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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Scampi on July 28, 2016, 02:59:16 PM

Title: Pokemon Go
Post by: Scampi on July 28, 2016, 02:59:16 PM: Is anyone playing?

I'm having great fun with friends at work (and my daughter and her boyfriend) - all getting excited about 'catching' cartoon pigeons on the way to/from work/Uni/just out for a walk! It's highly entertaining walking round, knowing that most other people with their phones in their hands are doing the same thing as you - and you don't have to hold your phone up like a fool all the time! It vibrates if there's a PokÃ©mon close by, so you can just hold your phone by your side.

I love that it's getting so many people out of the house and active. And I don't buy into the 'dangerous' rubbish - blaming a game if you do something stupid/dangerous is like blaming the sat-nav if you drive into the canal! Use a bit of common sense and it's just harmless fun :D
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Post by: Janice68 on July 28, 2016, 03:27:13 PM: I have to say alot of walking going on for miles while my son plays this game. He loves it and all this excerise too . We have to stop here and go there. I'm always with him when playing this anyway!!
Janx
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Post by: purplenanny on July 28, 2016, 04:03:13 PM: No idea what it is, but now intrigued ::) (http://::))
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Post by: littleminnie on July 28, 2016, 04:27:06 PM: Parks and town centres have the rarer ones apparently.
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Post by: Taz2 on July 28, 2016, 05:14:22 PM: We have a Poke stop just by our church. I'm not playing it but all of my sons are. The local pub has got one in their garden much to the landlords delight!

Taz x
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Post by: Joyce on July 28, 2016, 05:43:56 PM: Came to visit my friends grand twins this week. She was well chuffed. Had her photo taken with Pokemon. ;D
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Post by: babyjane on July 28, 2016, 05:59:21 PM: will someone please explain it to me in words of one syllable ::)
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Post by: Janice68 on July 28, 2016, 06:11:34 PM: BJ
Basically catching Pokemon on the phone in real locations!! You have to walk hence good excerise too!! My son enjoy s it!!
J x
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Post by: walking the dog on July 28, 2016, 07:14:17 PM: Stellajane I'm with you !xc
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Post by: Cazikins on July 28, 2016, 11:18:42 PM: It makes no sense to me at all ??? ??? ???

I blame it all on aliens playing with our minds & trying to take over the world ;D ;D
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Post by: Scampi on July 29, 2016, 07:15:36 AM: Babyjane - PokÃ©mon are little animated 'monsters' that first appeared in the 1990s (I think!) in TV programmes, computer games and merchandise - I think they are a Japanese creation.

PokÃ©mon Go is a mobile phone game - it uses GPS to know where you are, and as you walk in the real world, an animated character (your avatar) walks round in the game world on your phone. You walk round to find PokÃ©mon, spots called 'Pokestops' where you can collect items to allow you to continue the game, and places called 'Gyms' where you can 'battle' other PokÃ©mon (in the game, obviously!). I don't understand the battling, so I don't do it. For me and my friends, the fun is catching the PokÃ©mon and hatching them from eggs (which you do by walking certain distances). There's a certain amount of competition in who has caught the best one - and for those of us who remember PokÃ©mon from the TV programme, we have our favourites that we are really pleased to catch (I would LOVE to catch a Pikachu!).

Cazikins - you're right, it makes absolutely no sense at all! But it's fun, and it's outdoors, and with a bit of common sense there's no harm in it. :D
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Post by: Pennyfarthing on July 29, 2016, 07:40:22 AM: I signed up as soon as it came out but have only found a couple! I just haven't had time to do more. There's a Poke stop just down our lane and my son said "don't mention it on Facebook or we'll have crowds of people staring in our windows!" ;D
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Post by: babyjane on July 29, 2016, 10:27:37 AM: so when you get to the location you see this thing on your phone via the gps on your phone, it isn't really physically in the location?

I don't have an iphone or smartphone anyway so I am not going to be doing it, I just don't like reading about things I don't understand ::)
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Post by: Scampi on July 29, 2016, 10:50:39 AM: PokÃ©mon only exist in the app, not for real - when you find a one, the app uses your phone's camera and shows the creature in the real world on your phone screen. You can capture and save images if you want to (I've seen pictures of PokÃ©mon in strange places - for instance, one that looks like a goldfish on a fish counter in Asda!). I'm sure you wouldn't have to search very far to find a relative or friend who could show you how it works!!
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Post by: Cazikins on July 29, 2016, 03:17:38 PM: I still say it's aliens trying to get inside our heads & take over the world ...... I think I have watched to many sci/fi films :lol:
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Post by: Joyce on July 29, 2016, 10:49:32 PM: :lol:

Seems pointless to me. But I'm old fashioned. ;)
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Post by: Dyan on August 01, 2016, 06:54:44 PM: I saw on the news that drivers had been caught playing this in the car when driving ::)
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Post by: walking the dog on August 01, 2016, 07:02:21 PM: The lengths folk go to to catch a pokeman dyan 😄