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"Reddit – First Reddit comment. Multi-paragraph comment in r/Pokemongo detailing his thesis for why he believes Nintendo will announce a Pokémon Go update at the 2016 Nintendo Pokémon Direct event.

Reddit – First reddit submission. asking what others think of his thesis re: Pokemon Go update."

I'm sorry this is so unintentionally funny it's cute. This man is innocent.

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This is screaming “I am lost and lonely. I need help.” It makes me sad. I haven’t been this knee deep into the range of discourses like LM but I was in the atheism + skepticism + pseudo science pipeline and it was a depressing period of my life. I was questioning my family trauma-bound existence, relationships and was hopeless.

Thankfully, timely therapy and a few good friendships helped me. It is also striking that relationships get little to no importance in his intellectual pursuits. That’s really the missing centre of this whole puzzle (I think). I stopped relying on parasocial relationships on the internet (even if they were giving me answers I wanted) and found help in people IRL I could get vulnerable with.

Most of my male friends can’t say “I need help”. They will do everything else: travel, gym, build a start up, get into podcasts… but won’t take therapy and fix relationships until their problems get too big and collapse on them. LM is too relatable. The reason I feel emotionally invested in this whole thing is not because of the Robinhood-ification of the crime. Its the story of tech-induced Gen Z male loneliness, which will never get discussed in mainstream media. Thank you for the effort :)

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