If nothing else, it's helping to develop a 3-D,4-D map of activity. There's also the idea that in lieu of advertising companies would pay to have rare Pokemon at or near their business
Personally while I agree it's a perfect nsa gov way to track people and stuff. But. All the information that is given when playing the game is already known by the cia/nsa. They can always get ur Gps signal even with ur phone with a battery removed. They know ur email. Shit they can look at you through the camera if they wanted too.
It's not like playing it gives them anymore of a way to find you iffff they wanted to.
Thing is they probably don't. And then knowing your location because ur giving it away will just let them know where u have been more often is the only thing I can think of.
I think the game is fun as hell. And very awesome but I don't have it running everywhere I go. I'm in Alaska. So my town has one store. And that store has pidgey lol.
So I just turn it on when I want to play for a bit. At a place I wouldn't cAre if I yelled that I was there. "I'm at Walmart I'm. A terrorist ".
Just don't see it being s huge advancement or game breaker
I'm not sure what they're trying to get from the game. But I am intrigued at the concept, it's a good idea for a game. I would like to try it, but won't.
And they have. Satellites that can see a fucking dime from space so they say. And. That can see through buildings with ur heat signature. I just don't see how this is making their evil plan work any better than they could of.
Of course NSA will use this game for their 'data/records' but they're recording so much of everything they are drowning in data.
On the other hand, augmented reality games will be trending like crazy via cellphones and VR goggles. This new subculture was predicted a few years ago and this game is the first to blow it up.
I've also seen this game bring races, genders, age gaps together and unite them under one common interest which is good for everyone.
Its a double edge sword, like the convenience of cell phones can also be used to track you
You're using the internet, so they got all sorts of data on you already, all posts, emails, the specific signature of your keystrokes on the keyboard, a while file on you already.
Most likely we're too unimportant to keep tabs on for them, but I doubt that consider the sub we're on.
It needs access to GPS because it's a location-based game. Its fundamental game loop is "get outside and walk around and do things at different places in the real world". People have been futzing around with this sort of thing since smartphones had GPS; this is the first one to marry it with a powerful enough brand to get a ton of people playing an otherwise-not-very-compelling game.
Amusingly enough it owes a hell of a lot to Niantic's previous game "Ingress", which is themed with secret conspiracies. Niantic is a spin-off of Google, and one of their admitted goals with Ingress was to get people to document and photograph a lot of points of interest so they could make Google Maps better without hiring a ton of people.
What they do with all your photos, I dunno. Anyone want to start snooping on its network traffic?
We all know it's evasive privacy wise, however what kills me is the sheep mentality and everyone acting like a fucking zombie. It's a huge distraction for young and old alike. For the fact we are talking about it tells me the distraction is real.
We the planet in a huge shit pile this is perfect to keep people occupied while the powers that be do their shit which goes unnoticed.
It's very fucking sad how one game can come out of now where and then bang, every mother fucker is chasing VR characters.
Thinking more, its another huge experiment on how to control people, specifically young people. We know what governments are capable of but they have now found the week link with the younger generation and hats off to the bastards even if I hate the idea.
While I do see the invasion of privacy. We've been invaded for a while. And it's just the nature of the game. Being it a planned program or not. It's nothing that's changing anything. And tell me. Please how u think otherwise. I'm just sayin my opinion
From a few comments on this game over the past week it sounds like people are starting to accept the invasion of privacy as the norm. In my opinion that is the scariest thing about it.
Well the game just happened to come out the same week that a US court ruled unwarranted GPS surveillance unconstitutional, so there's that as well.
For some reason all I can picture is cops riding around with a similar program, except instead of Pokemon it's all of us citizens they need to collect.
If you knew anything about the game then it would be blindingly obvious why it needs your gps as that is the entire way the game works, you walk around and find pokemon. It needs your Google so you don't have to make another account (which gets annoying)
It's the funniest shit in ages. Can't wait for all the inevitable crime waves, that will accompany tides of dribbling retards, wandering about staring at their phone screens.
You came here just in time. It is very insidious for some very good reasons.
It is basically spyware that allows the CIA/NSA to know your location. It also keeps track of gmail and thus if your gmail is used for stuff like conspiracy boards, you can get caught very easily when the big communist purge strikes america, which i believe is these 5 years.
It serves as a very effective distraction tool considering that this july is illuminati season due to all of the days that add up to 777. When everyone is converted into pokemon-capturing zombies, the illuminati throws numerous attacks worldwide. I believe that there are still 2 more attacks to go before the end of the month.
Pokemon go's development HAS direct comnections with the CIA. This alone is very fishy and proves that it is a distract ops and tracking; Basically the mark of the beast, aside that you can choose not to download it, and if you uninstall it, from what i heard they can no longer track you and your gmail via the app.
So yes, very fishy and dangerous, and is very likely the zombie apocalypse, only more like cyber, pokemon catching zombies this time.
It could be many things, I think it could be a some kind of mind control app. I dunno if you guys remember but last year people died on uber or something because the app told the drives to kill the people. But it could be nothing in this fucked up world
Considering you have to have a decent phone to play it, and that whenever you see video of people playing it, most of the time they're adults - I'm going to go with a 'no'.
You're really reaching man. It's actually pretty obvious Nintendo targeted the pokemon generation from the 90's and early 2000s, people who are all young adults today. I've played quite a bit and 95% have been adults.
Nothing wrong with personal preference, also, it is a personal opinion. From my observations, indeed it's targeted to this demograph yet the game seems silly and immature.
Which has been a targeted social programming technique for post-Gen-Xers for decades. We're all big kids now. Posting to this sub is adolescent, regardless of your verbiage. This is middle school research techniques.
Have you played it? Why do you think it's silly and immature?
It's actually an amazingly unique game. A world-wide mobile hyper connected augmented reality game based around one of, if not the most popular video game franchise of all time?
What is silly and immature about that? Because the Pokemon are colorful?
51 comments
7 ShowBaggs 2016-07-17
It's a great excuse for pedophiles to hang out with kids in all kinds of public places.
7 [deleted] 2016-07-17
If nothing else, it's helping to develop a 3-D,4-D map of activity. There's also the idea that in lieu of advertising companies would pay to have rare Pokemon at or near their business
6 Knotdothead 2016-07-17
For some reason, I get the feeling someone is going to use it for targeting some sort of terrorist attack.
hope I'm wrong.
5 Rockran 2016-07-17
Because that's how the game works?
2 MrGuttFeeling 2016-07-17
I believe they've updated it so you don't need to use your gmail.
1 [deleted] 2016-07-17
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0 AlienPsychic51 2016-07-17
Do you have like extra space on your phone for a huge off line map? I don't...
5 star_particles 2016-07-17
Personally while I agree it's a perfect nsa gov way to track people and stuff. But. All the information that is given when playing the game is already known by the cia/nsa. They can always get ur Gps signal even with ur phone with a battery removed. They know ur email. Shit they can look at you through the camera if they wanted too.
It's not like playing it gives them anymore of a way to find you iffff they wanted to.
Thing is they probably don't. And then knowing your location because ur giving it away will just let them know where u have been more often is the only thing I can think of.
I think the game is fun as hell. And very awesome but I don't have it running everywhere I go. I'm in Alaska. So my town has one store. And that store has pidgey lol.
So I just turn it on when I want to play for a bit. At a place I wouldn't cAre if I yelled that I was there. "I'm at Walmart I'm. A terrorist ".
Just don't see it being s huge advancement or game breaker
5 whipnil 2016-07-17
What about for GIS. It may allow them to map the world for free.
1 Everythings 2016-07-17
No they had to organize create and produce this game to do the legwork
4 thesarl 2016-07-17
I'm not sure what they're trying to get from the game. But I am intrigued at the concept, it's a good idea for a game. I would like to try it, but won't.
3 RevenGideon 2016-07-17
Encourage people to go places? Even underage children to known Monarch programming sites?
3 star_particles 2016-07-17
And they have. Satellites that can see a fucking dime from space so they say. And. That can see through buildings with ur heat signature. I just don't see how this is making their evil plan work any better than they could of.
2 RevenGideon 2016-07-17
Not as good as people snapping photos on the ground. Hard to see dimes through trees brah.
0 redditeditard 2016-07-17
I think HARPP helps with ground up imaging.
3 cannibaloxfords 2016-07-17
Of course NSA will use this game for their 'data/records' but they're recording so much of everything they are drowning in data.
On the other hand, augmented reality games will be trending like crazy via cellphones and VR goggles. This new subculture was predicted a few years ago and this game is the first to blow it up.
I've also seen this game bring races, genders, age gaps together and unite them under one common interest which is good for everyone.
Its a double edge sword, like the convenience of cell phones can also be used to track you
1 [deleted] 2016-07-17
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1 cannibaloxfords 2016-07-17
You're using the internet, so they got all sorts of data on you already, all posts, emails, the specific signature of your keystrokes on the keyboard, a while file on you already.
Most likely we're too unimportant to keep tabs on for them, but I doubt that consider the sub we're on.
3 egypturnash 2016-07-17
It needs access to GPS because it's a location-based game. Its fundamental game loop is "get outside and walk around and do things at different places in the real world". People have been futzing around with this sort of thing since smartphones had GPS; this is the first one to marry it with a powerful enough brand to get a ton of people playing an otherwise-not-very-compelling game.
Amusingly enough it owes a hell of a lot to Niantic's previous game "Ingress", which is themed with secret conspiracies. Niantic is a spin-off of Google, and one of their admitted goals with Ingress was to get people to document and photograph a lot of points of interest so they could make Google Maps better without hiring a ton of people.
What they do with all your photos, I dunno. Anyone want to start snooping on its network traffic?
2 heyisthatcyclopean 2016-07-17
"Ingress" what an ominous name for big data's survey of private spaces
1 egypturnash 2016-07-17
Welcome to the dark cyberpunk future we were promised in the 90s!
2 dennisbergkamp10 2016-07-17
We all know it's evasive privacy wise, however what kills me is the sheep mentality and everyone acting like a fucking zombie. It's a huge distraction for young and old alike. For the fact we are talking about it tells me the distraction is real.
We the planet in a huge shit pile this is perfect to keep people occupied while the powers that be do their shit which goes unnoticed.
It's very fucking sad how one game can come out of now where and then bang, every mother fucker is chasing VR characters.
Thinking more, its another huge experiment on how to control people, specifically young people. We know what governments are capable of but they have now found the week link with the younger generation and hats off to the bastards even if I hate the idea.
1 star_particles 2016-07-17
While I do see the invasion of privacy. We've been invaded for a while. And it's just the nature of the game. Being it a planned program or not. It's nothing that's changing anything. And tell me. Please how u think otherwise. I'm just sayin my opinion
9 MasterOfNotAThing 2016-07-17
From a few comments on this game over the past week it sounds like people are starting to accept the invasion of privacy as the norm. In my opinion that is the scariest thing about it.
1 bangdoode 2016-07-17
Same here, it's like this has been going on for almost a decade now guys wake the fuck up its getting worse
1 redditeditard 2016-07-17
This.
What do I care, if I'm not doing anything illegal? ...
1 Touritaly 2016-07-17
Do you think they need a game to gain access to that information?
6 RevenGideon 2016-07-17
It makes it way easier. "You accepted the agreement!"
3 LurkPro3000 2016-07-17
Well the game just happened to come out the same week that a US court ruled unwarranted GPS surveillance unconstitutional, so there's that as well.
For some reason all I can picture is cops riding around with a similar program, except instead of Pokemon it's all of us citizens they need to collect.
1 MKULTRAserialkillers 2016-07-17
I think it and the people who play it are ANNOYING.
Fuckin stupid little kid shit.
4 kloiik 2016-07-17
You bitter man
2 Everythings 2016-07-17
Watching people get caught up in shiny baubles is frustrating
1 Terex80 2016-07-17
If you knew anything about the game then it would be blindingly obvious why it needs your gps as that is the entire way the game works, you walk around and find pokemon. It needs your Google so you don't have to make another account (which gets annoying)
Plenty of other ways you could be tracked anyway
1 CaucasianEagle 2016-07-17
I had some asshole standing outside my house for about 5 minutes. I didn't realize what he was doing at first and was a little disturbed.
1 zeropoint357 2016-07-17
It's the funniest shit in ages. Can't wait for all the inevitable crime waves, that will accompany tides of dribbling retards, wandering about staring at their phone screens.
0 [deleted] 2016-07-17
You came here just in time. It is very insidious for some very good reasons.
So yes, very fishy and dangerous, and is very likely the zombie apocalypse, only more like cyber, pokemon catching zombies this time.
1 bangdoode 2016-07-17
How did you do the math to get 777 ?
2 [deleted] 2016-07-17
7/7/16 - Dallas Snipers - 7/7/((1+6)=7) = 777
7/14/16 - Nice Truck Attack - 7 ((7x2) = 14) (1+6=7) = 777
7/16/16 - Erdogan Power Grab - 7 ((1+6)-7) (1+6=7) = 777
7/21/16 - ??? - 7/(7x3=21)/(1+6=7) = 77777
7/25/16 - ??? - 7/(2+5=7)/(1+6=7) = 777
0 bangdoode 2016-07-17
It could be many things, I think it could be a some kind of mind control app. I dunno if you guys remember but last year people died on uber or something because the app told the drives to kill the people. But it could be nothing in this fucked up world
0 twistyluke 2016-07-17
take of your tinfoil hat, and relax
-2 Nexus9k1 2016-07-17
Who the fuck cares? It's a game for little children.
5 Rockran 2016-07-17
Considering you have to have a decent phone to play it, and that whenever you see video of people playing it, most of the time they're adults - I'm going to go with a 'no'.
-1 Entropick 2016-07-17
The mature may be playing the game yet it still is a child's pastime and is intended for youth.
6 Rockran 2016-07-17
Pokemon is a pretty old thing, the children who it was initially aimed at have grown up.
-1 Entropick 2016-07-17
Granted; yet the entire thing is still childlike and posesses a dreamy, imaginative quality that speaks of young life.
1 IsHanselHotRightNow 2016-07-17
You're really reaching man. It's actually pretty obvious Nintendo targeted the pokemon generation from the 90's and early 2000s, people who are all young adults today. I've played quite a bit and 95% have been adults.
-1 Entropick 2016-07-17
Nothing wrong with personal preference, also, it is a personal opinion. From my observations, indeed it's targeted to this demograph yet the game seems silly and immature.
1 redditeditard 2016-07-17
Which has been a targeted social programming technique for post-Gen-Xers for decades. We're all big kids now. Posting to this sub is adolescent, regardless of your verbiage. This is middle school research techniques.
1 Entropick 2016-07-17
Euh. Huh?
0 IsHanselHotRightNow 2016-07-17
Have you played it? Why do you think it's silly and immature?
It's actually an amazingly unique game. A world-wide mobile hyper connected augmented reality game based around one of, if not the most popular video game franchise of all time?
What is silly and immature about that? Because the Pokemon are colorful?
0 Entropick 2016-07-17
Yall are a bit sensitive about your pokeymans