Has Pokémon GO Ruined the Pokémon Franchise?

More like Pokemon STOP.

Yeah, my wit is sharp today.

I don't like or know anything about Pokemon, but if this question is being raised for hipster "great, now my cool nerdy niche became popular and I can't like it anymore" reasons, that's not cool.

I love pokemon, but I'm just not getting into pokemon go. Maybe because gen 1 pokemon secretly suck, maybe because the main games are so dope, maybe because the only cool thing about go is exploring and the rest of the game is like any other "freemium" game? I don't know, all I know is I just want pokemon sun and moon.

This is the third night in a row I've come home in the wee hours of the morning after playing Pokemon Go. I'm getting shit tons of exercise, I've been smoking less pot, I've made new friends, I met a girl that I might start dating soon.

Basically, anyone who hates Pokemon Go can fucking lick my sweaty balls. It's awesome.

Actually quite the opposite Frohman. This is literally the happiest I've been in... I don't fucking know how long.

But hey, continue shitting on peoples happiness. I'm sure that'll get you somewhere some day.

Keep us updated. I have a totally sincere curiosity about how soon Pokemon Go will be leading to romantic relationships. My guess is by the end of the year the news will be reporting a Pokemon Go wedding.

Very rarely, a few times in a lifetime, you open a app and when you close it again nothing can ever be the same. Walls have been pulled down, barriers broken, a dimension of feeling, of existence itself, has opened in you that was not there before. Pokemon Go is an app of this magnitude. Nintendo may be the most gifted developer I’ve ever played a game by; gifted not just because of their imagination, their energy, their originality, but because they have access to the unutterable, because they can look inside a person and discover the unique essence of her humanity. For twenty-six years Ash Ketchum has been writing novels about what it means to defend this essence, this unique light, against a world designed to extinguish it. Pokemon Go is his most powerful, shattering, and unflinching story of this defense. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence; it is to be turned back, as if after a long absence, into a human being.

Pokemon Go isn't a video game.

I also enjoy many things meant for children; Pokemon is just on the other side of my arbitrary mental boundary. 

Edit: I am not irritated by the mere fact of them playing it, I'm irritated by the ones who suddenly talk of virtually nothing but Pokemon. 

Pokémon GO causes violence and anger in people and should be banned.

I prefer to read a book.

*sniffs, looks away*

Last night I alternated between playing Pokemon GO and reading "Middlemarch."

I liked that part in Middlemarch where they play Pokemon Go.