Pokemon GO.
 

Admit it, you're playing just like I am.

You can deride the game in plenty of other threads/forums. Just chat about it here.

I'm about to hit level 6. Casual player because I have a life and do not walk places usually. I caught about half a dozen pokemon at sweetgreen waiting to order a salad. embarassing because that place is always replete with hot young women. Oh well. Dadmode.

Speaking of dadmode, my 3-7/8 year old was into it. We went on a bike ride on Sunday and caught some pokeshit on the trails.

Would not recommend riding one handed behind a toddler who loves to slam on his brakes.

I am messing around with it. I tried Ingress but I was never high enough level to do anything interesting. As a casual gamer I have that problem a lot. I picked team yellow just for the hell of it. I am seeing a lot of people playing. I have directed a few people at work (Visitors, not staff) where the nearest pokestops are...

Yes it's dumb, but so is most everything we do for fun.

Had dinner the other night at a Red Lobster for the first time in probably 15 years. May have had something to do with the fact that there were 3 pokestops inside it. Also drove by it on the way to work this morning. There was a guy riding his bike in small circles in the parkinglot... one hand on the bars, one holding his phone. Not hard to guess what he was doing. Normally its not very healthy to be this into a video game, but this one had me and the girlfriend walking a couple miles through a golf course the other night. I'm normally in and out of videos games pretty quick, this one could be a while...

I watched well over 300 people walk around a local park Saturday night playing. I have not started yet as I value my battery life on my phone. One of my coworkers now owns 3 external battery packs for his phone and walked something like 28 miles over the weekend playing. I think for the next few weeks there will be a ton of people playing, but it will die down in a bit.

It's something to do while I walk the dog waiting for her to poop. :dunno:

Spin the ball to do a curveball, get extra xp.

If your ball is bouncing after you missed, you have a split second to pick it up if its still on the screen.

Since some kid and I stopped while we both had our phones out, "Pokemon GO?" I was asked.. YUP. Told me to be team blue so mystic it is. The church behind my place is a gym. I guess me and him will hold down the fort :laugh:

Also found out my fav. mexican restaurant is a gym as well... I plan on putting my best out there since I frequent that spot for damn good margaritas.

So far, I'm transferring all of my low cp duplicates and evolving the 'mon with the highest cp. I'm half way through lvl 5.

Locally in Austin, on facebook two separate poke-walk events joined and now it's an epic poke-walk of over 2,000 people. They just announced today that instead of having the event through downtown austin and the park... They are renting out a music festival ranch for epic poke madness. People can sleep in a tent over night etc...

Same, I turn the augmented reality off (camera mode while catching). Screen brightness on auto. There is a battery saver option in the settings of the game, killed music too. And I kill all background processes before and after I play. The game will ping gps in the background if not closed.

Pro Tip: don't evolve just because high CP.
Evolve because good attack prowess. Otherwise you'll have high CP with weak attack and low CP with good attack. But what do I know, my Pokemon experience is totals about 3 hours.

In the original games holding off on evolving meant that you got better attacks sooner. No clue if that is implemented in GO.

Got my girlfriend into it. Apparently hospitals are awesome for it because they put a bunch of pokemon there. I'm about to hit level 10.

Opposite protip from y8s: Evolve lots of basic pokemon. You get a shit ton of XP from it and helps you level up. The higher level you are the stronger pokemon you get.

Lots of people being mugged by thugs waiting near the Poke-bait being reported on the news. Pretty amusing that people will disregard common sense and blindly go where their device tells them even if they sense something is wrong. The parallels to GPS navigation aids sending people off cliffs or into bad neighborhoods are interesting.

First news story when googled:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...ce-say-n606786

Too funny, I wonder what level the thugs are since you gotta either pay money for the "lure" or control a pokegym...

I found this article actually useful...

Things Pokemon Go Doesn't Tell You - Pokemon GO Wiki Guide - IGN

I've been playing, just recently hit level 6. I was trying to find Pokemon at an autox event this past weekend lol.

Oh shoot. I didn't know you could recover pokeballs

Hahaha:

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Let's see who comes to the market with a Grand Theft Auto or Soldier of Fortune style first person shooter game of this type. Virtual baddies with guns taking shots at you from around the corners of real life buildings could be in our future. Or having the Heavy and the Medic pushing a bomb through a park on a railcar, lol.

I'm both reviled at how much of the world is suddenly in Pokemon fervor because Pokemon, and impressed at the impact of this particular combination of game and augmented reality. Moar augmented reality stuff please.

And bring me a game worth playing :rofl:

The game is awesome. My friends and I have been walking around town each night catching shit, getting Gyms, everything. We're all level ~12. My highest is a cp800 Clefable.

I feel like I'm the target demographic for this game, I was young enough to be 100% sucked into the orignal red and blue (team mystic wuddup).

I play casually. I work on a college campus so its awesome to do here. Where I live is rural 1lane rd and you can't really walk far. But the bonus is apparently one of my neighbors house is a pokegym so i'm going to have that on lockdown from the 12yr olds in the neighborhood.

I'm still just feeling my way around the game. the AR sucks. Pokemon are all the time inside stuff or through stuff.

Everyone I meet first asks what team am I on... I haven't told anyone yet but it is mystic :likecat:

Went out to the bar last night for a few. All you saw were people walking past the windows with cell phones out trying to catch them all. The intersection down the street has 4 stops all right next to each other. 75 people is my guess, all surrounding these 4 points. Lure applied. Pokemadness.

I'm still just playing casually, some of the people I meet are already approaching lvl30 :eek3:

I'm going to a Pokemon meet up at the end of the month; the flyer promised cookies! I'll report back If I'm missing one of my kidneys.

also team valor. sup.

I think you have read about the same 3 armed teens more than once. I haven't seen more than that one story.

But still, a handful of "bad" things for a game with probably 10 million installs. I'd say that's not too bad.

I bet more people got hurt by a flying wiimote when the wii first came out.

It's hilarious. I stopped by Safeway last night, and on my way out I checked my phone and noticed it was a pokestop. I stopped to spin the coin, and I looked up and saw at least 10 kids sitting outside all doing the exact same thing. On the way home I see kids walking in groups all with their phones out. Crazy phenomenon to see this game absolutely blow up at unbelievable speed.

I like the thing that makes the pokemons come to me, so I don't have to walk around.

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This is exactly what's going to make this "game" die just as quickly and then China will have to resort to something else to gain picture/video intelligence from us.

China?

Google owns the company that developed the game. Try CIA/FBI.

those two gehs that got mugged while playing this game, that took place about 10 min away from my house :laugh:

China knows all.

lolz. China couldn't even hack into the gov't defense contractor I used to work for and they tried on a daily basis.

Take off the tin foil hat.

I dislike when people just say "China" could or could not do something. China the country itself is not hacking other states. Chinese citizens are the ones doing it. Some at the behest of the Chinese government, some for Chinese corporations, and then some for shits and giggles. There will be a wide variety of skill levels. At the end of the day I have no doubt that the best of the best in China are very capable of infiltrating just about any network in America. That though is based on having enough time and resources to get it done. So while some Chinese hackers were not able to get into your contractors network, it does me others could also not get in.

Now saying all that. Google is really who is collecting all your info while you play.

China is a single, monolithic entity, not a collection of various states and cities each with its own local government and populace. It is capable of making decisions, but can only approximate human emotions. China cannot properly digest and metabolize chocolate.



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Still waiting for the Pokémon Go update that lets you capture strangers' pets.

Just going to keep riding this derailed train...

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I want that top hat...

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Just got a memo from the security department at work. They want our security personnel to patrol the campus and ask pokemon players to leave unless they have business on the campus. It's a hospital. The very same day the PR department put out a puff piece about how pokemon go is likely good for you.

I understand the reasons why we might not want kids (or adults) hanging out in parking lots and around traffic where they could get hurt, but we never bothered before unless they were doing something dangerous (like skateboarding for example).

I want to tell the security director to "lighten up Francis!" but I don't think that would be good for my career.

Wait a minute, why would a hospital not want people to practice dangerous activities on it's properties? Sounds like easy money to me.

the pokemanz don't have coverage. bunch of freeloaders, healthcare aint free

I am imagining now an accounting head telling security to put oil on rails to make them extra slick and throw pebbles in areas where people skateboard. All in an evil plan to charge them tons when they get injured.

As long as the sign clearly says "no skateboarding".
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I bet people tried to catch that Pikachu lookin dag

We have designated paths for people to walk around the campus. We allow people to walk, run, bike, whatever with no problem. I can understand their concerns, but we are very close to being a public place. I just think they are over-reacting.

The southeast corner of central park, by the William Tecumseh Sherman statute, is a complete mob scene right now. No idea how this works in detail, but there's some kind of poke-vortex located there.

This game is pointless cause I have a job/life and I can't make it to a gym to actually play the game.

Sounds like you need to work on your priorities.

I found some interesting tips for catching pokermanz.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/c...phack_to_find/

basically you can see all the glowly ingress shit and that's where poking men are likely to pop up.

also yes agree with braineack.

Man Playing 'Pokemon Go' Drives Into Tree: NY Police

An upstate driver didn't listen to warnings about playing "Pokemon Go" behind the wheel. Police in Auburn, New York, say the driver admitted he was playing the game on his phone while driving when he drove off the road and hit a tree. He wasn't seriously injured.

Man Playing 'Pokemon Go' Drives Into Tree: NY Police | NBC New York

Pretty much. Once I ran out of pokeballs there was nothing to do. My time is too valuable to spend driving to a pokestop and my money is too valuable to spend buying more pokeballs.

Police issue warnings for Pokemon Go players after multiple robberies

POSTED 6:09 PM, JULY 11, 2016, BY ANDREW RAMOS, UPDATED AT 06:53PM, JULY 11, 2016




NEW YORK — It’s a virtual and addicting scavenger hunt game that’s taking the country by storm.

Pokémon Go! uses your phone’s GPS to detect where you are in the game, making Pokémon characters appear in your real world so you could catch and collect them.

Released just last week, it’s already become one of the biggest apps on the planet, more popular than Tinder and it’s closing in on Twitter.

“Pokémon Go! is kind of a wish fulfillment type of thing for millennial,” explained Cecilia D'Anastasio, staff writer for Kotaku. “This was something that we wanted when we were young and now we can finally have it – we can finally see Pokémon in our environment.”

From Union Square to outside the Nintendo store in Midtown, nearly every person PIX11 cameras bumped into was in a Pokémon trance.

“I think it's really fun because it does encourage you to go outside more and walk around more and find new things,” Lauren Hancock, a teen visiting from Florida told PIX11 News.

“I currently live in Queens and I came all the way to 42nd Street to catch Pokémon,” said teen Nelson Tejada.

Despite a clear warning to be careful and mindful of your surroundings, some players are getting too caught up in the game. In some cases, they’re walking right into trouble.

Police in St. Louis say four men used the popular game to lure players by adding a beacon near a “Poke-stop” which in the game is basically a prominent landmark.

They later robbed the players at the location.

A Wyoming teen who told police she was trying to “get a water Pokémon,” ended up stumbling across a dead body in the big wind river.

The incidents have prompted police departments across the country including the NYPD and Park Ridge Police in New Jersey to issue warnings, urging players to be more vigilant.

Police issue warnings for Pokemon Go players after robberies | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Sex offender caught playing Pokemon Go with boy outside courthouse

POSTED 11:48 AM, JULY 14, 2016, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE, UPDATED AT 11:54AM, JULY 14, 2016

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GREENFIELD, Ind. – A registered sex offender was arrested Wednesday for playing Pokemon Go with children outside the Hancock County Courthouse in Indiana.

The popular augmented reality has established the courthouse as a Pokestop in Greenfield, one of several sites that draws players in. There, a probation officer spotted Randy Zuick, 42, playing the game with a 16-year-old boy, police told WXIN.

Playing with the teen violated the terms of a plea agreement Zuick agreed to three months ago in a child molestation case. He pleaded guilty to a Level 4 felony charge of child molesting for fondling a child under 14 and remains on sex-offender probation, which prohibits him from interacting with children, court records say.

Zuick will likely face a judge Thursday, who will decide whether to revoke his probation and send him back to jail.

This incident is one of many drawing concerns about the safety of the hyped Pokemon Go app.

Sex offender caught playing Pokemon Go with boy outside courthouse | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Holocaust Museum, 9/11 Memorial among controversial places attracting Pokemon Go players

POSTED 2:23 PM, JULY 12, 2016, BY TRIBUNE MEDIA WIRE, KIRSTIN COLE AND KRISTINA BEHR, UPDATED AT 08:08AM, JULY 13, 2016





NEW YORK — Pokemon Go is taking the nation by storm, and attracting thousands to roam about while playing the game — even at controversial spots such as New York's 9/11 Memorial and Washington D.C.’s United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

The Holocaust Museum is a 'PokeStop' in the game where players can get free in-game items, and according to several reports, gamers have also been led to the Memorial's twin reflecting pools that honor the fallen towers and nearly 3,000 people killed in the terror attacks of September 11, 2001.

PIX11 has reached out for comment from the 9/11 Memorial. Officials could not immediately be reached.

At the Holocaust Museum, there are actually three different PokeStops associated with various parts of the museum, according to the Washington Post.

The game seems disrespectful, especially in more solemn parts of the complex like the Hall of Remembrance, museum communications director Andrew Hollinger told The Post.

"We are trying to find out if we can get the museum excluded from the game," Hollinger said.

On Monday afternoon, there were plenty of people inside the museum who seemed to be distracted from its haunting exhibits as they tried to "catch 'em all."

A player even used a lure module, a beacon that attracts Pokemon to a specific PokeStop, on the museum's marker — making double-headed bird-like creatures dubbed Doduos and rodent-like Rattatas practically swarm on users' screens.

The player behind the lure, a 30-year-old visiting from North Carolina named Dustin who declined to share his last name with The Post for privacy reasons, was excited to catch a crustacean-like Krabby while waiting in the museum's lobby with a group of friends to pick up tickets for a scheduled tour of the exhibits.

Holocaust Memorial, 9/11 Memorial among controversial places attracting Pokémon Go players | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV

Police: Man robbed of cellphone while playing ‘Pokemon Go’

POSTED 3:46 AM, JULY 14, 2016, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKE RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — Police on Long Island are investigating an armed robbery in which they say a cellphone was stolen from a man playing the popular “Pokemon Go” game on his smartphone.

Suffolk County police say the 19-year-old man was walking in Lake Ronkonkoma while playing the game Wednesday evening when a car with at least three people pulled up alongside him.

Police say one of the passengers told the victim to give him his cellphone. When the victim hesitated, another passenger showed him a gun and demanded the phone. The victim then handed over the phone and took off.

No arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing.

Police across the country are urging Pokemon players to use caution and always pay attention to their surroundings.

Police: Man robbed of cellphone while playing ?Pokemon Go? | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV


Note: this happened on Long Island, not inside NYC proper. In NYC, handguns are prohibited, so the guy would have still have his phone is he lived here.

This...

Ran out, welp that was fun while it lasted. Not spending money on this game. I'll use the stops when I'm out and about already.

:laugh:

so same crimes but all headlines now end in "pokemon go"

Braineack is to police brutality as Joe Perez is to ___________.

I actually took a walk in our business park today just to see if we have any of the above mentioned.

Yup, hoards of fat women walking around all staring into their cell phones

I observed them from a distance, it was amusing.

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I wonder how many pokeman GO players are also Bronies

Not certain, but if you reverse the question (how many bronae are also poke-people) then I'd wager at least 2/3. The personality profile is an extremely close match.

I mean, just go to google images and type in pokemon pony. The sheer volume of results is staggering.


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in before "the documentary"

Pokemon players are trespassing, risking arrest or worse

BEATRIZ COSTA-LIMA and MARY HUDETZ July 13, 2016


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A sign at the National Weather Service in Anchorage, Alaska, informs Pokemon players that it's illegal to trespass on federal property. The staff started noticing an uptick of people in the parking lot after the location was included as a gym in the popular game.


PHOENIX (AP) — The "Pokemon Go" craze across the U.S. has people wandering into yards, driveways, cemeteries and even an off-limits police parking lot in search of cartoon monsters, prompting warnings that trespassers could get arrested or worse, especially if they cross paths with an armed property owner.

Since the release of the smartphone game last week, police have gotten a flurry of calls from residents about possible burglars or other strangers prowling the neighborhood.

So far, few tickets have been issued, and there have been no reports of arrests or assaults on trespassers playing the game, whose object is use the phone's GPS technology to find and capture animated creatures in real-world places.

"Be careful where you chase these Pokemon — or whatever it is you chase — because we have seen issues in other places with people going onto private property where a property owner didn't want them on there," said Assistant Police Chief Jim McLean in Pflugerville, Texas.

Some players have expressed worries on social media that the game could result in a fearful property owner pulling a gun — a scenario that could fall into a legal gray area in the nearly two dozen states with "stand your ground" laws that allow people wide latitude to use deadly force when they believe they are in danger.

McLean's department posted a Facebook warning Monday after officers spotted a man playing the game in a section of a police parking lot where the public isn't allowed. The player had to pass keep-out signs and go over a fence or under a gate to reach the area.

"I'm not sure how he got back there, but it was clear what he was doing," McLean said. "He was playing a Pokemon game with his phone up in the air."

In Utah, Ethan Goodwin, 17, of Tremonton, was slapped with a trespassing ticket that he worries could cost him up to $200 after he and a couple of friends went on an early morning Pokemon chase at an abandoned grain silo. He managed to catch three creatures.

"I wouldn't say it was worth it, but I would say I'm glad I have the Pokemon I have now," he joked. He added: "It's a dumb game, really, really stupid."

Every time the app is opened, a warning from game maker Niantic pops up, telling players to be aware of their surroundings. Players must also agree to fine print saying they cannot enter private property without permission.

There's also a disclaimer that says Niantic is not liable for any property damage, injuries or deaths that result while playing.

But those warnings don't seem to be getting through.

In Phoenix, police have started posting humorous and colorful warnings on social media, saying chasing the orange dragon Charizard is not a valid reason to set foot on someone else's property.

Nor is chasing the cat-like Mewtwo, according to Boise, Idaho, police. They posted a Facebook message saying officers responded to several calls about players trespassing on private property and illegally trekking across parks after dark.

Gamers are also being warned to watch for traffic while playing and not to drive while on the app.

One woman told WPXI-TV in western Pennsylvania that her 15-year-old daughter was hit by a car while playing the game and crossing a busy highway. The girl was hospitalized with an injured collarbone and foot, as well as cuts and bruises, said her mother, Tracy Nolan.

Capt. Michael Fowler with the Hanahan, South Carolina, police said his department in the city of about 20,000 has gotten a few suspicious-activity reports related to "Pokemon Go," including multiple calls from a woman who feared for her safety as she watched cars go in and out of a church parking lot across from her house.

"I didn't know what was going on. The last time I heard about Pokemon was back in the '90s," Lynn Menges, 59, said.

Lt. Lex Bell, of the Unified Police Department in Utah, said officers outside Salt Lake City have responded to similar calls. Most come after dark, with residents saying they believe motorists driving slowly through their neighborhood may be casing their homes. In one instance, a woman mistook a few glowing cellphones for flashlights as players hunted characters near her daughter's car.

Several cemeteries, including Arlington National outside Washington, have expressed worries about players on their grounds.

At Mobile Memorial Gardens in Alabama, president Timothy Claiborne said he has seen visitors walking or driving around with phones in their hands, playing the game. He asked people in about three dozen vehicles to leave over the past couple of days, earning him the title "chief of the Pokemon patrol" from the staff.

"I just think we need to continue to have respect not only for the dead but for those who are grieving the dead," he said.


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