Hoshicon 2016 – page 3
INSTANTLY DATED POKEMON GO REFERENCE!
But seriously, I was wandering around Downtown Thursday night, and I saw at LEAST two dozen separate packs of smartphone-wielding twenty-somethings running around looking for Pokemon. And not congoers, either. I’m talking about regular citizens. I was literally the only person in town with his phone in front of him just to figure out where he was.
…oh, and also a bunch of dunk and/or homeless people. I’m sure there’s a bit of social satire to be made here, but it’s late and I don’t wanna think that hard.
(Historical Notes: You gotta understand that this was the first time I’d ever actually been in Charlotte proper, rather than just driving past or stopping at the suburbs. I had JUST enough lingering traces of my time in DC left to miss wandering around a city at odd hours, even if it was disgustingly hot. The funniest part was, my roommates actually called me to see if I’d gotten mugged or something, I was gone for so long. Hey, I had no intention of actually being outside during the DAY any longer than I absolutely had to. I needed to go ahead and get all my touristiness out of my system all at once that night.)
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