I'm sure the recent spike in house break-ins are just kids looking for Pokemon (or so they keep telling the judge).... 
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I have to say I've been having a ton of fun with this game. I don't get to play much during the week but on the weekends I've been going into downtown Austin to the various parks/ walking paths to play.
I cannot believe how many people are out and about playing. Granted this is Austin and most of us already enjoyed time doing outdoors things without Pokemon Go, this just added one more thing to do.
I cannot believe how many people are out and about playing. Granted this is Austin and most of us already enjoyed time doing outdoors things without Pokemon Go, this just added one more thing to do.
My friends love it, I don't fully get it so I didn't bother. Having said that I'm glad people are having fun!
That would be an incredibly long-term plan. And it requires the Guvmn't correctly anticipating a viral gaming sensation.
As you say, tinfoil hat territory. I suspect more likely the plan is much closer to Candy Crush Saga: a small percentage of players get very into the game and they buy in the in-app purchases, then . . . profit! The mapping is some nice data, but Google Maps has most of it already, our phones already track where they are and report back their location to Google and/or Apple. We don't need a specific App up and running for that to be going on in the background. The Ingress pictures provide pictures of places that can't be reached or seen from the street. But besides that I'm not sure what else it added.
I think, as long as the game follows the current cross-generations' rules that everyone always wins all the time, everything should be fine.
I don't think I can just lump myself in with "GenX" - because the Boomers pronounced our generation dead when Cobain blew his brains out - it gets confusing...
I feel privileged that I grew up without anti-social media and dumbphones. And I still can't bring myself to give Facebook my real name or my real photo or any of my personal information. And if I'd been selfish enough to have children in this seriously f'd up world, I'm fairly certain I wouldn't wish to have them playing a game designed by a corporation to track and - from what little I understand of it - "lure" them to McDonald's or whoever will shell out the most money to help make them more fiscally fit, healthy "active" consumers at our corporate gyms. (Given I'm not a parent, I'm guessing I'd be even lazier than the ones who do choose to be these days.)
But, until the first group runs across a rare Pokérab (?) screaming "Yalalalala!" with a suicide vest - I hope all of the lemmings can be proud of their new "active" method of gluing their face to a screen for the monetization of their favoritest benevolent corporations: Gotta catch 'em all - I'm lovin' it!
Which reminds me - I have to download this game and set up lures at every strip club, headshop, and adult "novelty" store I can find before they take all the fun out of it. How much would that IAP cost me?
As for my laptop warrior hypocrisy - "Sundays always come too late but Friday, never hesitate..." - Justin Bieber
Boomers and Millennials really have all the fun... And bonus - they're BFF's! I wish Kurt hadn't done that to all of us - paint me jelly. I remember when Tabitha Soren, the voice of our generation, told me that my generation had died on the MTV that I wanted. Very sad day.
And, just so people know I'm being absolutely serious - given the two known sociopaths we currently have to choose between, hopefully the phenomenon will last long enough to give us Pikachu for POTUS. Please? Otherwise, we might end up with who the Boomers chose to give their BFF Millennials to vote for again - which actually does scare the **** out of me this time around.
Sunday funday.
I don't think I can just lump myself in with "GenX" - because the Boomers pronounced our generation dead when Cobain blew his brains out - it gets confusing...
I feel privileged that I grew up without anti-social media and dumbphones. And I still can't bring myself to give Facebook my real name or my real photo or any of my personal information. And if I'd been selfish enough to have children in this seriously f'd up world, I'm fairly certain I wouldn't wish to have them playing a game designed by a corporation to track and - from what little I understand of it - "lure" them to McDonald's or whoever will shell out the most money to help make them more fiscally fit, healthy "active" consumers at our corporate gyms. (Given I'm not a parent, I'm guessing I'd be even lazier than the ones who do choose to be these days.)
But, until the first group runs across a rare Pokérab (?) screaming "Yalalalala!" with a suicide vest - I hope all of the lemmings can be proud of their new "active" method of gluing their face to a screen for the monetization of their favoritest benevolent corporations: Gotta catch 'em all - I'm lovin' it!
Which reminds me - I have to download this game and set up lures at every strip club, headshop, and adult "novelty" store I can find before they take all the fun out of it. How much would that IAP cost me?
As for my laptop warrior hypocrisy - "Sundays always come too late but Friday, never hesitate..." - Justin Bieber
Boomers and Millennials really have all the fun... And bonus - they're BFF's! I wish Kurt hadn't done that to all of us - paint me jelly. I remember when Tabitha Soren, the voice of our generation, told me that my generation had died on the MTV that I wanted. Very sad day.
And, just so people know I'm being absolutely serious - given the two known sociopaths we currently have to choose between, hopefully the phenomenon will last long enough to give us Pikachu for POTUS. Please? Otherwise, we might end up with who the Boomers chose to give their BFF Millennials to vote for again - which actually does scare the **** out of me this time around.
Sunday funday.
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I really don't get the extreme prejudice for this app some of you folks are showcasing. All the while you're saying this on a site that goes mad when a new product comes out and people sleep on the street overnight in order to get these things on launch day.
Some folks need to take a step back and look in the mirror. The fact you think something someone else enjoys is ridiculous simply means you personally don't care. That's fine. Belittling others is not...
Some folks need to take a step back and look in the mirror. The fact you think something someone else enjoys is ridiculous simply means you personally don't care. That's fine. Belittling others is not...
My friends play it and they keep having to restart it all the time on the 6S's, I laugh at them but it makes them sad. Hopefully with all that money coming in they can fix it up a bit.
It's kind of a fun game for someone way too close to 40 (MAKE IT STOP) and who also didn't have an interest in Pokemon before. Hey, it gives you an objective that requires moving around and walking. It's basically a smartphone adaptation of what Xbox did with Kinect.
It's very much a 1.0 product with the obvious glitches. But it also has a limited fun value right now because WHAT DID THESE PEOPLE DO TO GET CHARACTERS SO MUCH HIGHER THAN I HAVE IN EVERY DAMN GYM? I downloaded the game about four days after it came out. I've played it some, reaching level 12. Even found a Pikachu on Sunday. But almost every gym I find has a character with about 800 or above in the lowest spot, meaning I don't need to even bother with mine that top out at 500.
So the developers need to figure out some enhancements to keep it from slipping into oblivion like FarmVille, which a few years ago was all the rage until it got boring AF even for a casual game.
It's very much a 1.0 product with the obvious glitches. But it also has a limited fun value right now because WHAT DID THESE PEOPLE DO TO GET CHARACTERS SO MUCH HIGHER THAN I HAVE IN EVERY DAMN GYM? I downloaded the game about four days after it came out. I've played it some, reaching level 12. Even found a Pikachu on Sunday. But almost every gym I find has a character with about 800 or above in the lowest spot, meaning I don't need to even bother with mine that top out at 500.
So the developers need to figure out some enhancements to keep it from slipping into oblivion like FarmVille, which a few years ago was all the rage until it got boring AF even for a casual game.
I'm sure the recent spike in house break-ins are just kids looking for Pokemon (or so they keep telling the judge)....
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News reports will go up..... Sorry buddy, just looking for Pokemon.
It's just a fad, just like when people used to carry boomboxes on their shoulders.
I'm so sorry to hear that but i share your sentiment. My girlfriend broke up with me a day before the game came out. It's been an invaluable distraction for me.
I'm sure they will. It's an app that has broken records and will likely be in history books as a noteworthy moment in computer/technology history.
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We don't know what the net results are. Maybe people are getting raped less because there are more Pokemon go players out on the streets at night. Maybe car accidents are less because more people are going for walks. Maybe robberies are down since people are less alone now while out on trails, bike paths or around their neighborhood.
I guess it depends if people drive to the park or walk to it. Oh, and how far away the park is from your house.
For me and all of the other residents of Post Addison Circle in Addison, TX it's only a few hundred feet to the park.
Agreed! The same hypocrites criticizing this game's popularity are the probably the same "Macbook Pro" fanatics that keep checking MR five times a day to see if Apple will release one of their perfectly-dreamed-of MBP. And when there isn't a good MBP release on the horizon, they have tantrums like spoiled 6-year olds. Talk about fanaticism.