Saturday Sketch

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Here we have "Some things just should not be" by Spookydoom. I'll let Spooky explain this a bit:

"It comes from seemingly nowhere out of the ocean to inflict it's unintelligible mass of garbled horror upon your character's mind, breaking it in the process of trying to understand what he's seeing. This is shown, as the glitch has side effects after seeing it, like the mangled up hall of fame and somehow believing he has infinite copies of some item in his bag. Furthermore, when you meet him in the later versions, Gold and Silver, the poor guy's been rendered so insane that he can no longer speak, and has become a recluse in a cave."

I don't think I could've explained it any better (:

Anime Milwaukee Live Podcast

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2011 for us seems to be off to a great start! We have the live podcast next week on January 12th, we are going to be at the Midwest Gaming Classic in March, and now in February we will be at Anime Milwaukee at the Hyatt Center in Downtown Milwaukee. 

If your in the Midwest area and you love Anime and/or you love Pokémon and our show, then you should come down on February 19th at 9AM to hear us live for an hour and a half. 

Stay tuned for more details!

Hope to see everyone there!

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AOTW: Intimidate

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It’s Friday, folks! And that means it’s time to learn about another Ability. But first, a quick correction from last week’s article about the generational starter Abilities; in my example, I stated that Surf had a base damage of 80, when it’s actually 95. At first, I thought that this was a recent development, but a quick query on Bulbapedia reveals that Surf has always dealt 95 damage, so I don’t know what I was thinking.

This week, we’re talking about an Ability that I noticed a lot in my initial play-through of generation four: Intimidate.

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MOTW: Heat Wave

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It’s that time of the week again guys! This MOTW we’re going to be talking about Heat Wave. Now you may be wondering, “Why Heat Wave? There’s nothing special about that move.” You’d be right in thinking that. There really isn’t much special about it, BUT there are some key strategies behind it that every Pokemon trainer should be aware of.

Heat Wave was introduced back in gen III and only 3 Pokemon could actually learn it by leveling up. Charizard, Moltres and Torkoal. If you’ve listened to any of our podcast episodes you’ll

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Episode 025 Will Be Live... Kinda...

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So you might of noticed that there will not be a podcast this week. Sad... I know. First... I have a ton of video games to catch up on, and even though the episodes are about an hour long, they consume about a 4 hour span. I'm just being honest.

BUT - Episode 025 will be hosted on Blog Talk Radio. What does that mean for you guys?

Well, this episode will take place on Wednesday, January 12th at 7:30 PM (Central Time).

This means:

You can listen to us live at that time (7:30PM Central Time)

There will be a Toll-Free number you can call into and you can be on the show!

We will be doing some speed rounds of Pok mon stuff. Listeners can call in, and we can just talk. This will all be live and then for those who can't listen to the show then, it will be recorded for iTunes and RSS readers later.

Cool?

Any questions, let us know!

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PokéFact: Things Unseen

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It's your favorite time of week again! That's right, PokéFactDay-- otherwise known as Tuesday, if you don't like the bizzar looks when you say Happy PokéFactDay! In celebration of the new year and to brighten your day because you keep writing "2010" and then needing to cross out the last two digits and replace them with "11" since you're not use to writing the date yet, we have TWO semi-facts that some people have probably noticed already, while others weren't paying close attention. And I even made animations for you!!! Aren't I nice? So here are two things you might have not noticed why watching/playing/reading Pokémon. 

 

First, if you look at Diglett you notice he has his body, two eyes and a nose. Pretty normal right? But what if it isn't a nose. Look again: See the white spot towards the top left of his "nose"? (inside the yellow circle if you didn't notice my helpful hint) What if it is in fact really not a...

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PKMN of the Week: Salamence

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Lets kick off 2011 with a powerhouse!

Salamence have long, heavy tails which can catapult enemies that enter its territory yards into the air at an instant. Its extremely rough and sturdy body is quite tough and hard to penetrate, especially its almost metallic, red, blade-like wings. Salamence have long necks which allow them to take in deep breaths to store and charge very intense Dragon and Fire attacks.

Triva:

  • Salamence shares the same species name with Horsea, Dratini, and their evolutions. They are all known as Dragon Pokémon.
  • Salamence is, along with Shelgon, the only Dragon-type that can learn Rollout.

Source: Bulbapeida

 

Recap of 2010 PKMN of the Week

Starting 2011

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Hello Fellow Trainers,

First off, I want to THANK EVERYONE who comes to the site, participates in forums, and listen to the shows. I also want to give a special shout out to all our KINDLE subscribers. Why the Kindle Subscribers? Well they pay .99 cents a month to read us anywhere, and that is awesome, thank you for your support, you help keep the site running.

I hope everyone had a great New Years. I wanted to write this letter to not only kick off 2011 on a good note, but to mention our new feature. For a long time some Trainers wanted Forums. I delievered that and called it PokéTalk a couple months ago. The PokéTalk forums were a light soultion to a small demand. We also have a lot of Trainers who comment, and in doing so, they have to fill out a card every time (annoying). Today! Starting Jan 1st, 2011, Trainers can now register for the site and create an account (all for free). This lets our audience have sign in accounts that will remember when the visit the site. Trainers can have their own user name and everything! Pretty great! I'm excited to bring it to you all finally.

Let's talk a bit of history of the site. PKMNcast started on July 28th, 2010. The main reason for starting the site was to complement my main focus of having an awesome Pokémon Podcast, which is famously called "It's Super Effective". I can't believe how many of you have reviewed us and listen to us, it's so awesome. I love the fan mail and everything that comes with doing the shows. Since July, we've built an awesome site for our fan base. We've also started to sell shirts. We have more merch for the 2011 pipeline too! I want to be very personable with all of you listeners, readers, fans, etc, so here are some crazy statistics. 

For the year of 2010 we've had 95,910 page views. Featured Team is our most popular page to view. Our biggest source of traffic is Reddit. The most traffic comes from Mac OS X with 28.84% topping our second most Win XP with 23.19%. We have 79 Reviews in iTunes. 68 of those are 5 Stars.

We are still trying to get to 100 reviews to give out our free Pikachu charger.

So overall, I just want to say Thank You to everyone who supports the site, you all rock! 

Enjoy the new features and keep letting us know what you want! We want to be the best Pokémon site and Podcast around. Woot!

Editor in Chief 
Steve aka SBJ 

Background Obtained

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So, SBJ and I chatted while i was at his place this past Wednesday to record Critical Hit and It's Super Effective and I mentioned posting Pokemon backgrounds every other week for you guys to download. Thanks, Wil, for making me think of this in the first place!

I normally post the Saturday Sketch at 12am for those insomniacs like myself BUT, I'm going to post these at noon as a little something extra! We'll see how this goes (:

You can download this awesome Gengar background here. When I have photoshop back on my machine i'll make different resolutions for everyone's monitors.