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Do your friends know you play Pokeyman?

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I tried to hide it from my wife. I said I was just taking my son so he could play. Then she started to notice the charges on the credit cards, a box of cards here, a booster draft there and single card shipped to the house from EBay. It hurts me know that she would be so unenlightened. I have to admit that she is part of the ignorant sector of society that considers brilliant people with a talent for demanding strategic activities that often call for single minded devotion to one's goal are...nerds. She thinks of course that I am the biggest nerd of all. I am forced to negotiate for every event we attend. She currently is on a kick about taking off a season.

Somehow she simply doesn't understand that if you spend 40 hours (1 hour each way on my daily commute) building and testing a deck, plus checking pokegym boards daily, you what to see how that deck performs in competition.

I really have no problems with what anyone else happens to think because they aren't trying to keep me from playing.
 
I've worn my Professor shirt to the office :biggrin:

But yeah, basically anyone that knows me at all knows that I'm a Professor/LL/TO.
 
EeveeLover said:
I can't hide it from my friends and family. All my friends play too, my wife and kids do as well. Holidays with presents - family gets me Pokemon stuff. Really cool.

One day I should grow up, but I have way too much fun with this lifestyle.
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Me too. ..... Na, I don't wanna grow up!
 
mca3 said:
But I dont tell the ladys I see, they would think I am a Nerd, I guess!
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I never would have met my boyfriend if it wasn't for Pokemon, and we've tested our decks against each other so much that we know how each others' minds work by now, which helps our relationship. If any girls give you a hard time, you carry two cards in your pocket: one is absolutely adorable, like Jirachi or the GE Slowpoke; the other has a lot of strategy behind it, like Bebe's or a Lv X, or even Magmortar. Then get into explaining the strategy, and if you get them into the "Uh huh.. yeah... sure... uh huh" phase where they don't really hear you, ask them out. Then they'll agree, and be too chagrined to back out on you!
Kidding. Don't do that.
...Unless it works.
But seriously, if they make fun of you for being a nerd, or they're not at all interested in Pokemon, what's the point? You'd always want to be off playing or testing a deck, and she would always want to be doing something else or be utterly bored. Besides, a lot of my (female) friends always seem to go for nerds. Be proud! Some of us are actually intrigued by that. xD
 
i go ahead and tell them, despite the razzing that i get. I'm not supposed to be in my thirties and run a weekly gaming league where i play with (primarily) children for a couple of hours.

I did recently tell a woman that i was getting closer to, and she laughed a lot, and then laughed whenever tuesdays rolled around and i was at the league.
 
I don't go around telling people but if someone ask I tell them that I play. That being said though most of my friends know and they don't care. Also I ended up getting one of my friends interested in the game, and now she goes with me to league every weekend and she even participated in Battle Roads last week and went 3-2.


Also where I am there are a lot of college age players so we all get along really well and hang out outside of Pokemon.
 
All of my close friends know that I play (most of them play themselves) and a fair few of my acquaintances know I play as well. I told one of my close friends my rankings and stuff and she was like "Are you really 95th in the WORLD!? Thats sooo cool!" stuff like that, and all I could do was laugh
I have a few enemies that try to pull the ol' "You still play Pokemon" card on me (pun not intended) and then I counter with "You dropped out of school, whereas I can get schooler ships to collage with this". I also make fun of them for wearing diapers until 9th grade, his mother wanting to tattoo her make up on, him picking up meth to lose weight, their very repetitive, 5th grader like insults, how they only have no friends be each other, how they can't fight someone unless they have all of the afore mentioned friends there with them, how the smoke pot EVERY day... The list goes on and on and on and on. And all they have on me is that I play Pokemon?
HAHAHA! That sounds like a fair trade to me!

But yea, I don't go out of my way to make it public, but I don't go out of my way to hide it. I used to. But now if someone were to ask me about it I would just tell them yes and about the prizes for events and stuff like that.
Most of my friends at school who "found out" that I still play were like "Thats cool, I haven't played Pokemon in forever! I miss it."
And I am in no way a "nerd".
I'm a Balla'. Thats all that needs to be said there.

In the long run nobody cares if you play Pokemon or not, and like what has been said many times, if you feel like you have to hide it thats when people will pick up on that and they'll know that they can strike a cord with you by saying that.
 
The way I see it Pokemon is just a hobby just like reading, playing sports, videogames, etc. Playing Pokemon should not ruin your life in any way. If you cant get a girlfriend is because you haven't found the right one. Don't worry there are billions of girls so just keep looking!!!!
Im the type of person that doesn't care what people might think of me. Your friends should support you no matter what. If they don't then they are not your real friends.
Life is to short to worry about other people's opinion, so keep playimg and enjoy it.
 
It's a little embarrassing when it's brought up by my teacher (in college), but sure, everyone knows I am connected with it. A good handful of my digital media projects involve Pokemon in some way like Pokemon flash advertisements, Pokemon tournament DVD / Music Videos, and Pokemon League Advertisements.
 
Everyone who I meet finds out I play. I get a lot of banter about it, but people really appreciate that there are some people trying to do what they want to do out there, rather than hiding it or denying it.

My entire school found out in 06 when I won Australian Nationals (it was announced at a whole school assembly -.-)... tough week that week lol, but surprisingly whenever people tried to put me down, I got a LOT of support- even from people who I'd consider enemies came to my defense. Eventually I was just known as the guy who's good at Pokemon and everyone was really cool about it.

I spose the fact that I won helps, but whenever people have asked or found out I never denied it- I just never really made a point of it unless someone asked me about my weekend or whatever. It was just normal conversation that people found out and imo thats the way to talk about it, like it's an every day thing, and don't show hesitation in talking about it if you decide to bring it up subtly- be confident and don't reject the game you love, but don't be too proud and act all top gun because you play- at least in most standard environments. Just act normal about it and people honestly won't care.
 
So, does anyone else force their kids to play, so they can?

You'll play GG, Mister, and you'll like it! :wink:
 
Just about everyone knows I play Pokemon. I love it, its funny though people think your *** if you play it. Man, I think its ufair people think that lol. But just about everyone knows I do.
 
Do the people around me know I play pokemon?

No one in my school except one girl who I might go out with knows, I told her that I was going to battle road spring on sun and she was like...huh? Anyway im friend from another school down the road knows. If people knew in my school they probebly would tease me about it but as long as I dont talk about it they really wouldent metion it. (the only card game players in my highschool play yugioh):mad:


:fire::lightning :water::metal:
 
edwarpy said:
So, does anyone else force their kids to play, so they can?

You'll play GG, Mister, and you'll like it! :wink:
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What do you mean it's a beautiful sunny day and all your friends are outside. Its three weeks until Battle Roads season starts and my deck isn't working at all. Sit! Play! You can play MagKiss, maybe you'll even flip heads on Find a Friend. :biggrin:
 
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