General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Meatwad on July 13, 2016, 06:10:55 PM
Title: Pokemon GO
Post by: Meatwad on July 13, 2016, 06:10:55 PM
:bhead :bhead :bhead :bhead\
It has became an epidemic
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Plazus on July 13, 2016, 06:15:08 PM
To be fair, it gives people an excuse to go outside, walk around, and get exercise rather than lay around on the couch playing video games and pushing a button.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: APDrone on July 13, 2016, 06:18:20 PM
And it gives the rest of us something to laugh at..
:rofl
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zimme83 on July 13, 2016, 06:31:31 PM
Not worse than playing online games flying old Aircrafts. :joystick:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: branch37 on July 13, 2016, 06:32:51 PM
To be fair, it gives people an excuse to go outside, walk around, and get exercise rather than lay around on the couch playing video games and pushing a button.
And be a mobile road hazard.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zimme83 on July 13, 2016, 06:36:54 PM
people have been a road hazard for various reasons ever since the horse was invented.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: APDrone on July 13, 2016, 06:46:22 PM
:rofl :rofl :rofl
I just got hit by a vision of HTC incorporating Pokemons lurking somewhere between two fields with no vehicle spawns... and watching the 49th go GVing after them...
:rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Volron on July 13, 2016, 06:58:32 PM
people have been a road hazard for various reasons ever since the horse was invented.
lol true. People messing with their phones and oblivious to their surroundings have always irritated me, but it seems like its 10x worse in the last few days. Almost got a couple dudes last night with my pickup. I was turning onto my street and both of them just walked right out in front of me. Never thought twice about stepping into the street. It's not like my pickup is hard to hear. They only looked up when my tires squealed and they looked genuinely surprised to see me. Almost like they thought I was driving on the sidewalk. :bhead
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Drano on July 14, 2016, 07:05:08 AM
Almost got one yesterday. Kid on a dead run down a flight of stairs ran right into traffic in front of me. Looking down at his phone. Jammed on the brakes. Kid looks at me like I'm crazy. Smh
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Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on July 14, 2016, 08:06:01 AM
To be fair, it gives people an excuse to go outside, walk around, and get exercise rather than lay around on the couch playing video games and pushing a button.
That's the good part of it. It's like geocaching without having to know anything about map coordinates and such. However, every geocache has a set location and a description about how difficult it is to achieve. And there's laws and rules where people aren't allowed to hide their property such as traffic signs etc. I don't know how well the Pokemon GO people have studied their maps. If it's possible to find a Pokemon in the middle of a 6 lane freeway, we're going to see some more Darwin Award nominees.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Copprhed on July 14, 2016, 08:30:05 AM
It's not going to be long, I'm sure Bizman.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: SFRT - Frenchy on July 14, 2016, 11:47:27 AM
There was one in my backyard! :cheers:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Meatwad on July 14, 2016, 12:02:42 PM
So I was wondering
If I put this on my phone and drive around town and hit one of these invisible Pokémon with the truck, will it show up on the map as laying down/dead?
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Beefcake on July 14, 2016, 12:21:22 PM
That's the good part of it. It's like geocaching without having to know anything about map coordinates and such. However, every geocache has a set location and a description about how difficult it is to achieve. And there's laws and rules where people aren't allowed to hide their property such as traffic signs etc. I don't know how well the Pokemon GO people have studied their maps. If it's possible to find a Pokemon in the middle of a 6 lane freeway, we're going to see some more Darwin Award nominees.
It's already starting, saw last night where a guy ran into a tree while he was driving and playing Pokemon Go. It just amazes me at how dumb some people are especially when video games are involved. I was reading an story last night about how people are trespassing on the Radford Munition Plant property trying to collect Charizwhatever out of the missile that stands near the gate.
It won't be long until people start breaking into other peoples homes and start breaking their pots to try and collect rubies for Zelda Go.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: zack1234 on July 14, 2016, 12:40:18 PM
Playing video games is odd :old:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Mister Fork on July 14, 2016, 03:46:45 PM
(https://i.imgflip.com/178idc.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: MiloMorai on July 14, 2016, 03:52:21 PM
It's already starting, saw last night where a guy ran into a tree while he was driving and playing Pokemon Go. It just amazes me at how dumb some people are especially when video games are involved. I was reading an story last night about how people are trespassing on the Radford Munition Plant property trying to collect Charizwhatever out of the missile that stands near the gate.
It won't be long until people start breaking into other peoples homes and start breaking their pots to try and collect rubies for Zelda Go.
They are/where running around in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Arlington National Cemetery. http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/12/technology/pokemon-go-holocaust-arlington/
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Meatwad on July 14, 2016, 07:05:43 PM
Marcos pizza is giving 25% off for anyone that plays this game
So 5 minutes later ListerOfSmeg155 saved $10 on the pizza order :)
And I Still Don't Understand THE Game
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Volron on July 14, 2016, 09:14:21 PM
lol true. People messing with their phones and oblivious to their surroundings have always irritated me, but it seems like its 10x worse in the last few days. Almost got a couple dudes last night with my pickup. I was turning onto my street and both of them just walked right out in front of me. Never thought twice about stepping into the street. It's not like my pickup is hard to hear. They only looked up when my tires squealed and they looked genuinely surprised to see me. Almost like they thought I was driving on the sidewalk. :bhead
seems like you missed a chance to teach a life lesson.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Nathan60 on July 18, 2016, 05:28:40 PM
At least for now they aren't playing it in Alaska and getting eaten by bears on the trails.
I mean because bears are going to specifically target Pokemon players....or the generally unwary. http://abcnews.go.com/US/marathon-runner-describes-traumatic-bear-attack-miles-finish/story?id=40005627
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zimme83 on July 18, 2016, 06:36:12 PM
i can Think of a billion other thing people can do that is worse than playing Pokemon GO, people goes outside and meet other people. Seems like they have a lot of fun. i really dont see any harm in that. of course there are those who takes it a bit too far but most people can handle it. I tried it and got bored after 5 minutes and im not surprised if the hype fade away and most people quit. but let them have their fun.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Meatwad on July 18, 2016, 06:41:49 PM
I sat at a pokestop yesterday and watched for 10 minutes. Seen people driving past slow looking straight at the phone for 20 seconds without even looking up to see if they were still in their lane or if anyone is in front of them, and when they do their thing they make an illegal u turn in the road and hightail it to the next one.
:bhead
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: NatCigg on July 18, 2016, 06:59:09 PM
is there something in the patriot act we can arrest text drivers! fess up Apple I know you can do it!
what is the fine if a trucker gets caught without a hands free device? :old:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: guncrasher on July 18, 2016, 09:46:26 PM
while I think the game is stupid. it at least gets people to get up and walk around. instead of sitting on their butts all day.
semp
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on July 19, 2016, 02:26:45 AM
Ooh, it gets more interesting: In today's paper I read about a man having shot at two teenagers sitting in their car playing Pokemon GO (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-man-shoots-teens-pokemon-go-20160716-story.html). They had stopped in front of his house and he overheard one asking the other if he had caught anything. Thinking they were burglars he took his gun, went to the car and asked the boys to stay where they were. Instead they sped off and the man shot at their car. Fortunately no human victims.
This story adds another item in the warning list for my daughter and his boyfriend who also play this.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: BaldEagl on July 19, 2016, 11:12:58 PM
Your "daughter's" a he? Wouldn't that be your son? Unless there was a sex change but then it would be her BF. I'm confused.
:rofl
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: LCADolby on July 20, 2016, 07:04:46 AM
Poke Go is a conspiracy by the PC Gaming Master Race to get as many Darwin Awards as it possibly can :old:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Wiley on July 20, 2016, 10:02:53 AM
It generates suspicious activity. People driving and walking by slowly and repeatedly. Going to places seen as "strange" at odd hours. Photography in places it's not allowed, like military bases.
I bet the cops absolutely loooove the calls this game is generating.
Wiley.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on July 20, 2016, 10:58:07 AM
Your "daughter's" a he? Wouldn't that be your son? Unless there was a sex change but then it would be her BF. I'm confused.
Ouch! :embarrassed: Why do you have to have separate pronouns for sexes in the English language? Wouldn't that add inequality? Sorting people into "us" and "them"?
Just last night my wife reminded me of our daughter crying because of being so hairy that people would think she's a man when she's a grown up. Now she's 21, still having dark downy arms and legs, but there's absolutely no way one could make that feared mistake. She definitely is a daughter and a she.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zimme83 on July 20, 2016, 12:51:40 PM
You are a Finn, you are not allowed to complain about weird grammar in other languages. (http://i.imgur.com/shSUTzY.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on July 20, 2016, 01:08:38 PM
Zimme, you're a Swede. Don't you have the pronouns han, hon and hen, the last one being a non-sex related relatively new invention to increase equality between men and women?
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zimme83 on July 20, 2016, 01:10:18 PM
Rather to use when you dont know or for some reason dont want to reveal the sex of a person.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on July 20, 2016, 01:41:33 PM
Ah, I understand. You would refer to me as "han" because you can guess it by my nick, whereas I can't tell anything about you by just looking at your nick.
Hmmm... The Swedish "han" is of the same origin as the German "Hahn" which means "rooster", similarly "hon" equals with the German "Huhn" meaning "chicken", and they both can be referred to as "hen" both in Swedish and in English. Someone must have had a gallinaceous way of thinking.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: hgtonyvi on July 20, 2016, 02:50:48 PM
It's a really stupid game. Very dangerous because folks are not paying attention to the real life situation around them. Accidents and crimes already happened with this app.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: MiloMorai on July 20, 2016, 04:30:09 PM
A roster and a hen are both chickens but one is male and the other female.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Meatwad on July 20, 2016, 08:09:09 PM
Almost hit a kid,well young adult on the weekend as he was hunting a poky and not watching where he was going!
There a "special" poky in the park near my place,on the weekend there were more people in the park than I have ever seen before,like several hundred at any given time! My kid told me there's some special poky in the park and word just got out this weekend....
Just wish I would have bought Nintendo stock the first week of release...but who knew...... :furious :furious :furious
:salute
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Hajo on August 08, 2016, 04:31:45 PM
A continuation of the dumbing down of America :aok
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: FLOOB on August 08, 2016, 06:23:20 PM
I get the novelty of it, the fact that you can actually see the pokemon with your phone camera when you locate it is pretty neat. My friend has a habit of snapping photos of road side auto accidents. I told him he should get the app because one of these times there's going to be a pokemon standing next to the banged up car.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Ramesis on August 09, 2016, 02:16:04 PM
To be fair, it gives people an excuse to go outside, walk around, and get exercise rather than lay around on the couch playing video games and pushing a button.
It seems to me Pokemon Go confirms the state of education in this country! But, thats just my opinion :old: Ram
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: branch37 on August 09, 2016, 03:37:35 PM
I don't have an issue with people enjoying a game. We do it all the time with AH and other games. Just for the love of God pay attention! It's not that hard. I work in a machine shop and I still have all my fingers. Paying attention and not walking out into traffic isn't that damn complicated.
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Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: bustr on August 09, 2016, 03:38:04 PM
Some one will come up with a phone app that allows you to play the equivalent of laser tag with your smart phone. As you look through your camera you will see other players and a virtual army around them. Then there are those VR glasses for a smart phone. You will see people running everywhere bumping into things jabbing their smart phone in different directions yelling at nothing. Extra long life cell phone batteries anyone??
Poky Go is just the beginning......
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Bizman on August 10, 2016, 02:43:05 AM
Bustr, a pessimist won't get disappointed!
People running around wearing the inexpensive cell phone VR goggles is a frightening thought. Let's not stop there, people already seem to finger their phones while driving a car so a driver wearing VR goggles would be a logical next step.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Lusche on August 10, 2016, 03:22:01 AM
People running around wearing the inexpensive cell phone VR goggles is a frightening thought
A look into the future...
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: bustr on August 10, 2016, 06:28:10 PM
Smart phones have LoS data transfer capability, WiFi, and blue tooth. I'm betting someone has already written something simple and has his fellow geeks wasting company time when the manager leaves the room. BofA, in our massive data center we had nerf machine guns and an out of band gaming network.
Poky GO opened the flood gate. Can you imagine the quad on some snowflake infested American university sending out the campus police to protect all the feinting triggered little darlings because someone pointed their smart phone at them and went piu, piu, piu...... :O Or the phone had sound effects for gun fire or lasers. Or a game with all that and you had to hunt other players down in your city visa hints to win prizes by piu, piu, piuing them from LoS range.
Now that will be a whole lotta big city stupid going on. It will make rednecks and their "hold my beer and watch this" or something to get a "here's yur sign" look tame by comparison. And we call those things "Smart Phones"...... :rofl
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: LCADolby on August 10, 2016, 06:29:04 PM
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: eagl on September 01, 2016, 01:03:46 AM
Pokémon GO plus HoloLens and/or google glass...
Augmented reality is *this* close.
Read Niven's Dream Park series of novels if you want to know where we're going to be going with augmented reality... The book relies on projected holograms for the story to work, but we're pretty close to the level of technology required for a dream park experience with wearable HUD displays since projectable holograms don't work in real life (yet). I think 2 or 3 of the dream park books use wearable see-through hud style displays instead of relying just on projected holograms, to individualize what the gamers see based on their character's unique skills. We can do that already with tech like google glass and HoloLens, its just still too bulky for people to wear it around.
I do think however that with the continuing miniaturization of computers, we're only a couple years from large-scale augmented reality enhanced LARP gaming events using wearable computers becoming mainstream. Essentially the kind of stuff you see with pokemon GO, but for any game genre you can imagine and with ubiquitous multi-player features. The computing power in one of those little compute sticks, tied with a lightweight Kinect-style multi-spectral set of cameras on each player, enhanced with positioning sensors, cameras, and microphones scattered around the gaming area, is already more than enough to enable a really engrossing augmented reality game pretty much anywhere. What is missing is the software and a wearable HUD that isn't so bulky. I'm hoping the position sensors and display tech that went into the second-gen F-35 helmet makes its way into the consumer market soon, since they have done a LOT of work with really accurate positioning sensors to eliminate display jittering, plus keeping it all light enough to wear in a fighter aircraft environment.
For that matter, pokemon go is nothing more than an augmented reality LARP, even if a "real" gamer won't want to admit it.
A cellphone where the computing and battery part is worn on the waist, and only the screen and camera is mounted on the head, would probably work pretty well as a first hack at augmented reality. You could have a much larger battery if its clipped to your waist. The camera would display the real-time video on the screen so you could wear the whole thing in front of your face and not run into things, and then the computer would just overlay the augmented reality stuff. If you have 2 cameras especially if one is IR, you could get some really accurate positioning. Sync it using existing multiplayer online gaming software tech and everyone on the same LAN could see the same overlays in the same location. The hardware is there today, the software isn't yet except for the tech demos we've seen from MIT and Microsoft.
(LARP = live action role play)
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: eagl on September 01, 2016, 01:12:29 AM
I wonder if anyone has tried taking pokemon GO up into a real light private aircraft, to see if there are any pokemon flying around :) You could do augmented reality dogfighting pretty easily. I think the military is already working that way (VR dogfighting opponents you can actually SEE and fight while flying a real aircraft) but it could be done with just the computing power and GPS found in a cellphone so you could see if your Cessna 152 could out-fly the red baron :)
Maybe HT needs to start coading the VR or augmented reality version of AH now, before someone beats him to it. The synchronization part will be super important when they start making these VR or augmented reality games large-scale multiplayer in open large real-world arenas, and maybe HT could make a pile of money on the networking/server side. Can the AH networking and server code be applied to the entire world as the arena? Now THERE's a product that might make a pile of money on the licensing side...
Tweak AH server/networking coad for an "arena" the size of the actual earth, unlimited players, and wireless networking. Include methods for inputting data into the world from sensors scattered around the arena like cameras, microphones, and shock sensors to record physical actions. Someone has to do that. All those cool MIT demos won't work in multiplayer without the underlying server coad to sync it into a shared gaming environment.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Shuffler on September 01, 2016, 07:17:27 AM
Sounds like a good way to thin the herd.
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: EskimoJoe on September 01, 2016, 12:34:37 PM
So does using a little metal and plastic box to blast radiation into your food to warm it up, but your generation survived the microwave so.. :neener: :neener:
Title: Re: Pokemon GO
Post by: Zoney on September 01, 2016, 01:09:54 PM
So does using a little metal and plastic box to blast radiation into your food to warm it up, but your generation survived the microwave so.. :neener: :neener: