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[–] 51 points 5 months ago*

But- but! Players agreed to the terms!!!

- Niantic

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago

    Technology under capitalism, in one paragraph.

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  • [–] 87 points 5 months ago* (7 children)

    I feel like, if they were being thorough, they would've mentioned the game that came out before PoGo, Ingress, that populated most of the initial points of interest.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

    Sure, but nobody knows what "an ingress" is but almost everyone has heard of Pokemon. I'd also assume the size of the player base is not comparable.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Not by a long shot even at Ingress' peak.

    Still, I think the location scanning isn't as valuable as the pathing data they've been collecting. Besides, Google Maps has images of the majority of these scans anyway. But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    But walking path data from millions of players for years is valuable for routing delivery paths corralling civil unrest.

    FTFY. Crowd control.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, I think its exppress purpose is delivery bots, and authoritative control is a happy accident. I'm cynical enough to see it foremost as corporate greed.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    We live in a country that Ring advertised mass surveillance systems as a Superbowl ad for finding lost dogs.

    Delivering food has never been about food. It's extremely unprofitable. It's always been about normalizing and optimizing oppressive systems of gig work; and destroying the ability of the working class to face their bosses or even their coworkers.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Is there any source for this besides a jpeg?

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    As someone whose SO played the game for years and as a result has a friend group who also played it.

    Fun fact: it's not worth as much as they think it is.

    Fucking no one does the scanning quests. You get one and let it sit there unfinished because they take too long too do.

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    We often advise not to do scan research in our local community bc in addition to how long it takes, the next research task you get will always be to scan another POI, and if anything has physically changed about the POI the chances are high it’ll be removed from the game.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who stopped playing 2 months after release, what are scanning tasks?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    When you get a field research task to scan a specified stop, they want you to go to that POI, select its stop in game and use one of the corner buttons on the disk spin screen to open your camera and slowly do a 360 walk around it with the POI in frame. You then have to upload the scan. This video outlines the process pretty well https://youtu.be/zL1dCwnd7Fc

    Just learned these shouldn’t appear until you hit At least lvl 37

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    I had my very first scan task for years until a few days ago. Then it just vanished and I haven't gotten a new one, yet.

    Niantic might be in damage control mode.

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  • We are cattle.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Oh how I wish the West had not Pokémon Gone down the root of military-industrial fascism...........

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago

    Oh joy, and here I thought that this was going to be about how they're more perceptive of their own environment or that kind of thing, you know, something cool, something positive, but that's what I get for not reading the community this is posted from first ;___;

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is close to being good news though. Imagine using that data for navigation and updated maps.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    I'm not sure if consumer maps incorporate any of this. It's really for Amazon delivery robots. Players show where its possible/preferable to walk, so non-car drones know where they can go and the fastest way to get there.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Ender's Ketchum's Game

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    So many military drones bombing parks and malls in the suburbs.

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  • [–] -2 points 5 months ago

    An extremely precise navigation system that can be used. It's not for military drones.

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