But that's the ONLY place you can get the infamous Fukipika!
Posted on 07/26/2016 3:17:02 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
Pokémon Go mania has turned a corner — it has reached the point of ridiculousness. The game is making people do nutty, dangerous, and even life-threatening things.
The “augmented reality mobile game” is sending players all over the place as they try to catch the crazy creatures. These people might be in a park or on private property — in a church or in your bathroom.
The stories are getting more outrageous and outlandish. The upside of the game is that it’s getting people moving. They are actually walking around outside. They are running. They are breathing fresh air (except when it’s like a sauna outside). The downside is that the quests to catch Pokémon have been linked to all sorts of mishaps, from criminal incidents to car crashes.
Two recent examples: An Auburn, New York, man was playing the game while driving and ran into a tree. And a Cincinnati woman admitted to climbing the fence at Paul Brown Stadium, home of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, to catch Pokémon last week. She was arrested and charged with criminal trespassing.
The stories are getting more outrageous and outlandish by the day.
Here are some more of the recent ones:
(Excerpt) Read more at lifezette.com ...
BTW I consider taking money off stupid people to be a moral obligation!
How about a Muzzie Go where instead of catching Pokemon you kill terrorists?
Revise stupid to “moronic ignorant obsessed with stupid things people”...
Truly stupid people can’t help it. In fact, they should be helped if possible. The world must be baffling to them.
Ignorant people choose to be ignorant. No problem taking cash from them!
Didn’t look like they ever had any intention to stop their Poke’ hunting to me. They didn’t even seem like they were enjoying each others’ company they were so fixated on their phones.
Oh well, this fad will give way to another more harmful one soon enough I guess.
Don’t confuse daring with retarded.
“Free money”
Opportunity cost...
Someone has already tried just outside of the base.
http://fraghero.com/we-went-to-area-51-to-play-pokemon-go-and-you-wont-believe-what-we-found/
Post # 24 ~ Oh well, this fad will give way to another more harmful one soon enough I guess. ~
That precisely is the problem I have with these knuckleheads. ‘Fad’s or ‘Trend’s, or whatever you may call it - will attract vacuous souls so self-absorbed and so shallow, they can do nothing else; but reflexively jump on the latest bandwagon ~ regardless of how stupid it may be.
I sometimes pity the digital generation, but I still do have great optimism in their future.
‘Just outside’ that base? There are about 10 thousand square miles of desert that could be called ‘just outside’ that area.
Riding a bike is real. Catching pikachu is not real, but since it takes place in the real world it has real consequences. If a bunch of Pokemon ran off a cliff would you follow them? That is just one question this social experiment seeks to answer.
The lines are definitely being blurred.
I’ve watched crime plummet throughout my city due to the vast numbers of families out playing this game. Every day, people do stupid things. By comparison, the only significance to these idiots vs other idiots is that it ties into the storyline that Pokemon Go is dangerous and bad, bringing people out of their homes, finally.
I’ve participated in National Nights Out, watched our local police and fire departments set up elaborate evenings, free BBQ, and maybe bring out a dozen families (most of them their own.)
Last night, I saw over a hundred families tromping up and down my town’s little downtown section, little kids cooing over a character they wanted, the groans from yet another pidgey showing up.
But that's the ONLY place you can get the infamous Fukipika!
Fair enough.
It is just a way to help big brother gather intel.
Mind control.
Fools.
I get up at 3:45, am in our local park to walk and exercise by 4:30 when the lights come on. Last week, a ladie in a nightgown, and a man in evening dress, still out for the night before, we’re trying to catch a rare Pokemon. They thought I was there because I was one of them.
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God help us. We are doomed.
This Pokemon-GO-is-evil meme is ridiculous. Morons will be morons. If they weren't being morons with this game, they'd be doing it with something else.
On the positive side, I've recently seen lots of groups of young teens actually walking around outdoors (with their phones), particularly in parks and such where the imaginary GPS creatures are often found, causing no trouble whatsoever. Sure beats sitting around the house in front of the TV or computer, or engaging in general mayhem, vandalism or other traditional obnoxiousness-bred-from-boredom teen behavior instead.
They tend to be the clean cut nerdy type who play pokeman go who probably played the card game as kids.
Yep, millenial basement vg guys coming out into the sun! I see families playing it, in parks and local cities, seeing parts of their communities they never saw before, learning history and discovering places of interest. A truly new gaming paradigm.
It would be pretty easy to argue that if you ride a bike in a big circle, right back to where you started, that you have accomplished less than by ‘capturing’ some bunch of electrons. Some people highly value the warm fuzzy feeling they get by knowing they rode their bike... nowhere. But hey, they feel like they accomplished something. Same with the Pokémon catchers. They feel like they accomplished something but someone else could argue they wasted their time. Everyone wants to feel like they accomplished something. Some think mocking others on the internet is accomplishing something. Some even thing that is more than catching some electrons. Others might disagree.
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