Gamer looking for Pokemon finds dead body (pokemongo)

Oh my god. My city is literally crawling with everyone from 12 to 30+ year olds playing this game EVERYWHERE. Literally everywhere. And there's so many players. And at least a third of them are people you'd rarely see outside. Which is very cool. People are getting to know new people you'd otherwise never talk to.
Like people are actually talking with eachother and hanging out.
It's an out doors revolution.
A guy just told me him and his friends took work off and are doing a pokemon hunting country wide road trip.
They're three days into it.
Wtf :O !!!

 

Really though, I can see things going bad very easily. I don't like to get into discussions about gun violence, but some asshole is definitely going to shoot a kid because they stopped them from being able to catch a Charizard or something stupid like that.

 

But that's about your gun policy. It's got nothing to do with the game.

 

Don't you know? America's gun violence has nothing to do with America's gun policy, it has everything to do with stuff like nonwhite people being allowed in, video games (especially DOOM), mental health, Uber, gun control laws (because adding more guns makes everyone safer!), ...

I can't think of any other excuses the NRA has made, but trust me, there's probably some.

 

I never tought that Pokemon Go would end being that huge, in the countries with the official release there are flocks of people playing at the same time and yesterday they made a run for an specific pokemon in a american park.

The problem is not overpopulation indeed, it's that there are countries with a large population density, especially asian ones, and Nigeria.

However we are not going to have an large growth each 30-50 years anymore, many countries are having an fertility rate below replacement.

 

Not really. Despite having an incredible population density, countries like Japan, China and India still have huge, empty, forests, fields and other uninhabited wilderness.
There's lots of space, even there.

 

So, uh, hey! Hey guys! Pokemon Go, ey? Topic at hand, huh?

 

I haven't been able to login for the whole day.
The game is set to be released in Sweden in two weeks, yet yesterday EVERY SECOND person on the street was playing it (with fake US iTunes accounts and APKs from ApkMirror).
Maybe that has something to do with why I can't login today? Servers are overloaded..?

 

Pokemon, man I don't get the fuss. To me Pokemon is a shitty cartoon that my son likes to watch on TV every Thursday night with the exact same story that goes like this.

Team walks along, finds a new village. Find new type of Pokemon. Rocket Group try to steal it. Pokemon fight. Rocket Group lose. Satoshi gets a new Pokemon.

Yep, same story every single week. God knows why it's so popular. I've never liked or been in go it. It's something for a pre-teens kid to enjoy in my opinion.

There, rant over.

 

Yeah the Pokemon cartoon is very bad, the games on the other hand are super fun.

 

Pokemon GO is a MMORPG revolution. Whether you like Pokemon or not. Last time i remotely cared about it was when it came out for the Gameboy and N64. Back then I was kid and Pokemon (games) ruled.
Now I just tried to play the game, just to see what it's all about. Basically it forces cavedwelling geeks to go out and meet each other and socialize, since you can't chat in game.
It's like a really cool excuse to start talking to a stranger. And it works. I was totally amazed at all the Swedes (who are usually uber shy and shut in, it's a national trait) who were suddenly talking to eachother and having fun with absolute strangers. This was pretty much unimaginable even a few days ago, before the game was downloadable.
Unless Nintendo ruins it (I hope not) it will not only be a gaming/mmo revolution but a social revolution too.

 

But, isn't it bad to talk to strangers?

 

I mean, technically. Unless they have candy.

Even the naysayers are getting into the game. One of my good friend's girlfriend, who had previously said it was lame, got it and started to enjoy it. My reasoning behind trying it is that it's free. No loss.

 

All I know is that I had a poker game last night and one guy couldn't put his damn phone down. He said that he could get to a Pokestop from my home, but not his own. I wanted to fling that phone across the room.

 

Remember how Pokemon was a huge hit in the late 90s?
It's that all over again, Parents on TV saying it's dangerous, All over the news.. Etc.
Pokemon's heyday just came back I suppose.

 

Yes, but the difference is now it can be dangerous. I've seen dumb college kids almost get hit by a truck because they won't look up from their phones.

 

Hmmm um... Professor Willow gives me candy for old pokemon. >_>

 

I'm sure this has happened many times before Pokemon Go was out. Just like almost anything else, if you aren't doing it right there can be consequences. All Niantic/Nintendo has to say is, "We put a disclaimer! We told people to stay alert!"

 

It's real world Pokemon, how could it be anything but huge? And starting with only the first gen creatures helps them lure in people who hadn't bought new Game Boys and DS/3DSes to play the new games. It's freaking brilliant.

And some people haven't updated their Pokemon graphics packages from 1998