Fifth (lack of) sleep note. Actually in the morning. LET'S PLAY POKEMON GO.

[11calls]

[Alex actually looks awake and happy and downright cheerful today. Someone should probably be afraid or take the coffee away. But she's got a new project that she can throw her work into, and nothing tends to energize Alex like a new project or a new lead.]

Hey guys, I'm Alex Reagan. Today I want to talk to you about Pokemon Go. I know it's probably not as sobering as it should be with the holiday going on, but I wanted to get working on it sooner rather than later!

[Alex kind of went slightly off the rails for a little while, but she's back on them which is why this has taken so long.]

So back on my version of Earth, and other versions to apparently, there's this game called Pokemon Go. It's played using a cellphone and GPS and allows you to go out and collect computer generated pokemon from random places, and you can then train them and battle against other players with them. I know we have actual pokemon here, but these don't require you know, actually catching them and caring for them and stuff. [Alex thinks it's cruel because she doesn't know any better!] Back home, a lot of people do it as a family activity, or just as physical fitness because you actually need to go out and go to the places where they are.

When I was talking with someone, it struck me that this could be a good idea for here. It's kind of a low-stakes just having fun being out and doing something sort of thing. When I was talking with Tony Stark, who reversed engineered the app and is my hero for doing so, but it's not as simple as just having the program. And that's where you guys come in.

[Alex is grinning a bit, and she's got her best convincing face on. It's a good convincing face.]

So, in order to make the game go, we need to have a good virtual map of Riverview Quarantine and the places within the settlement that we shouldn't have people be going, unless you know, they're a trained person or know what they're doing. Where this app can be helpful, not only as a community based effort, or something we can do together, is that it's something we can take the info from and use it to show newbies where not go to and everything like that. Simple, right?

Now, I'm a runner, and I'm out there putting in my three miles or so every day, and I see other folks who run, walk, just go exploring, do perimeter sweeps with the guard and that sort of thing. You guys can help with the rending, all you need to do is go about your daily lives and just click the app open when you come where we have a blank spot in the map. I definitely want people to be safe as possible when doing this, so know your own limits.

[Alex takes out her own device and shows the areas that she's filled in just by doing normal stuff.]

It's really that simple and that easy, and it honestly can be that fun the more people we get to play it and work on it! Thanks!

Comments

[video | un: flamel]

[alchemyfreak]

So you just want people to fill in the map?

[By... walking around with the app running?]

[11calls]

[Alex is just going to nod enthusiastically.]

At first, yeah! Then once that's done we can play.

[ video | un: housewins ]

[athiefalways]

Leave it ta Tony Stark ta make sure we got Pokemon Go!

[ But he's smiling. Because...that's awesome. ]

Count me in, eh?

[11calls]

[This is sad an amused way, even as she's shaking her head.]

Hey hey hey, trust Alex Reagan to convince Tony Stark to make Pokemon Go!

[athiefalways]

[He's grinning, which probably gives away the fact that he's not serious.]

Excusez-moi, mon chere!. I ain't one not ta give credit where it's due. Convincin' Stark ta do anything's worth some kinda praise.

un: wolfgirl579 - Video

[luckyescape]

This is the best thing ever!

I'm down. Let's do it. It's like a giga-pet but maybe less killable.

Video

[11calls]

[Alex is just grinning.]

Awesome, the more people we get the more fun it's going to be. And it's also doing good for the community!

Video

[luckyescape]

Yes! Is it going to include just the city or further out too?

video @frankenstein

[jolting]

So... I'm not exactly sure on what a pokemon is, but I guess they're sort of like pets? And this app you're talking about lets you find digital versions of them by walking around? That.... that's a thing people enjoy doing?

[He is so confused]

[11calls]

Yeah, it's fun! It kind of blends the fantasy of having these amazing pets and training them and getting them to evolve into their higher forms with the reality of the settings around us. It's like a mix between virtual reality and a video game and stuff.

It was huge last year!

[jolting]

Whatever gets you to be active, I guess. Still sounds a little weird to me, but maybe Lucy will be into it.

video; un: KingFisherman

[brotrips]

(Mini me's reunite as their adults self.)

I'll help, it sounds like a fun game. Cell phone and arcade games are good ways to pass the time.

[11calls]

[Yes good!]

It really is fun! And if people don't find it as fun as I do, at least it'll be useful?

[brotrips]

Playing games on my cell phone is how I pass the time so I'm willing to try. You just need us to walk around town? I go outside to fish for work so I can map that out without extra effort.

video | @minsu

[foxtrots]

[minsu definitely remembers that game, or one like it.]

I can run a long time without getting tired, can I help?

[11calls]

Sure if you'd like to! The more the merrier!

[foxtrots]

Were you any good at the game?

video; @finn

[bythehand]

I'm still volunteering. Definitely have plenty of perimeter sweeps to work with.

[11calls]

Awesome! That's great news. I hope it can live up to all the hype though.

{ Video | @potentia.regere }

[earlofphantoms]

What ever happened to a nice game of chess? { Call him old-fashioned! } Pokemon is a strange name. What does it mean?

[11calls]

There's still chess! I play chess, I'm just not very good at it.

[Alex's weaknesses always come in the form of having to think about something two steps ahead rather than just going and doing it instantly.]

I actually don't know what it means. I guess I'm a bad nerd. [The words come with a grin, because Alex isn't actually going to be too bothered by it.]

But the game itself is a good combination of being outside and still playing it.

video | un: undertaker

[somakemelaugh]

[He might... be interested. Not that he has any interest in capturing animals or not and training them, but help with mapping? He can do.] I like to stretch my legs now and then. Does this involve a standard map, looking from the top down, or do you intend to climb to the top of buildings and such as well? Not too safe for some people, but I think I could manage that.

[11calls]

[For a moment, Alex just considers, and she touches her chin for a minute before she replies.]

I think that it just maps things from the ground up, but I honestly didn't think to ask. I mean, if that's something you can do and don't mind doing, I'd appreciate it!

video; un: sg.rogers

[livingsymbol]

Filling in a map? Can't you get a city map?

[He may or may not really understand what the app is about. He at least gets the basic idea, but the point of the app might have just passed him by.]

You want us to check and track everywhere?

[Because he's wondering how rooftop jogs will factor in.]

[11calls]

No, it doesn't work like that, it sort of scans areas as the app is exposed to them. And I'm pretty sure it scans from ground level up, I think. It definitely would be easier if it did just work by slotting in the city map, but Tony said this way.

And within reason. I'd also like this to be a tool as well, not just you know fun.