OT: Pokemon Go- have you played it?

Hold on, Where's that damn tinfoil hat at ...(puts on)
Pokémon Go is turning us all into an army of narcs in service of the coming New World Order. Per their privacy policy:

" We may disclose any information about you (or your authorized child) that is in our possession or control to government or law enforcement officials or private parties. "

Nope, I'm just honestly glad some of the youth is playing and getting much needed exercise.

My 13 & 11 year old started on release day.  I started a couple days after, just to have them teach me the game, quality time, walks together, etc.

And then I maybe took it too far... Took my son "hunting" in a graveyard after dark, wife and police did not approve.

Took my daughter shopping and I played more than she did, and then she disappeared and I had to call her.  She hid because she was embarrassed that I was a poke-zombie following her around the store.

And then I found out it thought I was walking while stuck in traffic on US-23.

Now I'm level 11 and they're not level 5 yet.  Very soon, my kids will stop playing entirely because I made it un-cool.

And then to have something else in common with them, I'll say it's not cool anymore, too.

No and I don't understand it

Myself and about two thirds of the team I work on are all playing with people up to thier mid thirties. Also, I was in Cinncinati over the weekend and there were several hundred people on a bar crawl in the OTR area starting at 16 bit and ending The Rook for those familiar with the area. They had three different routes, one of each team, because of how many people attended.

I've been having a lot of fun playing it. Is it childish? Sure, but it's fun and harmless (at least in my case). Is it leading to longer walks for me and my dog? Absolutely. I just wish they would make the app not work at over 10mph or so in order to prevent car accidents. 

Loved the game when I was a kid. Now at age 28 I can't bring myself to play it.

 

but I'm in my thirties and I still love Dragonball Z.

I'm going to be 64 in six days. I remember when candy bars were a nickel. Now get the hell off my lawn with this Pokemon shit. Damn kids today!!!

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What I want to know is if these kids now are confused at seeing the original 151.

I'm a casual player, though.  I simply don't have time to go from Pokestop to Pokestop or to camp one. 

I'll open the game whenever I go to a new place, just to see if there are any Stops nearby... but that's the extent of it.

Hell fucking no. Would rather go for a run, work out at the gym, go camping, spar, play my sax, read a book, or just drink vodka and light my farts on fire.

No, I like to think I can find more productive things to do with my time, like right now I'm having a beer on my deck staring at my phone.......hmmmm.

It's great.

Not playing it and don't plan to. Not getting sucked into "the next fad" that millions of other people are doing. That and I'm 31 years old and have more important things to do with my life and I'd rather not waste it on Pokemon.

Shockingly no. But I do find the stories of idiots walking off cliffs and leaving their cars in drive while leaping out to catch them more than a bit amusing.

Darwinism has a new buddy it seems.

Only worth it if Harbaugh is doing it

what about Angry Birds???!!!

My youngest daughter is into it, the two older children not so much.  She even was on tv for about 15 seconds on a local tv station when they did a news story on Pokemon Go.  I was impressed that they referred to her as a Pokemon Trainer, until I asked her and she explained what that means.

I have played a few times for about 10 min each time. I get bored with it very fast.

I don't know what you mean that it isn't nearly as popular as some other time? The game has been downloaded more times in one week than Tindr has been in 4 years of existence. I read there was one or more days in the first week that it had more internet searches than all porn combined. Seems to me it's way more popular than it's ever been.

Extremely exploitive micro transaction game. I've played it out of professional interest and there's really nothing interesting there. That said, for people that can't see through it, it's like they discovered crack.

who got himself arrested by showing up at the police station while a warrant was out for his arrest. As the chief said, "we don't get the smart ones like that."

Yep. I am level 21. I usually turn it on before I go for my morning run. I pretty much have most of the rare Pokemon except for Dragonaire.

I'm 40.

If you have a tween-age kid, it's practically mandatory.  Definitely an improvement over games played alone and indoors!

FUCK NO

The majority of the bad press has been fake, car accidents etc.  Yes some of it has happened but a few notoriously bad clickbait sites were called out for creating fake news.  That would be okay, if every main stream media site didn't then link to or reference those same stories.

The opening screen warns to beware your surroundings and quite a few "Here's your sign" type events have occured but that guy hitting a tree while driving for example was proven fake as were the majority of initial stories.

Yes I do know someone in town here hit a kid, and another group used lures to rob people but just want to remind everyone to watch where they get their news from.  I get peeved at seeing fake news linked, re-linked and then become reality because everyone believes it.

/s(as in getting off my soapbox, not being sarcastic this time)

No.

but I'm also not a dickhole who will disparage other people who enjoy doing things things I don't.