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and good morning on Thursday July 6 the one last big episode before we take our mighty hiatus it's episode three 5251 and good morning everybody we couldn't let you go without one last time talking about Pokemon Cup oh come on come on an important milestone yeah show we talked about Pokemon go like all summer last year yeah it's made to me this makes sense prior to the hiatus to spend at least a little bit time what are we talking about Samsung blowing up Pokemon go yeah and then just like crap yeah so if anybody wants to sign out now we're done we did it at all I don't know if you all know but it is the it's the birthday thing one-year anniversary of Pokemon goes launch happy birthday Pokemon happy birthday so we're gonna talk a little bit about that in our own personal experiences how long we actually last with the game we're talking a little bit about robotics and sort of the opportunities in the healthcare area that robots might be able to bring and then lastly a little plug for I hate package it's a series of stories that looks like online hate on harassment roll culture that has developed over I don't know it's been years it sounds very light as always if you have any questions leave them in the comment section Brian will pick out the best and we get to them in three minutes of 59 seconds from three to welcome to the 359 I'm Roger Chang I'm Ben Fox Ruben happy birthday Pokemon go emotive phenom launched a year ago I despite the perception that it's relevant 65 million people are still playing that game each my it's crazy worldwide right yeah well yes I mean that's still pretty this is longer that's an impressive means they're still minting cash like crazy I would yeah it's still definitely still one of the most profitable games at least the corn the App Store it's definitely always on the top five list yeah and it's just kind of give you a little bit right like like Sean Haugh sir who wrote the the one-year anniversary piece kind of looked at the big big games in PC right like Warcraft heard of stone overwatch all these games combined have fewer users than Pokemon go no way crazy yeah but like at the same time Pokemon go we would all argue is no longer the pin at the pinnacle that it used to be I mean like we were talking about this on the podcast virtually every single day because this was really like this this had broken through and was like the song of the summer basically yes everybody was playing it non-stop I I don't know I eventually gave up on it though right I mean like yeah anymore either no no I think they had made some tweaks it's like probably two or three months into the game that like I think either made it difficult I forget I kind of forget the reason why I quit I remember light sequencing was always like really weird well like fighting gyms yeah like I always felt those frustrating and like after a while the the gyms were dominated by players yep so many strong Pokemon that you really didn't have a chance right unless you poured money to the game and actually went out all the time looking for Pokemon building them up they just it didn't seem worth everyone just went commercial man just really too bad prize a game wanted to make money right so the the primary reason that I eventually ended up downloading it was the like during my walk to and from Grand Central Station yeah and I just realized that I was like looking at my phone too much it was like supposed to be like the one time of the day when I wasn't supposed to be looking at screens and I just kind of hated that that had become my life I mean it was a fun game I just did my general argument to that was the game got me to take different routes fine like I have like a set route that I want from Penn to our office everyday right sort of like the most efficient route but with Pokemon go I was able like it made me kind of go out of my way to walk around different parts of the city and that was kind of nice in hopes of finding it hopes of finding a vapery and or whatever I haven't played in a while go easy on me next up robots robot robots are taking over our own Katie Collins visited the International robotics showcase in London where she saw robots that could care for the elderly perform surgery or even diagnose stomach cancer which would be really helpful yep you know in certain area she mentioned like in rural China you could use like one of these things even if you do not have a medical degree or your low level and that I could potentially help save lives so it is interesting to see how robots are actually being used these days right mostly in like the medical environment I mean like they haven't quite taken over all of our jobs I mean it is kind of nice right we talked about you know robots stealing our jobs we talked about robots taking over the world or sort of the other end of the spectrum we talked about sort of superficial uses right like robots cleaning our floors right serving of strengths like robotic bartenders but these are actually robots that have a real use and actually have a real impact potential impact on our lives yeah well-being so that's kind of nice you should definitely check it out lastly we wanted to plug our I hate package series of stories that look at online hate control culture our own cherry calls is the leadoff story today so sure check it out seen it just a note to our faithful listeners will be out for the next two weeks but we did tape a few specials that will air during the break be sure to check them out yeah we'll be back or Ben will be back on July 24th so maybe you will anyways I'm Roger Shay I'm Ben Fox Ruben thanks for listening so let's talk about Pokemon go I guess Peter in the chat still playing it Jonathan Bailey however says am I the only one who's never played Pokemon go oh my to be completely honest at least you know understand I don't know I think we just bored him to death though now he's never gonna play it I mean I'm with bullfrog bullfrog in the chest as I played Pokemon go for like three months and quit because I lived where there was no Pokemon but yeah and now we're in New York we get spoiled their Pokemon ever but it's the same once exactly 37 piggies and I stopped caring yeah after a while yeah it was 37 yeah I mean I caught probably 50 of them I mean I had fun for a couple of months but it did very quickly get stale because I just want to go catching and I'm not going to go get an international plane ticket to keep playing this game although I was a when I was a herp I did I remember I did turn it on I turn it back on that's kind of cool cuz I was trying to find mr. mime which was like the Europe exclusive Pokemon and he was on my radar and then I was I was running to a conference and I like should I just stick around and guess mr. mime I did I ended up running to cover the conference like I seriously regret it was like it was the only time during my week in Germany that he showed up mmm and I was looking pretty regularly for him look at that you really should have yolo'd that situation you know Mercedes told your boss I was playing Pokemon go excuse me I don't remember important what my favorite I caught was I caught a couple Mike I think I thought I caught a Tentacruel right outside my apartment is terrifying terrifying frightening looking I remember the what's the Buffalo looking one poor tauros tauros is a u.s. exclusive one so when I went out to like Germany I was hanging out with our UK colleagues and they like looked at my tourists like oh my god he looks so majestic literally that's what they said it's kind of makes me want to download the game again but they add they added a bunch a couple of months short I haven't played it though they did a bunch they I think they changed the rules around the gym where like you can't stack superpower Pokemon at each other the battles are bit more effective taller than huge improvements but I think I left the game the prom is Niantic honest I mean they were a little slow to react to the phenomenon like they didn't address a lot of the issues people were asking for until way later and even now like I would argue you know the key features that you're looking for like the player 2 player battle never showed up right that was I think the one element one dimension a game that would have helped with the longevity right like I couldn't fight you I could fight you right without like our pokemon trainer on Pokemon and bite each other that just never happened one thing that was at least predicted when Pokemon go came out that I don't think really has come to pass quite yet is this concept that AR was going to explode thanks to Pokemon go I really don't think that there have been that many uses for a are okay I would disagree because I feel like that helped set the road like snapchat filters and look at what Google Apple what all these guys are doing what they are now like it's not a coincidence like a year after that phenomenon like everybody is talking about AR apples like money or when they talk about a are kid they talked about how Pokemon go would look so much better with a so I would say it definitely helped I don't think I mean I feel like snapchat probably has a bigger impact a longer lasting impact Pokemon go come out a wider wider a short term impact I'm getting people to understand appreciate I'm curious we have a lot of fantastic international listeners and you say the tauros was us exclusive I don't know what the I know there are exclusive I don't know who's got what but I know we have listeners in South Africa we have listeners in Jamaica Jamaica India and I'd like to hear what if you have caught whatever your country's specific like oh really I thought that was okay then let's generalize it what was your favorite Pokemon Yukon I know a CJ Spiker says he's running a 7 day streak and I don't is that current or was that just your your best streak I'd Mel say every player is like her two days what oh you were pretty good I don't know no I remember you had way more Pokemon than me at one you know I should have had Joan on cuz she still plays yeah yeah she still gets hooked on those streaks I I don't know which is like I think that's an added layer of the game what are the strikes I probably stopped playing before I think it's like the bike as you every time you like every day you catch a Pokemon like you get some yeah which is a classic yeah for mobile games for a while there I was trying to hatch eggs on my walk but my dad a plan was just obliterated so I had to step down on that one ah being the chess is the best he's got with the Charmeleon oh yeah that's a good find a couple of people are you know P oh that they never got a Pikachu because well I turned it back on during the holidays oh yeah lucky you yeah Danny Green as always our boy Danny Green did someone drive a silver spike into the Pokemon and see that it finally kills it off it's so thriving it is old yeah still doing pretty well I don't know I I'd come back if they would give us a more gameplay more akin to the Gameboy game like you said if we had user battles or something like that that could be fun make new friends instead of just like trying to out catch each other you're you're right to that it was just a repetitive game yeah I'm sorry on extent I thought it became a phenomenon is a little surprising I would always I would argue though as someone in the chats making fun of their inevitably long loading screens I would argue though most these mobile games are repetitive by nature right like clans or clash Royale yeah it's very repetitive right after like the gameplay is cool for a little while but like after a while it's just couture I remember I played that snake game for a while what was it called like snake io or something like that there was a Nokia 3310 no no no there it was on the iPhone and uu it was it was you would play the snake game against like a hundred people in real time and you would have to like eat them and it was it was a pretty fun game but it was also by the way apparently social repetitive it was meant to be fairly like a trade battle is going on soon I don't know what that means like this this is the first time I've load the game in a while there is a star unit on here me raid battle near us yeah I know there I mean there's a few people in the chat pointing out their big events going on over the place and thank you pointing out that there were no exclusives in South Africa what's up Jesse yeah yeah that's I you would think they would didn't brace that more wouldn't you like I guess get you to go get you globe-trotting get a deal with like Delta you know Pokemon go they did with different stores sprint had one when they launched their new Pokemon they didn't realize was like you don't need to go into the store to activate a poky stop like you just walk right by it which so they thought this was gonna bring in a whole bunch of traffic but I don't know you don't need to go into a Sprint store you know a Sprint customer well I had to go to the store bullfrog says raid battle run for cover I don't know what is that even what is the right battle disconnected from this I think it'll be interesting to see to when the next mobile game hits this big this was really they thought Mario was going to be a playing bejeweled yeah but it was really like a rare awesome summer thing and it was confluence of things where people were out for the summer or available to actually play the game it became like a social phenomenon that doesn't happen all the time like I kind of put a similar in mind set with I remember Dance Dance Revolution and how that was the first big deal to get kids up and moving and getting physical and they were great going back to their cave a success stories about people who legitimately shed a lot of weight and got into better health because of the game cuz it was fantastic exercise now to a lesser degree Pokemon goes just got to walking but that's a start that's huge and I mean I'll give him total credit for that but I did just get bored with the game is it I mean it's a lot of other it's not quite no just I would say like Angry Birds is probably like the last real mobile game like the killer app there everyone was playing a game Jesse says it's a fad like fidgets spinners they just Spears are they soul thing people using them I don't know I don't know Alfred is super into them so so this was also now that now we were talking about like our Pokemon go memories I remember like going to Madison Square Park and during like the height of Pokemon go you would see like groups of people congregating around yeah that was like a really rare thing to happen with games where where we're seeing like walking down like my neighborhood in Long Island like seeing two police officers just was so cool strike up a conversation with them like hey guys caught actually talking kind of yeah yeah yeah there was this shared experience even more people are still talking about how they'd love to see if we could actually duel against other users but at the same time ink and graphite is asking us to talk about Pokemon duel I don't even know what that is baekpa Kondos a it's either console game works for the des Eaux was it a new game game yeah it's all I think it's in my head is like is that a new mode in Pokemon sorry guys were Pokemon goes like basically the extent of our pokemons knowledge like Alfred is actually more into Pokemon right we are he's not here played the original Pokemon RPG that was it no oh I like this advice from svet he says uh frisbee golf was the best way to hatch eggs that's a good point this gets you to constantly running in circles right just don't well you don't have to look at your phone hatch an egg you just have to keep moving it just has to keep knowing that you're in motion and have your the app open and right he'll your data yeah so here it is get a Wi-Fi routed out to your back yard and play frisbee golf frolf same stuff I guess I mean the egg thing was probably the most beneficial because that made you consistently yes you had to walk a set amount of distance sometimes you can camp and just waste Pokemon to come to you it's true but the eggs were the most yeah it was really I would just start oh yeah it's like getting a kid geez like I've got pidgeys already know did another one so before we put this godforsaken topic to rest what did what was Shawn saying is the future is going to hold for this for this franchise uh we don't you know more the same more the same my antics not super forthcoming with a lot of future plans yeah one would expect that they would do spin-offs and they probably should have by now especially like after they made such a big splash with the first one and that's certainly a possibility so going into the future so this wouldn't be Niantic necessarily but let's talk about some potential spin-offs where they could go with Nintendo mobile gaming since they're slowly but surely kind of embracing that I know that there's a few people mentioning Animal Crossing I wonder how that could translate into an AR type mobile games how could they do they'll de it would it just be another runner no I think I mean if you look at the trend of games that they're launching that was a traditional JRPG really was a Fire Emblem the mobile one oh I haven't seen the mobile yet there's a motor version Fire Emblem but it's more it's a little bit more card based okay on my personal wish list I would love to see a Metroid a our game on mobile in a similar fashion where you could just like shoot down Metroid's and you're in your local vicinity that would be how cool would that be and that's just locked down to two Nintendo and there's lots of other a arte because those busters you know already had the back the foundation for that game already existed so your Ghostbusters idea I think would be pretty awesome and would get people to go to like the New York Public Library to try to catch stuff trying to catch slime go to Central Park in the hotel yeah yeah like all the major all the major no landmarks get you bonus points how cool would that be but I mean that's that's again we're in New York so sorry everybody else but I mean if they franchise it out you could get they go to your local firehouse period go to your local Eiffel Tower no big deal yeah I think they'd be pretty cool I also like svet keeps giving us great pointers on how to scam the Pokemon system he says the hatch an egg you could tape your phone to a ceiling fan and turn it on for an hour but you're like movie one stationaries thought I I now want to try that it sounds like a pretty good dog I would I'm now I'm tempted to like if I don't know it just to try it yeah all right we're almost at a time if anybody's got any questions about robots should we talk about the the I hate package real quick cuz we got we had to kind of short sheet then that's a good one yeah yeah mostly I would just recommend checking it out Terry does a really good job of bringing up anecdotes sort of colorful descriptions of sort of the issue this is definitely an overview story there's there are more specific stories the hit specific points to the next four or five days we've got about five stories in the hopper and this timing is pretty good seeing how like the whole CNN things in there prominently but the whole CNN reddit reddit or redditor yeah the quick apology and now it became it went like again so quickly so what a mess yeah oh it's a mess as always all of the links to our mentioned stories will be in the show description down below yep real quick before we go Chris Gonzales and vinas and more than a few are suggesting duck hunt or a mobile AR game yeah that really is a no-brainer that's really I think it's the same idea that I had with Metroid I'm just more I guess bias towards Metroid because that's what I grew up on but totally duck hunt yeah as long as there's a cheat where you can shoot the dog not that they don't love dogs I love dogs I I can't bear the thought of injuring any real dog but that pixel dog can go straight to hell I know that is an annoying dog you're right yeah but I love that idea and that would happen Nintendo we know you're watching get on it we have a bunch of lovely people who actually are watching and on that thank you we do thank you it's time for our biggest break yet after we've done the show for a little over a year well over about a year and a half almost now fortunately yeah we just had too many logistical complications yeah so we're taking a summer hiatus yeah and we will be back on the 24th whether we've earned it or not is up to you yeah too much but yeah we did we are pre recording a handful of episodes about the episodes for some filler noise to break it up in between there they're fun they're timely yeah so check it out and yeah there are no Q&A s for those even though you can pretend they'll be posted in video & audio form for 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