Article 1QC4G Modern tribes: the Pokémon Go aficionado

Modern tribes: the Pokémon Go aficionado

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Catherine Bennett
from Technology | The Guardian on (#1QC4G)

It's not 'just' a game unless you think chess is 'just' a game, amazing, I can't believe it - a Voltorb!

Wait - got it, just a basic Pidgey, do you want to see, now I can evolve it into a Pidgeotto, fantastic - though that probably doesn't mean much to you, does it? Don't you want to interrogate the boundaries of augmented reality? I'll show you, it won't take a second, but first I need more candy, let me explain. Actually it's much simpler if you try it, I promise you'll be hooked, mind if we stop at the church? I need more eggs and there's a Poki(C)Stop in the nave. So I can incubate more Poki(C)mon - course I need to, if I want to understand the sociology of ambulatory gaming, that's the whole point. To collect more Poki(C)mon for my Poki(C)dex.

It's not why do I want to, but why would anyone not want to be part of a massive cultural shift, what would that say about you as a person?

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