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Pokemon Go Becomes Biggest Mobile Game In US History (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Pokemon Go is now the biggest mobile game of all time in the U.S. Not only has it surpassed Twitter's daily users, but it is seeing people spend more time in its app than in Facebook. An earlier report from SimilarWeb says Pokemon Go has surpassed Tinder in terms of installations -- the app surpassed Tinder on July 7th. Today, the tracking firm says Pokemon Go has managed to surpass Twitter in terms of daily active users on Monday. It says almost 6% of the entire U.S. Android population is engaging with the app on a daily basis. A new report from SurveyMonkey intelligence indicated that Pokemon Go has claimed the title "biggest mobile game in U.S. history." The game saw just under 21 million daily active users in the U.S. on Monday. It's reportedly closing in on Snapchat on Android, and could surpass Google Maps on Android as well. According to app store intelligence firm SensorTower, the average iPhone user on iOS spent 33 minutes catching Pokemon, which is more than any other apps it analyzed, including Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and Slither.io. The app with the second-most average usage at 22 minutes, 8 seconds, was Facebook. SurveyMonkey did note that Pokemon Go still falls short of other games when it comes to time spent in games. Game of War sees nearly 2 hours of total daily usage for the average user, while Candy Crush Saga sees daily usage of about 43 minutes. In just two days, Pokemon Go brought Nintendo's market value to $7.5 billion. It's worth noting that it remains to be seen whether or not the game will continue to break records or turn into a ghost town like Nintendo's first mobile game, Miitomo.
I haven't seen Ariel Winter post about it on Instagram yet, so the game is nothing to me.
STDs
eventually and people will move on to other things.
Anyone remember the Nintendo Wii craze when it first came out?
Isn't this a good thing?
IMHO (which is biased) Pokemon has a limited lifespan, until people actually get bored doing the same old shit every day. There is almost nothing compelling about the game, and there is very little if any competition between the teams.
So, while it may be exciting now, because it is shiny and new, once the luster tarnishes, what is there to hold the attention of Dory the Fish?
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
...they are pulling from tracking millions of GPS-tagged sheep.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36786671
Rumor has it pokemon will be part of the new UK cabinet.
since when is that a bad thing?
i'm all for anything that pulls people away from facebook, even if it means every so often one wanders off a cliff looking for a pokemon.
I wonder if it could have been the killer app for google glass... if people hadn't been so freaked out about privacy that they would assault anyone wearing one.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
You say people wandering off cliffs 'cause they're too stupid to survive as if that was a bad thing.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"It's worth noting that it remains to be seen whether or not the game will continue to break records or turn into a ghost town like Nintendo's first mobile game, Miitomo."
Irrelevant. The fact Nintendo reinvents the wheel every decade is why they will always find a place in the household.
Se tu gosta de fumar crack então casa logo com o Bruno, sua puta CARIOCA.
Mod this down -1 quick, for more attention dickheads.
Alex Jones is CIA too
lets plaaaaaaaaaaay infowarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs
Believe it or not, most people have emotional responses like "compassion" and "empathy".
Before you respond with some pro-eugenics screed, consider that people who lack the above traits would be among those on the chopping block...
Required reading for internet skeptics
> Nobody on /. cares about Pokemon.
Oh get real, this game is huge.
since when is that a bad thing?
i'm all for anything that pulls people away from facebook, even if it means every so often one wanders off a cliff looking for a pokemon.
Arizona reporting in: just lost another one...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/1...
Oh, i pity them, all right. Just not regret them.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
And then slice virtual fruits using virtual knives to feed the angry birds?
What if the angry birds eating sliced fruits become candy that you must crush?
Inquiring minds want to know...
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
They said the same about the Kinect. It lasted ... what, 3 months?
What interests me is how Microsoft seems to have again missed the boat after being a pioneer in augmented reality with their HoloLens. A replay of earlier failures to press home their market-leader status in pocket and larger touch-screen devices, in gestural interfaces, and in web browsers.
They seem to have a fixation on big lost battles like search and their own phone ecosystem, rather than exploiting and continuing to perfect their innovations. They develop exciting things, but move on while they're still primitive.
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http://www.infowars.com/pokemo...
Pokémon Go Linked to CIA Augmented reality software could turn smartphones into Imperial probe droids
The ‘augmented reality’ mobile game Pokémon Go, which uses the player’s smartphone camera to ‘add’ Pokémon to real-world locations, has ties to the CIA. The developer of Pokémon Go, Niantic, Inc., was founded by John Hanke, who previously received funding from the CIA’s venture capital firm In-Q-Tel to develop what eventually became Google Earth.
Pay-to-Win is the definition of capitalism.
So the CIA has complete control over Slashdot and cares enough to constantly monitor it for comments it doesn't like. But at the same time, it doesn't have the power to remove those comments and must instead resort to writing new stories to deflect attention from them. Got it.
It'll grow past the game it is and some people will figure out that they enjoy the indirect aspects of the game. Fitness groups, history study groups, faction gatherings, strategy planning groups. Ingress went from a game on the screen to people actually meeting and doing other stuff.
Task Mangler
...we're gonna Pokie like it's 1999!
It seems the iOS version wants FULL access to all of your Google account info:
http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/google-pokemon-go-app-security/#8GbDK1AprPqt
The article states that the game creator, Niantic, is working on a fix to narrow it down to what is really necessary (user Id and email address), but unknown as yet as to when that fix will be available.
RO
Historically speaking, people without compassion and empathy tend to hide their crap well and tend to be much more guarded against typical human scheming and unpredictability thus increasing their survival ratings,
while people with compassion and empathy tend to be the first idiots to fall because with those two traits comes a giant jump in naivety and self-destructive trustworthiness whereby they get used as tools or sacrificial pawns easily.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but someone had to. If there's one thing the human species is good at, and woe be any alien idiots who try to invade, it's scheming and unpredictability.
From politicians up there making it a hobby of fucking everyone over around them and manipulating whole groups, to business people manipulating the politicians and society with marketing, to average Joes manipulating their job environment to enable easy-going laziness or hierarchical movement within the company, to the all-too-cliche manipulation involving romance and relationships, down to the children manipulating parents to evade chores or the school environment for grades and test avoidance,
it is always the manipulators who go ahead, while you compassionate sympathy machines end up dragging behind or being used like condoms to be tossed away.
Hell and welcome to Humanity, enjoy your stay. Next time your are competing with me on a job offer or advancement, expect me to not be compassionate and filled with all that rainbow sympathy, because i'll defame you, set you up, and do all in my power so you lose you job (and thus my competition). And i'll sleep like a baby after that because your failure means more food on my family's table. There is no share and care bubba.
I am sorry, but I can't feel compassion for people who walk into their own grave because they're too stupid to take a look first. It might surprise you, though, that I am VERY readily willing to offer any help to people who got into a difficult situation without any fault of their own. Not going into private details here, but that can go to lengths others wouldn't even consider.
But no regret, no compassion, no empathy for people too stupid to survive. Ever.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
how about first person shooters where you can be the shooter or the monster, in public? that should be nice clean fun.
All the more impressive considering that it's a shit Pokemon game. It's a decent Engress mod, sure, but as a Pokemon game, it's terrible
There are almost no battles. The few that exist are limited to mashing your screen, instead of the turn-based strategy usually associated with Pokemon.
And those scant few battles do not grant experience to your critters. The only way to level them up is to capture a couple dozen of the same 'mon, and grind them into kibble ("candies"). You'll get a couple dozen levels from each candy (current peak levels in the 1000-1500 range). Evolving takes between 15-400 candies. Oh, and the candies are breed specific.
These come to a hilarious point regarding your starter Pokemon. Normally, you pick one of 3 or 4 Pokemon to start your game, and that critter can level with you the whole game long. You'll give them a unique name, see them evolve and mature. You still pick a starter here, but none of that emotional attachment here. Your starter will be universally ground into the aforementioned kibble and fed to a higher level version of itself caught in the wild.
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But no regret, no compassion, no empathy for people too stupid to survive. Ever.
People like children and those with intellectual disabilities...
Oh, not those people, right? You surely have compassion and empathy for them. Where do you draw the line? What sort of person do you actually have in mind? Who isn't worthy of the same consideration you so generously offer to others?
Required reading for internet skeptics
You watch too much TV. They didn't drop in from choppers and Delta Force to secure the perimeter in San Diego, holding Carmen hostage dumbfuck.
They monitor more than Slashdot. Slashdot is just high traffic with a lot of business/tech people so they have to. Ycombinator and others too.
If they delete them they tell on themselves harder. You are too stupid.
They thought they have to.
I think it's time you came out of the closet, the world is a much more accepting place than in the 50's
I've seen a lot of MMO launches. Tell me the numbers in 6 months.
See that "Preview" button?
John Nash? is that you?
~ Star Trek:TNG Episode: "The Game"
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This PEEK AT YOU game sounds insane - but it's just another step towards...
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You'll always be online! Jacked In!
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Sponsored by M$, 666 Beast Mode Energy, etc.
No, no it isn't.
A game doesn't "see" anything, nor do any other inanimate objects, nor concepts. So "the Coronation of the Queen saw her immaculately dressed in a silk gown", etc. is media-talk bullshit. Journo-speak. They're too stupid to remember how to write English properly, so they rewrite the language.
For example, journalists have now decided that it's too difficult to write 'N.A.S.A' or 'A.I.D.S.', and now claim that writing the very misleading word 'Aids' or 'Nasa' is acceptable.
That's because you're British (or one their subsidiaries). You guys are always 10 years behind the U.S. I don't know how, and I don't know why, but you are. Your kids will have their smartphones shoved up their ass 24/7 in a few more years, I promise. Speaking of being behind, you guys have another remarkable talent that I'm curious to know about. How can British studios take the top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, awesome-est camera known to mankind and make it look like a 1963 episode of Star Trek? You might be 10 years behind us culturally but you haven't changed you film equipment since Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail. Even the new Dr Who looks like it was filmed in some dude's basement with an old fashioned, hand cranked camera and then post processed with "special effects" added through a trial version of Windows Movie Maker. To put it in British terms: it boggles the mind.
I think the pokemon go creators need to detect that you're in a car travelling above speeds a human could obtain on foot at a mere walk and disable the app until you pull over.
biggest spy game
What if this Pokemon game is a project designed to map, view, and record areas that were previously unmapped/not yet recorded for future use by a yet to be named entity for whatever purpose they please? Think about it.
"Trusting every aspect of our lives to a giant computer was the smartest thing we ever did.." Homer Simpson
Aside from a great launch meaning nothing in terms of endurance, the touted 7.5 Billion increase is only .26% of Nintendo's market capitalization. Not 26%, not 2.6%, but twenty six hundredths of a percent. That's a yawn, not a blockbuster success, except to idiots impressed by the number zeros something has.
Not sure how this became so popular when logging in doesn't even work. Been trying for 3 days to register an account without success. I've moved on. Let me know when their server infrastructure is stable.
meh, I have compasion and empathy but also support self determination. As walking is a voluntary action, I'm inclined to celebrate their success at walking where they want even if it's off a cliff (you show gravity who's boss maybe you'll win).
Neither children nor disabled people chose their condition. Try again.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
We see the world through the lenses of our own eyes. Those with fewer experiences cannot fathom the journey of others, especially if it's a really different lifestyle. Think able-bodied youth vs wheelchair-bound retiree. So some folks will scold others for not being able to fit within their own narrative of daily life- (ie: why can't you use the stairs? I can so I've no sympathy for you if you're late!).
That's why wisdom is so valuable, because it can remind us to hush up when things don't go exactly the way we would do it... and to remember others are doing the best they can with what they've got.
Until, umm, someone really is stupid and looking down into their device while walking into the street. This phenomenon is relatively new you know... there really is no excuse :D
PARENTS, PLEASE TEACH YOUR KIDS TO WALK WITH DEVICE IN POCKET OR AT LEAST DON'T LOOK AT IT UNTIL STANDING STILL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl0JojWH1rQ
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Every generation of consoles cause streams of claims the sky has finally fallen in on Nintendo. Sega's (and Turbographics)CD based systems were the initial perceived killer. After that the N64 (still cartridge based) was not powerful enough to compete. Then the Gamecube was again not powerful enough to play the games people wanted to buy. Then the Wii was just the cube put into a new box with fancy shake equipped controllers. At every stage Nintendo causes a rip to form in the 'power is everything' argument. Nintendo clearly isnt working on the same model. Nintendo creates fads and they ride those through the hardware eras. They invest their billions on unique hardware and create opportunities for completely original gameplay. Nintendo brought back gaming in the 80s. They mastered the art of fun immersive long form adventure gaming with Zelda, Metroid and Mario in the 90s. They basically invented party gaming with the Wii in the 2000s. Meanwhile their portable gaming has been on the cutting edge the entire time until phones became portable computers. Despite the loss of control over that portable market they have now found a way to revitalize both the portable gaming industry and Nintedo themselves. In a year there will be a dozen games blatantly copying this new innovation and Nintendo will have the best of them. Part of this is because Sony and Microsoft treat their consoles as an inroad to gaining customers in other branches of technology or services. Nintendo just wants people to play their games.
John Nash? is that you?
Umm... more of a Manson family member, methinks.
Keep moving that goal post. You stated, quite clearly:
But no regret, no compassion, no empathy for people too stupid to survive. Ever.
Can you choose to be "too stupid to survive"? That's incoherent. Obviously, being "too stupid to survive" is beyond the control of those "too stupid to survive".
Or do you mean "I have no compassion or empathy for people of otherwise normal intelligence who take unnecessary risks"? Well, that makes it easy for you to feel superior to anyone for any reason. (Let's face it, this is all about you feeling superior to an entire class of people.) I don't know that anyone has ever lived their entire life without taking an unnecessary risk. Most people take unnecessary risks every single day. I suspect you also take a fair number of unnecessary risks.
See, you can't actually sort-out what sort of person you think is unworthy of the same basic considerations you'd offer any person. Callous statements like the one you made are completely empty. The sort of nonsense you'd hear from self-righteous teens looking to bolster their own egos.
You're very likely a much better person than your comment suggests. If you give it a little thought, you'll find that you can't stand by your comment without making a deeply uncomfortable ethical compromise.
Required reading for internet skeptics
I was told there would be no math.
You're very good at selective quoting and quotemining. Picking the part about idiocy and leaving out the part where I talk about this not applying to people who are in a disadvantaged position due to no error on their side.
Be it as it may, since nobody really gives a fuck anymore and nobody but the two of us are reading this anymore, and you have made up your mind about me, this is basically as much time as I'm willing to invest here.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I think my point is made. You are incapable of answering the only question I've asked you: how you determine who is and is not a recipient of your compassion and empathy.
The answer, obviously, is that you can not. Not without making a deeply uncomfortable ethical compromise. That is, you can not stand by your claim that you have "no regret, no compassion, no empathy for people too stupid to survive. Ever."
I don't care if you just want to "win" a silly argument on the internet and won't admit it here, as long as you can admit it to yourself. You are very likely a much better person than your crass comment suggests. Your stubborn refusal to make the ethical compromise necessary to stand by that terrible comment suggests that.
Required reading for internet skeptics
Our country is falling apart, we got civil unrest involving violence between black people and law enforcement, the job market is shrinking, Donald Trump is about to be elected president, and we got people chasing a POKEMON! Not just kids; the adults are doing it too! >-D LOL!
This is the new texting and driving.. only you are walking or driving to your death. Maybe they should make it avoid roads and not GPS your ass of the grand canyon.
irrelevant as fuck.
The game is great in a browser (but cpu heavy and not using multiple cores), but sucks on mobile devices. Just like agar its controls are made for a mouse, not a touch screen.
If you want a game, which actually works better on a touch screen install osmos. Looks like agar, has a similiar objective (in some types of levels) but the controls work with tapping behind instead of moving the mouse point in the direction you want to go. So they are great on tablets or even phones.
There's an app for that.
Ops, I shuld have usd the prevuwe but in.
Until they're sued for contributing to auto accidents.
Yours In Safety,
K. Trout
P.S.: Trump supporters are morons.
...slashing out at virtual fruit and ranting about green pigs. They were playing some game called MD2020
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.