@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:
I'm all for letting people just have fun, but if people ARE trespassing on this guys property... (mostly posted for the Chretein comment though, tbh.
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaaha. The Will-enium. Man, I'd almost forgotten about that!
@skew Hmm, let me try, I'm not great at clickbait...
He posted a note to people trespassing in his yard trying to catch Pokemon, but when you get to the bottom of the list you will be in tears!!. (It's just a poster on imgur, someone complaining about people playing pokemon and getting on his lawn, basically. The link before that is a robot seagull that poops sunscreen on you.
@Miss-Demeanor Yeah, I've had Wild Wild West stuck in my head since seeing the list.
"Kids were invading his yard to catch Pokemon and you won't believe what he did!"
"What this man did about kids invading his yard had us in tears!"
It sounds like the place isn't just a guy's private home, either, but some kind of small apartment complex or shared home with tenants. That means it isn't just his personal concerns he has to keep in mind, but all those of the people paying to live there. Also means it's a lot harder to determine if it's someone who should be there or not -- it wouldn't just be his guests there, but his tenants' guests, and a lot of places keep security logs of that if it's in certain areas. 
(I know one building I lived in when I was in Los Angeles sure as hell did.)
I'm mostly horrified by the people insisting the guy is a douche for not letting people on his property like he's the jerk. Who is going to get sued if they get hurt there? Him. Who is gonna get sued if one of his tenants gets hurt because of people trespassing? Him. Who is gonna have to pay for the damages of people tromping through/extra groundskeeping/having to clean up when even less thoughtful people litter/etc.? Him.
I kinda can't help but empathize with this guy. We have two empty house lots (that now need to stay that way, thanks nature! Long story.) that we used to let the neighborhood kids play in for over thirty years, because that was just being neighborly. Until a whole lot of entitled parents decided it wasn't their fault when the kids broke my folks' windows playing, ripped up stuff my mom had spent hundreds of dollars planting, and started insisting the folks improve/add shit to the field to make it safer for their kids to play there. Yeah. People who wouldn't even fix the shit they broke were demanding the people who were being generous and nice should be the ones to lay out more money so they could continue to be taken advantage of. Like my retired, elderly, broke-ass parents are going to walk the property every two days looking for gopher holes to fill or pay a landscaper to fix so their kids can play on it and continue ripping the place up? I don't think so. (You would have loved the looks on people's faces when my father -- who is admittedly clueless -- suggested, "Why don't you just have the kids tell us if they find a hole, or one of the older kids can fill it in before they start playing?" You would think he'd suggested filling the hole with one of the little kids' dismembered bodies.)
Niantic has put up a very straight-forward form for people to request gyms/pokestops be removed. So likely folks like that will be filing such soon.
Boohoo for the kids, maybe, but then perhaps they should have been more polite about the areas they're playing.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
sigh. Central Park stampede.
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
sigh. Central Park stampede.
I still don't get it.
Vaporeons aren't all that rare.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
@Auspice That's where you draw the line? 
People stopping their cars in the middle of the road to run into the park wasn't it? 
@Arkandel to be fair, they did the same thing when Pat Benatar showed up a couple of years ago, and she's a relatively rare Pokemon.
@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:
Wanted man walks himself right into a police station chasing after Pokemon.
Pikachu, bounty hunter.
I really wish it would stop fucking locking up.
... so my best friend and his wife play Pokemon Go. It actually looked more fun than I thought it would up close. So. What's the average data usage outside of Wifi? I am thinking about downloading.
@Cobaltasaurus I lost an Eevee because of that. Such sorrow.
@Bobotron Are you on T-Mobile?
@Bobotron I've used ~100mb since the game opened. I do work from home... But I'm definitely not catching my pokemons from inside my house.
Wow, that number is shocking... I assumed it was a lot more.
Edit: that's mobile data, I realized. Phone doesn't automatically count wifi data.
@Insomnia
AT&T.
@skew
I have 2 gigs of data shared between me and my partner, but we have the rollover and we rarely ever use much of it.
@Bobotron Sounds like you'll be just fine!
It's actually ridiculously low on the data usage compared to what I'd have expected.
Yeah from what I heard it's more battery usage than data usage you need worry about.
Niantic has put up a very straight-forward form for people to request gyms/pokestops be removed. So likely folks like that will be filing such soon.
Boohoo for the kids, maybe, but then perhaps they should have been more polite about the areas they're playing.
