Posted on 07/12/2016 12:12:27 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Pokémon Go is luring players to landmarks like the 9/11 Memorial and the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC — sparking outrage from people who think it’s insensitive.
The downtown Manhattan memorial is filled with “PokeStops” — landmarks highlighted by a floating blue cube that gives gamers free items to catch Pokemon — including both reflecting pools, the “This City’s Bravest” plaque and the Survivor Tree.
Modal Trigger A Koffing Pokemon is visible at the National 9/11 Memorial South Pool in New York on July 12, 2016.Photo: Chad Rachman/New York Post “It’s disrespectful to the people who lost families. Playing a game is one thing, but they shouldn’t do it here. This is like a sacred place,” said a 61-year-old Staten Island laborer who helped clean up Ground Zero.
Koffing, a levitating purple monster with a skull and crossbones on its belly, appeared next to the reflecting pool at the memorial Tuesday — right next to the thousands of names of first responders who lost their lives in the Twin Tower bombings.
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Send a million pokemons over to the towelheads in IS. Maybe they’ll stop raping, burning, destroying and chopping heads.
The game is making people actually get up and walk around.
We need more of that.
My daughter discovered Pokemon Go about 10 days ago.
Yesterday, I had to block her data access, because in just 10 days, she blew through all but 0.078GB of our family’s monthly 4GB shared data allotment.
I’d be willing to bet that a lot of these Pokemon Go players will get a large dollar shock on their next phone bill.
Basically Pokemon Go, is Geocaching, right?
I have no idea what this is. I remember pokeman, but not this.
7 years of pontificating, nagging, and preaching by the White House to get people moving has been useless.
7 days of a private enterprise giving people incentive to go for walks as a family and no one can shut up about it.
Use it as an educational opportunity - if you come in, we get to lecture you on the events behind the memorial.
If enough of the game players hate it, the game will change the character locations.
A lot of parents are playing with their kids. Gives them something to do together.
I just found out about this game yesterday. I’ve got zero interest in video games so I really don’t care but...
Our church is a checkpoint or center or whatever they call it. We block the driveway when no one is there. If the building is locked, there’s no reason for people to be there.
In the past they’ve had problems with people partying behind the building so I understand their reasons for blocking the drive.
I’m going to have to find some way to explain this to the leaders that people may be trespassing on the property in the hopes of playing a video game.
Hopefully the fad ends soon.
How about just go for a walk without your phone?
Try to think deeply, enjoy nature, and relax...
As for children, take their electronics away and make them play sports.
Maybe shocks much bigger than over-data bills.
http://www.teaparty.org/pokemon-go-linked-cia-175693/
I guess I just don’t get it.
It’s definitely “something”.
https://twitter.com/0xdade/status/752349663747989504/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
No way in blue hell will I let this thing on *my* phone.
In a virtual sense, yes. The developers have the ability to virtually place Pokemon characters practically anywhere and the players can “catch” characters there. The players themselves can place a beacon to invite other players to put their Pokemon up against each other. Just the other day I read where some thugs put up a beacon to lure people in and rob them at gunpoint. IIRC, there were 10 or 11 victims.
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/11/12129162/pokemon-go-android-ios-game
Seems like an open invitation to terrorists.
Need to set one in the White House lawn.
I always get a kick out of those loony fence jumpers.
Could use extra laughs these days.
For sure. But people getting up and walking around have to have common sense about where they're going.
maybe they will take a nanosecond
TO ENGAGE THEIR BRAIN
and
PROCESS A THOUGHT
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