Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 14 July, 2016, 09:20:55 pm
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Dez has mentioned this weird phenomenon to me. He is an aficionado. He has just taken the dog out for an extra walk in pursuit of this craze. He took this photo.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnWbgKMXgAAKs-f.jpg)
He tells me that all those people were in the park for precisely the same reason that he was - Pokemon Go.
I don't understand.
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I s'pose it's rather good that 'puter games are encouraging people out of their bedrooms.
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Ob xkcd:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pokemon_go.png)
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It's like Pokemon, but you do it in the big blue room where you might get mugged / discover a body / sexually assault other players / be run over by a bus / etc.
It's like Ingress without all those complicated SQL commands.
It's like Geocaching without the Tupperware.
It's like Strava for poor people who can't afford bikes.
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They showed a picture on the news of the motor-car of some USAnian bell-end who had wrapped it round something solidly immovable while playing Pokémon Go at the wheel. I applauded.
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I noticed more morons checking their phone while at the wheel on yesterday's commute home (and that's in the Fens!) I thought it was just a random, bad day.
...but if they were Poking their mons (or whatever the terminology is :demon:), that's a worrying development. :-\
There ought to be a law against it or summut...
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I noticed more morons checking their phone while at the wheel on yesterday's commute home (and that's in the Fens!) I thought it was just a random, bad day.
...but if they were Poking their mons (or whatever the terminology is :demon:), that's a worrying development. :-\
There ought to be a law against it or summut...
POTD for that! Sheer clarse!
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Are these people the new 'trainspotters' of our time?
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I wonder when Doom-go is going to come along... :demon:
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I wonder when Doom-go is going to come along... :demon:
I'm perplexed it hasn't come along already. Along with zombie defence. Imagine defending your office building/home against a zombie horde.
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I wonder when Doom-go is going to come along... :demon:
I'm perplexed it hasn't come along already. Along with zombie defence. Imagine defending your office building/home against a zombie horde.
We call that 'meetings'.
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Apparently there was a Pokemon on my arm in the living room.
Is this some kind of mass delusion phenomenon?
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Got approached to input into a piece about it in relation to physical activity
http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7
I think it's a good thing, but they didn't include any of my concerns. I was asked...
Could Pokemon Go have any lessons for public policy makers? In what ways?
It should be said, Pokemon Go has not been subject to rigorous evaluation. It may be that any effects it has are short lived; that there are unintended consequences (my son skipped a taekwondo class to play Pokemon Go); the effects may only be there for specific subpopulations that are already well served, and thereby increase health inequality; there may be spatial patterning in effects which moderate the health benefits (through air pollution, etc). As such, I think policy makers should draw on high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials, rather than change policy based on widely hyped games. That said, I think the approach of making physical activity extrinsically rewarding in the short term may promote initiation of behaviour change, and review evidence (Amireault et al, 2012) suggests that motivation and goals are relatively strongly associated with physical activity maintenance. As such, scaffolding the initiation and maintenance of health behaviours until the intrinsic rewards emerge would appear a sensible approach. The relative failure of the developers game that came before Pokemon Go (Ingress) suggests that the fact game leverages a franchise that is held dear by such a wide age span could be responsible for the reported reach of the app. As such, public policy makers may need to learn from Niantic (the developers) and find a loved game world that the public value sufficiently to care about leveling up in that world enough to change their real world behaviour.
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Relative Failure of Ingress? Tell that to the millions of people playing.
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Relative Failure of Ingress? Tell that to the millions of people playing.
Obxkcd:
(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/not_really_into_pokemon.png) (http://xkcd.com/178)
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It's brilliant man.
I don't think I've walked so much in all my life.
When you have caught a Pokemon, it shows you the GPS location of where it was caught. I'm going to use it as proof of passage.
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It's like Ingress without all those complicated SQL commands.
It's Ingress made acceptable to non-geeks.
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Relative Failure of Ingress? Tell that to the millions of people playing.
Is it millions? Or millions of pints drunk by players? We seemed to spend as much time drinking in a pub as we did playing.
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Relative Failure of Ingress? Tell that to the millions of people playing.
Is it millions? Or millions of pints drunk by players? We seemed to spend as much time drinking in a pub as we did playing.
Part of the game innit? Find a pub with portals in range - stick on hack mods, get pissed :thumbsup:. There are drinking games, natch.
Keeping it OT - fboab introduced me to Ingress as something to do when I was out walking - and it worked, we've both walked much more as a result of playing Ingress. Looks like Pokemon Go will have a similar effect on the masses who play it - if not more so in fact, it looks like it's harder to play from (say) the back of a bike, compared to Ingress. I may give PG a try.
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My impressions so far - you can't just spot a portal and head for it - pokemons pop up at random. So walking is more practical than cycling. However you can 'bait' stations to draw pokemons, which is handy if a pub happens to have a station.
Capturing pokemons involves a characteristic finger flip gesture, so it is really, really easy to spot people who are playing.
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I've been playing it on a bike this week but it's designed to be used while walking - in order to hatch eggs, you need to walk X far. Even going well slow on the bike doesn't fool my iPhone into thinking I'm walking.
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I've been playing it on a bike this week but it's designed to be used while walking - in order to hatch eggs, you need to walk X far. Even going well slow on the bike doesn't fool my iPhone into thinking I'm walking.
Quite often, walking doesn't fool my iPhone into thinking I'm walking. I walked probably 4 or 5 km before my first 2km egg hatched.
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Yes, I had the feeling that the location wasn't as accurate as it is in Ingress. A bit odd, that, given that Niantic wrote both games.
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I've been walking loads more than usual to hatch my eggs.
It's also got my teenagers actually off their backsides too.
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Got approached to input into a piece about it in relation to physical activity
http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7 (http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7)
I think it's a good thing, but they didn't include any of my concerns. I was asked...
Could Pokemon Go have any lessons for public policy makers? In what ways?
It should be said, Pokemon Go has not been subject to rigorous evaluation. It may be that any effects it has are short lived; that there are unintended consequences (my son skipped a taekwondo class to play Pokemon Go); the effects may only be there for specific subpopulations that are already well served, and thereby increase health inequality; there may be spatial patterning in effects which moderate the health benefits (through air pollution, etc). As such, I think policy makers should draw on high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials, rather than change policy based on widely hyped games. That said, I think the approach of making physical activity extrinsically rewarding in the short term may promote initiation of behaviour change, and review evidence (Amireault et al, 2012) suggests that motivation and goals are relatively strongly associated with physical activity maintenance. As such, scaffolding the initiation and maintenance of health behaviours until the intrinsic rewards emerge would appear a sensible approach. The relative failure of the developers game that came before Pokemon Go (Ingress) suggests that the fact game leverages a franchise that is held dear by such a wide age span could be responsible for the reported reach of the app. As such, public policy makers may need to learn from Niantic (the developers) and find a loved game world that the public value sufficiently to care about leveling up in that world enough to change their real world behaviour.
Jeez, my bullshit-ometer just went off scale. :facepalm:
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Got approached to input into a piece about it in relation to physical activity
http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7 (http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7)
I think it's a good thing, but they didn't include any of my concerns. I was asked...
Could Pokemon Go have any lessons for public policy makers? In what ways?
It should be said, Pokemon Go has not been subject to rigorous evaluation. It may be that any effects it has are short lived; that there are unintended consequences (my son skipped a taekwondo class to play Pokemon Go); the effects may only be there for specific subpopulations that are already well served, and thereby increase health inequality; there may be spatial patterning in effects which moderate the health benefits (through air pollution, etc). As such, I think policy makers should draw on high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials, rather than change policy based on widely hyped games. That said, I think the approach of making physical activity extrinsically rewarding in the short term may promote initiation of behaviour change, and review evidence (Amireault et al, 2012) suggests that motivation and goals are relatively strongly associated with physical activity maintenance. As such, scaffolding the initiation and maintenance of health behaviours until the intrinsic rewards emerge would appear a sensible approach. The relative failure of the developers game that came before Pokemon Go (Ingress) suggests that the fact game leverages a franchise that is held dear by such a wide age span could be responsible for the reported reach of the app. As such, public policy makers may need to learn from Niantic (the developers) and find a loved game world that the public value sufficiently to care about leveling up in that world enough to change their real world behaviour.
Jeez, my bullshit-ometer just went off scale. :facepalm:
The words make sense - individually.
Together, well...
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The "insane management-speak phrases" thred is over there1 ===>
1: E&OE.
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That's not insane management speak - it's deliberate pseudoscientific jargon-ification. :P
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http://road.cc/content/news/196901-could-pok%C3%A9mon-go-pose-safety-threat-cyclists
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I don't think it's bullshit-speaky; it reads to me like field-specific jargon, which is always used with insiders in mind. I can't think of a way to precisely restate that sentence in non-technical language that wouldn't be significantly longer, which is where jargon is useful.
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Indeed. Though you could argue that some[1] fields' jargon are indistinguishable from advanced bullshit.
The problem with jargon is that if you put too much effort into avoiding it you either end up writing a dictionary or it all goes a bit Thing Explainer (https://xkcd.com/thing-explainer/).
[1] Not implying this one.
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Gotta catch them all!
Although preferably by not getting lost down a cave 100ft underground:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615)
I hope we don't see a Pokemon Go related death, with someone walking into the path of a car / train / off a cliff trying to catch a pokemon....
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Forbury Gardens in Reading (see below) was full of vaguely geeky & mostly male young people staring at phones at 5.30 pm today. I paused briefly as I walked through to ask one what it was all about, & he said "I don't know if you've heard of it, but there's an app called Pokemon Go . . . ".
I assured him I had, & now understood what was happening, & thanked him.
(http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/f55c634230644c89a188758aa76c597d/forbury-gardens-reading-berkshire-uk-ejabc9.jpg)
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Forbury Gardens in Reading (see below) was full of vaguely geeky & mostly male young people staring at phones at 5.30 pm today.
I've noticed that my geek-dar has been out of calibration since all the boys started getting vaguely 70s haircuts. In my day that was a pretty good signifier of geekishness, but not so much any more.
I suppose this is the same process by which Old People couldn't tell the difference between harmless nerds and random thugs when I was firmly in the former category...
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Gotta catch them all!
Although preferably by not getting lost down a cave 100ft underground:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615)
I hope we don't see a Pokemon Go related death, with someone walking into the path of a car / train / off a cliff trying to catch a pokemon....
I am sure we will - I don't think the Darwin Awards will be short of contenders next year ::-)
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What's Ingress? Not heard of that.
Ingres, otoh, was a rather advanced relational database system in the 1980s.
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Noticably fewer motons using their phones today - has the novelty worn off already, or was it just because Mionday (I don't normally commute on Mondays, but both work (a independant school) and Mrs W are holiday mode).
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Gotta catch them all!
Although preferably by not getting lost down a cave 100ft underground:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615)
I hope we don't see a Pokemon Go related death, with someone walking into the path of a car / train / off a cliff trying to catch a pokemon....
I am sure we will - I don't think the Darwin Awards will be short of contenders next year ::-)
Reminds me of the film "Videodrome".
Religious fundamentalists (or "mentalists" for short) broadcast ultra-violent/porn videos along with a signal that eventually killed the viewer.
Pokemon Go has the potential to kill anyone who plays it, so we shouldn't idly dismiss it.
However, in the grand scheme of things, and before grown-ups get all Daily Mail on your asses, it's basically the same premise as "letterboxing" and "geocaching".
No more or less useful but it gets people* walking I suppose.
* By "people" I am of course referring to those fucking nerds getting in my way as I try to make my way along the High Street.
Edit. May be worth checking that "Letterboxing" hasn't changed it's meaning since my childhood. It does sound a bit seedy now I come to mention it.
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Edit. May be worth checking that "Letterboxing" hasn't changed it's meaning since my childhood. It does sound a bit seedy now I come to mention it.
Urban Dictionary never lets us down:
nsfw://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=letterboxing&defid=6170743
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Pushing a pushchair slowly round a park for a couple of hours doesn't add up to many kilometres. I've only hatched a few 2km eggs and one 5km egg since sun (Dez will understand this).
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Edit. May be worth checking that "Letterboxing" hasn't changed it's meaning since my childhood. It does sound a bit seedy now I come to mention it.
Urban Dictionary never lets us down:
nsfw://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=letterboxing&defid=6170743
That seems like a practice prone to - how shall I put it? - catastrophic miscalculation. Is there a term for the Dunning-Kruegeresque overconfidence that would lead someone to shove their parts through a stranger's letterbox*?
*Not in this case a euphemism.
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Edit. May be worth checking that "Letterboxing" hasn't changed it's meaning since my childhood. It does sound a bit seedy now I come to mention it.
Urban Dictionary never lets us down:
nsfw://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=letterboxing&defid=6170743
That seems like a practice prone to - how shall I put it? - catastrophic miscalculation. Is there a term for the Dunning-Kruegeresque overconfidence that would lead someone to shove their parts through a stranger's letterbox*?
*Not in this case a euphemism.
Depending on the letterbox or the presence of pets who will maul anything - animal, vegetable or mineral - inserted through one, Potential Darwin Award Honourable Mention springs to mind. :demon:
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Gotta catch them all!
Although preferably by not getting lost down a cave 100ft underground:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-36805615)
I hope we don't see a Pokemon Go related death, with someone walking into the path of a car / train / off a cliff trying to catch a pokemon....
How, except by examining the deceased's phone (or their killer's), will we know it was a Pokemon Go-related death not a simple case of death by Facebook, Twitter or simple old fashioned text?
I am sure we will - I don't think the Darwin Awards will be short of contenders next year ::-)
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Edit. May be worth checking that "Letterboxing" hasn't changed it's meaning since my childhood. It does sound a bit seedy now I come to mention it.
Urban Dictionary never lets us down:
nsfw://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=letterboxing&defid=6170743
That seems like a practice prone to - how shall I put it? - catastrophic miscalculation. Is there a term for the Dunning-Kruegeresque overconfidence that would lead someone to shove their parts through a stranger's letterbox*?
*Not in this case a euphemism.
Depending on the letterbox or the presence of pets who will maul anything - animal, vegetable or mineral - inserted through one, Potential Darwin Award Honourable Mention springs to mind. :demon:
When delivering leaflets I use a wooden spoon to push them through and to take the canine teeth, feline claws and letterbox gnashers. I guess using wood is another way.
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I noticed more morons checking their phone while at the wheel on yesterday's commute home (and that's in the Fens!) I thought it was just a random, bad day.
...but if they were Poking their mons (or whatever the terminology is :demon:), that's a worrying development. :-\
There ought to be a law against it or summut...
A close left hook for me and youngest daughter on the school run yesterday evening. It took me a few minutes to work out why both yoofs were holding their phones up whilst turn g left and pulling a sharp u turn. Idiots.
Probably won't be outlawed until they kill me and their Pokemon prey. And my six year old. Added points perhaps.
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As for the health benefits of this (putting accidents to the side), I reckon it has something in common with eg vaping and electric bikes, in that it depends how people use it and what it replaces. If it gets people out under the sky when they'd otherwise be playing in a chair and keyboard, it's obviously good; but if it gets people walking round slowly and distractedly when they'd otherwise be playing football, skateboarding or climbing trees, it's not good.
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A quick look at those who are currently out and about Pokemon Going, I can be fairly confident there aren't too many footballers and tree climbers who've shifted hobby.
I thought I'd download it onto my phone over the weekend. Rather fun and very addictive. It's like a gamified (sorry language traditionalists) version of geocaching.
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A quick look at those who are currently out and about Pokemon Going, I can be fairly confident there aren't too many footballers and tree climbers who've shifted hobby.
Indeed. Those I've seen do not in general look athletic, or if they usually spend much time outdoors.
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On Sun morning in playground with MrsC, Eldest sprog and grandsproglet. Two kids come up to us: "Are you playing pokemon go? Cool!" They wander off and one saying to the other "Only 1.4 kilometers until I hatch this egg, lets get walking!".
They were about 9-10. I think that it is possibly a good thing, health wise. They were definitely kids who would be hammering the xbox on most days as their preferred choice of activity.
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Master Pcolbeck (20) and his girlfriend are both uni students and spend all their time indoors and on lineI was beginning to fear they would develop rickets they get so little exposure to sunlight.
Pokemon go has had them volunteering to walk the dog and marching all round the village and nearby lanes and fields hunting for new Pokemon.
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Got approached to input into a piece about it in relation to physical activity
http://www.techinsider.io/pokmon-go-may-fight-childhood-obesity-better-than-the-white-house-2016-7
I think it's a good thing, but they didn't include any of my concerns. I was asked...
Could Pokemon Go have any lessons for public policy makers? In what ways?
It should be said, Pokemon Go has not been subject to rigorous evaluation. It may be that any effects it has are short lived; that there are unintended consequences (my son skipped a taekwondo class to play Pokemon Go); the effects may only be there for specific subpopulations that are already well served, and thereby increase health inequality; there may be spatial patterning in effects which moderate the health benefits (through air pollution, etc). As such, I think policy makers should draw on high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials, rather than change policy based on widely hyped games. That said, I think the approach of making physical activity extrinsically rewarding in the short term may promote initiation of behaviour change, and review evidence (Amireault et al, 2012) suggests that motivation and goals are relatively strongly associated with physical activity maintenance. As such, scaffolding the initiation and maintenance of health behaviours until the intrinsic rewards emerge would appear a sensible approach. The relative failure of the developers game that came before Pokemon Go (Ingress) suggests that the fact game leverages a franchise that is held dear by such a wide age span could be responsible for the reported reach of the app. As such, public policy makers may need to learn from Niantic (the developers) and find a loved game world that the public value sufficiently to care about leveling up in that world enough to change their real world behaviour.
FFS. It's people playing games.
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FFS. It's people playing games.
So is football. So is the Olympics, the tour de france, wimbledon and kids kicking a can between two rolled up jumpers.
'games' are a way of interacting with rules, sometimes with other people. The rules create a restricted behaviour that enables people to explore interaction. That help people to feel safe to interact in ways they would otherwise not feel comfortable, or simply help a group have fun together. When a bunch of strangers meet at midnight and ride to a cafe to have breakfast it is also a game, a particularly frivolous one. It's all just a game.
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FFS. It's people playing games.
So is football. So is the Olympics, the tour de france, wimbledon and kids kicking a can between two rolled up jumpers.
'games' are a way of interacting with rules, sometimes with other people. The rules create a restricted behaviour that enables people to explore interaction. That help people to feel safe to interact in ways they would otherwise not feel comfortable, or simply help a group have fun together. When a bunch of strangers meet at midnight and ride to a cafe to have breakfast it is also a game, a particularly frivolous one. It's all just a game.
Quite. Which is why I hold my head in my hands when "public policy makers" get involved.
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On Sun morning in playground with MrsC, Eldest sprog and grandsproglet. Two kids come up to us: "Are you playing pokemon go? Cool!" They wander off and one saying to the other "Only 1.4 kilometers until I hatch this egg, lets get walking!".
They were about 9-10. I think that it is possibly a good thing, health wise. They were definitely kids who would be hammering the xbox on most days as their preferred choice of activity.
Only 1.3 kilometers to go before they fall into the sticky clutches of the Pedobear, more like. Won't somebody think of the children?
</Forgers's Gazette>
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Pushing a pushchair slowly round a park for a couple of hours doesn't add up to many kilometres. I've only hatched a few 2km eggs and one 5km egg since sun (Dez will understand this).
The daughter uses a record player, place phone on turntable and go and have a coffee.
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Pushing a pushchair slowly round a park for a couple of hours doesn't add up to many kilometres. I've only hatched a few 2km eggs and one 5km egg since sun (Dez will understand this).
The daughter uses a record player, place phone on turntable and go and have a coffee.
Your daughter really doesn't understand MP3 does she?
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FFS. It's people playing games.
So is football. So is the Olympics, the tour de france, wimbledon and kids kicking a can between two rolled up jumpers.
'games' are a way of interacting with rules, sometimes with other people. The rules create a restricted behaviour that enables people to explore interaction. That help people to feel safe to interact in ways they would otherwise not feel comfortable, or simply help a group have fun together. When a bunch of strangers meet at midnight and ride to a cafe to have breakfast it is also a game, a particularly frivolous one. It's all just a game.
Quite. Which is why I hold my head in my hands when "public policy makers" get involved.
Without public policy makers, football fields, parks to walk in, would be built over. Cycle paths to ride on with little children would never be built. Swimming pools likewise.
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Pushing a pushchair slowly round a park for a couple of hours doesn't add up to many kilometres. I've only hatched a few 2km eggs and one 5km egg since sun (Dez will understand this).
The daughter uses a record player, place phone on turntable and go and have a coffee.
Your daughter really doesn't understand MP3 does she?
POTD! ;D
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Pokemon Go as a murder tool? (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/pokemon-go-death-guatemala-shot-danger-safety-dead-a7145836.html)
It still isn’t clear why the two were attacked, police said. But they have speculated that it may have been that the attackers found the teenagers using the app itself – which has location features that make it possible to encourage people to go to specific areas, or to locate players.
It's clearly a murder though (or perhaps an accidental shooting meant for someone else, we don't yet know) rather than a "death by Pokemon".
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From death to love. (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/pok-mon-go-dating-service-launches-worldwide-a7146531.html)
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From death to love. (http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/pok-mon-go-dating-service-launches-worldwide-a7146531.html)
Okay, that's the point where it stops making sense for me.
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Denis tried explaining Pokemon Go to Aunt Phyllis.
"It sounds to me as if you are deliberately giving yourself Charles Bonnet syndrome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_release_hallucinations)!" she said.
I think she understood.
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Pokemon players crash into Police Car (http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/item/4b42a73a-1d3f-4e9a-b8d5-65deb865232e)
This makes me bloody mad.
Jaunty music playing over what could have been fatalities. It gives it a general "it's OK kids..it's normal" feeling to what happened.
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Snorlax! Either they've stolen that name from the Moomins or it's what you take when it's 2 a.m. and a rock in your bowels is stopping you sleeping!
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About that last bit - you might want to stop eating rocks. Just sayin'... :demon:
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Having read this thread through I think I may now have the explanation for the yoof onna BSO I saw ride slo-o-o-o-wly into the side of the phone box outside my house while staring at his mobile phone on Tuesday evening ::-)
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Woman arrested for stealing child's bike to go Pokémon hunting (http://road.cc/content/news/197645-woman-arrested-stealing-childs-bike-go-pokémon-hunting)
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On Sun morning in playground with MrsC, Eldest sprog and grandsproglet. Two kids come up to us: "Are you playing pokemon go? Cool!" They wander off and one saying to the other "Only 1.4 kilometers until I hatch this egg, lets get walking!".
They were about 9-10. I think that it is possibly a good thing, health wise. They were definitely kids who would be hammering the xbox on most days as their preferred choice of activity.
Only 1.3 kilometers to go before they fall into the sticky clutches of the Pedobear, more like. Won't somebody think of the children?
</Forgers's Gazette>
Third *SPLORT* of this thread, after Poking one's Mons, and and this:
I wonder when Doom-go is going to come along... :demon:
I'm perplexed it hasn't come along already. Along with zombie defence. Imagine defending your office building/home against a zombie horde.
We call that 'meetings'.
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Just caught myself a Blastoise. Yeaaa boiiiiiii
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Well get yourself to your GP, sharpish.
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http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/14644626.Cheap_rail_fares_on_c2c_this_Friday_for_all_Pokemon_hunters/
How about a discount for anyone who turns up with a bicycle, wanting to take advantage of the countryside?
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Turn up with a bicycle & say that you're hunting Pokemon by bike.
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Move over, Batman. (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/29/pokemon-go-us-virginia-police-criminals-stations)
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Pokemon Go is (like various other games) "a first draft of history." (https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/aug/01/twister-sex-box-pokemon-go-new-reality-how-games-define-the-times)
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Stephen Collins says: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jul/30/stephen-collins-on-pokemon-go-cartoon
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Is anyone still playing this? I hear it's now considered "atroc" and "an awfolity".
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I'm still seeing young people wandering around with USB battery packs in their pockets, but that doesn't necessarily imply they're still playing this.
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I'm still seeing young people wandering around with USB battery packs in their pockets, but that doesn't necessarily imply they're still playing this.
Probably playing Ingress :).
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Dez is. Whereas he may well by old by the standards of some on this forum, he certainly isn't compared to many of us. I'm old enough to be his dad.