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Yes, mostly during gen 1, 2, 3, and 4 (from kindergarten up to 9th grade)
then in highschool nobody cared about pokémon, which was during BW for me. It might actually be the reason why I don't like it as much as other gens
then with gen 6 tons of people in my uni would battle me and ask for battles consistently (both friends and acquaintances), we'd have café dates for that multiple times during the week
on gen 7 I was making friends with people that also battled me on a regular basis, and taught me a lot about egg hatching properly and building teams
for gen 8, before covid everytime I went to meet old friends from uni, we'd end up having a battle since we both brought our Switches
now mostly I just stay home and battle my friends on the internet, but when I meet friends that are living abroad irl, we also battle
I'm very glad I surrounded myself with people that like pokémon at least half as much as I do
