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Registeel.

Also, Team Rocket are pretty Nuremberg too.

Registeel.

Also, Team Rocket are pretty Nuremberg too.

I work in government IT. My facility has two Pokemon gyms. I found a Zubat Pokemon at the bus stop down the street.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Zubat_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Gotta catch 'em all.

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/7/77/201Unown.png/250px-201Unown.png

Personally, I would pay to watch Ash sent to Mars, to subsequently be forced out of an airlock

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden....

we should collaborate, make our own game that's nothing but microtransactions

I believe that game is called "Bitcoin". It even has a character named after the protagonist of Pokemon.

...would have to be Nintendo/GameFreak's profanity filtering for online submission of Pokemon battles.

The filter prevents battles from being submitted where one of the monsters' nicknames contains a profanity. Makes sense, probably wise. But it also prevents battles from being submitted containing a certain non-nicknamed monster (give it a nickname, and it'll go on straight through). I mean, how do you not have a whitelist for something like that?

But we know who this Satoshi is.

do you dream of Electric Sheep?

No, but Pokemon trainers dream of electric mice.

If you're not cop, you're little people!

And even if you are a cop, you can still be little people.

If seeing the non-free film Blade Runner is a requirement of keeping a geek card valid, what method do you recommend to see this film without breaking the law, both inside and outside the United States? Redbox carries only new releases.

although there are 21 million bitcoins there is an endless fractal 0.00000001 of a bitcoin

1e-8 BTC is nicknamed a "satoshi" after the pseudonym of Bitcoin's creator. Why not call it an "ash" outside Japan? It'd make sense on two levels: an "ash" is a very small particle, and Ash is the name for the Pokemon character Satoshi outside Japan.

No, you ninny, everyone know you use a Sun stone to evolve to evolve their pokemon! ;p

Looks more like Moltres

Just north-northwest of Nizhny Novgorod is what appears to be one of the Pokeymans.

Why would ANYONE bring Nazi Germany into a discussion about swastikas? I suppose nobody should mention slavery and the Rebel flag either?

Maybe you just played too much Pokemon:

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Koga's_Ninja_Trick_(Gym_Challenge_115)

Figure it out slowpoke.

What does slowpoke have to do with anything?

Not everything in this life will just be handed to you.

You made the claim that "Appliance fans are deluded", yet you don't want to help me find a reputable effort to promote ending this delusion. I search Google for HTPC forums, yet I find a bunch of forums with only 15 new topics in the past six years (case in point). One thing I've never been able to get Google to assess is the reputability of a given resource.

Live sports are for going to and watching at the bar with friends.

Not for fans under 21.

The Cyrillic alphabet has its R, whose glyph is the same as a Latin P. (The Greek capital rho also looks like a Latin P.) This glyph with lines through it is the symbol of Pokemon universe currency.

DSLRs can have big lenses on them. How can you tell whether or not its got an RPG hidden inside it

A DSi also has a camera, but people routinely hide RPGs inside them.

I have found a very interesting source of information about the poke-berries.

So the purple pokeberry yields cheap solar power, too? I thought it just cured some HP and confused some pokemons.

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Wiki_Berry

Wikipedia can't be the solution to every information-gathering problem. And despite some slogans to the contrary, it clearly doesn't want to be. It has policies of Notabiliy, No Original Research, and Neutral Point of View that effectively make it unsuitable for certain information. If you want in-depth, exhaustive information about other topics, you consult a more specialized resource, such as drum and bugle corps, Star Wars, Star Trek, garden flowers, movies, Pokémon, Peter Pan, travel, alternate realities, etc. Wikipedia even has a mechanism for interwiki linking to many of these resources, recognizing them as independent specialty resources.

Water beats Rock, Fire, and Ground.

Water is vulnerable however to Grass and Electric.

Here's a helpful chart.

Your Bo bo in my Ho-oh?

I think that the natural progression will simply be to link to specialized wikis. There are already tons, from Blubapedia (Pokémon) to Memory-Alpha (Star Trek)
 
Why have "a page for every Pokémon" on Wikipedia when you can have one page explaining the basics, and a link to an expansive wiki of solely Pokémon. It will probably never happen, but I'd like to see a "One Page per Franchise" rule on Wikipedia. If a movie/series/band/company needs more than a single page, it should have its own wiki. If we're putting up a page per-product, or per-character, or per-episode, then there's a need for the subject to be in something more specialized than a general encyclopedia.
 
Wikipedia broke ground as a user-editable encyclopedia. What it failed to do was set clear standards for what was to be included. It's useful to have a page on every general topic. It's not useful to have a hundred pages on each general topic.
 
I doubt it will go anywhere, but "One Page per Franchise" is my new rallying cry for Wikipedia.

Unless they use Gravity yes.

Of course it would start working right after I post... http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mew_glitch

They just don't make glitches like they used to in my day...

How about an entire Glitch Pokemon? http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Missingno. In orderto figth it you have to go for the training of how to catch a pokemon, fly somewhere, and then surf.

And best of all is that it duplicates the item in your 6th slot 150 times. There is also a strange truck that you can use push on(???)

And a very strange bug to get mew(supposed to require going to a nintendo event)

Later games even had a very slow saving sequence, making Pokemon duplication easy

Geodude > Graveler > Golem http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Geodude_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Dr. Brock Takeshi, Pewter City Athletic Association

I was thinking more along the lines of radioactive stones.

It's a Snorlax!

It'll be fuelled by moderately enriched uranium, much like a Slowpoke

I wish everyone would just stop copying pokemon!

Generally, one you've raised from a lower level will be stronger than one that's freshly caught. However, in the older generations you could continue training them even once they'd reached level 100, and they'd be the same. For a better explanation check out http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Effort_valu es

I see the first few comments are all very negative about this game.

Yet I am 18 and greatly enjoy the game. It's got a fun storyline, a wider variety of Pokemon (the magic number is now 493), and at long last decent graphics.

And I know I'm not the only one. I moderate the Diamond/Pearl forum over at Bulbagarden, which is home primarily to a number of older fans, many of whom are older than I am. Say what you will, this game is not just for children. Just because there's no graphic violence and language in it, that doesn't mean it's not fun by a long shot.

That said, I don't own a copy of the English version yet (still playing with my Japanese import of Diamond), but I'll be getting it soon enough.

- Trip