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Super Smash Bros. Brawl is really fun. The physics are different from Melee, there are a ton of unlockable characters, stages, and items, and I hear that the online play is decent. I've been reading the smashboards lately and those people are serious, talking about the number of frames a certain character will be invicible after a particular move is a bit much for me.

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Thanks to everyone who mailed me their Pokemon tips. Every single person who mailed me stressed the importance of EV's and proper EV training over just about everything else. I was given some great links and spent a good chuck of the day yesterday reading everything I could about them.

I'm thirty years old now, and I've been playing games for more than twenty of those. I've seen some real bullshit in all that time and EV's are right up their towards the top of the list. As far as I can tell this is how they work. If your Pokemon fights another Pokemon that's really fast for example, it earns a point towards it's speed Effort Value (EV). For every four of these points that you get your Pokemon will gain one more point to it's speed stat when it levels up. Now each Pokemon awards EV's for different stats and some give points for multiple stats. The problem is that these EV's are invisible and limited. So there's only a certain number of them that a single Pokemon can take advantage of and there's no way to track them in game. I got tips like "create a spreadsheet for each of your Pokemon with rows for all their stats and manualy enter any EV's they get..."

Create a spreadsheet?

Then I started reading about IV's and I saw this shit:

Now that I've showed how much they can affect stats, let's grab the equation for determining a Pokemon's Individual Value. Keep in mind that this is NOT for Hit Points. That has its own equation.

IV = ((Math.Ceiling(Stat / Personality Value) - 5) * 100 / Level Value ) - 2 * Base Stat – Effort Points / 4

Are you fucking serious? I never got past algebra. All I want to do is show people my Pokemons, not build a Goddamn time machine!

So I started digging into serebii.net yesterday and I got my first glimpse at just how far this rabbit hole goes. I told myself I wasn't going to fall into it but I ended up spending the morning trying to acquire a new Chimchar with the preferred "jolly" nature. Once I'd done that I spent the afternoon EV training him on Ponytas and Machamps. I'm telling you this not because I am proud but because I need help. Someone needs to stop me before I start doing long division to figure out what kind of fucking berry I should feed my shittlesaur.

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
This is part of what I like about tabletop gaming. A munchkin can crunch the numbers and find the perfect min/max to create a character that inflicts an average of 26.7 points of damage with one slash of his falchion, but you, as the DM, have the simple right to say, "No." Or to have him run up against a quartet of orcs who figured out the same thing and watch him burn through cure critical potions like a grad student burns through Red Bull.

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
This is part of what I like about tabletop gaming. A munchkin can crunch the numbers and find the perfect min/max to create a character that inflicts an average of 26.7 points of damage with one slash of his falchion, but you, as the DM, have the simple right to say, "No." Or to have him run up against a quartet of orcs who figured out the same thing and watch him burn through cure critical potions like a grad student burns through Red Bull.

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Amazing Virtual Pee Experience from Japan

As any good geek should know by now Japan has some of the wackiest and most unusual products anywhere. So when we were visiting Tokyo recently and saw lines of Japanese schoolgirls waiting to play an amazing new game for the Wii called Super Pii Pii Brothers we were only a little surprised. After all with games like WarioWare and Raving Rabbids the Wii is no stranger to crazy gameplay mechanics... but it was quite unusual to see the "strap-on" style accessory and peeing action that Pii Pii Brothers provides

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Originally posted by Thirith & His Enormous Tibia:
Having finished the Neverwinter Nights expansion Mask of the Betrayer (possibly the best written, most intriguing CRPG since Planescape Torment

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Mask of the Betrayer (

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Originally posted by Mr. Chadtastic:
Is this for the first Neverwinter Nights or NWN 2? I find it amazing when people finish campaigns, because I haven't finished a single one in Neverwinter, I keep finding new things to do or things to break and steal in the old campaign.