>>21659

Got myself a Jynx which is supposed to be rare, lot of generics, but I got a Magicarp up the Reservoir so Gyrados is on the cards.

It's not even out in the UK, is it?

Whatever, it apparently enjoys harvesting every ounce of information barring your blood type so I'm forbidden (by myself) from playing it.

I've got a shiny Mewtwo card anyway so I win already.

Fuck what Pokemon we've caught (not that I play this game), look at all the crazy news stories this is throwing up.

-Game asks for full access to your Google Account, and then agree to a privacy policy which states your personally identifiable information can be acquired by a third-party company in the event of bankruptcy.
-Teenager looking for Pokestop finds body in river.
-Teenagers use game to lure players to a deserted car park and rob them at gunpoint.
-Daily Mail tries to spark moral panic by suggests paedophiles can do the same.
-APK infected with rootkit is spreading in countries where it is not officially released.

The only way to download it safely is to make a US Apple account and download it from there, then change back to your own Apple ID. Then, sign into it using your Trainer ID.

It's still in Beta, its version is currently 0.29.3 or something close to it. Issue's relating to security and safety will get ironed out, I'm sure. Not walking down a fucking dark tunnel to see some delinquent community project graffiti mural to get some Pokeballs or catch a fucking Pickachu is a good way to avoid being mugged, though.

I'm already sick of seeing screenshots of fucking Pidgeys superimposed in people's living rooms.

I enjoyed playing it on the bus to work, but it uses way too much battery so I might not bother.

>>21664
I don't know how anyone find any in their house, they only pop up if I go outside.

It's been on the news in the US because people have been wondering into traffic and just not looking where they're going. I just don't understand.

>An unexpected and somewhat unwilling participant in the fascination surrounding the smash hit app is the controversial and obnoxious Westboro Baptist Church, known for preaching hatred at anyone that doesn’t want to listen.

>While the app has been available for little under a week, players have noticed that the church is listed as a Gym, and, after a player claimed it, is now defended by a Clefairy called ‘LoveIsLove.’

>The news wasn’t met well by the church, who have since “recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite.” Whether their battle is taking place in-game or is a social media stunt is unclear, but their choice of Pokémon won’t be particularly super effective…

>“We recruited Jigglypuff to deal with the sodomite loveislove Clefairy for us,” the church wrote on social media. “Fag Pokémon are a sign of the end: every *imagination* of their hearts are only evil continually. EVERYTHING, real or virtual, enables proud sin in America. That’s a sign of DOOM!”

>>21666

It's not as dangerous as wandering into traffic, but still not highly advisable.

I'll pick it up when they release later gen pokemon so most of the nostalgia crowd moves on.
I've always played Pokemon and always hated the "only 151 pokemon" cunts, this has just made them explode and now suddenly everyone I have ever known is a Pokemon master.

I'd play, along with Ingress, if I wasn't quite so paranoid about technology as if all our datas aren't already being harvested[spoiler], sigh.[/spoiler].

>>21672

Yeah, the extent of monitoring is so great now that it's not even worth trying to avoid it on a daily basis. You're better off letting them monitor you being normal. It's easy enough to sidestep monitoring for long enough to express your deviancy when you feel the need.

I read a status on Facebook this morning from a lass who apparently thought it was dead funny that she'd nearly caused a crash due to braking suddenly so that her mate could catch an Abra. These are the kind of people you share a planet with chaps- Games like this always seem like such a good idea, until the average user gets involved.

I'm getting sick of seeing/hearing tall tales about this game though. If I were a cynical person I'd call it a ruthless and almost nakedly transparent viral marketing campaign. Most of the stories I'm hearing about this, about epic lolz and this idea I'm hearing repeated all over the place that people are going out and running into crowds of other people all having a great time playing Pokemon Go... They are blatantly fabricated.

I would love to be able to like and endorse this thing but it's rapidly becoming very difficult. It's not even real pokemon, it's some watered down Farmville type shite where you have to walk miles to get anything. It would be a great idea if it had any actual gameplay to back up the data mining.

>>21674

It is pretty spartan, but you have to understand that the version we're playing is in Beta. The only 1.0 version is the one that gets frequent updates, etc, in the US, AUS and NZ. On a UK region iPhone the version is 0.29.

I did run into Tesco to catch a Jynx, so maybe the tales aren't as tall as you think, but perhaps just embellished.

>>21675
>I did run into Tesco to catch a Jynx
Racist.

>>21674

>These are the kind of people you share a planet with chaps- Games like this always seem like such a good idea, until the average user gets involved.

Normaloids ruin everything.

I do quite like the idea of heading out on my bike with it on, but then getting there and being confronted with a bunch of utter dicks seems irritating.

>>21677

Go geocaching instead, it's the original gamified walk.

http://www.gagb.org.uk/what-is-geocaching.php
https://www.geocaching.com/play

>>21678

Geocaching is the fucking nuts and I'll fight anyone who says otherwise. I love it! I caught a Jynx right next to one yesterday, I'm combining hobbies.

>>21679

Thieving from Tesco isn't "geocaching", lad.

>>21680

Mirth, however It was a different Jynx. I got a Danish geocache coin in Glasgow I registered online and then put back near where live, which is Stirling adjacent. When I registered it, it had been all over the world, it was a fantastic moment of feeling a part of some huge network of geocachers.

>>21674
>It's not even real pokemon, it's some watered down Farmville type shite
Oh come on like Pokemon actually had anything to water down. If I recall correctly, the only part of the game that involved any kind of strategy or skill (and wasn't a matter of grinding just like Go), were selecting what the four (that's four, zomg) attacks each Pokemon could have were, and also selecting the Types of the six Pokemon you carry to ensure they had the advantage against potential adversaries. That was it. The rest was, as you say, "walking miles to get anything". In fact the last memory I have of Pokemon before I put down my Game Boy and never played it again was shuffling around in the long grass for hours levelling up my Growlithe.

>>21682

Erm, well that's exactly my point to be honest. It lacks even the barebones elements of gameplay Pokemon had to begin with, which leaves it as nothing but a glorified digital trading card/treasure hunt affair.

Besides I always thought the superficial simplicity of the four moves/six per team set up gave way to a lot of hidden depth considering there are so many different possible configurations. If you haven't played Pokemon since you were a kid I recommend giving one of the remakes a go and you might be pleasantly surprised how engrossing it is.

>>21683
(different lad here)
A couple of years ago, during the 'brain shut down' period after gruelling final year exams I booted up Pokemon Platinum on the desmume emulator. It was immensely fun and for me it is the pinnacle of the entire series. I couldn't believe I could be having so much fun playing Pokemon in my 20s but it was just so playable.

I have never played a pokemon game, I just collected the cards when the original 151 were around.

Where's a good place to download a Pokemon emulator that isn't/doesn't make me think it's riddled with viruses? I'll let you see my shiny Zapdos if you help.

>>21673
All hail thy overlord.

https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/753509144745877504

"UK Trainers, the wait is over. #PokemonGO is now officially available to be installed from Google Play or iTunes."

Well, I downloaded it. Caught a Charmander, named him after my best FM regen. I want to evolve him to a Charmeleon as I recall that being my first ever Pokemon card, but apparently I need more "Charmander candies", whatever the heck they are. I hope there are things to do out in the country because that's where I plan on being while I'm using this thing, my hometown isn't really worth wandering around, Charmander candies or otherwise.

>>21689

You need to capture more Charmanders/Charmeleons/Charizards and transfer them to the Professor for candies.

If you catch a Charmeleon though, you're set.

>>21690

Just so we're clear, the Prof's giving me candies in exchange for the Charmanders, correct? He's not Soylent Greening them, is he?

>>21691

Unsure...

I'm fine with people enjoying themselves and playing this game but I'm already sick of hearing about it.

>>21693
Likewise.

I did catch my first pokemon today though, went for a cycle around the village, found a weird marker for the place I live that told me nothing else and the local gym, also got two Pidgeys, a Zubat, an Eevee and a Weedle. What I do with them I have no idea. Wasted about fifteen pokeballs on the Zubat.

It's fucking everywhere. Can someone who's out and about hunting Pokemon tell me what the allure is? What's the game?

>>21695
There isn't one, it''s a terrible game, it just has the facade of Pokemon.

>>21695

Catch pokemon, visit local landmarks to earn more items (Capture balls, etc) and if you have a strong enough team through the app's metagame then you can take on other people's teams at larger landmarks and points of interest, which are gyms. You have to walk to everything, sitting still doesn't work.

It's a cunningly designed exercise app. You have to walk to hatch eggs if you get one from a PoI. You get 2, 5 and 10k eggs. Some pokemon require a certain amount of steps be taken near water to appear, for example.

I've explored my entire local area and found PoIs I never even knew existed previously and I have also caught a few Pokemon I remember from my youth, something which gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia and on my travels I level up for just walking places which, as a disabled man with limited mobility, gives me a real sense of achievement on top of the exploration and collectathon elements of the app.

>>21697

Does it just count steps or movement? I want to cycle around with it. And there's definitely bikes in the handheld games.

>>21698
Movement. People have been putting them on things like their hoover robots to cheat.

>>21697
Er haven't you been reading the news lad? This app is the devil. Your new lease of life personal experience is all wrong.

>>21697
>It's a cunningly designed exercise app.

I left it running during my commute this morning. It only registered around ½mile of a 10 mile journey, most likely because my phone locks itself after a while, but I did catch a kakuna whilst I was in a queue at a T-junction.

>>21701
It tries to only count "walking" apparently using a combination of GPS data and a pedometer (if your phone has one), so if you're moving too fast it stops counting the distance.

>>21701
10 mph limit m8.

>>21703
So sounds like cycling is out of the question unless you like to go at granny pace.

>>21704
It certainly is. Even a geriatric poodle with asthma is usually going to go too fast to register for distance. The range at which you detect pokemon also feels sized for walking speed, the amount if attention it would need at speed would be quite incompatible with travelling at that speed. I suppose you could rely on headphones and listen for audio cues, but even that sounds like too much faff.

>>21705

You guys all realise that there are various GPS hacks that allow you to go wherever you want without ever leaving the comfort of your home, right?

I mean that somewhat defeats the point of the game but you could e.g. cycle to a spot and then set your GPS specifically via spoofing and achieve the same goal as though you'd walked there.

As far as phone games go, I still prefer Tinder.

>>21707

Gotta' catch 'em all!

Anyway look at the signals this Lapras is giving out; she's a sure thing, mate. Could be a Chapras though, they both look the same.

>>21708

There was a joke there about grinding and grindr but you just totally missed it.

>>21709
Oh well, there's plenty more fish in the sea.

Where the fuck am I supposed to find fire Pokemon in Cheshire?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/53%C2%B022'19.2%22N+2%C2%B041'13.2%22W/@53.372,-2.687,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d53.372!4d-2.687?hl=en

>>21711

Try Runcorn, lad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4PDm_TIqvs

It's going to have paid sponsorships for big businesses soon enough, so I suppose I'll be deleting it when that happens.

>>21711
Use https://pokevision.com/

>>21716
Cheers! Some pokemon are definitely appearing where that map says they should so it's definitely linked to something legit. I'm also finding some on the map not appearing in the game - possibly because someone else already caught them, or maybe you have to reach a certain level to catch certain pokemon?

>>21717
"How come I see some Pokemon in game but not on your map?

Pokemon that spawn due to lure/incense are not visible on our map since those pokemon are visible to only you."

Possibly?

>>21718
You've got that backwards. He's talking about Pokemon absent from the game, not the map.

This is the calibre of pokemon that hatch from 10km eggs. Not the best, but definitely rare.

I got a Tentacool out of a 5K egg as well as a Ryhorn and they are relatively low spawn rate pokemon, so that scans. I think 2K eggs are just the average spawn pops, but stronger.

There was a Dratini across the road from my girlfriend last night. I was texting her, go go go. As it despawned she told me she had found it but lost connection. Consoled herself with a Goldeen and a Zubat.

>>21721

Dratini keeps popping up in my "Nearby" box, but the fucker never spawns.

>>21716
I'm a keen CS:GO player struggling to break into DMG. Do you have any links to a VAC-immune multihack?

>>21719
Ah, yes, I see that now. Apologies. Have a thing.

>>21723

I've got a great one, it's called "being better at CS:GO".

>>21725
So it's okay to use a maphack in Pokemon but not CS:GO?

>>21726

The lad using a map hack is disabled, you tool, and yes it is.

All the map hack on PokeGo lets you do is walk without having to go outside; you want to cheat. In fact, the map hack makes you unable to use the micro transaction system in PokeGO, so you you're putting yourself at a disadvantage if you use it.

>>21727
>All the map hack on PokeGo lets you do is walk without having to go outside
Not him but why does this not constitute cheating in your view?

>>21728
Not him, but in the case of someone with restricted mobility I'd call it a "reasonable adjustment".

>>21729

So, therefore, covered by the Equality Act 2010?

>>21727

You also have to pay £13 for the privilege of using the hacked App, by purchasing IPAStore.

>>21727
You're referring to something and someone else entirely. I'm talking about the map hack linked in >>21716 and not modified binaries nor GPS hacks.

>>21721

>Zubat

I wouldn't even lower myself to consider the idea.

LEAVE ME ALONE I JUST WANT TO GET THROUGH THIS FUCKING CAVE!

Am I the only person on the planet not playing this fucking game now?

>>21734
Me too.

>>21734
No issue with people playing this game as such, but when cunts start walking into you it begins to get irritating.

>>21734

I'm sort of playing it, but I live in a town with no interesting landmarks, and a population small enough for me to know a wild Pidgy won't make any less shit.

One day I'll live in a proper city like Chester or Wigan, then I'll Pokemon Go with the best of 'em.

>>21737
I live in a big city and played it for a bit. Caught some silly 20 Pokemons, got to level 5, and caught a Porygon that everyone thinks is a big deal.

But then I get bored.

It's a shame Niantic took so long to shut down all the scanner sites like Pokevision. Too many people now have sizeable collections gained by cheating.

>>21739

What was pokevision? I heard instead of fixing the how many footsteps away glitch that always said 3, which was supposed to be a measure of distance rather than actual footsteps, they just removed the feature rather than try and fix it.

Someone said they'd removed the transfer to the Professor option, but I sill have it. I've not been prompted for another update so I thought it must be a glitch on their end. How the fuck are you supposed to get rid of 10CP pidgy doublers? In the actual game you could at least set them free if you didn't have room from them.

>>21739
Yeah, fuck those cheaters in the City who get access to all the stock prices so they know what to trade.

>>21741
Did you find that on awfulanalogies.com?

>>21742
Someone using the same information that's also available to you but you didn't think to use is not cheating.

>>21743
Players indicated their legal agreement not to use that information. Besides, using software to expose elements of network traffic intentionally obscured by the official game client is the textbook definition of a map hack.

And by the way, I did use it. I just acknowledge that I cheated.

Try that defence if you're caught insider trading. It's laughable.

>>21744
If you say so, luv.

>>21744
>Try that defence if you're caught insider trading. It's laughable.
Actually, no, it isn't laughable. The information being available to everyone is in fact a complete defence to a charge of insider trading. If you know your company's going to the wall, it's perfectly fine to sell your entire holding after it becomes public knowledge.

Niantic should either have left Pokevision up or fixed their broken in-app locator. Now that they have shut down both, there is literally no way to locate Pokemon. They will probably address this situation eventually, but right now, some people have lives to lead and can't spend all their time wandering around at random. This decision makes no sense and is just pissing players off. (Or so I gather, as I don't play Go myself.)

>>21748
Me neither. I used to play APB, that third-person shooter MMO. When I was customising my character I dressed him in all bright florescent green on a whim. After a while I realised this probably makes urban gun battle more difficult because I will stick out like a sore thumb against the environment, but I carried on regardless because I felt it would make victory all the sweeter. In a game where everyone was complaining to the developers about hackers, I was anti-cheating, i.e. voluntarily making things more difficult for myself.

I don't get cheating on a fundamental level. Monopoly with the family? Absolutely, I'm the most stand-up, trustworthy banker you never noticed slipping 50's to myself. However, Pokemon Go is just a daft little exercise-encourager.

In fact I don't really understand cheating on any digital game. Bit sad, honestly.

This weekend I had two people try to make conversation with me while playing, which is seriously making me consider giving it up. Another reason is that I frequently find myself violating my policy of keeping my phone in my pocket when walking through rough areas.

>>21750
You might have a point if people had actually been cheating, which they haven't.

>>21750
Too right lad. And defending the practice even after the game publisher has shut down the popular cheating hubs is just daft.

>>21752
Not him but I consider the GPS/walking hack to be deffo cheating.

>>21751
Funny, I thought that seeding random conversations was one of the plus sides to what is otherwise a dull, battery-sapping, data-harvesting shadow of the original games.

Are you a Londoner by any chance?

>>21754

Not if you're disabled, which is why I use it. I wouldn't be able to play it otherwise and I like the collectathon element. I turn all the other shit off, there is one where you can throw a perfect ball every time. That's definitely cheating. Way I see it, if you can walk, there is no reason why you shouldn't. All you two legged, strong spined bastards don't know ya' born.

I'd be willing to stand witness for the modder against Niantic in court for shits and giggles using the Equality Act 2010 and Fair Use as his defence. "Reasonable adjustments" and all that.

>>21756
As if these cheating shitehawks ever have the resources or backbone to defend their actions.

>>21756

>All you two legged, strong spined bastards don't know ya' born.

I've actually been waiting for some kind of click-bait article about how Pokemon Go is evil ableist filth and needs to be made more inclusive.

In this case though I think that would be a fair point, considering Pokemon is a game with a very universal audience appeal. Making the mechanics so exclusive for disabled people seems like something they can't have just overlooked- They thought of it and then just went ahead anyway.

Also you could ride a fucking bike in proper Pokemon games, so why doesn't it register if you go at anything faster than a slight jog.

>>21758
>They thought of it and then just went ahead anyway
Because it's a great idea and trying to address that issue would just result in no game at all. There's already over a dozen other Pokemon games that don't require any physical activity. And in a broader sense, there are so many different types of disability that just about any game - or indeed any thing - could be considered ableist.

>why doesn't it register if you go at anything faster than a slight jog
Because biking speeds are pretty fast, such that registering movement at that speed would also include a large portion of car travel, defeating the point of the game.

There are of course already articles about it though:
http://www.dailydot.com/debug/pokemon-go-disabilities-problematic/

>>21759
I think upping the speed limit for the eggs to 20mph would be a good idea, you're not likely to break that cycling unless you're one of the lycra-clad road-bike brigade at full pelt but most people will drive at least 30mph.

I stopped playing. I wanted to try it out to see what all the hype was about. After a few days and thirty odd Pokemons, I have to say that it is really shit. I don't know what people see in it. Maybe the people who enjoy it played the other Pokemon games on Gameboy or whatever. Something I have not done, but I did watch the Pokemon cartoons as a kid, so maybe that played a part.