Is Their No Depths That This Moronic "game" Will Not Plumb?

[ToraToraTora]

http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/14/auschwitz-reminds-people-its-disrespectful-to-play-pokemon-go-at-a-former-nazi-death-camp-6007482/
Leaving aside the despair I have for mankind for this latest craze, surely some places should be out of bounds?

[bazwillrun]

The generation who claimed the older generation ruined their future by voting Brexit are the generation chasing imaginary Pokemon !...

[horselady]

Nice one bazwillrun!! Although you are now going to get loads of people on here telling us it's not only the young ones that are playing it.

[ToraToraTora]

sadly, baz, there are grown ups doing it too!

[mikey4444]

I have no real idea what this daft Pokemon is all about, and to be honest,
I don't really care. But its common sense for the Auschwitz authorities to place an embargo on playing the game there..

But isn't it sad that some people are too stupid to realise it without being told ?

[Bathsheba]

Beyond disrespectful :(

[ToraToraTora]

Mikey, it's basically twitching with a phone app. Players have to spot "pokemon" using their camera phone but really it's no different from trying to spot the lesser spotted rarey bird by hanging about in the woods.

[Old_Geezer]

Sure it is disrespectful, but the generation hooked on the game will not feel much in common with a historic event, something before their time. I'm not going to get too het up as it's not as if they are running riot of vandalising the place; they're just busy looking at their mobiles. Not visiting the site for the reasons it is kept, which makes one wonder why they go there rather than somewhere else. Perhaps their parents dragged them along. (I trust they are quiet and aren't yelling in excitement and/or shouting out that they just found one.)

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt that (many) grown-ups are playing it at that site.

[sp1814]

TTT

In order for people to play Pokemon Go at Auschwitz, the game developers would have had to code icons to appear there.

I don't think that is the case, according to the story. You can't play Pokenmon Go there unless the developers had specifically coded the game that way.

[ToraToraTora]

clearly sp but why have they not excluded sites like this?

[sp1814]

TTT

There is no proof that the site has been included.

If someone had played Pokemon Go at the site, and 'captured' a Pokemon, that would be one thing.

However, at the moment - nobody actually has.

What the museum is doing to warning people not to play the game at the site. The game maker hasn't actually coded icons to appear there.

And the other story referred to in the story (about the Koffing poison gas Pokemon) is a hoax.

[-Talbot-]

You can't blame the game for the actions of the morons.

[jno]

a sign saying "there are no Pokemon here" mght fix it. I can't see any evidence in the story that there are any Pokemon there, after all.

[sp1814]

jno

Or perhaps a sign saying, 'Patrons requested to turn off mobile phones whilst at the site' would be more appropriate.

If we are expected to turn our mobiles off in cinemas and the theatre, then it's not unreasonable to expect them to be silenced/off at Auscwitz.

[webbo3]

Two more

https://www.facebook.com/pointswest/posts/1041512749277201

https://www.facebook.com/bristolpost/posts/1046881808710335


Dave

[retrocop]

webbo3
Yes. Moronic indeed!

[jim360]

Lots of miserable so-and-sos here. Let people enjoy the game. Those who are disrespectful deserve to be called out, but the rest should be able to enjoy themselves however the heck they like without beng ranted at. And hey, at least it gets people outside, as opposed to coming on some random internet site and ranting at those people.