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I've been watching news
And seeing all this hate
Tell me is it wrong
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The news has been filled with hate (often directed at the LGBT+ community), and there hasn’t been enough tangible change.

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I think it also reflects the need for political change regarding gun control. And this is even more powerful when sung by a country artist like Kacey Musgraves.

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... to sell you things depending on your physical location, just as it presently does depending on your travels across the web. The ultimate goal of Pokémon Go is to make shopping the only game in town. If that happens, we will all be the poorer. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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I mean if we all get addicted to micropayments we will all be poorer

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...will come location-based advertising, where the phone in your hand will try to sell you things depending on your physical location, just as it presently does depending on your travels across the web. The ultimate goal of Pokémon Go is to make shopping the only game in town. If that happens, we will all be the poorer. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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Wait what? Where did that come from? It was the aim of the Fire Phone, for sure. Needs exegesis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J7NjvueVoc

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...esignating some places as important to the game it can draw players there, and it is only a matter of time before it starts selling to businesses the ability to draw in potential customers like that. After that will come location-based advertising, where the phone in your hand will try to sell you things depending on your physical location, just as it presently does depending on your travels across the web. The ultimate goal of Pokémon Go is to make shopping the only game in town. If that happens, we will all be the poorer. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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Google / Nintendo—hire the Guardian’s editorial team to lead your product dev!

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yeah, into a ravine

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...istinction between play and commerce vanished almost entirely and with the present dominance of massive multiplayer games, in which people play with each other spontaneously inside an imaginary world which can have considerable cash value, the old rules of childhood have almost disappeared. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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This is kind of a harsh accusation to level at Nintendo, who for a long tie have held off the micropayment model, giving their games a level of completion and meaning most now simply don’t have.

http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/micropayments-mega-angst-and-the-future-of-console-games/

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...easingly some companies’ profits. With the emergence of computer games, the distinction between play and commerce vanished almost entirely and with the present dominance of massive multiplayer games, in which people play with each other spontaneously inside an imaginary world which can have considerable cash value, the old rules of childhood have almost disappeared. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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This sounds like the plot of Beckett’s play, er, Play

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2QJ0FYE3pw

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...ers. The rules could no longer be altered to suit them. In some ways this led to better and more interesting games. But it also means that the players’ joys were increasingly some companies’ profits. With the emergence of computer games, the distinction between play and commerce vanished almost entirely and with the present dominance of massive multiplayer games, in which people play with each other spontaneously inside an imaginary world which can have considerable cash value, the old rules of childhood have almost disappeared. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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I think this needs a lot of work.

Firstly, the thrust of the paragraph is about video / computer games in general, not Pokémon Go, which the editorial is supposed to be about.

Second, I have as many grievances with late capitalism as the next Guardian reader, but I don’t really buy this end of innocence stuff. Video games as in the ones played on a box and not connected to the web are a very different proposition from ones played on a phone connected to the web; in fact you could easily argue the former have more in common with Action Men and Barbies than they do with the latter.

Also, how far back in human history are we being asked to regress to find the acapitalist playtime? When was the first toy made, and when was the first toy traded for something else?

Pic related, a toy from 900BC

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...ished almost entirely and with the present dominance of massive multiplayer games, in which people play with each other spontaneously inside an imaginary world which can have considerable cash value, the old rules of childhood have almost disappeared. The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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I was almost convinced then you ended on this “good old days” cliché

J/k I wasn’t convinced

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Play is by definition an activity undertaken for its own sake, with no other reward. Marketing childhood games changed something fundamental. The game was no longer the property of the players. The rules could no longer be altered to suit them. In some ways this led to better and more interesting games. But it also means that the players’ ... The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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I don’t understand—does this refer to the video games of old, which weren’t tainted with micropayments? Or just to the post-micropayment era? Most products are marketed to some extent; you’d have to go pretty far back to find a state of primordial play that did not use something which had somehow been marketed.

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Play is by definition an activity undertaken for its own sake, with no other reward. Marketing childhood games changed something fundamental. The game was no longer the property of the players. The rules could no longer be altered to suit them. In some ways this led to better and mor... The Guardian view on Pokémon Go: augmented merchandising | Editorial | Opinion | The Guardian

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Okay so this feels a lot like dumping a big theoretical statement then rushing on to something else in the hope that the reader can’t be bothered to call you out on it. I can be bothered.

Play is usually used by psychologists and their ilk to mean quite basic activities like handling objects, dressing up, even banging things to produce a sound. Pokémon is a game with a clear set of rules and mechanics. If you want to make this point, you need to press on “game” and not play. There are clear rewards to finishing non-micropayment games.

Pic and caption are Wikipedia’s, not mine

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