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AtropaBella

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Pokemon Go
« on: July 07, 2016, 01:50:18 pm »

Just wondering what everyone thinks of Pokemon go
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2016, 02:00:12 pm »

it's a cute idea, but i'm not going outside to look for pokemon.
also, i don't have the dataplan to handle constant GPS.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2016, 03:28:32 pm »

It's a pretty cool idea, at least. Haven't really looked into it that much.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2016, 04:04:46 pm »

Pretty cool idea. Would probably work better with bookers, though.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2016, 08:43:00 pm »

it's a cute idea, but i'm not going outside to look for pokemon.
also, i don't have the dataplan to handle constant GPS.

I've only been playing around with it while I'm in range of wifi for that exact reason
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2016, 11:00:11 pm »

What? GPS isnt a part of your data plan.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2016, 11:50:22 pm »

I've only been playing around with it while I'm in range of wifi for that exact reason
A few? C'mon, you only stopped because you ran your phone dead! :P

She did find that, apparently there was an Eevee chilling on our coffee table.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2016, 03:37:18 am »

I can't run it.

Android 4.1.2.

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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2016, 06:26:49 am »

It's fine. Missing actual poke-battles about now, though.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2016, 07:14:34 am »

It's fine. Missing actual poke-battles about now, though.

That's the thing that my coworker and me were disappointed with too. We wanted to be able to see other players on the world map too.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2016, 08:42:25 am »

She did find that, apparently there was an Eevee chilling on our coffee table.

. . . okay now i want it

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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2016, 08:46:11 am »

. . . okay now i want it

It is pretty cute, I must admit.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2016, 08:56:54 am »

It is pretty cute, I must admit.

eevee 4ever    :D
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2016, 08:20:15 pm »

I caught a squirtle! Nothing else yet, though.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2016, 09:30:13 pm »

I ran out of poke balls because I suck at catching Pokemon D:
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2016, 09:32:27 pm »

This sounds awesome, what is this?
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2016, 09:42:18 pm »

An Augmented Reality Pokémon game, where you go out into the world to catch Pokémon using your phone. It's considered to be the best way to  get a Pokémon fan to go outside, actually.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2016, 09:48:02 pm »

XD that was a good one
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2016, 09:53:51 pm »

But not available in Canada yet :(
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2016, 10:56:24 pm »

Not in Sweden either  :'(
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2016, 11:11:44 pm »

There's an Eevee.
In my house.
I can't find it anywhere! XD

Also, my friend lives on a farm so he said he can't find any pokemon o.o
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #21 on: July 09, 2016, 02:24:04 am »

Anyway, people keep telling me that there's a Mewtwo behind this ghetto ass McDonald's that's always getting robbed. Not sure if it's worth it or not lol.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #22 on: July 09, 2016, 03:29:02 am »

Depends on your skin color, honestly.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #23 on: July 09, 2016, 09:00:29 pm »

Anyway, people keep telling me that there's a Mewtwo behind this ghetto ass McDonald's that's always getting robbed. Not sure if it's worth it or not lol.

Holy shit Malk! I think they just invented a new way for creeps to lure kids.  :P

"There's a Jigglypuff in the back alley, next to the white van..."
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« Reply #24 on: July 09, 2016, 09:38:27 pm »

Holy shit Malk! I think they just invented a new way for creeps to lure kids.  :P

"There's a Jigglypuff in the back alley, next to the white van..."

"I'm telling you guys, no lie...
There's a shiny legendary in that one isolated alley...
Seriously. Go back there. You'll see it."
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #25 on: July 09, 2016, 09:45:12 pm »

I'm actually unreasonably excited for this now. This was the game of my childhood.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2016, 10:01:47 pm »

Yeah my phone cant run it sadly, but my sis is loving it
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #27 on: July 11, 2016, 11:56:52 am »

My niece went to the park yesterday to try it out.

Said it took forever to get on a server and that the park was flooded with kids hunting pokemon haha! She loves it!
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #28 on: July 11, 2016, 01:09:56 pm »

More awesome news, massive multivariate pile up on a free way cps a guy saw a pikachu
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #29 on: July 11, 2016, 03:39:29 pm »

That's something they probably should address in the next update...  :P
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« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2016, 04:16:16 pm »

Four dudes in Parma (I think?) Just got arrested for armed robberies they use Pokemon Go to set up.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2016, 11:56:09 pm »

When the day comes that I can use superpowered animals as personal mafia drones to one-man goldfarm millions from the hands of eager children, then I'll be excited. Until then, the prospect of paying in order to wait an hour to look for shitty pokemon that may or may not actually be in reach or even in walking range for the sake of possibly battling the two other people in town who're actually into this shit does not interest me.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2016, 09:35:21 am »

Um. It's free.
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« Reply #33 on: July 13, 2016, 11:53:00 am »

Um. It's free.

So then it'll be full of ads and shit encouraging you to pay forever while you wait hours instead? Still really not my idea of a good time. I can get a Pokemon game that people around me actually play for free too.
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« Reply #34 on: July 13, 2016, 12:16:31 pm »

So then it'll be full of ads and shit encouraging you to pay forever while you wait hours instead? Still really not my idea of a good time. I can get a Pokemon game that people around me actually play for free too.

Nope... You may want to actually get some basic info first...
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« Reply #35 on: July 13, 2016, 01:54:09 pm »

So then it'll be full of ads and shit encouraging you to pay forever while you wait hours instead? Still really not my idea of a good time. I can get a Pokemon game that people around me actually play for free too.
What are you smoking, Sent?
Pass sum o dat shit my way
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« Reply #36 on: July 13, 2016, 05:49:58 pm »

Nope... You may want to actually get some basic info first...

I have basic info. I've seen the game. You can make in-app purchases of smelly jelly, which I can only imagine Farks over people with less money, but I've never seen it used with other players within 3 square miles. And you can also purchase more balls, which allow you to keep playing the game, basically, because there's nothing else to do but catch shit when no one else plays.

Apparently, this is how it works, from my experience.
>Friend comes over, says PG is awesome.
>Spend an eternity waiting for connection with GPS.
>Play MTG.
>Finally starts, his phone needs to be recharged.
>Charge phone, continue doing other things.
>Walk outside. Follow vague non-directions because pokemon are supposedly in the area.
>Walk for an hour throughout massive rural landscape.
>Apparently Pidgey, my least favorite pokemon in all of ever, spawns in a corner of my yard once every 3 hours. Zubat, my other least favorite pokemon, lives in my neighbor's woods somewhere. Next time I go that way, I'll have to bring a flamethrower. Obnoxious bastards.
>Another hour. The only creature that was remotely interesting was a purple dildo snake.
>Spend another hour walking to town, because, my friend assures me, town is where all the Pokemons go!... Because Pokemon are the opposite of real animals, apparently!
>We are greeted by a long list of repettitive D-Listers in alleyways and streetcorners, not unlike town in real life.
>Friend has to go home now. It was an afternoon poorly wasted.

But, I guess, if you live in a city, or a settlement of reasonable bigness, shit will show up in your house, judging from the amount of "Wait a tick, this isn't right..." vibes I've been getting from my friend. The number of pokemon per acre drops to ridiculous levels whenever there's free acres to run around in, and I could have infinitely more success playing inside pokemon, and actually playing a game, rather than walking around in public poking this embarrassing app. (And it is embarrassing, when you're the only ones doing it. I pity the fools in small towns who do this shit.) So, in my case, and probably the case of hundreds of other people, there's no point in having the game. The only thing you can do is incredibly slow, un-rewarding, and boring without money enhancements, and there's nothing you can do with these pokemon unless you go out, move to some building or other, and then challenge a bunch of people who've been at it longer than you to a battle. Not even directly, you just throw critters at the building, and any critters they've stuck to it will fight back, supposedly. How wonderful that the only gyms available are miles away. Woo hoo.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #37 on: July 17, 2016, 09:51:22 pm »

It's up in Canada.

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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #38 on: July 18, 2016, 12:01:43 am »

Charmander and piggy so far...
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #39 on: July 18, 2016, 12:05:21 am »

Charmander here! Also, my house has a rat infestation, so i've got three ratata and a weedle so far.

I'm getting a data plan tomorrow so I can go hunting. I'm surrounded by pokestops, including a mosque right outside my house that, in the 10 years i've lived in this house, I have not visited once.
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« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2016, 01:31:04 am »

There is a bunch of stuff right by my house I can walk to in under 200 steps :) living opposite a park helps lol

My gps is having a hard time singing right now as it starts on my wifi, wifi extends right across to a few feet into the park (I don't mess around with Internet stuff, I have a good wireless router) but once it looses that and switches over to phone signal it twitches me back to my house. Gonna try with wireless turned off tomorrow as I (currently) have an actual day off!
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« Reply #41 on: July 18, 2016, 01:44:40 pm »

Hokay, so two things, lures are awesome, put one down int my house and caught a cp 40 snorlax, 28 catterpie and a freezing pigiotto. To compare I only had my starter at cp12 and one xp 10 pidgi before that. (Also got a few others but not high lvl or evolved)

Second issue, I might need a new phone. It cannot track gps signal... Seriously I'm on a freezing plateau 2000 feet above sea level and was in a park with nothing higher than me for 500metres in any direction and it couldn't find a satellite for 5 mins, even then just 1 and I gave up. It is a,so CONSTANTLY searching for them and failing so battery drains almost visibly.

Tried clearing stuff, resetting gps settings etc. but nothing works. Luckily my contract can upgrade me but I was gonna change contract hmmmm.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #42 on: July 18, 2016, 03:12:50 pm »

I captured enough rats to evolve two raticates! I have two 200 CP Evees I'll eventually evolve! I caught an Abra! A Tauros! A Magikarp (it takes 500 Magikarp candies to evolve a Gyarados D:), I caught a pidgeotto and one more pidgey will give me enough to evolve it into a pidgeot!

I also caught a ton of spearrows, enough weedlec for a beedrill, I almost have a butterfree, caught a venonat in a mosque, caught a squirtle and got a second squirtle from an egg, caught a parapas from a different egg, a few nidoran and nidorano, and a single oddish.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #43 on: July 18, 2016, 03:14:02 pm »

And despite all that, i'm super jealous of your snorlax, and will cuddle with my Abra to assure myself of my superiority.
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Re: Pokemon Go
« Reply #44 on: July 18, 2016, 05:41:14 pm »

Im at a college orientation program and soooooo many people are playing it
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« Reply #45 on: July 18, 2016, 05:46:03 pm »

Im at a college orientation program and soooooo many people are playing it

The future is promising.
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« Reply #46 on: July 18, 2016, 06:50:39 pm »

Wasn't able to log in for a while. Got jealous of my spouse for getting two of the eeveelutions in the meantime--including my favorite of the main three, vaporeon. <3 (Would absolutely get the full set of all current eeveelutions if the game allowed it.)
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« Reply #47 on: July 18, 2016, 07:25:04 pm »

My gps won't work.  I just stand there, spinning in circles without actually going anywhere.
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« Reply #48 on: July 18, 2016, 07:34:08 pm »

Wait, are there no items in the game? Like, do you have to buy (at a pokestop) one of the items needed to evolve Eevee? (Because, as my memory serves, I'm pretty sure you need an item to evolve a few evolutions of her/him.)
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« Reply #49 on: July 18, 2016, 09:58:25 pm »

My gps also doesn't works but it is seemingly my phone not Pokemon go that is the issue as my God is currently not working on anything else either. Gonna get a new phone...

On a better note though, we had to run to the shops to grab a few missing ingredients for home made pizza and my wife jumped in the driver seat. My phone isn't working on the go so I grab hers. On the way there I catch her 7 more Pokemon. That is literally 1 per min. of driving!
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