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CNET discusses Pokemon Go's controversial update

2016-08-01
ten nine eight seven six five four three two one sorry everybody Hey testing testing lots of testing I can count some numbers hilarious that was like sorry every challenge along with her age I face I will battle every day geez come with me the time is right is no better gee arm in arm will we hello and welcome to cnet's special Pokemon go show my name is mike sorrentino i am here with sean and caitlin and we're to hash out this new Pokemon go update and guys tell me a little bit about your polka poop your name's your Pokemon go experience and then we'll go from there oh I'm going first ladies first age before beauty okay fine i'm sean sean hollister i read a lot about poke about godo it's the new beat here at see that and here are some of my favorite Pokemon my favorite right now is tentacruel it's always been one of my favorites because you get to say release the kraken every time you unleash it and it's not powered up as much as that like because I don't seem to get any candy for it I started playing pokemon with red and blue and then I kind of stopped because after 151 I was like well I can't catch them all because he keep introducing more what's the point I'm Caitlin I never ever played pokemon anything my best friend at the time was obscure stole my best friend mckaela Serio's hopefully oh sorry not anymore again in school Mikayla was near obsessed with pokemon sorry I knew nothing about them I didn't watch it I didn't play the cars I didn't nothing but I am really enjoying Pokemon go and not just for the tag culture being involved aspect of it um I don't know my favorite is I was kind of thinking about it although to be fair i really like renaming all of them so i like this guy oh yeah love porygon I don't have one apparently he's ridiculous so jealous people children seizures in Japan which obviously just made him even more of my favorite also the one that I can't show you i renamed her poorly because it also gives you serious right no no no the one that um is like boob head fire which incidentally is what I named him magmar oh that's magma cool don't obviously one of my most favorite parts of this game is renaming them into weird stuff in my favorite uh my to my favorites i duck in general and i've renamed amount of coming out zen fighter because even though he's a duck he has a psychic move and a fighting move which is amazing considering he'll otherwise in the cartoon have a massive headache all the time yeah I don't know what any of I remember that yeah Caitlin apparently we just before we started recording she admitted to us that she did not know the pokemon theme song apparently she'd never watched the show or and and i should add never listened to the song even once no because if you listen to it even once you never get it out of your head well now i think i know all the words cover like five times the last three minutes but no was a contrarian thing because my best friend loved it i was like no absolutely not don't come near me with those things i don't want to hear about it no to be fair was my younger brothers thing more than my thing and he liked to watch things over and over and over again to the point where I knew the entire plot of toy story by heart and you recite every line of dialogue so he's useful but not anymore i lost the pokemon theme song i could sing the song i'm not going to sing the song so as we get a hash out this pokemon go update and any other pokemon news want to talk about oh we are live so if you are with us in the YouTube chat on live stream or on our facebook post about it feel free to chime in and we will get to a few questions later on we have a hashtag we have hash tag it hash tag cnet live so we're going to start ma during that two tweeted us cnet live and will monitor all these things and bring in as much as we can just to prove that we are alive and in fact reading your comments somebody named the awesomeness master 12 just talked about Mewtwo might be on a slight delay but you'll see that comment shortly okay so over the weekend presumably Friday and Saturday pongo changed up the game a little bit uh tell me about what you think what what and what you've seen we have some mixed feelings about this katelyn we have any mixed anything ok we have a vigorous disagreement Kaitlyn and I I I wrote an article that said Pokemon go just changed battles for the better and I thought it was amazing they did is the thing I don't think we have a Mick as mixed or I don't think we have as separate disparate point of views on this update as you think we do like okay maybe they did but I'm a casual player okay I don't even though my local bar is a polka gym I don't go and just battle and take over it or even really train my pokemon just because that's not what's fun to me it's true I feel like a lot of people don't battle it's so hard but this update is about making that easy so what happened for you folks just in case you didn't know is they changed up the entire battle system changing the moves of every single Pokemon before the update came out on Friday basically how you had to win in a battle was yet have a really really strong Pokemon one of a very few in the game like a snorlax or a Lapras or a Vaporeon and you had to tap tap tap tap tap tap tap on the screen incessantly spamming your quick attack in order to take down an enemy gym and retain it for any period of time what they did is they changed it up so now that the charge moves the more powerful moves ones you'd expect to do lots of damage like a giant water be more a solar ray and things like that they actually do realistic amounts of damage now you can actually use them instead just spamming your quick attack and I thought that was great that they balanced these Pokemon and made it so it wasn't just a few on top of the gyms now maybe Caitlyn could actually attack a gym and win I don't know I mean I'm only so I'm a level 14 never mind me too and yeah i don't i don't think i have anything that's really stir I think I have a little pinchy pinchy thing looks like a cockroach meets a crab sensor nets had laid in sir it's got to be a pincer sure i'm gonna go with mr. pinchy thing and I think he's just under like 600 CP but okay here's the thing i'm a casual player / hoarder I go out and I enjoy catching these little free purple things but i don't really battle and then I just kind of hoard them like I will transfer any silly stupid zoo bats or purple rats or Little Pigeon things that I see that are under a hundred CP cuz I'm like no I know that's nothing like I don't need that but I have come on almost like 300 Zubat candies and I haven't evolved any of them and I still have two lucky eggs by two lucky eggs that I've gotten from leveling up and things and I haven't used any of my lures I think I have what three of them okay I mean it's fair that the pokemon is about catching them all and gotta catch them all right that is the tag line so that's all you want to do I kind of I'm kind of into it and so that's why this update is really controversial because it didn't just fix the battles it also removed the ability to track down wild Pokemon now this is where we could differ a little bit so originally in the game there was a system of footsteps where you could see nearby Pokemon there was a screen in the game where you could see nearby pokemon that i'm going to show you in a second and it would have a number of footprints on this screen to show you how close they were to you one footprint is really close three puts footprint is pretty far away so you could walk around and play warmer colder till you actually found one of these wild Pokemon and they got rid of it now there are no more footprints as this update well I mean theoretically it never worked anyway it wasn't working any of it you told me Caitlin you said it was working for you in the very beginning before they made like a quick bug release update I actually saw one two and three footprints depending on where I walked or where I moved or like when I would leave my apartment I'm in between like two and a half polka stops so when I would leave my apartment and go to the bar go to restaurant or something in my neighborhood I would actually see changing footprints and changing Pokemon it also theoretically let you target a Pokemon by tapping on it and it appeared in the corner of your screen with the footprints and you can see how you're progressing toward or away from it yeah right right but you can't do that anymore maybe you never could I know I never caught a single wild Pokemon by targeting it by chasing the footprints it was always buggy for me never worked and then on top of that there was another way you could find these Pokemon the developers of the of some folks on in the Okavango community who are software developers they said hey we can build our own apps to track these Pokemon using the same api's from the game using the same data that trickles into your phone to tell you where the Pokemon are they win and they've created their own apps like polka vision on the web where you can just get a map of the area and see where the Pokemon spawn find them and then go there so you know the other day in our this a dragon night appeared right at the corner of yes we're here for this no that's right oh that's right his last one Michaelson from New York ok so in San Francisco the corner of our office there was a rush on cnet headquarters we saw people running down the street to catch this drag it out of the quarter of our offices because they found it on these online maps they had no idea where to go just by looking at their Pokemon go app but by going to poke a vision by going to poke a hound by going to these pokeradar apps they knew if they walked several blocks down to our headquarters they could catch this elusive rare Pokemon and so they did but now so upsetting though to get Bonnie coming into our meeting and being like guys there's a there's a dragonite outside the office go go this is breaking and all positive villains chooser she's our video producers just like we gotta go to computers we left our papers we just beelined out of here and missed it but now nobody's gonna be able to do that because niantic is cracking down on these third-party Pokemon tracking apps as well which is so upsetting it's like niantic was like hey guess what we're gonna cut off you know that really useful thing that you use oh and by the way we're also gonna turn off our own tracking so good luck have fun catching them you're my figuring out where they are there might be a safety issue that in a way though too because maybe people who were like it when people getting robbed by going after lures maybe there were people taking advantage of the fact that oh it's a dragonite there's gonna be people going let's haunt that area some a they're trying to turn off some of the okay first of all if somebody is gonna mug you they're not gonna mug you when there are 30 people in a crowd there there you will get pickpocketed watch out for that instead second of all if you are looking at a map and using lures to determine who to go mug get a better system okay that's illogical first of all most Lords are from people who are either in a building or near a place of business like I said a lot of mine in my neighborhood are either in restaurants or bars which is great if I go have dinner have a drink or something but like guys be smart seriously like you can still see on your map anything near you that has a lure that's sure those are the same to know what they're really yeah I wasn't really cracking down on here that's the important they've been at that was one of the other editions was a lot more warning messages i think one the one the ones i saw when i was writing in a lift ride was a don't play while driving when I was a passenger sir that's okay um and then uh i think in other words they were like a few times in it watch where you're going I mean they always had the gyarados in the front saying watch where you're going but I think in the middle of it now there's also a few extra pay attention so I mean I think that I I wanted to fit I want to step out here and defend niantic for a sec and say maybe they're just doing this because of the immense server load like both people trying to use the nearby feature to find those footsteps and track down the pokemon and also people using these poke efficient apps every time somebody uses one of those things one of these automated tools that pings the server over and over again to figure out where the Pokemon are every time they do that they're putting an additional strain on the servers which are already trying to deal with this massive massive load of all these players that they did not expect I mean this Gabe they say it's making maybe ten million dollars a day from it app purchases previous Gabe's that dyad take his bait they move tiny they didn't have any areas acting like a Gris parent they're acting like a parent who is like don't do this or I'm gonna take away your toys and then they just put you on like technological restriction or something like what you're just gonna ground me you think that that's how you want people to play your game you're going to take away anything useful that we were using to play your game like it's one thing to take away the steps that would have been fine because we all know it's been a bug and it hasn't been working since inception but then to also cut off access for poke a vision and radar and all the things that we're actually making it fun to catch pokemon that's ridiculous that is so backward of niantic but how do we know they're not just going to reinstate it in an update as soon as they figure out the server has there been anything to make that even seem like a remote possibility well to be fair they don't communicate they don't say anything we had no idea this was coming late on a Friday they were gonna change the Gabe out from under us so maybe that's why people are so angry because we just don't know they don't tell us anything at all neither do a lot of I don't know okay I don't think it's just the fact that they didn't tell us anything quote unquote I think for me it's the fact that they cut off any way for a casual player to enjoy the game so you were only enjoying the game by searching for pokemon that you could find through the tracking in polk efficient and all that yeah i was like oh that's cooler into my house like let me go grab that let me go get this cool blue fire me so now we're talking about the difference between going out to play the game and playing the game whenever you're out my plan is a collective I play it whenever I'm out I play whenever I'm out about I play the game I don't need to like something to ping me and tell me no i'm on polk a vision or i'm at home being like oh maybe I'll go get a drink maybe I'll go get dinner where should I go and I look on polk a vision which admittedly I'm probably more angry about this in most people because i only started doing this on thursday night friday morning then i'm gonna be like cool go to monk's kettle for my beer because there's a boob head fireman nearby like oh it's I mean I just don't I just go where the Polka stop so I mean if I I'll say hey there's this restaurant it's got to poke estas made everybody maybe 3 i'll put a lure on one of them I'll just sit there and sit my coffee and you know cut up my steak or whatever the heck I can afford to eat this week and and I'll constantly get pokeballs and catch the Pokemon while i'm there it doesn't need to be a mag mar or a booby fire head man is that what you said i don't i'm not yeah boob head fireman oh boo pet fireman there wasn't doesn't need to be a transformer porygon I don't need transformers brother one makes great I caught that one on accident so generally those services were they outside of my antics terms of service and you think niantic would create a first-party version of it to be like if you want to catch let's say Articuno go to somewhere really really cold if they don't want any ill-will they'll create their own yeah quickly I mean to be honest I think it's kind of a cash grab for them to some degree they really want to sell people on this wander around and find things you didn't expect they don't want to be on the go to specific locations and catch the rare Pokemon easily kind of thing because they want to keep people playing as long as possible why do you use keep playing after you've caught them all are you going to keep playing after you cut them all probably because they've already said they'll release like new one okay but but soon in September well originally supposed to be coming in july but September they're gonna have this wearable Nintendo scene of this wearable they're going to sell for thirty-five dollars it's a little pin or wristband you put on your wrist that lets you see Pokemon nearby you and you can just press a button to catch them and they want to sell those devices I mean they don't want people to already just know where Pokemon are go straight there I want people to wander around and magically stumble upon them hi I'm a woman who lives in an urban area I'm gonna be doing no wandering around by myself I don't care what pokemons nearby fair dressing what else we ate a lot more so the style of the steps of a style yep changed a little bit too i noticed that when i was catching some pokemon last night it seemed like there was a couple actually graphical improvements to the way the balls the way the ball through and landed what up and then I think we've talked about font possible yes it's there some meme some nasty means going I'm sorry angry about there's a post ops all of theirs new font changes like really niantic we gave you a list of things we wanted from you and you came to us and said look we changed the font oh I'm sorry we also now have the ability to customize our human again to be fair you were you were kind of interested in that right you don't get me wrong I already did it like re i totally already like change your clothes I thank you dude come on hey you could you can do a sex change in Pokemon go now to super important I didn't go in and I could just reach Ainge the entire out it and I'm kind of wondering i know everybody hates much people hate Tim instincts new leaders clothing options but I kind of want his hoodie on my character I'm just saying but although the the jackets at the other two leaders which colors T minster yeah yes yellow yellow and I'm I don't think we can be friends for some reason is a very polarizing decision wait what are you what you watchin mystic i don't know what eva is that blue oh I'm on blue yeah yeah everybody loves the blue blue blue they also taken over every gym so I'm already like I'm already outcast you know people are complaining I've seen a lot of complaining I don't know people have been complaining oh hey hold on i get this always a lot of complaining what is i'm also getting a pokemon right now what is it it's a piccie it's just my favorite pokemon because every time you catch four of them you get at least 900 experience points 100 for each Pokemon you catch 500 for the evolve unless you double it with a lucky egg it's the best pokemon so to be clear even though we're hashing out everything a game obviously we enjoy the game cuz we're still anywhere but right now would you just catch Caitlyn I don't know okay caterpillar thing no no oh you know with that title okay all right we have any good questions from the audience yeter we have a lot of comments live and let me jump down to our questions so Godfrey asked how can you find Pokemon now that the radio system is broken and polka we saw buzzes it earlier but what would you what would you best way to go about it there are still a few trackers out there that work if you go to reddit you go to our / Pokemon go dev there's a bunch of software developers working on the game working on these apps and they're talking about ways to get around the blocks and they are talking about a few of these tracking apps that do still work is what pokemon it seems like what niantic did is they shut down the IP addresses of commonly used cloud services like amazon web hosting which we're powering these third-party apps to begin with so it's like okay the most popular ones will shut them all down just by blocking Amazon because Amazon's got the servers but then some of the ones who were hosting them on their own servers they haven't been blocked yet is what my understanding anyhow Brandon and our YouTube chad has a more general questions i do want to post to you both why do people like this game so much pokemons been a game for over a decade and that is really clear Pokemon has been around for 16 years now a little over that in Japan and uh but now it's like 1999 all over again Pokemon everywhere dominating the news cycle you can get drinks so when that came out I remember right away older than I thought I was I think idea 98 in Japan if I'm or 97 even I think I think 90s when the u.s. TV show started airing 98 I'm gonna look at any case what do you me the reason why I like it is because the AR part of it is actually really entertaining to me I think it's kind of it was kind of fun in the beginning for me to like be catching things while I was in bed and be like look who visited me that's so funny um there was a little skull and crossbones guy I caught him one day when I was like vegging out on netflix nailed it there's a lot of nostalgia for me but also this I've been wanting a game that just really gamma phi's exercise for me something that'll get me out of the house walking around losing some weight and this one does it because the feedback loop is just so quick and so consistent I know every time i walk out there I'll get some more pokeballs I'll find a Pokemon soon I'll have gained enough to evolve them and get some more experience points get to the next level I don't know how long it's gonna last I'm already at level 22 and I feel like the game's wearing a little bit thin but ah it's just that quick jolt of electricity that I didn't get from exercise by itself our chat has after we've been talking to that a bunch of guesses at the year in age my search said 1996 for the original release of pokemon red and green in Japan that sounds right that sounds right so it seems closer when I thought it was so it's um shifting away a bit from the app updates let's go over a bit about just some advanced Pokemon techniques so let's say you want to go beyond collecting and you want to take on Jim's easily what are some of the best ways to actually power up the team because the game plays a lot different than it did on Gameboy in Des where you caught a Pokemon you raised it you got may be trained it with some machines in this case it's more like almost like trading cards yeah it means a train it right you have to train it at a you don't you don't train the Pokemon though I mean you're just training up your own level and you're making the gym levels higher to be honest this game is that's my little monsters at all no oh that seems weird no it's really weird it's more like you're another reason why I don't go to gym kind of like it's kind of remember when the Americans in the Wild West they hunted down all the Buffalo and Jess are going small and took their skin and their skulls and split piled up the skulls into big piles kind of like that because your objective here is to catch as many as possible and then you need to turn them into candy in order to power up your Pokemon you have to turn these Pokemon into candy so you take them to the professor and you transfer them transfer them and we doesn't exactly describe what happens when you transfer them but you put in a Pokemon and out comes a piece of pokemon candy I think he grinds them and then and then you feed that candy to the the other Pokemon of the same time so it's it's definitely get this Auto cannibalism thing going on here um and then and then after you've powered them up to a certain degree you can evolve them or you can evolve them then power them up and they could become a larger you know monster ish in a much more powerful version of the same Pokemon a lot more candy they basically taken on every single power that their relatives add and ate them in the form of candy but the weird thing is you can't that if you find a big powerful Pokemon in the wild you trade them in for the same amount of candidate as the small little weak ones so it's kind of like you're you're you're thinning out the herd by killing all the week buffalo off Darwin is a man in a way if you have a little fitness bro if you have a Pidgey in a pidgeotto in the same polka stop you're better off just getting the Pidgey and you much better balls it's easier to catch the Pidgey you get the same amount of canting experience for it and when you get that pitching into your inventory it's easier to evolve the Pidgey because it only takes one you know 12 candies to evolve a Pidgey whereas it takes 25 or 50 me 50 I think to turn a pidgeotto into a pidgeot so it's you're better off just thinning out the weak parts of the herd the other night my pilgrim I just had a head of a bunch of Pokemon ready to evolve and I dropped one of the lucky eggs and just hit evolve and all of them cuz I guess then yet double XP yeah I sort of weird cuz I was like I'm growing all these pokemon but I have no intention of keeping eight of them and they're all getting transferred after their being evolved yeah I know that the fastest way to level up in the game is to just get rid sever your emotional connection to any of these little monsters but I've named them crackle lucky some of them like little Kim evolve them and cut them off and involve them and grind them and carry the rear end them up and carry the nickname to the new pokemon that you're actually keeping for as long as you want and the reason you do this the reason you do this is because you're trying to boost your own trainer level all every time you evolve one of these Pokemon you get 500 experience points you got a thousand if you crack the lucky I because lucky egg doubles all your experience points so but the lucky had only last 30 minutes so in that interval you need to grunt you need to evolve and grind down as many pokemon as possible to boost your trainer leveling the reason you do that is as your trainer level goes up you automatically find stronger and stronger Pokemon so that's the best way to advance the game is just to do that yes but so here's my question at what point do I really need to level up to like find some of the higher level pokemon that I want like do you think that I I won't even see some of them so I'm like level 20 or something like that that's a good question I mean you can definitely go with you you can find you can find any Pokemon I think just by looking around for them somebody will be really here at cnet a lot of the Pokemon go people are levels 20 or above so even though I'm just a 14 I just talk along with you guys and you go out for like walks and lunch and stuff snatch up those 600 CP things because i am a decent thrower i guess and it doesn't take me like 10 it takes me like that is a really good way to game the system that you found yes if you go in group sex but i've heard reports of the people go in groups they just get better pokemon in and that's probably but yeah like that's how i got my largest CP one was actually I went on a poke a walk with Sean and Justin and Rebecca and there was like a 69 or five something or 600 pincher man and I was like ooh never seen one that high justin justin is an insanely high level I think he's like 26 now yeah somewhere in there Sean I mean this morning it was 25 so by now I might be 27 Sean and our chat has an interesting a comment I want to throw in on this topic he says that uh playing the game from the perspective of a breeder is much more interesting for me judging my Mon based on individual value which can be found using using poka poka advisor what you're saying probably doesn't work anymore but it does for looking at the ivy the individual eyes are work yeah okay we're not talking about maps anymore we're talking about an application you can put on your phone which lets you see the secret values of all your Pokemon because as a desktop to I think as you my computer I think there's a desktop version change the login ah that looks like it yes oh that's not the one I was using but that's what happens there is um there are a few there are a few that like calculate based on what the CP the yeah it's great it's weird cuz like CP is like kind of a generalized we think your Pokemon is this powerful and then that combined with your move sent the and the damage of those moves determine you know how much damage you're going to do the the enemy pokemon but they're actually all based on some secret values individual values that have been a staple of the Pokemon series each Pokemon has an attack number a defense number and a rumor with the third number is by any chance something like that there's a I stamina or something that determines help hit points and so the folks online when they were analyzing the games data they figured out how to reverse engineer that formula so you stick your HP value your CP value and the current amount of Stardust it'll take to evolve your Pokemon into a spreadsheet or into a calculator and it'll tell you what those secret values are and that lets you know the maximum potential of your Pokemon as determined at Birth basically so if you find a good Bulbasaur or a good you know squirtle in the wild even if it's really low CP might have just 15 20 CP something like that you could evolve it to be a much stronger squirtle than almost any other one in the game if it has those high secret individual values and poke advisors is one of these app that will automatically show you the values for all your pokemons you can say okay I'm not going to trade the squirtle in even though it seems to have low CP because it's actually going to be a better Pokemon in the end okay so what you're telling me is that this egg dude who I obviously may want to find that Jan hey gone from Game of Thrones is potentially better than I think he is potential he looks like he's gonna do nothing I mean we could sit on calculated to me let me find the spreadsheet well calculate all we continue that way he's just gonna sit on someone and all the pokemon believe they grow as you grow up in level or at least they can get good to a higher CP over time hey real quick someone in our chatterin livestream chat room pointed out pokey advisor or pokey assistant calm assist another yeah that's actually where I am right now so what's the name of that Pokemon that's uh chancy sure and what's the CP 27 and then what's the oh I'm looking the wrong calculator I want the IV calculator okay so chancy with 27 what's the HP 8520 7hp of 85 how much dust will it cost to evolve tool canta Bobby when power them up for 200 201 candy okay let's find the IV's so that Pokemon could be 90 as much as 91% perfect and is at least 61 percent perfect so at least 62 percent means you're definitely an average you would not be wasting points by evolving this book on and maybe maybe it's as much as 91% it could be a nearly perfect Pokemon you evolve it and it's gonna it could be fantastic in the end but you don't know unless you do a little more calculation so if you powered them now I think he's much cuter than I originally did even though he shaped like an egg with an egg and his pouch that's just weird can you power it up once mmm I'm a hoarder this is very hard for me haha do it do it do it okay so we're gonna show you my son he went up to a CP 36 36 and at HP 9999 sounds dust is still 200 yeah okay so that is pressing the button now let's see we got ah there's still lots of combinations but it's at least sixty nine percent maybe eighty-nine percent perfect okay so he's got a little smaller okay yeah like that I guess I'm the beach plus a minus like I guess that's fine there's there's a lot of math that could still be done because they don't share these values but that polka advisor if you plug your values in there I mean if you if you give it your account basically it will automatically tell you how good your Pokemon oh it's just you know the whole giving it your account things I don't think I want to know oh yeah I don't think I need to know that much like I want to know what my favorites are and how they will do it's probably the next thing niantic is gonna crack down on to be honest I mean they're probably saying is I should do that now or maybe they'll trace it back and bania retro actively no I wouldn't give them my things I would like try it I was holding my numbers fair yeah no I don't give anyone making cow numbers were you what do you think I'm it crazy the last topic I think we're to wrap up on a couple people put on our chats features they didn't want to see in the future herson said he hopes you can have trainer battles shahbaz if I said his name right uh his or her name right asked if we will ever be able to change our teams is there a feature a dream feature you want going forward that we don't have currently in this mobile game I mean it's not a feat that's kind of a feature so what I really really really want ribeau c'mon go is I want a carpool mode I want to mode you turn it on and you say i'm in the passenger seat of the car or I'm in the driver's seat of a car playing this game I'm handling my friend ain't talking mine the point is if you hand your phone to a friend and you get Stardust or something like that for being a responsible person and not play so this is something where you press the button and it basically disables all the features of Pokemon go just keeps your phone on you hand to a friend and you get some Stardust for being the designated driver in the car and not playing the damn game because the game right now you can play it while driving it is extremely dangerous and there's nothing to stop it I mean in a previous game niantic made ingress there was like a speed limit where if you went past a certain speed you know you you would disable some of the games features but right now I can be going 80 down the highway and if I see a Pikachu in the other Lane I can tap on it and I can try to catch and it's kind of crazy that it lets me do that it just doesn't count your steps right your it doesn't count your steps States you do over certain speeds if you do things that aren't that there's all kinds of folks on reddit trying to figure out exactly how I counting steps works but we do know that over certain speeds it doesn't work but also even with ingress even with the speed limit people would be okay well I can't drive over 50 miles an hour I guess I'll Drive at 15 miles an hour around this place and and catch my in a pokemon or hack my portals and ingress and it's just dangerous and they don't need it doesn't need to be dangerous just incentivize playing responsibly incentivize not playing what was the driver of a car that's a good one don't drink and drive don't text and drive do not Pokemon go and drive that's correct do not Pokemon go and drink kalyan what's your dream feature I don't know I really thought that much about it good question um I don't know I guess I just miss the tracking so anything that brings me some semblance of that back would be spectacular I guess for me the reason why I enjoyed using those things was because you know I'm not such I don't know I'm a casual player so it wasn't like I was being like oh look there's a nest of XYZ over there but like guys I really want Pikachu if I could like find a thing the show Terry was I want him I want certain ones i wish i knew the creatures that i can only find in different areas since like I was at san diego comic-con recently and there was all kinds of fire pokemon i could never find in New York up here you guys are the land of Zubat I have seen more Zubat in San Francisco than I've seen in anywhere else so far even in New York which is plenty is about there too um but there's probably something maybe there's a seal they can find more often here or if you're in LA go to the La Brea Tar Pits they have exactly the Pokemon you would expect to find there we pull up this other one too is it I couldn't see it I'll show to you in just sec too so I just take a look at this Grimer this is exactly what you would expect to find exactly what you expect to find that one that everyone's like where is it how do i find it ditto ditto oh god nobody knows nobody's caught a did oh I don't think uh is he part of the 151 or whatever as part of the 14 and did the guy who said he caught all them have a did oh no no when he said all he met under 46 help there's no artisan acceptable trace no ditto gnome you or me or two yet those ones haven't been found by anybody and there's geographic specific ones right North America has a tauros tauros for North America there's assets retail Bulls yeah I learned stuff ah dummbell a look nice ah there's kangaskhan I think Genghis Khan boys gone like kangaroo pokemon i think that's Australia I don't know that's awesome maybe being racist by saying that elitist country estoy have no idea nationale that's cool I know that there are some so oh yes I think that's really interesting hey if you travel a lot have fun yeah they're not always where you'd expect to find them though I went to know Julia California it's a beach town and I found nothing but electric pokemon yeah we're like volt orbs and electrodes up the wazoo and Magnemite sand magnet ons I think in that respect a little easier for casual players like me because I have no preconceived notions about where they're gonna be living like I'm like oh look something out in the wild let me catch it and I'm lat like why is it here along these power lines this it's like you actually go into the wild and you find no pokemon because there are people live true well sort of i went to i played so i play soccer after work and i went to that park and that's where I found boo pet fireman like he just spawned in the park randomly but like a public hardware P Q public part yeah we're people there were no stops it were like it was just Pokemon there were no stops that's fair it was weird people go I thought it was weird I mean if you go to place where people don't go even like I went to some back streets you know where there weren't a lot of people milling about was just drivers and houses you know uh and there was just nothing in that suburban area I had to go more urban where there were people see this park was in a suburban area that's why I thought it was I me parks there's an exception for parks for parks that are known parks on google maps they actually change the type of terrain you can see that it's like this dark green belt and they'll be Pokemon there you sure just glad we don't have to get into the tall grass like to be if they reach you filled of the games if you had to jump into like a large meadow of grass up to your waist let me know come on if I'm at the top of I don't know some mountain around here i want to find like mountain pokemon i don't want to get up there and find no pokemon yeah and i'm pretty sure that's what's gonna happen right now I haven't tried it yet but you know I was on a boat last week and not one Pokemon appeared I was thinking at the whole time to buy the whole song okay um not one Pokemon found me in though in the water yeah bae outside San Diego I think you're supposed to find them they don't mind you but my eggs hatched all of my eggs hatched because we were traveling under 20 miles per hour so i slept them incubate and they all were done by the time i was off the boat nice a Magikarp did jump into my car while I was driving this is yo water nearby nope there's gonna flutter in I find that since the update i get this GPS signal not found way more often yeah yeah me too I don't know what's going on which is frustrating because then it freezes and you can't tap your bboki stop or show where you are it just kind of locks you out which I guess is good cuz when it used to say that it would let me tap on the things that it I wasn't actually near but I could tap on magic harp on the highway yep it happened don't poke him on go and drive I was in the passenger seat you can't I know it's just my disclaimer you know just making sure everyone's like being safe all right Caitlyn Sean thank you so much for joining us today thank you everyone live being here hope you all had fun thanks a lame our fabulous engineers Stephen Beecham has helped us out this whole show too oh yeah uh keep catching them all and uh maybe join us next time keeps keep tuned to see net for more Pokemon go news all day every day what's so true just do me I told you very learning where's your mother's ring see Kaitlyn can actually say no she just doesn't have a son meet you oh okay mom Stephen thank you so much thank you guys so much oh you are yeah thank you for joining us yes hang out with us thanks for watching we really appreciated your comments and jumping in throughout the show hope to shut it down oh we were playing pokemon of the entire time yeah like wheels rats birds there's nothing around anymore we got we're on top of a polka stop though so we can just keep spinning keep spinning it yeah yeah yeah mr. level yeah got some great balls and revives I've had to empty out my backpack because I have more potions than I'm then Jim's I could actually challenge I don't even go to gym so I just empty all my shame if you don't play at jims and pay up all your potions all your revives you don't need any of that imaginarium sorry question missing on your comments who
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