Pokemon Go

[Tiger Teeth]

(07-26-2016, 03:18 AM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: Man, there's some bickering going on here.  I don't read the boards all that much and am way late to the party.  But I justed wanted to throw my 2 cents in.

I'm, 37, was way too old to have experienced the Pokemon craze.  So I definitely don't get it at all.  And as an already not huge user of my smartphone for anything other email, than surfing the web and making calls, it's hard for me to understand the appeal of investing the amount of time some do into anything mobile related.  

With all the said, I'm not supposed to get it.  It's not for me.  My nostalgia is shit like the Goonies, Transformers, He-Man.  Maybe Saved by the Bell.  So it makes entirely perfect sense to me, from the standpoint of only people looking to get back into something they used to do. And there's things called fads, where a lot of people kind of get into the same thing, and most likely for no better reason than that's it fun and a lot of people they know are doing it.  But we don't need to get into that.

Who really cares that a younger generation is kinda reliving their childhood, no different than the boomers created what was the baseball card boom, and the modern vintage guitar market.  Everything was classic cars to old records are mainly driven by nostalgia.

So I'm sorry, but if you're shitting on others for not being mature or not having a life then I think you really need to re-examine your own time.  One could easily argue than the amount of wasted time or effort  playing Pokemon Go pails in comparison to the amount of time taking digs at anonymous strangers, on a message board.  

If you dig Pokemon Go, have a blast.  Just don't hop my fence, run in front of my car, or inconvenience me.  And that's all I really care about.  Mobile gaming or cell phones rotting kids brains is the same argument they made in the 80's about Nintendo, and then in the 90's, 2000's.  Same argument they made about TV itself, back in the day.  I would be willing to bet that the average amount of time spent in from of TV screen more than doubled from the 50's to 80's.  

I stayed home Saturday rather than go out with some friends, because I wanted to play my new(er) guitar, and watch a movie.  Some people would probably consider that a tad weird. But hey, that's what I enjoy.  I love sitting down at dicking around on the guitar.  And if you don't dig it then don't do it.  But you can kiss my ass if you try to tell me to get a life.  You do whatever is you want to do, and allow me the same.  Easy peasey.

Well said.