I'm now an official Pokemon trainer

Hey everyone, today I just joined an official Pokemon League. Today was the first meeting of the new Pokemon fans RSO at my college, which is also an official Pokemon TCG/Video Game League. That means that if I complete the required amounts of matches, I get official Pokemon league stuff. I do have a bit of a problem regarding that though, I don't have any Pokemon video games up here at college with me and most of my cards, also at home, are near mint vintage from back in the 90s. I have some garage sale cards but from what I recall, they're all also really good quality. Plus I have all my cards organized by Pokemon or card. I'm going to need to go through them to find some lower quality garage sale cards.

With that I also don't know how to play. I would have learned if the thing at my school was playing, and not collecting. I still have all my "how to play Pokemon TCG" books from back when I bought the cards those 10+ years ago, so I'll work at learning over the summer. I'll also look into getting some "for game" purpose cards off eBay or amazon. When buying those "100 assorted Pokemon cards," I can't imagine them being of super high quality.

If you want to find me, my user name is "pokematiconline," because naturally "pokematic" was already taken. I know there's TCG online and I hope to enjoy that.

I kind of wish that I knew about this earlier, because then I would have kept my vintage Pokemon Adventures chapter here and not send it home. At least I would have had something to show off my enthusiasm.

Now for my history with Pokemon.

I set out on my Pokemon journey when I was 6. I remember the first episode I ever saw, The Problem with Paras. I believe it was at Cedar Point. It was all the rage when I was 5 and it was everywhere. As mentioned earlier, I set out on my journey when I was 6. I collected the cards, and put them in a binder. I the games, but was never really good at them, mainly because it was very text based and couldn't read at the time. I loved the Burger King toys and still have all of them, including the deadly Pokeballs. But my main love, was the anime. I remember when it aired on Kids WB and UPN every morning before school. Pokemon was actually the first anime both my parents let me watch. Dad let me watch Sailor Moon, but mom wasn't cool with it. It was always the morning, and never the afternoon. I lost touch with pokemon when I was 7 or so, mainly because it was no longer on in the morning on kids wb, only after noon. From what I recall, KWB stopped doing morning Pokemon right after Orange Islands ended and Johto was about to begin. Unfortunately for me both my parents worked and I had to go to an after school program at my elementary school. They didn't do Pokemon, except for the one time that they showed Pokemon the first movie. Because I was unable to keep up, I never got into Johto. I never got rid of my Pokemon stuff, partly due to my pack-rat nature as a kid. I kept in touch with the movies and still bought cards when they were cheap at garage sales, but we didn't really hear from each other, until much later.

I reconnected with Pokemon once the original kanto region episodes started airing on Cartoon Network. I would watch those old episodes every night at 7pm. It was a bit weird because Pokemon was always a morning thing, but whatever. Then the episodes started airing in the morning before school, just like when I little. I wish that they showed the Johto episodes, but unfortunately no. They did do new episodes every Saturday, so I went to the end of the Hoen region episodes. For the longest time I was able to keep up with the Sinoh episodes. Somehow I was unable to keep up, but I still love Pokemon. Now I'm really into collecting. When McDonald's did their Pokemon promotion, I made sure to collect them all, and keep them NIB, new in box. I guess it's not technically a full collection because there were 8 toys and 10 cards, so there are 80 different variations of card toy combinations, but I don't have that kind of time, and with the cards typically being covered, I wouldn't be able to know if I had it unless I opened it.

I got into the manga when I was in high school. The first one I ever read was the Gingies rescue adventure what was in Nintendo Powers. I even read all 8 volumes of Pokemon DP Adventures for an independent reading project for school. I gave a presentation as Hareta, complete with costume I made out of a pair of cargo jeans, a white undershirt, an inside-put tuxedo vest I got from the Salvation Army, and a red paperboy hat. Because Hareta was raised by Pokemon, including Manky, he had a tendency to climb things. I got permission from my teacher to jump on top of her desk in the front of the class. It was a great presentation.

Over all, I guess I embraced the idea of "Gotta Catch Them All" more than anything about Pokemon. I was into the collecting and not really the playing. Wish me luck because this will be awesome. This has been Pokematic signing off and bu-bye.

Some troubling news for us at ccpandhg incorperated

Hey everyone, catholiccontriversy here standing in for Pokematic because right now, Pokematic and Happy Gamer are having some issues. You see, a couple of days ago, Pokematic and Happy Gamer set out on a business venture where they would upload their videos to Blip and make money off of the revenue program and embed the classy video player in our video site. They were going to do this without me. Long story short, Pokematic got them both banned from blip within 3 days of registering. Happy Gamer didn't even have the chance to upload any of his videos, so now he hate's Pokematic.

While I am enjoying this lesson in the real world Pokematic is getting, mainly read the key points of the TOS and err on the side of caution, I do hate to see them fight like this. Hopefully soon we'll put out a video of us all telling our sides of the story. We're busy. Back on the topic of fighting. Pokematic and I would argue occassionally. OK, alot, but it was alwayse things where I knew I was right and he eventually learned that. We never held a grudge and would be fine really quickly. Unfortunately this isn't the case between Happy Gamer and Pokematic. "No I'm not going to call you Un-Happy Gamer and Pokematic the scumbag that robbed you of greatness."
For those of you who are just tuning in, I, catholiccontriversy, have a youtube channel and Pokematic has a metacafe channel. All 3 of us, me, Happy Gamer, and Pokematic, all upload to Dailymotion. I have a fair number of videos, and so does Pokematic, and we both have our own little get aways. Happy Gamer on the other hand, is stuck on Dailymotion and has only 3 videos. He doesn't get out much, and I beleive he saw this as his chance to get out there, and Pokematic ruined it for him.

Pokematic, you need to make this up to Happy Gamer, somehow. Maybe instead of making blogs and videos, you could think of how to make it up to him. But here this, I'm not going to fix it for you. This is your problem, and apart from you two destroying each other, I won't interviene. You didn't want my help with running the blip account, you won't need me here. Well this has been catholiccontriversy signing off and may God bless you.