Pokemon Go

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:27 am

My brother and a bunch of his friends went out at night to catch pokemen.

I can understand why Iwata was reluctant to enter the mobile market, it's like opening Pandora's Box, and there's no way Nintendo will be focusing on just games anymore.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:41 pm

Just encountered a couple in their 60s, loudly playing this at the bus stop. First time I seen anyone playing it. Normies leave reeeeee

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:56 pm

https://newyork.craigslist.org/search/bbb?query=pokemon

atheistgod1999 · Post by **atheistgod1999** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:44 pm

Looks like the whole purpose of the game has been defeated.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 9:56 pm

The market catches on to new lucrative opportunities disturbingly quickly.
How long until terrorists use busy Pokéstops as their target area?

atheistgod1999 · Post by **atheistgod1999** » Wed Jul 13, 2016 10:10 pm

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:13 am

I'd never thought I'd find myself in support of an age restriction on forum registration.

Bananamatic · Post by **Bananamatic** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:08 am

ban dads

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 2:18 am

I drove downtown and had a walk by the community college there, and there seemed to be some young fellows pointing there cellphones in random directions. I don't know if it was Pokemans related but it did make me think.

How long is it going to be to the post-augmented reality?

ardiel · Post by **ardiel** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:04 am

Lord Satori wrote:
ardiel wrote:I don't know about you guys but I would not be pleased if somebody put a gym on my property without my permission which caused random strangers to lurk around me at all hours.
Gyms aren't just randomly placed, you know. They're placed at public places where many people are likely to be. Monuments, public parks, plazas, that sort of thing. From what I've heard, you can't just have anyone place a gym anywhere.

The developer has obviously placed them but they haven't checked very thoroughly where they're placing them. There was a guy who owns a historical house which used to be a church for example, but it's just his normal house and they put a gym there so he has all kinds of people hanging around now.

It's also causing problems in public parks. Yes the people playing are dumb for going there after closing time, but the parks never asked for it and the police and park authority still has to deal with something that has been basically forced on them.

Edit:
Also placing virtual items on real property such that it has a real world influence on that property is ethically questionable since it is almost the same effect as physically placing things on that property.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:16 am

People get out of their homes:
Civilization threatened!

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:42 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:I drove downtown and had a walk by the community college there, and there seemed to be some young fellows pointing there cellphones in random directions. I don't know if it was Pokemans related but it did make me think.

How long is it going to be to the post-augmented reality?

Everyone might as well be living in one. The only thing we're lacking is Augmented Reality Google Glasses to make the escapism complete.

EDIT:

BryanM · Post by **BryanM** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 12:50 pm

There's always the holocaust museum full of poison gas pokémons.

ryu · Post by **ryu** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:05 pm

BryanM wrote:There's always the holocaust museum full of poison gas pokémons.

I hear those pictures are faked

Immryr · Post by **Immryr** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:10 pm

http://www.vice.com/read/pokemon-go-aus ... stop-vgtrn

lol

Some-Mist · Post by **Some-Mist** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 1:32 pm

Lord Satori wrote:I'd never thought I'd find myself in support of an age restriction on forum registration.

after you get rid of us 30 year olds, who else are you going to have to make fun of?

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 3:17 pm

Immryr wrote:http://www.vice.com/read/pokemon-go-aus ... stop-vgtrn

lol

It's kind of surprising how poorly they thought this out. 7/13, the day the fight began over the ownership of augmented spaces in real ones. Of course, at this stage one can really boil this down to the appearance of inappropriate real-world behavior.

ryu · Post by **ryu** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:14 pm

Makes you wonder how long we have until they'll come up with laws to regulate placement of virtual items on physical property (land)

I'm almost sure some politician is already thinking of some kind of tax

ardiel · Post by **ardiel** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 4:53 pm

ryu wrote:Makes you wonder how long we have until they'll come up with laws to regulate placement of virtual items on physical property (land)

I'm almost sure some politician is already thinking of some kind of tax

I'm sure they will. This is the effective equivalent of somebody physically standing there and literally handing out pokemon and I'm sure a lot of places wouldn't actually allow that if it were physical.

It's not like you can just go into a park and build a shop there just because you feel like it.

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:39 pm

I feel like what Pokemon Go has turned into after such a short time makes it perfectly evident how we, as a society, have to inject controversy into everything nowadays.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 10:10 pm

Lord Satori wrote:I feel like what Pokemon Go has turned into after such a short time makes it perfectly evident how we, as a society, have to inject controversy into everything nowadays.

You were saying?

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/1 ... okemon-go/

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign quickly shot back at Hillary Clinton for a heinous Pokémon Go-themed pun, releasing a parody video portraying the Democratic candidate as a Pokémon herself.

“I don’t know who created Pokemon Go, but I’m trying to figure out how we get them to do Pokemon Go To The Polls!” said Clinton, before being mocked on Twitter for the awkward pander.

The joke is not helped by seeing the video. pic.twitter.com/W8n8EMh1gf

— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 14, 2016

@pbump @rebeccagberg guy in the back with the "oh jeeeeez" eyeroll. pic.twitter.com/ZBf94TD17D

— Joda Thongnopnua (@JodaThongnopnua) July 14, 2016

How do you do, fellow kids? https://t.co/ENT2PziF6Z

— Ashe Schow (@AsheSchow) July 14, 2016

“Crooked Hillary NO!” wrote Trump on Facebook, captioning a video of Clinton as an imagined Pokémon named “Crooked Hillary.”

Clinton’s Pokémon “type” is listed as “Career Politician,” and she has her own special stat of “Emails Deleted” which is currently at 30,000.

“Often found lying to the American people, rigging the system, and sharing TOP SECRET emails,” her description reads. Her “Next Evolution” is listed as “unemployed.”

The video on Facebook has received over 35,000 likes in less than an hour, as well as nearly 28,000 shares and over 600,000 views.

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 1:14 am

"You were saying" is typically a statement that is used when trying to counter a statement, not reinforce it.

Though maybe I'd change it to "controversy and politics".

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:43 am

http://www.usmc-mccs.org/articles/marin ... okemon-go/

soprano1 · Post by **soprano1** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:56 am

Seems it's out over here, let's see if we get any news of people getting fucked up.

Jeneki · Post by **Jeneki** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:38 pm

Every time I see those "hang up and drive" signs, I always think the same thing: "Silly sign, how as I supposed to read you when I'm looking at my phone?"

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Fri Jul 15, 2016 11:47 pm

Some required reading for players, if you weren't already pushed this article through a news aggregator (like the one in Windows 10):

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2 ... -Money-You

atheistgod1999 · Post by **atheistgod1999** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:06 am

They don't have my info because I'm not playing it.

Bananamatic · Post by **Bananamatic** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 12:21 am

atheistgod1999 wrote:They don't have my info because I'm not playing it.

I wish I was as cool as you

Shepardus · Post by **Shepardus** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:51 am

atheistgod1999 wrote:They don't have my info because I'm not playing it.

Good thing you've never given Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. any of your info either, or used any of their services at all. Oh wait.

maximo310 · Post by **maximo310** » Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:31 am

Wait, that's the best reason not to play Pokemon Go? I find that to be a pretty poor excuse, considering everything needs basic email info.
I think you're really missing out on the fun; haven't played any pokemon games since x/y and its pretty fun

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