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

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

this new update has really killed it. everything bursts out of balls and runs away now, even weedles ffs, so there's no incentive to keep trying. it's starting to feel like niantic has no idea what it's doing.

and they killed pokevision which tbh was one of the few reasons i kept playing, because i could actually track shit. now not even

everything bursts out of balls and runs away now, even weedles ffs

i think this might have to do with level cuz this started happening to me once i hit 13 or 14

i feel like pokevision removes the entire point of the game, which is to wander around not knowing when you might encounter an unusual pokemon, so kudos to niantic

i think this might have to do with level cuz this started happening to me once i hit 13 or 14

me too, but since the update it's gotten ridiculous. overnight lvl 25 went from catching maybe half, to 90% bursting several balls and fleeing. there's no challenge, no nothing, just throwing dozens of balls for no reason.

the 90% fail rate seems to have been repaired this AM

https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt/status/322419432326582272

the 90% fail rate seems to have been repaired this AM

i can't find any indication that that's the case in either of this weekend's releases (i don't know when a.m. falls where you are but assuming america). i can't test it either because from where i am no pokemon have spawned within range in the past few hours. normally i'd go out and test it but it's not appealing enough in its current state.

most people over level 20 reported a 90% fail rate anyway, which is just an excellent design choice if your goal is punishing humanity

the update turned every pokemon into an evil little shit constantly jumping and taunting and being random unknowable distances away

and breaking out of balls and running wayyyy more often

so being level 20+ makes cp10 pokemon harder to catch, but this new update makes those same pokemon even harder to catch

yeah, it's like any other MMO where you get to a high level and all the level 1 enemies have scaled so ridiculously that you can't even kill them and also all the level 80 enemies are so difficult you can't kill them and if you do actually manage to kill either you still get the same amount of exp for each that you did at level 1!