<p>Napoleon even has a cake named after him.</p>
<p>That’s reason enough to start a conversation.</p>
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<p>Cool, battle tactics. Here are some of mine:</p>
<p>Always start off with a “normal” type pokemon with a lot of hp. That way no matter what your opponent’s first pokemon is, you won’t be put at an elemental disadvantage. Another good strategy to confuse your opponent is to use tm’s to teach your pokemon a variety of attacks of a different type than their main element. Ex: teach your charizard solar beam so that when your opponent pulls out a blastoise and thinks he has the upper hand, you knock him back to Pallet Town with a uber-grass attack.</p>
<p>My strategy: Capture that invincible Red bird that Ash saw. Then kill all other Pokemon.</p>
<p>my strategy: gameshark. </p>
<p>but no seriously, what i usually tend to do is hyperdevelop my lead “star” pokemon (i.e. bulba, pikachu (in yellow ver) , etc) like about 5 to 8 levels above the boss’s pokemon, w/ all my other pokemon about 4-5 levels below them. it usually works, except for the first city, cuz brock is like rock and you need butterfree to take down onyx, but then it’s just a stupid useless **** afterwards 
i think the best pokemon i ever had was a level 95 flareon w/ body slam as it’s main attack.</p>
<p>Octavian Augustus was a much better man, a forger of the Western Civilization that would serve as the bedrock for the advancement of Europe.</p>
<p>Oh come on you people aren’t really discussing pokemon strategies are you? Well regardless I was undefeated in my red version, but I’d prefer not to give away my precious strategies. After all, such powerful knowledge could do serious harm in the wrong hands.</p>
<p>~I like to start my battles with a fast electric-type pokemon like Zapados, so I get the ~first move and can thunder wave the enemy and paralyze him. Then I switch to my ~uber-cheap Mewtwo, or one of the new & generic legendary pokemon. Did you guys ~know that Pokemon Diamond/Saphire will be released in English next month? You’d ~have to have a DS though because there are no GC/GCR-DS adapators available yet, ~and the technology to play DS on computer hasn’t developed yet. </p>
<p>~Hey did you hear Ash Ketchum’s newly changed voice? Sounds like he had a ~sex-change operation. He has this deep, seductive voice and sounds even more ~gay than usual, “Thanx proffessssssor! I am sooooo physched.” </p>
<p>Ash is my role model too! Watch his staunch character-it never changes through the entire series. (His character also never develops.) Ash is a fatherless child who opposes the tyrany of Team Rocket who rule the anarchy of the pokemon world. Ash never behaves promisculously around women and is perfectly immune to all girls and only has loyalty to his Pikachu. He also is a fast-thinker who rushes into dangerous traps to show his bravery. He catches every pokemon he sees with an elaborate dance that showcases his DDR skills. He’s also skilled at pitching baseballs, camping, making friends wherever he goes and convincing people to let him sleep for free at their house.</p>
<p>Aparantly, he is also good at persuading Brock to carry all of the pots, tents, and camping equpment, as well as cooking all the meals and pitching the tens.</p>
<p>Observe Ash’s awesome denim coat, his training gloves, and stylish baseball cap and dashing good looks.? He also wears matching jeans and a white shirt under his vest. He is the epitome of sexiness! Or he was until the animators changed his outfit after Hoenn in an attempt to make him easier to animate.</p>
<p>…Unlike in the games, Ash is a humanist and will NEVER catch a pokemon AGAINST it’s will, because he loves all of God’s creatures. Although once he does catch them, he will force them to use their dark and phychic powers to attack relentlessly until his pokemon can no longer stand. If during a gym battle, one of Ash’s pokemon collapses he will beg and shout at his pokemon to stand and fight some more because Ash loves his pokemon and wants them to survive in life. The bond Ash shares with his pokemon means that his pets will always follow his outstretched finger and battle cries with more fatalism than followers of Bushido. </p>
<p>The reason Ash loves his Pokemon is that Ash isn’t interested in girls and needs some talking offspring to leave in his legacy. Another benefit is that Ash is good to his pokemon, like lickitounge, so he won’t need a girl to please him in the later parts of his life. Ash has found a way to survive without the comforts of women. He is a shining ray of hope for geeks on the CCforum.</p>
<p>pokemon is so old.</p>
<p>tiberius, caesar augustus really was at best mediocre. gibbon hardly praises him. in fact, he praises some of the later emperors like aurelian, probus, diocletian (and the his co-emperor and their adopted caesars)</p>
<p>napoleon stole a lot of art from italy. he’s also mediocre. napoleon also copied some of alexander’s battle tactics.</p>
<p>alexander’s tactic: approached darius’s millions in the 45 degree angle with his elite heavy cavalry at the left end. this tactic was amied at only on thing: shove persian forces on darius’s center. it required incredible timing.
it’s so brilliant how alexander defeated darius with so few casualties on his side. also amazing that at gaugamela he avoided being outflanked by darius’s line which was one mile longer than his.</p>
<p>alexander killed cleitus because he was acting like an idiot. also alexander went through a three day fasting to mourn his death. in fact, after he killed cleitus, he was so horrified that he tried to kill himself by the same spear, but the guards restrained him.</p>
<p>there is only four instances of alexander’s cruelty in his whole campagin of thousands of expeditions and battles: Thebes, Tyre, Gaza and of course Persepolis which was sacked at a scale that only later sack of Constantinople by Turks can match.
apart from this, alexander was in every spect, great.</p>
<p>It’s a shame (cough) that he couldn’t go out with more dignity. After all, he is to have died after a fantastic drinking party.</p>
<p>What a stupid thread.</p>
<p>Edit: I never got a chance to play any other Pokemon version but Blue. I stopped playing when the mother of my best friend banned him from playing. Apparently, Charizard and Bulbasaour were devil incarnates.</p>
<p>Sucks for me. I actually had to start playing outside after that. =(</p>
<p>this is getting out of controul. please can we get back to the subject here! no more pokemon please! u realize that this is one of my useful threads here in this forum? most of my posts are crap, as u guys probably noticed: trying to be funny when it really isn’t. anyway…</p>
<p>i strongly recommend that u learn about alexander, instead of trying to criticize him. that oliver stone film is totally miscalculated. that the **** what he thinking depicting alexander as a drunkard??? damn it. now everyone thinks alexander is some ordinary attention-seeking self-pitying drunk because of that film. i hate hollywood’s lack of historical film’s integrity.</p>
<p>I like Pokemon.</p>
<p>wow…what have I started…</p>
<p>Colin Ferril used to be my hero, but now I have no respect for the man. Alexander has to have been one of the worst movies ever made, and it had so much potential.</p>
<p>I concur with the Alexander sucks comment. Not the man, the movie. Well, the man who played the man in the movie too 
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<p>But I love pokemon, I vote for that topic to continue on. I always had this weird obsession with Gloom(you know, the pokemon oddish evolves into, before Vileplume). The thing is, I found someone randomly who also loves Gloom. Maybe i’m not such a rare breed afterall. That’s one cute pokemon!</p>
<p>I have a big thing for EEvie. it’s cute.</p>
<p>is there any figure that is comparable to alexander? to my knowledge there is none. because as charizard said earlier about ash ketchum, he was completely impervious to women. not even the “most beautiful woman of asia” (arrian or plutarch) who was darius’s wife could that seduce this dashing hero. do we ever have leaders who did not indulge in women? absolute zero. in every war, there is rape. as psychologists theorized, men are more agressive, more sexually daring with the opportunity. without opportunity to engage in sex, men are not aroused.
yet, alexander, the lord of asia, declared son of amon-ra/zeus/jupiter, pharaoh, had the every means of indulgence at his disposal. but, he was obsessed with fame, glory, honour, bravery, military excellence, virtues so important for ancients, that he virtually gave up all human normal pleasures and desires. he essentially embedded his name in the face of history not as a great leader, but as a man more closer to a god, a man that represented classical superiority over modern technology, modern worhip of cheap mass production, efficiency, capitalist crap and lots of other *<strong><em>ed up bull *</em></strong>.</p>
<p>ever wondered why we study history, especially ancient history? because we suck!!! modern society is a devil’s sissy brain-child. it’s his cheezy version of inferno in which women, who retained certain evil trait from eve, become more powerful, men are dragged by this capitalist notion of free will which is nothing more than a worship of science which teaches man not to help his neighbours, but to crush and destroy and deceive and rape them for the sake of a thing called social darwinism. only one flaw that ancients had was that they were focused on cities which to this day are evil, it is a place of slavery, despotism, sexual immorality.</p>
<p>So anyway, what sauronvoldermort is saying is that Alexander was surpassed in greatness by Ash Ketchum. Nowadays Ash Ketchum is more widely recognized, rightly so, because he has fought hard for 10 years to free the world from the tyrany of Team Rocket-a mafia organization that rules the anarachy in the Pokemon world. Whereas Alexander fought for fame alone, Ash Ketchum fights for…well his his mom. Ash can also speak Pikachu, a dialect of the Pokemon language while Alexander can’t.</p>
<h2>Oh my favorite pokemon is charizard! I used to have a Japanese charizard card but I traded it away for a bunch of holograms. In Japanese, that is リザードン.</h2>
<p>But Gloom is pretty cool looking. And many people I meet say Eeve is really cute. The only problem is Eeve isn’t very strong and the evolutionaries look strange, don’t you agree?</p>
<p>ash ketchum is a dork, i wish i could strangle that pansy. and his pikachu…don’t eve ask. that pokemon is the worst. whenever i hear the high-pitched voice of that pokemon, i have a sudden urge to kick or destroy something. what is pikachu anyway? an elephant? anyway, the main reason why i hate ash is because he abuses his pokemons. his married to pikachu, but he cheats on him by having sex with his other pokemon like Bloom.</p>
<p>as for team rocket, they’re cool like me.</p>