tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post3169829028428572722..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: Why I'm Not Playing Pokemon Go (Like I Have To Have A Reason...)Bhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-78451257198181829042016-08-02T08:14:42.067+01:002016-08-02T08:14:42.067+01:00Nice try :PNice try :PBhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-58042286758436250042016-08-01T16:32:56.163+01:002016-08-01T16:32:56.163+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Leonie Daecherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08563760596713364986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-16930844481938179532016-07-26T14:48:05.868+01:002016-07-26T14:48:05.868+01:00I dont play it either. I dont like manga styled st...I dont play it either. I dont like manga styled stuff but I think the idea is great. I prefer to play ESO atm and leave my Samsung Note 4 in my bag:)Xanhttp://xannziee.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-8421585540711421332016-07-20T19:53:50.962+01:002016-07-20T19:53:50.962+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Nimgimlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230174946054927922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-50595971469660303332016-07-20T19:53:44.633+01:002016-07-20T19:53:44.633+01:00Since my initial response Angela lured me into Pok...Since my initial response Angela lured me into Pokemon Go a little and I got kind of an idea of the appeal. But I swear the one time I played it while walking Lola, she looked at me reproachfully and didn't seem as happy. So that was pretty much that, but at least I now kind of get the pseudo-geo-caching fun aspect of "Let's walk over in that direction because there's a Pokemon over there." Nimgimlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230174946054927922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-41119757230889164602016-07-16T15:31:23.027+01:002016-07-16T15:31:23.027+01:00Spotted the first Pokehunters in our bookshop yest...Spotted the first Pokehunters in our bookshop yesterday. When the game officially releases in the UK I'll probably try it on wifi - I quite fancy wandering round the various free wifi areas near me on my lunch hour. As for the "letting the world know your exact location" - I have a plan for that...Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-57680622746477537852016-07-16T09:36:33.336+01:002016-07-16T09:36:33.336+01:00Pokémon, furbies and tamagotchi all passed me by. ...Pokémon, furbies and tamagotchi all passed me by. I remember some of the younger kids were into this stuff while I was busy exploring the first IRC chats on the early internet and playing psone games. ;)<br /><br />That said, I get the PGo fascination. It is a simple yet fun idea, far from completely innovative but brought together in a mainstream way thats very atypical for this IP. The game was obviously not made by Nintendo but the fact that they allowed their IP to go this way, on non-Nintendo hardware and for free (is the world coming to an end??), is rather copernical. <br /><br />Am watching the craze from afar, slightly amused and sometimes greatly entertained by its most extreme by-products - such as people getting robbed or falling down cliffs while catching virtual critters. Darwin has his hands full with this one! :PSylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-45535798249904547532016-07-15T18:31:58.997+01:002016-07-15T18:31:58.997+01:00Finally wrote my reply to this. Decided to stick t...Finally wrote my reply to this. Decided to stick to tradition and make it a blog post. :)Ravanelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03447777640056476366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-61682378288035438392016-07-13T19:32:48.196+01:002016-07-13T19:32:48.196+01:00We run MTG events in the bookshop where I work - y...We run MTG events in the bookshop where I work - you can say a lot of things about Magic players but I don't think we've ever had a fight.<br /><br />There's a school of thought that suggests the generation that's currently wiling to give away every scrap of personal information for the sake of constant connectivity will be spearheading a privacy backlash in a decade's time. We'll see. I suspect privacy of the kind you and I are comfortable with will come to be seen as a strange affectation in anyone under retirement age.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-30108613319224366912016-07-13T19:29:13.177+01:002016-07-13T19:29:13.177+01:00Yes, everyone has trouble commenting here now - ev...Yes, everyone has trouble commenting here now - even me. I might have to go back to one of Blogger's recommended layouts and see if that fixes it.<br /><br />I can't see Pokemon Go persisting past the Fall at longest - the weather will put paid to it in a lot of places, although possibly not in California where you are.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-25217724677780202842016-07-13T19:03:22.412+01:002016-07-13T19:03:22.412+01:00My step-brother wanted to buy my mother a 3DS a fe...My step-brother wanted to buy my mother a 3DS a few years ago so she could play some game he thought she'd like. Just as well she wouldn't let him or who knows where it might have led...Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-11989527202025624822016-07-13T18:58:55.278+01:002016-07-13T18:58:55.278+01:00You hit on exactly the problem I have with this wh...You hit on exactly the problem I have with this whole phenomenon, namely why do people feel they need a phone app to go for a pleasant walk on a Summer's day? I walk a lot as a matter of course - I walk 20 minutes to work and 20 minutes back and my entire working day is standing or walking - and yet I still go out for walks for entertainment and amusement. <br /><br />That said, the idea of turning the real world into a fantasy is very appealing. Not sure catching Pokemon would do it for me but I can definitely imagine some ARG MMO-style questing catching my fancy.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-39707121936073577902016-07-13T18:51:39.808+01:002016-07-13T18:51:39.808+01:00Heh! You must be having flashbacks right now. They...Heh! You must be having flashbacks right now. They're even talking about a new movie.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-8752586397845079702016-07-13T04:13:50.685+01:002016-07-13T04:13:50.685+01:00PokeGone T-shirts.
Those, and some game shops/con...PokeGone T-shirts.<br /><br />Those, and some game shops/conventions banning Pokemon CCG players during the height of the craze is pretty much all I remember from the 90's craze (CCG players were banned aswhile they brought in a lot of business, they too often were even worse than MtG players in at best crowding out other customers and at worse getting voilent with each other over cards).<br /><br />It's funny how a 'Revenge of the Nerds' of sorts has taken place: now 'normals' are glued to a computer/smartphone, for even longer periods, and even more dependant on it. It did make the train more quite again, though .<br /><br />You're not alone in not having a mobile phone, I don't have one either. It started out because I do not want to be potentially at beck-and-call 24/7 (sure you can put it off but then people ask why you put it off during daylight hours etc.) but with all the tracking software, cookies and what not I try to cling to the tattered remnants of privacy as long as I can. <br /><br />NetherLandsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-67398471020215110662016-07-13T00:51:25.758+01:002016-07-13T00:51:25.758+01:00(MrrX here. Having trouble commenting.)
"T...(MrrX here. Having trouble commenting.)<br /><br />"There's a chance it could mark a fork in the cultural road the way Twitter or Facebook did."<br /><br />I'm pretty sure that's where we're at. I could always be wrong, but just the mass of people playing Pokemon argues otherwise. Let's see how many are still playing in September.<br /><br />And part of me is laughing my ass off at being in with this group of bloggers who are worse curmudgeons/luddites than I am myself. Never did I imagine myself as the guy pushing the boundaries, but here it is. OMG.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-81856386007690269892016-07-12T21:09:09.791+01:002016-07-12T21:09:09.791+01:00I was sort of aware of Pokemon when it first came ...I was sort of aware of Pokemon when it first came out, though I think I saw the cartoon on TV first, then the card game. The game only really came when my daughter and I were at Toys R Us and then had a Nintedo DS demo unit set up with Pokemon Diamond running and my daughter did not want to leave it. It was a top down exploration view, somewhat akin to Rogue I suppose, with an RPG element based on catching creatures. When it came time to take another long flight as a family, my wife sent me forth to purchase a DS for my daughter to entertain her, as the portable DVD player had died, and in picking games I picked out Pokemon Diamond. She didn't care about the other two titles, she just wanted to play Pokemon. In watching her, I could see the merits of the game and then I wanted to play Pokemon. And the rest is recorded on my blog... actually that bit is also there as well, somewhere in 2007.<br /><br />Right now, with my dumb mobile phone, I feel like saying, "I'll be over here in the corner playing Pokemon on my 3DS like a NORMAL Pokemon fanatic!" Heh!Wilhelm Arcturushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07033496821708933394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-65226486211223299052016-07-12T16:18:40.449+01:002016-07-12T16:18:40.449+01:00My exposure to Pokemon came via my partner's d...My exposure to Pokemon came via my partner's daughter. That little girl put hundreds of hours into a Pokemon game on a DS and when somehow her save game became corrupted she was inconsolable.<br /><br />I have a smart phone but for the most part it remains in my pocket. I walk my dog every day and choose to stay focused on what she is doing and the world around me. My curmudgeonly-self harshly judges people who are more focused on the screen in their hand than they are in their environment. <br /><br />I kind of miss the days when folks would acknowledge each other when out in the world. Heck when I was younger and more prone to visiting drinking establishments, I'd seek out the ones that had no TV just because I hated out a TV shut down conversation in favor of staring at a screen. <br /><br />So I tried Pokemon Go when it hit but I just don't see much appeal in it. I'd rather listen to birds sing and watch lizards run for cover than walk around staring at my phone. Nimgimlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230174946054927922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-22651824024605650702016-07-12T15:40:47.110+01:002016-07-12T15:40:47.110+01:00I was the perfect age to be hit by the Pokemon cra...I was the perfect age to be hit by the Pokemon craze, but... well, that's perhaps the problem.<br /><br />When first confronted by Pokemon, my seven year-old self's reaction was something along the lines of "Huh? That seems kind of dumb. I don't get it."<br /><br />But my friends, however, were instant fanatics. I mean a level of obsession even I find borderline excessive. They had the cards, the toys, the video games. Every car ride had the soundtrack to the movie blaring at unhealthy volumes. It was all they talked about, it consumed their every waking moment.<br /><br />So I became the unwilling participant in a kind of Pokemon immersion program, and a mild disinterest developed into a passionate hatred. Twenty years on I've finally stopped having Hannibal Lecter-esque fantasies involving Pikachu and fava beans, but I still wouldn't touch anything Poke-related with a ten foot pole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com