Recent content by Berks

I just can't see a world where the veto mechanism doesn't induce a whole bunch of extra headache for everyone involved. It feels too difficult to "assure public trust" even with what most reasonable users would call sufficient because it's so easy to read bad faith into tiering decisions people...

bro put that ish down like NOTHING holyyyyy like i kept clicking the timestamp as you were eating and thinking "there's no way he gets this done in a minute" because you just looked so leisurely insane work here folks, this guy is going big leagues for sure

Carly Rae Jepsen is the most slept-on pop artist of our era... and it's Not Close. You might be thinking I'm crazy for saying it... but the numbers back it up. Don't believe me? I was skeptical at first, too. But when I saw the numbers, it was undeniable. Let me show you:

me no want big phone in car, want button / stick for feel cool when shift no die when look on freeway :afrostar:

goooooooo remoraiders!!!

I would like to just point out that if we ban Torchic we will have banned all 3 of the tier's Speed Boost users, and that probably only 1 of them is broken without it (Yanma is crazy)... seems like a pretty exceptional element to me!!

main counterpoints: Much of the OU thread in Policy Review has arguments that would mirror ours, including that Tera Blast is not suspectable under the current framework because it is not close to banworthy on all (or even most) of the Pokemon that can use it. This is the best objective...

this is really interesting because there was recently an update to the Smogon Tiering Policy Framework that clarifies how to identify non-Pokemon elements that are ban worthy: so let's think about Speed Boost in this framework! Is Speed Boost inherently broken in Little Cup? I think the answer...

Username: Berks Tiers Preferred (not binding): SWSH, USUM, ORAS Tiers NOT Played (binding): SV, ADV Time Zone: GMT-4 Forseeable inactivity: none!

goooooo remoraiders!!!

this is good but i would've loved to hear more of kdot's patented labored breathing

heroes don't do that

this is BIG stuff, folks, get this man a team!!