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The game will be popular for a week or two, after that everyone will completely forget about it and realize it was actually kinda sucky, just like happened with Avatar. (A shitty movie I've still never seen)
Exactly what will happen. Though, this one's so popular it might actually take around a year for the whole thing to drop dead, but initial excitement will quiet down as quickly as a month or two, and then there will be something new that people will pretend to be "excited" about. Already the talk about the game has reduced to around half of what it was a week ago.
Yes, it's nice that people are going outside, getting exercise and socialising with each other, but guess what? Those things were always an option, and it's quite sad people these days need the motivation of virtual monsters to do any of that. Besides, it's not socialising with others to rush around in a group, eyes glued to your phone screen, going everywhere like a robot because a game tells you to. Or to stop in the middle of a conversation or anything that you're doing, to go and catch a nearby Pokémon that spawned. That's not social, it's obsessive and unhealthy behaviour. Funny how the fact that it's a game about Pokémon, blinds people to the fact that they're basically being brainwashed and having their minds controlled by some big company. If the US government released an app that spawned checkpoints at random locations where you needed to go, I doubt anybody would trust it so much or think of it as a healthy activity.
Also, it's amazing how nobody seems to find it even a tiny bit awful and creepy that the game spawns Pokémon in restricted areas, people's private yards that players are now invading, and on people's graves at cemeteries. Not only does nobody find it it weird, but they actually go to these places to play the game. I mean gee, how insensitive of a human being do you have to be to go collect a Pokémon at some stranger's grave. If I was at a cemetery paying my respects to whomever, and someone came to collect a damn Pokémon, I'd beat the shit out of them.
Exactly what will happen. Though, this one's so popular it might actually take around a year for the whole thing to drop dead, but initial excitement will quiet down as quickly as a month or two, and then there will be something new that people will pretend to be "excited" about. Already the talk about the game has reduced to around half of what it was a week ago.
Yes, it's nice that people are going outside, getting exercise and socialising with each other, but guess what? Those things were always an option, and it's quite sad people these days need the motivation of virtual monsters to do any of that. Besides, it's not socialising with others to rush around in a group, eyes glued to your phone screen, going everywhere like a robot because a game tells you to. Or to stop in the middle of a conversation or anything that you're doing, to go and catch a nearby Pokémon that spawned. That's not social, it's obsessive and unhealthy behaviour. Funny how the fact that it's a game about Pokémon, blinds people to the fact that they're basically being brainwashed and having their minds controlled by some big company. If the US government released an app that spawned checkpoints at random locations where you needed to go, I doubt anybody would trust it so much or think of it as a healthy activity.
Also, it's amazing how nobody seems to find it even a tiny bit awful and creepy that the game spawns Pokémon in restricted areas, people's private yards that players are now invading, and on people's graves at cemeteries. Not only does nobody find it it weird, but they actually go to these places to play the game. I mean gee, how insensitive of a human being do you have to be to go collect a Pokémon at some stranger's grave. If I was at a cemetery paying my respects to whomever, and someone came to collect a damn Pokémon, I'd beat the shit out of them.
