Agents of Absence

user132126

02:31

@AnkitSharma Is this really happening, or are people making them just to post online?

user132126

A bunch of us at work on Friday walked around getting them. But, we get breaks kinda whenever, as long as work gets done.

user132126

My Pidgeot has like 410 CP.

KutuluMike

I am suspicious that an office printed up a sign like that on the same day the game came out.

user132126

I could go higher but saving my star dust. All I find are dang Pidgeys, Spearows and Ratatta

KutuluMike

can I just trade me old pokemon in for star dust? :|

user132126

02:34

I don't have enough pokeballs to level up to level 8 unless I catch a bunch new ones

user132126

Gonna have to hit the pokestops hard tomorrow. There's a sculpture outside that has two stops for it, from different angles.

KutuluMike

there's a pokespot in the lobby of my office.

user132126

I could just sit there and read for an hour.

KutuluMike

and they reset like, every 15 minutes or so?

user132126

There's 4 on the campus at work.

user132126

02:35

5 I think.

user132126

I forgot I DLed Childhood's End, maybe I'll watch that tomorrow.

KutuluMike

ever read the book?

user132126

03:40

One of the first real scifi books I ever read.

Ankit Sharma

07:28

@CreationEdge i don't know......they are so many on twitter

Anyway my pokemon are not in good Lvl only one is 200+

And i don't want to sit in the bathroom to catch them

Himarm

you just wake up?

Ankit Sharma

Yeah i slept a 5 AM

Himarm

its 2am here

Ankit Sharma

And its aroubd 1 pm now, i woke up half hour back

Himarm

Yeah i woke up aorund 1 today

Ankit Sharma

07:33

Ohhh

user132126

@KutuluMike So, Go! Doesn't work on rooted devices. It checks for root and refuses to boot properly if found

user132126

It doesn't want people spoofing GPS

Himarm

07:48

@AnkitSharma your requested

Ankit Sharma

08:11

Didn 't get to catch much today, but did conquer 13 gyms with @THElittlenick. #PokemonGO https://t.co/NfQFSqgivY

Tweeted by JesseCale on July 10, 2016 at 8:04 AM

is this real

WTF

KutuluMike

10:51

@CreationEdge my device is rooted and I'm playing it.

and @Loong is playing on an emulator with spoofed GPS

user132126

:O

user132126

Do you have HideMyRoot?

Loong

@KutuluMike guilty

KutuluMike

nope.

user132126

Hmmm...

KutuluMike

10:51

not that I know of.

user132126

If they figure out you're spoofing, they'll ban your account. Not sure I want to risk it.

KutuluMike

yeah.. I'm not spoofing, but I am running on a rooted phone

user132126

I tried spoofing. It actually moved me to the spot for a moment and then when "Can't detect location"

user132126

Because it detected I had "mock locations" enabled.

KutuluMike

yeah, I have that turned off, maybe that's why it doesn't care?

Loong

11:03

@CreationEdge I had the same problem until I found a fake GPS spoofer with an "expert mode", which solved this problem.

user132126

A paid version that needs root?

Loong

this one: drive.google.com/open?id=0B26R0aS0PTfHS2R4ZnhUSGdxcm8

user132126

lol, okay

user132126

Dangit, I need onedrive to stop syncing certain folders back down to my phone.

user132126

11:22

Dumb. The only way for me to not get certain files one my onedrive to not sync to my phone is by... removing them from onedrive completely.

user132126

Ha, that's the same app I was using, but without expert mode.

user132126

Expert mode needs root though :/

user132126

Dunno if I want to do that with this phone. Never ran into needing it, yet.

user132126

Oh, apparently I can't root it. An update broke all roots for it and no one has found a new one on the latest version.

user132126

Well, that sucks!

user132126

11:31

What kind of emulator are you using @Loong? Something on an intel machine?

Loong

@CreationEdge I use the BlueStacks App Player on a Windows 10 notebook.

user132126

Worst part is that this dumb update that blocked root happened about a month ago, and I remember when it did. I didn't get asked. I came out to get my phone from the charger and it was installing.

user132126

Oh. I tried BlueStacks before and it messed up my desktop.

user132126

So... Okay. If it lets you use your account, then I could sign in on emulator to get stops I can't normally get to easily, but are reasonably close, and then play normally the rest of the time on my phone.

KutuluMike

or you could just go walk around :P

speaking of which, time to walk onto my porch and catch some pokemon

user132126

11:36

I'm not going to walk around in the middle of the night, though. Or when it's storming like right now.

KutuluMike

i guess you really don't want to catch em all then

user132126

Bah. Bluestacks needs rooted, too. Bollocks.

phantom42

13:57

@KutuluMike all these people who live in areas where they can physically walk around without dying in 5 minutes.

KutuluMike

i just got back from lake concord park in casselberry.

9 pokespots in the same place.

3 of them reachable from the same park bench.

almost got a dratini but i couldn't take my dogs far enough out onto the bridge

but i got 9 seeds

phantom42

talked to my wife about taking the small dog out for a walk, but apparently he's gotten to the point that he becomes overly dramatic about walking past the corner now

he's got joint issues and hates the heat.

KutuluMike

ah.

phantom42

part of me wants to drive down to disney where i know there will be tons of stuff, but then we'll just end up drinking and spending too much money

KutuluMike

ahaha

phantom42

14:12

if you like rum at all, there's a stand called dockside margaritas at ~~disney springs~~ downtown disney. they serve siesta key rum which is some of the best rum you'll find. it's the only place in town that serves it that we've been able to find.

bunch of places out in tampa/clearwater/st pete serve it, but no one else in orlando for some reason

Ankit Sharma

16:52

Pokestop not detecting correctly and got no pokeball.....grrrrrr...

don't know what to do next, no other pokestop nearby

take few dumb pidgey from me for pokeballs , lost ryhorn because of it

stuck here :(

phantom42

you've got some much nicer pokemon than i do

Ankit Sharma

ohh

phantom42

rather, a nicer variety

Ankit Sharma

After checking twitter hashtag i though i am way bad

@phantom42 i have deleted lot of crap too

My fav is arbok

from the time of anime series

I m weird ;D

Loong

17:08

before the servers left me last night

Ankit Sharma

Hey i don't have pokeball

don't make fun of me

;D

@Loong I want your onix

Loong

@AnkitSharma how do you pay? ;-)

phantom42

i've got plenty of pokeballs. need to find more pokemon

Ankit Sharma

@Loong My roomate's kidney ;D

@phantom42 bathroom have more pokemon , try there

KutuluMike

Criminals luring people to Pokestops to rob them

Ankit Sharma

17:19

so better go to bathrooms ;D

user132126

@KutuluMike The police seriously typed "ppl" in their press release?

phantom42

17:46

internet keeps dying and i cant figure out if its my router or the modem or both

i try rebooting just one or the other and sometimes it fixes it

Himarm

throw them both away

user132126

DNS issues?

phantom42

maybe

modem is currently working ok, so i just tried plugging into the modem directly, computer grabs a new ip, but no data transfers.. swap back and it works normally again.

i hate hardware and networking crap

anyone go see secret life of pets?

EBrown

@phantom42 Heh, I love networking. :P

user132126

I'm going to root my tablet so that I can spoof GPS for pkmn go, lol.

user132126

17:58

@phantom42 I enjoy it if it's not my stuff that's breaking.

phantom42

lots of reports of accounts being banned for spoofing

user132126

But the whole physically having to test one component at a time, ugh.

user132126

I was going to start a new account to try spoofing on, lol

user132126

Oh man, I just sneezed so hard everything above my collarbones hurts.

user132126

tHis sucks.

user132126

18:03

There's been a couple times where my Internet has died and been out all day and I tried troubleshooting all of my hardware, since sometimes rebooting things would work.

user132126

But finally determined that the ISP's DNS servers were having major outages, and even though I'd use custom ones in my router, those didn't get pinged until after the the ISP's, for whatever reason.

EBrown

Try having my router, if it cannot ping a specific server, it reroutes all my HTTP requests on Port 80 to the router landing page.

phantom42

18:23

the most positive reviews of ghostbusters are "it doesnt completely suck"

user132126

I'd probably say the same of the originals, these days

phantom42

you're just asking for a kickban

user132126

Ha.

user132126

They don't, but I don't love them

user132126

I could watch it maybe once a year and a half?

user132126

18:26

There are some movies I could watch every few months.

user132126

I'm going to go get donuts and pokeballs, though.

user132126

Peace out.

user132126

19:20

Well, finally rated Go one star

user132126

I'm not playing anymore until it's fixed

KutuluMike

19:35

so far I've found 4 gyms in places that, theoretically, you should not be able to walk up to (2 construction sites, the middle of a lake, and a closed-for-the-summer school.

all 4 claimed

user132126

19:51

Hmph.

user132126

Haha, I think this kid on Childhood's End was watching Battlestar!

user132126

DA PLANES, DA PLANES

phantom42

20:23

changed the dns to use google's dns settings, which i thought i already had. no improvement there, so it's not just a dns issue.

user132126

:/

phantom42

but had it die again and the fix ended up being rebooting the modem both times

user132126

Well, make sure it's not an outage with the ISP.

phantom42

but i also rebooted the router first

user132126

Well, if it's the modem you might need to call them anyway

phantom42

20:24

right

i just want to be as close to positive as i can that it's either their modem or their connection rather than my router before i call them

user132126

They'll make you test everything based on their script, regardless, which is so annoying.

user132126

You're a CS rep with no technical background, and I have a degree in this issue, so please just do what I say.

user132126

"Okay. Now I need you to reboot again."

user132126

AAAAAARGH

Ankit Sharma

21:32

It made me slwct my team as team red but then said gym ia too far..... similarly it cant detect that I am standing next to pokestop

user132126

I had to reboot my phone to get it to detect the real location.

Loong

hmm, why is this large rubber duck so difficult to hit?

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