Back when I was finishing high school, I was really into Game Maker and spent a lot of time on the old GBC forums. There were the big hits like Jumper but then there were about 800 thousand simple sprite rips and pokemon fan-games. Being the smarmy piece of shit I was in those days, I spent a lot of time on a game project that parodied those.

Everyone knows that the key to making friends is gatekeeping creative output!