Yearly Archives: 2016

Russian Fear Creates Rival to Pokémon Go

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As all the world knows, Pokémon Go was created as a spy network for other nations. Niantic is involved in a seedy plot with the CIA to create a network where we instantly have knowledge of the inner workings of all walks of life. It’s insidious, and Russia was not at all fooled by it. Russian policy makers are horrified, and there’s a real chance that it is banned, or at least prohibited near any military or political building. They don’t want those sneaky Pocket Monsters to spill the beans on anything important. You know how they are. Pokémon Go is said to have dreadful psychological effects on its users, sending them spiraling into a world of madness and greed. You know, the American Way. Russia can’t have that. So what’s the solution?

Know. Moscow. You heard me right. Know Moscow will be similar in many ways. You run around Russia, and perhaps some of the other outlying states that Russia used to own, and instead of gathering up Pikachu, Gengar, and Machoke, you get Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and probably Vladimir Putin. Doesn’t seem that there will be any battling, from what my research has dug up. That makes me sad, and makes me not want to go through the trouble of getting a second phone or some kind of hacked .apk to play Know Moscow. The best part about this? It is being produced by Moscow City Hall. This is a thing that will happen. I wish I were making it up and I hope it’s just some elaborate ruse by the Internet at large. This is up there with an Imam declaring that Pokémon was a “Zionist Plot”. It’s very likely that Russians who are hacking and gaining an .apk to play the game will be jailed if caught. I wish this were a thing that I could joke about, but even I can’t make this shit up.

Sign of the End-Times: AR Games + Dating Apps

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We are a culture of convenience, and everyday, the world of gaming and dating both change, swirling deeper and deeper down into the maw of madness. As I stood on the beach this morning, catching my fourth Charmander, a realization hit me: We are approaching the End-Times. We’ve gone past where Ghostbusters II predicted by a bit, and I realize that Pokémon Go is now the herald of the Apocalypse. One of the Four Horsemen. It is Famine, creating a thirstiness, a hunger for Pokémon that can never truly be quenched. But that’s not all. We also have apps like Tinder, and Bumble, or Grindr, whatever floats your boat. What happens when a company gets wise to what’s trending and merges them together?

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Think about it: You have an AR game and you go on dates with people. Going on several dates, tracked by your GPS and your activity on the app, will boost your account level. How do you gain stats? You are rated by your peers, former dates, et cetera of course! In a tumblr-esque environment, you will be judged and rated, and that determines how powerful your character is. Sure, you get more experience for “new” dates, but the comfortable familiarity of dating the same person/people on the app will no doubt get you better ratings since they no doubt like you more. Dates taken to “new” locations will gain more exp, so it’s going to help the economy too. And best of all, dates you acquire through this app will surely play Pokémon Go with you! With trading and battling coming, this will be a must-have app for 2016.  I can see it. Society slowly crumbles under the weight of AR Dating. It’s the closest thing we can get right now to Virtual Reality dating, where men and women date anime characters; that’s coming, fear not. It will be the Fourth Horseman, the Waifu Death. She will come on a white horse, bearing the last vestiges of our society on her shoulders.

This will be the Killer App of 2016. It will pair neatly with Pokémon Go, save our economy, while simultaneously destroying us all.