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

so weird that they didn't make trading between players a priority for launch, such a basic part of pokemon

otm, i've got 98000 doduos to get rid of

http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/f/f8/Gym_link_battles.jpg

how we've regressed

or ingressed

for now you can give your doduos to professor hot oak for candy or spacedust or w/e

yeah, the professor is already drowning in my rattatas

it's a bit crap, you trade one whole pokemon for one single space candy

http://uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokemon-dairy-queen.jpg

http://uploadvr.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/pokemon-dairy-queen.jpg

http://imgur.com/01KTYze.jpg

lol

america: "whatometres?"

Surely we can only be a week or two tops away from 'my child fell down a mineshaft looking for Wigglytuft' lawsuits?

i recall ignoring and agreeing to a very large terms & conditions statement, perhaps it's all covered there

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.

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so weird that they didn't make trading between players a priority for launch, such a basic part of pokemon

― 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

http://i.imgur.com/fAnXZnQ.jpg

suburban ilxors -- are there many stations near u or are they spread all the fuck out there?

Discovered this morning that the rush hour bus goes slow enough to hatch eggs.

http://i.imgur.com/LXSHmXh.jpg

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

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.

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.

ahhahahahha

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.

flights of pokemon to sing thee to thy rest

https://twitter.com/IGIhosT/status/752357024156028928

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

that twitter video is straight insane.

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

there was definitely a divide between nintendo kids and playstation kids but all the nintendo kids played pokemon

there's a pokestop inside my office building. how is this legal. where did they get this shit.

the algorithm just selects arbitrary landmarks from google maps afaict

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I'm sure something like Warcraft could be successful in the space.

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.

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

from what I've read pokestops are just copied from ingress landmarks which were crowdsourced from players over the years

there's a pokestop outside my building. there are suddenly people out there all the time everyday.

i played this a little bc my roommate wanted me to and the novelty of seeing pokemon on the streets of new york was cool at first, but ultimately i find the whole thing very unsettling in a way that is hard to articulate.... idk, i've developed a sort of technophobia over the past few months.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6jIrzie4ylI/hqdefault.jpg

#neverforget

I know I'm in many ways being a Luddite about this but I have no idea why anyone would play this game with the AR features turned on.

signed, the dude who hates and will never use Google Street View

Wh wh why do you hate Google Street View?

I've started giving my lucky Pokémon names inspired by the friends who traded them to me.

@lucky sickmouthy

LOL same. Do you only get one lucky at a time?

No you can have many but this is the peril of having foreign ffiends

Yeah, would be great to trade. Not gonna happen. My two lucky friends are both thousands of miles away.

Who’s got a spiky psychic cat?

Jon arbuckle

Several

did anybody decide to play wizards unite or nah

Oh god no

This game is stupid

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.

i played it briefly in the summer of 2016. which, melancholy reflection, was the last time my - now defunct - marriage was going well.

I look forward to never executing these special trades

lucky friends FOREVER

I have retired.

congrats, enjoy it

what's the pokemon pension plan like

We will be lucky friends forever

Have moved house and am slightly shamed to admit that pokestop and gym proximity was a deciding factor.

any of u foreigners want these remote raids

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-pokemon-go-kanto-tour-was-a-life-affirming-hit/