Pokemon Go

Water Cooler
#1

Alright, who’s installed the app and is somewhat addicted? Social media is blowing up. At the very least, it gets people going outside more

#2

Been trying to register for an account and it keeps telling me to try again in an hour

How does this work? Ive been trying to catch a bulbasaur for a few minutes with no success

#3

What are you talking about?

#4

It’s been glitchy. Probably because way too many people are playing it. Krnyc, it’s a game app (apple and android) based on pokemon. It forces you to physically walk around in search for pokemon and uses your cell phone camera to actually catch them.

#5

^now it makes sense why ohai has been missing

#6

What the hell man… Pokemon??

#7

EDIT: not true.

#8

Thats not all…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/36757858/pokemon-go-player-finds-dead-body-in-wyoming-river-while-searching-for-a-pokestop?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

#9

im really worried about ohai

#10

Meanwhile, in the midwest: http://fox2now.com/2016/07/10/st-louis-area-robbers-targeting-pokemon-go-players/

#11

I have absolutely no inclination to play this game. Firstly, this type of highly addictive game isn’t good for the soul. Secondly, if I’m going to be out and about I’d rather be interacting with real people. Preferably not people who plan to rob me though.

The real travesty of the success of Pokemon Go is that I don’t hold NTDOY. I’ve made a considerable amount of money from EA year to date on virtually the same story, I knew Nitendo’d strategy was to switch to mobile and monetise but missed the boat on this one. can’t win em all I suppose.

#12

Pay attention next time you’re walking around outside. You’ll see dozens of idiots with their phones pointed towards, seemingly, nothing. They’re probably giggling too. This is PokemonGo.

#13

owned NTDOY for about a year. kind of predicted a pokemon comeback but the game concept is far better than i ever could have imagined. stock will probably go higher with time. if the game is popular again, you can expect pokemon movie, pokemon cards, pokemon etc etc etc all over again.

#14

^ very true. I also have faith in them bringing out other games for mobile with other famous characters.

My company has a painful drawn out process for buying on your own account so it’d be about 2 months before I could buy it. I agree there’s upside in the stock in the long term too.

#15

Can’t wait for Fire Emblem to come out

#16

I’m pissed I sold my Charizard back in grade school

#17

Won’t the “cool” kids just start artificially geo locating their phones and everything will be back on the couch? Obesity epidemic continues uninterrupted…

#18

On Saturday as my wife and I were leaving a restaurant at which we’d lunched and walked across the parking lot to our car we were nearly run over by some idiot with his face buried in his smartphone while he was driving. (I smacked the trunk of his car and yelled at him to pay attention to his driving.)

As we got into our car, we saw him walking across the parking lot, face still buried in his smartphone.

The world needs less of this.

#19

^surprised you weren’t riding your Pony-ta home to be honest.

#20

Idk, this seems like something right up Purealpha’s alley. Addition by subtraction for the win.