>>57886447When did video games stop being a nerd niche? Because now it hurts.
>tfw chatting with some new people one day>they ask if I like Pokemon>I get excited and nearly spill spaghetti over past years spent on reading lore, finding the differences between the games/animes/mangas, playing with emulation and rom hacks, creating my own things>they have no idea what I'm talking about>turns out they're just into the latest TCG fad/investment bubble>can barely name any mons outside of Kanto>"I only buy them for my kids though">proceeds to tell stories about how they physically hunt down small hobby shops to poach rare TCG cards in those individual plastic cases for cheaper prices than online>and how they're constantly checking card prices on some website I've never heard of and how the numbers are constantly fluctuatingFuck normies. And fuck my autism
