Tomas Elliot

I just thought I would address this. I am a devout christian. A catholic, in fact. And I think, no offense, that this point is absolutely stupid, the exact kind of thing that could only be a concern in America (it should be clear by now that I don't have the highest opinion of America as a country). Allow me to make something clear: "marriage" is a term that refers to two very different things. In some religions, "marriage" refers to a ritual performed in the name of God (or the gods, depending on the religion) following a very specific procedure. If said procedure clearly states "sorry, this ritual is not for homosexual people", then homosexual people don't get it. When in Rome, do as the romans do. When you are in a church, you play by the rules of the church. But in legal jurisdiction, "marriage" refers to the civil right two PEOPLE (notice the term "people": there is no constitution in the entire western world that makes an exception for homosexual people) have to form a family together, in the process gaining access to a number of privileges. As this is a civil right guaranteed by the constitution, it is the duty of public officials (in Italy for example it is the major of a town who has this duty) to administer this civil right for anyone who requests it, regardless of color of the skin of sexual orientation. Therefore, being heterosexual and a devout catholic christian, when I get married it will be in a church, in front of a priest. Meanwhile, my gay pal will get married in the city hall, in front of the major. I won't interfere with his right, and he won't interfere with mine. How does this discriminate me in any way? Golden Rule of democracy: you are free to do as you please as long as you don't limit the freedom of somebody else. How do gay people getting married limit my freedom? Quite honestly, I could care less.

So there aren't gay texans? That's a very bold statement. Jokes aside, I think the mere fact that Sparky's opinion is being discussed here (or that Sparky felt the need to make his opinion known in the first place) proves my earlier point: there is a big big problem with people, if they cannot differentiate opinions from laws when it comes to these matters. People are entitled to their personal likings. And their personal likings should be their own private business: you like gay people? Who cares. You dislike gay people? Who cares. As mentioned earlier, I dislike people in general, so you could state that you hate gay people and you want to kill them all, for all I care. That has NOTHING to do with the topic at hand. The topic at hand has to do with the laws that govern a democracy. Which are based on cunstitutional principles and international jurisdiction involving civil rights, not on personal likings. Getting married is a right of all citizens, homosexuals are citizens, homosexuals are entitled to the right of getting married. End of discussion. Voicing your opinion is also a right of all citizens, you are a citizen, so you are entitled to the right of saying that you don't think homosexual unions are not "true" unions. It is an opinion deserving of respect like any other opinion, as long as it is expressed politely (on this regard, I was kinda expecting you to be flamed and hated by those Alexus called the "wolves", I am glad this was not the case. A civilized discussion on matters like these is a rare sight). However, being a personal opinion, it is absolutely irrelevant for the topic at hand. In short: you might not like the fact that people are entitled to a right, but they are entitled to it regardless. Heck I don't like the fact that people in Italy who miss good old Mussolini (and I hope it is clear that the "good old" part is sarcastic) have the right to vote, but they have it nonetheless. That's democracy for you.

Well if that is the case, then the situation is even worse than I stated in my previous post: on what basis one could make a law that is blatantly in contrast with the most basic principles of the costitution? Geez, my heart realy is glad that I am not american: certain things that happen in my country already piss me off to the point of worsening my heart condition, if I was american I would have gotten a friggin' infart by now. I knew I shouldn't have read this topic, there is no chance in hell I can get some sleep now. Seriously, these are exactly the things that have the power to ruin my mood.

You know, I think this whole thing about "allowing homosexual marriages" is absolutely screwed up. In many countries, including my own, I see huge debates about whether or not homosexual marriages should be allowed (or, like in my country's case, if such marriages should have all the civil rights, including adoption and the possibility for a partner to keep on receiving the other's pension if he/she dies)... But you see, in order to "allow" something, the first requisite is that the something in question has to be forbidden in the first place. Has there ever been a law that specifically said "homosexual people cannot get married and/or adopt kids and/or access each other's pension in case of death"? If, like in my country, such an explicit law does not exist, then common sense demands tht we refer to the costitution. And the costitution explicitly states that all human beings are equal in front of the law, which implies that they should all get the same civil rights. Because of this, it makes no sense to debate over "allowing" homosexual people to have those rights: since there isn't, to my knowledge, a law that states that being homosexual caues you to lose your citizenship (not in my country, not in the USA and not in any other western country AFAIK), homosexual people should be automatically entitled to such rights, and merely thinking otherwise is absolutely nonsensical. There is nothing wrong in not liking homosexual people, heck I myself don't really like people in general, but personal likings have absolutely nothing to do with the administration of a democracy: in a democracy all citizens have some civil rights that are set in stone, homosexual people are citizens, so homosexual people are entitled to those rights like everybody else. It's that simple. The fact that this is not the case, the fact that we need LAWS to FORCE people to recognize that yes, homosexual people should have the same rights as anybody else, says a lot about the level of ignorance and bigotry in the socalled "modern" democracies. Which would lead me to tell you about what happened that time that I watched WWE with a gay friend of mine and we happened to see a Divas match, what he said in that occasion, and the massive critique of human society that one episode sparked... Which would result in an insanely long rant which I would rather avoid, so I better cut my blathering short here and now.

You find it interesting to make bread?

Well we do have a Spearow, as well as something that might be considered a Mankey... Not sure about the Nidoran tho. I mean we have a plethora of Pokemon with similar characteristics, but none of them completely fits the Nidoran archetype.

Somebody said "Generation Se7en"?

Considering this is Reborn, I would be surprised if she hadn't.

"A couple months" would be chapter 2, 3 if we are lucky, meaning that more than half of our creations won't have been revealed by that point yet. Kinda early to make a fav thread EDIT: and getting back on track, I have cycled between many Pokemon I have considered as my "fav" however a Pokemon that has remained constantly in my top 5 since the very first time it was introduced would be Wobbuffet, so yeah, special mention for that. As for the Se7en Pokemon announced this far, I would have to say #FOLD of course, however there are some I like more among the ones we haven't announced yet Oh and Bloanmega. Now that I think about it, Se7en actually would make it relatively easy to make a Dragon monorun...

Can I name one or more Pokemon from Se7en?

http://replay.pokemonshowdown.com/ounomega-243428971 TFW a random forfeit gives you an extra position on the ladder for free... http://i.imgur.com/zVz0WlQ.png Also lol I am still using Se7en promotional team.

Curious to see if someone will actually use them as avatars lol

I would just like to point out that you recommended Thundurus-I because it gets Psychic, but the set in the spoiler doesn't include Psychic O.o