>>24630892"But now that you mention it..." you trail off, trying to recollect a few scattered memories of long-forgotten halcyon days. "I DID visit the Menhir Trail once.. Route 10 right? With the big ass magnetic-y alien rocks? Yeeeeaeh... It's coming back now."
"So you're saying you've encountered the same phenomena?"
"Well, uh, this was way back when, when I wasn't champ, when I was just some punk kid still running around collecting badges intertwined with wacky misadventures... Er, I didn't know too many cute girls either, I had no idea what my fetish was, my Pokemon team wasn't even close to being complete, my girlfriend wouldn't even so much as look me in the eye and if she showed me any response it was filled with contempt, people were still clamoring for remakes with memes of an ancient era,
the president was still alive and he looked as fit as a fiddle. It was a damn fine time...
and then Robin Williams committed suicide and since then the respective industries of all of my favorite hobbies have all just been going downhill but that's another story. This drought is so real man. It feels like corporate is holding a fucking Heat Rock for god's sake." 