>widespread global phenomenon >causes people to walk around aimlessly to multiple gps locations >trend that has mad made already ignorant people of international and domestic affairs even more so >multiple events hosted for the game by up public businesses
Call me paranoid but does anyone else feel suspicious with Pokemon go?
I just seems to me like the games rapid and large popularity can be very easily manipulated by governments or organizations. Someone could very easily use the game in attempts to distract or even control the populace.
Are we seeing Brave New World happening in real time?
>get a pokespot or gym >wait until a young girl comes >kidnap girl
Cameron Harris
Its literally just a game where you walk around outside.
In fact, by REQUIRING you to wander, your more likely to run into and experience societies problems than if you sat on your ass posting on tumblr
Take off your tinfoil and fuck off.
Anthony Garcia
society needs to burn before anything nice can grow again. like a forest fire or mt. st. helens
Joseph Williams
Wait for 2 or 4 weeks and this dumb retareded trend will die out and Nintendo stock will go back to shit
Luke Rogers
This. These people would just be sitting in their asses on Facebook all day. I fail to see how making people slightly more fit and social is a conspiracy.
Xavier Jenkins
My bet is that Niantic is going to keep track of people's locations when they play the game, analyze the patterns and make some money off of selling a lot of that information for marketing purposes. Other than that, I doubt that there is much that is sinister going on.
Besides, I went into an open space area near my house last night and saw some tubby teens actually walking around playing the game. At least they were off their asses.
Nathan Cox
Read up on it, its just more intelligence gathering, people are literally just handing them live maps with details of where they live.
I suspect additional stuff but thats just my tinfoil side
Carson Lewis
It's pretty much the first "well implemented" AR experience we've ever had. That's the only reason its so popular.
Once AR gets more popular no one will care about half the things that come out because by then it will be mundane.
But from the permissions the app wants, yes, Pokemon Go definitely has ulterior motives.
in before retards who have no idea how data analysis works say your data is worthless or that there's "no way" they could sort through the data despite numerous companies sorting through data orders of magnitudes larger than Pokemon Go every day.
Connor Wright
this
All of the Sup Forums threads on GO are stemming from this weird sense of needing to hate anything popular
Tyler Cox
I went to Ann Arbor with some friends last night. We were out until 2:30 in the fucking morning. And there were about 80 UofM students out still too.
Everyone talking, me and my friends chatting with the single girls in Totoro shirts and tiny shorts, running stampedes when a Bulbasaur showed up a block away, people sharing chargers. It was exactly the sort of thing you'd want the world to be like.
Other than the fact that it was 9 to 1 male to female.
But other than that, quit complaining and go talk to some people.
Jack Watson
Its overrated. Its another thing made into a social fad like planking or Twitter. Its fucking lame.
However it is a pretty cool development of aquiring mapping information for Google....and the inside of your home.
Hudson Jackson
It's funded by the CIA Game company and it's parent company's CEO are all very close to and funded by the CIA. It is also very suspicious that a company involved with this key is named >Keyhole And has ties with the CIA
Grayson Lopez
>Are we seeing Brave New World happening in real time? How old are you?
We've been in brave new world (or more accurately Fahrenheit 451) since there was TV.
My theory is that in addition to being the first widely successful AR experience, it's building the framework for a Google platform that uses 3D street view and shit. I bet when you capture a pokemon it takes a picture and geotags it, essentially giving Google a god's eye view of everything users are looking at.
Colton Allen
Of all the things you could have brought up about the game this is it? Holy fucking shit you dumb ass
This is the worst post on Sup Forums today, congratulations!
Isaac Walker
this! when you catch that monster you actually take a picture or video of that place and send directly to Google
Jacob Hill
>multiple events hosted for the game by up public businesses I wish this actually happened.
That's Bellevue Square park. I was there the other day until 3am
Same thing happened when someone found an Aerodactyl
Jason Mitchell
Botnet. Only way to protect yourself is to install Gentoo.
David Reyes
Jesus Christ. I'm glad this pokemon shit is a rare thing to see here. At most I saw a handful of neckbeards dressed in black, suffering in 110 degree weather in a public park.
Colton Howard
You know, when you look at it like that it doesn't seem that bad. We ALREADY HAVE the fucking cybernetic collective hivemind that is facebook and twitter. Would Pokemon Go not exist, the world would be in the exact same state except those people would be on Facebook and Twitter rather than outside and getting in people's way.
In the grand scheme of thing, it doesn't really add much. It's just yet another distraction for the masses where the government monitor them on top of all the others, except this one make people get some sunlight and exercise. Sure they look fucking stupid but I suppose its an improvement.
Jaxson Gray
Thank you. It's genius. It's making kids go outside, and have fun doing it.
Lucas Ward
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Kayden Lee
I don't think I realized how much I hate humans until right now.
Connor Brown
yeah, it's we've been in the Information Age, aka the age of distractions for almost twenty years.
Brayden Rivera
Facebook is sponsoring some pokemon go event up in san francisco tonight. supposedly something like 30,000 people have already sent an RSVP.
fucking morons.
Jacob Carter
Pokemon Go is the best thing to happen to nerds in decades. I throw real money at it in appreciation of what it's done to people in the bay area: They're finally getting out and meeting other people.
Oliver Gutierrez
>Wahhh look at all these people smiling and having fun! >Why can't they be posting on Sup Forums all day instead of me >fucking Pokemon!
Christian Phillips
Jesus Christ. Solidus Snake was right
Jordan Cooper
Honestly, I suspect that given what I've seen of it, it might just die down. It has little to no gameplay and none of the more long-term enjoyment that the actual pokemon games can bring. I'm not saying it will die down, that would be a foolish thing to say but I think its appeal in its current state is limited and boiling down solely to how unique it is.
Luke Rivera
More intelligence. More mind control. Another blow to Humanity by Jews but not unforeseen.
Sebastian Russell
Because these cretins are the same people who want the government to pay for their college while they walk around skipping class playing a game made for babies.
Blake Flores
Cover up your Camera when using it, forward and rear facing
Brody Nelson
How do you know that?
Jason Bell
>mom look I'm projecting again! >Every single person who plays this global phenomena must be colleged aged and poor! >If more people spent their time in their basement shitposting on Sup Forums like me they wouldn't even need to worry about college! >Mom can things stop being popular so I can use them while staying contrarian on Sup Forums?!
Samuel Stewart
>look at those those lemming zombies with their time-wasting skinner box distraction >fun You have to realize, I have literally zero jealousy about anyone in that video. I have nothing but pity for and contempt for them, and shame that their votes are equal to mine.
Pokemon Go, like every time-wasting cell phone game is cancer. A mindless distraction and nothing other than.
Dominic Thompson
>get a pokespot or gym >wait until an infidel comes >kidnap kufar >cut his junk and put it in his mouth >decapitate french pig >10 minutes to finish because i use my old knife >bloody mess everywhere >stick the head on a broomstick in front of Daesh flag >tweet scene for posterity #notallmuslims >tweeter account doesn't get deleted >go to police station to surrender >enter prison like a prince under hurrays from inmates >ask my lawyer to complain because I don't have privacy in my prison room
Robert Thompson
>le you're just a contrarian meme see
Thomas Barnes
>Pokemon Go, like every time-wasting cell phone game is cancer. A mindless distraction and nothing other than. You're wasting time now posting here. Your time is no better than theirs, your vote is no better than theirs.
Jace Hill
Lol just spoof fags, lvl12 and already 1000cp pokemon
Nicholas Bell
Exactly.
Henry Edwards
>I have nothing but pity for and contempt for them, and shame that their votes are equal to mine. And they don't think about you at all because you're a basement dweller posting on Sup Forums with your free time instead of doing literally anything else constructive.
>These faggots spending a weekend at a music festival having fun and making memories instead of reading about how to invest in the stock market
>Le my timewasting is better than your timewasting meme
I bet you play non-mobile video games you disgusting fucking nerd
Tyler Flores
I walked along the beach all day to catch Magikarps, senpai. I have 50 out of about 200 that I need to evolve up to Gyarados.
Angel Russell
>widespread global phenomenon
That's not true. They hyped Pokemon Go like what they did with cigarettes back in the day.
Jayden Lopez
>You're wasting time now posting here. Nope. I'm discussing world and cultural events and honing my reasoning skills, dummy. Sup Forums has a unique place of value in humanity - it's one of the very few truly free speech political discussion forums.
>Your time is no better than theirs I don't waste it to play fake games that are actually just skinner boxes. You know what a skinner box is, right?
>your vote is no better than theirs. Considering their much more reason and knowledge supporting it, yes it is. Allowing mindless lemmings to vote is why democracy will always ultimately fail.
Do you have an actual argument or just more poorly veiled defensive lashing about someone shitting on your shitty hobbies?
Caleb Morales
Exactly I've been taking gyms in texas while playing from az
Connor Anderson
see stupid.
Also, I make six figures as a skilled tradesman if that will help dispel any other future non-arguments you'd like to come up with.
Ayden Allen
>I don't waste it to play fake games
Right, but I bet you play 'real' games right? Games that are truly 'noble' and require 'skill' right? That are somehow less of a waste of time sitting in your room yourself right?
lol show us your katana collection while giving us the history you read and honed on their noble swordmaking techniques
Logan Gonzalez
> Friend wants to go check out my college campus to see what Pokemon are there > Humor him, want to get out of the house anyways and haven't been to campus since summer started > Drive up there with him and three other friends > Shit is packed with people > Everyone of them is on their phone playing pokemon > The main quad is choked with people looking for rare dratinis that spawn in the fountain > Say how insane the whole thing is > Friends say I just have a case of sour grapes because I can't play b/c caveman phone > mfw I know they'd be saying the same thing if it were anything else but Pokemon since they fucking love Pokemon > mfw Pokemon has turned millions into unwitting ZOG drones
Austin Anderson
Me and my friends found a Blastoise in a Taco Tree drive-thru, no one came to get it.
Justin Watson
>people are literally just handing them live maps with details of where they live.
Pretty sure the government knows where we live already, and you can play it with the camera off.
It's a harmless fad that will be forgotten in a month.
Anthony Torres
>all those normalfags
Eli Brown
No because anyone with a job or a brain doesn't play this retarded shit for kids.
Elijah Miller
>Muh live mapping
You can turn the camera off, pretty big oversight if that was your main goal, don't you think?
James Morales
There was a Blastoise outside my house. Roommates and I went to get it and there were 2 people there already, as we were getting it and talking to them 3 more started walking up the street but they missed it.
We ended up hanging outside for a few minutes talking to a few random strangers around the neighborhood who were pretty cool and we didn't know existed
God the whole thing was just terrible and I could have posted a new Jews thread in that time.
Jeremiah Ramirez
Pol is a place for true free political discussion, but unfortunately I spend 99.99% of my time here trolling, memeing, and straight up shitposting.
Austin Brown
I see what you're saying, but involvement in Pokemon Go isn't just about playing a mindless game. Widespread popularity of something that's even slightly AR will promote growth in the tech industry just by investor interest in AR apps alone. We don't manufacture shit in the US anymore, but we still do have a thriving tech industry on the West Coast. Anything that is successful here, from Zynga crap to Myspace to Pokemon Go, helps the economy tremendously. This is why I want all of the anti-gentrification leftist Latinos to either start producing something for this country worth buying, or get the Hell out.
Likewise, free discussion on Sup Forums is important too, especially in the wake of what happened to Milo regarding twitter. The backlash is already intense over there.
Either way, more tech money means more creativity and it's wonderful.
Josiah Reyes
>Games that are truly 'noble' and require 'skill' right? Cell phones games do not require any skill set. They're mindless distraction Skinner Boxes. Nothing more.
You're brainless lemming who can't accept reality. And all of your shitty non-arguments haven't helped your case.
Julian Ortiz
I would love to play this game but I still using a flip phone. I'm totally lame like that
Michael Diaz
Tip: If you catch a bunch of those low-level flip phones, you can transfer them for phone candy, and evolve it into a smartphone.
Brayden Richardson
All that exposure sure has sharpened your edge Jean
Adam Wilson
What if, faggot, it wasn't about the game but the overall experience you share with other people? Just because you don't have any friends and are probably too spergish in real life to be put up with doesn't mean everyone in that park video is a stupid lefty millenial that will never be anything.
How do you not realize this you donk
Samuel Morris
Yeah but it doesn't make the god damn forced data plans wither I use the data or not any cheaper.
Carter Jackson
Finally launched in Africa
Benjamin Sanchez
It is just a game. I don't give it that much attention. I had it for a week on my phone and forgot about it. I think it is for people who enjoy the concept. Not me.
I don't know about distracting the public, but the people playing it seem to just get whatever new is out.
Parker Green
>I spend 99.99% of my time here trolling, memeing, and straight up shitposting. Okay, that's your choice. That doesn't remove the reality of what Sup Forums is and its importance.
>Widespread popularity of something that's even slightly AR will promote growth in the tech industry just by investor interest in AR apps alone. This is kind of a similar argument that Ghostbusters will promote more female-starring movies (apparently an intrinsically valuable thing).
The main issue with Pokemon Go is that it's literally not a game. Adding AR programs that have even a modicum of value beyond distractions to things that actually matter is the goal, and one worthy of moving the industry forward for.
>Anything that is successful here, from Zynga crap to Myspace to Pokemon Go, helps the economy tremendously. So would selling bricks to people to bash their shins against if you could convince them to do so. That people buying shit moves money around isn't being argued against, it's that the 'game' itself has intrinsically NO VALUE to humans, and is just a skinner box disguised as a game, as with all cell phone 'games' such as Clash of Clans, etc.
>Either way, more tech money means more creativity and it's wonderful. Yes, but the issue being stated here is the quality and value of what's being created.
Matthew Jackson
Oh yes I never thought of it that way. Make the puppets get up and "walk" around (drive) while still being glue onto the fucking contraption. What a great way to make millennials keep thier eyes of the road. And do you really think that this social interaction spans more than what's past the phone screen? Give me a break.
Hudson Cruz
>Call me paranoid... You're paranoid.
>...but does anyone else feel suspicious... OP, you are paranoid.
>...with Pokemon go? Just stop with it already. You. Are. Paranoid.
I mean holy shit you seriously think that Pokemon Go, or other games like it, is in any way going to distract people who play it from real-world activities? Sure a very small fraction of fanatics will be devoid of non-Pokemon Go activities for at least a year, but that's with every game that has multiplayer capabilities or a extremely high replayability if single-player.
But most of the people playing this are just people who are playing merely out of nostalgia and will stop playing after the first few months because the grind is fucking real with this game, I mean I don't even think Koreans would want to do the grinding necessary for this shit. And when it is done that is going to be it, there isnt really another video game title that can hit the states nearly as large and get even half of the same user-base as Pokemon go does in the same time that it has. Everyone knows Pokemon and I would assume that most people know at least one person that has played it, so of course this new addition hit as hard as it did, but that's it. That's all it is.
There's no stupid conspiracy to make people not care about real-world problems, there's no undercover message being sent into the players heads, and there's no attempt to map out most the visited places by the Pokemon player demographic and somehow weeding them out.
For fucks sake it's just a game, take your shit to /x/ and fuck off.
Xavier Gutierrez
If they're stupid enough to play the game while driving, removing them from the genepool just benefits society in the long run.
Jayden Hughes
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Jacob Martinez
>The main issue with Pokemon Go is that it's literally not a game.
So you're fine with all of those people instead sitting in their rooms playing Dark Souls?
Blake Anderson
This is how I basically have to play.
Levi Stewart
>PokemonGO map >Koffing and Wheezing spammed all over Israel and Concentration Camps >mfw
>piece of shit cousin comes to visit >he's playing that crap >turns on his phone and begins pointing it all over my fucking house
Thanks for asking you little piece of shit. He didn't even ask if he could catch all the fucking Pokemon on my property. I hate that little son of a bitch so much.
Nathan Wood
You aren't walking around aimlessly if you literally have an aim AND know where you are going.
I guess I am being a faggot lately but people misuse words on Sup Forums so often its just making me autistic.
Kayden Parker
>Just because you don't have any friends and are probably too spergish in real life to be put up with I literally have more friends than I have time for.
>still zero argument
Luis Cox
>keep track of people's locations when they play the game The way they track people will only give them good info if they are moving in straight lines, if you move in a circle or around a block then it's more like they are tracking a triangle within a circle. It's not that advanced but it's still enough to see where you were.
I'm pretty sure this is to get the lazy fat asses fit enough to fight in the upcoming WW.
wew vlad...
David Russell
>IMPLYING POKEMON GO ISNT RAN BY THE CIA
>A good tactic is one that your people enjoy. If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.
Don't bash it until you try it. Go out with a friend, socialize and catch some pokemon. I feel like a majority of the hate is coming from those who haven't even tried it yet. I don't know you personally but if you don't have friends or a smart phone then I recommend you should contemplate on something else besides a phone app
Asher Smith
Nox my friend
Colton Torres
Isnt this shit just ingress with Japanese cartoons? I got bored with that game in 2 hours.
Austin Sullivan
Comparing an objectively non-game to an actual videogame much?
Chase Campbell
kill yourself
Jeremiah Fisher
>tfw to fat and NEET to play pokemon GO
at least I can post on Sup Forums
Jeremiah Wilson
I still remember my great grandfather taking me to his lodge and showing me a back room where they kept a ton of jackets hung up like flags with badges in each pocket.
He was a part of some secret society, order of the snake or brotherhood of the snake or something. They would lure CIA spooks out to their lodge back when the CIA was "just a myth" and would jump them and take them down to their basement where they'd beat the shit out of them with bats and nail boards. They'd dump them naked out in the middle of the woods and never got into trouble for it because the people they beat the shit out of weren't suppose to officially exist.
I always found it a bit slimy and gross that a senator was a member of his group. So much for serving your country; I guess they just hated spooks a lot.
Owen Harris
I've woken up before and opened the game and force closed to refresh it. Right when the game closed my camera popped up showing my room and closed to. There's no reason the camera should be active unless I'm in a active pokemon encounter. I would worry but wtf could they do with pictures of my room. I'm more worried about people with security information playing it. I've seen military people play it. If your at a desk it's not hard to occasionally point your camera directly at your screen when capturing.
Luke Roberts
same here. although i played really early on, it was not for me.
Easton Carter
>people check in on facebook every where >people tweet every where >people snapchat everywhere >most people dont know about geo tagging taking pictures endlessly.
>GUIES THEY ARE USING POKEMON GO TO TRACK AND CONTROL YOU!
Jose Jackson
Apart from that the state and companies may use it to spy on people, is it any worse than pol approved games such as Victoria II and others?
Nathaniel Taylor
I'm comparing one objective waste of time to another objective waste of time.
Just like there are people here shitting their pants and saying "But it's not even a real game" don't realize that one level above them is the rest of society saying "I can't believe you still play video games you fucking manbaby go outside"
Dominic Peterson
well if he was in the united states, the CIA isnt supposed to be operating anywhere near him. seems justified if you ask me.
Daniel Smith
>trend that has mad made already ignorant people of international and domestic affairs even more so You're a fucking retard. The game does no such thing, idiot. I can guarantee that I know more about the world than you ever will, and I play pokemon go. It hasn't magically made me into some kind of ignorant, mindless automaton.
Kill yourself, this fucking shit isn't even politics.
Sebastian Foster
The game itself is really inferior in graphis, no strategy but to play a lot of it, etc. Not real deal compared to Vicky 2, but it will get you friends...
Angel Cruz
Eh that's really not the same thing. Wanna have something getting me a bit more exercise besides just walking on a treadmill. Maybe even finally finding some friends again, I'm nearly 30 it's been a long time since I've had any
