Six Pokémon Go meet-ups in Canberra this week

Looking for a handful of volunteers to participate in a public fun event to be filmed and put on social media, taking advantage of the pokemon craze. If you are creative and like to have fun contact me on ” editor[at]mordd-indymedia[dot]com ” and I will give you more details!

ozmaniac said :

Maya123 said :

…. just be careful not to stray onto acutal private property, especially in the parliamentary triangle area, they really do not like that.

Where is this private property in the parliamentary triangle?

The gardens next to old parliament house are closed off at night, as are some other areas that are open during the daytime. There is also lots of locations around the nearby embassies across commonwealth avenue, with even more gated areas not accessible in that area. I played Ingress across a large swathe of that general area at 2-4am when it first came out.

Maya123 said :

Well Ingress set the bar for this, but Pokemon is blowing it out of the water.

Ingress was only available to android players, was invite only for a long while and a game undergoing continual development.
Nintendo tends to put out much more complete games and tends to be a lot more.
I do believe ingress was the base of pokemon go (portals became poke stops or gyms)

Maya123 said :

…. just be careful not to stray onto acutal private property, especially in the parliamentary triangle area, they really do not like that.

Where is this private property in the parliamentary triangle?

Gazket, I think ‘Pokémon’ combines ‘Pocket’ and ‘Monster’.

Grail

“People have been nostalgic for the joys of their youth as long as people have existed. Nothing new there.

It is not Pokemon that has people “trapped in childhood fantasies” it is being human that has people trapped in particular states.”

It’s a fair point but I think the internet has made a major difference to cultural nostalgia and production. Having immediate access to such a range of music, art, fashion etc is wonderful. But it arguably makes for churn and militates against change/innovation/progress/growing up. So think of the differences in fashion or music in the twentieth century between any twenty year period and they strike me as distinctively different: 1960s vs 1980s, 1930s vs 1950s. But has anything really changed in terms of culture or pop culture (which I know better) since the 1990s and the internet?

In that vein, Pokemon comes out in the 1990s and keeps coming back in different iterations. In some ways, we perhaps really have come to the end of history. K

“The Pokémon franchise plays upon the popular Japanese pastime of bug catching”

A Pokémon is a bug. After all these years I now know what a Pokémon is .

Thank you Riotact !

Well Ingress set the bar for this, but Pokemon is blowing it out of the water.

For those keen players, I would recommend the sculpture area next to the Portrait Gallery and along the lakefront, lots of locations around there were Ingress portals and I presume there are a large variety of different pokemon in close proximity to catch around there.

Also yes the AFP/APS are fairly nice once you explain why you are traipsing around national tourist attractions at 4am in the morning, just be careful not to stray onto acutal private property, especially in the parliamentary triangle area, they really do not like that.

Good luck to all the keen Pokemoners (is that a word?) its not my game but Ingress was great for my mental health and getting exercise, its good to see something inspiring even more ppl. Go catch em all I say and please be nice to all your fellow players, especially the non-gamer types and kids!!

Already I have spent a good couple of hours quality time outside playing this game with my child. We didn’t sit in different rooms and we got to talk about all sorts of things we otherwise wouldn’t have. I’ve never played pokemon so I’m still learning. I can see the risks of attracting criminal elements but I hope they can be addressed. If takeup rates continue it will give even more massive amounts of data to Google and Nintendo which is not necessarily a good thing.

And I might be naive but I wonder if anything has been to avoid the risk of uncontrolled crowd movements and gatherings like crowd crushes, traffic snarls or even affecting load ratings of structures (such as groups rushing to one side of a ferry to catch a rare water pokemon).

People have been nostalgic for the joys of their youth as long as people have existed. Nothing new there.

It is not Pokemon that has people “trapped in childhood fantasies” it is being human that has people trapped in particular states. Is the property owner in a business shareholder group who gets greedy and starts raising the rent on their business a better person than the Pokemon Trainer who seeks the company of other like-minded individuals?

Other people gather to discuss cars, books, or religion. We do not mock these people for wasting hours of their lives. Why is that?

They said the exact same thing about ingress – which was quite popular on this forum when it first came out.

People are enjoying an activity and getting outside and walking. Often in groups.

Also I’m not really sure why finding a body that early reports were calling accidental death is a criticism.

The Canberra 3ds club is going to be sadly low on numbers this weekend due to the Pokemon Walk (pokemon games are quite popular in the 3ds club) .