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Pokemon Go

Redress said:
Today's youth is a little smarter and a lot more technologically savvy than kids of yesterday. There is not just hope for them, they have a bright future.
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If they don't die of rickets first.
 
It seems some truck drivers in Nice are taking this game too seriously :ninja:
 
Arkantos said:
It seems some truck drivers in Nice are taking this game too seriously :ninja:
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If you meant that as a joke, I think you've hit a low spot in credibility and respectability. In other words, that is a crass and totally inappropriate joke.

If you were serious, then I think you are just plain oblivious to reality. Maybe YOU'VE been playing too much of that game, eh?
 
I think something about the app that I didn't expect, is how it brought people who would normally never talk to each other together. Yesterday I had lunch in a park since it was by a pokestop and 3 high school students, two other city employees, a fast food worker, a CEO, and a single father all sat together having lunch, trying to catch pokemon, and simply talking. Outside of those two city employees, odds are I would have never talked to any of those people before, but at least for an hour I was able to have honestly a lovely lunch with some decent conversation and pokemon catching. Definitely better than simply eating by myself.
 
Deuce said:
Armed robbers have used "lures" to attract victims.

Pokemon appear in places like: middle of a busy street, back alleys in dangerous neighborhoods, behind fences on secure government buildings, in peoples' back yards. Only a matter of time before that becomes tragic.
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Only for the type of people who would drive off an unfinished bridge (blowing through heavy barricades to get to it of course) because their Satnav told them to.

I call it thinning the herd.
 
Mycroft said:
If you meant that as a joke, I think you've hit a low spot in credibility and respectability. In other words, that is a crass and totally inappropriate joke.

If you were serious, then I think you are just plain oblivious to reality. Maybe YOU'VE been playing too much of that game, eh?
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It was indeed a joke. Wrong section I suppose. Is there a dark humor thread or something?
 
Nilly said:
So this has kind of taken the world by storm. I'll walk down the street where I live and you can see maybe 50% of people with their phones out looking for pokemon, it's crazy.

Anyone playing? There's not much in the way of multiplayer collaboration on it yet but I'd still be interested to see if any of you are like me and are walking/driving miles out of your way to get to that pokestop with the lure on it! Team Mystic (blue) here.
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Team Valor (red) all the way. Pokestops everywhere here, and a couple gyms within a 2 to 3 minute walk of me. I've taken over both of them at one point or another, and even managed to hold a gym by Oxford Street for about 2 minutes! Trust me, harder than it sounds -- constant Pokemon war here in London. Seems like most gyms are changing hands several times a day, and the busiest ones often several times in the same hour. It's like virtual gang war.

The man critter and I played it pretty much all last night. It's a problem.
 
soccerboy22 said:
I think something about the app that I didn't expect, is how it brought people who would normally never talk to each other together. Yesterday I had lunch in a park since it was by a pokestop and 3 high school students, two other city employees, a fast food worker, a CEO, and a single father all sat together having lunch, trying to catch pokemon, and simply talking. Outside of those two city employees, odds are I would have never talked to any of those people before, but at least for an hour I was able to have honestly a lovely lunch with some decent conversation and pokemon catching. Definitely better than simply eating by myself.
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This. I think that's what's gonna keep me in it despite all the glitches, honestly. It has an unexpectedly strong tie to the real world which I've never really seen in a game before.
 
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy | cdixon blog

In 2010 Chris Dixon said 'the next big thing will start out looking like a toy'.

I really think this is the start of something bigger than a game or a toy. It's a first look at how the virtual world and real life world can interact, and I honestly think that this is just a first step towards augmented reality becoming a big thing. It won't be long before a business can pay for a pokestop to be on it, so that they can attract real life business, and this principle is going to extend beyond the game confines of pokemon.

Some other interesting things that have come up are to do with who owns virtual/real life space and how it is used. The holocaust museum was an example of this, but how legal is it for an outside entity to put a virtual marker on your property. I mean, it's not really on your property, it just has a latitude/longitude code, but that can have real world repercussions.

Honestly, think this might be the start of something huge.
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
This. I think that's what's gonna keep me in it despite all the glitches, honestly. It has an unexpectedly strong tie to the real world which I've never really seen in a game before.
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Oh man the glitches. I hate it when you finally hit a pokemon with your 5th pokeball then the game goes and freezes on you and you've lost all those pokeballs..
 
Nilly said:
Oh man the glitches. I hate it when you finally hit a pokemon with your 5th pokeball then the game goes and freezes on you and you've lost all those pokeballs..
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Happened to me twice yesterday when I randomly found an Arcanine.
 
Nilly said:
The next big thing will start out looking like a toy | cdixon blog

In 2010 Chris Dixon said 'the next big thing will start out looking like a toy'.

I really think this is the start of something bigger than a game or a toy. It's a first look at how the virtual world and real life world can interact, and I honestly think that this is just a first step towards augmented reality becoming a big thing. It won't be long before a business can pay for a pokestop to be on it, so that they can attract real life business, and this principle is going to extend beyond the game confines of pokemon.

Some other interesting things that have come up are to do with who owns virtual/real life space and how it is used. The holocaust museum was an example of this, but how legal is it for an outside entity to put a virtual marker on your property. I mean, it's not really on your property, it just has a latitude/longitude code, but that can have real world repercussions.

Honestly, think this might be the start of something huge.
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There have already been statements by Niantic that sponsored locations are coming. Niantic Teases 'Sponsored' Pokemon Go Locations | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

There is supposed to be a process in which a location owner can request their's is removed from the game, but I've seen no reports on how effective those requests might be.

And I agree...AR is going to be big. Especially when MS gets their HoloLens off the ground.
 
I was ignoring it but my sister kept talking about it till i tried it. Its pretty damn fun. Plus lots of 20 year old females walking around trying to talk about it loud enough to "lure" you.

I actually enjoyed watching an Alex Jones video. He makes it kinda funny.

 
Nilly said:
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A few newsagents near my house are using the same technique haha
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SMART. Use this crazy hype storm to your advantage. Gain a dollar off it. Put a 1$ phone recharging station in your store so people can re-engergize their pokemon phones.
 
Passed this to a friend. It worked for him so so far that is one confirmation of it working. One only makes coincidence, though. Hope it holds true and everyone gets what they want from evolving Evee.

'Pokemon Go': How to evolve Eevee - Tech Insider
 
SmokeAndMirrors said:
This. I think that's what's gonna keep me in it despite all the glitches, honestly. It has an unexpectedly strong tie to the real world which I've never really seen in a game before.
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New games always have glitches. This game ended up being way more popular than what was expected and, due to it's design, that would make even more glitches. Everyone who has grown up being a gamer knows that it's just a matter of time for them to fix it. Stick with it. It will get better.
 
 
This is a great website. pokevision.com

It scans an area...one you input or it uses your location...and displays all the pokemons in the area and a timer for how long it will be there.


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I couldn't believe how many people were playing this. lots of people at my work. I don't know much of a damn thing about pokemon myself.
Then my brother and his kids were playing it so I figured well what the hell its free I will see what the deal is.
Some people at my work were saying oh well I'm out walking around and ive lost weight etc etc... I call BS mostly on this. I live right by the entrance to a park that has a pokestop in it. I see carloads of people drive up get the pokestop and drive off.
Plus the locations of where the pokemon are where are the cell signals are mostly.

For me I can get more pokemon sitting at my desk at work than if I wandered around I'm sure.
Lots of glitches but I'm sure with the money they are likely raking in they will improve it.
 
SocialD said:
I couldn't believe how many people were playing this. lots of people at my work. I don't know much of a damn thing about pokemon myself.
Then my brother and his kids were playing it so I figured well what the hell its free I will see what the deal is.
Some people at my work were saying oh well I'm out walking around and ive lost weight etc etc... I call BS mostly on this. I live right by the entrance to a park that has a pokestop in it. I see carloads of people drive up get the pokestop and drive off.
Plus the locations of where the pokemon are where are the cell signals are mostly.

For me I can get more pokemon sitting at my desk at work than if I wandered around I'm sure.
Lots of glitches but I'm sure with the money they are likely raking in they will improve it.
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Well eventually youre gonna run out of pokeballs and have to start finding 3-5 pokestops to walk in circles around. Or like my town we have a "historic district" with tons of stops walking in a straight line down the main road up to the towns water play park.

Plus you have to be going under 15 miles per hour to get credit for egg hatching. So you can ride a bike and hatch your eggs but no car driving.
 
Mycroft said:
This is a great website. pokevision.com

It scans an area...one you input or it uses your location...and displays all the pokemons in the area and a timer for how long it will be there.


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Map seems really crappy for my area. I hope they find a way to make a really good one that is based on the official servers or something.
 
We've been calling the cops on the braindead morons playing this. They gather outside of people's homes at all hours of the night and day looking for pokemon. The cops came just this morning and dispersed a crowd of the idiots wandering around a residential park close to us at 2am. Making all sorts of noise.

I'm hoping someone comes up with a class action suit against the game makers.
 
clownboy said:
We've been calling the cops on the braindead morons playing this. They gather outside of people's homes at all hours of the night and day looking for pokemon. The cops came just this morning and dispersed a crowd of the idiots wandering around a residential park close to us at 2am. Making all sorts of noise.

I'm hoping someone comes up with a class action suit against the game makers.
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Damn kids!

*shakes cane*

In my day we didn't have poke-mon. We got beat with a belt for entertainment and were damned grateful for it! Spoiled brats being outside and on public sidewalks when I don't want them to be. I hope somebody sues!

lol
 
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