Nice title.

I've played the first ones for DS, as well as Red. I didn't think they were that bad. I've beat them all, never collected them all. I've rather enjoyed Diamond, thinking about getting the latest ones.

Brian definitely has issues concerning his masculinity.

Apparently if a game doesn't involve blowing the crap out of someone or something, it's not fun.

Brian told me that he really loves to play "Cooking Mama" on his Wii and DS.

Wow, Brian is more hyper-masculine than I.

You need to get in touch with your zen side, man.

This has nothing to do with masculinity. It's a whole generation of american boys turning into whiny little sissies who care more about whether their low-top socks match the color of the fabric on the inside of their shoes than having a little bit of passion for something that actually matters. They're all too busy looking at each other and trying to fit in with the other morons at their school to actually find a real hobby where you actually, you know, do stuff.

I certainly don't have a problem with people playing video games, watching movies, being lazy. But when it consumes your whole life and when you're more excited about a new pokeman game with a pedometer and stupid fuzzy animals than finding a girlfriend (or hell, a boyfriend, if you're so inclined), going on a trip, or doing something outside it becomes a problem.

I'm going to post a new thread shortly, but I just want you to know, if I asked the same question to my step son, he would list video games, movies, and shopping.

You DO know Japanese Green is US Blue... it's Japanese Blue that was never released in the US.



What's old is new again; there was that exact thing for the original Gold/Silver. It used the IR port on the GBC to do its Mystery Gift magic.

I have it somewhere... I think. Poor Pikachu.

I should pick up HeartGold. Still never finished Pearl though.

And that is because of Pokemon!

Wait, no, it has absolutely nothing to do with Pokemon at all. If he was playing Gears of War, it would have absolutely no difference.

In short: make him go outside more or get over it, don't blame it on the type of game he's playing. Just because you think Pokemon is a sissy game doesn't mean crap there.

I never thought I'd hear the argument from someone on Massassi (especially a long standing member, nay the founder of the site) that something is lame because it's "for sissies" or "isn't manly enough" etc...

CM: It's the fact that I absolutely cannot relate to anything in that game whatsoever. I've seen the cartoon, I've seen the game, I've seen how he gets about it -- not healthy. I wouldn't give him any crap about it whatsoever if he also had other interests. You're right, it's not only about this game -- this game was the trigger for my original post, but you're right, it would be no different if it was any other game -- indeed, it's always about different games, last it was fight night, and super smush bros, and mario tennis, and nintendogs, blah blah. Pokeman is just the one that I can relate the least to -- and I'm not the only one.

I seriously think my "ultimate sissy" game would make a killing on iphone.

Wait, are you putting fight night into the "sissy games" category?

The Pokemon available might be the same, but it is most definitely not the same game. They use JP Blue's updated graphics, sprites and sound engine, and I believe they had even more bugs in the original games.

Um no.

So that's what John Freeman has been up to since he saved the humens.

I think what Brian is really getting at is that kids today with all their hippin' and the hoppin', and the bippin' and the boppin', they don't know what the jazz is all about.

I am confused. Coordinating your socks relates to video games how?

I was never concerned about matching my clothes as a child! I played a lot of Pokemon and JK. Fortunately, I was also active (though this is a long story in itself) in my church, went camping every month, played most sports in some sort of league.

Now that I am a United States Marine, I am obsessed with looking presentable and professional, I haven't played a video game in two years. I'm areligious, if you need a label (and a hipster ***** one at that) and I mainly make it outside to throw up or have a bad trip on whatever I inhaled that night.

All in all, your argument is as coherent as the point I was just trying to make. Which one is the holden age? Who the **** knows. IMO, it doesn't matter if someone wants to dedicate their time to video games if they're healthy otherwise. Though I think the heart of your argument has real substance, if I couldn't already relate to what you were saying I'd be lost as ****.

Kids be misaligning their priorities yo. Simple as that. Problem is, kids shouldn't be aligning any of their own priorities until they're like 8.

It's Gay! DUHH keep up spook

Well, Sarn thought the Ford Focus was a "gay" automoblie.

Pokeman?! POKEMAN??!!:psyduck:

I played pokemon when it came out. I also played Magic. Then I stopped caring about card games in general when I saw what it led to.

what

Haha

Yeah, what the hell?

Poor choice of words. I agree with him, but more in the sense that being a whiny sissy is an undesirable trait in any person, moreso than that it is "unmanly".

What does playing Pokemon have to do with being a whiny sissy, though?

They're being trained to have others fight for them, instead of fighting for themselves?

I dunno.

They're in training to be world leaders?

Oh. Um. I don't know.

if your kids play pokemans, they will assuredly catch THE GAY

Ok, I didn't read the actual thread but I have to say this:
Pokemon the cartoon is extremely annoying and gone overboard on the childish.
Pokemon the game is quite quite good, it's certainly more mature then say, Mario =p
Plenty of adults I know still play pokemon now and then, it's a good little timewaster.
As far as rpg's go, it's a bit on the simple side, but that doesn't make it crap.

Sounds like you've never played pokemon and don't really know anything about it besides (I'm guessing) how awful the cartoon is.
You've missed out on something.

i believe vinny played alot of the pokemans

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BTDub: Loving the Brock Obama picture hahah

I have to say, while that was probably the first thing that came to almost everyone's mind, it was still as funny as hell.

Guys, they are really training to be the very best. That no one ever was.

Catching them is really their test

I don't equate "sissy" with "gay" -- if that's what most of the world thinks, what's the proper term?

Gay == homosexual
sissy == wimpy feminine dude

You can be a sissy and not be gay. You can be gay and not be a sissy. You can be gay and be a sissy. Any combination works. But they are two different concepts.

I believe the clinical term is "panty-waisted limp-wristed nancy-boy."

Better a limp wrist than a limp.. oh nevermind

Liking pokemon after the age of 12 always struck me as a giant nostalgic circlejerk sprinkled heavily with irony. When pokemon came out, I was too old to get into that crap and too young to make any other opinion about it then it was kid's crap.

So preach it, Brian. Fight the good fight.

hahahaha

I've managed to avoid Pokemon for all of these years. I don't really even know what it is. There's just something about that little squishy yellow guy on the cover of all the Pokemon stuff that makes me not even want to look in to it.

Does Game Freak still make the games? I'm too lazy to google....

Anyway, there are lots of really sissy games out there that are a lot of fun. Mario Party, pretty lame concept, i mean... get a REAL board game... Except that it's EFFING FUN to play.