Text 36847, 40 rader
Skriven 2016-09-25 08:33:18 av Gerrit Kuehn (2:240/12)
  Kommentar till text 36843 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: Re: The Final Solution
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Hello Ward!

25 Sep 16 00:07, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:


 WD>>> Your generation is famous for playing Donkey Kong and Pokemon 
 WD>>> Go... Frightening ...

 GK>> Donkey Kong (1981) and Pokemon Go (2016) are 35 years apart, so they
 GK>> hardly belong to the same generation of anything.

 WD> Please remind me where I stated they were made by one and the same 
 WD> generation ...

Ok, so let's ignore the fun I'd first seen in your statement and get back to
facts.
You claim one generation (which one, exactly?) to be famous (where or for
whom?) for playing both. The whole thing troubles you so much that you find it
frightening.

This is quite orthogonal to my real-life experience. I already was approached
by a couple of people being like 10+ years younger than myself (I meet a lot of
these at work) saying they feel old when seeing all these Pokemon Go players,
and they don't understand at all what that's all about. Most of these probably
never played Donkey Kong, and certainly are neither famous nor infamous for
doing so. Usually I tell these people something like: "See, that's what I feel
for more than ten years now when seeing people with smartphones...".
I know exactly 1 person of about my age who is playing Pokemon Go.

So would you please allow the fun to get back into your first statement? That
would make it a really fine thing. Sticking with the words and insisting it to
be true would make you look at least 20 years older than you are, and
unnecessarily narrow-minded on top of that.


Regards,
Gerrit

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