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Lol, I was watching this youtube video ( would post, but would probably get fracted), these 3 guys went to one of these "gyms" at midnight because they saw someone had placed an item there and they wanted to see what kind of person plays pokemon go at a park @midnight. They drove around and they noticed one car parked at the park and it was a dude in his 50's playing pokemon go. Talk about sketchy as ****.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
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.
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How old? Kids get cellphones crazy early now. I didnt get my first phone til I was in high school.
 
Stoked said:
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.
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Not completely random. People can drop items that attract pokemon.

Also I bet places are going to start paying off Nintendo (or whoever owns this) to be a pokestop. Imagine how much business you could get if you were a store that was a pokestop/gym.
 
King Cy said:
How old? Kids get cellphones crazy early now. I didnt get my first phone til I was in high school.
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The girl freaked out about her Snap Chat streak was 14. It had been going for over 450 days and she said they would re-set her to 0 if she didn't post within 24 hours. She claimed they were ruthless. I have good news, though. I got her to a location she could make a post within about 30 hours and her streak remained intact. Whew.

I hope she eventually accomplishes something more significant than a 450+ day Snap Chat streak, but I'm not kidding when I say that she could not possibly imagine what that could ever be. She could not think about anything else from the moment she realized her streak was in danger.
 
Darkwing Duck said:
From what I've been told, you can find Pokemon via maps, so they're following directions on their phone.
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There is a little tab that tells you there are nearby pokemon but not which direction. If you are simply walking around you will find them.
 
King Cy said:
Not completely random. People can drop items that attract pokemon.

Also I bet places are going to start paying off Nintendo (or whoever owns this) to be a pokestop. Imagine how much business you could get if you were a store that was a pokestop/gym.
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I mention this. But without that it is random.

Also it wouldn't surprise me. They need to work on building up in game places that are not in major traffic ways.
 
Driving home from the gym last night around 8:45 you'd think it was Halloween with the hoards of kids walking around.

A little earlier I did see a chaperoned group of about 20 kids under ten with parents holding those little crossing guard stop signs...LOL.

Crazy how this has mobilized so quickly.
 
Joe Bagadonuts said:
The girl freaked out about her Snap Chat streak was 14. It had been going for over 450 days and she said they would re-set her to 0 if she didn't post within 24 hours. She claimed they were ruthless. I have good news, though. I got her to a location she could make a post within about 30 hours and her streak remained intact. Whew.

I hope she eventually accomplishes something more significant than a 450+ day Snap Chat streak, but I'm not kidding when I say that she could not possibly imagine what that could ever be. She could not think about anything else from the moment she realized her streak was in danger.
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This makes me depressed.
 
candrew said:
Driving home from the gym last night around 8:45 you'd think it was Halloween with the hoards of kids walking around.

A little earlier I did see a chaperoned group of about 20 kids under ten with parents holding those little crossing guard stop signs...LOL.

Crazy how this has mobilized so quickly.
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And did you challenge your gym leader for a badge?
 
Other funny/sad news: a pokestop happens to also be teh Washington DC Holocaust Museum and someone found a "Coughing" pokemon in the exhibit dedicated to the victims who lost their lives in the gas chambers. The people who run the museum are furious at Nintendo because apparently people have just been going there to play pokemon.
 
I kind of want to uninstall it with how crazy it has become, but I like catching the random pokemon as I walk around. I dont understand the level of obsession though.
 
King Cy said:
I kind of want to uninstall it with how crazy it has become, but I like catching the random pokemon as I walk around. I dont understand the level of obsession though.
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100 % agree with this.


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