Could Pokemon Go save you in a disaster?

Well I think I missed the gameification features… we are talking about the “forum whose name shall not be spoken, hopefully to be forgotten by history”?

Given we did a timeleap back to a week earlier, with all posts reverted… What Gameification?!?</creepy music>

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This is by far the dumbest idea I’ve heard in a long time. And the forums get some really dumb ideas.

Some points

  • Pokemon Go is far to buggy to be any use for emergency communication
  • Pokemon Go kills battery so fast that it will be useless in any emergency

In fact, that second point means that people who have emergencies are more likely to die, as Pokemon Go means more people are carrying flat cell phones.

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But the title, man. That’s some industrial strength clickbait right there.

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Sound like a great way to sell more batterypacks to pokemon go players, no?

Did Nintendo buy some phone accessory company stocks lately?

Then again, they most probably invested heavely in medical aid equipment producers… but I will stop my sarcasm now :wink:

http://www.pokemongo.com/en-us/pokemon-go-plus/

That’s just stupid. They first need to make the PokePhone, then add wearables.

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You guys just don’t get it. Haven’t you noticed the number of pokestops located in cemeteries? It’s obvious that the ultimate goal is to slowly drive pokemon players into the cemeteries where they can get eaten by zombies and drive the zombie apocalypse. Or maybe its Vampires?

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Actually…now that I think about it, Pokemon Go COULD help you in a natural disaster

So like, if you’re running from a big angry animal like a lion or that dog from The Sandlot, or a stampede, or like a giant mob of angry people or zombies or whatever, and you see someone ahead of you who is playing Pokemon Go who is oblivious to the world, you just toss them down behind you to slow down the herd!

So basically Pokemon Go itself won’t save you per se, it’s the oblivious players/meatshields who give us non players a leg up in an emergency/survival situation! THIS is how it will drive Natural Selection along!

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If Arowx made games that were as good as his titles are clickbaity he’d be a billionaire by now.

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Yet you’d think we’d know better by now given most of his past threads. :stuck_out_tongue:

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He’s so good at drawing you in though. I often pass by his threads without clicking, then later almost click on it… then later still accidentally find myself somehow in his thread, sucked in, typing…

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These will probably hold the title for the scariest single sound on Earth.

If you’ve never heard these during a real tornado, then mark yourself yucky. Nothing as hopeless as laying in a closet and hoping its gonna save your ass all while listening to these blasted sirens. :frowning: