And yeah: all of this is to say nothing of the lack of design when it comes to bringing people together and facilitating interaction. There’s just…so little design here.
i wonder if this was prophesied somewhere in the initial Twitch Plays Pokemon stream and it’s sudden, explosive popularity
people don’t want to play pokemon together, people just need to see other people liking pokemon for themselves
My brother has gotten way into this. He’s going on several hour long trips by bike either to the city to collect more balls and share in pokelures or rides throughout less dense suburban areas taking over as many gyms he can in one trip (a hot Pokemon PROTIP apparently to maximize profits since you can never hold a gym for very long anyway). Says he’s traveled a total of 60 miles so far and he’s bought this massive charging battery so he can stay out in the field longer. When he bought it the store said they’d almost sold out their entire stock in the past week. I guess that’s the equivalent of AAA batteries selling like crazy when Pokemon first came out for the Game Boy.
I think that releasing this in the middle of the summer holidays is a pretty important deal for the northen hemisphere at least.
whatever, I caught a dragonite last night
this is so they can sell you this
Jesus. Well fuck you too, Pokemon Company.
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Pokemon Go update: sitting at my window, drinking some flavored mineral water when I saw a guy pausing with his smartphone out, flicking his finger up in a throw pokeball motion. It’s happening. It’s so happening. Even in small Vienna. I even took a picture of the guy to commemorate the occasion.
Also this game apparently it’s shit at telling you anything. I guess my pokemon was taken off the gym by little MisssPerfect or who knows who. Because I’m not getting any coins, can’t collect them and there’s no number in the little icon on the top right of the shop. The number usually tells you how many gyms you are in. Why can’t it tell me which gym I got kicked out of?
Something occurred to me, although I’ll let others decide how to interpret the results:
https://www.google.com/search?q=pokemon+go+north+korea
Stuff like this has been around for years but it isn’t until now that it’s really made me think about the wonder and absurdity of the world. Warzones, bodies of water, uninhabitable climates, government property… there could be Pokemon everywhere, minus the initial algorithms and furious manual changes I’m sure are being worked on every minute. This is crazy.
What if this doesn’t stop any time soon? What are the possible consequences and repercussions? This is such a simple, stupid app but I can’t begin to wrap my head around the hypotheticals.
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Incredible.
Driving home yesterday or the day before and while turning into my neighborhood I saw a guy (probably late teens/early 20s) reacting wildly to something happening on his phone. Like, he jumped up and spun around with joy and did all this while he was walking down the sidewalk. People sitting in their car at the stop sign on the corner were watching him. I can only assume he had just caught a really awesome Pokemon.
Either that or he just got snapchatted some really fine looking lady bits.
Oh who am I kidding, it was definitely pokemon
It’s even gone so far that MILF, teen and interracial have been dethroned as most searched for terms on xhamster.com by, you guessed it, pokemon. There is a pokemon go porn reddit with naked pics that were taken with the ingame camera and pokemon placed on women’s butts and guys’ dicks. It’s just all happening
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Hillary is apparently doing some Pokemon Go thing to register new voters at one of her spots, both her and Trump have been asked about it, I think Clinton said something like she was trying to figure out how to make people “Pokemon Go to the polls” and Trump said he’d love to play it but is too busy (not picking a VP). Then the Trump campaign released this on Facebook:
Aside from absurdity at the RNC and the Sanders fans fart-in at the DNC, I wonder if those events will also have people catching 'mon
Still waiting on what Gary Johnson and Jill Stein have to say about the most important issue of our time.
Username time: I gotta say, Twitter addicts must be getting serious whiplash from the Sterling/Castile shootings --> Dallas sniper --> Pokemon Go --> Terrorist attack in Nice, France sequence of happenings
One day there will be trenchantly critical movie directed by a PT Anderson successor about the political farce of our times that will feature a scene of CIA agents walking around catching Pokemon in the halls of Langley.
This will be good for the people who still want to get laid. I see herds of teens catching pokemon in packs in my neighborhood and one guy is catching pokemon and walking his dog. I’m about to start school and I want to stand out from the sheep so I might have to delete this.
no we are actually currently living inside of that movie
Mother 4 is your life
Good piece on Nintendo in general and how this new craze figures into it
Digimon is the superior mon.