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2016-08-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan plans to use Pokemon Go to lure tourists back to quake hit regions, including Fukushima

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Posted by Fred 2016-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Seeing glowing man-monsters in Fukushima bay?
Yeah, that's about right.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-16 00:39|| 2016-08-16 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 One thing I still want to know. Just WTF is a Pokemon?

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-08-16 05:59|| 2016-08-16 05:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Pokemon are 'pocket monsters'. Basically you go out and use pokeballs to capture and enslave them after you have weakened them enough. The balks seem to do something to them which turn them into willing slaves (no matter how antigonastic the were when captured) which you can 'befriend'. Once captured you force them to 'fight' each other in matches. Kind of like cockfighting. You can build a center for these fights called a 'gym'. You know they are slaves because they can be given or sold as property.
Pokemon seems to have replaced animals in that world. They can evolve into stronger types

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-08-16 07:54|| 2016-08-16 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 So, they're sort of like Donk special interests groups?

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-08-16 08:27|| 2016-08-16 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Freedom Now slogan of the PLF (Pokemon Liberation Front

Posted by Cheaderhead 2016-08-16 09:04|| 2016-08-16 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 How do you "set up" a pokemon?

We have several spots in town that qualify but I have no idea what or who determines that such and such a spot is where you will find a pokemon.

Never have and never will play but I'm curious as to how these spots ate set up.

Posted by AlanC 2016-08-16 09:34|| 2016-08-16 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Its...its....Godzilla!

I imagine it as a virtual billboard, or search engine priority purchase. Probably liaisons you can hire to do the grunt work, and frauds as well. I have read of at least two different instances of entities acquiring a pokemon hot spot - one a business (where the extra traffic actually turned off the regular customers and the hunters not buying anything) and a police department (trying to lure wanted persons).

Came across my first hunters the other night. Dang zombies.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-16 10:22|| 2016-08-16 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Go to almost any mall or Walmart parking lot and you will find a car, usually owned by doting grandparents, that has a "Pokémon Put Me In The Poorhouse" bumper sticker. And that's from back when they were just trading cards...

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-08-16 16:45|| 2016-08-16 16:45|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder if this would work on jihadis?

Posted by SteveS 2016-08-16 19:30|| 2016-08-16 19:30|| Front Page Top

#10 12th Imam Go!

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-16 19:51|| 2016-08-16 19:51|| Front Page Top

#11 In the Zam Zam well no doubt.

Posted by Shipman 2016-08-16 20:12|| 2016-08-16 20:12|| Front Page Top

#12 To Alan

When this game first came out the news interviewed a pizza place owner who said he paid ten bucks to aquire a device to turn the store into a hot spot.

Posted by Clem Lumplump1981 2016-08-16 22:00|| 2016-08-16 22:00|| Front Page Top

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