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 met one person on the way to a focus on who’s looking for a Bulbasaur that I managed to find and two people pulled up in a car asking if we were playing Pokemon I said yeah and they said they were too and they’re looking for the Bulbasaur as well. And there are like 20 people at the Pokemon stop that someone had left a lure at