Tag: asks

My wife and I had triplets not to long ago. We were finally able to get a family portrait together after hours of the photographer trying to get everyone in place and trying us trying to get our Pokemon to cooperate (along with our dog too!). Should we be worried about any of our Pokemon and the triplets as far as our Pokemon getting along with the new additions? Do you see any concerns here? So far Luxray seems to be the most protective of our bunch. Thoughts?

Bill: First and foremost, congratulations! You look like a wonderful family.

That said, though, my only concern is with your muk, rather than your luxray. Your luxray is displaying normal behavior around new additions, so I would only worry about it if it’s aggressive towards you whenever you try to take the children back.

Your muk, on the other hand, is a different story due to the fact that its body naturally harbors a wide variety of microfauna—or, in other words, potentially harmful bacteria and viruses. Newborns should be kept away from muk until you’ve started on their vaccination schedule at the very least (although really, preferably until their immune systems further develop), even if muk is eager to help.

Other than that, at first glance, it seems like the rest of your pokémon family don’t mind the presence of your children at all, which is a good sign. If that’s the case, then they likely understand how to regulate their power around the babies, meaning they’re docile enough to handle them without issue.

Best of luck to your family!

So do the devs ever get together to play Dungeons and Dragonites?

We do it over Discord, actually.

Bill’s created so many intentionally terrible characters it’s become a competition among the rest of us to see how quickly we can kill him off when it’s our turn to DM. The record-holder is currently Bebe, who killed off his bidoof bard within five minutes of the campaign’s start. —LH

You, on the other hand, consistently play fighters prone to bouts of violence so ornately detailed that it worries me a little. —Bill

From what ive heard, fusing with the alien jellyfish gives you crazy superpowers.

Well, I’m intrigued.

Bill, first off, no. Second, you didn’t even use any of the special abilities you’d gained while fused with other pokémon. Why would you start with “the alien jellyfish”? —LH

How would you know if I’d never used any of Clefairy or Rattata’s powers? For your information, of course I had. It just … didn’t entirely end in a way that was scientifically interesting enough to write down. —Bill

Oh really? And what, for the sake of satisfying curiosity, did you do? —LH

It’s not important. Let’s just say I might have used Metronome, and what might have come out of that led to a very mild fire that may or may not have destroyed that scarf you got me for Christmas that one year. —Bill

…I genuinely can’t figure out if you’re telling the truth or making an excuse for why you never wear that thing. —LH

Is it cannibalism if my Nuzleaf eats greens? He doesn’t eat nuts though.

This is actually an excellent question with an awkwardly simple answer: no. Just as eating beef doesn’t automatically make you a cannibal, allowing your nuzleaf to eat greens doesn’t make him one. There are plenty of species of plants, so a plant eating another plant is really more or less akin to an animal eating another animal, if we oversimplify things.

However, technically speaking, you would be more of a cannibal than your nuzleaf. Although plant pokémon bear striking similarities to actual plants on a cellular level, they’re not even in the same phylogenic kingdom (as opposed to us humans and cows, which are). So, yes, there’s nothing wrong with nuzleaf eating plants.

Hiya Bill! Ever since my Lombre evolved into a Ludicolo, its been a little hectic to say the least! He definitely does help around the house, watering my garden and watching my kids but when he wants to groove and shake his tail feathers, I just can’t keep up! I was thinking of adopting another pokemon that could help Ludicolo get all it’s energy out. Any suggestions?

Jigglypuff.

I would recommend investing in earplugs as well if you take this suggestion to heart.

I’m curious, has anyone attempted to organize any sort of “wild” or otherwise non-captive Porygon populations? Have many escaped from captivity?

No and none. While porygon and porygon2 can exist outside their computer mainframes (contrary to popular belief), they’re actually extremely docile and compliant to human commands. They never stray far from the humans who have created or bred them—unless they’re given to another human, of course.

Porygon-Z, on the other hand, is a bit more wild. Luckily, there have been few documented cases of porygon-z, period, and all of those cases seem to be quite content to stick with their human partners (much to their dismay).