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Pokemon Go is Already Bigger Than Tinder
According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, only safety and physiological comfort are more important than love in our search for self-fulfillment. Maslow was wrong. A stronger driving force than love, apparently, is the need to catch ‘em all, seeing how Pokemon Go has already been installed more times after a week than Tinder in five … Continued
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No, A Man Didn’t Cause a Major Car Accident While Playing Pokémon Go
There’s currently a story doing the rounds about a man who had to catch them all. Pokemon, that is. According to websites like Techworm and Cartelpress, 26-year-old Lamar Hickson recently caused a massive car accident while playing Pokemon Go. The only problem? The story is totally fake. Yes, a lot of weird stuff has been … Continued
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This Is the Photo of the Summer
It’s been a rough summer so far. Shootings of civilians by police have caused Americans to ask how much more we can take. And a sniper’s massacre of police officers in Dallas has put law enforcement on edge. But there have also been a few moments of levity, like when people recently discovered going outside … Continued
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This Guy Used a Drone to Try to Catch Pokémon
Pokemon GO is a game that relies on its players going on long walks, meaning that some will eventually find any way to get around that system. Tumblr user Perchbird is one of those people. He posted a photo set that showed his phone running the app while mounted on a drone. The caption just … Continued
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Armed Robbers Use Pokémon Go To Find 9 Victims
The new augmented reality game Pokemon Go has gotten people off the couch and into the real world. But police in O’Fallon, Missouri say that four men have used the game to find players at a specific location, and robbed them using a handgun. About eight or nine people have been robbed by four men … Continued
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The Strangest Places Pokémon Go Is Sending its Players [Update]
Pokémon Go is the best mostly-broken game I’ve ever played. It crashes in the middle of battles. There are constant server issues. It’s a menace to my health and well-being that has burrowed itself into my heart like a blood clot. But as the game claws its way to usability, players are realizing that Niantic … Continued
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Sore Legs Become Pandemic As Pokémon Go Players Accidentally Get Exercise
Pokemon Go is the hottest game to hit the market in forever. People are currently trying to catch their Pikachus and Fitzybutts (honestly, I don’t know what they’re called) but they’re paying the price. And by paying the price, I mean they’re accidentally getting some exercise. Just look at these poor souls complaining about their … Continued
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Did You Install This Malicious Pokémon Go App?
People all over have been trying to enjoy the new Pokémon Go app, which released this week to so much fanfare that it’s experiencing massive server overload. The hype was so real that people were passing around APK files so that people outside the countries where it’s available could side-load it on Android, something I … Continued
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Teen Playing Pokémon Go Finds Dead Body Instead: Report
For the past few days Pokémon Go has been tricking us into exploring parts of our hometowns we’d never normally go. But for Riverton, Wyoming resident Shayla Wiggins her quest to catch them all resulted in stumbling across a dead guy in a river, County10 reported. Wiggins, 19, was staying with her mother for part … Continued
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Did Pokémon Go Put a Gym in an Actual Graveyard? [Update]
Pokémon Go has been available in the US for a couple of days now, and by any measure it’s a runaway success. My only complaint so far is that the game keeps making me walk to weird places, and I’m not the only one. YouTuber Beware The Flood was driving around with his girlfriend looking … Continued
By Avery Ellis