>>56280390No, I got into Pokemon Blue around the time Yellow came out I think. The timeline's a bit fuzzy, but I definitely remember my neighbor's alcoholic, abusive, chain-smoking, broke, single dad suddenly buying him the special Yellow with the Pikachu GBC out of nowhere followed by a year of this buck-toothed Carl Wheezer lookalike all smug about it. 100% his dad stole it from somewhere.
Anyway, my aunt quadruple-downed on her kids, which kinda sucked since I'm pretty sure she singlehandedly fucked her kids into being a socially-awkward weirdo with an IQ around 60, a "bad girl" who ironically can't defend herself because her emotions snap like a twig, and a socially-awkward autist who ironically spends 5+ hours a day on her appearance only to remain a 3/10. Basically every one of those "don't watch/do/hear [thing], it's Satan!" things out there, those kids were completely banned from it. I clearly remember Pokemon, Digimon and Harry Potter in particular. Anything with magic, evolution, adaptation of any kind, banned. My aunt's always been a huge freak over every crazy diet, every crazy supplement, every weird fad, and I'm sure that rubbed off on the kids too.
My aunt's still hugely over-Christian too, that specific breed where they know a lot, but the WRONG thing about everything, like she knows about half the types of angels, but gets them all mixed up, and she was one of those "the Earth is 6000 years old" weirdos.
I think the weirdest part of her belief is that she's in that faction that knows Israel's a fucked up place full of fucked-up people, yet they're still "God's Chosen People" and that they should get special treatment because one day god's gonna come down and spank them so they can go to some high tier of heaven.
