Interview with Jimbo

My real name is James, but most people call me Jimmy. I'm 17 and a senior in high school.

I like some sports like Golf and Bowling but I don't play them often because I'm lazy. I also enjoy cooking, different video games, and Smogon, as well as various other IRL activities.

The very first internet forum I ever went to was Tv.com, which I still go to sometimes. Somehow I found GamesRadar and found my place there as a top notch (lol) battler. One day my friend and I were watching YouTube videos of Pokemon Battles and someone mentioned Smogon.

I had no idea what a Smogon could be but he looked into it and saw it was a Pokemon site.

I poked around looking for a good Swampert moveset, couldn't find it and posted a retarded thread about it in the analyses forum.

Then I found the wi-fi forum and fell in love with the awesome Pokemon, though I only had a sad little Bagon to offer.

(so I couldn't get much!)

Well like I said I started off with a small (read: really tiny) trade thread with my pal from another site. After a week or two of building a mountain of Redistributables some noobish user named johnxkid asked to form a joint thread with him.

I did and our thread grew from there, eventually I parterned with Gin to make a really baller thread, but by that time, my interest in wifi had waned (and my shaky wifi caused a lot of frustration)

I decided I wanted to contribute to C&C a little bit. Anti helped me get started there; I kind wasn't great with poke-prose or grammar, so I needed a lot of help. I also joined the Tutor/Apprentice program few times to try and get better at battling.

I also tried numerous times to use mIRC which proved difficult for some reason, but eventually I figured it out.

When I first got on IRC I was really scared to talk so I spent a good while in the lurking phase, though eventually I got more comfortable.

I think a lot of my "status" happened because of the help of a lot of other users. I got my Ladybug mostly because Caelum noticed my Peer Edits in C&C. The other Wi-Fi mods needed another Moderator too and nominated me (I'm assuming) because I could hack check and because I didn't spam up the forum or cause a ton of shitstorms.

I became a tutor because of my tutors (TAY, maddog, and Kevin Garrett). I wasn't terrible before I got tutored but they definitely helped me a lot.

Well recently I've been focusing a lot on re-designing Battling 101 in hopes of making it a better program for the tutees; I also I wanted to make it more gratifying for the tutors. I think it'll go well, especially after we iron out a few kinks.

As the head of the Smog I coordinate what the other staff members do. I also am usually on your side of the interview, and do other small articles. I'm also one of the main HTMLers for the Smog.

I also like to participate in Circus Maximus! Though I'm not very good at the games there.

As a Super Mod I really just try to stop rulebreakers (I guess I'm like Batman...) and make good posts when I can! I've never really been good at hardcore discussion or arguing so I mostly stay out of that.

Well I like the competitive side of Pokemon a lot (actually battling is fun, teambuilding not as much), there are a lot of non-competitive aspects of Pokemon I like too. I can't ever get into a hardcore discussion about EV Spreads, but I can talk for a while about the Pokemon anime or the pronunciation of Gardevoir, Sceptile, and Grovyle.

That's probably why I got involved in the Ingame Expansion project at first, too. I like playing the games a lot and discussing that type of thing.

I don't get a ton of free time because of crap to do like college applications, but I like hanging out with friends and doing random things with them. I also volunteer around town a lot -- for example, I volunteered at the Seniors Luncheon last weekend where I served food and dressed as Santa Claus.

I also work sometimes at a doctor's office and play golf (like I said before), which I can't really do now as it's really cold!

I like to go to the movies a lot though there hasn't been a lot I've wanted to see lately. I've been wanting to release my inner child and go play Lazer Tag too, though I haven't gotten the chance.

I also like watching anime and reading manga!

Haha well I'm assuming TAY sent in this question. While I am certified cute by Caelum and Jabba, I cannot seem to get a girlfriend. A girl I had my eye on for a while already has a boyfriend, so that's a non-starter unfortunately.

Right now I have to limit myself to dating your mom.

Well obviously it's Aerodactyl

...but seriously I like Wailord a lot because it's really cute and looks bouncy.

I also like Blaziken because it looks neat and Gardevoir because it looks very elegant.

No problem I hope that was OK!