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I ATTAC

8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[SalmonGod]

Been doing this a little.  Plainfield isn't so great for Pokemon.  I have to drive at least 10 minutes to get anywhere with much activity.  Tonight was the first time my wife and I walked around downtown Indianapolis with a couple friends for Pokemon hunting, and it was a lot of fun.  Hit level 11 at the very end.  I guess during the day public recreational spaces in the city are crammed with thousands of Pokemon players.

This is quite possible the biggest viral internet phenomenon ever.  It's beating almost everything in install base after less than a week.  And it's socially disruptive (no negative connotation intended) in very interesting ways.  I'm not much of a Pokemon fan.  But the phenomenon itself is fascinating to me.

[Greiger]

Yea if that thing actually let you transfer the pokes you catch into the main games I would probably get a basic cheapass smartphone just to play it.  It would get me off my butt a hell of a lot more reliably than any gym membership would to boot.

[Kot]

I ain't going to play this. I don't even care about this. To be honest, I am not even sure I can play this here.
But nevertheless, #teamvalor.
Fuck the others.

[smirk]

Heh. Someone put an attractor in the Stop near my house last night, so I wandered on down to catch a few. Small rural town, so there weren't too many folks there, and everyone was generally polite and occasionally slightly embarrassed, but I did have a green-haired mid-teen let me know in no uncertain terms that he was very disappointed in me for choosing Blue over Red. Sorry, Mystic over Valor. I'm... increasingly comfortable in my choice =P

[BFEL]

So the US Holocaust Museum is asking visitors to please not play Pokemon Go on their premises.

Personally, I think this was a missed opportunity to teach kids about the history of oppression of the Pikajews.

I wonder what pokemon are hiding in the incinerators at Auschwitz.... shiny magmar?

[MarcAFK]

So the US Holocaust Museum is asking visitors to please not play Pokemon Go on their premises.

Personally, I think this was a missed opportunity to teach kids about the history of oppression of the Pikajews.

I wonder what pokemon are hiding in the incinerators at Auschwitz.... shiny magmar?

That's dark. It's probably a gengar.

[Cthulhu]

So what do you actually do in this?  I decided to give it a shot but I live in a suburb so there's nothing to really catch aside from pallet town shit like spearow and ratatta.

Once I catch them, what?  There's stuff to level them up but what does it do?  Why do I care?  What am I doing in this game aside from filling my pokedex?  I heard there were battles in gyms, what are the battles like, are they actual full battles like the real game or just watching numbers fly around while the game asks for your money?

[ZeroGravitas]

So what do you actually do in this?  I decided to give it a shot but I live in a suburb so there's nothing to really catch aside from pallet town shit like spearow and ratatta.

Once I catch them, what?  There's stuff to level them up but what does it do?  Why do I care?  What am I doing in this game aside from filling my pokedex?  I heard there were battles in gyms, what are the battles like, are they actual full battles like the real game or just watching numbers fly around while the game asks for your money?

they're not like the typical turn-based battles you're used to from original Pokemon games. they're kind of like a weird real time version of them but they don't work very well and they're 90% dependent on how much Stardust and Candy you've pumped into a pokemon as opposed to its type.

and using your candies and stardust at low levels is a huge new player trap, since being higher trainer level means you find much stronger pokemon, including of the same variety you've already been finding all around (i regularly find 200-300 CP drowzees now, as opposed to just 10-50s when I was level 5). but the majority of the game is clicking pokestops and catching pokemon to send to the pokemon food factory (err professor).

so what do you do in the game? fill your pokedex, screw around with gym battles... that's pretty much it.

[PrimusRibbus]

I have to say that I never expected to find myself playing another Pokemon game. Gen 1 was a fun novelty, but the series has been staler than year old bread for most of its history.

Pokemon Go is a major breath of fresh air. Collecting is more fun than the mainline series, battles are more fun than the mainline series, and the social aspect is really great. It's what I envisioned Pokemon becoming when I bought a copy of Pokemon Red on day 1.

[Zangi]

Gotta catchhunt em all...  Pokemon Hunter

You now force the lil critters to fight for you... so that you can turn other lil critters into critter food.  Its weird. 
Or maybe not really.  Critters need food too and some of them are supposedly carnivores and omnivores.  At least that is what the pokedex implies.


I've also downloaded this and picked Pikachu as my starter, but I'm now in a location where GPS/cell phone service doesn't work, so I can't delve into this any deeper for now.
Took my pokepassenger awhile to figure out how to actually catch that Pikachu, but it was done and I don't know how it was done.  Don't think there was a tutorial on the subject.

[Kot]

Spoiler: Relevant. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Relevanter. (click to show/hide)

[misko27]

Pokemon Go was on the Frontpage of the NY Times today. What madness. Ordinarily, the NY Times doesn't know about popular things until it has fully penetrated society. I guess I need an Android Phone, Jesus.

From what I've heard this isn't even a really good game and yet it seems like it's going to consume the world. I guess those jokes about a Pokemon MMO bringing human civilization to a crawl was justified huh.

[umiman]

If the share price is any indication, the market is already starting to get over the fad.

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

  South Park: TSoT was prescient?

[ZeroGravitas]

If the share price is any indication, the market is already starting to get over the fad.

eh, it was down 4% after a 53% increase over 3 days. hardly unexpected.