Sunday night is pitch black, winter air almost ten degrees below zero. Soon to be two dragons of the type Palkia folded. It is the history of the Pokemon Go, the game’s most social part when a bunch of closes up at a predetermined location and fight against an enemy too strong for a single player.
after a pop players up. The nods to familiar against each other. Soon is four and hammering on the handset screen to kill the white-and-purple dragon. All can with margin called adults. For Pokemon Go has undergone a transformation since their breakthrough almost three years ago. The kids have largely stopped. Today is Pokemon Go a seniorsport.
“Children have no patience,” says a man with his cap pulled down over the ears.
It was he who called them together earlier in the day, in a chattkanal coordinates of Södermalm raids. ”Possible double in Hornstull,” he wrote. Two rare and powerful pokemon would pop up the same evening in the same area. ”Who dares to defy the vargavintern?”
the Man is playing with dubbelfattning. A mobile in every hand. He is on the highest level you can reach level 40. It coincides approximately with the group’s average age.
beat the Pokemon Go through with such force that it changed the cityscape. At my local metro station was a pokegym (thus a place to fight on), which got bunches of tolvåringar to hang in there with your pockets rich of extrabatterier. The old town of Stockholm was an inferno. Chose the wrong time plöjdes down by a rampant horde of middle school children, ecstatic uppeldade of rumors about the Pikachu at the German brinken. We adults played with a mixture of shame and enthusiasm.
Although there have been signs that the Pokemon Go has crept up in age. That when the police received the alarm about a woman in the permobil at E4:ans entrance at the height of Älvkarleby. A patrol caught up the woman, who explained that she had been on the pokemonjakt.
But it is only now, when I am somebody else invites on medelåldersräd, as the shift becomes clear. My contact, himself in the 45-year-olds, has promised that I am welcome even though I stopped playing at level 23. However, the starting time carved in stone. Exactly 18.23 shows the evening’s first kite up. They have promised to come, so it will be in time. ”Pokespelare not waiting”, admonished me.
Can you sneak out and play when the kids have fallen asleep? Photo: Science Photo Library
limited. The squad of monster I control is a yrvaket bunch of weaklings who have not seen light in two years. The others have been practicing the constant. While I ojade me how quickly trends blow past nötte the forward, with all biffigare pokemon in his collection. Such requires his time. Livspusselfrågor is crucial when you are playing after 40. Can you sneak out when the kids have fallen asleep? Can you both shoveling up the car and head out on a raid? Vuxenproblem. It doesn’t really matter if permobiljakt on the E4. But certainly, you can see it on the horizon.
most seem to only have been with child, got a samlarinstinkt activated and become obsessed with catching the thick Snorlax and cuddly Eevee. When the children then got tired so they went adults. Now the bravest in time of minusgraderna.
When the first dragon is nedkämpad we move towards the next battle. The breath is as smoke from the mouth, but the steps are determined. On the way, there is talk of the local ruler, a woman with so high points to the idea about to catch up with her is a standing joke. No one is using her real name, just the alias she is known as in the game.
the Raid takes place at a port to a residential building. Suddenly – a wild youth pops up. It is clearly a person under 20. Still playing Pokémon Go. But he keeps himself on its edge, outside the circle where all have become familiar. Pokémonsverige 2019 is no place for the youthful and giddy. To fit in you should radiate retirement savings, fredagströtthet and concern for gout.
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