You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I met someone yesterday who was in jail for nearly running over a pedestrian because he was trying to catch Pokemon while driving.
As he signed the paperwork for a bail bond, he swore he'd only play Pokemon Go while walking from now on.
Given how ravenously my generation has pounced on the game you would expect me to have taken up the craze just like the rest of Tumblr, but I never downloaded it so I never got hooked
I'm familiar enough with it to understand that for all intents and purposes it is a Pokemon game, but it doesn't do everything that has made the series special, nor is it full featured enough to really feel like one (which is very much an intentional decision, but it makes me as an outsider to the series go "wouldn't my time be better spent just playing the real ones?")
besides, me being in Raleigh made it feel kind of pointless to do so; the game's no fun without driving because the stops are too far out from each other (my entire neighborhood has just one)
my folks have fallen in love with it, though, to the point of taking driving trips just to get stops and buying in-app purchases to get coins for other items and stuff
and it's been nice to see them getting into it, but I still think it isn't quite what I'm looking for
(I've had enough exposure to the Internet and the shows that I recognize most of the monsters themselves, though, which is cool because I haven't played any of the games but they still consider me an expert on the subject)
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I guess that's a good job for that kinda thing.
I'm familiar enough with it to understand that for all intents and purposes it is a Pokemon game, but it doesn't do everything that has made the series special, nor is it full featured enough to really feel like one (which is very much an intentional decision, but it makes me as an outsider to the series go "wouldn't my time be better spent just playing the real ones?")
besides, me being in Raleigh made it feel kind of pointless to do so; the game's no fun without driving because the stops are too far out from each other (my entire neighborhood has just one)
and it's been nice to see them getting into it, but I still think it isn't quite what I'm looking for
(I've had enough exposure to the Internet and the shows that I recognize most of the monsters themselves, though, which is cool because I haven't played any of the games but they still consider me an expert on the subject)