Is it just me, or are there others out there who are shocked and utterly flabbergasted by the "Pokemon go" fad that just appeared in our society?
https://youtu.be/zdaabTxVXDE
On one hand you have the claim that this is something that is actually getting millenials out into the outside world, wandering around trying to 'capture' pokemon's in the real world. The other comes from the extreme conspiracy theory's that this was created by the CIA to spy on people and get people to take pictures inside of their own homes, offices, and other sensitive areas. The game also tracks the users GPS position as they play the game, is this spooky or what?
Also fights, automobile accidents, and even people walking off of cliffs have already occurred because they are staring into their phones while walking and driving:
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/news/ ... -go/70145/
https://youtu.be/ysUov3TYmPU?t=2s
The fad has caused Nitendo's stock to increase 9.3% in 2 weeks:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/11/12147 ... pokemon-go
Whom a year ago could have predicted that something like this would occur? While millenials say this 'will bring the world together' to capture pokemon's, I find myself appalled of this fad of sheeple chasing phantom electronic creatures outside instead of dealing with the real world issues like peak oil, catastrophic climate change, or looming financial collapse.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
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by Rod_Cloutier » Sun 17 Jul 2016, 21:56:22
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by GoghGoner » Mon 18 Jul 2016, 07:25:38
I have been fascinated by it, too. I had no idea what was happening downtown Indy last week with all of the folks lined up along the canal staring into their phones. It was very eerie. Now I have the app on my phone and have caught a couple of Pokemons. A acquaintance of mine has been excited about the release of this game for over a year so some people were anticipating it (part of my research this week into it was question everybody I saw about it).
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by Tanada » Mon 18 Jul 2016, 07:35:42
Last week two millenials waited until after dark, then jumped the fence at the Toledo Zoo to go Pokemon hunting without having to fight the crowds or pay for entry tickets.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') pair of Pokemon Go enthusiasts hopped a fence at the Toledo Zoo and moved around “like ninjas” playing the game for an hour before being arrested near the tiger exhibit.
Robin Bartholomy, 25, and Adrian Crawford, 26, both of Toledo, were charged with criminal trespass and booked into the Lucas County jail. They were later released on their own recognizance
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') pair of Pokemon Go enthusiasts hopped a fence at the Toledo Zoo and moved around “like ninjas” playing the game for an hour before being arrested near the tiger exhibit.
Robin Bartholomy, 25, and Adrian Crawford, 26, both of Toledo, were charged with criminal trespass and booked into the Lucas County jail. They were later released on their own recognizance
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/ ... o-Zoo.html
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Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by Rod_Cloutier » Mon 18 Jul 2016, 18:03:31
Zerohedge has reported a 'Get a life' article about this fad:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... fe-choices
(Funny)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-07-1 ... fe-choices
(Funny)
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by Outcast_Searcher » Mon 18 Jul 2016, 18:38:10
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Rod_Cloutier', 'I')s it just me, or are there others out there who are shocked and utterly flabbergasted by the "Pokemon go" fad that just appeared in our society?
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
This kind of stuff doesn't even interest me, much less surprise me any more.
There have been lots of fads since I was a kid. This one is based on virtual stuff -- otherwise it's not much stranger than the others. (Pet Rocks, anyone)?
As an "old guy" who has no smart phone, doesn't want a smart phone, gets all the phone (land line) and internet he wants at home for one low price a month -- nothing like this can surprise me any more. Not since I've been rear-ended by multiple kids who I'm sure were texting -- while I was sitting still at the end of a line of cars waiting for a red light in each case. Not since watching people in a crowded parking lot paying NO attention to traffic with their head down absorbed in their cell phone -- while multiple cars drive by on the main drag, with the kids driving holding a cell phone and paying little attention to the road. (It's a wonder more people don't get hit in such situations). Oh, I do cart around a cellphone for emergencies. An old cheap thing that I pay $106 (including sales tax) for a year for pay as you go minutes. The money rolls over annually so my balance is several hundred bucks now, which I'll probably never use.
Why do I have a land line? It's nice to have ONE end of the conversation reliable and able to be heard clearly.
Truth is perhaps stranger than old fiction. But new science fiction is way ahead of this stuff. The Charles Stross SF novel Accelerando had a spaceship going to visit a recently discovered brown dwarf -- apparently something like this new "planet X" thing in location. In case there were intelligent aliens around, it was piloted and run by a bunch of virtual intelligences, who thought of themselves as real people, had their own virtual world (like a resort town, as I recall) on the ship, and were essentially A/I copies of people on earth working for the company that sent the ship. I thought "what an interesting idea -- you could send a ship the size and toughness of some super-hard marble, have all kinds of computer stuff buried in it, and get a hell of a lot done. And it could be accelerated as hard as any hardware would allow -- virtual beings wouldn't care."
And in case that sounds weird, it was just one example of a lot of stuff going on in a solar system where exponentially expanding computer technology was making the entire solar system (ours, in a few hundred years or so) intelligent as virtually everything was having lots of computer power added to it, and AI's were multiplying like spiders.
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In real life I was kind of blown away by Twitch TV and the broadcasting/teaching/sharing of a bazillion video games over the internet a couple years back. Some clown on a chat thread said "That will never work. Who would watch video games?"
"Sure", I responded, "Like people would never watch golf or baseball or monster trucks". Lots of upvotes tells me I apparently had the right idea on that one.
Given the track record of the perma-doomer blogs, I wouldn't bet a fast crash doomer's money on their predictions.
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by ennui2 » Mon 18 Jul 2016, 19:59:51
Doomerism is in large part rooted in people who are disaffected by modern culture overall, Pokemon Go not withstanding.
This is also why so many doomers tend to be retirement age, when they'd be shaking their fist at the world and telling kids to get off their lawn anyway.
How better to voice that disaffection than to frame doom as some form of decadent cultural rot. This is the Kunstler schtick, which isn't that different from the George Carlin schtick or the PStarr schtick. And yeah, there's some truth to the beef, but are we really that different now?
Go back 60 years and you had huge Caddies with tailfins that probably ate more gas per mile than Hummers to today.
Go back 100-150 years and we drove the Bison to extinction and largely deforested the US in the blink of an eye.
Go back a little farther and you've got slavery.
Wherever you go, you'll find human nature.
This is also why so many doomers tend to be retirement age, when they'd be shaking their fist at the world and telling kids to get off their lawn anyway.
How better to voice that disaffection than to frame doom as some form of decadent cultural rot. This is the Kunstler schtick, which isn't that different from the George Carlin schtick or the PStarr schtick. And yeah, there's some truth to the beef, but are we really that different now?
Go back 60 years and you had huge Caddies with tailfins that probably ate more gas per mile than Hummers to today.
Go back 100-150 years and we drove the Bison to extinction and largely deforested the US in the blink of an eye.
Go back a little farther and you've got slavery.
Wherever you go, you'll find human nature.
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Re: Pokemon Go fad
by Sixstrings » Tue 19 Jul 2016, 20:02:52
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Some crazy stories there..
* The gang that set up a pokemon node (is that what it's called) and then did 12 armed robberies, and pokemon players came in one by one. Police caught the robbers.
* The guy that stopped his car in the middle of the highway, "to catch a pikachu" and caused wrecks.
* Some good ole boys out in Louisiana, out hunting Pokemon.. they wind up on "someone else's property" ... and then the NRA "castle doctrine" type owner, starts firing at them.
SO ANYWAY.. my opinion about this thing..
It's part of a future trend called "augmented reality." Games, google glasses, etc. The idea being to mix the virtual, with the "real" world.
In practice, it's a bit strange to me.. people just randomly walking around the real world environment, for no real world purpose whatsoever.. other than "catching" something in the "virtual" world, that's meshed in with the real world.
So, it's unusual situations and unusual behavior, a bit chaotic and anarchist in nature. The rest of the outside world is not aware of whatever "augmented reality world" the other people are in.
From Gasmon's posted article:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut they have been forced to post a warning on their website to members of the public, reminding them they cannot just wander into their busy A&E to hunt down Pokemons.
The hospital said if Pokemon GO gamers become a major nuisance they will be forced to contact game developer Nintendo and have the ‘gym’ removed from their location.
So isn't that interesting.. that a hospital may have to call "Nintendo" to have the "virtual creature gym hotspot" virtually removed, from their real world emergency ward.
So, what about property rights? Shouldn't property owners have a right to the virtual space, on their real world property? There's a supreme court case of the future, lol.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')img]http://media02.hongkiat.com/augmented-reality-smart-glasses/meta.jpg[/img]
10 Forthcoming Augmented Reality & Smart Glasses You Can Buy
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/augmented-reality-smart-glasses/
P.S. An augmented reality mutual fund would probably be a good investment.
