Pokemon go
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I let my husband do all the research now...he has a plan for after his night shifts to sit and evolve a bunch using a lucky egg (2x exp) for 30mins so we can level higher...0
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My daughter was saving all her Pidgeys, and Pidgey candy, meaning to do the same. She was aiming for 100 pidgey candy and was almost there. Then her boyfriend got her phone and wasted all her candy and star dust powering up pidgeys. She is plotting her revenge.I let my husband do all the research now...he has a plan for after his night shifts to sit and evolve a bunch using a lucky egg (2x exp) for 30mins so we can level higher...
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My son is 21and has his own life and his own friends, as he should. This game has given us something to play together. He and I would play the card game when he was little and watch the show together. I miss those days where I was his bestfriend.
He got me to download it AND his 15 year old sister, and let me tell you, my kids have nothing in common. Now we are playing Pokemon and making dates to go to the park and zoo together. This makes my heart happy.
Not to mention, 15yr old girls are a species unlike any other so I'm enjoying my time with my daughter too
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StaciMarie1974 wrote: »My daughter was saving all her Pidgeys, and Pidgey candy, meaning to do the same. She was aiming for 100 pidgey candy and was almost there. Then her boyfriend got her phone and wasted all her candy and star dust powering up pidgeys. She is plotting her revenge.I let my husband do all the research now...he has a plan for after his night shifts to sit and evolve a bunch using a lucky egg (2x exp) for 30mins so we can level higher...
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diannethegeek wrote: »I do not understand the appeal of this game. I tried it..guess i am too old..lol
I'm with you on this! I am quite ok with kids going nuts but the older adults, it just seems a little too elementary. After I saw on TV an adult male hit a cop car while Pokemon and driving, that did it for me!
I play video games using my home gaming console and love it. Being stuck to my phone for hours? I will leave that to everyone else.
I'm 33 years old and Pokemon was part of my childhood. I don't know why it's so surprising that something we grew up on would continue to be a part of our life as we age.
Since downloading the app, I'm out and moving more. I'm learning about new parks and places in my neighborhood and town. It's helped my depression and I'm sleeping better than I have in months. I've reconnected with old friends I haven't spoken to in months because we're sharing the game. I'm getting some much needed sunlight and I've been out engaging with my community since most of the stops in the area are in our downtown cultural district.
If you can't tell, I'm kind of sick of the PokemonGO hate. Being stuck on my couch for hours? No thanks. I'll leave that to everyone else. I need to walk another kilometer at lunch so this egg will hatch!
This was my opnion.. and I am not a hater, I just choose to not want to partake and do feel it a bit elementary for older adults. Me and my husband both tried it.. We both just thought it was stupid. sorry just me!
You don't see how calling the game stupid and too elementary for older people is an insult to older people that play it?
Not to mention there's a lot of complicated things going on behind the scenes in the game, you're just not aware of it The literally hundreds of various type matchup possibilities, the hidden values of each Pokemon that you have to calculate yourself, the value of powering up an inherently strong Pokemon with your limited currency vs. keeping an initially strong Pokemon with less potential for the short term, finding a route that maximizes your output, balancing which Pokemon you want to keep with what you want to transfer due to the Pokemon limit (or the same for items, which is where I struggle), when/where to lure a PokeStop or use a Lucky Egg....and this is ignoring the new things that they're discovering every day. The hidden values of Pokemon was just discovered a few days ago!
Anyway what I'm saying is that calling it stupid and elementary is both and insult and speaks to a surface-level understanding of the game, and yeah - it's tiring to explain over and over to people that don't bother to learn the game but enjoy passing judgment on it the ways that they're wrong about it.
If you take my opionion as an insult then you let things that people say bother you! Why would you do that?
My opinion is not passing judgement, its a free country do what you like!1 -
diannethegeek wrote: »I do not understand the appeal of this game. I tried it..guess i am too old..lol
I'm with you on this! I am quite ok with kids going nuts but the older adults, it just seems a little too elementary. After I saw on TV an adult male hit a cop car while Pokemon and driving, that did it for me!
I play video games using my home gaming console and love it. Being stuck to my phone for hours? I will leave that to everyone else.
I'm 33 years old and Pokemon was part of my childhood. I don't know why it's so surprising that something we grew up on would continue to be a part of our life as we age.
Since downloading the app, I'm out and moving more. I'm learning about new parks and places in my neighborhood and town. It's helped my depression and I'm sleeping better than I have in months. I've reconnected with old friends I haven't spoken to in months because we're sharing the game. I'm getting some much needed sunlight and I've been out engaging with my community since most of the stops in the area are in our downtown cultural district.
If you can't tell, I'm kind of sick of the PokemonGO hate. Being stuck on my couch for hours? No thanks. I'll leave that to everyone else. I need to walk another kilometer at lunch so this egg will hatch!
This was my opnion.. and I am not a hater, I just choose to not want to partake and do feel it a bit elementary for older adults. Me and my husband both tried it.. We both just thought it was stupid. sorry just me!
You don't see how calling the game stupid and too elementary for older people is an insult to older people that play it?
Not to mention there's a lot of complicated things going on behind the scenes in the game, you're just not aware of it The literally hundreds of various type matchup possibilities, the hidden values of each Pokemon that you have to calculate yourself, the value of powering up an inherently strong Pokemon with your limited currency vs. keeping an initially strong Pokemon with less potential for the short term, finding a route that maximizes your output, balancing which Pokemon you want to keep with what you want to transfer due to the Pokemon limit (or the same for items, which is where I struggle), when/where to lure a PokeStop or use a Lucky Egg....and this is ignoring the new things that they're discovering every day. The hidden values of Pokemon was just discovered a few days ago!
Anyway what I'm saying is that calling it stupid and elementary is both and insult and speaks to a surface-level understanding of the game, and yeah - it's tiring to explain over and over to people that don't bother to learn the game but enjoy passing judgment on it the ways that they're wrong about it.
If you take my opionion as an insult then you let things that people say bother you! Why would you do that?
A: Acknowledging something is an insult is not the same as saying I'm worked up about it.
B: It says a lot that your response to "what you said is an insult" is not to reflect on what you might have done to potentially hurt someone else, but to blame them for their (assumptive) reaction. Maybe instead of saying "I insulted you? Well that's YOUR fault!", you should take a step back and consider whether it was really necessary to throw out casual judgments about the entertainment enjoyed by other people, entertainment you are almost entirely in the dark about. Especially since you believed you hurt someone.
C: There's a name for the act of insulting others and then blaming the other person if they have any kind of reaction beyond measured neutrality - gaslighting.11 -
My girls are 14 & 16. The 14 year old isn't 'into' PG. But her phone is also kind of poor on GPS quality. She is contemplating a new phone for her birthday later this year - which would be a $100-150 low end Samsung model.
I know what you mean though - my 16 year old flips back & forth in her moods so much I can't keep up. Sometimes we are good, and other times she acts like we are crazy and she can't believe she is stuck with us.
Not to mention, 15yr old girls are a species unlike any other so I'm enjoying my time with my daughter too
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My opinion and choice of words not directed at you personally or anyone directly in this forum. Let it go already.1
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I love that my 8 year old wants to go walking with me. If we need to play a game to do it, I'm all for that!2
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My opinion and choice of words not directed at you personally or anyone directly in this forum. Let it go already.
Well, as long as you're aware that you're actively choosing to insult people when you don't have to for no reason other than to feel pleased at your own judgment. I am not at all surprised that your reaction is not to engage with any of the reasons why you might be wrong (both about your judgment itself and about passing judgment in general), but to be dismissive, try to gaslight my reactions, and act as if I'm in the wrong for responding to insults about Pokemon Go in a thread about Pokemon Go. Maybe it's you who needs to move on?10 -
Save all your pidgey/caterpie/weedle candies until you get 60 evolves ready. Activate a lucky egg and evolve everything. 30 minute later you are 6 levels higher.6
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I was too old for Pokemon first time round. I'm loving the collector aspect of this, though will confess that some of my best collecting has been done either sitting on the steps of a city centre monument with my lunch or sitting on a slow moving bus through a built up town centre!
Unfortunately, it's useless around the village - barely any 3G reception here and not a single pokestop.0 -
I was too old for Pokemon first time round. I'm loving the collector aspect of this, though will confess that some of my best collecting has been done either sitting on the steps of a city centre monument with my lunch or sitting on a slow moving bus through a built up town centre!
Unfortunately, it's useless around the village - barely any 3G reception here and not a single pokestop.
We were just going to sleep last night when my 16-year-old came in the room - "There's a Rapidash just at the end of our street!" Out we went, and my wife and I and our son now all have a Rapidash.
If you haven't used pokevision.com - have a look. It's spotty for uptime but very worth it.4 -
I was too old for Pokemon first time round. I'm loving the collector aspect of this, though will confess that some of my best collecting has been done either sitting on the steps of a city centre monument with my lunch or sitting on a slow moving bus through a built up town centre!
Unfortunately, it's useless around the village - barely any 3G reception here and not a single pokestop.
We were just going to sleep last night when my 16-year-old came in the room - "There's a Rapidash just at the end of our street!" Out we went, and my wife and I and our son now all have a Rapidash.
If you haven't used pokevision.com - have a look. It's spotty for uptime but very worth it.
That is freakin' awesome...sounds like my husband and me.
I was late for work by about 5mins because I saw a gloom and had to go get it...I was about 2mins from work...
I've only missed one...*grumbles*
and yes until they get the proximity thing fixed we are using pokevision too...great app when it works.2 -
I've had a couple of rarer Pokemon get away. I'm getting better at timing my throws when the circle is small, which increases the chance of catching the target.
For anyone that has Tmobile for phone service they have free stuff you can claim on Tuesdays. Download the Tmobile Tuesday app - and next Tuesday take the offer for free data for a year for Pokemon Go. 2 -
I'm really mixed about Pokemon. I grew up with it and I used to trade cards as well as collect them.
I think it's great that it's being used as a tool to help people get more active, but I also think that people shouldn't be glued to their phones. Especially children. Now I know that parents should monitor their child's game use but let's face it, not all parents do that.0 -
I heard turning your GPS on and off can get pokemon, also I heard you can use a record player to hatch eggs. (I have a record player, that's who still has record players)1
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Record players have had a bit of a revival in the UK. HMV has gone back to having a big vinyl section, in the past few years.
Poke vision shows all the good ones in a reception black spot for me. Also mostly outside the house of a proper curtain twitcher.0 -
Maxematics wrote: »
I officially ticked the "Insightful", "Like", AND "Awesome" things for this post. It deserves all 3.
Mt $0.02:
I like the game. I wish I had a phone that could run it but I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy a new phone and get a data plan.
It is NOT fun watching your entire group play it without you at a get together though. That's just boring. Saving grace for the puppy who gave me something to watch.2 -
Maxematics wrote: »
I officially ticked the "Insightful", "Like", AND "Awesome" things for this post. It deserves all 3.
Mt $0.02:
I like the game. I wish I had a phone that could run it but I'm too much of a cheapskate to buy a new phone and get a data plan.
It is NOT fun watching your entire group play it without you at a get together though. That's just boring. Saving grace for the puppy who gave me something to watch.
It's also not fun to have players totally distracted standing in the middle of bike paths, etc.2 -
I'm a big fan of this game. It has gotten me out of the house more and has given me something fun and active to do with my kids. I don't get the hate. I love Pokemon cards and am watching the series on Netflix. Having a blast and exercising too...sounds like a win to me.3
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I'm 47 and my wife and I love it. Gets us off the couch. I find it similar to fishing. But good lord. If you try to explain it to someone, you sound like a lunatic.10
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StaciMarie1974 wrote: »My girls are 14 & 16. The 14 year old isn't 'into' PG. But her phone is also kind of poor on GPS quality.
If you go into your google maps app and download your area into your "offline areas" the GPS functions a lot more smoothly.1 -
Thread for Pokemon lovers, not haters. Too many haters on fitness pal. Why would anyone want to read negative replies. Pokemon is my life now. My feet are killing me from walking otherwise I would be hunting..I am on level 8. I walked 4 miles the other day. Not sure today. You find way more Pokemon walking than biking and car. Oddly, in certain shopping places. I find a bunch2
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One of my supervisors at work had a meeting with me today and was so fascinated by my talk about this game that she wanted to walk with it on so I could show her how to do it. So I got in an extra mile of walking today!2
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It was released July 6th
It is now 20 days later and you have reached your weight loss goals already? Did you only have a few pounds to lose?
Weightloss goal doesn't necessarily mean goal weight has been achieved, could be minor goals like getting 10k steps etc
But anyway, Pokemon go, I don't get it, is it just an excuse to walk around staring at your phone.
Pokemon I get, collecting, fighting, beating the fantastic four or what ever their name was. It was a pretty solid game.
But Pokemon go seems to have stripped back the game too much, isn't fighting a matter of swiping left or right on your phone? Or have I been misinformed?
But to each their own, I will stick to Pokemon yellow on my game boy colour if I want to play Pokemon.
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The pokemon games have always been about connecting with people and getting people to interact with each other. They were some of the first games to come out to utilize the connecting cables with the game boy color for trading and battling with friends. Infrared and wireless just made it easier as the games advanced. When Gold and Silver were remade they released the pokewalker with it which was a pedometer you could use to train your pokemon and find new ones, just like how leaving your pokemon in the day care and walking your character around trained them in game.
It's actually really neat to see how much the pokemon company CARES about getting people moving and talking to each other. The mechanics I've mentioned are only a few of the ways they reward players for getting up and meeting new people.
That combined with Niantic's goal of getting people to visit historical sites and monuments is a match made in heaven with this game!
Though for those of you who maybe like the idea of it but are stuck on the idea of it being a Pokemon game, I'd like to recommend the game Ingress. It was Niantic's first game, the locations you visit are identical to the pokestops and gyms, but it deals with more science fiction themes and has a secret agent feel to it that some of you who maybe aren't into Pokemon for whatever reason might find more ideal.4 -
Just walked from 830pm to 10:00 playing Pokemon. Whoa exhausted. Funny but true story, my 27 year old niece was playing at the park and accidentally threw her phone into the lake. A innocent bystander stranger jumped into the lake to try to find her phone. This is not a clean lake.The two are going to go out for drinks now.5
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My kid watched Pokemon when he was younger and I watched with him because wow the adult jokes. It was a thing we did together, like playing Banjo Kazooie and Monster Rancher. He has all the DS games and keeps up with everything, but I am not so much into the battles. So when this game first came out I was like WHY IS THIS GAME INVADING MY SPACE until I found out it was a walking game and then it was on like Donkey Kong, LOL. It's fun, but I don't really talk about it with people who don't play. Just like any game, whether it's Candy Crush or D&D, people who don't play are not interested, so I don't bang their ears about it.
And no, I don't walk around staring at my phone, not for Pokemon Go, not for reading books on Kindle, not for checking my texts, not for anything, because that would be stupid. Situational awareness is a thing. I might do something like walk off a cliff. Oh wait.
Seriously the phone will buzz when there's one nearby. You don't have to keep your eyes on it EVERY MINUTE. That would drive me crazy and also hurt my neck.
I always find it amusing when there's a new big thing and people go on and on about the dangers of it. Kind of like how novels were going to destroy everyone's moral fibre because they were lies written down in front of God and everyone, and bicycles were going to make all the women into lesbians, and coffeeshops caused revolutions. Good times!
Roomie is going to take me to some target-rich environments on her next day off. I am excited.
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