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theflyingexecutive posted:You done hosed up when your Poliwrath isn't named Wrath Lol gently caress E: apparently pokemoncenter.com goes in and out of stock on pluses every 37 minutes Colonel Squish fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Sep 30, 2016 |
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:So this was outside my office all day today. I walked round behind the building near the pokéstop and tried to stand on the exact spot of the invisi-spawn, but nothing happened. Missingno? Since of the last two updates I sometimes get a bug where Pokemon models don't load and odd behavior like that happens. It occasionally occurs after force-quitting and restarting the app and the solution seems to be do it a second time 
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Sep 30, 2016 07:54
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I missed out on the Pokémon craze, mostly because I never got into consoles. Out of curiosity, I started playing Pokémon Emerald (GBA, 2004) on an emulator, and I'm surprised by how easy the game is. I've switch on the Fast speed mode and I'm effortlessly grinding my Pokémon up to high levels because most battles are just trivial speed bumps. Is this normal for Pokémon games? There is next to zero challenge.
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Sep 30, 2016 07:58
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Kurzon posted:I missed out on the Pokémon craze, mostly because I never got into consoles. Out of curiosity, I started playing Pokémon Emerald (GBA, 2004) on an emulator, and I'm surprised by how easy the game is. I've switch on the Fast speed mode and I'm effortlessly grinding my Pokémon up to high levels because most battles are just trivial speed bumps. Is this normal for Pokémon games? There is next to zero challenge. It's a kid's game through and through, though I don't know what you expect to achieve by grinding except making it even easier. The post game has a game mode for a real challenge though. For reference, there's a megathread for the main series.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:09
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"When Pokémon Diamond and Pearl were released in 2006, the pair of games sold primarily to preschoolers, 1st – 3rd-graders, and 4th – 6th-graders."
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Sep 30, 2016 08:10
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Judging by how many adults seem crazy about Pokémon, I thought it had something to offer a seasoned gamer.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:11
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I mean it's still fun if it's the kind of game you enjoy. Just not hard unless you go to an effort to make it so.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:12
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That's fine, I know what the target demographic is. This is not a criticism, just an observation.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:13
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Emerald never really gets tricky if you know how to exploit type weaknesses. It's lacking in a good area to grind XP for level 55+ tho because the area they had for that in Ruby and Sapphire got repurposed for Emerald's story. The current games probably are even easier because the Experience Share can be used on the entire team instead of it being limited to a single Pokemon.
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Sep 30, 2016 08:15
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Kurzon posted:Judging by how many adults seem crazy about Pokémon, I thought it had something to offer a seasoned gamer. It kinda does if you have other people to play against. As a single player game not so much unless you're just into leveling up and seeing numbers get bigger or collecting things.
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Sep 30, 2016 11:19
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theflyingexecutive posted:You done hosed up when your Poliwrath isn't named Wrath Seriously colonel what the gently caress man
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Sep 30, 2016 11:52
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Went to SAn Fran. Ate a chowder, caught a poo poo Dratini and a mediocre dragonite. Tracking system was cool and good but I don't expect them to release for genpop until I've stopped playing this for 6 months Oh who am I kidding I'll be pumping dragonites until the end of days
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Sep 30, 2016 11:56
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TVs Ian posted:It kinda does if you have other people to play against.
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Sep 30, 2016 12:15
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Alan Smithee posted:Went to SAn Fran. Ate a chowder, caught a poo poo Dratini and a mediocre dragonite. Tracking system was cool and good but I don't expect them to release for genpop until I've stopped playing this for 6 months You can get handfuls of dratini around pier 39 if you hang around long enough. Just dratinis falling out of your pockets really.
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Sep 30, 2016 12:36
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 My town is populated by a huge majority of trash Pokemon. Level 25 and this is the best I got. Like, 60% of the way to a gyarados that will probably be garbage.
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Sep 30, 2016 12:37
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Pedomagician, nice. Pretty good names there.
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Sep 30, 2016 13:48
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Vegastar posted:
I'm level 25 and my top six isn't much better. I sure do have a gently caress ton of 1200-1300 CP Hypnos though!
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Sep 30, 2016 14:01
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I think I found the creepiest pokestop
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Sep 30, 2016 14:30
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Ensign Expendable posted:I'm level 25 and my top six isn't much better. I sure do have a gently caress ton of 1200-1300 CP Hypnos though! I catch so many loving drowzee mashing the Go+ button I've started saving them to go with pidgey and weedle for lucky egg evo sprees. At 50 candy a pop, it's sad I can get 6-8 in the same period I end up with 300 trash candies.
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Sep 30, 2016 14:56
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Kurzon posted:I missed out on the Pokémon craze, mostly because I never got into consoles. Out of curiosity, I started playing Pokémon Emerald (GBA, 2004) on an emulator, and I'm surprised by how easy the game is. I've switch on the Fast speed mode and I'm effortlessly grinding my Pokémon up to high levels because most battles are just trivial speed bumps. Is this normal for Pokémon games? There is next to zero challenge. There's plenty of challenge. After the Elite Four. The parts before that are essentially an extended tutorial / story mode, designed so that even preschoolers can get through it. Mind you, having battles in Switch instead of Set mode, in options, is essentially easy mode - well, "even easier" mode - but they also counter the grinding benefits in the actually difficult modes.
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Sep 30, 2016 15:33
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Kurzon posted:I missed out on the Pokémon craze, mostly because I never got into consoles. Out of curiosity, I started playing Pokémon Emerald (GBA, 2004) on an emulator, and I'm surprised by how easy the game is. I've switch on the Fast speed mode and I'm effortlessly grinding my Pokémon up to high levels because most battles are just trivial speed bumps. Is this normal for Pokémon games? There is next to zero challenge. You can sperg out with an IV calculator in those too and make that the focus of the game.
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Sep 30, 2016 16:22
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chemosh6969 posted:You can sperg out with an IV calculator in those too and make that the focus of the game. Apparently the upcoming generation will add a trainer for IVs so you don't have to rely on inces(san)t breeding and trading for a hacked Ditto with perfect IVs.
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Sep 30, 2016 16:29
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Mierenneuker posted:Apparently the upcoming generation will add a trainer for IVs so you don't have to rely on inces(san)t breeding and trading for a hacked Ditto with perfect IVs. That's in Sun & Moon right? Which will come to Go in 5 years.
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Sep 30, 2016 18:13
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http://venturebeat.com/2016/09/30/pokemon-go-made-470-million-in-82-days-as-it-moves-from-fad-to-steady-success/ I guess it shouldn't be surprising but even despite the falloff those are pretty great numbers, they still pull about $2 million a day according to this article
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Sep 30, 2016 18:24
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lol https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/09/bringing-Pokemon-GO-to-life-on-Google-Cloud.html
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Snowy posted:I think I found the creepiest pokestop This just needs a drone for a player who is too lazy to get up from their Cheetos covered desk and it would be perfect. I don't care if it's not even someone playing. I just want something like a dumb surveillance thing in place for that stop.
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Sep 30, 2016 20:12
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I too Ensign Expendable posted:I'm level 25 and my top six isn't much better. I sure do have a gently caress ton of 1200-1300 CP Hypnos though! Drowzee spawn everywhere here as well. That and Jynx.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:22
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So I went and checked the move sets on the "best" of the trash I've managed to pick up so far and it's depressing as hell: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gCNhxvnipvx0vloz4PAPtQz8Hbtm95vaInV_SMF75FA/pubhtml?gid=520149460&single=true The Jolteons will eventually possibly let me deal with the Vaporeons but there's nothing doing against the Snorlax menace. I may as well just give up even thinking about gyms. And by "best" I mean max potential CP, obviously those Pidgeots aren't very useful but I wanted to see just how far behind they are.
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Sep 30, 2016 22:58
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I've done the finally evolution on a few things the last couple days and have been pretty successful at getting the crappiest moves for all of them. It's even better when it's the first time you catch enough to be able to do that evolution for the first time ever.
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Sep 30, 2016 23:35
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I went 2 states out of town today. Saw a full sightings list for the first time in at least 2 months. Still surrounded by Pidgey. Literally 5 of them circling me about to mug my rear end as soon as the GPS loaded my location. Game sucks everywhere, apparently.
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Sep 30, 2016 23:42
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Kurzon posted:Judging by how many adults seem crazy about Pokémon, I thought it had something to offer a seasoned gamer. Nah, the nostalgia is just really strong and the game is filled with cute creatures, that's all. To the credit of people keeping up with every single game, they just like seeing new baby monsters and cool new features evolving with each franchise. But there is still endgame PvP battling which is the only challenging part. Otherwise like all RPGs, you can grind as much as you want and nothing would really be a challenge. Pokemon is just a lot easier because they have the type weakness thing going on and you can easily cover most types with 2-3 Pokemon in your team, not to mention that game battles call out "your opponent is about to send out a fire Pokemon next, would you like to change to your Pokemon with a water move ahead of time to murder it on the first hit?" My motivation for buying Sun and Moon is because my friends are doing it and I haven't played an actual Pokemon game in forever. Not to mention the setting is different than the normal McNormal land.
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Anyone know what the nests in Philadelphia have switched to? I think that Logan Square is Pikachu and Rittenhouse is Geodude but I haven't checked out any of the others.
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Oct 1, 2016 01:05
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Welp, my cp2000 Snorlax just dropped out of the gym closest to my place after being in there for 26 days. That's 260 coins, $2.60 profit! Originally it was at the top, later higher CP mons were put in, until it got to the bottom. rip I replaced it with a cp3000 Dragonite, hopefully that's good enough to last another month, unless Instinct or Valor decide to get off their rear end and roll up the blue zone that my area seems to be!
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Mierenneuker posted:Since of the last two updates I sometimes get a bug where Pokemon models don't load and odd behavior like that happens. It occasionally occurs after force-quitting and restarting the app and the solution seems to be do it a second time Yeah I figured it was a bug. I've been experiencing a lot of strange glitches recently but I bought a new phone around the same time as the 0.39 patch was pushed, so I can't be sure whether it's the phone or the game. I've been getting GPS freezes where my trainer gets frozen in one place for about 5 minutes during which I can spin pokéstops and capture spawns. After 5 mins or so I get the big red "GPS signal not found" message and have to force-quit the app. Other GPS tracking stuff on my phone works fine. This only seems to happen in particular places and I've a feeling it might be related to gyms being visible on the map. I've ran the game fine for hours at home where there's nothing on the map. On the plus side, the Moto Z is great for running this game. I can get about 7 hours continuous play on a full charge and the fast recharge will bump the battery back to 100% in an hour while the game is running. On my old phone the game would drain the battery even when it was plugged into a mains charger. Some random pro-tips:
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Kurzon posted:I missed out on the Pokémon craze, mostly because I never got into consoles. Out of curiosity, I started playing Pokémon Emerald (GBA, 2004) on an emulator, and I'm surprised by how easy the game is. I've switch on the Fast speed mode and I'm effortlessly grinding my Pokémon up to high levels because most battles are just trivial speed bumps. Is this normal for Pokémon games? There is next to zero challenge. Maybe don't grind your pokemon to extremely high levels
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Clyde Radcliffe posted:[*]Proximity Service Small no-nonsense app that turns off the screen and disables touch input whenever the front-facing camera is covered. PoGo still runs and tracks distance, buzzes on spawns etc, but no more accidental pocket purchases. I use GO Extender for that purpose, it also blacks out the screen. It also works when the phone is put face-down or held upside down. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dferreira.gopikapi
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Psycho Society posted:You can get handfuls of dratini around pier 39 if you hang around long enough. Just dratinis falling out of your pockets really. Tempted to jus hit San Francisco for one day. I wonder how bad airfare would be for a round trip.
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Oct 1, 2016 04:26
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Cowslips Warren posted:Tempted to jus hit San Francisco for one day. I wonder how bad airfare would be for a round trip. Only pull the trigger if you have a fun agenda of memorable activities to do as the primary focus of the trip and capturing pokemon is something you sorta do while waiting or standing around. I made a trip to a BONA-FIDE bellsprout nest on a whim and those 20 candies, gas and a lost saturday triggered my "why am I doing this" revelation and now I just catch rattatas on the bus.
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It's fun, but I wouldn't necessarily book a flight for that purpose. I've been down a few times, but only cause I was in the area. Pokemon spawns are always changing, and it'd be easy to be disappointed. For instance I think the big squirtle nest at fort mason is now psyduck or something. You could probably find the same kinds of pokemon in any coastal area.
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I realised last night that the mediocre Dragonite I caught a while back was like, level 15. Just under 1400cp. I had a bunch of candies from dratinis and it has the 2nd best defensive moveset so I forcefed it and now it's a much more respectable 2019cp defender.
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