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Is Pokemon a Secret Society?

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Dark Sneasel said:
OMG IM IN LOVE WITM MOSSS
lol
ya i told my very close friends and there so/so with it they just dotn want it getting in the way fo our good times and i try not to. But ya Im not to sure im gunan tell females just cause i actuallut date the attractive one... just me. but the chicks where im from care . THink what u want but the game loose its apeal if it isnt liek a secret society lol i tihks that what maks it intresting
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ditto! xxxto mossy! :clap:

i actually am pretty much out of the pokemon closet for the most part... -- i kinda enjoy it when people i give me that LOOK:eek: i went to a school where we had all these top-level "chess masters" who travelled all over the wolrd playing chess. they were stunned that at pokemon tournement s we have opportunities 2 play for real scholarship $$$ (in chess u never break even, according to the pro's). So they thought this fact alone made pokemon an incredibly unique "intellectual" gaming pursuit..."

so cheers Pokemon all over the World!!!:clap: :clap:

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Dark Sneasel said:
OMG IM IN LOVE WITM MOSSS
lol
ya i told my very close friends and there so/so with it they just dotn want it getting in the way fo our good times and i try not to. But ya Im not to sure im gunan tell females just cause i actuallut date the attractive one... just me. but the chicks where im from care . THink what u want but the game loose its apeal if it isnt liek a secret society lol i tihks that what maks it intresting
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ditto! xxxto mossy! :clap:

i actually am pretty much out of the pokemon closet for the most part... -- i kinda enjoy it when people i give me that LOOK:eek: i went to a school where we had all these top-level "chess masters" who travelled all over the wolrd playing chess. they were stunned that at pokemon tournement s we have opportunities 2 play for real scholarship $$$ (in chess u never break even, according to the pro's). So they thought this fact alone made pokemon an incredibly unique "intellectual" gaming pursuit..."

so cheers Pokemon all over the World!!!:clap: :clap: (i know, i still say ..."i got this tourney thing"...)
 
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I drive around as an attorney with Pokemon figures in the winsheild of my car.

My firm knows I do this...my clients know I do this...heck, most of the clerks at the court where I practice know I play and run these events for my kids...

For anyone who DOESN'T know...I am going to COMPLETELY blow my alabi tomorrow....

I will be on the morning news program promoting my Regional Event!

Channel 4 from 6am-8am for all those in St. Louis...

The secret will be OUT>

Vince
 
ryanvergel said:
Psh, I'm 100% out of the closet!

And guess what, girls don't care. My friends don't care. You know what girls think? It's cute. They ask for t-shirts and plushies and pins and stuff from events I go to. If you have confidence in yourself, that's what really matters. If you're being picked on for pokemon, pokemon isn't the only thing you're probably bullied about.

The fact is, everyone played the game. Just say you didn't grow out of the phase because you're so good at it. Most of us go to big events and do well, so just brag about your abilities. Get your friends to play. Since I started playing last year, a solid 10 or so people got back into playing in my area, we don't even have a league here! People like playing games, they loved pokemon before, and they love it now- you just have to incite that inate love for pokemon that kids our age still have.

But seriously, if you don't have the self-esteem to TALK about pokemon, THAT is why you get made fun of.
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That's my opinion on it too. I just ask them one single question:
- Why did you just leave the game? Just because "everyone else" did?
Wait... That was two. Oh, well.

Another thing I say to them is:
-You are never too old to be childish, are you?

It always works :smile:

The thing you say about girls don't think it's silly is as true as it can be. In my school it seems like the boys is the only ones who mock you for what you like and what you do. I have learnt to live with it and I will continue doing it as long as I like the game, have supportive parents and friends and enough money to buy cards.
 
It always works best if you tell people about it and don't try to hide it. And just react naturally and explain that this is a fun game which you like to play. I do get some strange reactions, but as long as I keep cool and don't forget to take it with a smile (it's OK to joke about yourself and your Pokémon hobby sometimes as long as you still show that you really like this game and are proud of it), people never make fun of me at all.

When I was in junior high, I won three trips to the USA three years in a row playing Pokémon. Because winning a trip to the USA is quite rare here in Norway (and because I live in a small place), I became a local celebrity each time. It was especially bad the first time, when a local newspaper made a full-page article about me covering the whole backside of the newspaper, and this article about the local "Pokémon National Champion" actually turned out really stupid. Basically every single student at my school knew about my hobby and tons of people joked about it. Because I was younger and more insecure at the time, I really let people put me down and mock me for it. I reacted very wrong - I wasn't proud of my hobby and didn't just hold my head high and ignore them. I advise everyone to not do this mistake.

Be proud of who you are and what you like to do, that's what I've done for the past three years and I haven't regretted it once. I learned my last girlfriend how to play the game and I've also thaught my current girlfriend how to play. I think they both found my hobby odd at first, but as anyone should, they accepted it and were willing to learn to know it better. I think most girls will, that shouldn't be a problem. :)
 
Why did I leave? I got bored with it. Gym Challnege was coming out, the game was getting really expensive for me, I was entering junior high- I didn't have as many people to play with... it just wasn't fun any more.
 
Or just somebody from the St Louis area. It'd be nice to see that report at some point. If you can't put it up online, could you bring it for Niles GC then?
 
A secret society? Probably
I agree with many of you, if you don´t invite other people to the game how is it going to expand.
I am a member to other forums and most of the members say that pokemon is dissapearing. This
can be the distributors fault as well as the players fault.
Let me put you some examples here in my country, Ecuador.
Many people began to play pokemon about 2 years in my city, because a store started organizing tournaments, but this tourneys were not official. Why were them unofficial? Because there were no negotiations with POP so there was no Distributor.
One day, around March 2004, that store stopped running the tournaments and almost every player
left the game.
I started working at the store in February 2004, I was in charge of increasing sales as well as
making some tournaments, but by that time Pokemon sales had decreased terribly.
The store made some Negotiations and we started running santioned events in Nov 2004, I had
to organize everything. Just for you to know I was able to get over 60 players in the the first month.
Since I left the store(dec 2005) only 15 players are left.

By the way, at first I was worried about what people thaught about me when I began to work at that store
but know I don´t worry about that
Thanks and sorry the long speech
 
Well, my pals nd (ex-)gf's all know about it. But I'll never tell it to random people at school. Sure I can brag about how I've been to the USA and all, but it's like walking with a big dartboard on your back. At school there is a very strong "look how funny I am :'D" climate, and you'll be the new target of everyone who thinks he can be cool.

Sure they'll always miss, but I just don't like the lame jokes and "pikachu" noises around me, that gets boring.

PS. I am not on elementry school :'D
 
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This is great. It's like Pokemon anonymous here. High school teachers and truck drivers playing? Go figure.
*stands up* Hi, my name is Logion, and I haven't talked about Pokemon in public for one day and counting. I'll blow it again on Saturday. I am not ashamed of who I am and what I stand for.*play patriotic theme music* As for chances with females, mine can't be any worse, but that's cool. I don't want to lose precious time I should be using to fanthom new decks. I am already so strange that one more piece of wierdness is almost overlooked. Don't be afraid to confess your nerdiness. It is your Identity.*commence more patriotic theme music* *gets choked up and stops talking, sniffs, sits down*
 
I use a pokemon mousepad in my dorm room here at GMU, and if anyone ever says anything negative, i turn it around and tell them all the cool things that can be won/done. No need to be ashamed of something you enjoy.
 
totoro said:
Guess I'm so old (40+) that I'm beyond the point of caring about potential embarassment. I'm a high school science teacher,...
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So, it helps if our coolness factor is already zero :lol: (j/k totoro :thumb: ). Looks like I won't be winning any consolation prizes at VA's gym challenge :frown:

It comes up at my work (Michaels Arts and Crafts) from time to time when they wonder what I do Fridays and Saturdays and where I disappear to for a weekend every month. I get some laughs, I get some interest, and I get some people who offer to sell me their cards. The most common response is the belief that Pokemon is dead. So, this is actually an issue of publicity that the game isn't as big as it can be. It's not that people think its a kids game that hurts it, it's that people think it is dead.
 
I get books thrown at my face(big ones, like dictionaries, not sparknotes) cuz I (might have) won $500 and a trip to NY for playing the game boy, so there's no way in hell I'm saying I play the tcg for $$$ too. I'll get murdered. of course the upside is that there are like 8 girls who still like pokemon and were amazed that I could win that much stuff. they also want to go with me if I win. that'd be the bomb.
 
So I finally came out to my girlfriend because she was tired of me going to "video game" tournaments without her. She soon found out it wasn't a video game. Once she finished laughing at me and my friends, she thought it was cool. She went to states with me and was very interested in all of mine and my friends' matches.

I will tell you this though. There is NOTHING more awkward than your girlfriend's dad asking you how your pokemon tournament went.
 
I find it kind of sad that "money" is the cover for playing this game, yet even the highest dollar earning, $7,500 at worlds, is below the poverty line. If I wanted money, I'd go work at Burger King with my buddy, Seena.
 
jkwarrior said:
So I finally came out to my girlfriend because she was tired of me going to "video game" tournaments without her. She soon found out it wasn't a video game. Once she finished laughing at me and my friends, she thought it was cool. She went to states with me and was very interested in all of mine and my friends' matches.

I will tell you this though. There is NOTHING more awkward than your girlfriend's dad asking you how your pokemon tournament went.
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the worst is the mother and younger sister saying, so what did yo do at the pokemon tourney. and if you dont win the whole thing, you gotta hear...."you lost to a bunch of little kids"
 
I am addicted... I love pokemon and I really dont care who knows it. I would have to say when I am not at school and not sleeping I am doing something that has to do with pokemon. I started playing when it first came out stopped.. Played yugi.... and started again. Now it is almost what I am doing everyday, Me and my two best friends play all day almost everyday and it is so much fun because it gives us something to do. One of thems cares and if we have to play outside and there friends come over he tells them that I am making him play and the other just likes the game and never plays big events. I guess you could say I am out of the closet too, When people at school and stuff ask me what I am doing when I am writing in my deck list notebook I tell them "Making a Pokemon deck!" They laugh and say "I still have my cards, I use to love to play pokemon." I then say "Who didnt?"

Everybody likes to do something and pokemon is what I like to do. Outdoor sports are WAY over-rated pokemon is where it is at!
 
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