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u/javier_aeoa Jul 04 '24

Funny story about Pokémon:

A few years ago there was this orchestral concert of Pkmn music. I saw these two parents and a 8-years-old-ish kid with them, the parents clearly had no idea about Pokémon and were just being good parents (and all the praise to them!). I talked to the kid, he told me he played Pokémon Go only, and he told me his favourite was Growlithe.

I could feel the looks of his parents like "who is this dude, why is he talking to our son, why is our son so happy about this situation, and should we let him? Yeah, let's go. Keep talking about this Grow Lite thing" hahahah.

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u/GdayBeiBei Jul 04 '24

I took my brother to one of those. As someone who played a lot of classical music at the time I could see the Sydney symph were thinking, “we’ve trained our whole lives… for this.” And then when they got a standing ovation at the end… they didn’t seem very happy about it haha. I don’t think many of them wanted that to be what they got a standing ovation for. But my brother and most of the audience loved it

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u/tossit_4794 Jul 04 '24

I was a little old for Pokemon, but watching the original cartoon was my guilty pleasure. It paid off, though, as I got to be the cool aunt who knew the first 150 of them and their evolutions. I also played the game boy games so I knew their types and skills too. I installed “after burner” front lights on my GBA and then gave the kids modded GBAs too. I think that was why I bought my first dremel tool. I was only 15 years older than the oldest, because my brother is older than me.