Pokemon Go Insanity - Impending Salt and other Weirdness

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D4C said:
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I thought "Pokemon means 'I am a Jew'" sounded familiar and yep, I was right.

Pokemon Controversy: Claims of Zionist Jewish plot in the Arab and Islamic world
Some outspoken, fundamentalist Muslims claimed that Pokémon is a Jewish conspiracy that is intended to brainwash Muslim children to make them renounce their faith. These same groups claimed that the word "Pokémon" is a phrase that means "I am Jewish", with the claimers and their followers generally unaware of the franchise's Japanese origin. The "Evolution vs. Creationism" conflict was also commonly brought up.

In 2001, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, who is the highest religious authority in the kingdom, issued a fatwā banning the Pokémon franchise. It claimed that the franchise promoted Zionism by displaying a six-pointed star that resembles the Star of David as well as other religious symbols such as crosses they associated with Christianity and triangles they associated with Freemasonry in the TCG and encouraged gambling in the games due to the inclusion of gambling elements, which is in violation of Muslim doctrine.[4][5]

High Muslim authorities in Qatar and Egypt then joined the ban. As this happened during the second Intifada, a Jordanian newspaper printed a caricature of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sitting in a tank and laughing at an Arab man chasing a Pokémon. This is meant to convey that Arabs are distracted from their conflict with the Israelis by popular franchises, with Pokémon as an example of such "distractions."[6][7]

Despite the initial banning, which quickly wiped away Pokémon merchandise, especially the card game, from markets in Saudi Arabia, Pokémon video games quickly returned to be sold normally, but under much less demand from local consumers. Some Pokémon merchandise, such as the Expedition Base Set reappeared in certain stores a few years later, but newer sets were never brought. Games from Generation III on seem completely unaffected by the ban.
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So this fundie Christian is actually quoting fundie Muslims, lmao.
 
obviously pokemon means "i am a jew". how do you explain these??
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and most importantly....
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^You can catch a good number of pokemon in your own house without even leaving your couch, it all depends on the cellphones in the zone.

And anyway going out and making some much-needed exercise and losing weight might help tumblrinas, just sayin'...
 
ToroidalBoat said:
"How baseball Pokemon Go is creating a barrier for players gamers with disabilities"
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I saw that article a couple of days ago and kind of thought it had a point. But then as I have been out the past couple of days to play, I've seen a good 6 to 7 handicapped people playing the game. Including a kid who has ALS, and had the whole Stephen Hawking set-up with a tablet the game ran on. He was having a freaking blast playing the game.

But you know, they all could still be in their houses, because Pokemon Go is a barrier or some shit.
 
All I know that I've bothered to invest myself in knowing about Pokemon Go is that it's making A LOT of people do outdoor things. One dude from my grad class walked up to my friends and I and asked if we'd seen Pikachu and I could not deal with that.
 
Kazeself said:
All I know that I've bothered to invest myself in knowing about Pokemon Go is that it's making A LOT of people do outdoor things. One dude from my grad class walked up to my friends and I and asked if we'd seen Pikachu and I could not deal with that.
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Are pikachu your trigger?


Anyways, some places have had to make Public Service Announcements about not playing the game while driving (even those light up road signs on interstates) because people are too stupid to realize their life is more important than a phone game.

Here is the voice actress for Ash having to say something even.
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araiguma said:
Are pikachu your trigger?
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Totally. No I was just so dumbfounded. I hadn't noticed people in my town playing it until that night. Like I shit you not we were driving around town and there were a lot of fucking people aimlessly wandering around with their face in their phone so I'm pretty sure a good majority of them were playing it. We went to our little "plaza" area and there were groups of people teaming up to play together.

I never got into pokemon as a kid so I guess I just don't quite understand the hype.

But I have definitely seen a lot of the PSAs and shit about it. My own damn town's police Facebook page had to make a fucking statement because people were apparently "acting suspicious" playing it in the wee hours of the morning. In the cemetery, too.
 
This reminds me of the mechanic in Metal Gear Solid Portable Ops/Peace Walker for PSP where you could recruit soldiers depending on Wi-Fi hotspots. It had a fairly broad range, but if the signal was strongest in the middle of the road, you could still get hit by a car trying to get a rare female Ocelot member on your team.

And that's the most bizarre shit about this game, it's that on a much worse level, to the point this game is serving as a crude form of eugenics by putting the dumber members of our species in harm's way.
 
muina said:
dude wut
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He's still relevant? And even as a non-player, non-fan of the show, and person who knows next to nothing about it, I at least knew that fighting and duels were a big damn part of it. I can't wait until he complains that PG is toxic masculinity and have Anita make a FemFreq video on it.
 
It's funny how some of these SJWs are saying "Pokemon is white privilege!" and blah blah, but Pokemon is actually Japanese.
It's the same deal when SJWs complain about "racist/misogynist/blahblah" in Nintendo games and then blame white people.
Any excuse to blame whitey for all their problems though. I guess Japanese people count as white this week.
 
Cosmos said:
I thought "Pokemon means 'I am a Jew'" sounded familiar and yep, I was right.

Pokemon Controversy: Claims of Zionist Jewish plot in the Arab and Islamic world


So this fundie Christian is actually quoting fundie Muslims, lmao.
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Gods, you can't do anything as a Muslim. No Pokémon? Weird, but we have that policy crop up in a lot of places. No crosses or six pointed stars? Alright, religious zealotry. Unfortunate but nothing new.

No. Fucking. Triangles. Jesus Christ.

How do you live like this? I remember when the Kharijites declared flowers haram. Literally anything enjoyable is always haram.

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D4C said:
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Pokemon is oppressive because gangs, you guys.
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I would hate to rehash the same old topic and point out the obvious yet again with every other Kiwi, but I am going to do so anyway, and it kind of ties in to my first comment. How can you limit yourself like that? How can you refuse to have fun, every second of every day, because someone, somewhere in the world, might hypothetically be worse off than you? Pokémon Go breaks down barriers, helps people meet up and have fun, and deconstructs the very kind of society they claim is so prevalent in the west. But because it doesn't accommodate so many different groups of people at the individual level that no organization could ever keep track of (and never minding the fact that Pokémon was designed to have and specifically works because of broad appeal across all segments of global society) it is absolutely a tool of oppression being wielded against those are forced to live in the shadows of a corrupt, white, patriarchy now being forced on us...by Japan? Desu?

Well, ok. Japan is probably whiter and more European than most of Europe at this point. Once you remove the aesthetic values. It is a western country in all but name, so I guess we can call Pokémon Go western. That still doesn't explain the fucking relevancy of that.
 
muina said:
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dude wut
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He hasn't lost his touch. He can still go #fullmcintosh

It would be impossible for him to be more of a cuck if he was a Mormon polygamist and every one of his dozen wives was getting railed 24/7 by Detroit gangsters.
 
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