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The front page told me the forums are quiet and I should do something about it. As a result, I'm trying to make a difference.

I'm loving this site. The Compare Pokemon gadget is very neat. :D

Much appreciated, citizen.

Man I need to work on the forums or something.

Logged in I am.

I will probably still use the site primary for random "does x learn y" queries.

Absol does indeed learn a non-Sucker Punch priority attack. Interesting.

I think OpenID is really straightforward. Even though for some reason the 'http://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id' gave me an error today, which is why I used /profiles/username and thus my avatar is different.

But yeah, I wish more places would use OpenID.

Way to make people come out of lurking, sheesh!

This site is mega useful, I continue to encourage people to give it a go since you can search literally anything(existing ingame, of course) and find it effortlessly.

I particularly like the 'compare Pokemon' feature; way easier to visualize Pokemon size scaled next to one another for drawing purposes, especially when they happen to be banging one another.

Alas, why must Gamefreak continue to calculate height and ignore length? Such dimensions obscure the projected size of elongated snake-like bodied Pokemon: Dragonair, Seviper, etc.

Alas, why must Gamefreak continue to calculate height and ignore length? Such dimensions obscure the projected size of elongated snake-like bodied Pokemon: Dragonair, Seviper, etc.

Don't forget Slowpoke. It's not as bad now, since B/W brings us back to the sprite with the raised tail, but it looked super-huge with its HG/SS sprite.

(Also my last post got eaten; who knows why.)

Yes! I've been silently complaining (albeit to myself) about the height vs. length thing ever since they added the relative size to the pokédex. They need to calculate length, or at least do some elementary math to figure up what the height of the sprite would be relative to its length for pokémon like Giratina (Origin), Onix, etc.

It's not that hard to figure out. If x number of Onix's total # of segments are raised up off the ground in its sprite, then you do a simple ratio to find out a (very rough) estimate of the sprite's height relative to Onix's pokedex size. I'm fairly certain for serpentine pokemon the pokedex size is actually their length anyway. They could do it, just like in Boy Scouts how they teach you to estimate a tree's height based on your standing a known distance from it, etc. It's actually a form of trigonometry.

On the upside, I guess the authentication mechanism acts as a filter to encourage at least slightly technically-minded guests?

I think veekun is a fabulous example of the value of open collaboration. I probably wouldn't know where to even start developing anything Pokémon-related if Eevee hadn't already gone to the trouble of agglomerating the data into a friendly format for public use.

I've used this site for ages, and apparently even logged in at one point (because I'm still logged in it seems), though I never did anything on the forums. But I guess I'll stop by and say hi.

Hi. OpenID is odd. But I like it.