Park near my house flooded with doofuses including yrs truly and partner looking for pokemon, ppl walking the sidewalks slightly too slowly staring at their phones, this is a real phenomenon
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Monday, 11 July 2016 05:28 (seven years ago) link
at play rehearsal, all other cast members under 30 are scouring the park w phones
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 11 July 2016 05:50 (seven years ago) link
right now i'm hanging around the st kilda botanical gardens where there's ~12 pokestops, regular incense and a reasonable number of introverts who are delightfully refusing to interact
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
we all know why everyone's here so really it should be hugs all round but eh
re battery life, you'd be doing well to squeeze 3 hours out of an iphone 6
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 05:57 (seven years ago) link
so weird that they didn't make trading between players a priority for launch, such a basic part of pokemon
― qualx, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:00 (seven years ago) link
otm, i've got 98000 doduos to get rid of
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:03 (seven years ago) link
http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f8/Gym_link_battles.jpg
― qualx, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:04 (seven years ago) link
how we've regressed
― qualx, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
or ingressed
for now you can give your doduos to professor hot oak for candy or spacedust or w/e
― qualx, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah, the professor is already drowning in my rattatas
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:13 (seven years ago) link
it's a bit crap, you trade one whole pokemon for one single space candy
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 06:14 (seven years ago) link
http://uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokemon-dairy-queen.jpg
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 11 July 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
http://imgur.com/01KTYze.jpg
― Jeff, Monday, 11 July 2016 10:59 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
america: "whatometres?"
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
Surely we can only be a week or two tops away from 'my child fell down a mineshaft looking for Wigglytuft' lawsuits?
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Monday, 11 July 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
i recall ignoring and agreeing to a very large terms & conditions statement, perhaps it's all covered there
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 11 July 2016 11:12 (seven years ago) link
I kinda want to just go sit in some public place for a while and watch players bump into one another.
This is pretty much all that the two dudes nearest me at work talked about last week.
― Night Jorts (Old Lunch), Monday, 11 July 2016 12:59 (seven years ago) link
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― qualx, Monday, July 11, 2016 2:00 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah i wonder if it was purposeful so the app wouldn't encourage you to interact with randos on the street
― 龜, Monday, 11 July 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/fAnXZnQ.jpg
― 龜, Monday, 11 July 2016 13:15 (seven years ago) link
suburban ilxors -- are there many stations near u or are they spread all the fuck out there?
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 11 July 2016 13:49 (seven years ago) link
Discovered this morning that the rush hour bus goes slow enough to hatch eggs.
― Jeff, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LXSHmXh.jpg
― pplains, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link
I'd already decided that this would be strictly a commuting/park excursion activity due to me not wanting to get racially profiled but then I discovered there's a spawn point right outside of my house, so I can literally just sit in bed and wait for Pokemon to appear
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Monday, 11 July 2016 14:22 (seven years ago) link
My son used to think he could see ghosts in his room through his Nintendo handheld, since the shitty camera showed artifacts moving on the walls in low light.
So I can just imagine what his reaction would be when I told him there were invisible Pokemons running around that you could only see through the cellphone.
― pplains, Monday, 11 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
At an ice cream shop on Saturday and couple next to us was eating a flight of small shot glasses of ice cream. We were like "oh I want to do that, looks so cool" and the guy was like "Oh yeah I cannot believe how many people are doing this. It's incredible. I see people on the street now and we're like I know what you are doing!" I made confused eye contact with his gf and she was like "Honey they are talking about the ice cream flight not Pokemon...." And I was like wtf... Pokemon but obv this is a thing.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Monday, 11 July 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
ahhahahahha
― volumetric god rays (DJP), Monday, 11 July 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
I was jogging in a park yesterday and saw occasional clusters of young people walking in tangents. At first I was like "oh cool, it's been a while since I've seen freaks shambling around a park on acid" but then I saw that they were huddled around a phone and I figured out what was going on.
― how's life, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
flights of pokemon to sing thee to thy rest
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 11 July 2016 15:25 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/IGIhosT/status/752357024156028928
― Jeff, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
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, 11 July 2016 15:43 (seven years ago) link
that twitter video is straight insane.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 11 July 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
pokemon felt pretty ubiquitous when i was a kid. i was 12 or 13 when the first games came out and i played them for hundreds of hours probably & all my friends had it too
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:53 (seven years ago) link
there was definitely a divide between nintendo kids and playstation kids but all the nintendo kids played pokemon
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:55 (seven years ago) link
there's a pokestop inside my office building. how is this legal. where did they get this shit.
― goole, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:56 (seven years ago) link
the algorithm just selects arbitrary landmarks from google maps afaict
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
i heard the developer had a previous collection of locations for, like, coupon or drinking-game based promotions and so all the pokestops are just that information/data loaded into a different piece of software
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was pretty much the last kid thing I enjoyed as a kid. Pokemon came right after and joined Rugrats, Boy Meets World, and those Magic cards as something I knew nothing about.
But a scavenger hunt game involving maps? Sounds like fun.
― pplains, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
I could see the appeal of Ingress because it was niche and geeky. This shit, where everybody knows what you're up to and everybody is doing it, just activates all my anti-herding instincts. That twitter video caused me a little twinge of nausea and I had to turn it off.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link
Not trying to be punker-than-thou but seriously I have a serious aversion to herd (as in physical herding) behavior in people, like a little bit of a phobia but also it makes me (extra) mad and unpleasant
― El Tomboto, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
yeah i decided i didn't want to deal w/ it after going outside and walking around my neighborhood and seeing just how many people were playing it
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
i don't really play games on my phone in general though, despite spending most of my free time at home pc gaming. i've had a smartphone for a couple years now and the only game i've had in that entire time is desert golfing
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
i'm sure a million startups are suddenly working up a plan to move into this space, and they'll all fail because they're not pokemon
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
I'm sure something like Warcraft could be successful in the space.
― Jeff, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
star wars, game of thrones, ninjago, basically anything with a big character roster would get the job done.i think the main appeal is novelty right now though; my sense is there isn't much of a GAME yet.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah the point is that this blew up because it's piggybacking on a popular+nostalgic IP, and one that fits especially well with the augmented reality hook. the actual substance of the game from what i've seen is pretty half-baked
― ciderpress, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
from what I've read pokestops are just copied from ingress landmarks which were crowdsourced from players over the years
― qualx, Monday, 11 July 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
:D :D :D
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
he's 15/15/14 IV and he's less than 50km from growing into a big boy
i also refuse to walk any pokemon i haven't given a good name. see my sunkern who i called Bart Stemson for a minute
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
(appreciate u all w/ your very good names too, it is inspiring)
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boot Edge Edge" (Will M.), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
I had a tangela names frank tangela
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 3 April 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
My favorites are a heracross I caught in Miami that I named FloridaMan and a steelix named BlockChain. I'm in the Tampa area for a few more days so hoping to get some more carnavines and corsolas before I head back to the regional-free zone.
― Jaq, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
I've started giving my lucky Pokémon names inspired by the friends who traded them to me.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
@lucky sickmouthy
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 25 May 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
LOL same. Do you only get one lucky at a time?
― Jaq, Monday, 27 May 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
No you can have many but this is the peril of having foreign ffiends
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 27 May 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Yeah, would be great to trade. Not gonna happen. My two lucky friends are both thousands of miles away.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 July 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
Who’s got a spiky psychic cat?
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 18 July 2019 05:27 (four years ago) link
Jon arbuckle
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 18 July 2019 06:31 (four years ago) link
Several
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 18 July 2019 11:14 (four years ago) link
did anybody decide to play wizards unite or nah
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 18 July 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Oh god no
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 18 July 2019 15:27 (four years ago) link
This game is stupid
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
wild to me that people are still playing this.
saw someone doing the old "quickly trying to click on the spots while on the bus before they are gone" routine yesterday for the first time in a long while.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
i played it briefly in the summer of 2016. which, melancholy reflection, was the last time my - now defunct - marriage was going well.
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 22:40 (four years ago) link
I look forward to never executing these special trades
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 16 August 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
lucky friends FOREVER
― Jaq, Monday, 19 August 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
I have retired.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 January 2020 08:27 (four years ago) link
congrats, enjoy it
what's the pokemon pension plan like
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 27 January 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
We will be lucky friends forever
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 27 January 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Have moved house and am slightly shamed to admit that pokestop and gym proximity was a deciding factor.
― Jaq, Monday, 27 January 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
any of u foreigners want these remote raids
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 29 November 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-pokemon-go-kanto-tour-was-a-life-affirming-hit/
― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 February 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link