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""Basically, Pokémon Go has a virtual world with a geography that parallels the geography of the real world," PatentYogi explained. "The patents reveal that Niantec has also developed a virtual transport system in this virtual world. Pokémons use this virtual transport system to travel within the virtual world. So the game has virtual aircrafts, virtual trains, virtual buses etc. to transport Pokémons all around the world. The cool thing is that this virtual transport system in the game also mirrors the real world transport system. Therefore, for a real world city bus, there is a corresponding virtual bus in the game.""

"For better or for worse, the Pokémon Go player is a new kind of flâneur-that French literary term for those who stroll city streets with no aim but to gather observations and ideas. With that, we took inspiration from a famous passage in Charles Baudelaire's 1863 essay, "The Painter of Modern Life"-which vividly defined and glorified the flâneur's walks and musings-and from famous artworks of the same period to give an impression of this para-virtual wanderer. To borrow from the game's term for coaching Pokémon for battle, we present le traîneur:"