Interview · moment 5 of 14
Pokemon Go 101 and the Dogfighting Tangent
from Pokemon and Percocet · #2
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6 minGuest
Alex explains the basics of Pokemon Go (pokeballs, catching, Poke Stops), leading Tim into riffs about animal fighting, dog rescues on the Upper West Side, and a comparison of nostalgia between generations.
- 12:01Alex explains how Pokemon Go works: you throw pokeballs to capture animals.
- 12:18Tim notes Pokemon is essentially animal fighting and reminisces about dog fighting as an event everyone enjoyed.
- 12:32Dogs don't want to be wheeled around the Upper West Side in a bassinet by barren women dressed like people—it's disgusting.
- 12:55Someone played the Pokemon theme song from an iPhone speaker in his backpack and everyone sang along.
- 13:37Pokemon Go uses augmented reality—the phone camera shows Pokemon in real life and you swipe to catch them.
- 14:32Tim compares Pokemon Go to people voluntarily walking into death camps, viewing it as mass disconnection from real-world stress.
- 14:59Forty-year-old adults are posting pictures with Snapchat filters of fox ears, which confuses and scares Tim.
- 15:42Pokemon Go unites people because everyone watched the show and played the games as a child across all races and genders.
- 16:18Pokemon Go added about $8 billion to Nintendo and has a larger active user base than Snapchat and Twitter after being out one week.
- 16:42Tim's conspiracy theory friends say Pokemon Go is a distraction from protests, similar to Snapchat building a facial recognition database for the NSA.