Well, I believe this is the first Pokemon forum in which I actually got to use Mismagius as a username! I'm a member of a couple of other Pokemon forums, but lately I've been looking at this one mainly for help with technical issues on ROMs and save files. Which sometimes gets confusing for me since I know practically nothing about programming (except a little in Java) and sometimes don't know what the heck people are talking about when they mention certain servers, programs, file types, etc.
I've been playing the Pokemon games ever since I was eleven (the first one I played was Yellow), and focused mainly on the main-series games (the only spinoffs I've played are Stadium 2, Snap, Colosseum, and both versions of Pinball--and I quickly got bored with Trozei). I play just for fun rather than competitively, though I do pay some attention to EV's and natures when training Pokemon. My favourite Pokemon are Mismagius, Kirlia, and Ninetales, and my favourite types are Psychic, Ghost, and Dark.
Right now I'm working on a huge project, where I plan to show all the attack animations from every generation (so people can compare how the attacks look when used from game to game). I've been recording my Pokemon from five different games (Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, and White) using their attacks for about two years now, and still have a long way to go in getting them all... I'm planning to post them as videos on my Youtube channel when everything is done.
(And I didn't make the avatar myself... I found it on Google Images and there was no copyright on it, so I decided to use it until I either make one or find something better.)