Pokemon Go

[bi0boy]

This only came out a few days ago I think and is apparently the thing now.

I think it involves running around outdoors with augmented reality on your smartphone.

I remember when people talking on hands-free on the street was really weird and funny. Now we're going to have random people trying to catch virtual pokemon from beside you as you're waiting for the bus or whatever.

 

[Steel Icarus]

My wife has already announced she will be giving a substantial part of her summer to this activity.

I can't wait to see how fun it is

 

[bi0boy]

Teen finds corpse instead of cute monsters while playing Pokemon GO

 

[moomoo]

My son has started playing this. Today he had to go to the local Mormon church to collect some poka balls or something.

Errr...

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

My son has started playing this. Today he had to go to the local Mormon church to collect some poka balls

That's actually youth slang for buying drugs

 

[moomoo]

That's actually youth slang for buying drugs

He wanted me to go with him!!!

He wants me to start playing so that we can find each other. Doesn't that just sound like the BEST fun??!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

Wandering round outside looking through your phone to find virtual objects. what could possibly go wrong?

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

seemed to drain my battery like crazy

 

[mwgdrwg]

It's not even out in the UK officially, and it's pretty huge already!

 

[moomoo]

It really hacked me off when we went on a dog walk and he spent the whole time staring at his phone because he was playing this thing.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

It really hacked me off when we went on a dog walk and he spent the whole time staring at his phone because he was playing this thing.

your dog plays pokemon go?


*reads the thread a bit more closely*


never mind

 

[golightly]

seemed to drain my battery like crazy

Similar to Ingress in that respect, I understand. Speak to rich!. He says that he's always carrying spare battery packs just for this issue.

 

[TruXta]

How long until some black kid gets killed by a cop for acting strangely in public?

 

[bi0boy]

How long until some black kid gets killed by a cop for acting strangely in public?

Warning: Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man.

 

[TruXta]

Warning: Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man.

Was indeed what sparked my post.

 

[editor]

People seem to have gone crazy for this game. It's already more popular than Tindr.

And here's how it's being used by dastardly criminal minds:

The new augmented reality game Pokemon Go has gotten people off the couch and into the real world. But police in O’Fallon, Missouri say that four men have used the game to find players at a specific location, and robbed them using a handgun.

About eight or nine people have been robbed by four men over the past couple of days, a spokesperson from the O’Fallon Police Department told Gizmodo over the phone. The latest robbery occurred Sunday morning at around 2am by the men in a black BMW before they were finally apprehended by police.

The suspects used the Pokemon Go game to find their victims by anticipating where people might go through popular PokeStops—virtual sites in the game that can be designated at any real world location, from businesses to parking lots to churches.

The four men who were apprehended all range in age from 16 to 18. Their names and what they stole from their victims have not been released.

http://gizmodo.com/armed-robbers-used-pokemon-go-to-find-9-victims-1783416898

 

[ffsear]

IS it out in the UK yet? Can't find it in play store.

 

[fen_boy]

IS it out in the UK yet? Can't find it in play store.

No, it's not. They've paused roll-out while they add server capacity. You can download the apk and side-load it, but there are versions in the wild with malware embedded so you need to be sure the link you use is legitimate.

 

[skyscraper101]

Man’s house accidentally becomes a Pokemon Go gym, endures living hell

 

[Orang Utan]

i hear there's a magikarp located just three feet south of Beachy Head

 

[Ranbay]

.

 

[moomoo]

IS it out in the UK yet? Can't find it in play store.

My son has got it. Don't ask me how though. :-/

 

[mrs quoad]

Fwiw, I doubt anyone's interested, but Toucharcade already had 4 or 5 articles on various aspects of the game.

TouchArcade

 

[rich!]

Similar to Ingress in that respect, I understand. Speak to rich!. He says that he's always carrying spare battery packs just for this issue.

Ingress players can always be relied on to have 20AH of batteries on them.

And a couple of 2.5AH holdout batteries strapped in concealed places for emergency portal moments.

 

[bi0boy]

 

[mrs quoad]

Soldier plays Pokemon Go on the battlefield in Iraq

 

[mwgdrwg]

These scare stories are absolute gold for Nintendo!

Nintendo value surges £6bn on new Pokémon app
Nintendo's shares jumped 24.5% to ¥20,260 (£153.50) in Tokyo – their biggest gain since 1983. The increase follows a 10% rise on Friday.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Considering it's not even out worldwide yet, this is crazy...

Pokemon Go already bigger than Tinder, soon to surpass Twitter

 

[bi0boy]

 

[mrs quoad]

Actual end of civilisation.

Edit. Also, this: