Girl playing Pok?mon Go discovers dead body

[Silvanus]

Ditto.

I see what you did there.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

Waiting for the big moral panic of parents thinking this game will get their kids raped/murdered because heaven forbid you ever go outside thanks to the media.

First news stories exposing Pokemon Go with mostly nonsense. Then after that story a story about videogames causing the obesity epidemic....

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

If it'd been Final Fantasy Go, she could have brought the guy back to life with a Phoenix Down.

 

[Jingle Fett]

Pokemon GO feels like a Japanese spy program set to record on foreign soil and tricks children into doing their bidding by zapping pokemon all over the place.

"All I have to do to get a Mew is take pictures of the interior of this nuclear facility? Score!"

(yeah, this wouldn't happen, but reality is no fun)

Whaaat? No that is crazy talk, Chinpoko Mon is just toy for children. You are american yes? You must have very big gargantuan penis[footnote][small][link]http://southpark.cc.com/clips/103420/japanese-charm[/link][/small][/footnote]

 

[NPC009]

If it'd been Final Fantasy Go, she could have brought the guy back to life with a Phoenix Down.

Unless he died in a cutscene.

 

[Cowabungaa]

That's a little more exciting than my farming of the PokeStop and Gym that are within GPS range of my home.

Despite having a smartphone, I only ever used it for phonecall and text message which is also rarely used for that awell (I don't have people to called or text to and to recieve the said call and message too except for messeging my next work time).

Sounds like you're better off with an old-school cellphone with like infinite battery life.

 

[Something Amyss]

There was already a news thing about cops having to tell kids not to go in the station.

I know. But going into a police station isn't as big a deal (and they weren't told not to, they were told they didn't have to).

Also, if we're on that note, there's this: http://fox6now.com/2016/07/10/police-robbers-lure-then-target-pokemon-go-players-in-st-louis-area/

Waiting for the big moral panic of parents thinking this game will get their kids raped/murdered because heaven forbid you ever go outside thanks to the media.

Yeah, how dare the media run with clearly fabricated stories of real-world violence happening to GO players?

...oh, right, that thing that's actually happening.

 

[Scarim Coral]

That's a little more exciting than my farming of the PokeStop and Gym that are within GPS range of my home.

Despite having a smartphone, I only ever used it for phonecall and text message which is also rarely used for that awell (I don't have people to called or text to and to recieve the said call and message too except for messeging my next work time).

Sounds like you're better off with an old-school cellphone with like infinite battery life.

I know (my old phone before the smartphone suit me just fine) but my parent keep insisting that I get a smartphone for work purposes, as if I can become a businessman one day -_-.

 

[sXeth]

There was already a news thing about cops having to tell kids not to go in the station.

I know. But going into a police station isn't as big a deal (and they weren't told not to, they were told they didn't have to).

Also, if we're on that note, there's this: http://fox6now.com/2016/07/10/police-robbers-lure-then-target-pokemon-go-players-in-st-louis-area/

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/11/pokemon-player-seemingly-sho.html

Oh, it keeps on going.
Staged? Probably.
100% plausible, yep.

I'm wondering if in Japan, Nintendo actually have properly defined public spaces, and it was just a lazy roll out into other countries.

Needless to say, since there's no apparent method to "opt out" your private property (as a person, business, or even government body), I can't see this lasting long before it gets shut down for a serious overhaul at best. Either by public safety concerns our outright lawsuits.

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

There was already a news thing about cops having to tell kids not to go in the station.

I know. But going into a police station isn't as big a deal (and they weren't told not to, they were told they didn't have to).

Also, if we're on that note, there's this: http://fox6now.com/2016/07/10/police-robbers-lure-then-target-pokemon-go-players-in-st-louis-area/

Waiting for the big moral panic of parents thinking this game will get their kids raped/murdered because heaven forbid you ever go outside thanks to the media.

Yeah, how dare the media run with clearly fabricated stories of real-world violence happening to GO players?

...oh, right, that thing that's actually happening.

Bad shit happens more often inside your house. Less witnesses, and its only ever going to be a tiny fraction of people, and never going outside is killing more people. The media blows the problems out of proportions.

 

[Something Amyss]

https://boingboing.net/2016/07/11/pokemon-player-seemingly-sho.html

Oh, it keeps on going.
Staged? Probably.
100% plausible, yep.

I'm wondering if in Japan, Nintendo actually have properly defined public spaces, and it was just a lazy roll out into other countries.

Needless to say, since there's no apparent method to "opt out" your private property (as a person, business, or even government body), I can't see this lasting long before it gets shut down for a serious overhaul at best. Either by public safety concerns our outright lawsuits.

Yeah, I don't know about that story, but I can see it happening. Christ, I ca name a few places around here you will get shot at if your wander onto private property, whether it be for Charmander or just because you took a left instead of a right.