My name is DaveO, I'm 22, live near Los Angeles, recently graduated from college and am a HUGE Pokémon fan.
I joined just to get an account going on here finally. I've been visiting Pokébeach pretty regularly since maybe 2006 but been a fan of Pokémon since 1998. I love to play the GBA games and make fake cards mostly. My other hobbies are almost strictly League of Legends (which I firmly believe Pokémon should have a game identical to) Starcraft II, writing both fiction and non-fiction, creating visual art, and recording songs, but Pokémon will always be #1. Until very recently, I never went to any Pokémon events or interacted with the rest of the Pokémon community online. I mostly just play with people I already know from school and keep to myself.
I think it's worth mentioning my most favorite Pokémon include Lapras, Gyarados, Dragonair, Ampharos, Steelix, Miltank, Skarmory, Tropius, Spoink, Numel, Sableye, Seviper, Relicanth, Groudon, Rayquaza, Gastrodon, Yanmega, Audino, Sigilyph, Tirtouga, Archeops, Deerling, Druddigon, and Hydreigon--but I love them all, except Dunsparce. Gen III probably has the highest concentration of my favorites and is my favorite region to run around in. But a lot of the time I like to pretend to be a gen-wunner.