OT: Pokemon Go- have you played it?
I'm curious to see how many on here have or are actively playing it. I love it because I'm getting some needed exercise while playing.
I caught a Pikachu on I-75 on Saturday. I was in the passenger seat.
That's how I feel about it as well, just a general feeling that I am way too old.
Not mutually exclusive.
Was at a bar the other day, and there was a pokestop there. People inside the bar kept placing lures (an item that "attracts" pokemon). People just chilled there, drank beer, and kept catching pokemon.
My wife wandered the backyard looking for a Pidgey the other day, all this while holding a small glass of Jack. It is entirely possible to drink while playing, although I have no idea - nor do I particularly wish to know - what you could pick up in this game should you opt to imbibe too generously. This game will be a disaster for someone after a football game this fall, no?
you go out and there are random beers in the park
Wouldn't that be Sapporomon?
Because nobody has tried to get the same nipplezord as you. Once someone tries to get the same nipplezord or Vagachoo as you, you will turn on them like a starving wolf. This game will be the undoing of society.
Back in the day I caught them all. I still have my cards too. After reading about Pokemon Go rediculousness for a week, and going on walks in the park and seeing people playing it, while sitting at my desk all of a sudden it hit me that "wait--lol, why don't you download it too??".
So I did, but then it said I couldn't sign up for an account because of high volume of people signing up (and I refuse to use my gmail ID), so never tried it.
As someone who also "caught them all" as a kid, this game is highly addicting and a huge nostalgic trip.
:) I think that's exactly why I'm happy for an "excuse" to not start it...because as soon as I do I won't put it down!
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I work on a college campus, so it's really easy to play. If you go to any pokestop on campus (a place usually located by a monument where you can get supplies and catch pokemon) there are usually 10 to sometimes as high as 30 people there at a time. I think it's great. As soon as work is done, I can get out walk around and just enjoy a nice day. It's also a good way to meet people.
Not for me. Enjoy.
Does anyone else think Pokemon Go was secretly funded by Verizon to get everyone to burn through their data, since it can't really be played on WiFi?
Shit no, man.
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I missed it when I was younger and have zero interest in it now. I'm glad people are enjoying, HOWEVA
If one more person drives around my neighborhood (staring at their phone) the wrong way down a one way street, I'm going to fucking lose it. It's happened 5-6 times since the game came out. There are lots of kids in my neighborhood.
Looks pretty interesting, with the whole augmented reality piece. No wireless connection where I'm at, so no.
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No, I don't play. But I have witnessed 3 people walk into oncoming traffic while staring at their phones. Fortunately none of them were hit.
I saw that all the time when I when I'm in downtown Detroit and that was well before Pokemon Go. QuickenBros don't pull their heads out of their phones much unless they're ordering from the food trucks or looking at girls.
Well you are correct there. But at least those are adults so I wouldn't feel as bad if they got hit. Two of my incidents were with kids who i would estimate were 10-12 years old.
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Tried it for 3 minutes to make sure there weren't any Pokemon stops, gyms, lures, hangouts, chills, kiosks, fire circles, or amusements parks in my back yard.
I'd love to say of course not because it seems mind numbingly stupid. But my parents thought playing genesis, N64 and Playstation was stupid, and I loved doing it, so I'm torn.
I guess my answer is as long as nobody is walking through my yard or in front of my car then do whatever the hell you want. However, I was very upset when I read that people were playing it at Arlington Cemetary.
I just wish South Park was on right now because I'm sure there would be a hilarious episode about it this week.
Arlington was bad...they were at the Holocaust Museum as well.
Da fu is Pokemon Go?
...I played PokemonGo before it was cool. As in, Ingress, a similar augmented-reality GPS phone game. It's a capture-the-flag sci-fi-themed game where two teams (a blue and a green team) complete to capture portals. For anyone who's played Pokemon, your gym locations have almost a one-for-one correspondence with "portals" since the two games were made by the same company, Niantic. You can link three portals your team controls to make a field, which captures the triangular area between the three portals for your team (untl the otherside inevitably breaks your field)
So, even though I don't play Pokemon, I have a very good guess where you'll find PokeGyms in your area - any church, any plaque in a park, any statue - basically, if anyone as ever used a landmark to give someone else directions somewhere, it's probably a PokeGym. The most amusing irony to me was the thought of how several atheist/agnostic millenials are now better informed where their town's churches are than their church-going parents.
Ingress is a bit more niche than Pokemon and, as such, anyone who plays it probably isn't entirely right in the head. Players have coordinated to do such things as cover the entire state of Utah for the Resistance (blue) team, or worked cross-faction to pay tribute to Prince in Minneapolis.
I only played Ingress for 10 months because it had a way of turning a ten-minute grocery run into a two-hour farming/fielding trip and because my phone battery kept crying 'No mas' and I'm gettin' too old for this shit, as Riggs would say. It's still a good way to get out of the house and walk around your hood. I have no intention of playing PokemonGo since Pokemon was after my time, but as long as you're not causing your death or anyone else's, the game is fine. Hell, we all congregate here on-line everyday to parse the meaning of a high school athlete's Twitter feed, so who are we to judge how other people get their jollies?