My buddy and I just spent all fucking day playing this game.  Feels like back in grade school! 

Seems like the servers have a 100% downtime to me.

This game makes you get up and walk around outside.  It uses gps tags to detect your location and movement.  It's one small step to the next genera of gaming, Augmented Reality.  AR is a share environment, you "live in" the gaming world.  Your physical presence and activities become part of the game.  It's a very exciting time.

  When AR hits full stride, probably 2035-2045 we will see a monumental shift in "our", higher capita states only, average daily lives.  If any of you are game addicts now...  you should start investing your money because you are going to be taking a heroin ride real soon and I dought recovery will be an option.  AR will dominate your life.  Because AR will let you "be" anything/anyone "do" anything/anyone or "live" in any time or place.

If we develop Artificial Intelligence before this time ... humanity will not survive.

Silky wrote on Jul 9^th, 2016 at 9:01pm:


Great, now I have to go w/o a cell phone for 11 years just to be irrationally competitive about something that doesn't matter with someone I don't know...

Sim-Sala-Bim wrote on Jul 11^th, 2016 at 7:43am:


This is the risk with any app that uses GPS to track your location, especially in conjunction with other players.  They will turn it into PvP - real world style.

Mokune wrote on Jul 11^th, 2016 at 7:01am:


You can play the game completely un-competitively.  Gym battles are completely optional, and most of the important benefits of it can be gotten for a few bucks.

100 more likes and this subsection becomes a pokemon go gym!

Munkenmo wrote on Jul 10^th, 2016 at 4:44am:

Good recommendation. I'd recommend going with the S5 Sport. The protective case is built in so you can actually enjoy the thin phone and not fatten it up with one of those stupid rubber cases.

Strakeln wrote on Jul 11^th, 2016 at 8:58pm:


Thanks for the advice, will look into these.  While I have enjoyed being cell free guess I should have one for emergencies and the like when not at home.

Munkenmo wrote on Jul 10^th, 2016 at 4:44am:

I agree with this, the S6 doesn't have a micro SD slot, but they brought it back with the S7.

I like how it's a game that encourages you to get out and go on walks. Wii Fit is the only other video game I can think of which incentivized actual exercise, and didn't really do that very well.

I don't like how the media makes it out to be some "safety risk," because of dumb people oblivious of their surroundings getting into accidents and walking into walls. Play it responsibly and you won't get injured.

I don't like how draining it is on my phone's battery, though I can't say I'm really surprised, given that you have to keep your screen on and have your GPS on while playing it.

I don't like how the social aspects of the game are really, really limited. For something Pokemon themed, the social part of the game should've been a much huger component than it is currently. Even the gen 1 games had more meaningful social interaction, and those were what, 20 years ago?

All things considered, I like it. It has a lot of potential and I have hopes for it, but I can also see it going the way of Candy Crush. You know, one of those pay2win games with no meaningful gameplay? That seems to be the trend that every other mobile game has followed, and I fear that Pokemon Go will go the same route. But until/if that time comes, it's entirely probably I'll log more hours on that game than I will on DDO. 

My friend put the phone on his train set instead of walking to get xp and hatching those poke eggs.

Just put phone on train set all day going in circles in room all day.

WTB Mario Kart GO