Oh, I get it. I never owned a beanie baby. For a while I was a failed Gen-Xer in my mind. Then I realized; a Geekdom is a huge commitment. If you go for it, you have to go all-in. It’s okay to decide not to join a Geekdom if you don’t feel the passion.

I mean, how good of a pokemon trainer can you be if there’s no compulsion to learn the names, classes, evolution chains, attacks and whatever else you should know about all available pokemon?