{"id":7622,"date":"2018-05-22T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2018-05-22T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:06:40","slug":"faded-but-not-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7622","title":{"rendered":"Faded but not gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember a couple years ago when Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong> came out and the world went absolutely bonkers over it for like\u00a0two months and then you never heard about it again?<\/p>\n

Would you believe me if I told you that there are still tons<\/em> of people playing it?<\/p>\n

Yeah, maybe it’s not in the news any more, but Pok\u00e9mon GO has definitely still got a very respectable player base. I’ve been back into it over the last couple months, and have even participated in the two most recent Community Day events, which is where I learned that people are still playing this weird little phone game.<\/p>\n

Community Day is a bit of a misnomer. It’s really Community Three Hours, and the event is always based around a different Pok\u00e9mon. During the event period, this Pok\u00e9mon appears very frequently, has a higher chance of being shiny (a\u00a0very<\/em> rare palette swap), and probably gets a special move for battles. Going out on Community Days was an eye-opener, as while visiting popular spots around the city, I was shocked to see droves of people walking around poking at their phones like crazy. Some were wearing team colours, many had cords attached their phones that disappeared into their jackets or pants, and some just looked like normal people (like me). But they were all there to get their Pok\u00e9mon on.<\/p>\n

The greatest thing about\u00a0these Community Days and all the people they bring is that I’ve finally been able to play in a few legendary raids. I mean, you can<\/em> do them on your own, but you will never<\/em> win, so it’s really a waste to even try. I’m not going to start associating with these people online through Discord groups or anything, but if they show up for four minutes and help me catch a rare thing, then sure, I’ll play nice for a bit.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, that’s my two cents for the day. If I were more social, I’d be even more excited about all this, but\u00a0that’s not me.\u00a0It’s just fun to see other people enjoying a dumb thing that I also like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember a couple years ago when Pok\u00e9mon GO came out and the world went absolutely bonkers over it for like\u00a0two months and then you never heard about it again? Would you believe me if I told you that there are still tons of people playing it? Yeah, maybe it’s not in the news any more, … Continue reading Faded but not gone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irl","category-mobile-games","category-pokemon","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7624,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}