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Pokemon Go

I started playing the other day. I do it when I ride my bike around town and I'll stop if something alerts me.

Its insane how popular it is. I don't get that much into it.

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moevillini said:
So can someone explain this in a few words? I'm getting the idea that it's not the standard "sit and stare at your screen" video game.
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So the game places pokemon around you using the geopositioning on your phone. You have to turn your phone's camera on and scan for them. So as you're scanning around with your camera the game will superimpose a pokemon into the picture. I guess certain types of places have more pokemon than average, like parks, churches and other public places. So if you go to those places you'll most likely find more pokemon. I think the goal is to collect them, but first you have to find them. Like the girl that found the dead body, she went down by the river looking for water type pokemon (that only live by water, apparently) and she ended up finding a dead guy instead.
 
Gameface said:
So the game places pokemon around you using the geopositioning on your phone. You have to turn your phone's camera on and scan for them. So as you're scanning around with your camera the game will superimpose a pokemon into the picture. I guess certain types of places have more pokemon than average, like parks, churches and other public places. So if you go to those places you'll most likely find more pokemon. I think the goal is to collect them, but first you have to find them. Like the girl that found the dead body, she went down by the river looking for water type pokemon (that only live by water, apparently) and she ended up finding a dead guy instead.
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What type is "deadguy"? Ghost?
 
Gameface said:
So the game places pokemon around you using the geopositioning on your phone. You have to turn your phone's camera on and scan for them. So as you're scanning around with your camera the game will superimpose a pokemon into the picture. I guess certain types of places have more pokemon than average, like parks, churches and other public places. So if you go to those places you'll most likely find more pokemon. I think the goal is to collect them, but first you have to find them. Like the girl that found the dead body, she went down by the river looking for water type pokemon (that only live by water, apparently) and she ended up finding a dead guy instead.
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Basically, but you dont use your phone's camera to scan for them initially. Your phone's gps or w/e scans for them, they pop up on your map, then you click on them to enter a 1-on-1. That's when your phone's camera turns on and the pokemon is somewhere next to you. That's when you use your phone is scan the immediate area directly where you are standing for the pokemon.
 
King Cy said:
Basically, but you dont use your phone's camera to scan for them initially. Your phone's gps or w/e scans for them, they pop up on your map, then you click on them to enter a 1-on-1. That's when your phone's camera turns on and the pokemon is somewhere next to you. That's when you use your phone is scan the immediate area directly where you are standing for the pokemon.
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Next to you in reality? Like there will be a pokemon doll just there?
 
I don't ever even have my location/gps turned on for my phone.
 
moevillini said:
So can someone explain this in a few words? I'm getting the idea that it's not the standard "sit and stare at your screen" video game.
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It is a smart phone app "augmented reality" game. You create a virtual avatar and have to catch "pokemon" (virtual animal like creatures). It is google map/GPS based so your avatar only moves where your phone goes.

There are real world locations that are points of interest (landmarks/churches...)

Game is designed to make you physically get out to actively play.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
I wasn't joking here. How does one appear? Halp!
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So...are you really considering that a company hired millions of people to make millions of dolls to put in millions of different places to be found by people via a free ap?

I hope you understand why people would think you're joking. Otherwise we'd have to put into question one's intelligence in thinking such a thing is possible, and I don't think we want to do that.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
So...are you really considering that a company hired millions of people to make millions of dolls to put in millions of different places to be found by people via a free ap?

I hope you understand why people would think you're joking. Otherwise we'd have to put into question one's intelligence in thinking such a thing is possible, and I don't think we want to do that.
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Well ****, I just don't know dude. So you're riding by an area where a pokemon is and it, what, just jumps onto your screen?
 
Cunning Linguist said:
I wasn't joking here. How does one appear? Halp!
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You have to have the app actively turned on on your phone. As you move around your phone will vibrate when one appears. It is at random, heavily influenced by your real world environment, and appears on your phone. You can have a virtual reality setting that supplies a backdrop environment on your phone as you throw virtual balls on your phone to capture the animal. or you can have your camera turned on and it will place said animal on the image your camera sees.

Water pokemon appear near water. Sand/ground pokemon appear by deserts. Grass/forest appears in plains forest areas...so on and so on.

It is designed to get you out and exploring.

nearby buildings and landmarks of importance are given in game utility in the form of Gyms or "Pokestops". Gyms are to be fought over and controlled by you or other players. Pokestops give you in game items like health potions or Pokémon lures that attract (just increases your rate of appearances) pokemon to your location.

250 pokemon in the game now and future updates will introduce more. There is something like 1,000 all told.
 
Yeah, my wife said this garden behind our house is going to be or is some pokemon location or some ****. ****ing great. Thank God we're having a fence would put in within the next week.
 
Cunning Linguist said:
Well ****, I just don't know dude. So you're riding by an area where a pokemon is and it, what, just jumps onto your screen?
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I'm guessing you point at the area with your screen and the pokemon just appears there as an image... not real. That's why these people are looking at their screens and not the real world. (Hard to believe you really need that spelled out.)
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I'm guessing you point at the area with your screen and the pokemon just appears there as an image... not real. That's why these people are looking at their screens and not the real world. (Hard to believe you really need that spelled out.)
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Dude, it's 2016. Nothing surprises me. And it wouldn't shock me to know little Pokemon-hired nerds are going around and placing these things all over.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
I'm guessing you point at the area with your screen and the pokemon just appears there as an image... not real. That's why these people are looking at their screens and not the real world. (Hard to believe you really need that spelled out.)
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The ones that walk around staring at their screens are doing so from habit. The phone will vibrate when one appears. You don't need to sit there and watch it.
 
Stoked said:
The ones that walk around staring at their screens are doing so from habit. The phone will vibrate when one appears. You don't need to sit there and watch it.
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I hope my kids don't get into this. I took them camping the other day and they brought along a friend who was so freaked out not to have internet that she could hardly see straight. She went on and on about how she needed to get coverage in order to maintain her Snap Chat streak. I'm glad that my daughters are not nearly so obsessed with their phones... at least, so far.
 
Stoked said:
The ones that walk around staring at their screens are doing so from habit. The phone will vibrate when one appears. You don't need to sit there and watch it.
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From what I've been told, you can find Pokemon via maps, so they're following directions on their phone.
 
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