Pokémon GO - Who is playing?

Got to hold a Gym over night! (longest streak)

That was, until it got overtaken on my way to work.

 

Oh I get it and know exactly what it is. I just hate Pokemon, that's the part I don't "get". I don't need no stinkin' game to get me out of the house as I'm quite active all the time and know my hidden city treasures. No disrespect to the players though, enjoy away- scavenger hunts are fun. I guess I just prefer the oldschool way or if it was anything besides Pokemon motivating me that's all.

 

I'm getting a 'failed to detect location' message, maybe because I'm using the app downloaded from UK apple app store while living in Japan?

Looks like I won't get to catch them all after all.

 

Saw this coming...
Pokémon GO Teams Are Becoming Gangs, Complete With Vandalism and Bullying
https://nowloading.co/posts/3998714

 

^^^ people like that ruin things for everyone. Seriously, I am 31 and when I am out walking, which is great by the way because I am trying to lose some weight, I get yelled at by kids because I am "Team Mystic". Me and friends give each other shit for the teams we chose with such fun insults as "Team Valor mixes their wheaties with their mother's toe jam" or "you guys are just a bunch of pheobe the phebs", but these kids will literally scream insults and stupid shit. Moral of the story, I hate people.

I finally got a Flareon tonight though... after 5 Vaporeons....

 

Kids will find literally any excuse to pick on and hate each other, little shits.

Hilariously, the people I've encountered who cared about team the least were... Wait for it...
...Vape shop employees/patrons.
I was walking around with two of my friends after seeing a movie and my friend who smokes was like "Let's go in THERE." The other two of us don't smoke/Vape/whatever, but we had nothing better to do. Turns out there were three people there, two employees and a woman who came in and sat at "the bar" who were all playing Pokemon GO. The art gallery next door was a Pokestop so they had a Lure up 24/7. The next place was a gym, which all three of them kept taking and retaking.
I don't remember how teams came up, but they were all Team Valor and I'm Team Instinct, and they were like "cool."
And that was it.
(And no, they weren't trying to convince us to buy anything, surprisingly. All they wanted to do was talk my buddy out of smoking cigarettes.)

 

Haha, I know! The media's about as obsessed as the players are.

I find augmented reality very interesting. A Star Wars Holochess set is on the Christmas list.

 

People can see what team you are? I'm Team Independent, and I don't see other people on my screen. Does that change if I choose a team?

 

Have you noticed any pattern as far as the Eevee evolutions are concerned? I've stashed a couple Eevee in hopes of getting most if not all the "eeveelutions", but I've only seen Vaporeon and Flareon.

 

Also wondered about Eevee evolutions. Is it random, or does doing certain things/being certain places decide which you get?

 

I don't play but like the concept.

Reading about millennials walking into lamposts, walls, busy roads, over cliffs and other life-threatening situations whilst they stare at their phones searching for virtual nonsense sounds like natural selection.

I (heart) evolution!

 

just did a little reading up and it sounds like the evolutions are based on location. IE if you're near water, you're gonna get a Vaporeon.

 

LMAO! It's funny you mention natural selection. My old professor (who is only 7 years older than me) and I were talking about the app in our long car ride down to the site just this week that people dying because they are too busy playing pokemon-go would be a nice way to cull the population. It's a nice way to pass the time as the millennials in the back seat go on an on (literally) about how great they are!

 

If you're dumb enough to walk over a cliff just to catch a Pokemon, you're a lemming. Damn i love that Lemmings game....wow flashbacks.

 

Kind of funny that I'm 33, the first of the Millennials to some and last of the Generation X'ers to others. I go hunting with a legit Millennial. I don't watch my phone or walk into traffic, yet he does both.

 

Actually the eevee that I just evolved into Flareon was caught by a lake. It's completely random. People kept saying it was move based, but that's a bunch of crap.

 

I played driving the other day, my goal is to be the first to die playing it.

But seriously I saw a car yesterday with three people in it playing (including the driver). Swerving all over and going so slow.

 

Yeah driving and playing is dumb, but being a passenger and playing rules. Caught all sorts of new jawns sitting shotgun doing 80 on 95.

 

Exactly! Also, jawn is my favorite jawn in the philly lexicon.

 

@Philpenn and @BrickBat I'm not allowed to play that jawn while Skylar is driving. (Unless I agree to hit all the Pokestops on his phone too!) I'm also from Philly. Have you seen this insane map for Philly Pokemon locations?

 

I'm still planning on bringing GO with us on our next trip to Disney World. The Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean are both gyms. :O

 

Holy crap @missy ! That map changes everything! Thanks for sharing! My wife lets me play while she drives but she still gets mildly annoyed. Haha.

 

i hear its only random! ive been evolving eevee's left and right and so far only vaporeons and jolteons!

 

Yeah I've evolved an Eevee at home twice (skylar 3 times) and we got different stuff every time.