The hilarious thing about watching people talk about their experiences with pokemon go is that I just keep remembering all the edgy ‘realistic’ pokemon reinterpretations that used to go around, and how ‘no the pokemon world would be SO DARK you guys’.
And now there are people going around IRL catching pokemon and they’re just like ‘I WENT OUT AND MADE TWENTY NEW FRIENDS AND FOUND AN EEVEE AND EEVEE IS ALSO MY FRIEND!!!’
So it seems the pokemon setting actually was pretty damn accurate.
I was just at a park by a lake with crowds of people as thick as if there was a fair, all playing Pokemon Go. People rode by on bikes, trying to hatch eggs (one was playing the bicycle theme song on a speaker). The only thing people talked about was Pokemon.
It looked and sounded exactly like I was actually walking down a Route in a Pokemon game. The whole thing was completely surreal.
:)
literally asked by my boss today to look into making our library a gym for pokemon go, I frigging love my job sometimes
…that’s not a half-bad idea, assuming I can ever play the game.
Fellow librarian chiming in that a lot of people’s libraries were just sort of…naturally slated as Gyms/PokeStops, and as a result they’ve already seen a little bit of increased traffic from players. Pretty cool!
Libraries can be marked as gyms
I work in a tiny library
The only person who works in the library is me
Therefore, I am a gym leader.YES
