You seem to have a lot of strong, and IMO note worthy (pun intended) opinions about Pokemon. Both mythos and the games themselves. So my question is: are you for or against the PRIVATE use of hacked pokemon?

And a second bonus question from the same person: “Why don’t you put all of this in a book and sell it?! Seriously, I’d buy that shit…”

1. By ‘private,’ I would understand you to mean exclusively for single-player aspects of the game, neither using them in battles with other people (except with permission) nor offering them for trade?  I’ve honestly never really given it much thought, but it seems little different to cheating in any other single-player game.  If you’re going to go and rack up a bunch of wi-fi victories with a team of Pokémon you magicked up out of nothing, well, then you’re starting to devalue the time and effort your opponents have put into raising their Pokémon ‘honestly,’ but if you just want to stomp Diantha with a shiny Ho-oh because it looks cool, who am I to deny you?

2. Would you, when it’s all available on here for free?  Well, perhaps you would, at that, but I can’t think all or even most of my readers would.  Besides which, publishing a book would probably require me to deal with copyright law… since everything I do here most likely falls under ‘discussion or review’ I might well be okay there, but I feel I’m safer not trying to sell any of it.