"Pokemon Go Craziness" Topic

I thought this was funny:

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Then I saw this:

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Not so funny.
There's also a story about a teen shot climbing in someone's window,but I don't know how reliable it is.

"Virtual trespass"?

That seems at least surreal if not unreal.

No,they're actually,not virtually,trespassing.
More:

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Another story quoted a police department warning people not to wander into the police station searching for pokemons.

I imagine it'll hit the news a fair bit the next few days, so people can shake their heads at "kids nowadays".

Another concern with the game…

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My daughters have been outdoors hunting relentlessly for almost a week now, and you can see groups of kids out in my neighborhood from early morning to twilight. Suddenly my normally empty neighborhood is full of kids and parents, playing outside and talking to each other. I see a lot more kids on the trails through the greenbelts as well, actually going down to the creek to capture Pokemon that "live" near water features.

Any trespassing issues are basically kids learning about the idea of property boundaries – something that they would have learned much earlier in life had they not been indoors, glued to their iPhones.

There may be a few bumps in the road, but whoever designed the game deserves a medal.

+1 Lucius

All technology is mixed blessing/curse.

Still people should know about trepass being a crime.

I was at Bushy Run today helping run a kids camp thing.

There were car loads of teenagers showing up at the battlefield, getting out, walking all over the battlefield, getting back in their cars and leaving.

We weren't even open today.

This is not about the technology. If the parents were paying attention to the kids, then this would be taken care of. Ultimately, you have to teach your kids how to interact in society. If they understand that, then the introduction of a new capability (technology, service, infrastructure, whatever) is an easy adapt.

Going back to the hubbub about cell phones in school – the cell phone is not the issue; your behaviour is.

My guess is that this is the beginning of something new.

Can a version of Fallout, played outdoors with some variation of Googleglasses, be far behind? You could count me in on that one . . .

I'll bet the Beanie Baby folks are kicking themselves right now, having become a minor anecdote in the history of collectibles, while the Japanese marketers continue to reap lucrative rewards for their strategic brilliance.

Another concern with the game…

And inversely, some of the Pokemon "hot zones" were sited in secluded areas in less-than-reputable neighborhoods, so muggers just had to sit and wait for them to turn up.

Even if they've got nothing but lint in their pockets, at least you KNOW they've got a reasonably decent mobile device.

My guess is that this is the beginning of something new.

Oh, yes.

The world is getting really weird at an alarming rate. It's only a matter of time before I'm an ill-tempered codger yelling for these kids to get their pokeymen off a' my lawn.

Apparently the site database was originally built by and for a prior AR game called Ingress from several years ago. Very "Unknown Armies" in some ways, so the locations of some Pokestops reflect the lonely Goth Hipster playerbase of Ingress.

Can a version of Fallout, played outdoors with some variation of Googleglasses, be far behind?

Check out father.io for your outdoor Fallout needs.

lonely Goth Hipster playerbase of Ingress

I never knew I was a lonely goth hipster as well as a sad old man obsessed with toy soldiers :) Seriously, Ingress isnt a big playerbase but it is pretty sociable and a bit too old on average for Goth Hipsterness.

I've already ranted about this in semi-tin foil fashion:

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But I will say the situation has not improved outside of my work. I haven't seen this many grown adults wandering around the streets of town since (a) the charity zombiewalk and (b) before we cleaned up the Bath Salts epidemic.

Viscount: soon you may have to start carrying a crossbow :)

Nice to see kids getting out,but they're seeing "nature" only through their cell phones.

Looks like it's on the verge of "blowing up",literally:

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Thumbs up for the Unknown Armies references :)

"I never knew I was a lonely goth hipster"

The only Ingress players I know locally are also Vampire LARPers.

We have a high concentration of nodes at the local cemetery, which has, in under a week, come close to boiling over as the kids tromp around treating it like any old park. I'm told there were even lawn chairs involved.