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Alright, so I put this together pre-DLC. At that point it struggled to break through 1800. It's got some unusual stuff in there (Salazzle, who the hell uses that), and it was my first attempt at SV teambuilding so really no surprises that it started to struggle there because there's only so much...

Thought I'd get back into Pokemon and put together an OU team one night when I couldn't fall asleep. So far it's performed surprisingly okay given how fast it went together. I wanted to build around the setup cores of Zygarde and Mega Mawile. After that I wanted something to pivot for fire and...

Anyone else looking forward to it? I've read the in-between manga releases (Rhodonite, Twin Dragons of Sabertooth), but they weren't exactly detailed in-depth stories.

Some people have expressed interest in watching me as I struggle through some amateur machining so I thought I might give it a try. The GoPros seem pretty damn overpriced though, and I have no idea if this class of camera is actually any good at all for perspective. My idea was to wear it as I...

Hello Wifi, I am attempting to make some gimmick BattleSpot Doubles teams, and the most fun way to do this is involving gimmicks with ridiculously obscure, never-seen-the-light-of-OU Pokemon. I'm looking for some of the following with good IVs or friend safaris (for breeding); of course, if...

In case you were wondering where I've been / what I've been up to.

This is sort of a "public service announcement". I can't count the number of times I've read a post in a VGC thread, from any year, where some lesser-known user from the "in crowd", or even someone who is more well known, mentions how they were too shy to talk to other smogoners they recognized...

When I was reading the books thread, I noticed that everything listed was fiction -- to the point that it seemed just wrong to talk about non-fiction in there. For some of us, though, it's more than just reading non-fiction. A long time ago, I decided that I want to have deep knowledge of all...

Or are there others out there that are better? I haven't listened to much music in a long time (my collection hasn't expanded since 2006), but now that I sit in front of a computer all day at work it has become important and very helpful. I remember Pandora from when I worked at NASA...

Premise 1: There are record levels of CO2, CH4, and N2O in the atmosphere that have never, ever been seen at any recordable point in history. Premise 2: Premise 1 is caused by humans. Premise 3: Because of Premise 1, the earth is going to warm up. Premise 4: Because of Premise 2, we can stop...

So I moved into a house close to my graduate school today (Dartmouth, in case anyone is in the area). The house kind of sucks, but isn't as bad as it could be by far. What does suck? I just moved away from my fiance, who I haven't been separated from for over a year. I am now all on my own in...

I think this is a bit different of a celebrity death than the others that have been going around lately, and also one I care vastly more about.

You may remember last year that I made a thread about Morrowind, which I had started playing. Well, I'm still playing Morrowind! But I managed to get my fiance interested in western RPGs (I reckon that makes me somewhat evil), and she asked me what was a good starting point for someone who has...

I was hoping he'd get a few years in the spotlight now that his old spotlight-hogging thief partner Gary Gygax was dead, but I guess it's not to be.

I don't actually play this game, because I don't own it yet. But I was thinking of getting it because it seems good. To push me over the edge: does anyone else here have it? And if so, would you be interested in playing some matches with me sometime?

I just started playing this recently (Guilty Gear XX #Reload for the Xbox) and man it is awesome! My new favorite fighting game. I'll definitely be getting Accent Core+ when it comes out in America. So uh for more stuff for the thread...I've been playing for about a week now. I played Ky for...

This came from another thread (which was locked), but I was wondering what other people felt about this topic. The first-person shooter genre is as static and unchanging as the women-in-prison genre of film. I like shooters, but I think the whole genre really peaked with Unreal Tournament and...

Starring Jack Black. Wasn't entirely sure if this should go in Congregation or here, but it's pretty funny.

I started and finished my Grand Theft Auto experience the other night with GTA 4. I really don't understand how this game is so highly rated...I got annoyed and quit about 3 hours in. I will say that the developers aimed for black humor and they absolutely succeeded. This is the second...

I was never sure if I'd be going to graduate school after college. So when I finally figured out that I'd be attending some graduate school (but definitely PhD graduate school if at all) after last summer, it was time for a bit of a panic. Over the course of my college years, I figured out...