Many of you know that I'm a bit of a Pokémon fan. I have been since I was a kid, and I can think of few things as long-lasting and enduring as my love of enslaving small animals with superpowers and forcing them to fight each other until exhaustion for my personal glory. Pokémon is awesome.

Now, the mark of a great Pokémon trainer is his collection of gym badges, which let others know that he's really awesome. But what's a kid to do, when they don't make replicas of the badges from games?!

Easy. Wait 10 years, and then pay some guy on Etsy to make them for you.

I am now the proud owner of my own set of Kanto gym badges. They look fantastic in person, and they're so nerdy it physically hurts. These badges might be my favorite thing in the world today. It's a shame they're basically girl repellent.

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