I
certainly did not play any Pokemon digital/virtual/trading card games
whatsoever when I was younger although I was guilty of helping my little sister
(then) to take care of her endless Digimon virtual pet devices. That’s the
extent of my adventure when it comes to these Japanese media franchise.
Recently,
I tried very hard to ignore the global phenomenon that is Pokemon Go but it was
hard considering that almost every single media, electronic especially, had
something to say about the matter. I know that the ‘augmented reality’ settings
allowed users/players playing it on their androids or iOS systems to search for
monsters in the ‘real world’…that much I know and I do not have any further
plans to go deeper to find out more.
Today,
we read about how the game is finally released in Japan (yes, where it all
originated from) after seeing releases in most parts of the world first:
Fans
of the virtual game were actually jumping for joy as they downloaded the game
into their smartphones. Inevitably, it creates more zombie-like humans whose
eyes get glued to their screens for most part of the day and proceeded to put
the game as their main priority in life.
Some
dude on the internet just declared that he won’t be able to concentrate on his
office work/social life now that he has the game on his android device. Many
other outrageous twitter/fb statuses seemed to confirm this solidarity pledge.
Now,
this is just sad:
Nobody
said you can’t enjoy the fruits of life in whatever form that they may come in
but please be reasonable and stay safe guys.
But
I digress. As always.
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I
wanted to say that the whole Pokemon Go phenomenon reminded me a lot about how
people in Terminator Genisys were highly anticipating the Genisys system. Once it goes live it will
be EVERYWHERE and UNSTOPPABLE. Perhaps there is some degree of truth from the
Terminator film franchise, that one day machines will completely ‘take over’ our lives.
They already have their headstart when smartphones were invented.
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Pokemon
Go is the next level in achieving the prophecy set out in the Terminator
movies…..ain’t it? Your thoughts?
Footnote: The cool image above is not mine. It was taken randomly from: http://newsthump.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokemon-go-terminator
Footnote: The cool image above is not mine. It was taken randomly from: http://newsthump.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokemon-go-terminator
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