Anyone else seen people driving around Pokemon landmarks playing that fucking faggot game?

What is a fake world? What is real? When I die, this world I experience now will, from my perspective, no longer exist. Should I die while experiencing a wonderful virtual world indistinguishable from reality, would it be any different?
What do you really want to do? Why is it only possible in this reality, and not one that's virtual?

Replace "virtual reality" with "the internet" in your post.

I want to find something by looking at it with my own eyes. When I confront someone, I want to know that I can stop them. I want to feel everything through my own nerves, I want to go outside without using a machine to go farther than my front door. I want to drive a car and be able to make it do what I want when I want and how I want it, without outside control from programs I never asked for written by people I never met. I want to feel the pain of exertion, and to make my own body stronger.

And it is you athiest morons who don't understand this can never be perfectly replicated by anything built with human hands, or even by machine hands. You don't care, because nothing matters to you. And it is what you want, that seeks to take all that way from me! Even if this reality in which I dwell is actually virtual, it's a convincing enough fake that when man made virtual reality comes, I will live through the chaos created as everyone tries to escape their problems rather than solve them. I will see my freedom taken from me, because of your selfishness, and the delusion that anything could take the place of what you have now, unobstructed by a screen.

I ride my motorcycle for Pokemon Go.

>And it is you athiest morons who don't understand this can never be perfectly replicated by anything built with human hands, or even by machine hands.
lol
In other news, I believe things have to be done before we ever even slightly consider virtual reality at a truly akin to real life level. For one, all people on earth need to be able to reach prosperity before we give people the option to experience life in a digital format - after all, until we at least reach a type 1 if not type 2 civilization there's almost no way we can power something necessary for a matrix-level simulation of reality. Until we reach that point, I want to make sure every person on earth has as best a life as is possible.

>Pokemon gets people to go outside and socialize for the first time in fucking years
>I hate this generation
sure buddy, let's just get you back into the nursing home

Google is using it to gather mapping data so they don't have to do it themselves

Basically they combined a shitty game with what is a legit paying job and expected people to do it for free

Anyone who plays it is a fucking moron.

Ingress has been out forever, what difference does it make if it's Pokémon?

Shits stupid.
You dont even battle them or anything, its just an alternate version of fucking ingress.
Fuck that game too.

That won't happen, because it's easier to keep poor people under control when you're rich. VR will be exploited by the rich to control you, and they will make sure you use VR by destroying the alternatives. Social media was the first step in this process of destruction, and autonomous cars are the second.

The popularity means way more people get sucked in.

Oh, I agree. If automation is controlled exclusively by the capitalist class, the majority of humanity has no future. That's why we need a socialist revolution and it's very likely that the west will have a variety of revolutions in the next couple of decades, though something tells me the majority are going to be far-right based rather than leftist.
With that said, should we eventually reach post-scarcity I'd really love to experience working on any car that's ever existed and going on touge runs with anyone in the world at any time.

>the capitalist class
>we need a socialist revolution
You are the problem. There is no such thing as "the capitalist class".

>he's still afraid of socialism
whew
it's just a bunch of coops bud, wouldn't you want to work in a coop garage?

>something tells me the majority are going to be far-right based
good.

>implying anyone other than government officials would be able to own cars
>implying the government owned railway wouldnt be your only method of transport from your shitty goverment owned apartment complex to your shitty job at the government owed sweatshop

>state capitalism is socialism
i hate stalin for starting this meme

Protip: literally all of Marx's Laws of Capitalist motion were disproven by the 1950s. Socialism/communism has no future. Crony capitalism is what you hate, so do I. Only true unfettered capitalism is the future.

That won't work, because the ultra rich use socialism to manipulate you too. They endorse this pleasant ideal, and then they proceed to do jack shit about improving the quality of life. They need you to have a bad quality of life to keep you off their back, and focused instead on getting your next meal. Then they do what the corporations want, and insist that this is in the spirit of the ideology their constituents carry.

The revolution must be ideologically opposed to the establishment in order to motivate people to do it, but socialism, and communism, which involve planned economies, will just create a new elite which will become just as corrupt. The only solution is to depose the corrupt, and do it repeatedly and consistently whenever corruption appears. Violence is not the only means of this, but other means must be acted on before the elite find ways to disable those. They've just about done so at this point. Now they want our guns and our cars, so we can't use violence. Accepting virtual reality, in any capacity, plays into their hand.

>true unfettered capitalism is the future
ah, yes, if the employers get even more money eventually the working class shall benefit
just go look up market socialism so you can stop freaking out about how socialism inherently means the end of all competition and the gubmint will own everything

if you're more an anarcho syndicalist that's fine, i personally don't think that's super effective in the long term but i am welcome to being proven wrong on that front
moving closer to true democracy is definitely necessary, though

That pokemon go game is pretty dumb. Very little content and boring AF. Luckily it's only popular due to social media hype and you wont hear about it again after a couple weeks.

Maybe they'll actually add battles at some point! You never know.

You battle at gyms

Yeah, that whole "increasing wealth disparity" thing is a total myth.

That describes neckbears who just post on Veeky Forums and play video games in this exact day and age.

I have wanted to catch pokemon in the real world since I was 8.

I would rather let a group of well hung black men ravish my mouth and arsehole than to stop playing this.

ya books movies the internet the very thing thats ur safespace that allows u to freely say the gay shit u said and all other means of entertainment have done just what u said 2. all of those are forms of escapism just because its going 2 get a bit more advanced now doesnt mean that its means for collapse. ur just a tard whos now like all the shitters we used to have 2 hear about harry potter demonism and shit. get ovr urself manbaby and stop obsessing over cars something thats meant to only be served as a tool and work for all waking hours otherwise ur not accomplishing anything

yea my wife and I hopped in my car and we find empty country roads with slow speed limits to crawl along catching Pokemon

It's fun as hell, also my downtown area is chalked full of gyms and shit

I love this game. Literally waiting by a 'gym' in an alley and I've robbed three stupid millenials of their expensive smart phones.

t. Nigger

I don't care if you're 5 or if you're one of those "le 90s were best" kids. You have to be retarded to think that Red and Blue were actually better than Gold and Silver.

You want the real world? Then leave your computer and phone behind and live in the woods you filthy animal

fuckin let it go man

Nice false dichotomy breh

>I don't like this game so you're all morons
Lighten up. Try going outside or something.

ignoring all the dilemmas this game provides, lets focus on the complete invasion of privacy.

gamesradar.com/help-my-house-is-a-pokmon-go-gym-the-reality-of-living-in-a-virtual-space/

>your house happens to be a Gym
>every faggot in town is going to be standing in front of your porch with their phones pointed at you.

I went to the park for first time sense it came out, there were roving packs of teens and early 20's all over the park. normally at 6 I can run with maybe 10-15 other people in the park, there had to be atleast 80 people wandering the fields and woods of the park.

The 1Sgt's office is a gym at my base, needless to say there was a safety brief This morning about, people entering area's they aren't permitted to, walking on the grass in front the offices, and walking with cellphone out well in uniform.

I have no problem with people going out and about and doing something they like but pic related will get you shot and killed.
My area is rural though so the likelihood of people doing this is small.

Literally a game where people are walking around capturing video footage of a bunch of shit.

It's quite scary.

Captcha is bad enough, helping a robot learn what street is what and what the entities on that street are

Streetview is bad enough

It isn't capturing video footage, stupid.

This guy knows what's up.
Pretty sure we're helping captcha recognize objects.
At my job this is how we teach X-ray machines to look for metal.

It's kinda like that Microsoft age detector. How can that not be used for facial recognition.

Right but it's allowing opening of the camera application while connected to the internet. I'm sure teh devs can choose to view whoever they wish,just like the people at Snapchat can view every photovideo sent

switch to the text captcha or buy a pass,it's better than willingly taking part in allowing a giant robot to spy on you

text rarely works for me and i'm too jew to pay for something on an image board although i whitelisted Veeky Forums on adblock+

scuse me whilst i don my tinfoil hat, programs on your phone do all kinds of sketchy shit. some can record video and audio when the phone is in your fucking pocket and the app is off

Are you retarded?
Do you need your care taker?

Video is high bandwidth. If Go was uploading any footage or even pictures, you would see it in your data usage.

>programs on your phone do all kinds of sketchy shit.
This is why they say take the battery out of your phone when you go to Defcon.

They even recently found a way to transfer information using the CPU and GPU fans to send audio signals.
What the fuck.

If you want a secure phone, you shouldn't have bought an Android phone.

>Defcon
It isn't as bad as it used to be unfortunately

I guess too many normies found out about it.

>thinking iOS apps don't do the exact same thing
>largest company in the world doesn't use any of your data ever
Also
>so secure a 14 year old hacked it

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Socialism doesn't exist. In real world, any country that attempts socialism would end up being state capitalism

People who believe socialism and communism is no different than Christian fags think Jesus and his world will come upon us in time. You're a moron who only believes promises from the elite who eventually sell you poor fucks out for their better living

citation needed.

>girl I used to crush on rings me at 9 at night
>"Hey, can you drive me into the city right now?"
>"Why?"
>"Someone put up a beacon and..."

I hung up. Not wasting premium fuel on this bitch. Girls are a meme.

Why the fuck can't she drive herself?
Also gay master race.

She's a nocar, nojob arts student.

traps 2bh

They're all the fucking same

G/S had a bunch of quality of life changes. Press "A" in front of shit to use the HM move, selecting key items, etc.

Functionality has only improved more and more with the games, whatever the quality of the franchise.

This.

How can cis girls compete?

They smell different. Even the most qt traps slather themselves in perfume to hide what I can only describe as the male scent.

>male scent
Why would you not want that?

the sex stank is dank

Maybe... and I'm going out on a limb here... maybe he ISN'T GAY

Pokemon GO is finally scam that is widely appealing to gen Y.
Everything else they have tried was either appealing to boomers and xers, or late y's early z's.
Enjoy your total and complete lack of privacy. Spyware is spyware, I don't care how nostalgic it makes you feel.

Then why would he be into traps

Brosifine arrives to remind us why he's the dumbest tripfag on Veeky Forums

It's probably this. If I didn't know I was seeing a picture of a really convincing trap I'd probably get caught. In person, however, I wouldn't fall for it. There was a really convincing looking Asian one in one of my classes, but there was just something about it that gave the game away.

Tinfoil hatty as this sounds, it makes for a chilling thought.

It's not tin foily.
It's a well known fact that money is being made by collecting data from people.
That's why Microshaft made Windows 10.
Facebook, skype, instrgram, xbone, google, etc etc
They're all spying on you, and people aren't just letting them, they're thanking them.
When you become something almost essential to people, you become a gold mine for valuable data.
That's why there was such a push for smart phones in the west. Same with credit cards. It's very quickly coming to cars too.

How exactly is this game spying on you?

>Free to play game that requires access to your data, GPS, and files
>Cost over $15,000,000 to develop
>Totes not spyware

>tfw some poor sap has been forced to trawl through the Google search history of my weekly porn binges

I feel so goddamn virile right now. Also fuck Tesla, my next car to accompany my upjumped grocery getter is going to be even older.

No, it doesn't access your files. It needs permission to save photos to your phone, that's it. In fact, on an iPhone it literally can't access the data in your storage because each app runs in a sandbox on iOS.
>GPS
So does the nav in your car. What is Nintendo going to do with the information they're supposedly gathering from the game? Oh, it seems people are walking toward poke spots and gyms! Big fucking surprise!
>$15,000,000
And they're making over a million dollars a day in microtransactions. The game will pay for itself in a month. They don't even need to sell personal info -- not that they have access to any valuable information anyway.

But like you can't eat in virtual worlds and you know food costs money so you need to get a job anyway? You mong

>logic
This is a thread for scared, ignorant ninnies, user.

>Need

I love Pokemon and Cars but the fact that people are using their phones while driving freaks me the fuck out.
I don't understand how people multitask in the first though, so i'm probably a dumbass.

>not that they have access to any valuable information anyway

>What I want to know is how much money was sank into this horseshit.
Not as much as you probably think. The backend was developed by the Google Earth team as a startup and huge portions of the games spawn data is based off information collected from Ingress.

>you become a gold mine for valuable data.
However many years ago a friend of mine was working for a magazine and they made more money selling the mailing list data than selling the magazine.

I love how the actual neckbeards are throwing a fit over some shitty geocatching game with pokemon that will die off in a month.

>The information isn't valuable to me!
>That means it isn't valuable!

>that will die off in a month.
Until they release the gen 2 pokemon.

It isn't valuable to fucking anyone. Explain what info they could possibly be selling from this app.

As if the people playing it care about gen2

If nothing else it shows how willing people are to wander into a grimy alleyway in Coontown for a shiny Pidgey.

Kids will. They don't give a shit, if there are new pokemon to catch, they'll be falling all over themselves to catch them. They've proved that by managing to sell six generations of games.

>tfw played and enjoyed 1 to 4

I have autism don't I? Fug.

Its all teens and people in their 20s playing it for muh nostalgia

I enjoyed 1 through 3, 4 is where it lost its charm for me.

Pokemon is one of the biggest normie games ever.

>all
not really

Almost all of them