My kids are glued on this all day long since coming back from Greece
Articles like the above completely underestimate what is actually going onand the importance / revolutionary impact of the particular game.
I arrived at the USC campus for a parent orientation Tue morning.
At that point I have never heard of the game besides some weird comments
of my son at 5am in the SJC airport mentioning "they are here" "here too".
So picture this, you are at big university campus and everything feels surreal.
You are surrounded by 1000s of students on campus half of them with ribbons
like ours but it feels diff. The diff is : they all hold their phone diff and
they are kind of following it. Phone slightly raised at a bit of a distance
as if they take a photo but not exactly and they are by themselves alone in the
field surrounded by hundreds of other in a similar trance. If you have seen
the Surrogates movie it was kind of like that. Anyway a third of the campus
population was in that state on Tue - and on Wed.. it felt as id EVERYONE
was like that!!
On the way back I was unable to hold a normal discussion with my son. He would
continuously mumble things like " I got xxxx (some pokemon thing)"
"STOP (while driving down Almaden Expwy). There is a "siamese" here!!!".
(I should probably admit that my son was pokemon addicted (as in playing this game
only and watching these cartoons again again only for several years of his life
to the point of worrying us about his mental state :-) )
