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Abraham wrote:Gamers who play at home, wonderful!

Drive a car while 'playing' and cause grief for others, you whoever you may be, should be locked up.

Public nuisance or vandalism and yes, even causing death can't be defended with: Hey man, we were only 'playing' and whining, 'sorry man, didn't mean to cause grief' doesn't cut it.

When you cause grief, I don't care to hear you didn't mean to cause any harm.

Lots of criminals will whine after they do something that results in something plain awful or even tragic in their commision of a criminal act, that "hey man, that wasn't suppose to happen" Uh-huh, but it did...and you're responsible.

Is there anyone on here justifying criminal acts committed in connection with playing pokemon or any other video game? Did I miss that?

Hasn't it already been pointed out that driving while messing with your phone is already a crime that simply needs to be better enforced?

Has there been any case in which someone was not charged with a crime they committed because they said they were just playing a game?

I'm just not sure where you're going with this. I'm not trying to be offensive or anything, I just genuinely do not understand what you're objecting to. I think we all agree that if you commit a crime you should be charged with that crime and held accountable for your actions. Maybe I'm just misunderstanding your post?

I'm in my late 30s and video games are my primary hobby. I'm married, have a job and a college degree, own my own house, pay taxes, am a contributing member of my local church, etc, etc. I never got into pokemon, but I have friends who did. They liked it when they were younger, and this new game has simply rekindled an old interest. One such friend is an engineering professor. He's also married, contributing member of our church and society at large, just bought a house after living in apartments for years, you get the idea. He is a very mature person, but he likes playing games in his spare time. My wife and I have been over to their house to have supper and play board games, and we had a great time.

I would appreciate a little less gross over-generalization from y'all. We are the target of enough of that bovine excrement from the left; you would think we would sling a little less of it at others. Not to mention that if we're being honest, most people have played cell phone games of some kind at some point. Others play facebook games or other such casual games. If you have never played any type of digital game of any kind as an adult, you are severely in the minority at this point.

I'm against doing anything with a cell phone while driving a car. It's stupid and dangerous, and it's the absolute number one killer of motorcyclists.

However, I am also against drinking alcohol while driving a car. Does this mean we should make drinking alcohol illegal? No. It means we should ban drinking alcohol while driving a car. So that's what we did. Banning cell phone use while driving is a great idea. Banning some dumb game, not so much. I'm told the game won't work if your phone detects that you're travelling more than 35 mph. I don't know if that's true or not, as I don't play this game. If so, let's drop that to about 15 mph. That should keep people from playing while driving.

As far as players committing other acts of foolishness while playing, comparisons to guns, cars, alcohol, disc golf, dirtbike riding, geocaching, etc. are all valid as far as I'm concerned. There are dumb people in every segment of society. Dumb people do dumb things. Getting rid of a dumb game won't get rid of dumb people. It will just make them find something else to do.

I just don't understand how this could happen. I mean, they have such strict gun control laws there. That should totally stop this type of thing, right?

carlson1 wrote:My people who monitor the security cameras nd building during church times have noticed a lot of traffic in and out of our parking lot. It seemed to really pick up last week. Today I was enlightened that our parking lot is an "arena" or area that they can do battle with Pokemon.

This is a big nuisance and I pray they go away. Is there anyway to change this other than praying these "adults" grow up?

The purpose of the church is not to reach the people inside the church building. The purpose is to reach the ones outside it. That's a lot easier when they come to you. Use it as an outreach. People who are out playing cell phone games on a Sunday morning clearly need Jesus. Go out there and share the gospel with them. They'll either want to come inside or go away. Either way they're not in your parking lot anymore. One of the area churches did something with "lures" to draw players in deliberately so that they could share Jesus with them. From what I heard, it worked pretty well. I think this game is a silly fad that will pass in time, but while it's here let's use it to bring as many people as we can to saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

goose wrote:I am being given one and a half to two hours a night with my two teen aged boys because of this stupid game. And because I am willing to ride bikes with them and drive them some, I am the best dad ever. Is it mindless? Oh yeah. Are we laughing and teasing and strategizing together when we might otherwise be back home doing separate things? Oh yeah. Hate on it if you want. I am loving every minute of it.

This story made me smile. Good for you! I know my folks indulged some stupid things my brother and I liked because it meant spending time together.