Comment by lunchbucket
4 days ago
It's silly to compare an arbitrary connection to a non-arbitrary connection and as if it makes the former arbitrary. You're doubling down on a category error.
4 days ago
It's silly to compare an arbitrary connection to a non-arbitrary connection and as if it makes the former arbitrary. You're doubling down on a category error.
This is a very arbitrary connection. The game took some pictures of the world. The world got damaged.
And pokemon go isn't actually a children's game in the first place, it's heavy on the nostalgia and at least a while ago 3/4 of the users were adults.
It's bizarre to me that you aren't acknowledging the context these remarks were made in, I don't understand where you're coming from at all. Like, you've seen what article this thread is discussing right...?
The even more immediate context for this chain of comments is the article being pretty far off base, and that the people treating those videos like a database of location info are getting it completely wrong.
Also drones didn't flatten a city. You really have to ignore a lot of the details to make this connection strong.