>you've spent years memorizing the movesets, typing,

i haven't memorized a lot of that shit though, i've got no idea what resists like, bug

>>30568504
>new language, doing well in school, learning to play an instrument, or being social
2 and 3 didn't need more than the necessary, 3 and 4 are irrelevant
nothing of value was lost

>>30568504
I barely know the names of the first 200

>>30568504
Well OP, Pokemon isn't the only thing I'm good at, so it doesn't bother me.

If that's all your good at, then that sounds like your problem.

>>30568504
Feels great
Fite me

What if I told you that I know three languages, am currently working towards a degree, play the piano and have lots of friends as well as playing Pokémon.

I'm telling you, learning the type chart and whether or not Pokémon are shit is not comparable in any way to a new language or doing well in a subject.

>>30568504
It's not like it's the only thing we do. It takes about one playthrough to learn all the new Pokemon and roughly type effectiveness, resistances, new abilities and strategies. So, like, 100 hours at most per gen, and then it's two years until the next game which introduces nothing new. What the hell do you think we do in between gens? I have two degrees and a good job, I just play Pokemon in my spare time when a new one comes out.

>>30568504
>>you've spent years memorizing the movesets, typing, stats

Except I really didn't. I just learn about the current meta pokémon and how to deal with them. Not the whole 800 thing.
Also SM taught me I actually don't even know the type chart, I always thought Psychic resisted Poison since I literally never tried using it against it.

Also your logic is quite silly, people need free time to spend, you don't have to work 24/7. I have no friends though.

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>>30568586
>being social
>irrelevant

>>30568504
But anon, I did all of that.

>>30568563
>>30568587
GET OUT

OP, time is time and besides humans are more directed to pleasure versus actual work. Think about it even if you don't play a video game, usually you doing something easy for pleasure such as drugs, alcohol, art all none productive things but things we nonetheless enjoy.

Yes we should be doing more productive things, but in the end can you think of a single person who is completely devoted to some productive activity?

>I memorized things I enjoy without even trying
>"""""""""""spent years""""""""""""
Bitch do you think I spent my days studying Pokémon on smogon or some shit during my childhood? I was a fuckhuge normie back then and yet I could easily learn everything by playing no longer than 2 hours a day.

>>30568504
god forbid people have hobbies

>>30568504
>you could have devoted all that brainpower to learning a new language
I have.
>doing well in school
I did.
>being social
I'm a huge introvert, but I actually wonder if I would be more sociable if I hadn't started to play videogames when I was 6.

>>30568636
The future isn't built on football chitchat and dirty jokes.

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>>30568504
>artist gave her an ugly pearl instead of her microphone

>>30568504
>memorizing moves, typsesets...

Not really. Most of the time it's color association or plain common sense. Hey, look at that! The dragon pokemon can learn dragon dance? Who'da thunk it?

I regret nothing.

>>30568740
But it IS built on nepotism.

Enjoy your eternal NEETdom outside of minimum wage burger shops.

>>30568504
>>you've spent years memorizing the movesets, typing, stats, and battle potential of 800+ fictional monsters in a Japanese children's video game series
lol no, just OU and some faves
>most of you can probably recognize these creatures by a 2 second long bit of sound they make when called into battle
I play with sound off
>you could have devoted all that brainpower to learning a new language, doing well in school, learning to play an instrument, or being social
already speak 4 languages, never was good at music but who cares, social life is ok

I feel good OP

>>30568615
/thread

Can't hear what you're saying.

Too focused on the Anabel picture.

>>30568825
>I play with sound off
Leave.

>>30568805
that's a pretty sad thing to say

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>>30568504
OP, as some others here have said, you could have easily done many other things in addition to playing a lot of Pokemon. You don't have to sacrifice everything else in your pathetic life to be good at one hobby.

Now that you have moped about it, why don't you think of something that you do want to do and start moving towards it. Wanna learn an instrument/language? Then start taking lessons and soak up information online. Or just continue to be a lazy shit and do nothing but play Pokemon, then continue to blame it for all your problems.

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>>30568662
>>30568586
>>30568740
>>30568936
>>30568954

>I've memorized all pokemon names, types, moves, etc instead of doing something productive

Eh, whatever, I'll just live off my inheritance and not do a damn thing with my life :^)

Time you enjoy wasting is time well spent

>>30568931
Same

>>30568504
>""""people"""" told me that if i wouldn't smoke, id have enough saved up for a ferrari or lomborghini
>ask them if they smoke
> if they say no
>i ask them where their ferraris and lambos are
>they give me a blank expression with their stupid face
>i thought so
>i tip my fedora as i bid them a farewell
you sound like one of those """people""" 2bh

>>30568954
Sad, yes, but it's true. Even high ranking college degrees won't get you very far without knowing a few people in the business already (which is the biggest argument for campus vs. online).

>>30568504
>You've spent years memorizing the likes, dislikes, personalities, and reliability of (insert number here) people in your life
same thing

>>30568504
I already spent plenty of time on a language and regret it, I'm doing well in school, I know 2 instruments, and I have lots of friends. Hell, I've made better friends through video games than otherwise

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>tfw to intelligent to do anything but play Pokémon

>>30569138
Having that kind of connections is beyond being sociable. The commoners have no choice but play with the cards they were given at birth.

>>30568504
I speak 3 language, play guitar and i am sociable.
What's your issue OP?

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The Earth has a population of 7 billion living people.

A rough estimate is that 108 billion people have ever lived.

To be quite honest, what 99% of the world does with their lives doesn't matter. The world functions with most of them struggling to survive on subsistence farming, hunting and gathering.

In other words, you are a small fraction of people(living) within a smaller fraction of that(first world) within an even smaller fraction of idiots who feel guilty that they don't live up to the handful of humans we can be bothered to remember in our culture and history. The millennial guilt that we may be *gasp* average is crazy. In truth your insignificance in the scale of the Earth is mind boggling to consider and it's a shame so many of us were told we'd be the truly special less than 1%. By definition, not even 1 out of 100 of us could be.

Buuuut

You can enjoy your life on your own terms and shed this stupid guild you have. There's nothing wrong with being a happy prole. If you want more, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today. Get cracking and just view Pokemon as what is is: an enjoyable hobby. If it becomes all consuming, dial it back a bit. Everybody needs relaxation time.

If you want to learn a language, play an instrument or go back to school, go for it. But go for it and embrace it, don't take it as penance for enjoying yourself earlier.

>>30568504

Its only difficult for you because your weak.

>>30569319
>want to get into IT
>friend also wants to get into IT
>friend's dad is already a well-known member of his IT company

It's not complicated.

>>30568504
>or being social
>wanting to interact with fucking casuals and normies about muh #blessed #yolo #bros4life #chadlife #bros #livinglifetothefullest
are you lost?

>>30568504
I'm doing well in school, learning piano and I'm extremely sociable and hang around normies and sub-normies (those weirdos who act exactly like normies but think they're nerds)

>>30568504
I mean, I did that and learned other stuff, too, OP. It's not too late to start learning something new, it's never too late. Go learn that language or instrument right now.

>>30569319
>Having that kind of connections is beyond being sociable.

Ah yes, the internship. Talk about a sisyphean task.

>>30569400
couldn't have said it better myself
/thread

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>tfw Pokemon inspired me to start drawing when I was a kid
>now can buy necessities by drawing Pokemon porn for cash
I'll take it.

>>30569560
You're truly living the dream.

>>30569560
godamnit you won the lottery

>>30569560
How many lucario penises do you draw in a month? On average

>>30568504
I actually have learned a new language parallel to going to uni, watching animu and playing vidya, don't see your point, only idiots lose their time doing shit.

good.

>>30569560
want to know this too >>30569712
also what do you draw more? trainer x trainer, trainer x pokemon, trainer x antro, or antro x antro?

>>30569560
Maybe a weird question but does drawing pokegirls or pokemon get more money?

>>30568563
fuck off casual normalscum

I've got no regrets. Pokemon inspired me to learn/improve on various hobbies such as drawing, writing, etc. Sure I've got what amounts to useless knowledge up in my head, but then again it's no different than knowing about the stats and records for baseball teams, the details about the actors, director, etc in a film, and other things that could amount to equally useless.

I'll keep up with my hobbies, learn new things and improve over the years, and call it good. I've got a great job, a fulfilling life so far, and a wonderful gf and involved social life. You won't ever see me complain about what I know involving Pokemon.

>>30568504
why not both

hobbies are healthy and really activate your almonds

>>30568504
>not having enough brainpower left after some simple memory tasks to function like a normal human being

English is not my native language, I'm currently doing a major at a respected university, learning to play an instrument has never been as interesting to me as simply listening to a whole bunch. I have no social life though and I pretty much gave up on it.

>>30569712
Oh, I don't draw super furry Pokemon. I hate Lucario anyways. The furriest I go is basically Animal Crossing level.
>>30569859
Pokemon would absolutely get you more, but Pokegirls get enough.

>>30569560
Gonna need some of your work. As proof of course.

>>30568504

>you could have devoted all that brainpower...

The thing is it really takes no effort to know all Pokemon names. You don't need to learn them you just automatically memorize them. Someone should figure out why it's so easy to remember all this stuff about completely fictional non existent creatures and figure out how to transfer it into learning other things. Imagine what a genius you'd be if you'd remember things as easily as Pokemon stuff

>>30568615
This (bar the piano thing in my case).
Pokemon is formulaic and repetitive enough that you don't really devote as much brain storage/power to it as you think you do.

Then again I haven't yet met anyone that remembers the name of every single berry/item, so maybe I'm just scratching the surface.

Post more Kirigiri-san

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>>30568504
I would like to take a moment to apprediate that anabel

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>>30568504
I like to indulge in my hobbies, what can I say?

There's nothing stopping me from learning other things on top of it.
Your capacity to learn and memorize new things is virtually limitless.
The brain is an amazing product of evolution.

>>30568504
I can play the Mayonnaise

>>30570134
Bright, distinct, evocative designs with names that are etymologically straightforward (usually) and connected to the related designs. There are a little over a dozen options for a major characteristic of these things, which is conveyed in the design by color, aesthetic, or both. This creates multiple simple and memorable layers that connect to form the mental anchor, which gives us the stats - 6 variables that are easily remembered as either "low", "medium", "high", or "very high". Considering that a large number of Pokemon are part of evolutionary chains, there are much fewer things actually remembered, as few people bother to remember stats on most NFEs, with a few exceptions in comp play, like Chansey and Porygon2.

Learning a new language, and learning to be social use different areas of the brain than the type of memory you use to memorize all the Pokemon. Sure your time spent in Pokemon could have been spent somewhere else, but just because you know 800 Pokemon doesn't mean you can't know an additional language.

Your gray matter is really adept at learning a gigantic amount of facts no matter what your age. For instance, without you realizing it, you know over a thousand logos of businesses. New York taxi cab drivers, before the advent of GPS, memorized the locations of hundreds of streets and intersections.

>>30570732
I just want to learn how to stop suffering.

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>>30570973
don't we all

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>>30570732
I memorized the all rivet locations on the skin of the airframe I work on for a living.
All 1.5 million of them.

>>30568504
By actually doing something.

I graduate with a doctorate in a medical field in the spring.

You want to get past it? Make something of your life.

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>>30568504
>a new language
I'm fluent in 3 languages. I think I'm fine.

>doing well in school
Top of my class.

>learning to play an instrument
I take piano lessons.

>being social
FUCK!

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average

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>>30568504
>you could have devoted all that brainpower to learning a new language, doing well in school, learning to play an instrument, or being social

You didn't want to then and you still don't want to now, so all of that is meaningless.
You did the thing that you enjoyed and you keep doing it, so what else matters?
Would you be happier if you did the things you don't want to do in order to be someone with the type of life you don't want to have?
What you have now is what you want, if you wanted anything else as much as this you would have it.

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>>30570182
ive got all the berries up here in a list. blame the autism.

I think I knew every Touhou's name+surname at some point.

>>30569560
>tfw never got into drawing
fuck
>now can buy necessities by drawing Pokemon porn for cash
How do you get money? Open a Tumblr and say 'Open for commissions :^)'?

>>30571444
>How do you get money? Open a Tumblr and say 'Open for commissions :^)'?

That's exactly it. /aco/ and Tumblr are great.

I don't really understand 4chan's inherent phobia of tumblr, you aren't going to find that "terrible SJW cesspool" unless you deliberately look for it. If you use it as a place to post and share art (read: porn) it's a godsend because it's so easy to have tons of new people see your stuff, it's much faster than twitter.
I'm pretty new to the porn drawing rodeo, but I think I have what it takes to get mildly popular. It's exciting, I'm experiencing the furry equivalent to manifest destiny.

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>>30568504
Thing is, I didn't "spend" years memorizing, it just happened because I played the games a lot. And I already know two languages and will learn - at least partly - a third one, so I don't give a shit. I also do well at uni, and am social enough.

What are you, OP?

>>30568504
>>you could have devoted all that brainpower to learning a new language, doing well in school, learning to play an instrument, or being social

But anon, I already know 3 languages, got accepted into a renowned college and don't sperg out in social situations...

>>30568504
I can memorize pokeymans AND a science career, multiple languages and artistic skills

Git Gud

>>30571551
>I'm experiencing the furry equivalent to manifest destiny.

You're raping and killing people with furry porn to colonize a vast land expanse?

It doesn't take nearly as much mental effort to memorize those things as you are implying.
Half the Pokemon typings are obvious from just looking at them, the other half is easily remembered by association.

But I haven't been able to memorize learnsets, that takes some actual brainpower due to the sheer complexity of it, including previous gen tutors and HM legality. Best I can do is memorize the most common sets and good moves common Pokemon carry in competitive formats, but this is limited to like 50 or so Pokemon.

>>30571669
man that would be so awesome

Who cares about that, post more SM Anabel

>>30571669
The rape was to produce an anchor population of new young to sustain new settlements.
The killing was to free up the land of anyone who believes it belongs to them.
lrn2colonize.

What kind of brain problems do you have that knowing the names of only 800 distinct characters takes up so much effort that you can't do well in school?

>>30568504
>needing any language other than english
>implying pokemon has ever affected my grades
>implying playing an instrument isn't as much of a time loss as playing vidya
>needing friends
wew

>>30568504
>most of you can probably recognize these creatures by a 2 second long bit of sound they make when called into battle
I never bother listening to that shit. The only one that left an impression with me was Spiritomb's.

>>30568504
This: >>30568589

>>30569319

You're fucking retarded.

>>30572545
All the UBs' cries are fucking GOTY.

>>30568805
This. T-this stings.

IT FEELS FUCKING AWESOME

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>>30568805
Not every normie does well in life, not every introvert does poorly in life. Nice generalization, faggot. I'm sure you and your friends will be happy serving me my Burger King lunch. And yes, I want ketchup.
>>30569061
10/10 bait. I know you're too retarded to understand that people who don't jack each other off irl can be successful, but no one really cares about your ignorance. I guess shitty fedora memes are the most that your underdeveloped ape brain can muster. Nice try, though.

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>>30572065

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>>30568504
>post poor bait and a half naked anime girl
>get 100 replies
Feels great

>>30573145
>wanting ketchup
this is likely the most aggravating part of the whole thread

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>>30573273
Lol I don't ever actually get ketchup (or fries for that matter), I was just memeing.

>>30573308
you're treading on dangerous grounds kid

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>>30573247
I wish I could get as many (You)s as OP one day, too bad I'm not a master baiter

>>30573358
put some meat on those bones and less clothes on that skin and you may improve eventually

>>30573445
it's a 10/10 body though

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>>30573483
you say body

all I see is a weird looking twig

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>>30573592

>>30573592
thank mr skeltal

>>30573592
thank mr skeltal

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>>30568504
English should be world basic, all the important people know it and you can still use your own as a secondary.
Did great in school
Don't have the time or money to shell out for an instrument though I do want to learn Accordian
>>>>>>>>Socializing

>>30568504
>spent years memorizing

I learned it passively as I played the game, faggot.

>tfw when I stare back in my own mind and all I see is Glaceon porn, chicken-chan memes and EVs spread autism
I used to be better than this

I could write, I knew Schopenhauer

I probably would have committed suicide ten years ago. I don't care for much else besides Pokemon and new releases are the only thing keeping me tied down.

>>30573975
And you call that a good thing?

>>30573592
thank mr skeltal

>>30568504
I speak two languages, op, did i do good?

>>30569015
Totally off topic but that food critic guy gives me the creeps

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>mfw I know several languages, do well in school, and know pokemon shit

>>30573197
we need a Minior version of these things

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why are all this anon's still in school? also speaking 3 languages isn't that much desu

>>30571551
Where can I find your art?

>>30568504
Where's your master degree in cientific rocket science?
Look, you learn a lot of stuff in your life that can be meaningless, the menu on a restaurant that you like, options and shortcuts in office, even meme's types and characteristics.
But if you didn't take the time to know those thing,does it means that you'll have already learn diferent languages and all of Einstein's work?No, it's just stuff that you learn or remember because you like it, you aren't going to run out of memory in your brain.

POST MORE CUTE ANABEL

>>30568504
I could have, but I wouldn't have so I have no regrets

as long as something like Pokemon existed and I would still be a friendless loser in school, I would have used it as a way to escape my shitty school life and throw myself into learning Pokemon rather than doing well in school

not that it got any better when I stopped playing pokemon for a while, I just played other video games.

>>30568504
This game is actually a low end skill. Learning a language is much harder unless you learn them as a kid.

>being social

Wait, where am I?

I was expecting most of the replies to be about Anabel. Kinda disappointed.

>>30568504
Given that in the grand scheme of the universe EVERYTHING we do is equally pointless, I feel indifferent about it. I achieved enough to live a financially more than stable life. Any time beyond that I devote to stuff I percieve as fun.