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Just been out for a walk to capture some Pokemon's.
Who else is playing?
Been going around with 2 of the kids, eldest has a phone and number 3 is using mine. They are having great fun and secretly so am I!
Isn't it basically Ingress Lite?
Is it out in the UK yet!?
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36757858/pokemon-go-player-finds-dead-body-in-wyoming-river-while-searching-for-a-pokestop ]BBC Pokestop[/url]
^^ read that earlier, would spoil your day
Not out in UK yet, but you can get it, we have a gym outside mum and dads house.
It explains a lot.... Just remember your phone screen doesn't show the cars in the road...
searching for it on the android store and it isn't there! ?
Just caught what looks like Bowser in my dining room.
APK here: https://apkpure.com/pok%C3%A9mon-go/com.nianticlabs.pokemongo
I am definitely not playing it, and the fact that there is a Pokemon Gym at the viewpoint up the road has no influence on my decision to watch the sunset this evening.
😆
Isn't it basically Ingress Lite?
Made by the same people, after they spun out of Alphabet.
A quick word of warning to the android players. If you're loading an apk to play in the UK, there's every chancey you'll lose your progress when the official EU release drops.
I've seen it happen with other games
me me, I'm playing. Its a lot of fun!
i heard knocking on my door about 3pm earlier while i'm having a snooze in the sofa after a hard days work.. " sorry to disturb you mister, can we catch them Pidgeys in your backyard?" ..i looked at them blank face and utter in my head WTF and slam the door close..
who's got them Pidgey now 😆
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...i just made up the story, i caught that Pidgey in my workplace carpark , forgot to turn on AR to show the cars 8)
You can get it on iOS if you switch your region to Australia (or one of the other regions that already has it) then creat a free iTunes account with a valid address which is easily found on google maps. Then switch back once it's downloaded.. I did it and no issues. My son loves it, even comes out walking the dog with me now to find new characters and pokestops.
I've caught a Bulbasaur. Now what do I do with it?
I am not interested in games but my kids are and I love this format..
My stepson's best pal is over from NZ on secondment for a couple of years and is using the game to log his European travels
[url= http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/07/pokemon-go-on-ios-gets-full-access-to-your-google-account/ ]It has some interesting iOS/ Google account privacy concerns.[/url]
how much will the app be when it's released in the UK? I can't find any info. Under a tenner?
Wahey!it's great and I've got 5 already!
Do other players appear on your map?
Phew!
Initially read the title as:
"[i]Pokemom[/i]"!
😯
CharlieMungus - MemberWahey!it's great and I've got 5 already!
Do other players appear on your map?
Just at Gyms, once you reach level 5 you can battle your pokemons against rival gyms to take them over for your team, yellow, red or blue team.
Or you can battle in friendly gyms for xp.
Also in friendly gyms, you can assign pokemon to defend them, you cant use them or evolve them when they are assigned to a gym, but they'll earn you lots of xp and pokecoins.
Apparently trading and one on one fights outside of the gyms are in the pipeline for future updates.
Check out what i got!
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Mr Toast caught a couple last night!
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I'm waiting for the proper UK release, can't be bothered going through the palaver of signing into my New Zealand Apple account for my iPad (which I think would be a bit impractical given the nature of the game anyway) or risk dodgy side loading on my Android phone, especially with the risk of losing progress once the proper launch hits. Plus I can barely walk at the moment!
[i] Plus I can barely walk at the moment! [/i]
You don't have to!
Phone walking service now available...
[url= http://www.pokewalk.com/ ]http://www.pokewalk.com/[/url]
how much will the app be when it's released in the UK? I can't find any info. Under a tenner?
It's free in other locations App Store so assume it will be here too. There are In app purchase options though.
[url= http://www.theladbible.com/articles/guy-in-hotel-room-with-girlfriend-playing-pokemon-go-finds-penis-diglett-100716 ]Potentially NSFW but rather funny one[/url]
Diglet - if that means anything to you 🙂
Just had to follow my son around town to make sure he didn't walk in front of a bus. Thanks Nintendo. 🙂
I'd never heard about it till Joe Rogan talked about the pokemon game on his latest podcast #823, after all the fuss that was raised about ID cards i find it quite unsettling that people are happy to hand over so much data such as location/pictures of your home and surroundings to google servers, maybe it's my natural paranoia raising it's head but it seems like the beginning of a slide into an all seeing/watching big brother dystopian future.
But then again i've never owned a game machine or got into video games so perhaps my natural instinct to sneer at such an augmented reality game is unfounded.
Not for me in the slightest but i'm a paranoid android at the best of times.
well Google is basically run by the CIA so....
and also, so is the software company behind this game/ surveillance
[url= http://www.inquisitr.com/3285469/pokemon-go-players-in-canada-may-have-been-banned-already-for-app-download/ ]You might even get the banhammer for sideloading[/url]
In other news, download your local area for offline use on Google maps to massively reduce battery and data usage on Pkgo
The article doesn't actually cite people being banned for side loading, but does reference the potential for malware by downloading from an unknown source, and bans for cheats who use things like GPS spoofing that makes the game think you're in a different physical location.
Been observing 20/30-somethings playing this. Mix of feeling old and feeling sorry for them.
im conflicted on this.
on one hand it was great to see so many kids(mostly teens and early 20s of the pokemon legacy generation tbh rather than "kids") out and about in the park (kings park perth australia.)
It took me ages to work out WTF they were all doing walking about staring at their phones.
On the other hand they are all walking aroudn the park like zombies looking at their phones and ipads walking into people and things.
Don't forget to check [i]everywhere[/i]:
[url= http://gomerblog.com/2016/07/pikachu-spotted-mans-colon/ ]Pokémon Go Update: Pikachu Spotted in Man's Colon[/url]
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I need a Squirtle!!!
(just so I can walk around saying 'Squirtle, Squirtle')
My daughter patiently explained to my wife that there weren't *actual* Pokemon hiding in bushes at the local park because it's not a LARP.
Then she had to explain what a LARP is.
I've come across some LARPers in the woods on bike rides. Very strange. 😯
Is anyone else struggling to register on this?
I've downloaded the app, but the Pokemon site won't let me register when I enter my email- it gives the message '('email', [u'This field cannot be blank.'])'.
I've tried registering on a windows PC, iphone and ipad, but keep getting the same message.
Any handy hints to get past this and get my young'un started?
The potential for Darwin-award type incidents is high with this one.
Got to level 3. Bit too old to know wtf the point is. Keep meaning to delete.
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so I was out for woodland cycle the other night (Hanchurch woods if you're local) and as I was coming to the end I cycled through a grassy patch surrounded by trees and bushes, 2 men were walking apart but sort of together and they looked a bit furtive. It's about 9.30pm. 2 steps away there was another 2 men walking together towards the same bushes. This carpark is well known dogging/gay hook up spot so I just carried on through back to my car. While I was packing up my stuff into the car another car pulled up and some kids and adults pulled up, the kids running about holding up phones going 'it's over here, up here, there it is...' I wanted to say errr don't go up that way or you might get a Pikachu more than you bargained for. 😕
im waiting for mario kart go for my sat nav 😉
That won't cause any issues at all!
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I am currently wandering round Peterborough while I wait for a passport. Just realised I have just spent the last hour looking for bloody Pokemons.
Worse thing is, apart from being nearly 40 and playing, is 50% of the ones I have found have crashed the app while trying to upload the find.
Stay safe kids.
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Is there any way of finding out pokemon locations without having the game? wondering if the sudden increase in kids hanging around outside the local church is related.
It's probably just preparations for the Rapture.
I only installed the app this morning, but I think public places like churches etc are called gyms or something. Not found one yet....or would know it it I saw it. Minimal instructions.
Anyone morn the loss of being able to run around with your kids/friends with just a stick to play with??
[s]kids[/s] Adults these days eh 😆
wondering if the sudden increase in [i]strange pale[/i] kids [i]wearing fashions that went out in the early 90s, kids that you don't recognise because they haven't left their bedrooms since they were 4 years old,[/i] hanging around outside the local church is related.
Our local community has nearly doubled in size of late
I don't understand what the world is coming to. Sorry, I just don't.
I had a kid approach me Saturday night asking to catch a Pokemon that had popped up just inside my house 😆
I had a kid approach me Saturday night asking to catch a Pokemon that had popped up just inside my house
When a kid does it, it's adorable. When I do it, they call the police 🙁
[i]When a kid does it, it's adorable. When I do it, they call the police [/i]
😯
DezB - Member
I don't understand what the world is coming to. Sorry, I just don't
That makes two of us then, mate.
depends on your perspective. I think sitting on your arse in front of a tv is insane, always have. World keeps turning.
[i]I think sitting on your arse in front of a tv is insane, always have[/i]
Completely and utterly unconnected. I don't take a TV with me EVERYWHERE. And have to stare at the ****ing screen ALL THE TIME. And have to capture things, play things, communicate with people, read stuff, etc etc CONSTANTLY. 😕
...but it is getting kids out and about.
Admittedly walking into the road and suchlike, but it's exercise of sorts.
Words I never thought I'd hear my son (13) say:
'Dad, could we go on a walk this weekend, I'd really like that?'
Silver lining...?
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36825934 ]Pokemon Go player calls 999 to report 'stolen Pokemon'[/url]
🙄
Friend told me that the umpire was playing Pokemon go between overs at his cricket club. He is 46
I'm hoping that it will cleanse the gene pool - surely you'd have to be pretty stupid to walk out in to a road and traffic to catch one of these Pokeymen?
Level 15 here 😀
This game makes the phrase ' you should get out more ' redundant. LOL
Me and the kids have bimbled to places we would never have normally gone to. It's all good IMHO. The amount of folk out walking because of it is ace.
I'm hoping that it will cleanse the gene pool - surely you'd have to be pretty stupid to walk out in to a road and traffic to catch one of these Pokeymen?
Well, wishing death on people is always fun I guess.
I saw a lovely quote the other day along the lines of all those people whining about how the baby boomers have ruined the world for them are the same people playing Pokémon go...
Augmented reality innit? Much better idea than VR as far as I am concerned.
I saw a lovely quote the other day along the lines of all those people whining about how the baby boomers have ruined the world for them are the same people playing Pokémon go...
Was the profound bit after the ellipses?
Sorry love, I don't do profound, I'm Northern.
Serious talk now. What does that quote mean?
I think it's to do with older people getting fed up of being blamed for doing alright after a life time of work by people who think using smartphones and geolocation satellites to play a stupid game is a good use of their time.
It's like grown ups laughing at children, basically.
Has your Mum called you down for your tea?
It appears the reports about the 'kids' getting lost in the caves was actually wrong, they were blokes exploring without maps or local knowledge who got lost, and jokingly told their rescuers they were looking for Pokemon, which got taken seriously by the meeja, however, there's been an incident in Weston-Super-Mare at Birnbeck Island, with kids accessing the derelict pier and the rocks around the island, which had the lifeboat crews out, because the walkway to the lifeboat station on the island became too dangerous for the crews to walk along! The tide comes in at 3mph, walking speed, and is really bloody dangerous around Weston, Burnham and Brean, so it could have been a tragedy.
Apparently the underlying geolocation system this game uses comes from an older spy game, where the geolocation was used for things like virtual dead-letter drops and the like, so the Pokemon can turn up anywhere, including the goldsmith shop in Corsham where my mate works!
They've apparently had a couple of rare/high value ones appear there...
I was in Hong Kong when it was released earlier in the week. Now, anyone who's been there recently will know that the general (non-expat) population are almost permanently attached to their phones at the best of times, but this was something else. Like a totally consuming mania! It seemed at times that every other person one walked past was frantically swiping away to catch a fukkilypups or whatever.
It was eerie, almost sci-fi like in some places, with people in some sort of daze like state!