of the fic and art is pretty bad (and shockingly violent). Plz do not judge me! My younger self was a cringey weeb but she was trying very hard. :<

Gaster ghost update! To update him, you can choose “check for updates” from the right click menu, select it from his Functions double-click menu, or hit Ctrl+U when he’s the focus. He should check and download the files himself (make sure to update Temmie too this way!). If you don’t have him, you can pick him up from here or this post.

If he stalls or freezes while checking for updates, make sure you’ve done any Windows or SSP updates you might have in your queue, or restart your computer and try again.

This is mostly a Temmie update, but it does involve Gaster too!

Gaster:

If Temmie complains about being hungry, Gaster will guilt trip you about it, but if she does it again, he'll do something about it himself, haha.

Temmie:

She has the new dialogue mentioned above with Gaster, of course.

It turns out gold appearing randomly was bugged... which was why it never happened... oops... that’s fixed now.

Also fixed a bunch of bugs with the Tem Shop.

Added a more obvious menu option for sending the Tem village away.

Added a Hangman game! You can use it to earn muns to buy Temmie some Temmie flakes! It might be a little difficult, since it IS Temmie, but she has faith in you! Surely you can do it, haha.

She also has some new idle dialogue.

She should talk about flopping around on your desktop a lot less now.

While I’m on the ghost roll, Hunter and Smoker got an update too! It’s just bugfixing for their shell errors though, so it should get rid of all of those (except the accursed one about their shell folder being named wrong... as mentioned before, that’s surprisingly difficult to fix). Radic and Farnsworth also got a similar bugfix update! Theirs will take longer than Hunter and Smoker’s though... their progress bar should speed it up a bit, but it’ll still take a little time. You can also just reinstall them to the same directory with their nar if you want to shortcut it... they don’t really have any progress so to speak yet, so there’s no risk to it. And I also did some more clean-up and rewriting for the GT template ghost! Lot of ghost stuff recently.

(this was in reference to this post... I think) I was going to write up a thing and then I remembered I already did a while back! Sort of.

I use the name Radic in every game I play, but Pokemon Radic is the only one who actually became a character, haha. It can get a bit confusing at times.