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  1. randomspot555
    I can't see that as possible true. Off Topic has ONE manga thread on page 6 (last page) and, as far as I can tell, not a single thread on anime, specific shows or general. I say the opposite, and this is how a few other forums I frequent go by: If a topic starts crowding up a general section, then we should look into making a seperate forum/sub forum.
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    <p><p><p><p><p>congrats on smod</p></p></p></p></p>

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    If it's hacked directly into the Key Items bag, it won't work. You have to receive it via Mystery Gift for the in-game events to be triggered.
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    Thanks to Doc, I got that movie Pichu, Jirachi, and Arceus. If anyone else wants to do breeding project trading, I'm open to that.
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    Doc, that's awesome. You wouldn't happen to have msn? If not, I'm in PP's chatrooms right now also.
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    Ever since my AR broke, I've been meaning to get a flash cart. But until I do, I'm relying on the kind members of PP to help me out. While I highly doubt anyone has a legit Arceus, that's fine. All I'm wanting is a legal one. There's a PGT posted by Poryhack over here http://projectpokemon.org/forums/showpost.php?p=38649&postcount=543 Load that up, generate it, and trade it to me, and I'll be happy. I've got a few breeding projects I've done that I can give away. Masuda Method Gold Charmander Project Parents: Male Charizard w/ Belly Drum and good IVs, event female Charmander from Japan. Both 100% legal to my knowledge. Offers: You can select a hatched Charmander with Belly Drum, or grab an egg. No shiny yet, so none available. Scyther! Parents: Two Scizors, one legal via a trade in Serebii's Wi-Fi Chat, another legal but self-made hack. Hacked Scizor had 30 IVs across the board, legal had 31 in Attack and Speed. Offers: Any that are left over. All out of Adamant natured ones. I also have a handful of Aaron's bred with it's evolved form and Ditto. As far as other offers go, I have a bunch of Tournament Lucrio's with Blaze Kick, generated but legal, by me. I'll happily teach Plat move tutor stuff to any of my traded Pokemon, given that either you trade me the items needed, or you give me enough time to get the shards. Diamond FC: 2965 4679 1157 I'm in both Serebii's Wi-Fi Chat and PP's Wi-Fi and general chat rooms on a semi-regular basis. You can also PM me and we can exchange Yahoo/MSN/AIM screen names.
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    I'm going to contest that, even in-game, Pidgeot sucks. I used him in both Red and Fire Red. I ditched him as soon as I could in Red, and I tried to grind through in the remake, but he was just a pain to level up wit a pathetic move pool So even in-game, he sucks. Look at the other Pokes you encounter early: Mankey, and then you run into those mega punch and mega kick move tutors machoke and geodude and stuff pikachu the bugs starter Magikarp salesman So yeah, even in-game, there's no reason to use it. Competitively? Well, in OU, we've got offensive bird Staraptor, and Togekiss, the flinching bird and can play defense. In UU, those roles go to Swellow and Noctow, respectively. Farfetch'd gets a ridicoulously awesome move pool but no stats to make it worth it. So what can Pidgeot do that Swellow and Noctowl can't? Eh...besides the gimmicky "give it it's own item/ability", nothing. Pidgeot sucks. I know, i hated to admit it, but it's true
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    I think, if there's an abundance of a certain topic in a general forum (Off Topic, General Gaming, Pokemon Franchise, etc...), then a new forum should be considered. But I haven't really seen an abundence of manga related discussion in Off Topic.
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    Bans/infractions and the reasons they're issued are an issue that concern two parties: the staff and those that are issued the infraction or the ban. They are not to be discussed publicly.
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    I apologize for the massive delay. http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=330768 Bracket info. It is your responsibility to contact your opponent. Please inform me of what's going on. There's no rush. We can all bet busy. But if an opponent is inactive for 2 days, I will auto-advance the other guy, assuming they've also been active. Good luck to all.
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    I know not all, but it's a metagame that has more special attackers than many others. The only real threat to Blissey is Scizor, Tyranitar, and Metagross, who all carry Pursuit. In that case, to handle a certain amount of Pursuit damage, sure, invest in DEF. But otherwise, she shouldn't stay in on physical attackers.
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    I'm not very experienced in Ubers, but I do know the best Blissey set for ubers is Calm Mind. There's little point in investing in physical defense since others take those hits so much better, and ubers is dominated by special attacks. Blissey w/ Leftovers Calm Natural Cure/Serene Grace 252 HP/252 sp def/6 sp atk - Calm Mind - Ice Beam - Flamethrower/Fire Blast/Thunder - Water Pulse/Thunder Wave/Toxic This Blissey will take special hits like no other. Lugia and many others take physical hits much better, so don't worry about it's physical defense. Just watch out for Tyranitar and Metagross' Pursuit. It gets access to Psychic and Shadow Ball, but tons of other Pokes in ubers use those much better. Icy Wind is a possibility if you want to slow some threats down while lowering their speed. Thunder Wave should only be an option if Icy Wind or Thunder aren't on the set. That said, this Blissey does not provide much team support. And it isn't supposed to. This would be better suited for that. Blissey w/ Leftovers Calm Natural Cure 252 HP/252 sp def/6 sp atk - Light Screen - Wish - Protect - Aromatherapy Be warned though, this is all based on theory-mon. I've never played ubers, I only know about it through reading. But Blissey should concentrate on special defense, and leave physical hits to Lugia.
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    Ok, just remember that the Rotom forms will only work if it's Plat vs Plat in the Union Room. Plat vs D/P will work, but it'll appear as normal form in the D/P cart. And in Wi-Fi, forms and exclusive moves won't work at all. I guess. UU Pokes can function in OU. However, they almost always fulfill very specific, niche roles. Most of the time, there's a Pokemon who can do it better. Milotic is a great RestTalker in OU, for example. However, Specs set (which is great in UU) is done better by Suicune, Starmie, and many others.
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    <p><p><p><p><p>Because I tried giving it to myself and it didn't work :\</p></p></p></p></p>

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    <p><p><p><p><p>Thanks for the TR badge. I'll work hard on getting a Wiki Contributor badge next <img src="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":)" srcset="<fileStore.core_Emoticons>/emoticons/smile@2x.png 2x" width="20" height="20" /></p></p></p></p></p>

  16. randomspot555
    Ok, I'm closing this for a few reasons. This is the Wi-Fi Trading forum, not battling. Battling threads in the Competitive Battling forum and Trading threads here both require you to list your FCs either in sig, profile, or post anyway. And friend codes can easily change. If you put your cart into another DS, for example. So with that being said...
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    Unfortunately, this lead accomplishes pretty much nothing. Spiritomb being incredibly slow means it won't be stopping much with Taunt. Almost every other Taunt lead is faster, and those without Taunt will DD or Sub or whatever before it can use it. Metagross might be hinderedd by Will O Wisp, IF it hits. And that's a big if. Pursuit doesn't do much because not many are gonna flee in fear from Spiritomb. In UU, with 0 weaknesses, this thing can take hits. In OU, it's painfully underwhelming. Dusknoir is the ghost-of-choice in OU if you want a ghost to tank. Great base special attack, decent defenses, Pain Split, good move pool, etc.. However, you need a lead that can actually do something. Aerodactyl is the best suicide lead, bar none. Taunt, sets up Rocks, might even get a hit in if lucky. Bulky leads such as Metagross and Swampert can set up rocks and stay around for tons of attacks. With an astounding SIX weaknesses (two being x4 to water and grass), it's typing screwa up what could be a great bulky ground. It's weak to the most common move (Earthquake), almost guaranteeing it will never safely switch into anything. Plus with the rise of Zapdos' HP Grass it makes it even more dead weight. Swampert does this guy's job a million times better. Better typing, great move pool: Swampert w/ Leftovers Adamant Torrent 252 HP/128 DEF/128 Sp Def - Surf - Ice Beam - Earthquake - Roar Feel free to throw SR in there somewhere too. In fact, this could be a halfway decent starter if it has SR. It seems like a great strategy, doesn't it? However, it's also fairly predictable. IT's a huge invitation for ghosts to come in, particularly the bulky, aforementioned Dusknoir or Scarf Gengar. Immune to normal, resist bug. And if SR is still down, add in possible weather damage, Swellow's lifeliness will end quickly. I view GUTS as something you either plan for (whcih is why Rest Talk Machamp is so great), or you get lucky (Guts on Scarfcross, which is essentially gg). Swellow isn't cut out for OU, and for good reason. Unless everything goes perfectly, it'll die quickly. If its only purpose is Rapid Spin, I think there are several others much better. Donphan w/ Leftovers Adamant/Bold Sturdy 252 HP/252 DEF/6 HP - Rapid Spin - Knock Off - Roar - Rock Tomb/Ice Shard This Donphan set is all about team support. Rapid Spin to get away spikes. Knock Off with good prediction can screw up counters (almost all Donphans don't invest in Attack, so they know it won't hit hard, so common switch ins are guys who need to set up or Choice users). Roar is great to scout around teams so it can accumulate SR damage. Rock Tomb cuts the foe's speed. Ice Shard is an awesome priority move. However, with no attack, it doesn't hurt much even for x4 damage. And it's VERY predictable. Thunder Wave might work a bit better. Otherwise fine as long as your spinner stays alive. Nintendo Connection Tour? Like an official tournament? Rotom (all forms) are banned in the tournament.
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    Just to bump this for last minute joiners before I post the brackets tomorrow (Monday) evening. As said earlier, Shoddy/Net Battle/whatever will be allowed for this tournament for those who...for some reason don't own Pokemon? or Wi-Fi access or whatever. And if for some reason I pair a cart player with a Shoddy player, please be helpful and help the cart player figure out Shoddy. I'd like to keep this on some sort of time schedule. So please, ASAP, contact your opponent and post relevant updates in the thread. If one person is active in this thread and the other just isn't responding, I might go ahead and auto-advance the person. However, if you guys just keep having conflicting schedules, that's fine. Just make sure to post in this thread to give us an ETA. Otherwise, happy battling.
  19. randomspot555
    I tried a playthrough with Noctowl as my main bird. It's base stats are pretty low so you'll have to level up very high to do a lot of damage. And for a Pokemon with better special attack than physical, it sure does learn a lot of physical attack moves via level up. Night Shade is available via egg move (basically a special version of Seismic Toss), it learns Extrasensory at level 42....and Dream Eater way up in the 50s or something. TLDR: Don't use it for offense, because you'll be sorely dissapointed. Same goes for Pidgeot.
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    What's your point? People can interpert the exact same thing in thousands of different ways. Did you really not know that? See: The thousands of different sects of Christianity (all use the Bible, and the differences between versions of the Bible are overall minor), Judaism (all use the Torah), and Islam (all use Qu'ran). And even though they all descended from Abraham, they became 3 distinct religions. Even though Christians were originally just a Judaistic sect (in some cases, still are), they interperted the OT differently. But again, you missed the point entirely. Enzo never said their respective books are the same, or exact same, or the religions are the same. It is that they contain many similiarities, even to the point of origin. Similarly, my point was disproving your notion that an Islamic country is on some anti-Christian crusade and would deny the existence of an Ark. Which makes no sense at all because the story of the Ark is present in the Qu'Ran. Thus if evidence of the Ark ever was found, it would simultaneously function as prove for all Abrahamic religions. And that from a perspective of a theologian and not a religious insider, that the Abrahamic religions all worship the same God.
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    The correct answer is that theologians (outer perspective) say they worship the same God. The inner perspective differs greatly, but MOST Jews, Christians, and Muslims will agree that they worship the same God. Some Orthodox Jews will say they don't worship the same God as Catholics because Catholicisim is a polytheistic religion. Their view is that the way Catholics treat the saints as Gods. Many make the same case about Hinduism. Both of these aforementioned views are, however, from the inner perspective of the aforementioned religion(s). Which is different than viewing it from a cultural, outter perspective. We can play "dig up the quotes" all day long. While I'm not making the case that the God of Christianity and Judaism is vengeful, I am saying that your claim is just cherry picking verses: One could make the case that the original meaning of the Greek language was greatly lost and the words "jealous", "avenge" and "vengence" refer to a strong passion rather than the negative, immoral conotation they have today. But gosh darn golly gee whiz, that just means that it IS true that the Bible lost quite a bit in numerous interperations. So here's something else: In fact, Pslams is an excellent place to read of what God hates. He hates ("abhors" is the word used) the people driven out of Cannan, and bloodthirsty and deceitful men. And in Leviticus, "and My soul will abhor you" (Leviticus 26: 27-30). This doesn't mean the God of Christianity and Judaism hates humanity, but it clearly demonstrates that He can and does hate. Similarly, Allah follows much the same system of the often paraphrased "hate the sin, love the sinner." He doesn't live those who reject him, or trangressors, and similar phrases (points above) can be found in the Bible. The Qu'ran's name for Allah (one of) is "the Forigiving and Loving" (Qur'an 85:14) To make out Allah has some unforgiving vengeful God and give the Chrisitan God a complete pass is just cherry picking. I think I could argue that John 3:16 indicates God's level of hate for humanity. If God so loved the world that he sacrificed His only son, what does the reverse mean? That humanity was doomed without Jesus? Agreed. Also, it seems that wraith and Turtlekid2 missed the original point, that the Bible, Torah, and Qu'ran share many similarities including specific stories and characters and general themes. No one said it wasn't. but that doesn't inherently mean Judaism and Islam aren't also. The Old Testament isn't just laws. And it doesn't actually say that in the Bible. What it does say is that the laws are there because you can't just repent on the final day and be fine. Contrast that with Christian teachings, where the argument of "grace and grace alone" vs "grace and good works" broke the Catholic Church in two. And both sides have more than enough evidence from the New Testament to show that both are equally viable arguments. I don't see how the concept of original sin (inherently carrying sin because your ancestors sinned) is compatible with a loving God. Again, the point wasn't "they're the same." It's that "they have many similarities." And the Trinity is hardly a universal belief in Christianity. Churches differ on specifics of the Trinity or even the entire concept of it.
  22. randomspot555
    Your friend hacked. Next time, use the Questions thread.
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    Actually, it means exactly that. Do you have evidence that it has been discovered? A lack of evidence is not an indication of evidence. You do know there have been numerous expeditions to find the ark, right? None of them have ever turned up any evidence. There have been numerous expeditions to find the Arc. Many of them are surrounded in controversy because a few have turned out to be publicity stunts at best, scams at worse. Maybe what you meant to say was "Just because it hasn't been discovered doesn't mean it doesn't exist". But that still leads back to "a lack of evidence!=evidence" Ironically, this statement works against you: the story of the arc is in the Qu'ran too. As are many other stories from the Old Testament. Evidence for Christianity and Judaism would in many cases be evidence for Islam too. There's a reason these 3 religions are collectively called the Abrahamic religions, because their origins are largely the same. *eye roll smiley here*
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    <p><p><p><p><p>As many as possible?</p></p></p></p></p>

    <p><p><p><p><p>It's the very first one, so I won't be too dissapointed if it has a low turn out. The forum only has 2000 people on it, and only a handful of those 2000 are actually semi active.</p></p></p></p></p>

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    That...doesn't make any sense? "mountain of Ararat" There is a Mt. Ararat in modern day Turkey, but it's part of a wide mountain range and the biblical names of the mountain that the Arc is said to have landed on don't match up with the names of the mountain range. That and no evidence of the Arc has ever, ever been found.
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