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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People playing this game are stupid in my opinion, because they could be lured into a very dangerous situation.
Geocachers have destroyed 18th century remote and rural cemeteries in my area, and in some cases, have damaged or stolen irreplaceable wrought iron fencing around family plots.
Head stones, some literally only pieces of field stone with names scratched into them, have been damaged and moved.
Personally, it enrages me that idiots playing “games” are stomping all over my dead kinfolk for “fun”.
Or sexual predators.
Was she downloading other things? I only ask, because my wife has it on her phone, and lets my daughter play. Granted, she's only played about an hour's worth or so of time, but the total data usage for my wife's phone is only about 1% of the total allotment. We don't do in-game purchases, and don't do updates, or downloads unless we're on Wi-Fi at home.
I don’t have it on my phone and have no interest in it (just never got into Pokémon anyway), but many of my friends are very happy that their kids are begging them to go on long walks through their neighborhood to try and find rare Pokémon for the game.
Craigslist thugs go high tech.
Gotta admit, it gives them much faster “results” than running an ad for an iPad.
Why can’t they just go buy a Hula Hoop ?
Not expensive enough.
“A lot of parents are playing with their kids. Gives them something to do together.”
We have baseball for that!
Throw rocks, climb trees, swim in a lake/reservoir, capture different bees/wasps and have gladiator matches...
I prefer a nice game of “Nukem”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmSSVt7Mfkk
That’s sad. I geocache a little bit and am always very careful when moving through the woods.
The initial idea was to be pretty circumspect. We set a cache in a park behind out house and it was pretty funny to see the geocachers come by, all nonchalant and stuff. It was a corner of the park and rarely used by anyone but cachers so we knew them instantly.
It’s sad to hear that the Tread Lightly ethic has disappeared.
Yes. Someone out there has all of the data saying where you go, when, how often, etc.
Ironically people are giving this up willingly. Niantic could also turn around and sell the data of users as ‘anonymous data’, thus doubling up on their profits.
My workplace has actually made it a ‘forbidden’ to use app while at or near the building.
Same type idea, but Geocaching has real objects. Pokemon Go is just pictures on your phone when you are near the place where they ‘hide’.................
‘Basically Pokemon Go, is Geocaching, right?’
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It is.
And I think some businesses could attract foot traffic if they install one of those lures. I think you can buy them (?).
I used to geocache, then life got in the way. My wife and I, and all those we knew who geocached, were always respectful of private property, and would never have damaged anything, taken something (other than the take something/leave something in some of the caches).
Some folks are simply disrespectful, but it's certainly not the entire group being so. I've often wondered if some folks find these things and ruin them just do it to piss others off, regardless of the medium.
There have been a few robberies of gamers unsuspecting.................
‘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’
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As for your first thought, great idea!
And as for your second, yes, I agree ... Nintendo will respond to customers.
My two neighbor girls were searching in my yard. I introduced them to a remarkable item that provided entertainment during my youth. Once you opened it, I told them, you could see words which formed sentences. The sentences became paragraphs through which a lovely story unfolds.
They smiled. I love my neighbor girls!
The book is Judy. A true story of a dog during world war 2.
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