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The Social Beauty of Pokemon Go - General Column
BillMurphy
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The Social Beauty of Pokemon Go - General Column
Like so many of you, we’ve been playing Pokémon Go a lot since it launched this week. And we’ve noticed something pretty amazing happening around the game… it’s got millions people playing together, in real life, as strangers. Pokémon Go has essentially become the world’s biggest MMO in a matter of days.
Try to be excellent to everyone you meet. You never know what someone else has seen or endured.
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It's a IRL mmo. You explore, collect and meet people. It's the biggest mmo ever. It will take you ages to explore all of the world in Pokemon Go! Fight for your club amigo. Eventually you will be able to trade your pokemons and battle others directly
I dare you to try and explore all of it. It's a 1:1 ratio to earth. With some interesting real-like locations to discover. Be careful of team rocket in shaky neighbourhoods in some dark alley, they might steal your pokemon, your phone.... and your wallet too.
거북이는 목을 내밀 때 안 움직입니다
I have had a guy walk to the end of a pier and realize he can't get to his destination.
I have had a young lady I found walking down a dirt path about a quarter mile into the woods @ 1a.m.
More than enough near misses with traffic to make me wonder.
I few calls of strangers walking through yards
I've also seen several meet up and do w/e it is the game needs you to do. Some of it is intriguing because the people i see walking have obviously not spent a lot of time in the exercise department yet they are doing 5-10 miles per day now.
Its definitely been fun to watch
I work at a casino and there's a Pokemon Gym there so a bunch of us have joined the same team (mystic) and are trying to keep it for Team Blue! I have a CP 931 Vaporean I worked hard on I am hoping will help scare them away =D
At one point today I was referred to as "the best Pokémon Trainer in the entire casino!" and we had a fun chuckle at that.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
No, they're just waiting for more corpse jokes.
People would be running around with shovels and dig holes everywhere.
I don't know much about the game, but it's interesting to see an AR experience go viral like this. It reminds me a little of what I've read about Ingress.
A while ago I predicted that AR and VR games would become the dominant medium. It's interesting to see that partly coming to fruition. It's like living inside a W. Gibson novel.
"The simple is the seal of the true and beauty is the splendor of truth" -Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Authored 139 missions in Vendetta Online and 6 tracks in Distance
And all you can do is look for negatives that haven't happened yet. It's ok though, being so pessimistic sure is one way to live, i actually feel kind of bad for the people hating on this game for promoting healthy lifestyle, regardless of if you need your phone to do it.. as soon as pokemon go plus accessory is released, what will you do then... then you have a small accessory that flashes and vibrates when a pokemon is near and you only have to press a small button on the accessory to catch the pokemon, don't even have to look at your phone anymore.
Getting pokemon eggs that require you to walk certain distances 2 / 5 / 10 kilometers of walking that the person would normally never do, but now does because they get a new pokemon from it.
Spin all the hate you want, but it's a good game doing good things. My son and I are having a blast getting out there and finding new pokemon and then he get's to take pictures with them, although it's really hard to give a 5 year old directions so you can take a photo of him with pokemon.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't really care if it brings joy to other people - the first person with their noses glued to a screen who gets hit by a bus or a train, or stabbed because they're in an unseemly part of town, all while trying to catch fake monsters is going to look real bad.