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The idea for this occurred to me as soon as I read the strip, but I was busy Nuzlocking Pearl at the time. Evolving Mouseover text: Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one team member on the front lines long enough for the experience to cause evolution. The...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10501154.stm This is the first all-sky map created by the European Space Agency's Planck space telescope. It images in the microwave wavelengths. For one, this is an absolutely brilliant image. It will I think become recognised as one of the...

Who should win (or if posting after the results were announced, should have won) Eurovision. No time to make a poll, I have pizza waiting for me, so just write in. My vote is for Turkey.

I think it would be a good idea if we had a Frequently Rejected Suggestions thread in this forum, for the ideas that people (usually but not necessarily newcomers) regularly post and have been rejected many times before. The first one that springs to mind is the introductions thread / forum...

The server clock is about 6 or so minutes fast. I submitted this post at 23:03 BST, as timed here: http://www.atomic-clock.org.uk/atomic-clock.php Might be an idea to get it corrected. It's a bit confusing to see posts that appear to come from the future.

For the past couple of weeks, I've known that the EU and IMF were considering bailing out Greece, to prevent it defaulting on its debts. The amounts being talked about were 30-40 billion Euros. Now I read that a 110 billion Euro bailout has been agreed. How has it come to this, that money is...

I'm sure many people here have at some point played a version of lunar lander. (If not, google it). And I'm also sure some of you have got bored of playing 'properly' and decided to deliberately crash at high speed. The question then is How do you obtain the maximum impact speed for a given...

How's this component list for a new PC?? I'm planning on building a new PC. (To run exclusively Linux). I've put together a parts list, but would like opinions before I spend my money. The budget is £250-300 inc. VAT. I am using an existing hard drive, optical drive, and PCI WLAN card, so...

Does anyone know any good 'serious' racing games for the DS? I'm looking for an experience like that of the Gran Turismo or Forza series. Plenty of cars, realistic handling, and ideally some good tuning options. (I love tweaking stuff like suspension and gear ratios in GT, and you really can...

Move descriptions should include contact behaviour The move descriptions should include more information, including: Contact. Relevant for a few abilities. It's not synonymous with physical - Earthquake springs to mind as physical but non-contact. Doubles behaviour. Relevant for double...

I think it would be a good thing to have an article explaining the tiering process we use. It should go over the concept of usage-based tiering, and the rationale behind it. Then it should include details, like what the precise definition and 'cutoff' of an OU Pokemon is. It should also describe...

On Shoddy 1, alts are very prevalent. But I feel they should possibly be banned. The reason is that the way the ranking system works relies on a single player having a single ranking. With alts that's no longer true. If A, who's main account is a 1600 CRE, has an alt at a 1200 CRE, and they beat...

Rage Against The Machine's Killing In The Name is the 2009 UK Christmas Number 1. The internet has stuck its collective two fingers up at Simon Cowell :-D

Please try and stick to on-topic discussion about the Copenhagen Accord itself. Wider issues about the science and politics relating to climate change have been discussed at length in other threads. Copenhagen Accord...

I wonder if Smogon should have somewhere to discuss non-competitive aspects of Pokemon. We have ample space to discuss competitive battling, and space to discuss things unrelated to Pokemon (Congregation), but there's nowhere on the site we're allowed to talk about other aspects of Pokemon -...

I don't know if this has been discussed before, but I had an idea for a tactic in double battles, which I call 'pseudo-boosting'. This is all hypothetical at the moment, I haven't playtested it (seeing as how double battle isn't on current Shoddy and I don't battle WiFi) The idea is simple -...

I think it would be a good idea if there was an article introducing the process of building a team, aimed at beginners. Some kind of a walkthrough or guide that someone new to competitive battling can follow to make a reasonably good team. There are lots of guides about specific play styles, but...

Surely the granddaddy of all competitive games. Anyone here play much? I've tried online playing before, but it all seems to be blitz, which isn't my style, I need time to think. I should have got involved when I was at uni, but never did. I have a computer, but it's not really the same as...

The Natures links don't work. They link to pages like http://www.smogon.com/dp/natures/timid , which don't exist.

Is there any discussion of 3v3? It's mainly of interest because that's how the Battle Frontier mostly works, but perhaps it could provide an alternative metagame?