it's bush league thought piece commentary i know but: it is interesting that poke a mango is engendering this shift from what we consider a very private space (being on our phones) to being very publically engaged and engageable ("is that that pokemon thing i've been hearing about?")
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 04:08 (seven years ago) link
xfer is the only way to rack up poke candies afaict?
you also get some when you catch pokemon, otherwise you'd have to xfr 50 staryus just to evolve a starmie
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 06:02 (seven years ago) link
what teams are you guys on
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
Mystic.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 12:28 (seven years ago) link
Rocket
― (a phenomenon analyzed in gender studies) (crüt), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
Protecting the world from devastation and uniting all peoples within our nation sound like good plans. I'm just not so sure about the "denouncing the evils of truth and love" part.
― j.o. seasoning (how's life), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 12:35 (seven years ago) link
its all about Mystic. Londoners - Soho Square is a good one. caught a 350 cp Pidgeot at lunchtime :D
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
http://www.inc.com/walter-chen/pok-mon-go-is-driving-insane-amounts-of-sales-at-small-local-businesses-here-s-h.html
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
also https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/753212999758934019
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
how unstable is this thing for everyone else?
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
it crashes super regularly for me.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:10 (seven years ago) link
cool i can never tell. i cracked my device for the first time this year and i can never tell if it's me or some other shit
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
saw an update for it this morning for iOS- have gotten less crashes, no sign-in probs, & apparently they limited the scope of what info the app had access to (they're prob downplaying how much they restrained it but still, good to know they addressed it in some fashion)
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
i am trying to get my boss to lay down some lures for our weekend concerts, lols
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
mystic
re stability: most mornings (i'm in australia) it's a mess, but it clears up after lunch when america goes to bed. yesterday's update did seem to improve stability, although that could be coincidence (they're doing a heap of back-end server work).
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 23:11 (seven years ago) link
I give this 3 months and it will be a mess of corporate-sponsored manipulation.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
otm, e.g. http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/07/13/pokemon-go-mcdonalds-hidden-features/mcdonald's
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
mcdonald's
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 13 July 2016 23:21 (seven years ago) link
http://thosevideogamemoments.tumblr.com/post/147128590556/manvsgame-pokemongo-got-me-wandering-around-my
― Nhex, Thursday, 14 July 2016 09:50 (seven years ago) link
i feel like america should have been consulted before they dropped this on us. it's weird that people's houses are gyms and there are doduos all over the house.
― Treeship, Thursday, 14 July 2016 10:21 (seven years ago) link
it just seems obnoxious. they transformed the world, got a kid shot, and then they have the gall to tell professional pokemon trainer ivy st ive she can't charge ppl $20/hr to train their pokemon. they decide everything.
― Treeship, Thursday, 14 July 2016 10:29 (seven years ago) link
i still haven't seen anyone playing this game
― (a phenomenon analyzed in gender studies) (crüt), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
I've started. It's admittedly very sinister, but there's no denying that hysterical ecstasy encroaching on the consciousness. There were lures everywhere around Kings Cross today and so many people playing it. It's making me feel slightly less hostile towards strangers, but this is early days.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:45 (seven years ago) link
it's fun and mostly harmless. The park by my house has multiple stations and a gym on each end. nice group of people of all ages hanging out the other evening at the tables and someone has a bunch of pizza and sodas delivered for everyone to share.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 14 July 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
https://amp.twimg.com/v/b2314f8d-2640-4431-bb9b-a5dc6d731874^i imagine the meeting that engendered this video included a lot of uses of the phrase "fucking pokemon"
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:46 (seven years ago) link
this dude's voice is making me maybe understand the whole asmr craze
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:52 (seven years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/174597335
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 14 July 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4spbdz/i_just_ran_into_waka_flocka_at_a_pokemongo_gym_in/
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
there's no denying that hysterical ecstasy encroaching on the consciousness
no. no there isn't
― imago, Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
this is like the grand revenge for the fact i play team sports
― imago, Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:26 (seven years ago) link
http://www.mediaite.com/online/gotta-pander-to-em-all-hillary-clinton-has-finally-found-out-what-pokemon-go-is/
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Thursday, 14 July 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
games that end with "Go," ranked:
5. Stratego4. Lego Battles: Ninjago3. Grim Fandango2. Go1. Pokemon Go
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 14 July 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/videos/10157309144940725/
― grinding like a jolly elf (jamescobo), Thursday, 14 July 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, July 14, 2016 5:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
u missed lara croft GO
― R.I.P. Haram-bae, the good posts goy (s.clover), Thursday, 14 July 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Where in the world is carmen sandie go
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 14 July 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
both wonderful games that did not make the cut i'm afraid
see also hitman go, chroner triggo, super mario brgo
― a simba man (Will M.), Thursday, 14 July 2016 22:45 (seven years ago) link
this game has made me walk 90 km/124,000 steps in four days. everything is sore. everything.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 July 2016 00:14 (seven years ago) link
Your commitment is laudable. I'm weighing up walking home from work, which will take 3 and a half hours.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 15 July 2016 09:13 (seven years ago) link
three and a half normally, or stopping every 45 seconds for a capture?
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 July 2016 09:56 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, the increased walking for everyone is great, but it's barely amounts to a crawl because I have to stop and capture all the time.
― Jeff, Friday, 15 July 2016 09:57 (seven years ago) link
Make that 5 hours. Going to brave my first gym at lunch, but figure they're going to be more competitive in Central London than South of the Thames.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Friday, 15 July 2016 10:05 (seven years ago) link
I started playing in London because I was there most of this week, and having come back home to the midlands the thinning of landmarks is kinda shocking. I've gone from having 15-20 pokestops within a five minute radius to having the nearest pokestop be five minutes walk away. On the upside, the gym at the pub across the road is currently controlled by a cp72 drowzee so I'll be taking that down as soon as I wander over there.
― JimD, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
You are the problem with decentralisation, Jim.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:28 (seven years ago) link
HA!
― JimD, Friday, 15 July 2016 10:38 (seven years ago) link
my 10 km egg hatched during a bug-out and i got nothing
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:14 (seven years ago) link
really? the same thing happened to me but he was still in my inventory after all
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 15 July 2016 12:31 (seven years ago) link
just went through my inventory, only pokestop collections in that time
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:38 (seven years ago) link
went to my first gym this morning. I chose a pokemon with 130 cp (whatever that is) and thought I was fighting one with about half the cp. Lost, then tried again and lost. Not sure how to attack but was just tapping on the enemy. I even saw his health go down to zero...what gives?
― calstars, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:42 (seven years ago) link
the gym stuff is really poorly documented. you're supposed to swipe to avoid attacks. best way to do that is wait until the screen flashes yellow (which indicates an attack coming) and immediately swipe left/right, then tap to attack. keep doing that until they drop dead.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:46 (seven years ago) link
btw the gym stuff is a bit of a wank. you can defeat a gym and claim it, and within 2 minutes someone else will have taken it from you. if you watch a gym in a populous area, you can actually see it change colour constantly.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 July 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link