Catherynne Valente is right on the mark, as usual.
I keep seeing articles on my Facebook feed about people playing Pokémon Go getting bitten by snakes, walking off cliffs, getting mugged, walking into traffic, and so on. This sounds ridiculous until you start playing the game and begin to understand the incredible amount of effort that a player has to put into it. Like, if you go through the trouble of going all the way to a neighborhood with a lot of Pokéstops, walk for a mile, and don't catch anything, of course you're going to drop everything and get excited when you finally see a pokémon. And if you drop everything and run to cross the street to get in range before it runs away, then that's what you'll do.
The way I've come to understand this based on my own experience is that people probably wouldn't take such crazy risks if the game weren't so difficult.
I'm trying to figure out a more casual way to play this game, but the communities surrounding it are all SUPER HARDCORE, which means that there's no model to follow if you just want to have a bit of AR fun while you're out on a walk. I guess I'll have to come up with an alternate set of goals by my own damn self - if they ever fix the server issues, that is.
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I keep seeing articles on my Facebook feed about people playing Pokémon Go getting bitten by snakes, walking off cliffs, getting mugged, walking into traffic, and so on. This sounds ridiculous until you start playing the game and begin to understand the incredible amount of effort that a player has to put into it. Like, if you go through the trouble of going all the way to a neighborhood with a lot of Pokéstops, walk for a mile, and don't catch anything, of course you're going to drop everything and get excited when you finally see a pokémon. And if you drop everything and run to cross the street to get in range before it runs away, then that's what you'll do.
The way I've come to understand this based on my own experience is that people probably wouldn't take such crazy risks if the game weren't so difficult.
I'm trying to figure out a more casual way to play this game, but the communities surrounding it are all SUPER HARDCORE, which means that there's no model to follow if you just want to have a bit of AR fun while you're out on a walk. I guess I'll have to come up with an alternate set of goals by my own damn self - if they ever fix the server issues, that is.