Pokemon Go.
Posted: September 6th, 2017, 5:19 pm
I don't identify much with "addiction", but I certainly recognize "compulsion".
I really enjoy Pokemon Go, but I realize I am making choices I ordinarily wouldn't make.
Just this week I:
1. Stood in a very bad neighborhood to take a gym for Team Valor.
2. Crossed a very busy road to get a sponsored gym badge.
3. Made my friend wait while I completed a raid against Magikarp.
4. Was late to a doctor's appointment by knocking a 1500 CP Vapereon out of a Mystic gym.
5. Hurt my troubled knee from overuse by going for just one more swing around the Pokestops. I "needed" berries to get a silver gym badge.
6. Stayed up late grinding Eevee's so I could evolve an Umbreon.
7. Sort of trespassed to add a Blissey to a Team Valor gym.
I realize when I am being programmed by corporate America: just like gambling or drug pushers, they give me a good Pokemon just often enough to keep coming back. The first thing I do each morning is catch a Pokemon to keep my streak going. They know the power of intermittent rewards, and they are playing me.
Pokemon, like many vices, makes for a good servant but a poor master.
I really enjoy Pokemon Go, but I realize I am making choices I ordinarily wouldn't make.
Just this week I:
1. Stood in a very bad neighborhood to take a gym for Team Valor.
2. Crossed a very busy road to get a sponsored gym badge.
3. Made my friend wait while I completed a raid against Magikarp.
4. Was late to a doctor's appointment by knocking a 1500 CP Vapereon out of a Mystic gym.
5. Hurt my troubled knee from overuse by going for just one more swing around the Pokestops. I "needed" berries to get a silver gym badge.
6. Stayed up late grinding Eevee's so I could evolve an Umbreon.
7. Sort of trespassed to add a Blissey to a Team Valor gym.
I realize when I am being programmed by corporate America: just like gambling or drug pushers, they give me a good Pokemon just often enough to keep coming back. The first thing I do each morning is catch a Pokemon to keep my streak going. They know the power of intermittent rewards, and they are playing me.
Pokemon, like many vices, makes for a good servant but a poor master.