I feel you. My first Pokemon game was Yellow. I let my brother play with it, and he came to me saying that he caught a Magneton; I told him to save….then, after he saved, he told me he ran away from Zapdos.

According to Alexa, the AV Club has a slightly greater proportion of women than the internet as a whole…for what that's worth.
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