Well I keep hearing
about this craze for a mobile phone game that has got everyone
behaving in crazy ways. Stories of bunches of people racing across a
park then range to some people almost being cut off from the sea on a
shoreline?!
Every now and then I
hear something about Pokemon Go.
I have heard of the
name Pokemon for years but I have never become familiar with the
characters or seen any of the animated cartoons, I am presuming it
was from an animated cartoon?
I am into gaming but
not so much on mobile phones and I tend to breeze in and out of my
gaming sessions and sometime go weeks simply because there is not a
game that interests me or I currently don't have anything. I play
games on a PC and I like titles like Deus Ex, Fallout, The Witcher
which all have an open world play to them. You can go where you like
and perform missions in a non-linear like way … most of the time.
You have a main mission sequence and then you can find dozens and
dozens of other interesting missions. You can meet people that seem
to be become more and more realistic with each generation leap in
computer and graphics hardware. Despite how good you think games are
and look right now a leap in both CPU chips and GPU chips, Central
and Graphics Processing Units respectively, is going on right now and
will do for the next 12 months. Other more linear like action games
like Crysis also interest me.
Oddly there are a
number of other genres of computer games that I should get into but
have yet to, like strategy games and what they call God games.
Going back to Pokemon
Go I wonder what all the fuss is about and I simply cannot see the
attraction of running around staring at your phone which all have
crap battery lives looking for something to appear on your screen.
Maybe if I tried it I would feel differently? Maybe even very
differently? But people do seem to get enjoyment out of it and that
is good. However I am a bit worried that your going to hear reports
of people found dead with their phone next to them with Pokemon Go
running on the screen?! There is 'addictive' and then there is
'addictive'. When I heard the report about some people nearly being
cut off by the sea I could not quite believe what I was hearing.
Games can also be a
good distraction from things and sometimes this can be very good.
Someone who suffers from depression or anxiety might get to switch
off from those sorts of things by playing games. Funny how computer
games are never used in the world of mental health to help people or
even just suggested.
There was one
particular story I heard that was a damned good example of this with
a teenager who suffers with autism. He never left his home, by all
accounts, and yet somehow he got introduced to Pokemon Go and now he
gets out the house and is much happier than he used to be. Maybe now
they might think of using computer games more for certain things,
especially children and others with autism?
Why does it take the
world of medicine in the UK years to catch onto new ideas? How long
have computer games been around now? Seems almost like forever and
pretty soon it will seem like that for everyone. But now they are
catching on. How about bespoke software and games that help people
with certain afflictions? Will someone now think that this needs to
be looked into? I certainly hope so.
However these games can
only help to a point and there is a world when they simply cannot
help you any longer. The wolves can surround you so much that you
lose any interest in anything. There is nothing that can help you and
this one I know from experience.
For instance I have not
played a computer game for a few weeks now, which is unusual for me,
and I was playing one recently I had left alone and since revisited
and that was The Witcher 3. But I had that issue I spoke of recently
crop up. Now I have the possibility of going back to literally
scraping to get by from day to day and week to week. I am supposed to
phone for an ambulance if I ever have another full on seizure where I
end up unconscious again. Yeah, they are doing some evil things to me
when I have old incurable conditions going on and a potentially fatal
one emerging and an upcoming appointment for it in a matter of days.
But the sudden predicament I find myself in has aggravated the
condition I do have, brought on symptoms of my condition that I never
thought I would experience again, strong anxiety attacks, and bring
them on so strong that a symptom I was unaware of would suddenly
affect me. Sometimes called 'rubber legs' I lost the use of my legs
which was bloody great because my feet are none too good at the best
of times. I thought I knew just about everything about my condition
but I did not know about that!
Computer games was
never going to work with this one.
What I have also
wondered is how Pokeman Go seems to be hitting the media a lot and I
cannot help but wonder if people like the BBC are reporting every
little thing on it because they know it will attract the millions of
people addicted to the game? After all they seem to love celebrity
gossip which for me is not news. Not mainstream news.
I cannot be the only
one that has noticed a certain sideways and downward trend in their
usual source of news?
I mean OK that report
about helping autism is understandable and is news but if they keep
on just reporting on Pokemon Go for the sake of it, it will, or
already has, become obvious?
Oddly I came across
that report when I was looking for something to do with the fishing
industry in the UK and the vote to leave Europe. I had stated many
times that I was sure I remember hearing or reading that the fishing
industry was not happy with the EU restrictions? I think this was
jogged by reading that Iceland originally wanted to join the EU but
then pulled out of their application to do so because of the fishing
restrictions?
It turned out there was
a boat load of them on the River Thames that I think it said was
confronted by Bob Geldoff? Seems it was well known so did not see the
point on doing a whole piece on this subject after I had mentioned it
several times before anyway, lol.
As for my … issues.
It will be at least a month I think before I am any closer to finding
out, possibly?
Pokemon Go helps
Autistic teenager-
Fishing Industry voted
to leave EU-
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