Pokémon Go

[Captain Willard]

I never owned a cell phone or a console, dislike anime and never liked any jrpg. OH and been playing computer games since the mid 80's. Kinda sums it up for me.

 

[bkrownd]

You play, you do not play ? Your opinion about Pokémon Go ?

First time I saw crowds of people standing around doing this in a local park after dark I thought it was either a Flash Mob performance or the Zombie Apocalypse. The size of the crowds standing around in the dark just looking at their phones was unbelievable, plus a long line of cars driving slowly by with people staring at their phones inside. It's insane.

 

[mccoy]

For someone it's a childhood dream - to catch a Pokemon. But people abstract themselves for real life and lose control. There were so many incidents with robbery and crashes. I don’t play this game and can’t think wisely. But is this game cost a man his life?

 

[Hydrino]

All those Poke JPEGs are super fidelitous and deprive the phone of resources...oops, wrong thread

I originally thought Niantic was going to use Ingress data to fill in the Schemer app, which was an app that could tie together a bunch of nearby landmarks and events into an ad hoc walking tour. Google abandoned that, as it never could really work satisfactorily.

I've been on Ingress since the early beta days. Finding other agents wasn't as obvious as PokeGo players. We generally are standing at street corners, headphones on, thinking portal link strategies and giving a side eye to any passerby who might be thwarting your portal attack. I once tracked an agent all through the city, countering everything he did. I would hide around corners, dart across the street, trying not to be noticed...until an officer stopped me to ask why I was moving so suspiciously.

Cool, never heard of Ingress. Don't know that I have time for anything else, but I may go ahead and get the app for a rainy day. Might be interesting to see if anyone is playing in my city.

Mind Points made me think of Power Play for some reason.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Pokemon GO is lame.

My 2p.