Well it certainly rules my area and if I had known that I’d have joined it because as far as I heard it’s useless to attack enemy gyms if you’re new. You’re just going to lose more than you gain and it’s best done in groups of people anyway. But if you have gyms of your own color you can deploy pokemon to defend it and rake in wads of pokedollars. Anyway, this game kinda sucks more than candy crush and I don’t know why I’m playing it. It’s apparently more popular than tinder now by far after only a couple of days and tinder was around for years. It’s so damn popular and yet so sucky
this has been the entirety of my facebook and twitter feeds since last week
when people weren’t talking about horrifically racist and brutal police actions, they were talking about pokemon. what the hell is up with this year.
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What was always the least appealing to me about the Pokemon series was that it presented a world where every single person in it was singularly obsessed with one thing (just like, I dunno, Yu-Gi-Oh). And now, depending on which social circles you frequent, and where you live, it can feel like the real world is mirroring that virtual obsession, with the added element of physical space bring integrated into game space. Also, yeah, it’s frustrating to have this dominate social media at a time when it would be really nice for it not to.
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firing a woman on fedora demand & honeypotting children into signing in + giving data to an advertising company, an impressive couple of months for nintendo
Today I captured a gym that was guarded by a player named “MisssPerfect” and her pokemon with a CP (combat power or points, I forget) of 14. God bless that little girl (I assume), that’s so cute. Took her shit anyway muahaha
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Oh my god its even invaded the road signs here. There’s no escape. How the hell did this get so popular so fast?
Earlier this week my aunt who weeks ago did not know what pacman was texted me about this game. Yesterday I saw my teenage sister and her Czech exchange student walking around outside in 100+ degree weather with their smartphones raised. I hear my middle aged coworkers wispering about places to catch pokemon among the cubicals at work. I went to lunch with my father and a co-worker of his who would not stop talking about the game.
It’s too late. We already live in the world of pokemon. Nintendo has won
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i guess i forgot how huge the whole Pokemon phenomenon thing was back in 98 when the games came out. i mean it’s still super popular compared to other franchises, but it was next level fame back then. that shit was everywhere, in magazines, on the news, and public alarmists were saying the anime was jinxed because it gave some kids in Japan seizures. entire playground economies were created out of the trading cards. i was in middle school and obsessed with the gameboy games so i was firmly stuck inside that bubble.
i guess a lot more people my age grew up to be App developers and Internet culturalists/meme makers who have a major nostalgia boner for the 90’s Childhood Industrial Complex.
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yeah my mom bought one pack of pokeballs and she’s thinking about buying another
I can’t even with this. Pokémon has always meant less than nothing to me (Jesus Christ, the forum software even automatically adds the accent over the e), and seeing what I consider to be this marginal children’s toy become a national phenomenon feels like falling down a well.
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i’m just hoping it slows down to a manageable point soon, i like the game as much as anyone, but i’m tired of having a gathering of like, no joke, 70 people outside my apartment on the street at 2am for the 4th day in a row because the liquor store downstairs is a Pokecenter
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Pokemon G.O. (Get Off (of My Lawn))
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gotta strike while that iron is hot:
It’s probably pretty smart to release this app in this feature-starved state. I want battling. I want to interact with my Pokemon. I want trading.
In a couple days, I’ll be totally bored with this, I assume. I’m already almost there. But damned if I’m not going to check it out each time they roll out or tweak a new feature.
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Find All the Havels
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I think folks are primed to indulge in an infantile social media phenomenon in July 2016.
I’m amazed the app isn’t plastered with stranger danger admonishments.
There are no mechanics that actually enforce interacting with other players besides proximity, so they probably didn’t care about stranger danger.
I want to like this ridiculous pokemon larp but every single game mechanic is terrible. It’s a game that rewards people who started earlier, rewards people who spend more time in the game (with seemingly no upper limit), it rewards people who spend real money on the app, and if you do none of the above, you have no way of meaningfully participating in the only multiplayer thing in the game, control of pokegyms.
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I am playing this and it is very fiddly. I don’t think I have any cool pokemon. I might delete it, but I want to hang in there. I imagine all these Pokemon Go obsessed people will drop off eventually. I’m glad Nintendo gave millennials another excuse to get nothing done.
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Honestly, the more I hear about the populrity of this the more annoyed unto angry I am that it’s unplayably underfeatured. The current release is a bad idea for a game, coasting entirely on the IP.
I get that this is a situation of a game that works for others not working for me, but it’s honestly just frustrating that it doesn’t run as a background function, counting steps, and rumbling if you’re near a pokemon.
Is having GPS running in the background really hard or something? These just seem like the mot obvious implementations of this concept.
It’s idiotic to be asking people to walk blindly into traffic. Why is anyone even playing this? It would have been just as big a phenomenon in three months or whatever.