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- It's a new experience, being outside.
I heard of this place called "outside" for a long time.
- Dude, I'm sorry, just look at this.
I'm working out right now, technically.
- It's a good concept, but I thought I'd find at least one by now
and I haven't found anything.
- What are you doing? I'm moving.
Why aren't you moving?
It's supposed to move, right?
- Oh! Oh! Another one, another one, another one.
Oh, that's a Rattata. I don't want him.
[Bleep]. Fricking [bleep] that.
That's also the thing: too many of the same Pokémon
reappear over and over again.
I'm trying to find a PokeStop over there.
(people murmur off screen)
How is it-- I'm at the park. It says I'm too far away.
- Oh, the park! Right here.
Do I have to play in the jungle gym to get Pokémons or something?
- It's a lot of walking because it's like you walk here, you walk there,
and then there's no Pokémon.
- Apparently, the servers are down.
Well, I mean, that's what happens when you have
an amazing game like Pokémon Go.
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- (Finebros) Okay, so have you played Pokémon Go before?
- I have not.
- I'm lazy.
- Do you wanna see my Pokédex or what?
- I walked around my area, caught a Bulbasaur,
got excited, and then got bored of it real quick!
- (Finebros) What makes this game fun?
- Well, obviously, for an older generation, they have such a huge fanbase.
- As a game itself, it's not the greatest thing ever
because it's so new, but the potential it has, man, it's nuts.
You're [bleep] playing Pokémon!
You're walking around, catching Pokémon.
- (Finebros) So this app has become insanely popular
since its release not too long ago.
It even has more daily active users than Twitter.
- What?
So it's like Pokémon world now, huh?
- Yup, it breaks the servers every time.
- Yikes! That's bad for Twitter.
- (Finebros) Why do you think has been so insanely popular?
- It's because it's, like, everyone's childhood favorite game.
- I was in the market the other day and this 50-year-old man
came up and he was like, "Oh, what did you catch?"
And he was totally into it.
And so there's people of all ages playing.
- It brings in old people, older people, that have played Pokémon,
that have stopped playing Pokémon,
and it brings in newer people that don't know what Pokémon is.
They wanna just live the Pokémon life.
- (Finebros) Is Pokémon something you've always been into?
- No, I'm sorry everyone.
- Kind of.
Like, I've known what Pokémon is,
I've watched some of the Pokémon TV series.
- When I was little, my sister and my cousins,
they were really into it so I kinda just grew up around that.
- I kind of stopped playing Pokémon, I think, three years ago.
- I vaguely remember in the back of my brain
being at my grandparents', playing Pokémon,
watching Pokémon movies.
- When I was younger, I was really into it.
I had Pokémon cards. I had battled people.
And I watched the anime.
- Always! I've collected cards, I watched the movies,
I played the games on Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance,
and the SP, the DS.
- (Finebros) A lot of people are praising the game
for advancing augmented reality game play,
where, when you play, you see things in the real world
through your phone screen, that only you see them.
What do you think about this technology?
- It's incredible.
It's just crazy how you could see a Squirtle right in front of me.
- I think it's where most games will lead to,
and I think there will be more smart phone games in general
because you don't only have to buy a console;
you already have the consoles and it's also free.
- It's awesome.
Like, dude, hey-- you find it at the funniest spots.
I was at Jiu-Jitsu, right, in my practice,
and then my coach's like, "Hey, there's a Squirtle in the room,"
and everyone's like, "Yo, where's my phone?"
(laughing)
We all stopped practicing.
We're in drill and everyone's like seeing a Pokémon.
- (Finebros) Do you think the negative press hurts
the game's image for the public? - I mean, yeah, a little bit,
but people are still gonna play.
- I was gonna say yes, but I don't know
'cause every day I see something on the news
and people are still praising it and loving it.
- Our media's already inherently negative, so people are gonna hear about,
"Oh, you know, Pokémon Go Leads Girl to Dead Body,"
opposed to, "Pokémon Go is Bringing People Together."
You know, "It's Creating Communities."
And that's fine. Whatever.
Clearly, it hasn't had that much of a negative effect on it.
- (Finebros) Overall, do you think this is a positive or negative thing for society?
- If I had to choose one, I'd say positive.
- You get an extra couple miles in just walking.
People go on adventures. You lose weight eventually.
Like, honestly, as an overall thing, it's a pretty awesome thing that's going on
and I don't get the people who hate because, honestly,
they're at home playing Candy Crush on Facebook.
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