A few hours I woke up to her holding a knife to my throat with her face covered in war paint saying "don't make idle threats" or something.
Based Mom is based.
I have come to a conclusion: Pokemon in general is bullshit.
Playing the "Unofficial Throwback" Pokemon Fire Red ROMhack right now (it's a good 251-mon hack with reusable TMs) and let me just say that the third Pokemon generation did a lot of dumb shit. Abilities were a very cool addition, the VS Seeker was great, getting a bugfixed remake of a broken ass game was great (in Pokemon Red and Blue, your critical hit chance was tied to the Speed stat, and some Pokemon are very fast; just one example), but:
putting Braille puzzles in a video game is dumb. The people best suited to solve them can't interact with them at all. It's like putting ASL in an audiobook. Guarantees that everyone is just going straight to GameFAQs or whatever kids use these days. I also want to know how the fuck I was supposed to know I needed to
manually use "Cut" on the door in the Ruin Valley. Only door in the game you use "Cut" on.
Another gripe. Giving Pokemon "Natures" was a horrible idea. For the uninitiated, from the third generation onward, Pokemon gained a new characteristic that reduced one stat by 10% and raised another by 10%. Several of these cancel out resulting in neutral mons, but there are 25 of these total. While this gave added build variety to mons for min/maxing ("Adamant" Geodude for the win), it also meant that 23 or 24/25 mons you would catch would already be subpar to what you were trying to do in competitive (thankfully irrelevant).
This is on top of the IV (individual values) stat modifiers, which are invisible, intrinsic to every Pokemon, unchangeable, and also render most Pokemon you would encounter subpar. Which brings us to Pokemon breeding, which has been such bullshit that every generation since they introduced the idea in Gen 2 they have made it easier to do.
HMs are also bullshit. Best ROMhack solution that I've seen abstracted them away from the Pokemon themselves and made them into key items. Only exception I'd make is for "Surf", one of the best Water-type attacks.
Bitching about Pokemon is like bitching about the specific qualities of a crack rock, though. I'm still smoking the shit.