The Pokemon Go thread

apparently this damn game is taking over the world, and has even made a fan outta julian, so i assume it deserves its own thread.

and now the club is getting in on the action… apparently it's a "gym" (i'm vaguely aware of the concept, but not being a player i'm not completely clean on how this will improve my live music experiences…)



any PoGo'ers here?

sadly was reviewing it for my kids to install and now I'm a user
took me a while to figure out how to actually catch one of the suckers
but I got some peach colored dragon and haven't been to a gym yet
DFA and Kilsal are going hard core from what I can tell

it's crazy how fast this thing exploded

If this saves the Comic Books and Other Nerdy Topics thread, then this thread is a good move.

If it doesn't, you're the asshole, sweetcell.

Yes but I'm staying true to Ingress, where the "adults" play.  It is fun catching Pokemons from public transport…

sweetcell wrote:
has even made a fan outta julian,

Fan is a bit of an overstatement. I like that its getting fattyboombalatties moving, but I'm not about to play this crap.

kosmo wrote:
Yes but I'm staying true to Ingress, where the "adults" play. 

Look at kosmo whipping his nerd cock out!

While I don't play it, and likely never will as I'm 42, my wife is 36 (ie, we both missed the pokemon window growing up) and don't have children, I am fascinated by the user numbers and have been following them closely.

More daily users than twitter.
People spend more time playing pokemon then on Facebook (mobile) by a third
Higher Peak Daily Users than Candy Crush (which I also avoided)

And if you think the US is crazy about it, you should see the Australia and New Zealand numbers.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/13/pokemon-go-tops-twitters-daily-users-sees-more-engagement-than-facebook/

That's all crazy impressive stuff right there and like Kosmo I am super happy for the Niantic guys.

they are hiring in San Francisco  https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/
Global Community Manager, Pokémon GO

escotilha wrote:
they are hiring in San Francisco  https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/
Global Community Manager, Pokémon GO

Not a chance.

But if (almost) any of you need a place to stay because you're coming out to interview, my door is open.

vansmack wrote:

escotilha wrote:
they are hiring in San Francisco  https://www.nianticlabs.com/jobs/
Global Community Manager, Pokémon GO

Not a chance.

But if (almost) any of you need a place to stay because you're coming out to interview, my door is open.

good to know, as sleeping on Hippy hill is getting old

vansmack wrote:, my wife is 36

here's one for the misses

Chardonnay Go

escotilha wrote:
here's one for the misses

Chardonnay Go

Now that I would download.

I no longer have any respect for the lot of you

not that I really had any before

escotilha wrote:
here's one for the misses

Chardonnay Go

We do this every weekend, usually to the tune of 14-21 miles.

Julian, wrote:Now that I would download.

Here you go.

I hope they resolve the issue with the app freezing while capturing Pokemons, it locks up seemingly always when that rare one appears. 

This Guy Got Caught Cheating on His Girlfriend While Playing Pokémon Go
http://www.bravotv.com/blogs/guy-gets-caught-cheating-while-playing-the-pokemon-go

kosmo wrote:
I hope they resolve the issue with the app freezing while capturing Pokemons, it locks up seemingly always when that rare one appears. 

The plural of Pokemon is Pokemon; not Pokemons.

killsaly wrote:

kosmo wrote:
I hope they resolve the issue with the app freezing while capturing Pokemons, it locks up seemingly always when that rare one appears. 

The plural of Pokemon is Pokemon; not Pokemons.

Pokemii

kosmo wrote:
I hope they resolve the issue with the app freezing while capturing Pokemons, it locks up seemingly always when that rare one appears. 

Yeah, it also freezes up for me when I hit some pokestops or when I try to transfer some of my Pokémon to the professor or whatever. Other than that it's not so bad and it doesn't happen often enough to keep me off.

I ran into a Meowth last night when I was waiting at the pharmacy, but as I walked around it kept popping on and off of my radar, which was super annoying. I also went to a "friendly" [Valor, duh] gym and "trained". Battling is weird. Got XP and won my first one though!

For all the big talk about how Valor is the best team, I seem to run in to way more Instinct and Mystic gyms… Either way, it's fun to play a game while walking around the city instead of scrolling through social media reading about politics and racism for a change.

One complaint I have is that you have to keep the game open in order for it to track how much you walk to hatch your eggs. I got a 10km egg and it's gonna take me forever to hatch it because I have to keep the app open and it just eats your battery!

Put your phone on top of a turntable, and let it spin.  That is a cheat to hatch eggs without walking. ;D