This Pokemon Go craze is a scary prospect of the sheep mentality of technology. Am I wrong for thinking this...

This Pokemon Go craze is a scary prospect of the sheep mentality of technology. Am I wrong for thinking this? I'm seeing people mobilized like crazy simply for virtual pets.

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wow ur such a visionary

Yeah it just came out retard it'll die down

Good, real pets often live in misery. Who is that disgusting semen serpent?

The funniest part is that it is affiliated with Google. And your location has to always be on. Google hit GOLD with these normies. Data collection paradise!

>inb4 only pedos need privacy

More people play call of duty

your mother.

>dat feel when you have so much money, money loses its value and you buy an entire country

I think Google controls the whole world at this point

I'm just amazed how shit the gameplay is

The pokemon just stand there inanimately, then you throw a ball.

And this is popular?

all those pokeman go players giving their data to chinese botnet

>tfw want to play it
>tfw don't want to be max tracked
>Tfw turn location on for moments every so often to play it

also op it's just an IRL MMO that has a bunch of people in their 20s feeling nostalgic and kids love pokemon ofc it was gonna be like this.

It'll die down soon though since the "game" is essentially pointless

>can't battle random people you meet in the street

honestly that was the only reason to ever make this game and they didn't do that


ps a lot of normies have location on and like to know where they've been it's nuts

If you dumb it down enough, people will come. Example: iPhone.

pretty good distraction from all the horseshit that's been happening, dallas, turkey, france...

instead of people getting riled up and swayed by leaders who want world domination, they're busy wasting life playing videogames...

who woulda thought vidya saved teh worlds.

ITT people too old to remember tamagotchi

God I find those slutty trashy outfits so god damn sexy
The heels alone give me a bonner

You mean the shit that lasted for like one month? Yeah I remember it.

that shit was better than pokemon go by far.
digimon will forever be the best though

You're dumb.

Normies are sheep. Thats all this game exposes.

The world is filled with morons, never forget.

Lasted longer than that homey. In fact the thing that dethroned it was Pokemon.

Your parents probably said the same thing when everyone had Tamogaotchis and Furbys.

>tfw at least you could battle the digimon

Tamo lasted about as long as the ring pop. After that, we went on to the next toy until Pokemon became a thing.

Funded by 2 intelligence agencies.. I'm sure it's totally not a excuse to skirt due process via consent.

At least those didn't rape your privacy.

>It was first sold by Bandai on November 23, 1993 in Japan
>As of 2010, over 76 million Tamagotchi's have been sold world-wide

jeez

I'm just speaking from the trend in our school at the time. We're not the whole world, but I like to think a school full of all ethics and ages knew the latest trends better.

I haven't been outside since it started.

It has reached the point that Im more afraid of running into a pokemon go player than a thief

Fucking seriously? I thought the point was battle others for their pokemons.

wh-which country?

>pidgey
>not krabby

it actually america you faggot


Pokemon go was developed by a corporation that willingly help intelligence agencies of the west.

A way to bypass the inability of such agencies

Yes it is literally CIA

>>>infowars

Assuming everyone who is speculative of this is a Alex Jones flunky

I don't mind helping the CIA develop a deeper understanding of the movement habits of our citizens. It will only lead to them being better able to protect us.

You give a government as much power as we have been over the years in the name of "Protection" and you will eventually have a tyrant police state.

It's bad enough we've already got laws that turn our country into a dictator ship in the event of a "National Emergency". I'd rather not have agencies passively collecting information without cause or suspicion just because it "will protect us".

from what i hear there is no battling

I'm playing it now and while it's a nice spin on traditional Pokemon, they should definitely let you battle wild Pokemon and train your team and battle other trainers so it'll be more like Pokemon irl

They already said that their licenses on mobile is strictly for getting players to buy the games on their platform. So it would be counterproductive to give the app more gameplay.

Why not sell the game on Android?

I'd pay up to 4 or 5 dollars for this shit if they included these features

lmao why did you make your avatar a nigger

This makes more money

Yeah but it's less fun.

Plus lots more people have Android than a dedicated console

He's just super tan from spending all day every day at the beach

There is a public park near where I work that has an island in this river that's been renamed "pokemon island". and there are 50-60 people there at all day shuffling around like zombies. At lunch I saw what must've been 150 people yesterday.

Does PoKeMon Go even have a multiplayer element?

Tamagotchi didn't collect your data

Unfortunately, no.

They don't give a fuck about your fun
They just want all these retards to play and market the game for them

How many people own a smartphone?
Vs
How many people own a Nintendo?

Probably could map them out and come close to 1:1

The primary purpose of the game is not to make money, it's a data collection app, which just so happens to print money

I'm pretty sure it'll be more like 100:1

Also I doubt the Android app would kill console sales much, but it would increase profit a lot from all the fans on Android and iPhone buying it

>Level 20 accounts listed for $300-$400 on ebay
>API calls reverse engineered
>Python bots for pokemon go written
I wonder if it's profitable. Put 1 and 1 and 1 together and get a free few hundred bucks?

not even close brah

they hire strippers that fat?

...

Where is info about the reverse engineering?

So wait, is this game really just walking around and hitting a button when you see a pokemon, so you can add it to your collection? There's no actual gameplay involved? No battles? What the fuck. Why would anyone care about this. This is too autistic for normies.

Welcome to phone apps, like cookie clicker and candy crush

>no gameplay involved
just perfect for normies

>Skips over the social aspect, calls it autistic
Sup Forums analysts, everybody
people are going out in groups and collecting pokemon together, it's gamifying walking around together and meeting people, which already gives a dopamine boost

kill yourself, nigger.

You're right in a way. But as someone who doesn't really like social interaction, I can think of so many reasons to go outside that are better than this. I could understand how it's a draw when I thought it was an actual game, but not this.

Coffee shops, tourist attractions and libraries and stuff are already pokepoints, so people are going to libraries, coffee shops, and businesses together with friends.
Businesses are literally buying lures to lure groups of people to their stores to play in groups and buy stuff and it's working, McDonald's has already landed a deal for sponsored pokestops with i'm assuming legendary pokemon

it's fucking horrifying but as a social event it's probably decent fun

>shitskin
>green eyes
lmao

Apple and Google both tried to buy Greece but were denied, so now it's time to take over countries sneakybeakylike.

There is no social aspect. You underageb& like to delude yourself, saying that pressing an upvote button on the post of someone you've never heard of, you'll never see face-to-face, and you'll never know, is "socializing". You kids have no clue what that word means.

Know what's NOT socializing? Playing with your phone at a family dinner. Checking facebook every 5 seconds while on a date. Playing pokemon go while at work. Keeping up with the latest tweets while on break.

I don't know if you ever heard of or played Ingress, but the main point of the game is taking control of Pokemon Gyms, which used to be Ingress Points. You level up your pokemon, evolve them, collect them as usual, and travel to a gym and battle a gym leader, and if you win your team takes control of the gym on the map

i'm not actually sure how it works in gameplay as i'm in canada and not bothering with sideloading

:^)

Waht do pokestops do?

I've seen a shitskin with green eyes.
They're pretty rare but they exist.

You're aware this game is GPS based and you must literally show up in person to play, correct

spare me the "born in le wrong generation" spiel, faggot.

>people are having fun doing things
>must be a botnet

You must be 18 or older to browse Sup Forums. I'm sure even you're aware that 10 is smaller than 18. Isn't it past your bedtime anyway?

I played it for about 30 minutes.

It's a blatant cash-in on the Pokemon brand and nostalgia. People have such fond memories of Pokemon because of the trading and battling aspects. Pokemon GO has neither.

It's really disappointing, because the game concept has so much potential. Instead, this will probably just die out in a month or two.

Found this via google: reddit.com/r/pokemongodev/

Let's see, ignoring facts, shitposting when pressed, victim complex

You can battle gym leaders who will inevitably be 100x stronger than you, and no real way to improve your own strength apart from tedious low level pokemon trade

They're adding trading in an update, and more features to come

They know how to keep people playing, i just hope the initial trend dies off and it leads to a more sustained playerbase of less crowds of retards

Yeah, like those social events I make with friends. And we show up in person to have dinner. And they spend half the time or more on their phone.

Don't bother, he's probably not even in high-school yet.

reddit comes to rescue for some real useful information. meanwhile Sup Forums is full of porn and speccy

You have shitty friends, why get mad at Sup Forums for it

My friends leave their phones at home

How is it even socializing if you're not even looking at their face and constantly looking at phone.

youtu.be/jOeZBW9Lwos

>pokemon questionable aged third world prostitute

>he wasn't alive when tamagotchi was popular

It's like someone went up to God and said, "Take Sean Penn's face, and make it even douchier."

People never were THAT into tamago-chan. Yeah it was popular and kids had them and shit. Even some adults did, but it wasn't anywhere near on that scale, didn't care about your physical coordinates, didn't send your info and the info about everything you look at straight to google and the NSA, etc. Right now something like 90% of people play pokemon go. Not even 10% of people had an egg-cchi.

Maybe you lived in a poor neighborhood? If you didn't have some form of digital pet in my class, you were a loser. Same shit with pogs.

OK jamal

Meh, pick your poison. I'd still rather wade through the porn and speccy that read the cringy reddit circlejerking.

>CP 59

wew lad

>social aspect
what social aspect?

as far as i can tell, there is no reason to interact with others in this game. no multiplayer, no trading

it's just a way for nu-males to think their new favourite game helps connect with people.

>All these dumb fucks botching about Pokemon go and it's lack of features and extensive botnet
>not buying shares in Google, Niantic and the Pokemon company before the craze hit

Shut up you stupid goys and buy some pokecoins.

>multiple people are doing [insert arbitrary thing] at a time
>THOSE SHEEPLE, WEHN WILL THEY LEARN

Exactly. Exploiting humanity has never felt so good.

The corollary:
>I am better than them for not doing [arbitrary thing]

Pedos would love it if little girls had no privacy :^)

>be pedo
>work at google
>kidnap a new loli every week

I'd hate it if my friends were fucking pokemon nerds