Fucking Pokemon.

[The Curmudgeon]

It's never really went away, and I've never been a fan, but who would have thought Pokemon would be the biggest thing of 2016? But Pokemon Go has went out and just become the biggest selling mobile game of all time, more than Angry Birds, more than Candy Crush, and it's been out for about a month.

Have you seen this shit?

www.vox.com/2016/7/16/12206238/pokemon-go-ios-android-video

Madness. Fucking madness.

Mrs C, life long Pokemon fan, is absolutely on-board. The game became officially available in the UK last week and since then she's been driving around town, getting out to Catch 'em All.

I don't "get it" as such, but there are worse phenomenons out there. Pokemon Go is now more popular online than Tinder, Twitter and good old fashioned porn.

Have you embraced the madness?

[trashcanman]

And we thought we'd seen the last of this insanity. Pokemon was never going away for good; it was always going to have its devoted fans, but as a full-on inescapable sensation, I thought its day was passed. But this shit is turning into Star Wars. It's not going anywhere. The news is filled with reports of muggers using the game to lure geeks into isolated places to rob them, a girl finding a dead body in a river while searching for water types (the mafia used a 9mm...it was super effective!), people walking around police stations or trying to climb into zoo enclosures to catch the resident Pokemon, a sex offender threatening to hunt and "purge" players (the only way that works is if he gets a woman and a cat to do the "prepare for trouble" speech with him), and my sister's street is crowded with people gathering at the virtual gym located at the park next door. I mean, shit. What the fuck has Nintendo wrought?


This may be the single most disturbingly nerdy thing I've ever seen. Not that I'd say that to his face...

And no, I'm not playing this. I've somehow never played a Pokemon game and although I have little doubt I'd enjoy them, this is not my in. I play video games instead of running all over town to do shit. The idea of a video game that makes me run all over town in order to play it does not appeal to me. Enjoy, but for the love of god, use some common sense, 'kay?