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I have one, but with zero pasta I guess
>2003, 11 years old (maybe even 10, I don't remember in which month it happened)
>using the computers at the school library because lol only dial-up at home
>Trying to find links to download VBA and Ruby/Sapphire
>failing miserably because I was a 11 year-old using the internet
>Finally find a site with the links AND a makeshift pokédex with the level-up moves for all the Hoenn Dex pokémon
>Every week I'd bring paper and pen (seriously) and write down the move lists of every slightly interesting pokémon
>Random highschooler recognizes some random pokémon on the site banner and comes to talk to me
>"hey is that pokémon?"
>"Huh yes it is"
>"How old are you?"
>"11"
>"Are you in 4th grade? 5th?"
>"No, 6th"
>"I see. Do you want a piece of advice? Two, three years from now, you won't even care about Pokémon"
>"Okay"
>I wasn't even twelve so I just shrugged it off
>He wasn't trying to mock me or anything, maybe he felt pity or was being self-righteous, I don't know, but he thought he had to help me out with his teenager wisdom
>2013, 21 years old
>Still play pokémon, have it on my cover photo in Facebook, often posts status about it on my wall
>Not exactly the most outspoken person but I do have close friends and acquaitances who like me
>Even the genwunners I know like to talk to me about new shit and whatnot
>Had a "pokénerd" girlfriend for a couple months, she moved to another state due to college, we are still friends and love each other and all that faggotry
>Current friend-with-benefits thinks Charmander is a Water-type but she likes my enthusiasm with Pokémon (she's also a nerd, just not a vidya one)
>I'm as socially skilled as an assburger but still somehow have half a dozen qt3.14s who want the D, one of them even has a boyfriend but I'm too whiteknightey to do anything now
>My mother probably thinks I grew out of Pokémon because I get laid nowadays
I like to think the D is actually Diglett
