Annoying Sibling anyone?
I need to get a rant off my chest, so here goes!! Sorry for the length in advance!!
I have a sibling, and he is my older brother. Mind you we were both introduced to pokemon at the same time, when it first came out in america. We didn't get the games and gameboys until yellow version came out. We went crazy just over how to catch pokemon and get pokeballs. Our friends had been playing them for a while before us, but we got ours.
More to the point, I've played pokemon relatively consistently ever since the first generation, and have a copy of almost every one of the handheld games (excluding blue and gold in my case), and I went on to buy every other version my money could buy. The only other ones I don't have are the Gamecube games, and the pokemon ranger games, the pinball games, the box for Ru/Sa, Stadium games, trozei, blah blah, etc. Did I miss anything there?
Anywho, He basically stopped playing after gold and silver came out and we got them for christmas like, in whatever year that was... But, he was suppoded to get gold, and I get silver. The idiot got silver version too. Idiot. He stopped, and said how childish I was for continuing on, and even as I got my crystal version, and all the ones that came after that, he was like, "Jared, when are you ever gonna grow up, and STOP playing pokemon?!" "It's for kids only!!" And I'm sitting there, thinking in my head, well, there are much older players in the world, even adults. Especially in the pokemon world, which is where I wish I would be so I could really tune out his BS>
But I've been playing ever since, and I've enjoyed it greatly. Pokemon will always be a great part of my childhood, and even as I get more mature as a young adult, I think I'll never stop playing pokemon. Always appreciating what fun it's brought to me by playing it, even if my brother says I'll never get married, or have kids, or have any friends, JUST because I still play pokemon. That's what makes me SO UPSET with him, and I just think he's an idiot.
Let me get to why I'm REALLY mad. I will watch pokemon occasionally on TV, and I'll play my games whenever I get the chance. And I'm on serebii too, which I love! And he'll be sitting there next to me, and be like, What kind of pokemon stuff are you looking at today? He'll ask that and be all interested, and think that's very hypocritical as he's not even interested in it one bit. He sound's so DUMB when he thinks he knows what he's talking about, and he left it in like, years ago. What makes me mad is that he thinks he can beat me in a battle with my own pokemon, and he'd be like, Jared, I know it's been years, but I still know pokemon attacks. Yeah, only ones in the first gen. Thundebolt, flamethrower... etc... He says, I bet I could be you, and I be a pokemon master if pokemon were real, and PwZ you with mah Charizard's flamethrowa'~!!! W00t!!
Mind you, this is coming from a 21 year old brother of mine. I think he beat me in like, one or two link battles when we were young. But he ALWAYS used Mewtwo against me, and that thing was Uber. I always used my favorite, articuno, but he won. Anyways, I don't think he'll stand a chance against me today... I dunno, maybe we will finally link battle somehow... But he's still an idiot.... Just had to put this out there.