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Who has it?!

Guilty, have had it a few days now, gotta catch 'em all!

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I need some help here. My 7 yr old son is absolutely desperate to play and I haven't got the foggiest what is going on. This has completely passed me by - can someone give me a quick run down on what that on Earth it's all about?

Time to buy him his first phone
One which is able to download the app 'Pokemon go'

Or give him your phone to drain the battery all day running around catching pokemon

Buying him a phone at 7.  Fk that.  Give him a piece of paper and a pen and get him to draw some pokemon.  If he objects get him to mow the lawn.

Cheers

It has a minimum age of 13 recommended.

it's a marketing tool for Pokemon and hopefully a craze that will die away if enough of us hear the message posted by Mohican earlier

Why is it a bad thing, as your post(s) imply?

I think it's excellent, it's encouraging kids to go outside (which in this technological age is increasingly difficult), and moreover it's encouraging them to interact with each other, exercise, and appeals to the sort of kids who usually do just sit inside on computers/video games etc. Can be good fun for everyone too, I don't see the problem. Like collecting stamps, or coins, or any other sort of collection hobby, except this is digital and you can actually do something with your collection.

Fwiw, I haven't got it, and probably won't, because I tend to get quite obsessive over this sort of thing and have enough things to obsess over :p

Can use a cheap tablet instead of a phone.
No idea what you do though, my 9 year old into cricket atm thank fk

It's a strange world when children walking around viewing the world through a phone app is considered healthy.

But I didn't actually say it was a 'Bad Thing', I just highlighted the suggested minimum age and agreed with Karl that there should also be a maximum age.

It's an augmented reality/geocaching game.  Basically you have to walk around your local area attempting to find pokemon.  The game uses GPS to track where you are and then spawns pokemon that you can catch.  It uses your camera so to find the pokemon as well, so it can look like the little critter is standing right there in the street.

There are lots of locations you can visit for items (pokestops) and to battle the pokemon you have caught (gyms).  These are all real world locations and you have to be within a certain distance to be able to use them.

The concept is totally brilliant. Outdoors, interacting, shared interests etc.

If people of all ages enjoy it and they are harming no one then who are we to to judge?

I'm curious to know what people that are above the upper age limit should be doing instead BTW.

I would grow much weaker.
Weather would be bleaker.
If I spent a week away from Pikachu.

NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2td6iOsKI4

Quality work as ever from the Kanester



Studying, reading, volunteering, trekking through the Andes, sex, poker, running, cycling, working out, gardening, negotiating trade deals, fighting inequality, fighting prejudice, trainspotting, tennis, squash, football, washing their car, washing their neighbour's car, cutting the grass, cutting my grass, cutting your grass, worrying about the impact of The Climate Change Act,

I have more if you want them.

Thin value bet at best. Going to have to make a call.

concept yes, but in practice, well, lets just say that yesterday i witnessed a toddler walk into Ann Summers in York, hopefully not to look for lingery and rubber cocks at that age, while the mother was walking about 10 yards ahead, staring at her phone, that had the app running, quietly saying "come along now XXXXX, keep up with mummy"

i'm all for the yoofs getting out and about, but i draw the line at potential kidnappings

No, the list us fine. Let's take poker from it as an example because I know you play that. Why should you play poker when you could be doing any of those other, apparently more useful things you listed?

I still do most of that, but now I walk to most of these where possible instead of being lazy and driving/getting a lift.

One of my locals is now a pokestop and was in there the other night.  Must of been at least 15 people in there playing the game, some were just in there because of the game and left soon after getting what they wanted (they did buy drinks before hand).

Pretty much how I've been thinking, having seen the criticism of adults playing this. I'm unlikely to play Pokemon Go, but play golf, which doesn't appear to be any more grown up, or useful.

I do, or have done pretty much all of that list at one time or another (haven't cut your grass for one). Why choose poker? The list isn't a list of things that has to be ranked, it's a selection of activities that, IMHO, are more appropriate for an adult than chasing around looking for computer game characters.

So sitting at a table indoors with better than an even chance that you will lose your money is a better choice? I would be interested to know why.

BTW you can make anything sound silly if you refer to it in derogatory terms.

I always respect your arguments Dave even if I don't agree because they are usually well reasoned. But to suggest that everyone over a certain age would be better off playing poker or cutting my grass is not up to your usual standard.

PS - I will revise my opinion if you tell me that you gave actually played Pokemon Go and are speaking from experience.

How very dare you! I'll have you know that I am at least 53/47 to lose money playing poker.

But this isn't about poker, nor is it about gardening or grass cutting. It's about Pokemon, and specifically it's about whether it is a suitable use of time and energy for adults. I rate it at the same level as playing Championship Manager or FIFA16, Call of Duty etc.
Acceptable when it involves interaction with our children or grandchildren.

tbh, I don't actually care about the general population indulging their desire to hunt down cartoon characters. Their life, their time. But I would think less of my Son in Law if I discovered that he was playing it alone. Or less of <insert any 20 something person> if they began to show their excitement at finding a pickachew

What a ridiculous outlook.

Who are you to judge how people decide to spend their time?

You would think less of your son-in-law eh? Fair enough. I think I understand where you're coming from now.

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Washing their car is a more useful activity? I have only pity for anyone who spends time washing their car.

Do you play pokemon Go?

Care to give us a review or let us know why it is enjoyable?  I relly know nothing much, just feel pretty strongly about not giving my 8 year old daughter a phone.  She has a cheap tab FWIW and the summer holiday is long.

No Doobs, I don't.

I agree about giving your daughter a phone BTW.

I find it enjoyable because there is a competitive aspect between my mate and I.  I want to do better than him by catching stuff he hasn't got.  There is also a sense of satisfaction when you eventually find an elusive pokemon that you've been tracking.

Granted I personally haven't been playing "properly", I've only fired it up when i'm going between places (work/pub/shops), but, what the game has done is get me walking to and from these places where normally I would have driven.

My mate has actually gone out and walked round his local area searching for stuff and he loves it.  On my excursions to the pub, I have seen lots of groups of people all playing the game, walking/cycling around to different locations and generally having a fun time.

For balance...

In my household my wife and I have a constant battle to get my 7 yr old away from various screens and technologies. Today we walked a couple of miles around my home, talked to about 50 different people ( including the often maligned 'teens') who were all really patient and showed him how to do things on the phone. We visited a local library, two charity shops and a local environmental spot (the rock gardens). Whilst he was observing the pokemon on the phone, he saw a couple of frogs hopping towards the local lake and he trotted after them with a joyous look on his face at the natural beauty of the sight.

So what if he was playing a game whilst he was doing this; we got much more fresh air,exercise and world experience than I usually get out of him with a football/rugby ball/cricket bat etc. I'm looking forward to picking him up from school tomorrow and going to the beach with him to find some water pokemon.

Today at work, we had several people capturing Pokemon that were located about the building.

Think this is a bit too much.

Who are you to judge my outlook?

I think he's entitled to air an opinion on a subject which is being discussed.

I might equally say who are you to judge whether Alan Pardew is a good or bad manager when in reality he knows a great deal more about football & player management than you ever will. You ridicule him regularly, but have the same right to discuss AP as David has to discuss this Pokéman thing.

We are all entitled to air opinions, surely? You are certainly are not shy in doing so. ;)

Yes everyone is allowed an opinion.

But saying you think less of someone because you don't understand the appeal of something and listing things you should be doing instead is taking things too far.

Also Alan Pardew is just awful :)

FFS I entered into the debate and used exaggeration for comedic effect.
This isn't a thread about gun control in America, it's not about the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, nor is it about the potential risks of The Donald becoming The President.

It's about the latest online craze.

Fair enough. In which case I shan't think any less of you for thinking any less of others :)

I respected Cf's opinions more when he posted in blue.

I hate to say this because a fair percentage of CF's posts tend to rip my knitting, but I wish I had said that.

Went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday for a nice day out with the missus. There were a lot of groups of young kids around all phones in hand. Sure enough I opened up Pokemon Go and every sculpture in there was a PokeStop and it was teaming with Pokemon. Not sure whether kids frequent there as it's the only time I've ever been, but if they were just there for the Pokemon seems like a great idea to me. All out in the glorious sunshine, in social groups taking in some culture(ish). Don't know how Nintendo work out what's a Pokestop but if they could assign rare pokemon/items to places of culture/historic etc then I think they are on to a real winner. If for only a short term and even if the kids aren't really interested it's a free to play game and some of them might actually take an interest in some of the places.

The developers of Pokemon Go had a previous game called Ingress in which the 'pokestops' in that were all user submitted. Basically lots of statues and landmarks

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Me and the lad walked 4km today in the beautiful sunshine down Blackpool Promenade while he looked for 'water pokemon'. I got chatting with a few other Dad's who were up to the same as me and Zachary made a new friend as they exchanged information about the location of various pokemon. What a fantastic game, I'm having so much fun with my Son, getting loads of exercise together and we're both meeting new people.

'But it's a video game, how immature, you should be climbing the Alps'

You are winning me over with your, very child-centred, use of the game. Glad it has prompted you to spend time with him.
Still nowhere near to revising my opinion of it's suitability for anyone old enough to vote.

You're allowed to say water Pokemon without putting it in quotes :)

You know us teachers David; school holidays are all about spending time with the boys. I'm just happy that time is being spent outdoors exploring the world and having fun rather than me trying desperately to engage him with anything else rather than the Nintendo Wii U!

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/07/19/pokemon-go-masters-are-selling-their-accounts-for-thousands-on-e/

Right, have succumbed and downloaded it.  Caught two already and the kids are begging me to take them to the park immediately. 

Don't know if there is much to the game, but the kids seem very excited.

 :D

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khsovIdd4Zk

Personally, I stopped playing video games after uni (a chipped Xbox was my last console) only due to a lack of spare time. Some of my mates (mid-30s) still play them and I don't think any less of them - good luck to them. Anyone who has a pastime that doesn't hurt anyone or become too addictive what's the problem?

I really hope that this new pokemon game stays around for decades so I can play it with my kids (if I ever have any), alongside the standard in-house computer games. Kids have become more and more house-based in their leisure activities and that's a real shame.

I was waiting for someone outside Derby Cathedral yesterday when I saw a group of teenagers doing stuff with their phones. I asked them if they were playing Pokemon Go and they said that they were and they all gathered around to show me their screens and explain how it worked. Then they invited me to download it and join in, (apparently they were split into a red team and a blue team) I thanked them and declined, citing a prior engagement, but for some reason, the whole episode made me feel really happy.

I got into pokemon go recently when trying to find something to do with my nephew on his holiday (Scottish kids went back last week)
the 4th week he was over we downloaded it and started playing big draw it's FREE yeah you can buy stuff but anything you can buy you can get for free
by going to landmarks and public buildings. By going to these places with your kids it becomes educational and even if they are older and able to go round on there own
they are going to hopefully find out more about these places.
instead of spending fortunes going bowling cinema etc or sitting in house playing computer games not actually talking to each other about anything meaningful we went out in the car looking for pokestops
talking to seriously getting to know each other better, weather up here was pretty poor so we did spend alot of time in a car park close to 2 pokestops putting on lures talking in the car while waiting to collect from the stops and
for pokemon to appear, my friends kids even joined us on the last day and the boys all hit it off instantly talking a new language to me.
when the rain stayed off we even went for a walk (well he pushed my chair) to hatch some eggs.
now for a while now i have been becoming a hermit, not sleeping well meaning i havent been comfortable driving any distance so stopped traveling for nights out the 100 mile round trip to my nighclub of choice, and since quitting smoking 3 years ago not enjoying going to the pub. But even since my nephew has gone home i have found myself getting out and about again jumping in the car to travel to the next village where they are stops and gyms, and have now gone out in my chair in the late evening and the early hours when there is no traffic in my chair going round the estate i live in something i havent done in years. with me not going out i have been getting unfit and losing muscle strength in my arms with not using them as much but just trying to hatch eggs i have been doing about 2k a night recently where i was lucky if i traveled 200 meters a day sat in my house and now my only problem is i need to slow down a little for the gps to register the distances without the app telling me i am going to fast and asking if i am a passenger. hard to click that button while my hands are being used to push my chair

ps if you have kids remember its free, and alot of kids prefer it to paid attractions which the cost soon mount up

Great post Iron. I love to see positive stuff.

That's wonderful to read, Iron, well done you.

Great to hear. It certainly is getting folk more active Reece loves it abd Darren they go all over.

caught this guy last night

went out last night for a 1.8k walk to hatch my eggs last night, before that went and took over a gym for the first time. it was at level 4 i thought i had no chance but sure enough i managed it then managed last night ot level the gym up to 7 thinking it would only last a few hours it wasnt well defended 24 hours later and we have just finished training gym up to level 10 some of team valor have jumped in  hope to keep it a while longer.

going out in a bit for a walk if i could only get rid of this chest infection i could possibly do 2-3 times that distance

anyone still playing this with my health and fitness problems i was dipping i in and out of my account but this past 3 weeks have been playing 4 hours+ a day with trying to get enough raids in and find enough gifts for friends


helping me build up stamina and strength loving the game but i still no idea which ones are rare and which ones aren't

I still walk around with it as the youngest still loves it.  She gets all the evolutions and hatches when I can time it right.   I tend to do raids still.   There is an active raid group I found near where I live.   I work away a lot, so raiding isn't that frequent, but they all seem friendly when I meet up.  They vary from a few kids right up to pensioners.   

They are also pretty good at stopping swearing and smoking when the kids are about.   There are a fair few fails, but I am pretty bad at not swearing at times. 

Rarities depend on where you live, and what events are on.  I never see any slakoths, and lotads are an issue, but most of the raid group are going for shinies and 100s for now.   Calcy IV is a good (free) thing to have if you are on android.   Lists of good raid boss counters are easy to find.  Just finding others and asking them stuff is always useful.   

feel free to add my friend code if you want scottish alonan eggs then trade the pokemon for extra candies from the trade and also miles towards the pilot license

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i am also member of a raiding group in elgin where the chat around kids is very bad and alot of it from the parents themselves

just set up a group for the gyms in the next village along as there are no gyms in my village