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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: mueron on July 20, 2016, 11:18:40 AM
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I wish I had a Snorlax. That is all.
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Haven't gone crazy with it like some people have but have managed to get up to level 9 without playing a ton.
Protip, if you don't feel like walking around to hatch the eggs, sit in your basement. It'll screw up your GPS enough to where your guy will be walking around everywhere.
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Pokémon GO away. A generational thing, I suppose.
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Pokémon GO away. A generational thing, I suppose.
I haven't played it once.
But.
Multiple generations are playing it.
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At least it's getting gamers out of their basements once in awhile.
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At least it's getting gamers out of their basements once in awhile.
You sure?
Haven't gone crazy with it like some people have but have managed to get up to level 9 without playing a ton.
Protip, if you don't feel like walking around to hatch the eggs, sit in your basement. It'll screw up your GPS enough to where your guy will be walking around everywhere.
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You sure?
Ha, saw that one coming.
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Love how my favorite park for my two year old is a Pokemon gym, and now filled with a bunch of creepy adults and tweens.
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car accidents to go up 200%.
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My kids are having a blast with it.
And I see them running around the neighborhood looking.
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car accidents to go up 200%.
http://kotaku.com/pokemon-go-player-hits-cop-car-captured-on-camera-1783942861
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Disclosure: Great job, home in sought after Illinois suburb, married, two children, two dogs, two cats, 33 yr old. Love playing Pokemon GO and video games in general. Today I set two lures at a local park and had a blast catching quite a few pokemon on my lunch brake.
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I'm surprised it two weeks for a thread to be started about this. Guess none of us wanted to be the first to admit they play.
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I miss Click Clacks and Jarts.
Better to get a concussion from the former or have my eye put out by the latter than to walk out into traffic trying to find Pokeymen and Pokeywomen.
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Disclosure: Great job, home in sought after Illinois suburb, married, two children, two dogs, two cats, 33 yr old. Love playing Pokemon GO and video games in general. Today I set two lures at a local park and had a blast catching quite a few pokemon on my lunch brake.
You sure you aren't a 14 year old boy in real life?
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You sure you aren't a 14 year old boy in real life?
Huehuehuehuehue sick burn. I'm sure you're so busy adulting you barely had the time to respond to posts on message boards.
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Huehuehuehuehue sick burn. I'm sure you're so busy adulting you barely had the time to respond to posts on message boards.
Certainly have the skin thickness of a 14 year old. ;D
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Certainly have the skin thickness of a 14 year old. ;D
Most important...I have the sex drive of a 14 year old! Eh? Eh? Ah who am I kidding I just want to sleep.
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Most important...I have the sex drive of a 14 year old! Eh? Eh? Ah who am I kidding I just want to sleep.
u want to sleep and play Pokemon Go and have no interest in the carnal knowledge of the opposite sex....I take everything back....clearly you're a 10 year old boy in real life ;)
In all seriousness, I'm a 35 year old that plays video games (XBox with the occasional laptop jaunts) so not unfamiliar with gaming and I don't have an F'ing clue why anyone would want to play Pokemon Go over the age of 16. I've seen it in action and once you get over the augmented reality function it's generally a time waste of a game (worse then most games which are by definition time wasters)
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In all seriousness, I'm a 35 year old that plays video games (XBox with the occasional laptop jaunts) so not unfamiliar with gaming and I don't have an F'ing clue why anyone would want to play Pokemon Go over the age of 16. I've seen it in action and once you get over the augmented reality function it's generally a time waste of a game (worse then most games which are by definition time wasters)
I've been gaming since I was 5. I was programming my own stuff on the Apple //c when I was 7. I've been PC gaming since 10; I've been multi-player gaming over networks since high school (back when the "internet" was only found inside your swim trunks). I have/had every Nintendo system beginning with the NES except the Virtual Boy and DS. I've geocached on several occasions over the last decade or so. I don't read instruction books, and technology isn't difficult for me.
I downloaded Pokemon GO last Thursday at around 6:30p. It was deleted before 7:00p.
My take is that Pokemon Go is the soccer of video games... it's easy to learn and fun to play only for people who lack the talent and/or fortitude necessary for more complex games. And you're looking down 95% of the time while playing.
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My take is that Pokemon Go is the soccer of video games... it's easy to learn and fun to play only for people who lack the talent and/or fortitude necessary for more complex games. And you're looking down 95% of the time while playing.
Tremendous troll. Kudos
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I haven't played a video game since I was a sophomore in college. #manpride
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Checked it out briefly to see what the hype was about, but too much real world time needed for my taste. That said, I love that its popular. One more indicator that nerd culture is becoming acceptable in the mainstream. I grew up with Marvel Comics, AD&D, and my share of anime (I liked Ruruoni Kenshin more than the relatively plotless Pokemon). Nice to see the traditionally uncool things of my youth becoming cool.
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My take is that Pokemon Go is the soccer of video games... it's easy to learn and fun to play only for people who lack the talent and/or fortitude necessary for more complex games. And you're looking down 95% of the time while playing.
Bravo, Benny.
That is the funniest thing I've read on the interwebs in several days -- and I've read everything on the potential first plagiarist!
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As far as gaming it's obviously not really a game in that sense. Just fun to try to collect all the different Pokemon. Think of it like finding all the secrets/Easter eggs without the gaming part. The grocery bagger at my local grocery store called me sir so...
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Anyone play the new Doom 2016? What a blast! A little repetitive but the fast paced destruction combined with mêlée was a pleasure.
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This is when I knew things were out of control :
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://gomerblog.com/2016/07/pikachu-spotted-mans-colon/&ved=0ahUKEwj3xqW4oYPOAhWIKiYKHfotB60QFggbMAA&usg=AFQjCNEBQojADClo7t3GpclwJRQZEXJQyQ&sig2=JoFBI9LsZ-4yDevNEeLNMw
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u want to sleep and play Pokemon Go and have no interest in the carnal knowledge of the opposite sex....I take everything back....clearly you're a 10 year old boy in real life ;)
In all seriousness, I'm a 35 year old that plays video games (XBox with the occasional laptop jaunts) so not unfamiliar with gaming and I don't have an F'ing clue why anyone would want to play Pokemon Go over the age of 16. I've seen it in action and once you get over the augmented reality function it's generally a time waste of a game (worse then most games which are by definition time wasters)
I'm all for grammar Nazi work but if you are going to call someone out at least make sure you get your own house in order.
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http://kotaku.com/pokemon-go-player-hits-cop-car-captured-on-camera-1783942861
I wonder if the family of the first person killed by a pokemon go driver can sue the hell out of Nintendo. A family may have a big pay day coming.
"A driver was injured Tuesday night in Auburn after crashing while playing Pokémon Go.
Auburn Police responded to an accident around 10:45 p.m. ET to find a vehicle that had gone off the road and struck a tree. The driver admitted to actively playing the Pokémon Go game while driving, which caused him to be distracted."
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I wonder if the family of the first person killed by a pokemon go driver can sue the hell out of Nintendo. A family may have a big pay day coming.
"A driver was injured Tuesday night in Auburn after crashing while playing Pokémon Go.
Auburn Police responded to an accident around 10:45 p.m. ET to find a vehicle that had gone off the road and struck a tree. The driver admitted to actively playing the Pokémon Go game while driving, which caused him to be distracted."
I doubt that they would have much of a case against Nintendo. They didn't create the game. They only licensed the characters.
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Pokemon GO doesn't kill people. People kill people. Seriously though no more liable than alcohol and firearm manufacturers.
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I'm all for grammar Nazi work but if you are going to call someone out at least make sure you get your own house in order.
First, you are correct that I can't call others out for bad grammar if I don't have good grammar. Having said that there is a difference between mistaking then and than (or there, their, they're) and changing break to brake. My commentary was entirely around the current teenage culture of using wrong words intentionally in place of the right words (or so my brother who's a high school teacher tells me)
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I've been gaming since I was 5. I was programming my own stuff on the Apple //c when I was 7. I've been PC gaming since 10; I've been multi-player gaming over networks since high school (back when the "internet" was only found inside your swim trunks). I have/had every Nintendo system beginning with the NES except the Virtual Boy and DS. I've geocached on several occasions over the last decade or so. I don't read instruction books, and technology isn't difficult for me.
I downloaded Pokemon GO last Thursday at around 6:30p. It was deleted before 7:00p.
My take is that Pokemon Go is the soccer of video games... it's easy to learn and fun to play only for people who lack the talent and/or fortitude necessary for more complex games. And you're looking down 95% of the time while playing.
This is outstanding, and I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only that finds this phenomenon stupid.
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First, you are correct that I can't call others out for bad grammar if I don't have good grammar. Having said that there is a difference between mistaking then and than (or there, their, they're) and changing break to brake. My commentary was entirely around the current teenage culture of using wrong words intentionally in place of the right words (or so my brother who's a high school teacher tells me)
How is that different? We both used words that sound the same but have different meanings. Anyway I'm sure you know the difference between then and than. I know the difference between break and brake. My fingers and your fingers typed out something out of muscle memory likely incorrectly. Who really cares I'm typing quickly on my phone? However if you swap are and our you are a scumbag.
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How is that different? We both used words that sound the same but have different meanings. Anyway I'm sure you know the difference between then and than. I know the difference between break and brake. My fingers and your fingers typed out something out of muscle memory likely incorrectly. Who really cares I'm typing quickly on my phone? However if you swap are and our you are our a scumbag.
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How is that different? We both used words that sound the same but have different meanings. Anyway I'm sure you know the difference between then and than. I know the difference between break and brake. My fingers and your fingers typed out something out of muscle memory likely incorrectly. Who really cares I'm typing quickly on my phone? However if you swap are and our you are a scumbag.
I am assured by my sources that there is a distinction for teenagers, but as I'm not a teenager I can't articulate them myself. It is now clear that you are not since you can't make the distinction....apparently you passed the Voight-Kampff, well done. I retract all previous accusations.
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Checked it out briefly to see what the hype was about, but too much real world time needed for my taste. That said, I love that its popular. One more indicator that nerd culture is becoming acceptable in the mainstream. I grew up with Marvel Comics, AD&D, and my share of anime (I liked Ruruoni Kenshin more than the relatively plotless Pokemon). Nice to see the traditionally uncool things of my youth becoming cool.
Nerdry has been cool for at least the last 5 years. Once a bunch of hot girls in high school/early 20s started embracing nerd stuff the rocket ship took off. That's why the CEO of Snapchat is marrying a VS model.
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I work in a good sized trauma center ER and we are getting Pokemon Go injuries daily, including injuries severe enough to warrant trauma activations.
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Nerdry has been cool for at least the last 5 years. Once a bunch of hot girls in high school/early 20s started embracing nerd stuff the rocket ship took off. That's why the CEO of Snapchat is marrying a VS model.
I think thats less about hot girls embracing nerd stuff and more that nerd stuff can bring you billions. Thats why Spiegel is getting married to Miranda Kerr, he's not even a coding nerd. He was a product design major.
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Some friends had a man walk in front of their car while he was playing, they missed him but his comment was "Wow, that's the closest one yet today", Darwin's Law proves some folks never learn from their mistakes.
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I miss Click Clacks and Jarts.
Better to get a concussion from the former or have my eye put out by the latter than to walk out into traffic trying to find Pokeymen and Pokeywomen.
Jarts - While cleaning her garage, my mom recently gave me a bin of old sports equipment that included the two rings from jarts but no jarts. I was bummed!
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I think thats less about hot girls embracing nerd stuff and more that nerd stuff can bring you billions. Thats why Spiegel is getting married to Miranda Kerr, he's not even a coding nerd. He was a product design major.
It's a chicken or an egg thing. Nerd money comes as a result of nerd popularity because of nerds being accepted and in some cases preferred over "normal" culture i.e. jocks and BMOCs. I will say I believe this is a direct result of the pushing of STEM generally and to females in particular which is great.
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Nerdry has been cool for at least the last 5 years. Once a bunch of hot girls in high school/early 20s started embracing nerd stuff the rocket ship took off. That's why the CEO of Snapchat is marrying a VS model.
Nerdry isn't cool, Money is cool. Get back to me when the organizer of your local Cosplay festival marries a V'S model.
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My 21 year old daughter just explained the appeal to me from a college student perspective. She works in a coffee shop near campus that apparently is a 'stop'. She says it may the greatest mixer she has seen. Total strangers converging on the coffee shop and introducing themselves and teaming up while playing the game together. Well, I guess it is better that sitting around in the basement or just bitching about everything on the internet.
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Nerdry isn't cool, Money is cool. Get back to me when the organizer of your local Cosplay festival marries a V'S model.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree. Look at Big Bang Theory, Pokemon Go, Avengers or even Star Wars. Things that would have been a subculture 20 years ago are now mainstream, in fact, you can even be made fun of for not being involved in some of those things.
Money does tend to marry money, but nerd money was always a peg or two below more traditional forms of money. Now nerd money is on par with trust fund or acting or musician or sports money.
And if the local Cosplay leader has access to meet a VS model it could happen, just like if a low level marketing person at a fortune 500 company could meet and marry a VS model.
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I think we'll have to agree to disagree. Look at Big Bang Theory, Pokemon Go, Avengers or even Star Wars. Things that would have been a subculture 20 years ago are now mainstream, in fact, you can even be made fun of for not being involved in some of those things.
Money does tend to marry money, but nerd money was always a peg or two below more traditional forms of money. Now nerd money is on par with trust fund or acting or musician or sports money.
And if the local Cosplay leader has access to meet a VS model it could happen, just like if a low level marketing person at a fortune 500 company could meet and marry a VS model.
Pokemon GO isn't nerd... nerds aren't going to waste time or space on Pokemon GO.
Sheldon will make some sort of analogy regarding Pokemon GO being to society what Scott Bakula was to the Star Trek franchise in the upcoming season... bank on it.
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I work in a good sized trauma center ER and we are getting Pokemon Go injuries daily, including injuries severe enough to warrant trauma activations.
I know I'm not supposed to laugh at others' agony, but this is pretty effen funny.
So shoot me. Or, if you really want to punish me, make me play Pokeyman Go.
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Nerdry isn't cool, Money is cool. Get back to me when the organizer of your local Cosplay festival marries a V'S model.
Some of the Cosplay folk look an awful lot like VS models. Jessica Nigri, Riddle, Vera Bambi, Monika Lee, the list goes on.
Now granted, not every cosplayer looks like Jess Nigri...
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I don't play but my kids do - probably because my kids aren't old enough to have their own phones so they are monopolizing ours. Aside from my general 'to each his own' POV three things that i like about Pokemon Go are:
1 - Tower alluded to this but we are interacting with WAY more of our fellow Kansas City residence than we normally would. Last Saturday on the street car, at the farmers market and at lunch we had pleasant conversations with others that started with Pokemon Go and most of those conversations were with 20 somethings that, for a variety of reasons, we never would have had interaction with.
2 - As the first 'popular' augmented reality game it is pretty easy to see that in 5-10 years there will be some awesome adaptations/evolutions in both equipment and apps.
3- google glass sales should benefit from Pokemon Go and would help ease peoples safety concerns.
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Nerdry isn't cool, Money is cool. Get back to me when the organizer of your local Cosplay festival marries a V'S model.
Exactly.
Cool girls may embrace nerdy, but they still don't embrace nerds.
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My daughter and her beau were dreaming of a Harry Potter-esque version of Pokémon-Go where people are wandering around collecting imaginary magical creatures as a tie-in for the upcoming movie. I wish the beau or daughter coded, because that would be a money-maker.
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My 21 year old daughter just explained the appeal to me from a college student perspective. She works in a coffee shop near campus that apparently is a 'stop'. She says it may the greatest mixer she has seen. Total strangers converging on the coffee shop and introducing themselves and teaming up while playing the game together. Well, I guess it is better that sitting around in the basement or just bitching about everything on the internet.
*Closes MU Scoop*
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I was wondering who would pick up on that.
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My 21 year old daughter just explained the appeal to me from a college student perspective. She works in a coffee shop near campus that apparently is a 'stop'. She says it may the greatest mixer she has seen. Total strangers converging on the coffee shop and introducing themselves and teaming up while playing the game together. Well, I guess it is better that sitting around in the basement or just bitching about everything on the internet.
I took my 18 year old granddaughter down to the lake in Kenosha (we live in Racine) to hunt Pokemans or whatever it is they do. She got phone numbers of half a dozen different kids that she is now texting on a daily basis. Much better way to meet kids their age than most methods.
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Sounds like it works better than tinder.
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At least it's getting gamers out of their basements once in awhile.
Are you sure we want that?
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Sounds like it works better than tinder.
For grandpa or the girls?
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Sounds like it works better than tinder.
"The other app where you swipe to find monsters in your area."
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How many heat stroke Pokémon Go related hospital admissions will there be this weekend?
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"The other app where you swipe to find monsters in your area."
When they say, "Gotta catch 'email all", I am pretty sure they weren't referring to STDS
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For grandpa or the girls?
I'm gonna hafta go all 5th amendment on your a$$ on this question.
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Someone caught them all already
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/lol-of-course-hes-valor (https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/lol-of-course-hes-valor)
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Can anyone give me a parents' guide intro?
My 8 year old has been catching them, etc .. it's classic for him to start a game full-force, then realize there's actual strategy that needs to be learned, so he just wanders, not realizing all aspects of the game .. leading dad to understand the game to teach it down. I've tried to find simple videos on the subject, but they often seem to wander.
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Is there any reason you'd have more than one copy of a guy? I'd imagine you transfer all extra copies of lesser cards so your biggest CP card could use the "candy"?
Also need an explanation of gyms and fighting .. if you found a gym with some super powerful dude, there's no point fighting and losing, right?
And how do you fight?
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Can anyone give me a parents' guide intro?
My 8 year old has been catching them, etc .. it's classic for him to start a game full-force, then realize there's actual strategy that needs to be learned, so he just wanders, not realizing all aspects of the game .. leading dad to understand the game to teach it down. I've tried to find simple videos on the subject, but they often seem to wander.
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Is there any reason you'd have more than one copy of a guy? I'd imagine you transfer all extra copies of lesser cards so your biggest CP card could use the "candy"?
Also need an explanation of gyms and fighting .. if you found a gym with some super powerful dude, there's no point fighting and losing, right?
And how do you fight?
Gyms i still don't understand. Usually there's no point to keeping duplicates except for 2 exceptions. With the evee's you want at least 3 of them so they evolve into their other evolutions and sometimes ill evolve a bunch of duplicate pidgeys, or weedles for the experience boost
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Ring Out Rattata.
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Conan O'Brien:
The guy is going to be OK, but in California, a man playing Pokemon Go was stabbed. The man said, "It was terrifying. My lack of a life flashed before my eyes."
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Caught so many new Pokemon in Vegas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The basketball was cool, the booze was flowin, the people were great.. but the Pokemon hunting MADE THE TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Off to play some MLB 16 The Show before this bball game comes on.
Bye!
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Is there any reason you'd have more than one copy of a guy? I'd imagine you transfer all extra copies of lesser cards so your biggest CP card could use the "candy"?
Yep, transfer the lower powered pokemon for candy to Evolve your highest CP pokemon.
Pokemon caught in the wild level up with your trainer level up to trainer level 30, that means that the wild pokemon you catch will continue to be more powerful than the pokemon you are catching and evolving. Because of that, it's not really worthwhile to do anything except for bank your stardust until your trainer is level 30, and start doing power-ups at that point.
Also need an explanation of gyms and fighting .. if you found a gym with some super powerful dude, there's no point fighting and losing, right?
Gyms are useless until you're high level and can defend the gym. If you own a gym you can go into the Shop, and in the upper right-hand corner you can collect your defender bonus. Every day you defend, you get a bonus.
Fighting is fun though! Especially since pokestops give you so many potions and revives. Each gym has a level associated with it, and the gym's level determines how many pokemon can be stationed at that gym. If the gym is owned by the good guys you can 'train' your pokemon at the gym. Each pokemon stationed at the gym that you beat gives you a little bit of XP and it increases the level of the gym. At bad-guy gyms you can knock-down the gym's level by beating one or more pokemon stationed there. The lower level the gym, the more manageable it will be to take it by someone that's more powerful on your (or another) team.
And how do you fight?
First you choose the pokemon that you're going to fight with. If your kid has played previous pokemon iterations, they're probably familiar with which types are strong/weak against which other types.
When you're fighting, you can do three things:
- Basic attack: Tap on your pokemon - this does the first attack that's listed in teh pokemon's ability page
- Strong attack: Tap/hold on the enemy pokemon - There's a blue bar that fills up on the upper right of the screen as you land basic attacks. This is the 2nd ability listed on your pokemon's page and it usually hits significantly harder than the basic attack
- Dodge: Swipe to dodge - When the defending pokemon is about to attack, you'll notice the outside edge of the screen flash yellow. If you're not tapping too furiously you can get pretty good at dodging almost all of the other pokemon's attacks.
If you want to dig deeper, this is a great writeup by a level 22 trainer: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4snrnu/lv22_player_giving_small_tips_of_advice_also/
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Caught so many new Pokemon in Vegas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The basketball was cool, the booze was flowin, the people were great.. but the Pokemon hunting MADE THE TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Off to play some MLB 16 The Show before this bball game comes on.
Bye!
You got the PS4? The Show is all I play now. I'll play NBA 2K17 when it comes out doe.
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You got the PS4? The Show is all I play now. I'll play NBA 2K17 when it comes out doe.
Same. I have an Xbox one as well & that's what I've played 2k on... May switch this year
PS - Skat is a Pokemon nerd
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PS - Skat is a Pokemon nerd
Truth. It's fun, and it helps me relate to the younger people at work. Gotta keep up with this stuff if you're going to be "one of the guys" at a software company :)
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As part of my family road trip to Milwaukee we stopped in Springfield, IL to tour the Lincoln Home National Park. The ranger gives the speech beforehand about no cellphone use all in the house. To Please be respectful. No more than 5 minutes later some guy has to get scolded by the ranger who told him that "No cellphone use includes Pokeman Go."
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As part of my family road trip to Milwaukee we stopped in Springfield, IL to tour the Lincoln Home National Park. The ranger gives the speech beforehand about no cellphone use all in the house. To Please be respectful. No more than 5 minutes later some guy has to get scolded by the ranger who told him that "No cellphone use includes Pokeman Go."
The wife and I stopped at Devil's Lake State Park on our way back from Minneapolis to break up the drive for lil' MU03ENG and get a hike in. We were coming down the bluff trail as a group of 6 people were coming toward it, youngest had to be mid-30s oldest in the 60s, all of whom were staring at their phones talking about things like "oh I already got 3 of those guys" or "I can't believe how many Pokemon there are here".
I didn't know whether to throw them or myself off the bluff.
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Sometimes you get what your deserve:
http://deadspin.com/japanese-gymnast-reportedly-racks-up-5-000-bill-playin-1784742039