Would you ever want evolutionary items, such as stones and traded items, to be non-consumable and work multiple times?

I don’t think so, no. I like that they’re ‘commodities,’ that there’s a cost to those evolutions. Making the items reusable would render them disappointingly trivial, I think – unless you also made them much harder to get and really emphasised the tremendous value such an object would have.

Do you play Minecraft? If so, what do you usually do in it?

Nope.

Dear Sir, What do you think of pokemon and trainer relationship overall? Negative? Positive? Mutual? A Need? A dependence evolved from something that was originally just business?

All of the above?

It’s sort of like asking “what do you think of cities?” or “what do you think of the ocean?” If you can give a simple answer, you probably don’t understand it very well. I mean, what can you say, ‘overall,’ about a concept that expresses the relationships between Ash and Pikachu, between Misty and Psyduck, between AZ and Floette, between Silver and his starter (whichever one it was), between the Gardevoir and the Gengar from Mystery Dungeon, and between Giovanni and Meowth? It’s all of those things and more, to different people and different Pokémon, in different places and at different times. Sometimes, maybe even a lot of the time, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be, but it’s also so utterly fundamental to the way the Pokémon world works that nothing else functions anymore without it. It’s life.

Ever watch the Hercules Disney movie and/or cartoon?

I think all classicists have seen the movie. For us, watching it is an internal struggle between pointing out all the things that are absurdly wrong with it and just reveling in the ridiculous campy goodness. The latter usually wins out.

Hi can you speak greek?

I can read and write in ancient Greek. I can also… sort of read some modern Greek, because a lot of words are still spelt the same way, but the pronunciation and syntax are completely different, so I can read it only with difficulty, and speaking it eludes me completely.

Would you consider fire type Pokémon to be bioluminescent, or is that classification only suitable for Pokémon equivalents of real world bioluminescent animals like Lanturn or Volbeat/Illumise?

Er… does it matter?

I sort of think the distinction is totally academic; to my knowledge, there are no real-world animals that just persist in a natural state of being on fire, so I’m not sure whether a real-world biologist, presented with a creature like that, would react by calling it ‘bioluminescent’ or by coming up with a new word altogether. I mean… if I’m being called upon to settle a bet or an argument or something… OED says bioluminescence is “the biochemical emission of light by living organisms,“ and, well… fire is a chemical reaction, all right, so I guess I’d say "yes, they are.”

Hello! Since you enjoyed Twitch plays Pokemon, I’d like to recommend the music from Church of the Helix Choir. They have three different songs–Bloody Sunday, All Terrain Victory, and Praise the Helix Fossil, all great in my opinion… I get chills listening to them sometimes, it’s amazing how they turned a bunch of jokes into something so powerful with just music. Anyway, I hope all has been going well for you!

I’m not really a musical person (understatement of the year, any of my friends will tell you), and I don’t think music really affects me in the way it does most people, emotionally speaking – but yeah, these are pretty neat. I particularly like Bloody Sunday; very solemn, almost haunting. One could almost use this whole endeavour as a case study in the creation of a religion – and only partially tongue-in-cheek, at that. Faced with meaninglessness, we create meaning; faced with luck, good or bad, we ascribe it to divine providence… and, of course, faced with the utterly banal, we create art and beauty. Again… neat.

Speaking of fairy type, if they ever remake the 2nd generation games again, or just reintroduce Whitney in some way, what do you think they’ll do to Whitney’s team? Do you think they’ll acknowledge that a normal-type specialist has a pure fairy on her team, or will they either replace clefairy or miltank with a normal or fairy type respectfully? Or will they just give up and make her one of the only gym leaders with more than one type preference?

Well, I can’t really speak for what they will do, mostly since I don’t think they’ll remake the second generation games again. I can talk about what I think they should do, or what I would do – which is to say “f*ck it” because what Whitney likes are “cute Pokémon” and Normal and Fairy both have those in abundance. It’s not like she’d be the first major opponent to look outside her speciality; Sabrina has a Venomoth, Candice has a Medicham, Volkner has an Ambipom and an Octillery, the Striaton triplets all have Lillipup, and several Elite Four members are all over the place. They could even reference the fact that Clefairy was once thought to be a Normal-type until Fairy Pokémon became better-understood.

Also, there’s a fourth possibility you haven’t mentioned – make Whitney a Fairy-type specialist, keep Miltank as a lone Normal-type and give her a different signature Pokémon, like Clefable. Why not?

Reading your reviews of Unova Pokemon, I notice you condemned quite a few of them for tricks they didn’t have when you wrote the article, but obtained later. For example- Braviary was damned for a lack of Roost, which he got through BW2 tutors and XY TMs, and Genesect partially because Techno Blast was an inferior Flamethrower/ Thunderbolt/whatever, while it is now more accurate and more powerful than Thunder, Fire Blast, etc. Would you think about reconsidering these Pokemon?

It sounds like a lot of work. Someone should totally do that.

OK now that all that is out of the way, please make a post on the Fairy type ;_;

Soon, my child… soon…