A broken TV and the recent Pokemon review inspired me to confiscate my roommate's forgotten DS and finally give a Pokemon game a runthrough. But now I want to catch them all, and I have noone to trade with! My niece and nephews are too young, and if anyone my age plays it, they're not going to admit it.
I don't know if you can anonymously trade Pokemon, but I got to thinking the only way I was likely to find anyone to connect with would be to go hang outside at a junior high school at lunchtime (actually, I think Yahtzee alluding to that in his review)... and people who look like me don't need to be loitering around schools in the middle of the day unless they're looking to strike up a conversation with the police and be on the 'usual suspects' list whenver Billy doesn't come home from school.
So i found the whole bit in this 3ds review about stealing children's innocence was particularly amusing for me.