Soma2035

Schools have strict rules. If it's a prescribed drug, you are required to notify the school before bringing it onto campus. Heck, even some over the counter drugs need to be announced. I take allergy pills, and the school security guard told me that I needed to notify the nurse I was bringing them onto campus (we got along fairly well so he didn't really get too upset over it). I think the real problem here is that they conducted the search based on what was said by another 13 year old. That part is pretty ridiculous, that's hardly good evidence at all. Or did the school honestly think 13 year olds would never lie? Oh wait, that can't be right, since they didn't believe her when she said she didn't have them... Anyhow, I agree with Riku. It seems to be blown waaaaaay out of proportion... I'll admit, since it hadn't been declared if she had had it on her, I would have agreed to the search as far as her locker/bag/pockets/lining of some clothing. But its the fact they took it as far as a strip search that has me outraged. 1) Because they don't have that sort of power, and 2) She's a [bleep] minor. 1) It wasn't a strip search... they did take it a bit far, but really not past the line where it needs to be made a big deal of. If they had any better evidence, like having found evidence of drug distribution or such, then I feel it would've been fully justified. Albeit, it would've been better to find a police officer to perform the search... 2) So what...? Every student on a middle school campus should be a minor. Does that mean the rules should not be enforced? There are rules against drug possession and use for very good reasons, and strict limitations on how drugs should be used. These are all meaningless if you can't enforce them on the grounds that "the students are minors." As someone already said, hiding the drugs in more intimate locations is fairly common, hence, why strip searches exist... Also, we are talking about a middle school right? Like, they have a gym and all, where they have a female coach who walks by every day with 12-13 year old girls changing, probably seeing them in their underwear at one time or another? Like someone else already stated, this was the nurse and another female staff member...

Schools have strict rules. If it's a prescribed drug, you are required to notify the school before bringing it onto campus. Heck, even some over the counter drugs need to be announced. I take allergy pills, and the school security guard told me that I needed to notify the nurse I was bringing them onto campus (we got along fairly well so he didn't really get too upset over it). I think the real problem here is that they conducted the search based on what was said by another 13 year old. That part is pretty ridiculous, that's hardly good evidence at all. Or did the school honestly think 13 year olds would never lie? Oh wait, that can't be right, since they didn't believe her when she said she didn't have them... Anyhow, I agree with Riku. It seems to be blown waaaaaay out of proportion...

Darkrai, Kyogre, Palkia, Scizor, Garchomp, Lugia, Parasect, Deoxys-A, Deoxys-S, Mewtwo, and Ludicolo are all decent choices. Tyranitar is probably not so good of a choice...

The world is garbage. Props to anyone who knows the speaker of this quote.

Alive is good. Living is better.

Taken straight from wikipedia: Pi is not a number. Pi is a limit. As x approaches infinity, the value of the function approaches Pi. Pi is never actually reached, because infinity is never actually reached. The same is true of all irrational or transcendental numbers. In a mathematical sense, they are not numbers in the same way 5, 10, or 2.5 are. Limits can be numbers. Not all limits are numbers. Any limit that can not be represented without the use of infinity is not a number, and the "..." afterwards is just that, a representation of infinity.

Rather than responding to any responses to my original post, I thought I would simply post a clearer, simpler logical proof as to why 0.999... is not 1. I think everyone has heard of this theoretical situation. A pie is baked and left on the counter. Each person who sees it takes half of what is left. Will the pie ever be taken? This is a logic question that is asked fairly frequently, that most of you have heard of. However, this question is bound by one major constraint: how small can pie get? Simply put, pie can not be infinitely small. Eventually, you'll have a crumb. If you go farther, you'll have a speck of dust. If you go as far as to bring out micro technology, you could have an atom. Then what? You break the atom in half? Eventually, you'll have to stop. However, let's rephrase this question to remove the size constraint. You have a number. You repeatedly take away 90% of what remains. Will the number ever be entirely gone? What you have taken away can be represented as f(x) = 1 - 0.1^x What you have remaining can be represented as g(x) = 0.1^x The size boundary is no longer an obstruction. f(1) = 0.9 g(1) = 0.1 f(2) = 0.99 g(2) = 0.01 f(3) = 0.999 g(3) = 0.001 I think this is a proof as clear as day. The formula is an accurate and direct mathematical representation of the scenario, and the rules of the scenario represented clearly state that you must always take only 90%. Simply put, there must always be something remaining. How many digits are in 0.9 repeating? Because this is how many times you have taken away 90% of the remaining value. Infinity is not a number, and thus, is only theoretical. 0.9 repeating does not actually exist. This is why all your proofs work: you fail to account for the fact that 0.9 repeating does not exist as a real number. The limit of 0.9 repeating is certainly one. Look at the equations once more. f(x) = 1 - 0.1^x g(x) = 0.1^x Look at the second equation, which is also the latter part of the first. Even if x is 10,000,000, or 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or a number even bigger, g(x) is not 0. g(x) can never be 0. Let's translate it to a fractional problem: g(x) = 1 / (10^x) Guess what? The one on top is still a one. HOWEVER The value below, as x approaches infinity, also approaches infinity. Thus, the limit of g(x) as x approaches infinity is 0. And therefore, the limit of f(x) as x approaches infinity, is 1. And the limit of f(x), as x approaches infinity, can also be written as .9 repeating, as essentially, you are just adding more 9s. .9 repeating is a limit. It is not a number. Saying .9 repeating = 1 is inaccurate, as 1 is a defined, real number whilst .9 repeating is not. No number with an infinite number of digits is "real". 1/3 is real, but in decimal form, it is a limit, as 1/3 can not accurately be represented in decimal form. You can either approximate, or treat it as a limit. Not pretend it's a real number with an infinite amount of digits, because nothing can have an infinite amount of digits.

0.999... != 1 The reason they're not equal is that 0.999... is not a number. 0.333... is not a number. It's an approximation of 1/3. If you were to divide 1 by 3, it would never end, there are an infinite amount of digits. The same goes for 0.999... How many 9s are there? Infinite. Infinity is not a number, and a number can not have an infinite number of digits. You could, and rightly, assume that it would infinitely remain 3, or 9, or whatever your number of choice. However, like pi and e[]/i], it is not truly a number, it is a limit. A limit is best described as a theoretical number, in my opinion. In some cases, the limit is also the true value of a function. For example, the limit of f(x) = x + 1, as x approaches 1, is 2. This means that as x gets infinitely close to 1 from either side, the answer becomes infinitely close to 2. In thise case, f(1) is also equal to 2. This holds true for some limits, but not all limits. For example, the limit of f(x) = x / x, as x approaches 0, is 1. As the value you enter gets infinitely close to x, the value remains 1. However, anyone with even the most basic mathematical knowledge can tell you that you can't divide by 0. 0 / 0 is not 1, it simply does not exist. x / x as x approaches 0, on the other hand, exists as the limit of 1. So how is this relevant? 0.999... is NOT a number. It entails infinity, so it is the limit as the number of digits approaches infinity. That is the key misconception. The limit, as x approaches infinity, if x is the number of 9s, is one. However, .999... by definition can not equate to 1. The moment you perform any mathematical function on it, be it dividing it, multiplying it, adding to it, or whatever else you used in your proofs, your answer is no longer a number. Your answer is a limit. Tl;dr version: The limit of 0.9 repeating is 1. 0.9 repeating is not 1.

No, most people play on Shoddy. It's a simulator that you just pick whatever Pokemon for whatever team you want. The problem is, they're changing the rules for UU right now, so literally, every couple weeks the rules are different for testing. Making a UU team by capturing, selecting, and raising your own Pokemon in game is nonsensical, because you don't even know if those Pokemon will be legal, or completely outperformed by a former banned Pokemon that is now legal. If you want to build a UU team, you should do it after the rules are established. I mean, why take the time to design a team, capture the Pokemon, earn the TMs, train them to 100... only to realize the rules are different from what they were when you started and your star Pokemon was kicked out? Now you get to go back, redesign the team, capture replacements for a portion of your team, earn the TMs again, train them to 100... oh sorry the rules changed again.

Ray, you do realize right now Crobat is permitted in UU? UU is being restructured, so no one actually plays UU seriously, since the Pokemon that are considered UU are being changed literally every other week. Next week, Froslass may be back, here to completely obliterate Roserade. The week after, maybe both are banned. Trying to make a UU team on your DS is just stupid right now unless you're hacking. At least on shoddy you can rebuild your team every week in less than 20 minutes... EDIT: Oh, and Venusaur > Blastoise. Blastoise is particularly good if you need a Rapid Spinner though. If you're playing UU, try Moltres and Blastoise on the same team maybe (Yes, Moltres is UU). Moltres has great stats but loses half his hp to stealth rock. Blastoise with Rapid Spin deals with Stealth Rock. Hitmonlee is also great, particularly with choice scarf. And LOL. As I made this post, I just checked... Froslass was dropped back to UU. Roserade is the second most used lead, first being Ambipom, but Froslass was banned for those statistics. Both leads more common than Rosey will counter Rosey pretty well. Ambipom is faster, Fake out breaks your sash, any attack takes you down. Froslass is faster and can Taunt ASAP. Finally, the balance of a game usually doesn't hang on one focus blast. However, with sleep it is a different story. If you mess up your sleep, you potentially lose a Pokemon outright. The stakes are much higher on whether your sleep hits or not, whilst with Focus Blast, it usually depends on the situation. With Subgar, you'd risk a sub... and be forced to switch. Or you'd risk a death, but only if your opponent is risking a death too. With Sleep, especially on a lead, your looking at, A) It succeeds, your opponent's lead is possibly crippled. B) It fails, you lose your lead entirely. With Focus Blast, you can control the options, and you aren't expecting to use it unless the stakes are in your favor. That is, if it works, you get at least as much as you would have lost if it didn't.

Roserade is too zetta slow to pull that off. Base 90 speed doesn't cut it. Besides, the solar beam /sunny day combination isn't exactly very good... you do realize if they switch in a Tyranitar / Abomasnow as you hit Solarbeam, you will lose the sun, waste a turn charging up, be unable to escape, AND have a half power Solar beam. Or they could switch in a Blissey and laugh at your solar beam doing 20% despite STAB. Of course, if that happens, you're in a world of hurt, since the Blissey can feel free to throw paralysis and toxic at you, while softboiling away the damage. Or Seismic toss you. Sleep gives you only one free turn if you pull it off. The biggest problem here is that you chose a Pokemon who can't even assuredly pull off the sleep, and you're wasting your set up move. OU means Tyranitar, Tyranitar means it's very easy for your bright sunlight to just disappear. OU also means massive special walls. Even in UU, this is a bad idea, seeing as the free switch or set up turn can be used in much better ways.

Beldum has a catch rate of 3. In other words, it's ten times harder to catch than Dialga / Palkia, the same difficulty as Giratina. Now, on top of that, it only has one move which has recoil...

Lol. No problem. If you ever want a specific shiny that's chain-able, let me know. I haven't played this game for months but I certainly remember how to chain, and I can always see if I'm still any good at it. Only one rule: no sand storms or swarms. I remember my Beldum chain attempt... it took me forever just to get Beldum, then it took me three more forevers to get past ten. Then it broke at thirty

No, I don't. There's several easy ways to get Shinies. The first is chaining, obviously. I've successfully chained 90 Gastly once, 50 of them being shiny. The second one is more complicated, there's actually a system where you can hijack the RNG of the game itself, and manipulate it using your poketool thing. Using the RNG calculator, you can figure out exactly how many taps on which app you should make, that will "up" the RNG to a shiny. Then the next egg you hatch will give you a shiny. Third, trading is always an option, and there are enough players out there that even a 1 / 8192 rate is actually not that rare. You should be able to find what you want pretty easily... although take it with a grain of salt, it's possible they may have AR origins. Finally, I'm pretty sure save editing can be done without an AR... EDIT: Oh yea I forgot to mention, I don't have, nor have I ever had, an AR...

Your team really wasn't ready to deal with the menace I call Corona. ;)

Okay, I'll just wait on WFC until you're ready.

Ace, you still up for a fight? (I responded to your PM a bit late). I'm on WFC now, friend code is on page 27.

Palkia and Dialga are both neutral to ice (Water and Steel resist ice.)

Anyone up for another match?

I don't know really. Although this one is honestly a joke team, I had a real team against Shadow. I could play you again with that one if you wanted to see what Shadow faced, but it would be a slight bit unfair seeing as I've seen your whole team.

Thanks. I love how Magic Guard stops burn, poison, stealth rocks, [bleep]es, and weather all at once. It looks like your team is pretty solid. Good luck at your tournament. Don't go having nightmares about Cleffas tonight. :P

Good game. I was sort of hoping you'd bring out something faster than Cepheus, so Trick Room would let me finish it. Like Corona and Carina? :D

I can't believe you caught me on the switch with that pain split... that was horrible prediction on my part. :(

Did you level your Pokemon to 100 already? If so I can bring in my other team, if not I'll use the team I had before.