Pokemon Go Question

Asians are fricking crazy, thats all I know.

Not sure how it works, but the employees at my office who are in their mid to late twenties are obsessed with this shite and it's the saddest thing I've ever seen. These are young adults chasing fictional Pokemon around the office and around the building at lunch. I am so confused by it.

Why were they robbed? Because they were out in public? We should all just stay at home with the doors locked at all times.

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know some people already were robbed thanks to it.

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Thanks to criminals.

That's like saying someone is robbed at a bank thanks to banks having money

As far as I can tell they show up randomly for certain amounts of time. They disappear. If you are with someone else, they see the same pokemon on their map.

Pokemon locations are based off Ingress data. Ingress is the game that preceeded Pokemon.

This is all just guess work I have done from Ingress data that comes from Google maps and information about population and wifi. If Google has gotten data from your wifi there is a good chance you have Pokemon at your house.

Cellphone use may be another factor, Walmart parking lots are a hot bed for spawning.

If you play ingress, you will find what is called ground XM (energy in the game) in certain spots while not in others. You can pretty much find Pokemon where ground XM regenerates, so the data that Google used to generate that may be the same as what they use for spawn locations for Pokemon.

We need a Black Lives Matter & Pokemon board.

If you played Ingress you know of what they called XM(exotic matter). They were tiny specks on your map that you automatically collected when you passed over them. You needed them for energy to attack portals and such. Some places with high cell phone usage like Walmart parking lots or downtown BR would have thousands of them in a small space. Neighborhoods would have less. Rural areas would have even less. I've noticed these areas with higher XM density also have higher Pokemon spawn rates.

Pokemon Go is the cultural touchstone where I now realize I have entered "old fart" territory.

Ditto man. I'm 32 but the idea of actually doing this seems so ridiculous and fruity to me I can't help but just laugh in disbelief when I hear the younger people at work all jacked up about it.