Sunday, April 26, 2009

Welcome

This is my weblog dedicated to discussion of Pokémon. My initial focus will be a series of blog updates in which I discuss proposed changes to the game's structure, but in the future I may use this blog to discuss strategies, personal stories, or perhaps even other aspects of the Pokémon franchise such as the television series or the trading card game.

The target audience for this weblog is a small number of personal friends, but strangers are welcome to join in on the discussions. I would advise you to not waste your time replying to any blog update which is both older than one week and no longer on the front page. When both of these conditions are met, it means nobody is going to see your reply, including me, and the point of any reply you make should be to join in on discussion, not to have the last word in a conversation that is already over and done with.

I may post a list of resources in the future, but for the time being I would suggest the following three names: Smogon when wanting to learn about the current tournament-grade players' strategies and movesets, and your pick between Serebii and Bulbapedia when wanting to look up basic information about moves, stats, items, and other information about the video games. I don't endorse any of these sites personally -- in fact, I rather dislike Serebii ;p -- but I'm recommending them to you as sites which I believe will serve you well if you do not already have a solid resource for Pokémon information.