Pokemon Go

[Arkandel]

@Miss-Demeanor Damn though, 9 pokestops together... that's 450 XP every few minutes even without a lucky egg. If you get really bored you can powerlevel like nobody's business there.

[Miss Demeanor]

Yep! I spent an hour out there once, didn't use anything more than a single incense... went from level 3 to level 9.

[Auspice]

Ingress is why those clusters exist.

In the early days, when people could submit portals (and this is a large part of why, likely, Niantic is steadfastly refusing to open crowd submissions)... people submitted based on farms or driving loops (like 'If I submit this and this and this I'll have a portal at every stop sign / light on my commute.').

I go to 'farms' every Monday for Ingress. We have a handful of spots we go. Usually parks. Sit around, have snacks, hang out, and just max out our (2000 item) inventories on level 8 gear.

So yeah, if you find a spot with a cluster of Pokestops/gyms... it's because some Ingressers at one point decided it'd make a good farm.

[Miss Demeanor]

Pokestops are based on local 'vistas', special little local cultural spots, places of interest, churches, schools, etc. They're never just at a random stoplight or place. This place, as mentioned, has multiple functions, and yes, multiple special interest points. There's a butterfly garden, a plaque of a cultural point of interest, a mural, a church, a fountain that's also a memorial, a small park, etc. Those are the kinds of places that Pokestops are found at.. and a large chunk of this place is NOT meant to be open to the public. I went in and asked the priest after Sunday sermon if they minded if my son and I walked through the area, provided we were quiet and respectful and he was nice enough to say yes. But yeah, a lot of the spots aren't spots that are generally public.

[Auspice]

The church up the street from where I currently live has 4 Ingress portals. In PGo, it has a gym and 2 Pokestops. They actually advertise on their sign out front that they're a gym and players are welcome.

[Insomnia]

Woman killed by driver playing Pokemon Go.

[Coin]

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Woman killed by driver playing Pokemon Go.

Niantec isn't really at fault and I don't see how anyone could possibly think they are.

If you are driving, don't fucking play PokemonGO. Also, don't text. I mean, it's the same thing. Has anyone sued phone companies for enabling texting while driving?

[Arkandel]

Yeah, media is jumping on 'deaths by PGO' lately. They are a handful of deaths across the world for a game played by millions, and it'd be no different if the same victims were distracted by anything else at all at the time.

The correct news should be "distracted driver/pedestrian is killed". The exact thing they were doing at the time is largely irrelevant, they knew they weren't supposed to be doing that (hell, the game in question actually spams you to remind you if somehow you've failed at adulting).

[ThatGuyThere]

@Coin said in Pokemon Go:

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Woman killed by driver playing Pokemon Go.

Niantec isn't really at fault and I don't see how anyone could possibly think they are.

If you are driving, don't fucking play PokemonGO. Also, don't text. I mean, it's the same thing. Has anyone sued phone companies for enabling texting while driving?

Not sure on the texting thing, but I know companies have been sued when products have been misused and it resulted in harm. Not sure what the success rate is on those types of cases.

[Coin]

@ThatGuyThere said in Pokemon Go:

@Coin said in Pokemon Go:

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Woman killed by driver playing Pokemon Go.

Niantec isn't really at fault and I don't see how anyone could possibly think they are.

If you are driving, don't fucking play PokemonGO. Also, don't text. I mean, it's the same thing. Has anyone sued phone companies for enabling texting while driving?

Not sure on the texting thing, but I know companies have been sued when products have been misused and it resulted in harm. Not sure what the success rate is on those types of cases.

I hope it's zero. I legitimately do. I am anti-corporate as they come,. but that's just fucking ridiculous, especially when there are clear warning labels.

[Arkandel]

@ThatGuyThere said in Pokemon Go:

Not sure on the texting thing, but I know companies have been sued when products have been misused and it resulted in harm. Not sure what the success rate is on those types of cases.

Gany might chip in here but a whole lot of people and companies have been sued over just about anything and the fact doesn't make it hold any merit, success rate aside. It's just that P:GO is very highly publicised so they're a nice target right now - but for the life of me I can't see why they'd be responsible for neglectful users, that'd open a dangerous precedence for any kind of mobile game or application ("of course I hit someone with my car Your Honor, my boss sent me an e-mail! It's his fault.").

When you're driving do nothing else - just drive. It's not that hard.

While on the issue though the barrage of articles about how P:GO's playerbase has diminished since launch are sighing-worthy too. What? People get bored of games weeks after they start playing them? You don't say.

[Ganymede]

@Coin said in Pokemon Go:

Niantec isn't really at fault and I don't see how anyone could possibly think they are.

It won't be. Cellphone companies have been sued before under a theory of negligence regarding drivers who were texting. Lower courts have tossed the cases out because: (1) it is not foreseeable to a cell phone company that a driver would text while driving; (2) there is no nexus between the allegedly-negligent act -- permitting a texting app/function -- and the accident, which is caused by a distracted driver; and (3) plenty of people use cellular phones reasonably and without harming anyone. If a plaintiff sued Niantec for damages after allegedly being injured by someone driving while playing Pokémon Go, I'm pretty sure that the suit would be tossed out for the same reasons.

[Miss Demeanor]

I still remember a Darwin Award going to some bint in England who died in a car accident because she was desperately trying to feed her Tamagotchi while driving. To my knowledge, Tamagotchi was never sued over it, people just facepalmed at the idiot woman. In this case, I would imagine if anyone gets sued, it will be the idiot driver that was too busy catching pixels to pay attention.

[Insomnia]

Hell, people have sued because coffee was too hot. Someone suing someone because someone was texting and driving wouldn't surprise me at all, honestly.

I still expected a selfie catching Pokemon death to come before a driving while catching Pokemon death first though.

[Roz]

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

Hell, people have sued because coffee was too hot.

You might want to read the facts of that case before you bring it up as an example of a meritless lawsuit. It's really not what people expect.

[Insomnia]

The one where she put the hot coffee between her legs and drove off and got burned because McDonalds made the coffee hotter than other places (which was found to be within industry standards and in line with other places that served hot coffee), so now we have "Caution Contents Hot" on coffee cups now? People shouldn't need to be warned coffee is hot. Yes, she won, but a lot of people still see it as an example of a frivolous lawsuit. But to give an example of more current stories: See someone suing because Suicide Squad movie didn't show the clips show in the trailers instead.

[Ganymede]

@Insomnia said in Pokemon Go:

The one where she put the hot coffee between her legs and drove off and got burned because McDonalds made the coffee hotter than other places (which was found to be within industry standards and in line with other places that served hot coffee), so now we have "Caution Contents Hot" on coffee cups now? People shouldn't need to be warned coffee is hot.

Jury awarded $160,000 in compensatory damages, and the $2.4 million punitive award was reduced to $640,000. It should be noted that the plaintiff spent 8 days in the hospital, and needed skin grafting and two years of treatment. There's a good chance that most of the compensatory damages went to pay medical bills and/or health insurance companies under a subrogation theory.

According to Wikipedia, the source of all factual things, the plaintiff apparently only sought $20,000 for actual and anticipated compensatory damages. McDonald's countered with $800. Then she put her claim in the hands of an attorney.

[Insomnia]

Pokemon Go player mugged while livestreaming, gets account suspended for 'non gaming content'.

[Arkandel]

Necromancing this one! Are people still playing? I'm playing!

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/12/13922834/pokemon-go-new-pokemon-pichu-togepi

[Auspice]

Yarp.

I'm still playing. Level 21, woo.

Looking forward to being in MD for two weeks (18th-2nd)... I was there briefly around Halloween and where I was staying, there was a lake with a ton of Magikarp spawns nearby. I still need like, 180 of those fuckers.

I am kinda frustrated that the new Pokemon are only in eggs. I wish incubators were more common drops.