Pokemon Go

[Slam_Jones]

7 hours ago, severedsolo said:

You could say the same for facebook. Or <insert local news app here>.

You do NOT need to stare at your screen while playing the game. I play it on my way to work every morning, and you know what? I function just fine. Look at the map for maybe 10 seconds, every two minutes, just to check where the nearest Pokestop is/whether I'm in range of it (although TBH I don't even look at it that much now, because I know where most of the stops are).

If my phone buzzes because something has appeared, I step to one side, catch it, keep going. I just give myself an extra 10 minutes in the morning to get to work.

I'm not gonna disagree with the point that there are people who are being stupid about it, but you know what, alot of people are stupid. Don't blame the game, like most things it's the people using it who are the problem.

It's really quite simple, if you wouldn't do it when not playing the game, don't do it while you are.

This is one of the comments where I wish I could "like" it more than once.  It's not hard to use your brain and still play the game.

I imagine it will be mostly ignored by the complainers though, since it makes sense and isn't as sensational as saying things like "5,000 people have died and I have literally no evidence to support it!"

[Kulebron]

Not a fan of pokemons, but what's the problem, let people have fun.

Can someone describe the process how you got into playing it? Especially if you weren't a fan of the cartoons. What's the most interesting?

As for the fun and the game labelled stupid, I heard some guys in 20+ met a middle-aged amateur fisherman. He looked at the screen and then asked them why they wouldn't go do serious things... like fishing. Which means sitting with a fishing rod for some hours and dudes coming up offering you to have a hard drink together. And then showing your wife a fish with a price tag you forgot to remove.  Yeah that's very serious and worthy for a real man.

I've not played pokemons nor going to, but have been on the other side: a girl I dated a few times, and I'd tell her ~3 times of a board game club, where we gather and play weekly. She'd always ask: "What does it all serve?" "It's a funny brain excercise." - I'd reply. But she would always insist: "But what's it useful for?" (Well, certainly she never questioned her bar meetups with hookah and cocktails.) So, let people have fun if they want and the way they want.

Edited July 20, 2016 by Kulebron

[kerbiloid]

Now it's a griefers' turn: to write a predator bot hunting the pokemons before anybody can catch them.
While the crowd of muggles can see just a dull cityscape, a Pokemongo stalker will see creepy creatures tearing the pokemons apart around the street and frighten the bypassers with screams of disappointment and furor.

Edited July 20, 2016 by kerbiloid

[ProtoJeb21]

On 7/18/2016 at 4:09 AM, razark said:

Do you have a source for this number?

I found it here, but I may have to question the website's credibility. Whatever the case, Pokemon Go sure is the stupidity enhancer of the millennium...and of all time, I think.

On 7/18/2016 at 6:59 AM, Canopus said:

"Hackers". Also please give us a source for those 5,000 dead people.

I found it here, but I may have to question the website's credibility. Whatever the case, Pokemon Go sure is the stupidity enhancer of the millennium...and of all time, I think.

On 7/18/2016 at 7:10 AM, LordFerret said:

I'm not seeing any 'official' death tolls yet. But I'm sure they'll follow shortly. There's no question or doubt however, that the game is the cause of several reported deaths, injuries and arrests.

An interesting article: Pokémon Go might kill you. Here's how.

I think your article may be relevant for me to say I LOVE GRAVITY FALLS!

*ahem*

Back onto Pokemon Go, it's amazing how many different types of misfortunes can occur from this single game. It's a whole zoo of bad events!

[max_creative]

I have barely any idea what it is. Everybody is constantly taking about it and it's getting really annoying! 

AFAIK there are none on Mercer Island except for at MICC. They are Seattle though.

NOW EVERYBODY STOP ANNOYING ME BY TALKING ABOUT IT!!!

[UmbralRaptor]

Off topic:

I'm confused about commonality/biomes/whatever. There seems to be a lot of, uh, sketchy info and the 3 step bug doesn't help. (Though pokevision's messing with the API does.) In any case, seeing all of 1 electric type, and 0 fire, fighting, dragon, or ghost types is vaguely troubling. (Also seeing almost no Duduos and even fewer Drowzees locally despite them supposedly being some of the most common)

On the gym/competitive side, it looks like the meta involves getting a good vaporeon and/or how to beat them?

Story-wise, are there any plans to flesh out the teams? Ethos, events, lore, various bragging rights rewards, etc like in Ingress?

 

On topic:

3 hours ago, ProtoJeb21 said:

I found it here, but I may have to question the website's credibility. Whatever the case, Pokemon Go sure is the stupidity enhancer of the millennium...and of all time, I think.

5000 deaths in 18 hours would ultimately amount to ~1.2 million deaths over the course of a year. In 2013, the US saw just under 2.6 million deaths, so at this point, I'd expect this to be all over the news.

[cantab]

P.S. for those who think this is true, it is just a satirical piece. - from that article. Take it as a reminder to think more critically when you read the news. That article was just a joke, but often the media will try and deceive you to serve someone else's interests.

[RainDreamer]

I wonder if people can program a drone to do the pokemon hunting. Flying around, catching stuff.

Also makes me wonder why that have not been done in pokemon world. Why going out to fight pokemon when you can have an army of bot just sweeping through collecting them all and sell them back to kids... I think I am a bit of a villian here

[Slam_Jones]

8 hours ago, RainDreamer said:

I wonder if people can program a drone to do the pokemon hunting. Flying around, catching stuff.

Also makes me wonder why that have not been done in pokemon world. Why going out to fight pokemon when you can have an army of bot just sweeping through collecting them all and sell them back to kids... I think I am a bit of a villian here

Well you can't trade Pokemon at the moment, so you wouldn't make any money on it... (yet?)

Plus they've been cracking down on people GPS spoofing and other stuff... I'd be surprised if you could get away with it for very long.

One thing I did consider was setting up a little circular model train track and putting my phone in it so it could rack up km to hatch eggs.  But I'm lazy, so I don't think I'll ever actually get around to it.

Edited July 21, 2016 by Slam_Jones

[UmbralRaptor]

25 minutes ago, Slam_Jones said:

One thing I did consider was setting up a little circular model train track and putting my phone in it so it could rack up km to hatch eggs.  But I'm lazy, so I don't think I'll ever actually get around to it.

I wouldn't be surprised if accelerometers are used to check on things like that. Maybe a strandbeast?

[Slam_Jones]

9 minutes ago, UmbralRaptor said:

I wouldn't be surprised if accelerometers are used to check on things like that. Maybe a strandbeast?

First off: totally forgot about the strandbeast, THAT THING IS AWESOME!

And yeah I'm fairly certain it uses both your GPS and your Pedometer to determine whether you're actually going walking speed, and if you're actually walking (plus I imagine some fancy maths that I would never understand).  Further testing is required, but it seems if I got under 15 mph or so in my car, it'll sometimes register the distance.... but not nearly all of it.  Usually in my 1.2km-ish drive to work, if I have the app open, sometimes it'll register up to 0.5km, and sometimes 0.0km.  I assume that in the cases where it counts the distance, it's counting when I'm slowing to a stop/accelerating from a Stop sign.  I make a point of not looking at my phone while driving (as should everyone!), so I can't really say for certain whether that's the case.

A strandbeast, however, from what I've read at least, would probably often move in a more natural way (less smoothly) than a car, so it's much more likely it would work.

For me, at least, laziness is usually the restricting factor, so for now it's all Theorycraft.

Edited July 21, 2016 by Slam_Jones

[razark]

16 minutes ago, Slam_Jones said:

And yeah I'm fairly certain it uses both your GPS and your Pedometer to determine whether you're actually going walking speed, and if you're actually walking (plus I imagine some fancy maths that I would never understand).

My son reports that he was able to add up some distance by swinging at the park.

[magnemoe]

22 hours ago, ProtoJeb21 said:

I found it here, but I may have to question the website's credibility. Whatever the case, Pokemon Go sure is the stupidity enhancer of the millennium...and of all time, I think.

I found it here, but I may have to question the website's credibility. Whatever the case, Pokemon Go sure is the stupidity enhancer of the millennium...and of all time, I think.

I think your article may be relevant for me to say I LOVE GRAVITY FALLS!

*ahem*

Back onto Pokemon Go, it's amazing how many different types of misfortunes can occur from this single game. It's a whole zoo of bad events!

News media was previous millennium  stupidity enhancer and still going strong, believe only hard facts on CNN, if they say an plane has crashed and show an video its true, if they say it will be sun tomorrow and it was rain today its random, if they say stocks will fall its probably wrong. Facebook is good for personal communication and funny cat videos, note that lots of this is fake, rest of the content is as fake as an big budget scifi movie. 

 

[Crandie]

The game has just released update but it seemed that no many people care abt this game like they used to. i like the concept of the game but unfortunately, players turned it to be a seasonal game. what a pity!

data from http://choilieng.com/apk-on-pc/com.n....pokemongo.apk

[LordFerret]

On 9/27/2016 at 4:48 AM, Crandie said:

The game has just released update but it seemed that no many people care abt this game like they used to. i like the concept of the game but unfortunately, players turned it to be a seasonal game. what a pity!

data from http://choilieng.com/apk-on-pc/com.n....pokemongo.apk

 

Poke-what?

 

[legoclone09]

Yeah I think the game is dying.

It's like Clash Royale, but will die a little slower.

 

[kerbiloid]

The game waits for a brave hero to implement it as a KSP mod.
Gather dunemons, gillymons, the most costly - tylomons. And train them in zero-G, near the Sun and in other places.

[Findthepin1]

Anyone still play this?

[Superfluous J]

5 minutes ago, Findthepin1 said:

Anyone still play this?

I don't. It's basically Ingress only it's:

• Less involved
• More battery-draining
• Slower to play
• Harder to hold ground

I stopped playing shortly after I started. I think I made like level 8 or something. I stopped right as you stopped just getting free levels for playing.

I've cooled on location based games, and am enjoying Animation Throwdown (a card battler) instead.

[monstah]

9 hours ago, 5thHorseman said:

It's basically Ingress only it's:

• (...)
• More battery-draining

 

There is such a thing?? Holy crap, do iPhones burst in flames playing it?

I didn't have the interest to make it even to level 2 Pokemon. I have caught a few critters back in the GameBoy days, and even back then it wasn't my favourite game. The thing about location, too, is that it doesn't really add anything to the game, it merely subtracts (the ability to play anywhere, anytime, that is). So.. meh.

I did get more interested in Ingress, up to level 6 or 7, but then the battery/data hogging was too much for me.