Is Pokémon Go a Malevolent, Superintelligent Artificial Consciousness from the Future?
My sources say yes.
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Pokemon on Overthinking It
Episode 419: Pokemon: The War of All against All
On the Overthinking It Podcast we consider the technological and social phenomenon of Pokemon Go, and wonder whether any of our pets have had a secret life.
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Poké Monomania: The Consumer Success of Pokémon’s Ideological Self-Obsession
How Pokémon’s self-obsession influences and mirrors the obsession of its players with the game.
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Wrestling with Wild Things, Part 2
Why memories make people sad, the narrativization of loss, advances in clinical psychology, and why everything you think you know about therapeutic art may be wrong.
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Pixar’s Up: Paradise Lost at Paradise Falls
What goes Up must come down.
There Will Be Pokemon
No crazy analysis this time, just a great parody video on one of overthinkingit’s favorite movies. Sort of warning: Sort of spoilers. Kind of. Check out www.smosh.com for more stuff from these folks and folks like these.
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