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Author Topic: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?  (Read 1579 times)

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Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« on: July 23, 2010, 12:54:19 PM »
To me it's like a sign of authoritarian personality issue at best, or a serious pokemon hate crime, at worst. It's not a "who's right and who's wrong" issue. It's an adult emulating a parent to children behavior on another adult who has the full capacity to make his own decision. But I am interested in other takes.
Discuss.
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 01:49:06 PM »
Pokemon hate crime...

i LIKE it.
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2010, 01:57:17 PM »
I will re-iterate my viewpoint from that other thread and say instead of judging grown ups playing pokemon, we should encourage it. I can't have all the pokemon playing guys suddenly start striking up conversations with all the ladies out there. It's hard enough as it is!

Keep on playing!
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #3 on: July 23, 2010, 02:17:08 PM »
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #4 on: July 23, 2010, 02:21:44 PM »
Authoritarian implies I have both the power and the will to change it... which I would never do to another adult, no matter how lame.
Also, I would think the Pokemon hate crime would be best, and the authoritarian personality would be worst. But I guess that depends on how strongly you feel about Pokemon (and authoritarianism for that matter).

As for whether it's ok to judge... I'll just say of course it is, and it's a funny question coming from someone whose user name is TheJudge.
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2010, 05:52:01 AM »
Welll *I* can do it. Not because I'm TheJudge, but because I have double standards!
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2010, 09:14:41 AM »
Quote from: ivan on July 23, 2010, 01:49:06 PM
Pokemon hate crime...

"Pokemon Hate Crime" sounds like a band.
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Re: Grown ups judging grown ups playing pokemon - is it OK to?
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2010, 08:32:53 AM »
It's the same thing as judging your peers for other various interests. We all have our things we think are lame, whether it be video games, movies, or music. Even though I'm quick to get defensive when someone gives me shit for, say, liking World of Warcraft, I'd be just as quick to make a snarky remark if I found out she/he was a War and Peace by Dostoyevsky fan. It's all the same, isn't it?
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