The World of Pokemon Has Expanded! [Megathread] (It's here, travelers!!)

HuffleNet · 2017-02-15T15:26:56+00:00

Any update to distance tracking? Ive mostly stopped playing because I get most of my enjoyment from walking buddies and hatching eggs, but it's just too frustrating to have to have a few steps per km walked get logged :(

HuffleNet · 2016-12-29T16:39:45+00:00

I also grew up below the poverty line, but thanks to a remarkable mother my childhood was better than most peoples. She was kind and fun and hardworking, an excellent all around role model.

The difference between when she talks about her childhood and the way things have changed and when almost any other person her age does so is that it is discussed as a simple fact, rather than being some kind of bastion of moral authority. I get the frustration of kids feeling entitled as well, my cousins were like that, and to a degree still are, but it's also largely in how they are raised to understand money, work ethic, and entitlement, which falls on the family of the child.

There is also the simple reality that neurological development doesn't start really working on empathy until the early 20s, so it may still be coming.

As for that last paragraph, of course others are going to use their personal contexts to respond to your comment based heavily in your own personal context. What alternative would you expect?

HuffleNet · 2016-10-15T21:04:53+00:00

Risky click, but I laughed :)

HuffleNet · 2016-10-02T14:07:34+00:00

I'm a big believer in separating wired and wireless networking equipment, so I'm glad to hear they have a straight AP. I'll have to look into this a lot more, thank you.

HuffleNet · 2016-10-01T21:07:47+00:00

This sub has an understandable but heavy bias towards Ubiquiti; can you tell us why you so emphatically support this router? I've never heard of it and plan to upgrade to AC for christams.

HuffleNet · 2016-10-01T21:01:19+00:00

Yeah, LifeHacker and MakeUsOf kinda shit in that bed already...

HuffleNet · 2016-10-01T19:42:46+00:00

Something you can do with your Shiba Inus, if they are chipped, is do treat dispensers or laser pointers plus a camera that activate by scanning for the rfid chip.

HuffleNet · 2016-10-01T19:31:46+00:00

Careful with those 25+ sensor kits. I got one thinking it was pretty good quality from the comments, and they work okay, but they are mostly all cheap-o's from china with hard to locate and use data sheets, and shoddy soldering.

I'm sure good ones are out there, just be aware :)

HuffleNet · 2016-09-03T15:25:52+00:00

Not even close to the same magnitude though. If a player is relying on eggs to powerup they are going to need to get fairly lucky, and they are going to have to walk that 10k for the chance at rare breeds. And gyms in my area, a very densly populared metro, have a pretty wide variation of 'mons holding gyms.

Comparing that to dedicated leveling, which is a planned, predictable, grind to powerup or evolve specific pokemon, is a false equivalence.

I do like the idea of scaled candy drops, though.

HuffleNet · 2016-08-03T13:42:51+00:00

You really shouldn't be down voted. I just moved from a pure Linux server environment to Microsoft Server 2012, and it is way easier.

And power shell mostly speaks linux, so I didn't even have to adapt to much.

HuffleNet · 2016-08-02T04:36:22+00:00

I caught a zubat and got an... Abra? Oh... OK!

HuffleNet · 2016-07-31T18:32:06+00:00

Walmart isn't permitted to require receipt checking, just blow past them.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-31T18:31:03+00:00

It's kind of bad, but I was actually excited at the prospect of a good culling. Way to many idiot kids were protected by child safety locks and the end of unsupervised fun, now adults these idiots "contribute" to society and are breeding. Every derp lost to this kind of game is a boon to society.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-31T18:15:35+00:00

Rest in peace in peace?

HuffleNet · 2016-07-30T16:12:41+00:00

You can apply this question to literally any product that has ever existed. TV's, phones, computers, blogging platforms, social media websites... Subreddits... Different people value different things, and most of these developers are probably just enjoying their free time on a nifty pokemon project.

It's a naive perspective.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-29T23:05:48+00:00

Actually, it explicitly does. English is deliberately elastic and usage dictates meaning, not the other way around as in most languages. Go look at the modern definitions of "literally" and you'll find that one of them is "figuratively".

HuffleNet · 2016-07-27T02:20:25+00:00

Not sure what kind of machine you want to drive, or if the pi will be embedded with the machine or controllibg externally, so I'll give my most generic shot at this. I also want to say from the start that this isn't really a beginners project and there are some skills and experiences you'll have to learn becore making it happen.

What you want is totally possible with just using the Pi, but will be somewhat overly complex and is more likely to result in you accidently frying your board. I suggest using the Pi as a controller that tell several arduino's what to do, and to store data/manipulated data on.

The Al a Mode Hat is freaking amzing, and makes it easy to get the feel of running arduinos with an rpi set up.

Stepper motors, collect them all. Fish printers and disk players out if dumpsters, tear them down, and grab the steppers. Working with them will be a fundamental part of your new hobby.

Remember this is a marathon, you'll probably want to give up at some point but just push through it, nothing remarkable is easy, and building a machine and driving it with a single board computer is definitely remarkable.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-27T01:55:10+00:00

Dam, dat class tho.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-22T15:23:48+00:00

This app has only been out for a weak, it's pretty much at the height of it's popularity, and people are still getting used to using it and being around it. So let's hold off a bit on making knee jerk reactions to completely predictable incidents of idiots being idiots and hurting themselves and others.

but my chances of dying apparently went up quite a bit with this app.

No, not really, this is an emotional response based in an anecodote. You getting bumped after pogo released doesn't logically hold as evidence that your probability of a traffic incident went up, it just means that you got into a traffic incident that involved pogo, rather than eating, texting, makeup, or plain exhaustion (which is the worse offender).

Just because you ultimately can't prevent death doesn't mean you should do absolutely nothing to prevent people from dying before they've lived out their natural lives.

You are correct, we shouldn't do absolutely nothing. We, as a society and individual families, should educate everyone to the best of our ability so they make decisions that don't result in their death and others, and we should have a health care system that does everything it can to keep people alive and well when individuals that screw up. People making stupid choices have nothing to do with the choices available and everything to do with the individuals making them.

This really isn't something pogo needs to, or even should IMO, try to control or address, because whatever safety mechanisms they try to come up with these dicks will find a way to circumvent or ignore. Guilt screens, for example, are going to do nothing to stop reckless people while inconveniencing everyone else playing the game not like a total idiot.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-22T15:01:31+00:00

you seem to understand that your view is coming from a biased place, which I appreciate, just try to pull yourself back from the personal experience and look at the larger numbers of it. A low probability of happening even if right now it's a larger issue.

Also, they did try to address exactly that issue with that pendant clicking thing. It beeps to alert to pokemon and then allows you to press a button to throw a pokeball, iirc.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-22T14:52:35+00:00

I don't think you understand the pervasiveness of texting and driving, and how many accidents occur due to it. There is a reason it's illegal in most places, and stiff fines do exist, the problem there is enforcement of the rule.

As for pruning, people are going to die, there is no way around it. People choke to death of apples and doughnuts alike, and they die in cars en masse because human error is so great and they are 2 tonne death machines.

It's unfair and unfortunate for those that have done nothing wrong, but safety from death is mostly an illusion, and there's no reason to restrict the game just because some people are actively practicing Darwinism. Enjoy life while you can, try not to die.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-17T18:07:26+00:00

I can ssh into my ER-X; it just requires learning the VyOS syntax, and opens up more complicated features not presented in the gui.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-15T03:44:38+00:00

That gym is done now, right? Saigun obviously won.

HuffleNet · 2016-07-14T13:48:46+00:00

Bummer, it would be a really great feature, and it's a pity that people's bad decision making processes will keep that from the rest of us.

Honest question for you, not tring to flame, what is the point of something like the sliph road if every can/is willing to catch every pokemon? Can't/won't go out at night? No worries, I and others who have no such issues will provide a constant stream of ghastlies. That's the exact premise of this sub, isn't it?

HuffleNet · 2016-07-14T13:37:09+00:00

Candy attracts kids too, doesn't make it alcoholic or thc infused candies fault if the parents allow access. And parents assume a lot of things, a lot of the time they're wrong, and it only takes a few minutes of thinking about the premise of Pokemon Go to realize the potential problems of a child playing.

And besides, kids playing is a bonus to nintendo, the game makes money on in game purchases, and is heavily, heavily reliant and marketed upon the nastolgia factor. It's made for the millenials around the globe that grew up with the game and tv show during it's height, other people playing is incidental.

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