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  1. I haven't seen John Wick but have heard so much about it. I saw it listed on Netflix and thought it should be my next movie. I take it you'd recommend it then? :chuckle: I could definitely watch it before John Wick 2...

     

    Ahh I remember now, I haven't played against Slaking, I was confusing him with Slowking :p. (I also remember tentacruel too, and that was also extremely frustrating!). Has school not started for you yet? I'm getting on Showdown now, actually, going to play around with gen 3...

     

    Snake was my favourite character in Smash Bros. but that's all I've played him in. I've seen clips of Metal Gear and it looks awesome.

     

     

    Yeah, definitely. Kelly didn't deserve that tirade at all.

     

    It was fun for me to watch Michael Kelly in something other than House of Cards while still being a similar character.

     

    You have a good point, the movie could have been come of as absurd but they managed to keep it from that territory really well.

     

    Yeah :'(. The third season was even like 3.5 years after the second season, not including the special... maybe now that it's on Netflix it'll be sooner?

     

     

    Still haven't watched the season 2 finale, I think it's the next episode.

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    For shame! :p Add it to your movie list!

     

    Pretty much anything involving Saw was really corny in the move, but yeah the tentacle scene was particularly bad.

     

     

    Heh, I remember when you used Slaking in one of our battles and I just had no answer for it!

     

    Yeah, that's one deterrent. For me it's the graphic scenes. Not the violent ones, I mean the other kind. It's too much for me!

     

     

    I can see that. Hah! Who knows, we'll see how we turn out :chuckle:

     

    That's fair. Most of it was pretty predictable. I can see how you found it bland, they could definitely have made it way scarier for one thing. Yeah I know of Hideo Kojima, though I don't think I've played the series he's known for (not even Metal Gear)

     

    That's true, I wasn't considering he was pretty young and it's easy to not know better.

     

    I did like when we see Yorkie in real life; I wasn't expecting them to have given her that backstory and it definitely made her an interesting character. Yeah I thought what Kelly was saying to Yorkie at the end when she got mad was all stuff that Yorkie deserved to hear. Yorkie was being really selfish (understandably, but selfish nonetheless).

     

    I really can't understand how I just didn't notice :chuckle:. Anyways, reviews:

     

    Men Against Fire: this was probably the weakest of the season for me. I really liked the idea of it but I felt like it went by really quickly without as much substance as I would have hoped for. I think I was just wishing for a bit more backstory about the Roaches and more discussion about the world the episode was based in because I found some of it hard to follow and hard to care about.

     

    Hated in the Nation: I really liked this one. It was long but I think everything deserved a place in the episode, and the twist that the real victims were everyone using the hashtag was incredible. I could kind of see it coming when we learn how the hacker's wife tried to commit suicide from the online harassment. I knew in Black Mirror fashion they would probably kill all the hashtag people off despite their efforts but it was still so well done and intense. The only thing I didn't like about it was the ending. I think I would have liked it more if the episode had ended before we see Blue tracking the hacker down and it's left that he gets away with it all. I think since they showed Blue tracking the hacker down but not much more I felt kind of unsatisfied. But the rest of the episode was great.

     

    My order would be:

     

    Hated in the Nation

    Playtest

    Shut Up and Dance

    San Junipero

    Nosedive

    Men Against Fire

     

     

     

    Yeah I'm getting to the end of season 2 and it's been great. Some of it has a very Fallout-esque vibe which is neat.

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    Oh definitely, there was so much fan service... so much... and I totally agree about everything you said.

     

    Krennic was definitely, totally, 100% bad. He was an over-the-top cartoon villain done extremely poorly and never seemed to hold much power for the main antagonist.

     

    I forgot about how Jyn and the rebellion as you mentioned. Another thing that bugged me a lot was how they sent her on her whole mission to find out what the message was from her dad, and they emphasized how important it was to get the message, but when they finally do have the message they just argue about whether or not they should trust it... like what was the whole point if they were never going to trust the message?

     

    K-2SO was entertaining, but at the same time, they so obviously wrote him to be the comic relief (so you go "aww look the robot said something funny and doesn't realize it! hilarious" every time he speaks) that it felt forced, and you just knew they would try to milk his last scenes as much as possible. Make him sacrifice himself to save Jyn who he's not gotten along with for the whole movie, etc. etc. So even that rubbed me the wrong way haha. I did kinda like the blind monk and his friend, but they could have done way more with their characters (like explain why they stick together/banded together in the first place) and again they were so stuck in their flat roles it was hard to feel that much for them. And maybe I'm biased because he's Ip Man :p.

     

    I can see your point about the crawl; it doesn't bother me as much now. It's not one of the official episodic trilogies so I guess that's understandable.

     

    Fine... it was a good pun :p:chuckle:

     

    Anyways, I'm glad to see you had a lot of issues with the film... some people I've talked to also though it was pretty problematic but a lot have said they absolutely loved it and that it was everything a Star Wars prequel should have been... did I see the same movie?? A lot of critics and fans have gushed all over it!

     

     

    Darn, is it the new abilities from the Moon/Sun era? I can imagine there are some really broken combos especially with the game being so relatively new that it hasn't been quite figured out yet.

     

    Nice! I haven't heard of it but I have a bit of time before my regular shows come back. Meanwhile I finally started catching up on Black Mirror.

     

     

    Nosedive: I felt this one was a bit "on the nose" :p. From the first minute of watching I pretty much knew how the episode would progress and end; it was really predictable. Nevertheless, as you'd expect from Black Mirror episodes, it's a really interesting world to think about. I wonder if I'd try and get a "high score" or stay true to myself. I'd like to think I'd do the latter but I'm also a perfectionist and I hate getting bad marks :shifty:

     

    Playtest: I actually really enjoyed this one. It felt the most "real" to me of all the episodes since that kind of game actually seems not far off. I agree he was a bit annoying (and it was really not the best idea for him to accept the medical procedure without knowing more about it...) but he seemed like a good guy so it was too bad he died at the end. I think they could have made it a scarier episode but the last few minutes were really intense and well done. It was easy to predict he would run into serious trouble with the game but I wasn't expecting the call from his mom to kill him in the end.

     

    Shut up and Dance: This one good but not my favourite. It kind of reminded me of White Bear in that at first you feel sorry for this person and then you realize what they actually did in a final twist, but I think the twist in White Bear was done better. Also like the guy in Playtest he was really not thinking when he downloaded that computer cleaner :noey:. It annoys me when a character's stupidity/ignorance puts them into a situation essential to the plot. However I did like how at the end they made it so that regardless of what they did, the hackers still released all the info.

     

    San Junipero: This was kind of put me off because it wasn't immediately obvious what was "different" about this world like all other episodes. You only realize half-way through or something that they're in an augmented reality (or at least, I didn't figure it out until they made it really clear...). I can appreciate how it was not the usual disturbing episode and was instead more sweet and gentle, but I think they missed out on a lot of potential by not going much into the philosophical problem of whether it's really "you" in the reality and in the end it kinda felt like a boring, predictable love story. And I didn't cry at the end :p.

     

    I didn't even realize the last 2 episodes existed :facepalm:. I watched those 4 on Netflix and for some reason assumed there were no more episodes. Will watch those tomorrow so I can discuss more!

     

     

    I also started binge-watching The 100. I was expecting it to be typical CW drama for teens but I was pleasantly surprised. It's a big corny at times but there are some great moments and a lot of the characters are really well developed, not pure good/pure evil.

  4. Hope yours was too! I got so much chocolate. So much. Muse-related I got the Showbiz vinyl (I have all the CD's but that completed my main-album vinyl collection). Also got Pokemon Moon from my brother.

     

    Thanks!

     

    Definitely :chuckle:, I saw Rogue One on Thursday. Rant incoming :chuckle:

     

     

    I would give it a 6/10 at best, and that's pushing it. I'd probably settle with a 5/10.

     

    + Finally explain why there's the weakness in the Death Star that allowed the rebels to destroy it later, and that was done in a meaningful way

    + Visuals and set pieces were great

    + Vader scene at the end

     

    - Sloppy editing, in the first half especially. It was jarring to keep jumping between so many planets at the start.

    - Poor pacing. The first half dragged by and I was actually bored watching it.

    - Lazy scenes and other things that don't make sense. Like when Krennic is talking Galen Erso at the very start, all the shots of Krennic have extremely strong winds blowing his white cape forward but all other shots of the scene showing either mild or no wind at all; stuff like that bugs me. Saw saying that Bodhi would lose his mind after dealing with the tentacle monster yet he seems perfectly fine after a brief bit of being out of it. The opening-and-closing contraption in the archive room had no apparent purpose other than to ramp up the drama. Cassian somehow not only surviving his fall in the archive room with no apparent injuries but also having the strength to climb all the way up and be fast enough to get past that contraption. Why the heck is Leia on that ship in the middle of the fight other than to provide a convenient connection to A New Hope (edit: apparently there was a line explaining why she was there, I must have missed it). etc etc etc

    - Cheesy and weak dialogue. Probably one of the worst parts of the movie for me. It made it hard for the actors to do a good job with what they were given. Super cheesy, and it's inexcusable to make Darth Vader of all people to make a pun. "Be careful not to choke on your aspirations" is acceptable in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie but on Darth Vader it's ridiculous.

    - Bad acting. Some of the acting was downright atrocious (way too over-the-top Forrest Whitaker, the pilot Bodhi, and Krennick were some of the worst) and almost every person felt flat and bored saying their lines... however I think most of this can be attributed to bad directing

    - Boring and flat characters. I felt nothing towards most characters. Krennick was as stereotypical of a villain as you can get (only interesting thing about him was that he was killed by his own creation). Jyn was cold and unrelateable (and felt like a poor rehash of the "female orphan with family issues who's actually a badass and ends up becoming the hero" that worked for Rey in The Force Awakens) which made it super hard to like her, and her introduction felt so rushed. We go from seeing Jyn as a young girl and then skip immediately to her being in jail for some reason and getting into the thick of things, so we have no time to appreciate her background like we did with Rey. One of the more interesting things about her is her relationship with Saw but we only hear about it in a short exposition and then he dies. I was not a fan of Felicity Jones. Bodhi was basically a worse version of Finn (defects from the bad guys to become a hero with the resistance/rebels, except it's never really clear why he defects other than that he had a conversation with Galen). K-2SO is only there for comic relief, felt way too human (moved and talked too much like a human) and I just knew how his story would end, it was all so predictable. The characters were also just stuck in teh same roles through the whole movie, and the main heroes felt like they were fulfilling some social justice quota: the main heroes were a female lead, hispanic sidekick, two asian guys, and an arab. I'm all for diversity in movies but that felt forced. The last thing I'll say (I could go on) is that they were so forgettable I only remembered Jyn's name after the movie; everyone else I had to look up.

    - CGI people. I can understand why they wanted to simulate Tarkin and Leia with CGI and I can applaud their effort but I don't think the technology is quite there yet; both people felt so off and weird and it was disconcerting watching.

    - Music was extremely forgetful and only had the Star Wars theme at the very end. This I can't fault Michael Giacchino for because he only had 4 weeks to do it and I'm a big fan of his other work.

    - NO OPENING STAR WARS CRAWL.

    - More...

     

    I'm honestly shocked at all the people giving it really high ratings and saying it's amazing. My entire family went to see it together and we all had the same issues with it and nobody thought it was a great movie. Overall it just felt sloppy, unmotivated, and like failed to prove why it deserved to be made and wasn't just a fan servicey cash cow.

     

  5. I really can't stand waiting; it seriously pains me :chuckle:. Got my first mark back and I'm super happy with it! The one with the final being 60%. I think it got heavily scaled up.

     

    Same, I hear that was a big episode/scene (whatever it is) but have no idea what it actually means.

     

    Me too, I had one Christmas dinner tonight with friends and tomorrow will be the family. My family has alternatde between full trees (my choice) and Charlie Brown trees (my mom's) for years now, and I agree, they have a nice charm to them... though you'll never hear me say that to my mom :chuckle:. I still haven't seen either film. Some of my family saw Fantastic Beasts and reactions were mixed; my brother was so-so about it while my mom loved it.

  6. Yeah that's fair. I don't have that patience so I pretty much check for them every day! Still no marks yet...

     

    I find it's hard to not know a bit about the biggest things in GoT because it seems like everyone talks about it.

     

    Do you have any plans for Christmas? :xmas: Have you seen Rogue One yet? I'm planning on seeing it this week or next.

  7. Nice! I'll be back at school on January 3rd... way too soon. Ahh well. Grades come out in "late December", which isn't all that specific but I think they should be in the next week. What about you?

     

    Pretty much :p a lot of people here even use umbrellas when it's snowing. It's like we don't know any other ways of operating.

     

    I saw that scene just a few episodes ago :LOL:. I'm just starting season 4. It's very entertaining. Joe Gilgun is great in it. Another person I recognize is Iwan Rheon; not sure if you watch Game of Thrones (I don't) but apparently he plays the evilest person ever in GoT, but he's my favourite character in Misfits.

  8. :p

     

    Are you done exams now? Free of the shackles of school for the year? Thanks! It was really hard, but everyone else found it difficult too, so I'm comforted by that. I'm glad I'm done now. Yeah 60% is so much!

     

    Oh yes, everyone in Vancouver has at least one pair of rain boots, and of course an umbrella :chuckle: it's mandatory. Looking more and more like it'll be a white Christmas, it's snowing again today! We've got about 4 inches of snow! :dance:

     

    I've been watching Misfits for the first time and it was pretty fun to see both Cas and Tulip from Preacher are in it. Did you ever watch it?

  9. Aww yeah. :cool: I guess Canadian Netflix isn't so bad after all!

     

    Glad to hear about your finals. They'll be over sooner than you think! Best of luck on yours!!! I've just got one next week that's worth 60% of my grade, which is stressful, but I think it should be fine. Their final isn't for just over a week. I did mark their final projects though, and most were actually pretty good. But apparently I'm a very easy marker.

     

    Yeah that sounds like autumn for us (in Vancouver, that is, the rest if Canada is vastly different weather-wise), but with less rain. We had rain for 28 out of the 31 days in October :noey:.

  10. I saw a list of the differences between the two and there are actually a fair number of relatively well-known things, like 24, Doctor Who, Spongebob Squarepants, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I hope you don't have too many finals! And I hope the studying is going well :happy:.

     

    It's snowing here! :dance: The last few years have maybe been 1 weekend of snow for the whole winter, and we've finally got stuff that looks like it'll last a while. I started a snowfort today instead of studying :chuckle:. What's winter like where you are? I feel like it might be like my version of spring or fall :p.

  11. Yeah there are some things only Canadian Netflix has but overall the American Netflix is way bigger. I heard about Hush but not the others. Watching movies before this term is over is probably not gonna happen T_T

     

    Sounds about right :chuckle:. I definitely liked it more than I thought so I'm going to try and stick with it. It's super cool having all the shows on the same network!

     

    That's fair. I haven't gotten it yet, but if I do I'll probably get Moon (only for thematic reasons, because moon = nighttime = astronomy :p). I haven't looked into any of the new moves or Pokemon but I should really do that soon - I wonder how many will get banned on Showdown in the next few weeks. Wait - the Alolan Dugtrio was REAL?! That's actually a thing??? I remember seeing this comic on Reddit

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    and honestly thought they were just joking around. That is amazing :LOL:. Definitely make that team. I won't even be mad if you beat me with Alolan Dugtrio :LOL:!

  12. Exactly :p

     

    I'm impressed you were still able to work and not get as distracted as I was! :p. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Who knows, maybe it'll be Oprah vs. Kanye West in 2020 :chuckle:. Knowing Trump actually won that doesn't sound so ridiculous as it should.

     

    Thanks. I appreciate it!

     

    Netflix has so much good stuff! It's also got a lot of great documentaries which I never think I feel like watching but always end up enjoying. I'm jealous of your selection on American Netflix :p. I started watching Supergirl on Netflix too. It's about as cheesy and a bit cringey as I expected but it has its own charm to it. I'll get to Legends afterwards. I'll probably watch both of their episodes next week though since there's that huge crossover bonanza with all the DC shows!

     

    I keep forgetting Sun and Moon just got released! Are you going to get one of them?

  13. Thanks, I feel pretty behind in school right now but I have no big things for the rest of the term so I'm confident I'll catch up by finals. It always works out somehow :p.

     

    I guess not :p. Just about to watch the next episode actually. Yeah, they're always pretty thought-provoking at least. Definitely not :p.

     

    I know I couldn't keep my eyes off the TV on election night. I was planning on studying but that was a no-go when I saw how crazy things were getting. Who woulda guessed that Trump would actually win. His VP is terrifying! I'd like to think that a lot of his voters didn't vote for him because of his hateful views but for other reasons, because there's a lot more that goes into a vote than just social justice issues. Maybe he'll be so bad that it'll cause a big reset in the country that's good in the long run, like a great progressive future can rise from the ashes. Yeah I saw the Canadian immigration site crashed! I know a lot of us up here (almost every single person I've talked to) wanted Bernie to win.

     

    My family had to say goodbye to our dog yesterday. We decided to put her down since her quality of life in her old age just wasn't there anymore. But she lived a happy and healthy life of over 15 years, and for that I am grateful!

  14. Yeah, it was also raining so my tail got a bit wet :chuckle: but it was all worth it. Glad you had fun too!

     

    I think I'm in a quiet portion where marking is concerned. And I just wrote my last midterm which went alright so I'm finally able to catch up on assignments and my thesis. I hope school is going alright for you! Both those episodes are definitely some of my favourites! It's nice to see Supernatural's ratings have been doing pretty well recently.

     

    That's fair, I can't get into other cooking competitions except for Hell's Kitchen - it's all thanks to Gordon Ramsey :chuckle:. That's too bad about Westworld. Hopefully it improves. I still need to watch the Black Mirror episodes! :(. I'm made fun of by my friends for not crying at guaranteed tear-jerkers, so I'm probably as cold-hearted as you :p.

     

    That's pretty neat. Yeah Suicune really surprised me with how reliable it is.

     

    So... how 'bout that election? Did you vote today?

  15. Happy Halloween by the way! :party: I did dress up as Squirrel Girl :chuckle:. Had a few people recognize me which was fun. As I was walking back from school (Monday's a late day for me) I was able to walk around the neighbourhood amongst all the trick-or-treaters - it's such a wonderful atmosphere :happy:. Hope your Halloween was good too!

  16. Finals are around mid-December. Yeah, a lot of people complained about it but I wasn't bothered by it. For one thing the lady was wearing brass knuckles with some kind of sigils on them. The sigils probably allowed her to fight Cas (and who knows, maybe they also weakened the two of them). And in scenes before it's not hard to guess she was a very tough, capable, and trained fighter. A lot of people seem to praise Dean and Sam as the absolute best hand-to-hand fighters ever but when you think about they were self-taught and are usually against people/things that have little hand-to-hand experience. Went on a bit there :chuckle: but yeah, I think people made waaaay to big of a deal about it. I didn't realize it was that bad until I saw the graph either :chuckle:. Reminds me of Supernatural and that spinoff episode Bloodlines (graph here).

     

    Yeah there's two seasons of Hell's Kitchen every year I think, one over the fall/winter and the other over the spring/summer. It's into season 16 now - and it's a guilty pleasure as ever :awesome:. I keep hearing about Westworld. I didn't tear up... :shifty: but I came close.

     

    :p I'll beat you one day! Hmm I'm interested in this fool-proof plan of yours. Yeah I think my favourite team I've made so far is my rest/whirlwind team (Skarmory, Suicune, etc) combined with heal bell. Tyranitar has always been really strong, and he's got a lot of versatility with his movesets so you never know what kind of Tyranitar you're facing and how to face it. He gets a lot better in later gens, too.

  17. Yeah, and the same will happen around Finals and when I have to mark their final projects :noey:. Ahh well. They're writing their midterm today actually. I'll find out how it went next week. Supernatural's pretty solid right now! Flash is still good but Arrow has made an absolutely enormous improvement in quality. Take a look :chuckle:.

     

    I haven't been able to check it out yet! I'm glad there are at least a lot of episodes; the other season have been so short. So far I've got Gotham and Lucifer on Mondays, Flash on Tuesdays, Arrow on Wednesdays, Supernatural on Thursdays, and Hell's Kitchen on Fridays :p so I've been having a hard time fitting in time for other shows. I did finished the Office though, just yesterday. Very emotional last few episodes as you can imagine, but a very fitting end to the series.

     

    Yeah you're really good at the random battles! Ahh well about the others, keep trying! :awesome:. Nice, that guy with the Lugia must have been pretty salty :chuckle:

  18. Just listened to it. I had no idea there was such a thing :LOL: and it's official too...

     

    Yeah I've been counting the hours I've been spending on this teaching assistant job which is supposed to be 12 hours a week and this was was 38 :noey:. It's because all my marking for the term isn't evenly spread across the term but rather across just a few days/weeks (e.g. marking their midterm, marking their final), and this week was the first batch of marking. I definitely put too much work into it because everyone else did it in at most half the time:. I haven't even watched Thursday's Supernatural yet! :'(. (end rant :p)

     

    Now that I'm done with the marking I should have a lot more time after I've caught up in my classes. You'll get to test out your teams eventually! Have you tried playing them on the ladder yet?

  19. It happens!

     

    How can something be hilarious, adorable, and so creepy at the same time... :LOL:

     

    :chuckle: I could do Slowpoke... Seviper is also a valid alternative... and there's also Skarmory. Hmm.

     

    Sorry I wasn't able to get on Pokemon Showdown last night! I've been swamped with school work. Going to try and put a little cup team together during a break today though ;). Hopefully will be able to play tonight.

  20. NOT THE SLOWPOKE

     

    NOT HIM

     

    :LOL: Gotta give it to ya, that's a great icon. Oh wow, that's a really adorable Pikachu costume :chuckle:. I love everyone's reactions in the video!

     

    Thanks! Still thinking of Halloween pumpkin ideas. Maybe I'll do a Pokemon related one :p.

  21. Good luck!

     

    Oh definitely :p I hate playing against it. Yeah it's super annoying! Speed Boost/Sword Dance pokemon are staples on Baton Pass. It's easily countered with Pokemon with roar/whirlwind but if they don't have an answer it can get out of hand so fast. Ooh those both sound like good combos! I have Skarmory on almost all my teams :p whether it's gen 2 or gen 6 or anywhere in between. In gen 6 my general playstyle was a super tanky stalling team that just whittles you down bit by bit. Yeah a few years ago the world championships for Pokemon TCG were held in Vancouver. There was a huge temporary Pikachu statue near Downtown Vancouver!

     

    So this weekend was Thanksgiving in Canada! A weird Thanksgiving tradition some of my family have is to carve pumpkins (even this early in October). This year I did Kylo Ren. Really happy with how it turned out:

     

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    Not sure what to do yet for when it's actually Halloween...

  22. I know! It's so well done. Best of luck! :awesome: Wow, that's a huge scarecrow. Looks awesome and will take up a lot of space on your lawn. I know :noey:.

     

    Great to hear! Same for me. I think within the battling Pokemon community it's pretty well known - it's part of Pokemon Smogon which is pretty much *the* place to discuss competitive battling and strategy. The Smogon forum is also a great resource for build ideas and team comps. Toxic spikes is so stupid :chuckle:. There are also some really awful combinations that were so overpowered they had to be banned out of OU. One of my favourites was building a Klefki with the Prankster ability, and Swagger, Thunder Wave, Reflect, and Substitute. Swagger increases your opponent's attack and confuses it, so you basically just keep swaggering your enemy is so strong it just knocks itself thanks to being confused! And between substitute and reflect, your already tanky Klefki takes almost no damage in the small chance (thanks to the thunder wave) that the opponent even gets a hit off. Oh and the Prankster ability means your status-inflicting moves have priority, so you'll pretty much always be able to get off your combo first.:awesome: There's also baton pass teams where basically most of your pokemon are tanky, equipped with baton pass, and have attack/special attack/speed-boosting abilities. You keep passing your boosted stats off to the next pokemon with baton pass, until your main attacking pokemon gets like 4 times the attack power and just one-shots the entire enemy team.... I'll stop rambling now :p. Yeah I remember when I would play Gen VI a lot there were some teams I just had absolutely no answer for. Sometimes it's not even about your team, but just being able to predict what your opponent's next move is and making the appropriate answer, always thinking a few moves ahead... Pokemon strategy is surprisingly deep! I'll keep an eye out for you then, who knows, maybe we'll battle soon! :p

  23. Good :p

     

    That sounds like a lot of fun! I've never done it myself. I'm sure you'll learn a lot and be able to keep upping yourself every year. Someday you should try to do this:

     

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    It's so boring around Halloween here, that's for sure :noey:. That's definitely one of the best :LOL:. I think after Steve Carrell left the show the pranks have become more of the staple of the show.

     

    Awesome! Exactly, you can really try any pokemon team you want without having to grind it out, and in doing so you actually learn the game really well. Showdown uses a tier system to try and make things fair, so really overpowered pokemon are placed in the "Uber" tier and the rest of the popular/good but more balanced pokemon are in "OverUsed (OU)" tier (the most popular tier to play). There are other lower tiers for the less popular/good pokemon. If I remember correctly Snorlax is considered the king of OU in gens 2 and 3, maybe more. Most legendaries are usually in Uber (e.g. Mewtwo, Mew, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Deoxys). You're probably playing in the OU tier so that's why you've only run into Zapdos. Wobbuffet and Wynaut are the only non-legendaries in Uber, because their ability Shadow Tag combined with their amazing tanking and countering power. You can find the OU gen 3 list here: http://www.smogon.com/dex/rs/formats/ou/. There's also build recommendations on there if you're interested! Well, my username on there is XxCasxX so if you search me up and I'm online, certainly I'm ready to battle! :p I made a couple gen 3 teams a few days ago though I have no idea if they work well or not. I haven't gotten that far into Doom yet but I think I can see that already :chuckle:.

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