Pokemon Go (Mobile July 2016)

[Elestial]

[Kaslo]

[Makwa]

I went downtown for the street fair in town. Soooo many people walking around catching pokemon. Sat down at the bar my friend works at and a Venomoth appeared nearby, ran around the bar looking for it but it disappeared.
Other friend works at the bar a block away, turns out its a PokeStop and they drop lures so people can come in and drink and catch pokemon. Downtown life has changed for the better in my opinion.
A Hypno appeared near my friends apartment, caught him and started walking 8 blocks back to my car to leave, found a cubone and a few others along the way.
On the way home, I decided to take a frontage road off the interstate, speed limit is 20mph so I was going slower to hatch some eggs and a Fearow popped on the nearby news station building. Immediately slammed the brakes and turned around. Noticed some other cars stopped as well. This shit is amazing.

Current team so far. Spoilered for huge:

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[Zealot]

THE MOST ELECTRIFYING 'MON IN SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

[Tokitoki]

Please tell me the Cubone is Batman because his parents are dead.

[Lyall]

Did this one get posted yet? It's the best article on Pokemon Go crime so far.

http://www.kptv.com/story/32421880/f...risked-my-life

[Silenka]

"Right after I was stabbed, I continued my mission to Plaid Pantry for my mission for chips and beer," said Baker.

Pokemon, more important than a piddly knife wound.

[Lyall]

It was only 8 stitches! Rub a little potion in it, it'll be fine.

[Dantrag]

My meh crew

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[Valisk]

SQUAD!

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[Ratatapa]

the fuck

[Dantrag]

SQUAD!

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lol wtf level are you?

[Valisk]

lol wtf level are you?

Lv 21

I also have a 521 Charmander and a 453 Vulpix that I will evolve during my Lucky Egg powerlevel here in about an hour and a half.

[Malithar]

Did this one get posted yet? It's the best article on Pokemon Go crime so far.

http://www.kptv.com/story/32421880/f...risked-my-life

So much gold on that site in the related stories section. People breaking into the zoo, girl gets hit on the highway because there was a Pokemon across it, politicians challenging each other, shelters requesting people to walk shelter dogs while playing, etc. Some pretty good reads.

Was talking with a friend earlier about legal ramifications of GPS augmented reality games like this. Are there any laws in place anywhere to protect people? We were discussing what would happen with in-game events. Say they announced Mewtwo would be spawning in say NYC on August 1st and 2nd. You'd have literally tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people traveling to the city. Flights would be booked, car pools would be taken, and anyone serious about the game within a 5+ hour drive is certainly going to make time for it. For large gatherings, you typically need a permit or to let someone know or something, right? Could Niantic or Nintendo be held accountable for holding a large gathering without going through the proper channels or would it all fall under individual people congregating, even though they're doing it because of a company's event?

Alternatively, say they announced he'd spawn in some po-duck town in the boonies, to add more of that adventuring charm to the game. That town would be holey unequipped for the descending mass of people. Stores/gas would be sold out, any available lodgings would be maxed instantly, and you'd be left with a town that saw more people over the course of 2 days than it has in a decade. We were just discussing weird adulty things like lack of police coverage, litter levels that couldn't be maintained, etc. Just some food for thought. Ingress was cool and all, but it didn't have the following, eye of the public, or media coverage that Go has. If anything is bound to create a need for new regulations, it's going to be this.

[Mertron]

I could be in nyc in like 45min either by car or mass transit and I don't think you'd catch me dead there in a crowd like that just for a mewtwo.

[Tokitoki]

So much gold on that site in the related stories section. People breaking into the zoo, girl gets hit on the highway because there was a Pokemon across it, politicians challenging each other, shelters requesting people to walk shelter dogs while playing, etc. Some pretty good reads.

Was talking with a friend earlier about legal ramifications of GPS augmented reality games like this. Are there any laws in place anywhere to protect people? We were discussing what would happen with in-game events. Say they announced Mewtwo would be spawning in say NYC on August 1st and 2nd. You'd have literally tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people traveling to the city. Flights would be booked, car pools would be taken, and anyone serious about the game within a 5+ hour drive is certainly going to make time for it. For large gatherings, you typically need a permit or to let someone know or something, right? Could Niantic or Nintendo be held accountable for holding a large gathering without going through the proper channels or would it all fall under individual people congregating, even though they're doing it because of a company's event?

They would be held accountable. Kanye tried to throw a surprise concert that got shut down for the same reason. Was told he'd have to go through the proper channels over twitter. A little ironic using twitter to tell someone to go through proper channels, but whatever I guess.

EDIT: I'd be there for a Mewtwo probably. They'd need to place multiple or something so the crowd could filter through, though.

[Katlan]

For that very reason legendary pokemon have to just be purely world events that anybody can do from anywhere. They cant realistically ask people to go to X location to fight X pokemon for a very rare/limited event. Even coordinating it to one spot in any state/city would cause riots, etc.

The only way they could handle it would just be via notification and have him pop on everybody's phones worldwide at the same time.

But lets also be honest. Nobody will be getting any legendary pokemon because the servers will crumble faster than it takes to burn out a match. That, and can you imagine how many pissed off people there will be when you get the stalling during capture, etc... and you lose your chance just because the server shits the bed on you during capture animation? They would need to have some fail safe embedded that no matter what if you participated in the fight you auto get him

[Not Kuno]

How does type immunity work in Go? Like normal against ghost. Does it do anything at all?

[Kaslo]

Mah shitty crew

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[BerenTebogo]

The ol' zurp and flurp