Everyone's outside, and it's because of POKÉMON GO

hi

some guys in my town were out late at night playing this and helped catch a serial vandal who's been targeting Asian businesses in town:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4s7ppd/called_911_for_my_very_first_time_thanks_to/

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/34564511-75/committee-suspect-arrested-in-connection-with-vandalism-at-asian-owned-businesses-in-eugene.html.csp

"Let us walk your phone & help you catch more pokemon"

http://www.pokewalk.com/

so is this just the same as Geocache?

am I alone in thinking this is a pointless POS?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, July 11, 2016 7:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I guess in the same sense that practically everything we employ to distract us from our impending mortality is a pointless POS. It's a POS I don't personally see the point in (I prefer asocial and indoor POS games) but I'm glad that this particular POS is making so many other people happy.

xp to ste: only in that you have to go outside with a gps. the closest approximation is the pokestops/portals, but they're just arbitrary sites and don't have a physical container full of toys or anything. the pokemon appear all over the place, but they can appear more often around those pokestops if someone has lit a virtual flare under them (and even then they're not locked to a specific point, you can walk up the street and the pokemon sort of drifts along with you).

https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/751687209254785024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

So unfair this isn't properly launched in the UK yet. I'm already reading about it constantly.

it's pretty easy to get and runs pretty well

I'm crushing it on my morning bus ride. Average about 30 to 40 captures every morning.

the two gyms w/in sight of my place are held by pokemon with CPs in the high hundreds lol

i've found no gyms with guardians under 500 CP, how'm i supposed to get strong, man

https://www.amazon.com/Pokebutt-Go-Pounded-Em-All-ebook/dp/B01IAGH4VI/

if i cd just filter all references/discussion of it out of my internet i'd be good

the fake viral stuff is good tho. so conflicted

funny meme for you am0n!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnLDYLAXYAAdxPC.jpg:small

my internet's pretty clear of it, this designated thread aside, but my meatspace sure is cluttered the fuck up

pocket monster

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/

"It's not like we came here to play," said Angie, a 37-year-old member of Dustin's huddle who also declined to share her last name for privacy reasons, "But gotta catch 'em all."

this is killing me

https://youtu.be/JdCRrOF7ghg

"i'm the gym leader now, timothy"

"It's not like we came here to play," said Angie, a 37-year-old member of Dustin's huddle who also declined to share her last name for privacy reasons, "But gotta catch 'em all."
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Tuesday, July 12, 2016 1:25 PM (2 minutes ago)

lmao

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2016/07/12/holocaust-museum-to-visitors-please-stop-catching-pokemon-here/
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Tuesday, July 12, 2016 1:25 PM

not the onion?

i completely missed pokemon as a youth, know literally nothing about it --- is it really something that people grew up on? was it that ubiquitous? i always thought it was a p niche thing, like magic cards or something

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Monday, July 11, 2016 10:43 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same. it's omnipresent among all my young musician friends (mid 20s), but i'm very surprised if i hear about anyone in their 30s who is conversant in Pokemon. certainly not any of my irl friends.

(i did play Magic btw, but don't remember anyone talking about Pokemon ever)

didn't see people playing this today, really. not like yesterday. think the trend has passed

ppl who are 30 know pokemon. idk about ppl "in their thirties"

i'm turning 32 this summer and i think i was right on the bubble, most of my friends older than me didn't get it and almost everyone younger than me did

sounds about right, I have no idea what these things are

I am 31. The day I bought pokemon diamond, I played until 5am and then had to show up for work at 7:30am. So I know all about pokemon, i.e. I know to stay far, far away from this game.

I'm 36 and I know Pokemon well. But I'm also very childish.

40 and I've played every generation apart from black/white. Not proud of this.

41 and I only know about pokemon through my son

33 and I remember the initial US craze, but I wasn't interested at the time (either I had burned out on card games after M:tG, or was too snobbish about trends to take part); in the last several years, though, I've been aware how Pokemon, like Harry Potter, is just lingua franca for most of my very slightly younger friends.

looks like the update fixes the google access level issue

im 32 in a couple of weeks and was "too old" at the time for pokemon. though my brother, 2 and a half years older, was into it. he's a huge nerd.

42 and i started on pokemon blue/red when i was 24?

The two trans women who won Democratic congressional primaries this year are 33 and 30, and they both chose the name Misty, which may be a coincidence, or another mark of Pokemon's hold on my generation's sensibility.

yeah pokemon came to the states around 96 i think, and i was just the right age for the craze (7)

I think DC is not as crazy about this because we are all too busy using our phones to do "work"

I think DC is not as crazy about this because we are all too busy using our phones to do "work"

Xpost bug on zing got fixed real good I see

friend of mine that works at the WH has been gramming hella pokegrabs from the halls of that august edifice

I work near the Lincoln Memorial. I meant to head out there today and see if there was anyone Pokemanning.

I'm 36. A pair of my roommates in college were obsessed with Pokemon around 2000 when it was first getting huge, but it seemed pretty weird to me even then. I still watched all the shows with them, but I didn't really care too much about it. They watched Digimon too and I remember liking that better.

Yeah I'm 45, this escaped me completely, i was already an adult when it was a thing.

I already said how I missed everything between 1992 and 2007. But I've been relearning everything with the kids, starting with this mysterious Spongebob character who I've now seen all 982 episodes of. That said, the kids hadn't got to Pokemon yet, probably because it's old game that uses physical pogs or whatever.

However - Pokemon, Mario, Angry Birds, Legos - it doesn't matter. I'd be all over this stupid game if my Android phone wasn't a piece of shit.

I'm just saying I've only had one busride sighting of a pokemon goer, I expected a lot more. maybe I'll keep an eye out tomorrow

I did wonder to myself today how many pokemon might die, uncaptured, inside all the military bases and spy agencies in the rooms where no phones are allowed

they should put pokestops in the anterooms with the phone-sized gym lockers, perhaps

but it seemed pretty weird to me even then.

Should clarify that I mean the fact they were watching this children's show when they were ostensibly grown-ups. It was super-regressive.

i'm 32 and didn't get into it when it came out but there's been plenty of time in btwn then and now for me to play a few of them.

caught my highest level pokemon yet tnite in the churchyard near my parent's house: CP151 Pinsir

https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/753032691201605633

wrong thread?