Signs You Might Be Too Much Of a Poke-Maniac

[SBaby]

Also: You might be a Poke-Gamer.

Finally, after all this time, SBaby's back with the topic that started his message board career. Here's how it works:

Anything that you feel would be a sign of someone being too much of a Poke-Maniac (Pokemon Obsessee) can go here. Feel free to give more than one thing per post, just no double posting. That's the only rule. When you post, you have to wait for at least one person to post before posting again. Well, here's ten to start you off and give you an idea of what it's like.

You may be too much of a Poke-Maniac if...


1: The loss of your Pokemon cards would be a serious financial blow.

2: You have so many strategy guides, you could paper your house in them.

3: You are unable to walk past the latest 3-D Pokemon game without buying it, even though you know it isn't going to be as good as the 2-D games.

4: You have more entertaining 'there I was battling this Trainer' stories than you do anecdotes about your family.

5: You talk about Ash, Misty, Brock, or anyone in the Anime or games as if they're real people.

6: You worship idols of Satoshi Tajiri in your basement. (Sorry, Gygax...)

7: You own your weight in Pokemon TCG cards.

8: You've ever managed to get one of your parents, or anyone over 30 years of age to play Pokemon, and understand it.

9: Your first response to any frustrating situation is: "Pikachu! Thunderbolt!"

10: Your dreams of winning the lottery involve hiring actors and costume designers and getting a mad scientist to genetically mutate a Pikachu out of your cat so you can play Pokemon for real.


That's enough from me. What can you all come up with? Remember, if you think it fits, chances are it does. Let's see if we can come up with more signs than there are existing Pokemon between all the series'.

 

[Evanji Axu]

- You've gotten tendinitis in your left wrist from playing too much.
- The next time, you get it in both wrists and your left thumb.

...*whistles innocently*

 

[Torchic23]

I'm guilty of all ten of those ^_^;

You tell your pet mouse to use thunderbolt

You look for pokemon in the forest

You won't watch TV unless it has pokemon in it

You go to the movies to hear the word "Pokemon" one time

You'll buy anything that has to do with pokemon no matter what it is or it's condition

You hum pokemon songs to yourself

You name your pet after a pokemon

You sleep with pokemon stuffed animals

Uh, that's all for now ;]

 

[rotimikid]

and i thought i was a pokemon fanatic.

u imagine u are a pokemon- i used to do that

u tell ur friends in eight grade that pokemon is lame even though u like it
reson for this is that if u only like it a little, u would be able to tell your friends that u like it a little. i know i did. you u love it so much, u would keep it secret that you like pokemon so that you can have friends.


i hope you understand what i'm talking about. -_-

 

[FlamingRuby]

23. You have every game
24. You've caught'em all on every game
25. You restart them just to do it all again
26. You have a hat like Ash's (for guys) or a bandanna like May's (for girls)
27. You never leave the house without said hat/bandanna
28. You wear said hat/bandanna to class even though the school handbook explicitly says "No hats/bandannas"
29. You have a Pikachu plushie (guilty)
30. You have at least one other Pokemon plushie (guilty)

 

[PkmnTrainerKai]

You are too much of a pok'emanicac if:

1.You hum the bike tune whilst riding your bike
2.U can tell what pkmn ppl would own (teachers/parants/chavs etc)
3.You are able to "tutor" people/friends on how to play the game better ,(i actually got beat by one of these friends xD)
4.You correct people on what is better/faster/stronger etc
5. you can remember base stats or pkdex numbers

 

[Solar Crimson]

You are too much of a PokéManiac if...

-You have vital classwork to do, but instead are drawing pictures of your favorite Pokémon (I did that once).

-You go to school/college/work with a rub-on Pokémon tattoo.

-You try to convert your PokéHating friends to the games so you can own them in it.

-The only reason you bought Super Smash Bros. or Super Smash Bros. Melee was because it had Pokémon in it (That was how I got into the first SSB).

That's all for now.

 

[Amaisan Axis]

You are too much of a Pokemaniac if:

- You join this forum.

 

[intergalactic platypus]

-you post regularly on SPPF
-the only TV show you care about in the least is pokemon
-you preorder each new game
-whenever you see jars of grape jelly you think of ditto
-you cried when you lost the file on silver containing your much loved pidgeot
-youve taken time out of writing your novel to work on a pokemon fic
-you think satoshi tajiri is one of the coolest men ever
-your actually reading this topic to see if you show any of the signs

im guilty of all of the above...

 

[Tazzler]

You are too much of a pokemaniac if you make unfunny threads saying you are too obsessed with pokemon when you......

 

[SnoringFrog]

You're too much of a pokemainiac if you've memorized every single pokemon,their types, and most of their moves.(I'm pretty close to guilty on this)

You're too much of a pokemaniac when you misspell "fear" F-E-A-R-O-W (I did that in 2nd grade on my spelling test)

 

[ZeRoBlaSt]

.............When you start to feel emotions towards the characters of the anime/*****/games and/or cosplay as them. *shot numerous times by certain members*

 

[Master Mewtwo]

If you know:

-all the Pokemon in Pokedex order
-can read Unknown fluently

I am guilty of both.

Master Mewtwo

 

[undisputed_seraphim]

1. You think that apples restore 10 PP and oranges restore 10 HP.
2. You think that people will give you items if you talk to them ( like the games)
3. You personally bash piraters of Pokemon products.
4. You pretend Grdevoir's you girlfriend and Machamp's your bodyguard.
5. You thought you "saw" a Girafarig at the zoo.
6. You have completed the pokedex in every game and have gone overseas just so you could do the nintendo events.
7. You would preserve Satoshi's body after he dies, the way the Chinese preserved Mao Tze Dong.
8. You think your goldfish will "evolve" into Seaking or your carp will "evolve" into Gyarados.
9. You dream someday you will go outer space, catch a meteor and put it under some laser so you can get Deoxys.
10. You have done everything mentioned above at least twice.

 

[Carpetted!]

-You grow whiskers, then grab 2 spoons in both hands and try to bend them

 

[Dunsparce]

-You know all the NYPC Moves from GSC (guilty)
-You get pure Pokemon stuff for Christmas (guilty)
-You feel that the Pokemon in your videogames are more than just bits of data :/
-You name yourself after a certain Pokemon on SPPF and have your Avatar/Title/Location/Signature/Profile/ect based off of it(VERY guilty)

 

[Akerin]

These are always fun... The ones in bold are things I've actually done. XD
None of those things from the first list apply to me though. o_o;;

- You've played for over 500 hours

- You've battled over 10,000 in-game trainers

- You stay up all night playing the game, even when you have work the next day.
(when you can't get to sleep no matter how hard you try, and there's nothing on TV, what's better than turning on your GBA and spending 8 hours training your Metagross? *laughs*)

- You freak out and do a happy little dance whenever anything Pokemon-related shows up on TV.

- Pokemon stuff is the ONLY stuff you ever put on your Xmas and/or Birthday wishlist.

- You talk your brother (or any other family member with an Ebay account) into buying Pokemon plushies off the internet for you.

- You downloaded the Porygon episode to see exactly how intense the flashy seizure stuff was, and almost had a seizure yourself.

- You think 4Kids is the devil's incarnate

- You've imported every Pokemon game available from Japan

 

[Kveran]

- you've been known to say, "Okay, guys, I've HAD IT. I just got Baton-Passed a few Speed Boosts, I'm carrying a Liechi Berry, I'm about to use Endure, and you wanna bet what's happening after that? So **** OFF!" (Guilty.)

- your mathematical prowess consists of IV and damage calculations.

- you learned to read Braille so that you could translate the rock slates in FRLG and RSE. (Guilty.)

- you spend your class time working out the political situations in each of the regions. And it's all based off of canon. (Guilty.)

- you're in bed with the flu, and you're wondering why you're not accomplishing double the tasks you do each day.

- your school papers have sketches of your favorite Pokemon in the margins. (Very, very guilty.)

- you know your ID numbers from each game. By heart. (Guilty.)

- you use them as your e-mail/forum passwords.

- you've memorized the natures chart, and how each nature affects stats. (Guilty.)

- you have at least six Pokemon-related links in your favorites list. If you use Firefox, you've got them on your favorites toolbar. (Guilty.)

- you find yourself nodding along with this thread. (Guilty.)

 

[Ludicolo von Nosepass]

-You buy those little candy Pokéballs and hope its a real Pokémon in it!
-Use mentioned ball to throw at People with Big nose´s(getting the pun?), on carps, on cat´s, on people with sombreros(a pun anybody?), and on the mouse in the pet shop!
-You dream up adventures with you or anyone else in the Pokémon world.(Guilty)

 

[#1 Poke Fan]

Youre a Pokemaniac if you:

Pretend you live in the Pokemon world and do everythig that Ash and gang did (gulity)

You go into the kitchen and make Pokemon food (guilty)

I can only think of those 2 at the moment