Pokemon: GO

[Psyche]

these damn servers

[Psyche]

something changed
i no longer have to log in every time i restart the app

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do no pokemon show up in your Nearby?

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my goal is to catch all the pokemon, beat all the gyms, and get all the medals
in that order and without spending money

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They do show up in my nearby. They just never actually appear on my screen.

do you ever see any tufts of shaking grass

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i wonder if your app isn't working
though maybe you just live somewhere no one plays Go

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oh ive never seen a green flash before
that's nice to know

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by the end of day 1 i'd caught/seen 26 pokemon
evolutions (or catching evolutions) will get me about 23 more

and the pokemon i've had on my radar but haven't caught include
horsea
staryu
cubone
zubat (????)
and exeggute

im not sure what i'll do after all that's finished
find a way to go somewhere else?

[Psyche]

what's your pokedex count?

[Psyche]

still pretty ahead
do you think you'll soon have most of the species available in your area?

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yeah that seems reasonable
my low key college town has loads of pokestops i can only imagine how intense it might be in a city

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yeah and i haven't noticed any blue flashing while walking around either

[Psyche]

seribii says the color is yellow

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actual picture of niantic servers

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it's the highest grossing app on iOS atm

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niantic server room atm:


from reddit im sry

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i went to nyc with a friend and caught so many pokemon!

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the pokemon don't really seem that different though

[Psyche]

...
watch out for team rocket, guys

[Psyche]

oh hey you're around wild pikachu

[Psyche]

try to collect eggs at pokestops you can get rare pokes from those

[Psyche]

there are four lures around me right now and a whole crowd of players have congregated
is this what church feels like?

[Psyche]

you get to use all 6 of your pokemon so it shouldnt be trouble

[Psyche]

dodging really helps, especially against pokemon stronger than you and especially against their special moves

[Psyche]

evolved a vaporeon last night that was ~1200

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i dont think that's quite true
ive been to plenty of gyms with a max capacity of 2 or even 1

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maybe, but that's certainly a thing that happens

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i've made a gym lvl6 before
not sure what'll happen if it reached 7

[Psyche]

it had 8 different pokemon to defeat??

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gyms here fall really quickly
i had six gyms last night and right now have none
i tend to try timing my gym captures late at night near my 'claim' time so that i can actually profit
even though they're being taken from the the gyms remain pretty easy for me to take down
#TeamMysticForever

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yeah that definitely works

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near my school's library there are 4 pokestops near each other and basically all day yesterday every single had been seeded with a lure and a crowd of nerdy-looking people had swarmed the area

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it's hard to say though im sure ive broken 15km
i've biked a lot along with walking because bikes truly are essential tools for any pokemon master
but i don't actually own a bike so i've had to rely a lot on a considerably less useful though still essential tool my running shoes

[Psyche]

practice dodging and you can take it

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try "Report High-Priority Issue"
remember it's a free video game for kids and so the term "high priority" is relative

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wasnt down for meee

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im ios!

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don't think places like these should worry so much about what happens on their patrons' phones

[Psyche]

Farfetched
Ponyta
Grimer
Onix
Hitmonlee
Hitmonchan
Kanghaskhan
Mr Mime
Scyther
Ditto
Porygon
Kabuto
Articuno
Zapdos
Moltres
Mewtwo
Mew

these are the pokemon that i've seen no trace of yet in my games - not in gyms, not in nearby, nothing
some of these i'm sure are available

somewhere

i'll eventually get to on my own (grimer, ponyta) while others are either more ambiguous (eg hitmonchan, porygon kanghaskhan) or sure unavailable (legendaries)

either way im gonna try to get 140 of the kanto dex done before trading comes out

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i guess that's that then
who knows how much i will bike from now until the end of july

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yeah well i have a vulpix

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turns out you can check how much you've walked with the app by opening your profile and checking your progress on the JOGGER medal

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there's really no point in taking gyms at any time but the dead of night or early morning
however i think today might be the first time i control a gym for a whole 24 hours

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coins help catch things

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every gym around me has at least a single 1000+ cp pokemon defending it

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did you already have a tentacool i was pretty happy when i hatched mine

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BUT IT EVOLVES INTO SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE SPECIMEN

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ok im bored of this now

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i keep refreshing and seeing nothing

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someone has caught them all
time to pack up and go home

[Psyche]

is finding that website independently and craving congratulations, like, correlated somehow?

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IT'S COOL
SRY TO MAKE U UNCOMFY

[Psyche]

Golduck may be a combination of gold and duck. While Golduck itself is not colored gold, gold is often used in the Pokémon canon to symbolize the Psychic type: the Gold Gummi is the Gummi variety loved by Psychic-type Pokémon, and the Marsh Badge's Japanese name is "Gold Badge".

[Psyche]

Psyduck isn't a Psychic type for the same reason Charizard isn't a dragon type. That type was sort of OP in Gen 1. If Psyduck/Golduck had happened as early as Gen II or Gen III then he'd be Psychic maybe.

[Psyche]

oh wait
starmie's a thing
ok maybe golduck isn't psychic because starmie is a thing
AND SLOWBRO???
gosh why does anyone say gen i was the best

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i guess
they did retcon a lot of fairy types

[Psyche]

Sudo now has 2 Pikachu. You don't have 2 Pikachus. If greatness is measured by number of Pikachus owned, then Sudo is the greatest.

sry man i have 5 pikachu

[Psyche]

no zulfy
ur doing it wrong

[Psyche]

my first eevee evolution was a jolteon
even now we sometimes have short cries together

[Psyche]

sounds like the reinvented the wheel

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its just not as well-designed as the actual pokemon games

[Psyche]

i miss the strategy
none of the game is very thinkful

[Psyche]

did you beat the battle frontier

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because of niantic this will just be a fad

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i think an experience point at level 1 is just as good as an experience point at level 20
you might get positive feedback more quickly in the former case than the latter case
but no matter what you're 1 point closer to level 21 than you were before

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if you're using that site you aren't really playing legitimately

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i don't think pokemon go is a very good game but i think it could work as an exercise incentive and for that reason i might start playing again

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it's out for the apple watch now

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this is probably only meaningful news for for a very small but also excessively large minority of people

[Psyche]

dont feel bad that means there are people besides you in the area who still play the game

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i think it’s better that way
the ease of trading in the mainline games made finishing pokedexes and all way too easy and thus less satisfying
without trading finishing a pokedex is all but impossible, but there’s a golden mean

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If the game allows it it should be ok
mark of a poor game if it’s not enjoyable following this general principle

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lol

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ur suggestion that it would be surprising if there weren't a gaming discord for his specific area strikes me as funny because pokemon go doesn't seem like the kind of game that really rewards effort to the extent that such an attitude is warranted

maybe you know where sudo lives and he's in some high density area, but when i loled that possibility hadn't immediately come to mind

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trading made finishing pokedexes too easy in the mainline games
i feel like the game is already too easy while playing alone
i can't even imagine putting more effort into it besides pulling out my phone when i have to walk somewhere

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it’s just not a well-suited game for you maybe, play something else

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There isn't really another way to do it. If it was a 100% then it takes away all the challenge and incentive to play.

so in pokemon go all the challenge and incentive to play is...rng

[Psyche]

well sudo has every right to complain about that

[Psyche]

Oh i need some friends for a mission
If u add me ill literally gift you every day for the rest of my life
2920 6779 5662

[Psyche]

wow i got my first blonde friend today what a rewarding game

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now now, i am nothing if not a person who deeply respects hair color privacy