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

I realized yesterday that every time I went to the bathroom all day I clicked on a pokestop.

a pokestop & a low-key plop

for unfun min-max purposes I avoid catching 2nd or 3rd level evolutions I haven't caught yet so I can evolve them under a lucky egg. I had a super successful egg period despite only getting through 40 evolves because my phone is so slow and crashed 3 times. about 12 of the evolves were new pokedex additions so double double exp.

is there a pt to having more than 1 of the same kind of thing? ie yes what do i do with all these fucking pidgeys

if you transfer them you get a candy so I just transfer all except the highest cp, unless the highest cp is pretty low, in which case i transfer them all and trust that i will later catch a higher cp one that'll be worth evolving

although I occasionally evolve crappy pokemon just for the xp of evolving, especially if they are evolving into a pokemon not yet in my pokedex

all those pidgeys are good for evolving once (12 candy cost) for 500 xp each. they are the grist for the mill that is your xp level because pokemon is immediately under the surface always mortifying

the internet recommends waiting until you have ~600 pidgey candies, ~50 pidgeys, and a lucky egg... then pop the egg, and evolve all of the pidgeys, get 50,000 xp

oh shit, I am doing that

if you're feeling really plucky do what i did, and set up 3x 10.0km eggs to all hatch at the same time... right before they hatch, pop your double xp, get the double hatch xp (1000x2 per egg) and THEN grind your pidgeys into paste

woah

i went from early level 15 to late level 17 last time. got another three coming up in... 4km? which will take anywhere between a day and a week depending on whether or not i feel like walking around with this damn game open

damn, will

also, this shit is absolute next level -- uses niantic API to tell you EXACTLY where pokemon are in your vicinity, and for how long. all of the other map sites are a joke

https://pokevision.com/

right now I am viewing Will as a cautionary tale and leaning towards deleting this from my phone

... once I turn this Eevee into something cool

haha here's the thing. i maybe look at this game 15 minutes a day? (i've never done the 50 pidgeys thing, but i did do a week's worth of evolutions at once simply bc i was saving them for one concentrated blast)

maybe when it came out more like an hour a day. cut into my mpq time. but mpq is 4ever

this game is way way healthier than the horrible mess of mpq, and not just because it involves walking

how the hell do you keep finding 10km eggs anyway? i think they're set to spawn like 4.5% of the time? do you just walk a lot and run through eggs?

i've been walking 20–30 km per day because of this game, so basically yeah

i found pokemon yellow (which i forgot i even had) and pokemon silver in a shoebox (i had pokemon blue first but maybe i traded it). i had taped over the pokemon logo because i was so embarrassed to be seen playing it in public. and here i am in my 40s just doing it outside on my phone.

oh and pokemon snap.

Pokemon Snap is the fucking best

wait, whaaaaat? you've been walking 20k a day BECAUSE of this game? how many ks did you walk before???

the "wait until the last hour and spam the gyms for gold" game-theory thing works, fyi

i've been walking 20–30 km per day because of this game, so basically yeah

― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, July 27, 2016 5:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is nuts to me!

I do most of my egg hatching on the bus. It goes slow enough at times that it cranks up the KM's pretty quickly.

A Lapras "round the back of Primark"

xp. I go excruciatingly slowly on a bus up a mountain as part of my commute and that gets me a km or two.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12312538/werner-herzog-interview-masterclass-lo-and-behold

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoezB2TVMAA7OEO.jpg

wait, whaaaaat? you've been walking 20k a day BECAUSE of this game? how many ks did you walk before???

― a simba man (Will M.), Friday, 29 July 2016 01:19 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

immediately before this game came out i was walking ~2,000 steps (~1.5 km) per day. in the seven days to this past sunday i walked avg 34,000 steps (27 km) per day, according to my fitbit (iphone stats are similar).

it's not because i'm obsessed with zubats though. i've been out of work for a while and hadn't been doing much physically, so pokemon go became my incentive/excuse to get out and walk. my mood has transformed because of this game.

i've gone out on a couple runs with this active on my phone. (it burns another 15-20% battery life in about 45 mins of activity.) but weirdly the distance logged in the 'incubator' is a lot less than the running app. i did some sprint interval stuff, i wonder if i was going faster at times than the 'speed limit' for walking? kinda cool if so

there is a speed limit, but honestly if you don't have the app open and active on your screen, it just doesn't register movement :/

the speed limit is p high too, you probably won't outrun it. you can outbike it tho

i thought that 'battery saver' mode meant that screen goes mostly dark (with a dim ghostly logo) while still registering movment. bummer if not so.

plus the distance logged was like 2/3rds of the running app. weird. could be just janky.

it's still registering movement in that mode, but if the app is closed (or possibly even while your phone screen is entirely off) it's not tracking. it's a total bummer and i hope they patch it in. although i think that's supposedly the goal of the "go plus" dongle, which is supposedly always tracking.

xp yeah there's also the fact that it is just straight up janky sometimes. i'll walk what is definitely like a km with the app open and afterwards i've walked... 0.

afaik it uses the GPD to track your speed & distance, so if it doesn't ping the gps fast enough it approximates your speed as super fast

http://kotaku.com/the-uncracked-secrets-of-pokemon-go-egg-hatching-1784339902

helps 4 u

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/nyregion/in-pokemon-go-lawmakers-fear-unexpected-entrance-of-the-sexual-predator.html
this is the most ridiculous sort of
http://www.marijuanadoctors.com/uploads/3rnvk6.jpg

The staff members, who played the game for two weeks, also found 57 Pokémon — which appear on players’ phones as if they exist in the real world — near the offenders’ homes

Ha; the latest update actually starts with a pop-up reading "Don't play while driving." TOO LATE MUTHAFUCKER YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ALREADY ENABLED

lol @ them just deleting the parts of the game that didn't work.

there's not really much to do now. levelling up makes the whole game harder, and 90% of the time it's just rats and bats. even taking gyms is a transient thrill.

Collect them all, my primary goal.

Gotta catch em all!

weird - my latest update says "don't go to dangerous places to catch pokemon"

which parts of the game did they delete?

the major one is where you could once tell how far away some pokemon were (and therefore could track them down), but now it's just a panel that tells you 9 pokemon are in the universe.

people seem to be rage quitting en masse (or at least threatening to) because of the removed features/uneven game play, but really it's easier to just play it until it's no longer fun. revolutionary i know. at some point i'll get sick of paper toss gps edition and do something else, weh.

Also removed battery saver mode on iOS.

Because there was a bug with it.

gyms are so dumb. the gym at work gets tossed around so much there's no point in putting anything in there after you've collected for the day, unless you like gather 10 others on your team who hopefully have really strong tanks and then stake it out after everyone else left, and even then you still won't last another 21 hours with it. what's the point? I keep taking it down from other teams for exp and leaving it grey