Way OT: Pokemon Go leads to finding body
Not all games are bad for humanity...Apparently this Virtual game having people run around in the real world to catch Pokemon has lead to somone finding a body!?! This happened in Wyoming where a teen had found a dead body.
I've never really been a fan of Pokemon, but thought that the idea of using th real world to catch it's creatures was intriguing enough to try.
Hopefully I linked this correctly. If not my apologies. First ever MGoBoard Topic. I'm at everyone's mercy.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/09/technology/pokemon-go-dead-body/
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I had my 1-1 weekly meeting with him today, and in the small talk before getting down to business, he talked about how he was playing Pokemon Go this weekend. Admittedly he was playing it with his 12-year-old son.
But those people (40+ year old folk playing Pokemon Go) do exist. More common that you probably think.
/this goes in every Pokemon thread.
His children are 13 and 10 and he got them into it, not the other way around.
..the apple fritters at that spot on the corner? It's called like Sub House or something, but omg the fritters. Best you will find in TN.
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go back to your home, ball.
Poke stops are for body drops.
multitasking
I downloaded it, am not super driven to play it, but totally understand it's appeal. I love that people love it.
That said; I love the hilarious Internet stories, tweets and memes that are coming out because of it. Hilarious stuff out there. (Not that I'm saying finding a dead body is hilarious).
I don't understand.
It's a real-world roleplaying game that involves you out on a scavenger hunt that involves super awesome nostalgia and lets adults be kids again and kids be kids away from the TV screen and outside. What's there not to get?
I grew up in the Pokemon age and loved it. I haven't really done much with PokemonGo because I'm generally pretty busy; but it's fairly easy to see the appeal.
my brief experience with this is unsupervised kids walking around carrying expensive phones in a park near adults, many of whom are shady characters
I'm glad kids are getting out and doing something, I've seen more on my daily walk through the park than I have in over a year. Many who look like they barely leave the house and TV. But I see kids taking risks going places they probably shouldn't alone (like a downtown area) and talking to complete strangers such as myself.
Bad scene man.
This doesn't even get into the young adults doing this stuff by themselves.
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...then again, who doesn't?
Kids around shady characters in a park. You see them on your daily walk in the park. Are you admitting to being a shady character?
In a similar vein, yesterday on my walk with my dog in a park that is normally quiet, there were a bunch of people, not just young kids, walking and biking around playing Pokémon go. The annoying part was they would circle around on their bikes in the path or congregate and make a big circle and yell and be a nuisance in general. It was good to see kids outside, but I was just reminded that kids are oblivious assholes.
I really didn't know what it was...
I've seen it a bunch, its trending everywhere, but I didn't get what people were doing. I wasn't a fan of pokemon so that doesn't help...but even still, I didn't quite get it.
Now I know. You all be safe and have fun. I'll sit this one out.
I decided to move on from Facebook once it became a weird forum for political arguments and memes and no longer a place to check out how my extended circle is doing. Do you guys do a newsletter or anything? I'd love to get involved with more events, but don't have a good way to stay in touch now.
Also, It's interesting how people on the board live here.
Archival footage of rare Pokemon being captured:
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Responding to reporters after that shoe throwing incident, he said "All I can report is that it was a size 11".
Right NFG, they should have noticed that the Iraqi journalist was wearing shoes. How did that fact slip by them?
And there was a group of people waiting by a rare Pokemon and robbing everyone who showed up.
I don't really doubt that is true. However, it's a little alarmist. There's always places or areas where people randomly (or not so randomly) show up that can be targeted by thiefs. Pretty much anywhere. In fact, I'd think that if people are walking around in groups, they're less likely to be robbed.
Certainly, but it's not a great idea to walk around in isolated areas at night staring at your phone and unaware of your surroundings.
Here's the article on it: http://gizmodo.com/armed-robbers-used-pokemon-go-to-find-9-victims-1783…
in that instance the thieves were able to use the game app itself to "flag" a location and draw in their victims.
This is just marketing hype for the Stand By Me remake.
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have their work cut out for them.
... in a park that typically has, at most, 1-2 other people in it around 9.30pm every night. Tonight it had about 30-35, all clustered in one section of the park, no one speaking to each other, all of them staring at their cell phones in a zombie-like trance. These were almost all adults, by the way.
I'm so scared. And annoyed because they're taking up the sidewalk and not looking where they're going. I know the "law" says you can't just punch random people in the face and/or nuts, but shouldn't there be a higher law that say "yes, yes you can, and you must"?
Please tell me this is just a short-term fad that will last no longer than the summer.
The brighter the candle, the quicker it burns out.
Yes, it's a fad. Even I do it, and I think most video games are a stupid waste of time.
Next year at this time, your park will be back to just 1-2 people in it at 9:30. Maybe there will be 1 hard core Pokemon zombie still roaming around.
In the meantime, have fun while it lasts and get off my lawn.
I took my dog to a park last night and walked him while catching a few pokemon. I talked to about 7 or 8 different people who were playing that I otherwise probably wouldn't have talked to so I thought that was cool. Hope no one punches me.