Pokemon Go

[heisenberg]

I get it if you got kids or something, but otherwise I have no idea what you`re doing with your time.

I just read a story on a forum about a 40 year old who had trouble communicating with his family - wife and daughter and him all spent their evenings in their own solitude doing their own thing. This game came out and they all downloaded it and decided to walk in the evenings and play together and the guy posted about how he has never had an activity like this that brought the three of them together. Plus it gets you out exploring and finding things that you otherwise wouldn`t.

I`ve seen a few memorials and things in my own city I`ve never looked twice at and now I am appreciating and having a moment for. Saw a WWII memorial that has never had flowers on it before; the week this game came out it was full of them because it`s a point of interest in the game. But yeah, it`s totally a waste of time for everyone, right? Forget that it`s exercise and enjoyment. We should be focused on way more serious stuff because life is super serious all the time. I can`t roll my eyes hard enough at people hating on this for no reason. It`s not like you`re saving the world in your free time.

 

[rlmccarty2000]

The town I live in was designated as a Northern soldier retirement/settlement after the Civil War. There are memorials all over town that I am just now finding due to Pokemon. Many of them less than a mile from where I live. It is kinda shameful that it took a game to get me out exploring at my age, but I`m glad I did. I`m enjoying the early stages of the game before it gets too commercialized. I hear McDonalds is buying advertising to become a Pokestop and Gym. I do wish I had bought stock in Nintendo as it has already doubled in price.

 

[Accumulator]

Heisenberg-

(Hey, never expressed my appreciation of your User-Name! I`m assuming it refers to Werner...)

OK, OK..color me Chastised, another topic where I can be a bit of a [jerk]. I do hope players remain aware of their surroundings though and otherwise behave appropriately.

As for life being all that Serious all the time, eh...that`s just how some of us experience it. Different people define "enjoyment" very differently and IMO nobody`s wrong on that score (though plenty of folks think that I`m one odd duck given my take on it).

Eh, I`m having an odd week, especially with regard to topics like Enjoyment, the expenditure of time/effort, and the Saving of the World (even if it`s just one person/situation at at time).

 

[The Driver]

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