@romanigypsyeyes , that’s hilarious! My son came home for the night, and he and my daughter are all about the Pokemon Go. He was also complaining about too many Weedles!
My D (in college, home for the summer) is suddenly all over this. One thing I love about it…it gets the kids off the couch, off the laptop and out walking around and exploring.
Dang, should have bought stock in whatever company owns this thing!! It’s an immediate sensation
Why didn’t I get a Weedle?! I kept running into Mag-somethings and snakey things. Clearly I’ll have to wait until DS visits to understand all this! I do like that we can bond over this, even though he’s 28. I never did understand the appeal of the cards when he was little.
CB - I recommend Shelter Island and Point Loma Nazarene for your daughter. Also Cabrillo, but you have to watch out about the signal switching to Mexico. Not that I’ve been hunting everywhere…
I once made DS an Ash Ketchum vest for Halloween. Now I feel I should wear it when I’m out hunting - can you imagine the looks I’d get? If only I’d gotten a ticket to ComicCon - I’d have something to wear!
I think Nintendo stock skyrocketed last week because of this.
Pulled up my pokemon go out of habit. A weedle instantly appeared. Forgot I had no pokeballs though 
Luckily it was only a weedle of which I have dozens lol.
Marilyn are you getting Magnemites/Magnetros??? If so, I’m jealous. We don’t have any of those around here
I did get a few new ones at dinner tonight (we were using pokemon go to keep my 2 year old “niece” from having a breakdown in a restaurant. She loved flicking the pokeballs lol.)
So, if you have dozens of something, you have enough candy of that type to evolve the one with the highest CP to its next evolutionary stage, right?
(No wheedles here, mostly pidgeys, rattatas, and paras. One magnemite. There’s a Pokemon with 1330 CP guarding the nearest gym; some kids have been really obsessed.)
D2 is on her campus researching, and she says there are two located just outside her dorm room window. She says there have been a lot of people around (making campus security a little crazy). She is playing – level 6 as of last night.
@ynotgo yup 
Cannot make this up. An Eevee (little fluffy dog Pokemon) appeared for me and I made a comment about not getting it. Mr R woke up out of a dead sleep and said “Eevee?” and proceeded to get his phone and catch it. Eevees are his favorite because they remind him of corgis- his favorite type of dog.
I’m not nearly as into it as him…
I have four Magnemites, but I like my little ponyta best. I seriously have no idea how this game works but made level 6 in two days. Fortunately DS does know and is happy to instruct me.
We are totally having fun with it in this little beach community in Southern California. Meeting lots of neighbors for the first time. Was a little disconcerting to find one in bed with me.
Wow!
my kid has walked 10K (6.2 miles) in the last three days. outside. and has the blisters to prove it.
thats probably more than she’s walked in the last 5 years combined.
and also met several neighbors. also more than she’s done in the last 5 years combined. she is having the time of her life.
i think the whole thing is adorbs.
Pokemon GO plus Fitbit would be an interesting experiment.
A neighbor or a Pokemon?
OMG – can’t believe I wrote that! Thanks for the laugh, Madison85 and Patsmom!
^ I think I speak for all of us when I say we need an explanation.
I think The Onion has a very informative article on the topic:
http://www.theonion.com/graphic/what-pokemon-go-53204
Ok, someone help me. I never paid attention to how the game worked when my kids played it 6 years ago - and now I really don’t get it.
For Pokemon Go, who puts the pokemon in these locations? Is it driven by other players (and their GPS location) or is the game deriving them based on some algorithm and putting them near you? So if you leave the house and go down the street to the park, were the pokemon there because some other player is/was there or is the technology making them up as you walk along?
We are dealing with some fall-out from this silly craze at work right now, so a coworker had to load the app & showed it to us. It seems like the Pokemon are getting loaded when people play there … but I don’t really know how the landmarks get loaded (Google Earth??), or how they end up all over the area. It creeps me out! Our Pokemon was trying to get into the vault in our office … another was seen on a chair outside a coworker’s office on another floor. While we were looking at it, three young kids were at the landmark located outside our building (a fountain) … it’s way too strange, and I really don’t like the fact that people are coming into our building to try to find Pokemon. This is a place of business, for Pete’s sake. Go play in a park!
My running partner and I got breakfast in a little cafe in a downtown park. The employee said there were at least thirty people in their business, playing the game yesterday. I should have asked him if that was a positive or negative thing! Their business shows up on the game, so that’s why people are drawn to it. I would imagine most of them don’t order food there, though.