He used pokémon go because it is an app that ask you to wander around. It could be the same for geocaching.

He’s not attacking the game in any way shape or form... What he’s saying is that if he where to play it as Nintendo intended he would feel his life was in danger. And that’s fucked up.

The point. You missed it....

You could have replaced every single mention of Pokemon Go with other actions such as “Buying a loaf of bread in the night”, “Picking up my friend in the alley” etc and still have made the same point.

There’s no reason it can’t bring people of different demographics together while at the same time being potentially dangerous for racial minorites (especially alone and at night).

If you have to wander around residential areas to buy a loaf of bread at night, you’re doing it wrong.

Sure it does. It’s two major news events that are juxtaposed in the right-hand bar of your Facebook “trending news” feed, and you would never, ever stop to put both of them together because it’s not something you feel or experience (I’m assuming). Also, this is a gaming site, so it makes sense for him to utilize a…

I don’t think you understood the point of the article, at all. Maybe circle back around and try reading it again?

It makes the point accessible to ignorant white kids, which flew straight over your head in the rush to defend some portion of your precious geek culture that you think is more important than other people.

And this is why “white people just don’t get it”.

The key term there is “gatherings”. The author is talking about tooling around solo. Whole different thing.

It actually is the gameplay that brings about the issue here, though it is not necessarily limited to Pokémon Go as any similar game would have the same problem. I haven’t actually played the game, but from what I’ve read it, and all games with similar gameplay mechanics, cause players to be in places they might not…

He didn’t blame the software at all, and “buying a loaf of bread in the night” or “picking up my friend in the alley” doesn’t require you to walk around aimlessly, looking at your phone, sometimes walking in circles. Your bread buying, or friend searching, can be easily explained to an observer or they may be able to…

Pokemon Go deliberately asks to be in places many of us would not normally be seen. By the simple virtue of white people seeing the unexpected, fearing the unknown, and assuming the worst, a black man playing ANY enhanced reality game where, according to racists and cops, ‘he doesn’t belong’, endangers him.

I don’t think the point is “this is a Pokemon Go specific thing” but rather “oh, look, yet another thing for POC to worry about doing in public”.

Agreed. He’s not saying Pokemon Go is bad or wrong, he’s just pointing out that loitering and wandering around with your phone like a creeper is more dangerous for a black person than a white person.

I was gonna write “inb4 all the ignorant and racist bullshit” but there’s already a “fuck off” comment, so I guess I’m too late.