• doctordevice@lemmy.ca
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    19 hours ago

    I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don’t think it’s fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that’s not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.

    I also don’t think it’s fair to say I can’t understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.

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      5 hours ago

      I guess it’s the difference between a child who lived in poverty suddenly getting rich versus a child born into wealth

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        4 hours ago

        What are you even talking about? My point is that’s not a good measure of the generational transition from Millennial to Gen Z. It’s the wrong timing.

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          2 hours ago

          And my point is that you aren’t qualified to make that statement because you’re too young to remember a world without Pokemon

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            2 hours ago

            Just… no. Memory before 1998 is a terrible litmus test for a cutoff at 1996. Perhaps you had too much lead exposure.