ITT: Shiny encounter fuck-ups.
>be 10
>friend gives me Pokémon Silver for my birthday
>Never really heard about Pokémon until now
>I literally know nothing about this game other than that you catch monsters. I'm going in completely blind
>choose cyndaquil because chikorita is gay and todidile looked jewish
>make my way to route 45.
>see Geodude for the first time
>sparkles
>my 10 year old self thinks all geodude sparkle because "oh they're geodes and they're sparkely and shiny"
>fuck it up and slaughter it
>find another Geodude
>no sparkle
>another Geodude
>no sparkle
>call my friend in confusion
>mfw he yells at me for 10 straight minutes
>mfw he didn't talk to me after that for 2 weeks
>playing ruby as a kid
>blue numel appears
>no poke balls
tfw i was the laughing stock for like a week
>>32040293
>>mfw he yells at me for 10 straight minutes
>>mfw he didn't talk to me after that for 2 weeks
Your friend sounds autistic, I bet he's on this board right now.
I had a similar experience. Two even.
>play gold on old colorless brick gameboy
>get to lake of rage
>fish a magikarp
>it sparkes
>not sure if that actually happened or if i was imagining things
>kill it
I didn't even notice the difference in the red Gyarados.
And later on
>encounter a wild gligar
>it sparkes too
>stare at the screen for like 10 minutes, waiting for it to sparkle again or something
>come to the conclusion that it's just some random gligar
>kill it
>Pokemon Gold
>bug catching contest
>Find a shiny caterpie
>Ran out of contest balls trying to catch it
I think I spent 10 minutes afterwards trying to find it at the same spot.