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I uninstalled Pokemon Go today!
Apr. 29th, 2019 10:37 pmI have mixed feelings.
My biggest, nearly only regret is I'm back to needing reasons to go for walks. The exercise was lovely and there's no good way (yet) to replicate the "if I go outside I get paid in POKEMON!!" motivation. To a lesser extent I feel the smallest (irrational) pang of letting people down since everyone was so kind to my newbie self, and now I've wandered off.
But it's FREEING to have all that time back! I have so many more hours in a day now that I don't have to juggle "how will I Tetris my daily 'stop spin into my schedule, or do I need to make a day out of collecting quests, or should I work on hoarding event candy, or" and so on. This also means I don't have to waste brain space on what a buggy flustercluck the game is, nor be trampled on all sides by desperation, by the sensation that I'm behind and need to race just to catch up. No more irritation that my shiny luck sucks, that I can't get XYZ without doing the unreasonable ABC... and I never have to jump through hoops to check IVs and levels again!!
Oh, right, I should mention:
The thing that took me "from I'm having a good time!" to "I'm done." was the Adventure Sync system breaking. I didn't get credit for multiple walks. That's it, that was the one thing keeping me interested, and with it gone: *fart noise.*
Not sure what my plan is from here. Maybe make myself a fake walking game with a spreadsheet, manually awarding myself pretend Pokemon stuff for my walks (since the app to track my walks still works just fine, and I do like using that.)
My biggest, nearly only regret is I'm back to needing reasons to go for walks. The exercise was lovely and there's no good way (yet) to replicate the "if I go outside I get paid in POKEMON!!" motivation. To a lesser extent I feel the smallest (irrational) pang of letting people down since everyone was so kind to my newbie self, and now I've wandered off.
But it's FREEING to have all that time back! I have so many more hours in a day now that I don't have to juggle "how will I Tetris my daily 'stop spin into my schedule, or do I need to make a day out of collecting quests, or should I work on hoarding event candy, or" and so on. This also means I don't have to waste brain space on what a buggy flustercluck the game is, nor be trampled on all sides by desperation, by the sensation that I'm behind and need to race just to catch up. No more irritation that my shiny luck sucks, that I can't get XYZ without doing the unreasonable ABC... and I never have to jump through hoops to check IVs and levels again!!
Oh, right, I should mention:
The thing that took me "from I'm having a good time!" to "I'm done." was the Adventure Sync system breaking. I didn't get credit for multiple walks. That's it, that was the one thing keeping me interested, and with it gone: *fart noise.*
Not sure what my plan is from here. Maybe make myself a fake walking game with a spreadsheet, manually awarding myself pretend Pokemon stuff for my walks (since the app to track my walks still works just fine, and I do like using that.)
