What I learned watching my coworker play Pokemon Go all day

1. Everybody is playing this fucking game. We passed dozens of people on their phone, and about half were playing.
2. There’s nothing to do in the game. As far as I can tell, the entire thing consists of spinning coins at “Pokestops” and walking around while staring at your phone looking for leaves to rustle next to your avatar.
3. Pokemon are everywhere. She found one of the 29th floor of our office building — one of the most lifeless places I know of.
4. All the Pokemon are really lame. They didn’t even have cool names — I mean wtf is a Machop? That sounds like an As Seen On TV product brought to you by the Food Network.
5. “Going to the gym” doesn’t mean what you think it means. These are not places for physical fitness, they’re a place for cyber battles!
6. Much like drug addicts, players trade knowing glances with one another, yet never exchange actual words. Ain’t nobody got time to bond IRL.
7. The search is never ending. I quickly learned that “just one more block” doesn’t really mean one more block. A short trip during our lunch break turned into a mini saga/vision-quest into the depths of downtown Los Angeles.
8. Augmented reality is the future. All jokes aside, you can see the potential of this technology. Virtual reality is too isolated, and the real world is too boring; but, augmented reality? Well that strikes the perfect balance.