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Somebody is mapping all the Pokestops in Boston, because of course
By adamg on Wed, 07/13/2016 - 5:55pm
More than 500 places to get your Pokemon Go fix (but caveat: Suspiciously low on the pokestops south of Jamaica Pond, because of course we're always left out). Polygon discusses the map.
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Geez, as long as all of those
Geez, as long as all of those Pokémon (-mons?, -men?) were being set loose in so many neighborhoods, you'd think somebody could've arranged it that each one could pull some fiber behind them.
I can confirm from my walking
I can confirm from my walking around yesterday in the Common and down Commonwealth Ave that this is pretty accurate. But how long does a Pokémon remain attached to one location?
WELL ACTUALLY
This maps all the location of found/captured Pokemon.
Pokestops are where you can get pokeballs, elixirs, other bullshit. Sometimes Pokemon hang around there, but not always.
Pet Peeves about Pokemon Go map
The map is called "Inside 95" so it was obviously not made by someone from around these here parts. It's called "Inside 128."
It's missing quite a few pokestops in Dedham. I was there getting my car fixed this past weekend and hit up a few in Dedham Square.
The one ref'ed here? It's not a Pokestop map, it's a capture map
And yes, it's heavy weighted to the downtown area - I assume because 20-somethings congregate there.
There's a lot more activity by younger players out in the southwest neighborhoods of Boston, but they don't seem to be contributing to the map (I'll mention it to my daughter and see what she thinks of it).
You know it hasn't been
You know it hasn't been called 128 in 40 years, right? It's not just the uppity snake people who are calling it by the new name; even most Gen-Xers weren't around pre-95.
What?! It's no longer called
What?! It's no longer called 128? Damn, I gotta get with the times
Not unusual to use both names
At least people of a certain generation and I moved to the New England area 34 years ago.
In this Channel 4 (or is it CBS Boston) report they use both names, although 95 is used much more often. Note that this is a real-time site and the text will be different depending on time of day.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/traffic/
Route 9 East
When traveling east on Route 9, there is a sign that only lists 128 at the "you have one mile to go before the junction" spot.
Once you get to the on-ramps though, the sign changes and just lists 95.
Gen-X transplant, it's Rt. 128
At least as recently as the early 90s, that was nearly universally used, and it's still pretty common among people over 40.
https://goo.gl/maps
https://goo.gl/maps/Ymatjv8EhzH2
How Tiresome
128 is Danvers to Gloucester.
Deal with it. It may not even have been 128 in YOUR lifetime!
You must be young
Yes, we understand that "Route 128" unambiguously exists between Danvers and Gloucester, but it's not unusual for sections of interstate highways also to have a state route designation (i.e., a section of I-91 south in western Mass is also Mass Route 2 west). Unless you're still pretty young, that was probably the case for a section of I-95 in your lifetime.
On the radio they'll still
On the radio they'll still say things like "128, pockets of congestion from 24 up to 20" or "tap of the brakes on 128 from Randolph down to the split".
Excuse me? I grew up near 128
I'm Gen-X and have always called it 128. There's even a Commuter Rail Station called "Route 128."
It's at the weird spot in Westwood where 95/128 and Route 1 are all the same road.
Oh brother...
I heard there's a Pokémon thingy at the bottom of the Charles River. I think all the game participants should check it out.
Hate to be a grump
But enough of this stupid bullshit
O! M! G!
People are enjoying themselves! Having fun! Make them stop!!
Having fun, eh?
I have fun walking around the city, going into some retail stores. I have fun reading a few books on local transportation history (actual printed books). I have fun watching Failarmy on YouTube. I have fun playing with my kid.
The thing about my idea of fun, and this idea of fun is that I won't like be involved in a car crash, walk into a tree, break a bone, get sprayed by a skunk, fall in a creek or fall down a ditch like others have playing this foolish thing, as has been documented online.
The thing about my idea of fun, is that I'm actually absorbing & appreciating what I'm doing. The thing about this game's idea of fun reflects society in general, which is keeping your attention on ieverything BUT the obvious.
But if that's "fun" today, then I don't want to have any.
Congratulations for having better fun than other people
Lots and lots of people are enjoying doing something. You don't like it, that's fine, it's your right, bully for you, let's give the man a round of applause and, personally everything you mentioned sounds fine to me, except maybe going into retail stores - I don't like shopping. I also loathe celery and yet, I'm not demanding people stop eating it or boasting about my gustatory superiority over people who do.
Who are you to tell people how to have fun? My daughter and her friends had a grand time wandering our neighborhood over the weekend with their phones. They all came back a bit more tired but otherwise none the worse for wear, they got some fresh air and exercise and they enjoyed themselves. And that made me happy.
The vast majority of people playing with this Pokemon thing are not falling off cliffs or walking into cars. It's not like people never fell off cliffs or walked into cars or got mugged before Pokemon.
Get a large enough group of people together for anything and, statistically, some of them are going to suffer ill effects - there's a reason they have defibrillators in many public places. Hint: Nothing to do with Pokemon.
No congrats needed...
but thank you for the acknowledgement of some of the things I listed as indeed being enjoyable.
As far as your question of who am I to tell people how to have fun, I don't see anywhere in my prior posts blatantly demanding people to carry out their "fun" in specific manners. I am, however, saying that this particular game is a rather ridiculous choice in one's pursuit to have "fun" in terms of the potential for being involved in a very avoidable incident, whether to a small degree of falling over a sidewalk, to a larger degree of being hit by a car.
I'd find it hard to argue that giving most of your attention to your phone's screen doesn't provide significant distraction to your surroundings...I think the daily drivers who don't put their phone down prove that regularly.
I do agree that the incidents I cited aren't exclusive to playing this game. I also think that allowing the possibility of the game to cause any of the aforementioned incidents is extremely avoidable, by doing as little as being better aware of your surroundings (which for some reason, many in todays society seem to get defensive about).
I'm not anti-phone when going out and enjoying yourself. I am, however, anti-ignorance to the obvious (which this game helps provide). That's where moderation comes in, but that's a whole different topic. BTW, I agree about the large assemblance of folks yielding a better chance of some ill-fated happening to someone...which makes these one or two-person game related incidents even more foolish looking.
Oh please
More people get hurt every day riding skateboards or bikes or going for hikes than playing Pokemon Go. All of these are avoidable by simply not doing them but so what?
"I am, however, saying that this particular game is a rather ridiculous choice in one's pursuit to have "fun" in terms of the potential for being involved in a very avoidable incident"
So you're not demanding that people have fun in a particular way, just sneering at lesser humans who like different things. Ok.
As you clearly haven't used the app, let give you a run down. Me and my kid walk around our residential neighborhood with the phone in hand or pocket. When the phone chimes, we then look at the screen to see what kind of Pokemon has appeared and decide if we want to catch it. If we do want to catch it, we simply stand still on our sidewalk and flick little balls at it on the screen. If we are not in a place where we can stop, then we just walk over to a safe location and then catch the Pokemon there. You seem to think you have to run into traffic staring at your phone screen or something. So in the past two nights, we've walked around our neighborhood for maybe 10 minutes each time. Oh the horror!
I've been thinking about this
I've been thinking about this as I did not grow up with Pokemon but I am young enough to fully understand the basic mechanics of how this is working (and remembers geocaching, which this kind of mimics.) I have noticed lots of people twisting their hands over the youth playing outside but those are the same people who complain that the youth never go outside. We are just not used to kids and teens being outside, we assume a group of kids in the park at 7pm are looking for trouble and can not comprehend they may be looking for fake creatures, 20 years ago it would have been a group of kids just chilling. A game comes along and gives them points for walking, gives them points for moving around, gives them points for looking at local landmarks and yet we find fault with it. We should be happy they are outside , we should be happy they are spending time with other people, if parents are concerned they should download the game and give kids permission to go to certain Pokestops. When I was younger we were given parameters we could explore, now kids and teens have very defined parameters, the parents can look at the stops and decide which ones are safe and which ones are off limits.
Part of the problem is that a lot of younger people do not have that experience with boundaries and how to act outside because they did not grow up being allowed to do that. Although let's be honest, kids have always been breaking their hands running into things, this is nothing new. As kids go outside more they may get hurt but that has always been the case when people go outside.
To get back to your post, the things you just said were never fun for any kid or teen or twenty something in the history of human kind. I have my own eclectic idea of what fun is (I enjoyed geo caching when it was dorky, well before Pokemongo arrived for instance) but I would not expect the youth of America to enjoy what I do.
Intergenerational fun with Pokemon go
I'm Gen X and my seven year old nephew is - whatever seven year olds are. He is a huge collector of Pokémon cards and when I told him about this game he got all excited. I went to visit him last Saturday and told me everything about Pokémon. We had fun comparing the ones I'd captured with the ones on his cards. He has a book of all the Pokémon and we had a great time talking about them.
We're going out this weekend to try to have some adventure. We're both really excited.
I don't get what your problem is
Do you not understand the idea that...maybe...people can enjoy multiple things? I like walking around the city too! One time I walked into a replica 18th century printing shop I had no idea was there. I like books about local transportation history (my favorite, of course, is Building Route 128 by Yanni Tsipis ;) ).
And I also like Pokemon Go! And I haven't injured myself while playing it. Teenagers have been breaking bones, crashing cars, etc. while doing dumb things forever, and probably eventually your kid will do dumb stuff too.
https://imgur.com/YpvQ2Ns.jpg
https://imgur.com/YpvQ2Ns.jpg
Pokemon gatherers ended up at
Pokemon gatherers ended up at a dead end on Jess Street the other evening in JP and asked me how to get back to Stony Brook Station. I asked where they were from and all I got was, "U Mass" .