@Royal said in Pokemon Go:
Heard there was a park nearby that's lousy with Dratini. Rolled up at 8pm and there were atleast a couple hundred people there. Bonkers!
The park downtown here had about three hundred or so people on Tuesday. I was told it's had even more some nights. Kids. Folks in their 50's.
Someone shouts "SQUIRTLE!" and the mob just went running.
...I spent two hours there when all I'd planned to do was wander through.
@Cobaltasaurus said in Pokemon Go:
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
Dude, I was once looked directly at during youth group as the youth pastor said, "And maybe some of you are watching things you shouldn't, like Pokemon." And then continued with his sermon.
Woah, woah, woah. Fuck you, Churchguy. What if I want to be a famed exorcist, and Pokemon is my inspiration? Huh!? Huh!?
Seriously though, uh, do churches actually act like this? This makes me think of stories from the Red Scare days, I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, I am, but I shouldn't be.
Some churches def. do.
The church my family attended when I was in my early teens handed out like, pamphlets once on the 'dangers of the Pokemon cult.' V. similar to the HeMan shit in the 80s.
But then you get stuff like:
@Cobaltasaurus said in Pokemon Go:
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
Dude, I was once looked directly at during youth group as the youth pastor said, "And maybe some of you are watching things you shouldn't, like Pokemon." And then continued with his sermon.
He said MAYBE! What a nice guy, he gave you the benefit of a doubt. You may burn in the fires of hell, you may not... the jury is still out.
Good guy, MewTwo.
Some backstories are pretty nasty. Like Cubone. (The one with the skull on his head? It's his mother's skull. His mother who died giving birth to him. Also his tears stain the skull.
But that's still kind of tame compared to some of the things in the Old Testament. Bears ripping apart small children and all that.
Not sure this has been mentioned already... but there's some online trackers that will show you all the pokemon that in your area, and how long until they despawn.
I'd feel bad looking at it, if the tracker wasn't busted. But damn, if this is what's REALLY in my area, what the heck is showing up on my tracker?! It's a pokedesert out there!
https://pokevision.com for those that also like cheating.
"The Guardian is reporting that Apple will "rake in $3 billion in revenue from Pokemon Go in the next one to two years as gamers buy 'PokeCoins' from its app store, according to analysts." One pack of 100 PokeCoins costs about $1 in Apple's app store, but gamers can purchase as many as 14,500 PokeCoins for about $100."
Daaaaaaaaamn.
@HorrorHound said in Pokemon Go:
Seriously though, uh, do churches actually act like this? This makes me think of stories from the Red Scare days, I mean, I shouldn't be surprised, I am, but I shouldn't be.
As someone who lives in the Bible belt I can honestly say yes. I have been told I am going to hell on the street for among other reasons my denominational choice, the t-shirt I was wearing, (This was in college in the mid-90s I was wearing a black t-shirt with three frog croaking, "Bud." Weis" and "Er." a la the commercial. The exact phrase was, "wearing that shirt could imperil your soul.") and I could go on.
@ThatGuyThere I usually answer that crap with "If you can tell me what color my soul is, you get to tell me what state it's in."
I don't tell them I don't believe in any of that stuff, but it usually does get them to shut up.
Vorpal is actually Satan made MU*nifest
When she was a teenager my sister went to church wearing jeans. Not ripped jeans, not short jeans... just jeans. The old priest there disapproves of that non-skirt shit young ladies had been wearing on their way to hell and he made a point of berating her for it in front of the congregation.
As a direct result of it she basically said fuck it and never went back to church. Who gained from that idiocy other than a cranky old fool's self satisfaction for a few moments?
It's hard to tell the institution apart from its representatives, so all it takes is one incident like that to paint a permanent picture.
All I can say is that I am very grateful for all of the extra hours of sleep I've gotten since I stopped going to church altogether.
I won't even do the singer thing and do the church job thing unless they pay me very well.
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
"The Guardian is reporting that Apple will "rake in $3 billion in revenue from Pokemon Go in the next one to two years as gamers buy 'PokeCoins' from its app store, according to analysts." One pack of 100 PokeCoins costs about $1 in Apple's app store, but gamers can purchase as many as 14,500 PokeCoins for about $100."
Daaaaaaaaamn.
I spent $30 already 
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
@Cobaltasaurus said in Pokemon Go:
@Arkandel said in Pokemon Go:
Dude, I was once looked directly at during youth group as the youth pastor said, "And maybe some of you are watching things you shouldn't, like Pokemon." And then continued with his sermon.
He said MAYBE! What a nice guy, he gave you the benefit of a doubt. You may burn in the fires of hell, you may not... the jury is still out.
No. He wasn't. And it isn't really funny.
@Cobaltasaurus Sorry.
@Tyche said in Pokemon Go:
And now the Hell's Angels and Black Panthers will unite to play Pokémon Go.
THANKS WBC.
My friend and I went out for a Pokehunt this morning.
Went to the farmers market. Bought honey for his mead, cucumbers, really nice purple peppers and some eggplant. Caught a bunch of Pokemon. Tauros was the 'catch of the day' more or less. Was fun. Joined Team Instinct (or whatever yellow is) when I got to Level 5.
@Bobotron said in Pokemon Go:
My friend and I went out for a Pokehunt this morning.
Went to the farmers market. Bought honey for his mead, cucumbers, really nice purple peppers and some eggplant. Caught a bunch of Pokemon. Tauros was the 'catch of the day' more or less. Was fun. Joined Team Instinct (or whatever yellow is) when I got to Level 5.
The Center Cannot Hold.
@Royal said in Pokemon Go:
Heard there was a park nearby that's lousy with Dratini. Rolled up at 8pm and there were atleast a couple hundred people there. Bonkers!
The park downtown here had about three hundred or so people on Tuesday. I was told it's had even more some nights. Kids. Folks in their 50's.
Someone shouts "SQUIRTLE!" and the mob just went running.
...I spent two hours there when all I'd planned to do was wander through.
