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>Be me, age 9
>Be playing Sapphire
>About to face second gym with my newly evolved Marshtomp
>Heal up my pokemon a bit before facing him
>Nurse Joy returns my pokemon
>Tells me my Marshtomp has been infected by something called Pokerus
>Freak the fuck out, because I had just learned about AIDS from a kid at school or something
>More panic, confused and angry as to why they'd put poke-aids in a kids game
>Restart my game, thinking I would rather put Marshtomp out of his misery than play a game where he's sick or dead for the rest of the play through
>Way later, told a kid at school one of my pokemon had pokers
>He got all excited, and when I asked him why he explained to me what pokerus actually did and how rare it is
>I realized then that I fucked up
