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what is this thing?
anyone out there playing?
WTF? I have heard vague whisperings about this game but really know nothing about it other than that it is the latest big addiction/rage...whatever.
So yesterday I am in our social room, doing an actual jigsaw puzzle that everyone in the building either contributes to if they desire, or gathers around if they want to talk, or checks out if they are interested in or steals pieces of if they are a dick.
we run the gamut in my building...
one of the yougsters who is 17 dropped in for a minute with his phone...apparently he had just returned from a Pokemon hunt "walk"
I like the kid so I actively listened for a few minutes, but really? something about training pokemons for combat and running (physically) all over the place
he couldn't stop playing, had no ideal of my interest level which was zero but
what is this thing?
anyone out there playing?
My son tried to get me to play it, but, like you -- I'm not into it.
I saw it on his phone, however, and the pokemans are GPS oriented, so they can appear on your sidewalk, in your house, wherever. When he showed it to me, one was jumping at the edge of the pond. Odd.
But, as I understand it -- because it's a universal game -- others can see the locations of the pokemons that you see -- so -- what's to keep them from trampling through your garden to get them, I don't know.
I can see where kids, or young adults, might find it addictive, but I think I heard that someone was hit by a car or something while playing.
WTF? I have heard vague whisperings about this game but really know nothing about it other than that it is the latest big addiction/rage...whatever.
So yesterday I am in our social room, doing an actual jigsaw puzzle that everyone in the building either contributes to if they desire, or gathers around if they want to talk, or checks out if they are interested in or steals pieces of if they are a dick.
we run the gamut in my building...
one of the yougsters who is 17 dropped in for a minute with his phone...apparently he had just returned from a Pokemon hunt "walk"
I like the kid so I actively listened for a few minutes, but really? something about training pokemons for combat and running (physically) all over the place
he couldn't stop playing, had no ideal of my interest level which was zero but
what is this thing?
anyone out there playing?
From my limited understanding it is an online game that makes you get off of your ass and venture out into the "real" world to play. The targets may be fictional but the locations (GPS coordinates?) are real and *gasp* you have to physically get up and go visit them. It is unclear to me who sets these "target" locations, or whether they are simply randomly generated, but if the game requires barging uninvited (trespassing?) onto (into?) private property then it may not end well.
hell when did all of this start? :shock:
I 1st heard about it from my teenage niece about 2 weeks ago. Since then it seems like everyone I know(younger people) are playing it. I've even seen and heard about it on TV shows, and DJ's on the radio talking about it since then almost daily. There's a park about a block from us, now when I walk the dogs I see people wandering around the park with their eyes glued to their phones. I seen many people looking at their phones before, but just sitting or standing. Now they are wandering, walking, wandering. It's like they are in a trance... lol
I haven't looked but I'm guessing Nintendo's stock price has taken a healthy bump up over the past few weeks.
sometimes I think I must live in a cave
do they charge for this...or is the money going to be made on buying associated things such as t-shirts and stuffies and bowls and cups...
It's free. But if you want to buy 'gems; then you need to pay. I'm not sure what the gems are, or what they get the player, but I was told by a couple of people they needed to buy 'gems'.
lmao....gems, I knew there had to be a catch...
from what I have just been reading 10 million people have uploaded within the last week
I am not touching this game with a barge pole, I feel addiction only millimeters away
Nintendo is simply taking advantage of the fact people are constantly staring at their phones anyway. Staring at your phone opens you up to all sorts of dangers.
Pokemon is potentially deadly.
If I need exercise I walk the dogs. It's free and there's no chance of addiction. lol
I haven't looked but I'm guessing Nintendo's stock price has taken a healthy bump up over the past few weeks.
If I need exercise I walk the dogs. It's free and there's no chance of addiction. lol
WTF? I have heard vague whisperings about this game but really know nothing about it other than that it is the latest big addiction/rage...whatever.
So yesterday I am in our social room, doing an actual jigsaw puzzle that everyone in the building either contributes to if they desire, or gathers around if they want to talk, or checks out if they are interested in or steals pieces of if they are a dick.
we run the gamut in my building...
one of the yougsters who is 17 dropped in for a minute with his phone...apparently he had just returned from a Pokemon hunt "walk"
I like the kid so I actively listened for a few minutes, but really? something about training pokemons for combat and running (physically) all over the place
he couldn't stop playing, had no ideal of my interest level which was zero but
what is this thing?
anyone out there playing?
WTF? I have heard vague whisperings about this game but really know nothing about it other than that it is the latest big addiction/rage...whatever.
So yesterday I am in our social room, doing an actual jigsaw puzzle that everyone in the building either contributes to if they desire, or gathers around if they want to talk, or checks out if they are interested in or steals pieces of if they are a dick.
we run the gamut in my building...
one of the yougsters who is 17 dropped in for a minute with his phone...apparently he had just returned from a Pokemon hunt "walk"
I like the kid so I actively listened for a few minutes, but really? something about training pokemons for combat and running (physically) all over the place
he couldn't stop playing, had no ideal of my interest level which was zero but
what is this thing?
anyone out there playing?
Playing, no. Pokemon Go was launched in the US on July 6, and now there are so many users it's crashing the servers. It has taken our culture by storm.
It amounts to this, as I understand it. One must use a GPS enabled device such as an iPhone to go out and find areas designated to be pokemon (pocket monster) hunting grounds. These areas are usually sites of public significance, such as museums. As you approach an area you picture the scene on your phone and an animated pokemon will appear on the phone blended into the scene (but not in reality unless you've gone psychotic). You then capture that pokemon with poke-ball by tossing it by swiping your phone screen or some such. Once captured the pokemon can be trained, evolved, etc., to be more capable of winning fights with other pokemon.
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The squirtle is to be captured by flipping the poke-ball (at the bottom) his way.
Other phone screens show a fairly standard GPS display with points of pokemon interest. So the gameplay is to walk to the various pokemon haunts and capture them, rinse and repeat. The rest is to train and fight them, which is also done at certain outdoor sites.
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