Tag: AMA Month

So Bill, when do you think we can get Entries on Alolan Grimer and Muk? And is it true that non-Alolan Grimers and Muks are possibly going extinct? I’m worried for my blob-shaped friends!

I’ve actually been considering tackling all Alolan variations at some point, as each one of them is so vastly different from their outside counterparts that it’s often inadequate to simply address one form but leave the other completely out of the picture. (On a similar note, I’m still intending on covering mega evolutions for the same reason.) I just don’t entirely know when—perhaps when I’ve completed the main entries for each currently indexed pokémon.

As for whether or not non-Alolan grimer and muk are going extinct, that’s true … within Alola, anyway. It’s a mixed blessing, really. While on the one hand, a sharp decrease in any pokémon population is always unfortunate, but on the other, high populations of grimer and muk indicate severe issues in the habitability of a biome. A decrease in their populations, then, would mean an increase in the populations of many other species of pokémon.

Still, for those of you who may be fond of the grimer family, rest assured that there are still plenty of cities in the world with sufficient enough pollution levels to maintain healthy grimer and muk populations. Castelia City in recent years, for example.

#AMA Bill, has a girl named Lillie come to visit you regarding a person who was once fused with a pokemon? I heard she was on her way to see you and I am curious to whether she arrived safely yet.

She has indeed, anonymous, and thank you for your concern for her!

I must say, it’s always quite refreshing to come across such an eager student, and I certainly can’t turn down a request for someone in genuine need for help. It may be some time before I find a solution to her predicament—less because it’s a difficult one (it isn’t at all) and more because the solution would require essentially rebuilding and calibrating a teleporter system in a completely different region. On the other hand, I know of quite a few mechanical engineers who owe me a favor or few, so I doubt the parts will be all that difficult to procure.

What bothers me more, though, is the book that brought Lillie to me. As I’ve said, I’m delighted to be in the company of both an intelligent and polite student—particularly one with as much passion as she does for as just a cause as hers. Likewise, I have no qualms about the existence of an “authorized biography” of my life (although it’s rather embarrassing to see).

My question about this biography, though, is why is there an entire chapter dedicated to the Clefairy Incident? That was quite literally only a week! Once! And out of all the things said in it, why would you leave out the part that it was an accident?!

I don’t know, Bill. Why would you write an entire paper on it? —LH

It was scientifically curious! It’s different when it’s for science! —Bill

And therein lies your motto. —LH