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

Level 31, 135 pokes in my pokedex.

So I caught two festive Pikachus at lunchtime, and I see someone on campus hatched an Elekid and stuck him in a gym to show off. Most rubbish 'event' ever. They'd better be rolling other stuff out over the next three weeks.

Finally hatched a Snorlax today. In about a decade I might get a Dragonite. Spotted a festive Pikachu in the area, but it was off my usual commute route and I was already late for work.

I hatched a Snorlax on Friday. Managed to evolve a Gyarados about a week ago too. I'm kind of assuming a Dragonite is months off because even walking for the candy is just no good.

I'm missing Bulbasaur, Chansey, the international ones, Dodrio, Lapras, Porygon, Omastar, and Kabutops.

Had a crazy idea about exchanging account details with someone in Aus or the US or Japan in order to get Kangaskhan etc in exchange for Mr Mime. Except that Mr Mime's fucking horrible so who wants him.

Hatched a Magby today from a 10km egg and suddenly my Pokedex went from 149 spaces to 240. I'll never be free of it.

I have given it up for January. It is very strange fighting the impulse to spin pokestops as I pass them on my commute.

Anyone still playing now the gen2 lot have been out for a while? I gave up for a while after new year but have been lured back in; injury keeping me off the bike means walking to work (4km each way) so why the hell not, eh.

guilty

I gave up between 1st January and 17th March. Back into it, but I still sometimes forget to turn it on for the commute, so it's not the addiction it was. Already sick of catching Swinubs.

Exciting water festival.

Exciting that I will *finally* get a special item later this week.

xps make sure you keep getting those swinubs for mamoswine in gen iv!

also shiny magikarps now

I've had three king rocks and two metal coats now. Need the water one for kingdra.

Oooh, I finally got a Dragonite. That's exciting. Hatched a dratini which gave me enough candy to push me over 100.

I'm desperate for a shiny magikarp. I've got 550 magikarp candy burning a hole in my pocket.

Anyone else still playing? They finally released legendary birds.

With regrets

Yeah. My battling days are few and far between now - it takes too long - but I'm still going.

New gym system has vastly upped my coin intake. I have fancy clothes now.

Are you taking gyms down or just plopping one of your pokes in wherever there's a space?

I had a Blissey in the gym at Hoxton station for a week and didn't get anything back because my Rhydon got kicked out of another gym on the same day, after ten hours. Very annoying.

I'm taking gyms near me (there are a lot in NY...) so I can usually have enuf going that I can get my golden points everyday which is a HUGE improvement over the old system. the legendary raiding thing is p fun tbh if you are in a heavily populated area around, say lunchtime.

Both. My office is a gym and there's a gym where I walk the dog so that helps...

Working at a university is great. I just scored a Lugia at my office with the help of a load of PhD students.

fuckin nerd circus amirite

Damn right. There were a handful of non uni people who travelled up for the raid (organised on an app called discord which i'd never heard of until last week, as I don't play any other games), but it was mostly PhDs. And I'm a higher level than all of 'em!

...and you caught it which is dope

Yeah, I think that was my fourth or fifth raid. Missed articuno.

Yeah this game satisfies my twitchy completist tendencies. Used half my free gold yesterday to score an moltres

What level is everyone on? I'm 31, with 205 pokes in my dex (seen 228). Still missing some pretty obvious ones from the first batch - currently walking an Abra toward 100 candies so my Kadabra can be evolved at last.

And my top three are a Rhydon (2877), a Blissey (2769) and a Tyranitar (2482). Which I'm pretty sure you could all beat.

35/237. Didn't get a Mime when I was in Ireland earlier this year -_-

36/237. Bought a kangaskhan from a dodgy website, to my shame. Have 5 pokes with more than 3000 cp. highest is 3353 dragonite.

Got a corsola & heracross when I was in Orlando earlier this year

Got moltres.

Here comes Mewtwo.

So I've been using Discord and planning raids with people and there are 400-500 users in Exeter, and it's like a weird community, and now I've met people who I've only ever seen in gyms before, and it's very strange. Added an extra dimension or several to the game. I've learnt a lot about mechanics and stuff which I didn't know before. Also it seems I'm slightly mythical; one person was impressed to meet me at a raid because I'm 'everywhere'.

I've been working all summer in a small town in NW Ohio, and got out for a few Pokewalks where I met up with large raiding groups. The difference in the demographic between Seattle/Redmond and here is interesting - lots of biker types in OH vs coder types in WA. Skews older in OH - lots more 10 year olds in WA vs heavily post-high school in OH. And finally after 1 year+ of playing I evolved a gyrados.

The demographic here is very diverse: I've been at raids with teenage boys, entire families, pensioners, international students, PhD researchers, the regional manager of the local cancer research shops, Sainsburys delivery drivers, an older guy on a nice road bike. It's quite a spread. I see some of the same faces really frequently and others just once.

Was there an update that recently rekindled interested in this game? When biking to the gym or walking the dog, I've been seeing large groups with a range of ages all silently standing in a circle, staring at their phones (and blocking the bike path/sidewalk).

There was a gym re-work to get rid of Blissey towers and added a raid component (why you see all the people) where a group of people can fight a giant version of high value Pokémon and then try and catch it individually using special balls distributed based on damage dealt, gym control & etc

Good to know ty

Raids are p fun tbh but I would rather have a break from the legendaries to score a few TTar, but getting 10K points per legendary raid has me awful close to level 37

I'm a million off 37.

Did a ttar raid on the way home. I'm fed up of missing entei. Did really well with the birds.

1/5 on raikou.

1 for 7. I was 3/4 on lugia, 8/11 zapdos, 3/5 articuno and 5/7 moltres.

Ever since the golden razz nerf I've been using nabnabz

What's nabnabz? (I'll google, obvs.)

Got a second Entei today. Also rubbish.

The middle Bananna looking thing I don't bother with spelling on this lol

Oh, nanaberry. Is it helpful? I pretty much only use it for feeding pokes at gyms cos I thought it was useless. They nerfed the effectiveness of golden razzes? The fuckers! No wonder I can't catch legendaries anymore.