Definition: In this task, you are given a Reddit post as a text. Your task is to generate a title for this text. The title should start with "TIFU by", followed by a situation that caused humor. The title should contain 7-12 words, ideally.
Input: Text: this did not happen today, as per usual. it happened in the fateful spring of ’08.
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i was going to be the very best, that no one ever was. beat pokemon red. and when i say beat, i don’t mean beat the elite four. who hasn’t done that? i was going catch’em all.  get all 151 pokemon. moreover, i wasn’t going to cheat once. no rare candy multipliers. only one master ball for the entire game. it was a daunting undertaking, and i knew it.

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so i began my quest, and it was far more challenging than i expected. level grinding to beat the next gym is tedious, as everyone knows. level grinding to get your ponyta to 40 so she can evolve is even worse. i took a few shortcuts via stones, but tried to do the majority of it by hand. it felt more personal that way. catching them is a real test, but training them was my cause. by the end, i’d say i could truly understand the power inside each and every pokemon.

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i had a copy of pokemon blue, so i was able to play parallel games in order to get the pokemon i needed. i started my blue version twice in order to get all 3 starters. i played all the way through the pokemon mansion (cinnabar island) on blue to get pinsir and other blue exclusives, revive the alternate fossil (all praise lord helix) and used that copy to get my trade evo’s like gengar and golem.

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i devoted most of my spare time to this goal. i carried my gameboy sp with me everywhere, and anytime i had a spare moment i hopped into kanto for some grinding or whatnot. i played a lot in class (high school), and that usually worked out alright. once, i had just beaten blaine and hadn’t had time to save when the teacher caught me, took my gb, and removed the cartridge from the console. i was a bit peeved at that, but not a big deal. just had to replay it, no problem.

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catching the birds was a trip. i only had 1 master ball, so of course that was reserved for mewtwo. catching 3 different legendary birds with only ultra balls is not easy. i remember fighting aa-… i mean zapdos at least 10 times and turning the game off when i accidentally killed him, just to try again. but i did it. with patience and perseverance, i pushed on toward my goal. i faced every challenge along the way with courage and a beautiful backlit screen and rechargeable battery. i battled every day, and i was going to claim my rightful place as a pokemon master.

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after about 3 months, i was coming close to the end. it actually became a bit easier in late game, as i could make elite four runs and level pokemon using the start-and-switch method. i had logged over 55 hours on my copy of red (that’s the last number i remember seeing); i have no idea how many hours were also on my auxiliary blue copy, but it must have been a good few. i had 150 pokemon, and all i lacked was dragonite. dragonair is a surprisingly weak pokemon, and evolves at level 55. at levels above 45, i couldn’t go just anywhere to grind due to exp payout, and a lot of the high level places dragonair was not very effective. so i make elite four runs, using dragonair on the first few until she died, then suiciding and starting over. i’d gain about a level per run.

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final scene. dragonair is level 52. 3 more levels; 3 more elite four runs. i’m sitting in my car before lacrosse practice, thinking i can make it happen in the 10 minutes before gear up and laps. one of my good friends is chilling with me in the car, waiting to witness me make history. i was on the homestretch, pushing to the end, when my sp’s battery died. ah, the frustration. i had my backup gb color, with batteries, in the car. it wouldn’t be as satisfying on that, but at this point i had a full on victory boner. i needed to finish, and i needed to do it now.

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so i whip out the gbc and insert the game cartridge. however, as i’m sliding it into place, it kind of… sticks. not so much that it didn’t go in, it just sort of caught for a moment. i flip the on switch, and the little nintendo sign at the bottom is kind of fuzzy. at this point, i was a bit nervous, but the fuzz sign is a fairly normal occurrence, so i removed the cartridge, blew on it, and reinserted the cartridge. this time the nintendo sign is fine, and it makes it passed the splash screen and to the starting menu, where i only see 2 choices: new game, options. continue was not there. my save file had corrupted and disappeared.

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despair filled me. it didn’t last long, and was replaced by profound apathy. anger set in a bit later, but that didn’t last long either. to this day i can’t pick up a pokemon game and actually play. i’ve tried. i’ve thought to myself, “i did it once, i can do it again!” but i can’t make myself care. pokemon red, you teased too hard and broke my heart. i’ll never have that drive again, and i’ll never find satisfaction.
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TIFU by blowing and being teased.