Welcome to Pokemon go podcast where we talk about all the awesome sauce that happened in the week of Pokemon go and some of the not so awesome sauce, but not usually usually it's all fun and games until Joe gets a fever. I rock out of podcasting Charles McFall and Joe on his back. Meet me here.That's right. I am back and guess who's back. I don't know if you do this, but there actually is a Pokemon virus in the in the main Series games. Okay, have you met me? Yes, so you don't so, you know, I yeah, you don't have to quote. You don't have to like be nice and cushion is like that, you know, I don't know. Yeah, it's Pokhara sore poke R Us / Kyra's basically. Hey Binky poke virus. Yeah, and and it actually is somewhat beneficial in the main series. Series games how does a virus beneficial to take out your enemies so know it it makes it so that what is your V's? Yeah, your your effort values. So your Pokemon in the main Series game gets wet it what's called effort values from battling. So your stats behind the scenes will get increased a little bit from battling. Well the virus doubles how much you gain in? for value So but you only have the virus for a little while once you get it, but you it can spread to your other Pokémon. Leave it to Pokemon to make a virus that you want to get. That's Pretty much that's interesting. You know what? I know. You've been gone for two weeks Joe. So I'm sure other than you praying to the porcelain Gods you have ventures of the week. I hope me yeah never I don't play this game. Just getting these games dead ba and we will talk about that a little bit. All right, I use that nut that promotional stuff. Like I'm excited talking about how this Dead game is making millions. Yeah. So I haven't gotten any new shinies, which I'm kind of bummed about but granted I haven't been playing as much because you know, I had a fever for 8 days, but I did get the lap my first laparis with the ice Shard and Ice Beam. I actually even though I had a fever for eight days. I actually was able to maintain collecting research. Search at once a day. Wow while I was sick. So, you know, I beat you there, you know is yet another pile on that. Not only am I not 40 and I do my Adventures as I can that oh look look I was sick of my deathbed. I don't believe that I wasn't I was a bit miffed that I didn't get something fun on the way to the ER just saying but I actually found someone and now this wasn't me playing per se but I found someone to trade and I got a chatot actually. So that's pretty awesome. I'm chatot is a region exclusive. So I don't know. Are you looking at the stream right now? Yeah. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Okay the parrot. Yeah the musical parrot. Yeah. Yeah. So Cricket caught, you know, just been playing hatching catching. Nothing really to write home about to be honest. I am excited for Unity day, but I am sad that it happened that most of it's going to be while I'm at church so That's going to be sad for the I think yeah, I think Jesus understands that you need get your Penguin on well, so there there is a stop at at church so I could drop a lure on it and that you do what you got to do. I mean by Sunday morning. Okay, so I know you heard the show, but just to recap there. My son is a gay right is just like your church, isn't it has a stop there. Whatever. I threw that that snowflake lore on there and nothing may I mean not nothing. I mean, I got good Evolution and whatever but no, no crystalloid Pokemon coming around. So that means you're gonna be there. Anyway you my you got to do what you can do. So a Laurent though your incense on it same time just for drift maybe picks it up. Something right? You got nothing. You got nothing now. So Nicole says that this year's Community Day is a day before birthday. Thank you Niantic, but aren't you supposed to be on an airplane to to New York? Just because you guys celebrate your birthday man. I'm saying you'll be fine if I don't know. I actually haven't talked to clots or her about that says I don't know if I'm like stepping into a hornet's nest by accident apparently not she says she wishes so good. I'm as I'm halfway through that joke, like well, you know, maybe they're frustrated because they can't get on a plane. I'm kicking a hornet. I probably shouldn't do that. So I shall stop now. I wonder if the height distance makes it hard to kiss since he's always on a soapbox. That's good jokes, you can make right there as you pull. But as you pull up, why would you don't care Nicole I care about class you all keep your hornets nests all day long, man. That's how we world but the experience of the week if you want to pull up Discord, I actually had some more experienced this week. I finally got a piece number six of the radar and so I now have my rocket my rocket device so you could definitely use the infographic from last week that tells you how to fight them. Yeah. Won't matter I had the the Purple Lady whatever she is. I ran up against her today. Sierra probably got my my art handed to me very very hard. Yeah, that's as close as I can get to what I want to say. So yeah, I yeah, it was not it was not a pleasant fight at all. I got railroaded pretty hard. But you know, it's a cool. Okay in the game it actually. Weren't you tap yours right now? Jesse people on the stream can see how it looks in case they haven't gotten the pieces yet. It looks really cool. Graphical exchange where zooms out. Well, you're actually pretty soon down as it is but as zooms out shoots a pretty big area to find stuff but I don't have anything near me. So yeah, it doesn't find anything right now in theory is it stops that would already have Team Rocket fights on it or how does so is it is eret stops at once you trigger it with this device with the radar then it's a rocket battle, which is a leader. Correct Gadget. Yeah, that's Tony 35 is in the chances. Hey, there's a Gible. Yeah. I said the same things that aren't called by his name my said the same thing and yeah, it's Joe's buddy. That's like, oh get that thing get that shark man. Don't let that run away and then it moved and yeah, so it likes to eat pin apps, but that that was my you know, it's not my only experience. Actually I went and got a new Pokemon. I was out at The letter Botanical Gardens on Sunday. It was the last night or Saturday. I don't know what night this weekend where they had a big that they do tons. Eliza go there every year they have this great Christmas lights. I think it's going on and let me see go to recent as I saw a shadow. I saw a shadow that's been shown up and I called it tell found out what it was. It was a Jenny Craig Treecko because there's like a Really skinny Treecko looking Shadow and that's not as like the before is slightly chubby just after slightly skinny. So it's a Jenny Craig Treecko what it was in the shadows and let's see. So, what was it really? You can't tell from my made-up name? No Snivy. It's asinine. So I've been seeing this naívi pop up in the shadows and the way it stands. It looks like a tricot but Skinnier, yeah. So how rare those are those fairly rare because I got one in your area. Yeah. I got one that I've caught nine them. So I did that and then I know there's a story coming up about the Revenger research this you know this month while I let me just tell you it's Lapras and lappers at frickin Lapras man is so annoying the open up another lappers box today and it's like, oh man. And they're very excited on the last week. Now, you know, I was its toll I don't let go of that fever brain tell you stuff. That's not real job. I don't know you sounded pretty excited on the podcast to have lappers last week. No, it's my second Lapras. I want something I don't have so I'm getting cool stuff. That could do sin 10 gifts for friends had seven eggs. So I'm like man, they have the actual tasks. I'm getting far right in my wheelhouse to do them and Bam Bam Bam in a 7 is it? Only laparis is the only is lapis. Only thing in the Box this month for now. Yeah, I can't. All right. Lapras is going to be in the Box for though. Yeah, it is frustrating. So I'll complete a few more and keep it going that way. But what do we have in the Discord? All right. So in the Discord, we have a couple more hatches of Wurmple with the a party hat grateful Dad got a shiny Wurmple with the a party hat. So that's fun the purple Wurmple. Yeah, Terry also has a purple Wurmple. Whoo, Ellie LEP God. She got a lucky. 98% shiny Mewtwo. Wow. Yeah, that that's relevant to this Court's going through as well. It's not caught that as you're saying. Wow, and that is amazing. Yep. Shift Works has a 96% Garchomp. So he's pretty happy. They're only the second Gibble. He's ever gotten. Professor Pine got a 100% tourists from a hat and also is super excited about his party hat Wurmple Fabien who is in the chat here live also had a pretty good week cada shiny Chimchar a shiny fur it and a shy well got a shiny Center it and evolved into a for it. So yeah pretty awesome. From there and then Terry is showing off his shiny heat tram. We just had a rare spawn happen, by the way, if you noticed and that respond creates the Joe it everybody Cruise, you know, that's not that's not demonstrating anybody anymore. But cheeky - me out ticking - you're getting the chat. So I'm excited. He's almost like a side character for our show, right? I mean, I just love what he calls in and even though everybody craves a Joe is still entertaining. Meaning I love hearing from it. So I'm happy to see that and I looked up we were I was wondering how long Lapras is going to stick in the research boxes and it is the entire month. It goes away February 1st in the afternoon. All right. Now there's no way to stack boxes. Basically, if you do the seven you get one and then you can basically have three we can you collect them up to six again. So you have one box stacked and have up to 6 stamps and that's it, right. No, once you hit number seven, okay, once you hit number seven, it's whatever's in that box. So you used to be able to collect in the background like click on the box, but not catch it and then wait right, but they got rid of that a while back. Okay? Well nevermind then. But yeah, I'm going to wait so I've got to lappers. Well, I mean, okay, I was happy to see that at the Ice Beam icicle whatever attack that I had. You know, I know I've listened to you were excited. I was not that excited Joe. I was not that excited. Maybe you just need to get yourself a shadow laparis. Then you'll be excited. You know, what you can go back to being sick Rob and I did just fine. You know Whole Food. Let's go Watson with all this laparis. Oh my God, that's just the ones I have left after getting rid of a bunch. You know what it's about time to hit the headlines. I want to say. Thank you to duly noted for the bits. You're awesome. Thank you for that. You are indeed duly noted. So there's any particular order that I don't think it didn't feel like there was feels like everything. It's January right? Everything's just kind of random news in the game. So now this the first two let's go ahead and do the first deal. Yeah because there's a discrepancy on different news sites depending on who you talk to. So I thought we would mention that first. So the first article here says that Pokemon go made 1.4 billion in 2019. And this is coming to the data is coming from Super data research.com. Now perhaps because the other the other one we have the other article that we have here comes to us from sensor Tower.com and says that Pokemon go made nearly 900 million in player spending. So if we're assuming both of these are true that must mean that super data research somehow has access to my antics. Profits that are outside of the game so merchandise and things like that. So it's possible these are both true, but I'm leaning more towards the lower figure from sensor Tower since they have their more reputable in general. Right? Plus they have the data from the previous three years. Yeah. We're for Niantic are the previous two years rather. Yeah, but this game is dead, right Joe. I mean, it's just yeah, I mean if you're making a measly eight hundred ninety four million You're Dead games back it up. Why bother yeah, I mean just send that money this way. I mean, so yeah. So the first one comes from Super data, like I said, it's 1.4 million and they are looking specifically at free-to-play games revenue and on that list. It has Pokemon go as number 6 and this isn't just mobile games because this has a fortnight that says League of This has the honor of Kings things like that as well. And so but of free-to-play games Pokémon go is the sixth highest earning on this list. Yeah what interests me more from the sensor to our website. Is it lists what Pokemon go made 2016 2017 2018 and 2019. And this is the first time that Pokemon go has outdone their 2016 earnings, which that gave close in 2018. It's a bit of a misnomer though because if you remember the game came out mid-2016, right and a bunch of people now, how much did they keep it? That means that I don't know how the numbers are calculated because I knew I've told the story of somebody's like dropping 20 40 dollars in it decided they didn't like that. They weren't catching stuff. Basically funded everything, you know, but you can still report that as earnings even though you didn't even know you had to refund it. You didn't keep it. You know did I think that's what made me a lot of people did when they first launched the game was throw money into it and then maybe left it. Maybe they refunded it. Who knows either way the next three years. Look at that growth from 2017 and 2018 though. Huge jump. Yeah. Yeah, I mean a 38% increase that is very significant. Yeah it is and if you scroll down there's another chart of the very best like no game ever was is that light of this paragraph? There's it's a progressed but the location-based game Revenue in 2019. Nobody nobody you can stack these together. They're not going to come close to what yeah Pokemon some of these I haven't even heard of to be honest. Yeah Quest walk and let's hunt monsters. I imagine. These are probably Japanese specific because Dragon Quest is a big game, or was it big? In Japan for many decades on the Nintendo and all that. I'm a I'm thinking maybe let's hunt monsters because of the Asian and I just call agent because I don't know which actual dialect is the the title at the bottom of the icon, but it's obviously an Asian script of some kind something as a probably yeah. The Asterix is let's hunt monsters Revenue estimates are for China App Store only, okay. We're still out did the Clones including Harry Potter the China only at still very Potter one, you know, you people were thinking that Harry Potter would actually be a contender. Yeah Pokemon go and I kept saying from the get-go. I was like Harry Potter's big but it's not as big as Pokemon go and the money shows it. I mean Pokemon go made 894 million this past Gar in player spending. Whereas Harry Potter Hazard unite only 23 million now depending on their budget, you know per year that's still decent profit compared to Ghostbusters at 230,000. That's it. 230,000 is what they made in 2019. Yeah. Yeah and out of those Walking Dead our world. Actually I thought would have been a contender because this strong IP they laying into it well Well with how it worked and it felt more like a video game. I talked about how I played it and reviewed it on the show and it felt more like a video game unless having to go out and meet your friends like Pokemon is and yet it's a barely made 17 million in 2019. So I'm a little surprised at that drastic world did better than walking dead. But you know, It is what it is Jay. I want to ask you this thought process here looking at these numbers. Obviously Pokemon goes going to be here to stay for long time Robin. I talked about the potential of human. Uh Pokemon go to at some point once technology outpaces the platforms and stuff built on so on so forth that notwithstanding to just reset your yeah. Yeah, all those things that notwithstanding the Pokemon obviously the IP there is Super strong, but would you say possibly location-based game / AR games are a fad other than this one really just was magic and lightning in a bottle special. so the thing is None of these have the well, like we said Pokemon is huge that in and of itself is going to allow for a lot more leniency on what it can and can't do but add to that the lore from Pokemon is all about traveling the world and catching all over the place. Yeah. So the law itself lends to it the Harry Potter. Yeah, I mean, okay cool, you're finding random stuff and they tried to They tried to put a little bit of a story Into the game, but it just wasn't there Ghostbusters. It just doesn't have the IP to back it walking dead as big as Walking Dead the people who love Walking Dead think it is. It's it's not Pokemon. Then the coals acute. Well, I don't about huge. But as far as the people in our circles who played the Pokemon go and the Wizards unite. She's a big Harry Potter fan as far as was you know, that kind of thing. And she was saying that Harry Potter's good but ended up being kind of boring and I know you know, the Dragon Con circles and this and that and the other that Harry Potter itself, even though there hasn't been a whole lot of new material in a while. I know they've got the Fantastic Beasts and this and that and the other but even in the lulz huge fandom huge fandom and especially in a female demographic huge fandom there but I mean Here's what she I would wrap it up what she says that it got she felt like it's kind of boring. She felt like the story was too long and considering they basically wrote an entire addendum to the lore, you know adding on to the Lord the books and whatnot and then the mechanics of it, right and a lot of it like because when it comes to stories people like continuity, so when things are out working outside of that, yep, and so like for instance and this is going to be a spoiler. For you know books that came out 12 years ago. In the in the movies and books Hedwig is dead. Hedwig is is catchable in Wizards unite and I get it. How do I get is is a character that is noticeable and is recognizable. But this is supposed to take place after Harry has become an order there is no Hedwig. I so and that's just one example, but there's a whole bunch of different things. Now there are some a are games that I think might actually well. I don't know how big they'll be. There's nothing to be as big as big as Pokemon go but the Minecraft world I could see that getting pretty big. Yeah, the Catan one. I think we'll probably go the way of Harry Potter probably not even but you know, I'm curious to see how it plays just because I like sex. There's of Catan but I'm looking at this or nah, it's a Geo RPG because a civilian on base doing in there as a basically Final Fantasy go either technically, it looks like it's not actually Final Fantasy licenses more of just an RPG thing, but it looks it looks like I'm going to try it out just got try and pretty much all these out but it looks like it's going to be a very much a RPG. Based on your location stuff going on type of deal. So we'll see how that goes. But that's not really what what people tuned in to listen to but we got from this change it because of the money right still eight hundred. Ninety four million is which is more than everybody other six combined. Yeah. Actually, it's probably more than double. Yeah. I'm thinking because you're closest Contender is 200 then the next one after that 60. Okay, not quite. But more than double yeah, all the rest of them combined. Yeah, so so yeah, it's it's dead. We should probably give up on this podcast, you know, and so C'Mon actually just had a direct quote unquote direct an announcement today. Oh, yeah, and that a lot of people are happy about their they're bringing a lot of Pokémon forward to the newer games, which was one of the biggest complaints. And they're also remaking the Mystery Dungeon Series. So, you know Pokemon is just going to keep going forward. I mean it's been around for 23 years now somebody for something like that it it's it's going to stick around. It's going to keep its going to keep moving forward speaking of moving forward. Let's do that. We got this unofficial go survey know. Where is this fraud as obviously on the cell phone has a is Sponsored it was yeah. It was someone on the Silk Road that did this survey and it's there's a lot of interesting factoids in here. So the the survey they ended up having almost 1,200 people fill it out and of the now there is some bias here because it was a survey directly from the Silph road. So these are ya cool. Players, these are players that not only play the game but also engaging the community and things like that. Yeah, they had they had 80 almost 87 percent of the play of the people said they started playing in 2016. So, you know a vast majority of the Silk Road redditors started playing then 46% were between the ages of 26 and 35 with the next largest group being 19 to 25. So you are statistically anomalous. I've uh, I got nothing and so is that a that Chinese grandpa that has 27 phones or however much he's he's up to now the yeah, they set it said that 82 percent said they are primarily PVE so gyms and raids. Whereas only fourteen point four percent said they play both PVP and and Vee and then only three point four percent said they're primarily PVP players and that that doesn't really surprise me. Yeah PVP is not all of all that rewarding to be honest at this point. So it's largely ignored and this at least that's what I vote. That's the perception I've always had in the statistics seem to back where it sits. It's for the hardcore players you think about it right in my experience a lot more apart from the the general exposure. You're not the hardcore Fan Experience went but in the the person is a that looks kind of cool. I wonder what Pokémon is all about for the last 20 years, you know the games where I've dabbled into is more about catching and trading and hatching and while yes there definitely battles and you see that in the anime and stuff. It seems like There was a Emeritus Pokemon tournament and there's some others that that were specifically just PVP only and they didn't seem to do as well as far as compared to compared compared to the standard games so I can see that being true here is the average person. My daughter is even more of a filthy casual than I right. She just thinks like Pokemon are cute and that's about the extent of it for her. But she likes go. Oh, there's that new he shall see what I'm doing on my phone and then after month not playing. Open up our app and try to catch some of the new stuff because cool zero interest in PvP zero interest in anything like that. She just wants to catch them and I think that's what your main base of players is going to be like so they didn't makes plenty of sense at PVP while is necessary and you definitely your hardcore players to have that it's going to be a very hardcore spin-off if that makes sense. Yeah now I'm curious to see how this change. Is once Niantic finally rolls out the right the leaderboards and other things that they've announced so it'll be it'll be interesting to see how these statistics change this coming year and the next one two-thirds of people say they play using only one account. So that means one third of people have multiple accounts. Now wonder if that covers people like Barry who plays for his wife, you know, I traveling and Emmett does that to deny so play for his wife he plays for his wife his daughter and his daughter's friend. Sometimes glad to be fair. He's one of his main jobs is to test out phones for his company. So yes, that's what he's doing. He's had separate accounts on each phone and he's testing them out with the game and whatnot. But yeah. Yeah, as opposed to what Terry wolf as his main account, then he got bored. So he started over a new one and just start from scratch. So wondering if his differentiating for just means do you play with one account or more than one account period Yeah, well, it's just one account or and then like 25 percent said they used to accounts. Which means what is that about 7% use more than two accounts? Yeah, so but yeah, yeah Terry put what is his new one Terry Terry Jr. Something. It's probably like Terry wolf will get the 40 again faster than Charles did the first time probably yeah, he'll probably make it to 40. I'm sure he will before you do. I'm sure that's what he's at right now. That's sure he will. So he's got oh, it's the wolf Terry instead of the tearing off and he's level 32 on that account. But anyway, yeah, he's a little at me again. It is what it is. But this body system almost 50 percent said they liked it is 44 45 percent light did the new buddy system and you know, of course, I'm not surprised a big number of people are in favor of more buddy gifts daily. Well, everybody wants more stuff. That's not surprising. I haven't got to the level buddy gifts. I don't know if it's feel sparse or not as a filthy casual as somebody. A really play like all the aspects of the game all the time. I think the buddy system is kind of cool when I sit for a minute pull up in the game going, you know what it's going to take me less than 30 seconds to feed berries to the my buddy and and go ahead and play with them and take a picture which gives me like four three or four Hearts immediately. Right? And when I was out at the light show on Sunday night, I made sure to feed them and bring them out. So he's walking with me. And so I got the full three hearts for walking with my buddy that night. Right. Yeah, it's easy as for I think so cool aspect to the game. So I'm a little personally surprised that there's there's a significant amount of people who are somewhat enjoying it or not liking the buddy system at all. What do you think Joe? Are you in the the pro or against camp? I'm not maximizing my buddy experience, but I think it's fun. So I guess I'm in the middling Camp. Yeah, I remember. I'm not a I'm not gonna min-max it but if I were to go out for a day, I'm definitely bringing my buddy out. Now. That's my thing too. I'm always using that buddy slot to get the candies. You need to evolve something. So that's to me that's more endgame content if you will, although this doesn't have an end game, but you're getting 40 plus it's kind of the end game right? And then when you caught everything you've evolved everything you're waiting for the next. You well shatters, not nearly enough crossovers for this to be endgame. All right, so it's it's man it's a cool aspect to get you extra stuff and another way. It's just I haven't the buddy list. It's another way to have fun in the game and if you're going to but like Joe now, well, you're giving just disappeared, but you know at you're going to Have on the screen you're not really do anything. But at the games when we open the whole time it takes you very little time to give them berries and and take care of them and have mother doing something for you and it's getting you more progress in the game. And I think it was a very important addition to Pokemon go Jesse. Keep you always in any game you play all you want to have that next gotcha moment at next making progress thing. Even if it's a little bit that's been hard to do in this game because you have to get up and go out of your House to make progress now, you don't really and I've seen the video of the kids assist duly. That was really really cool. That was a great video that you found Joe. Oh, yeah the catch assist. Yeah a lot of fun. I'm going to read this from duly noted. I love the buddy system. I hit Level 2 with Garchomp. When I toss a Pokeball and the Pokemon blocks it it bounces back garchomps paw reaches up from the bottom of the screen and smacks it back at the Pokemon and love that so cool. So I like it. It's fun. So yeah interesting some interesting results not all not really surprising results from this unofficial survey. But it was it was yeah games dad moving on. Oh, man. So now we have another problem with map tagging blocking players that actually kind of broke my heart the second us. I'm like, no again. We have a place that that it's what my Fuji Island in the Maldives. Yep, exactly. We'll go with will go through of got it. I know it's Maldives is how you pronounce that but I don't know about the first part with the island now luckily Niantic Indigo has already commented that he they're having Niantic look into this specifically, but this goes to a deeper issue that the osm tagging the openstreetmap tagging. They need to have a program. Attic way of handling areas that are tagged for no spawns but have poke stops and Jim's yeah. I mean, it's not like there's one poke stop. There's a lot. I mean it's obviously a city area that has more than a dozen combined stops and gyms in this one screenshot well and almost all of the tags that I've heard of the people have been complaining about our Water-based tags. So this happens to be tagged as a reef. The one previous I think was tagged as a bay. It was yeah, it was a bay and but The the maps know that there are streets here. Yeah and buildings. That's what the blue Shadows are. There's buildings and streets and parks. And so you would think you know build buildings and streets on reefs. Yeah that that if it's marked as a water-based thing where stuff shouldn't spawn that should get overridden by the fact that it knows where the land is. Yeah, the game knows where the land is. And we don't have anything to back this up. But one of the comments are on island Australia is having the same or similar issue apparently. Yeah. Yeah the these tags for how good, they are in other aspects of the game like for being able to tag something as a park so that you could turn a gym into a x-rayed possible gym sure, you know things like that are great, but Being able to to overwrite tags that or the these tags it just straight up saying no Pokémon. That's kind of weird and I get that. They don't want Pokemon spawning in the in bodies of water. but still You know, yeah. Anyway, this is something that they need to figure out instead of handling all of these issues manually because I'm sure there's more like you said there's another report here of another area where this is happening. Yeah, they need to programmatically figure this out. And they're working on it. Like you said indigo is one of the top comments there and yeah, but that's still going to be a manual override just like they did with the other Island. Yeah, yeah, I know and they look at a longer a longer search. So you've got we did talk about it into infographic on the research last week with this one's actually a little bit better. So little cleaner a little bit easier to read and this is from Dana can zero on read it to you / daniken 0 and Joe I dig this man. It's a nice clean easy to understand. January field research rewards chart. Yeah, it is kind of trippy though looking at the ones that have shiny potential because they cut the models in half. And so it's half shiny half not yeah, that's a little happy. I like the the your teeny I like how I mean, it's just like a fade color a little teeny bit circle with the the pink to the blue. Yeah. It's a nice and I think where's the coop that Is involved in a qubit, ah crap, I can't get my words right now. They're my brother raid those colored differentiations are horrible. Those look like football field and the kaput Kabutops Kabutops. That's the word. I was trying to yes. I was writing my I hate when I get it right in my head that time my son was wrong and I can't get it out. That's said in my head. I said Kabuto first like no, that's not right and I'm going to sound like an idiot and I might as well just Embrace that sound like an idiot all the time. So But yeah, I look at shelters. Yeah, the bottom looks like a footballer fan. Absolutely. I just face it is a tray head dang it tree head Trey Trey transfer. The one with the comes out in the rain as a leaf on his head. It catches the rainwater. It's right next to shelter just oversized. Sorry I was Look, oh shoot now. I'm forgetting his name. Ha it's not just me triggered. It is tree head. It is Ray tray head domion. Anyway, he put it in for the I did but every title. No, man, you know what? We noted gave you a hundred bits for Trey head. Well duly noted stick around you can vote on that yourself. And yeah, thank you. Thank you very much for that. So very cool graphic and we've had it will have it in the show notes for the podcast over at Pokemon go podcast.com and we'll have it of course in the links here in the chat on Twitch. You know what Joe we do need to look at re doing art, which so It gets moved to YouTube by the wonderful and amazing to call 0.91 that those people watching on YouTube will see the chat and see the links and this kind of things as well. Yeah, I need to yeah. Yeah and look at for a while now. It is lotad stuck in lotad again. Yep. And yeah, I need to get the login information for what is it slobs? Yes stream Labs RBS so that I can because they've got a plug-in for being able to show the chat. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, super easy. You're not what we get will schedule work session here soon and I'll get that stuff set up. Now this before we go to this full story about turning the events tab. It's a suggestion is not a rumor. It's not something spinning now. It's it's a request or less without turning the events down to event calendar. It just made me realize this one of the few games I play. That does not give you a free reward just for logging in for the day just for opening the app. It kind of does ish now you still have to go get her something nice for seven days. You have to go do something and I mean, yeah, you can get the streaks and this and that and the other but you have to do something other games literally opening up. Thanks for showing up here some gold or here's some something and then that's ours out, you know, and that's why I hereby event calendar because like a Marvel strike for clash Royale and it gives you three things a day. If you log in if you got a Marvel Strike Force depend on what it is, you'll get up to seven things for the cat could has a calendar and that's what made me think of it was There's an actual. Event calendar logging calendar, but what is the idea behind the possibility of the events tab turning into your event calendar and our game? Yeah. So right now the events tab doesn't do a whole lot especially since there are no events right now. It just says check back soon for upcoming events if you click on it. Okay, and so what would be nice is and what that the person here? The Reddit user Moon underscore 92 is suggesting is to actually have a calendar of the events. Apparently, there's a login calendar for wizards unite. I was just seeing that if I Femme magic what hand other hand why is it? Why why do I have Ingress Pokemon go and was it unites all done by the same company? And yet having different stuff throughout. I don't understand. Yeah, there's there's a few things from Wizards unite. That would be nice to have in Pokemon go but yeah, they gave they gave some nice features to their least favorite games at least favorite games. I would say is really only got two games there that actually very games I keep forgetting about. Yeah, it's Joe Ingress didn't make that chart. That's true. So whether now I haven't talked about how crazy the weather is in this game forever about I It picks up from some kind of regional place for yo, whether or not since I will get hey, be careful and it's okay. I'm not myself safe and look him sunny and nice. I'm like, wow. I'm out at basement dweller. Okay, notwithstanding that literally my banking pouring the show can be sunny and still in the early hours dropped below freezing. And so if there's any we don't live in Colorado Joe It struck down to 32 the last couple of days here. Okay, technically, that's not below freezing. Okay, it's that and I'm sorry does that mean does that mean clots up in New York state who from September to July? It's freezing the entire time. Does he get a warning every single day when it's sunny it could be. Yeah. All right. Now that's my question class. You get a warning every time you turn on this thing. Be careful out there man. We noticed But this one's about foggy. I love the screen the picture in the screenshot the screenshots Cloudy and the picture is the Weather Channel definition of fog, you know, yeah. Yeah, there is I think you in and Rob Roberts were talking about it last week, but the weather is just not it doesn't show you what it actually is. I think rob you made a comment about how they don't pull weather.com because they would that would cost them money. So they're doing a cheap one. Yeah, and so it's when this first came out they would pull the weather every eight hours and just get the prediction. I know they started pulling it a bit more than that. According to this now. We don't have a source. It's just a Reddit comment. And so take it with a grain of salt. We don't know if this is true or not. Hot but the weather feature uses hourly forecast of AccuWeather to fix it eating more accurate global weather forecast data provider, which is basically Rob was saying is AccuWeather not really accurate. It's kind of and the comment just below that says that it fetches six hours our set and so it doesn't actually check it every hour. It just grabs the six hours, you know, we know we know pinging pinging a server, right? Right checking something every hour that's a ton of resources you and think it is but on a global level it is. Yeah and it's not just pinging it well every 6 hours, but it's pinging it for every zip code probably. Yes. Yeah. That's what about Regional. It's probably I think you're probably right. Thanks. Probably. Lure Fabien said they're actually using the S 2 cells was I'm for it. So the different es cells are used for I Osm. I don't I haven't looked specifically into what the different so we'll just go with it. But here's a great example of something I've seen happen now. I didn't check the third part here, but outsides bright and sunny, maybe a little bit of clouds Pokemon. Go dark Heavy Rain AccuWeather cloudy is a comment down at the bottom of it. That's exactly what I've seen is is my character will have rain actively coming down in the game and like it's a little cloudy but But there's really no chance of rain in my entire zip code in the two cities. I work in right now and yet it's pouring down rain in the game. I don't know. It's the only reason this is an issue is there are certain was like Crystalis. I think it is the snow Pokémon will come out and snow weather and fognl that one. Yeah drag, it'll will come out and foggy weather Cardinal car get your job available on oh snowflake. It's just easier to call the snowflake. cry out cry agonal So yeah, I would say that says he's basing move on we could be here for another three hours trying to explain as to cells. So okay, that's all I needed to know Nathan. Thank you very much. Nicole says, I can't count the times it snowed in my game this season when in reality it hasn't snowed here since March or so. So yeah, but but the bonus is if you're getting snow in the game, you're getting Pokemon the show up that you wouldn't normally get and they balance that for areas that will never get snow or maybe more likely won't get you know with fog. Your doubt I'll do you Joe. Yes. Did you just did you just shot? Goddamn Mountain Dew. Are you seeing colors right now? Well, let me in this purple behind me. Oh, there's not Joe seek help. So we've already got Pseudo weather-based lures what if we had weather based in sense? A cloudy incense. Yeah, rainy incense we can have different themed incense. So who cares what the actual weather is we can pay for our own weather. Yeah, are you using anchors? Yeah, absolutely. Like we have like you said Laura will go of course, it's ice. You know. All right. Here's the switch. I sup. Yeah down down because I have so much incense that I don't see a reason to use it really I guess I could pop one before my drive to work or something or we're going downtown, but this doesn't fix the the issue in and of itself of whether being wrong in the game forces. Life and the only way that they're really I'm sorry. Go ahead. Zulu Zulu got a good one on you there and the chap I carry on sends loose here. What Jen's was a while back. Everyone's well looking back with the daily to comment on Jack. Yeah. So heís Angelo, but ya know and and I think it's Nathan has a point you Nathan says but that is what the Lord's were supposed to do. So if the lawyers aren't fully really I mean they are so, you know again going back to my story and everybody else has the same store that have through on a lure for three hours sat there and nothing now their cases and then a wild one should up Rob talked about wild when showing up Nathan talked about Wild Ones your I did not have a wild one show up. But yeah, we're using we're making a little mini blizzards where we're sitting and we're not getting the snow Pokemon. They're supposed to come with that. That's an issue. You just need to sit down and read the book Where the Wild Things Are and then you'll get the Wild Ones to spawn. I'm The Gruffalo man. You just keep on walking. But what they could do, I suppose is allow people to report the weather where they are though. I suppose if they did that. That theoretically these Discord groups for different areas could say hey what we want it to be this weather in game. Now the way they could get around that is having degrees of difference between whether like the difference between cloudy and foggy isn't that much or cloudy and rainy isn't that much but about foggy matches ice or snow, so you get these That one's whereas rainy pulls out a different set of yeah Pokemon, but yeah, basically the only way they could do that either they would have to pull more often which even then the whether that's getting reported isn't always what's actually happening. I mean, it's not Back to the Future 2 where we know every 15 minutes what's going to happen or whatever but yeah, so people are reporting or then pulling more often both of which would help the issue. But yeah, are we going to do we keep will ask for stuff and you know, maybe they'll fix it. Maybe they won't and we'll keep laying back to that survey. It was something like only five percent of people believe that Niantic actually listens to us. So I I'm outside of that I think nine took listens to the community. Act very fast by think they absolutely listen to not every little instance and not every podcast or whatever and they've proven that they only think YouTube is the only thing that exists in this world, but I think with Reddit and their Community managers, I don't think we've gotten PVP and some other stuff in this game if they hadn't been listening to community. Yeah, so and the actual quote from that I was wrong. It's not 5% it was point six percent of players feel that nanae antic fully addresses the community's concerns. Yeah, well, I mean it's governing and no I mean nine tickets kind of tone deaf with some things but overall Dead game give it up. Stop playing. It's all right, you know, you know what the Dead? The horse that you keep beating, I did not beat you Joe. You're sick on your own. Don't you start that rumor? Has it that on me Ricky Bobby. Yeah, it's all right, but here's something that's interesting. Is that the predictions for what community days are coming are like wrote now, it's old hat and we had a sort of every other one is starter, but there's some like are we still going to get a Gible Community? It's been assumed we would But shiny Gibble's already out in the wild. Yeah, I don't know but I sure hope we get a gimbal Community because I need a lot more kibble candy, but I could just use one period but Piplup man I'ma pull up Twitter to see if I can see who wrote it. There was a great little Twitter thread that went through that I shared and and, you know read through. I don't know how to Man, can you can't just save stuff on Twitter? I don't know what you say all kinds of stuff on no save. I'm speaking clearly everybody. I thought you said you just can't say enough. Hey way go Away Joe, but but it's a good is a well-thought-out rant of it's the new year and people are already putting out charts on the Piplup evolutions and how to catch them for communicating this that one Community Day hasn't even been announced or confirmed or whatever the phrasing was and you know, what if we do this And the ideas were really great. I was like, yeah, let's share that out and let's let's comment on those and yet there. It is Piplup is indeed the shiny Community Day special move character that's coming out. Yep, every other month, it'll happen and honestly what okay, like the shiny Joe. I don't know which side shiny wish. I was normal. I can't tell the right side a shiny. The left side is normal. Hmm now I like the other one better. You are holy cow. It is so difficult to tell. That middle Evolution the difference between the shiny and the not it's it's an Instagram filter. It's all it is. It's like here's your normal. Here's one that your brain tells you different because we said it is different, but it's not really different. But I do like the the sharp black and they are not really different. You know, like it'll probably have hydro cannon. I don't know if the now I wanted to go out of left field. They need like fire something on this dude something you never see coming. Yeah, whatever the hydro cannon fire equivalent is that's what just cause you never see that coming out of a penguin right outside is a firebreak the penguin now you care now you don't care if it's gonna get Machamp schroth chop, ha ha ha Karate chopping penguin, eat it. Yeah. It's Nicole says there are so many shinies that are crap like this one yet other ones are super well done. I don't get it. Yeah, I'm with you and honestly and therefore I'd rather have the regular one most of the time it feels like the shiny is an afterthought. They're like, okay, we're done designing a new Pokemon. Let's just change some colors. Yeah and not even drastically but the the regular Emperor is let's just throw the Snapchat filter on it. Exactly exactly. So with that that's the And he's now and we don't know the the special move yet, right? Or do we assume it's going to be hide your Canon? I they may have announced it on their Twitter, but I haven't checked to be honest. Yeah. Yeah, and those are you been listening to the podcast for a while? You've noticed that I didn't say. Hey, let's stop for a break for commercial break real quick because we don't have one right now. We're fixing that but thanks for listening. Have a good free week Al Gringo Suave my man. He's always fighting the best graphics out there. This is another Fork of cows. We talked about Community movement. Actually mentioned when and what the bonuses are. Now they announced all of that yet. Another dates coming out is somewhat the they haven't announced the move. I just checked their Twitter. It's not on their Twitter. Okay, the date is the 1919. So next Sunday and the bonuses are half egg hatched distance. So make sure to toss those eggs into incubators and then of course the three hours so your energy is ready energies ready, but that'll wait until 9:30 when I kick off fth, Beyond. On twitch.tv Forsythe FHP. But yeah, these Graphics is awesome. It's the fusion kept now. What is the fusion cup is that that's what's coming? The I'm not understand what a fusion cup is other PVP that often. This is PVP. The fusion cup is probably the Silph roads newest cup. So what they do is they do unique rules. I think it's every month. And so let's see. Let me let me just Google it real quick and we will find out you do that. See how the fusion cup is a sylph road cup. It's the January cup. Let's see dual types only so all of your Pokémon have to have dual typing. So no single typing allowed so you can't have something like last toys because it's only water. No species with a second charge move costing more than 50,000 Stardust is permitted. Even if it has a cheaper pre-revolution so that if if you're getting a second charge move on a baby it's a lot cheaper than if you got it elsewhere. So 50k is the maximum Stardust. I don't know what the full list there is but yeah and then reuse. Ability, so as go battle League nearest launch Fusion cup investments will serve well in both future Arena cups and in great League combat, so that's not a rule in and of itself. It's just a statement. So the the two rules are specifically dual types and second move has to cost less than 50k and they've got specific Pokémon that are banned which are as umaril. Medicham dugong and worm a dam Bam Bam Bam alarm. Yep. So those are quote unquote species bands translation of what Joe just said no fun Pokemon allow out and well and they have a list of which Pokemon are allowed from each generation. So if you go down they have an eligibility list. I said put the link in the chat. It's still got GG / cup. / Fusion because I'll probably forget to put it in our show notes. But yeah, so it's got all kinds of different Pokémon that are listed here. I think well, let's see we've got the infographic is Mamoswine on the infographics. That's the first one that's jumps out to me. Yeah. Mamoswine is on the infographic. Okay, a lot of starters that have dual types. Well several starters have dual types of it's on here and Swampert is on here. I'm kind of surprised that Provo passes on there as is. Let's build on those right now. Well, he is a giant Bell but it's not Beldum. Oh, yeah. Yeah right guy. Yeah. We evolved from the yeah. Yeah bronze or bronzong. I brought bronzong. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah evolves from bronzers. Bronzong is on there alone Marowak lowland Sandshrew are sandslash is on there. But yeah Fusion cup is going to be kind of weird in general. So if it says right in the Pokemon Nations, yeah. I love this decks when he tried everything you want to know. I just mark it done because I didn't want to know anything about Heatran. I'm good with that. But he's our final infographic of the evening. And the Heatran is in the Heatran is the the big boss. That's out there right now to take him down. He's cool looking he's and this is mine. This is an ibid level. Graphic right here, right? This is the thing. It would just drool over did with the Glowing icons have the weird symbols or ya know it's sharp. Its got glowy things on it. He loved this. Basically just want to throw High attack people with double Earth moves at it. Yeah. I'm so mud shot were mud-slap and earthquake with the exception of exit drill, which has drill run. Yeah. So if you have a really good Garchomp toss out at it. You don't rhyperior or grout on will take care of it. So those are kind of. I mean most everybody should have a couple at least one rhyperior at this point since Rhyhorn has been available right ago. So I mean I don't but yeah, you don't have it right here. It's I think I need a few candies or something. I forget exactly what it was and you don't I was working on Pierre. You know what Joe. I have not putting up with this kind of condescending crap from you anymore. Chief. National says Nope go be nice. Whatever you say I'm just saying you were right here, you know? Yeah, it was short some can't I don't I'm not gonna look at it right now. I was sure some candies as I'll get to it. And if somebody get to it list Behind These are the evolutions and stuff because I forget what's on the Center Stone evolutionary list. I've won a number of cenastone some good. They're just I'll get it man. Why you gonna be pressuring me to have grandkids and stuff? What's wrong man? Just let me be you don't need a rhyperior your Going to raid anyway, you know, what? If I saw three other people I saw three other people take it on the heat tree and I would jump in because on the chart for hires like no problem. Take it down. He's out absolutely jump in just to get the Fire Dog he be awesome now real quick because you were right along as we do when you've been gone for a little while. We talk too much and catch up and everything else. Not bad. It is your bad. I don't know why I did that. What time is it Joe? It is time for random trivia and this week. I wanted to talk about Piplup and it's evolutions principal up and Empoleon they are with well, okay Piplup and print leopard print plup our penguin Pokemon and pulley on is the Emperor Pokemon. Print Piplup and print print plop are both water types while Empoleon is a water Steel type. So that is fun there the Pokedex entry for Piplup states that because it is very proud. It hates accepting food from people and it's thick down guards it from cold just like your typical penguin in there saying is down with the thickness. Yes, that's a little bit different direction of disturbed. But you know, I like you carry on sir. You do what you gotta do, you know principal up lives alone in a way from others. So, you know, this is a kind of the shut-in of Pokemon apparently. And every one every one of them, so this is talking about print love every one of them believes. It is the most important. So he's very very prideful and doesn't really like people so there's that Empoleon. So Empoleon has like a trident on its face the and it's pokedex entry references the three horns that extend from That extend from its beak and they attest to its power and apparently the leader of a group of Empoleon is the one with the biggest horns. All right. Yeah, he's your stab you with shh. These are all based off of penguins specifically emperor penguins Piplup is the name is thought to be derived from the sound of a pebble hitting water. So like a plop plop. It could also be the PIP is probably Referencing this stage of growth in baby birds before they hatch which is a pip. Which would make a lot of sense since it's the first form so there is that and print plop. Comes from the print is thought to come from Prince which makes sense. Since Empoleon is is an emperor quote unquote and then the plop again is water plop plop plop. And so the Trident on its head of Empoleon is probably a reference to Poseidon the Greek god of the ocean or Waters and Empoleon. emperor And Napoleon right is what it's thought to be a reference to that that's makes sense. So he's got a little man syndrome. Which is why they they compare instead of height. They compared the how big their horns are right? Yeah, I would know Joe. I've never been a little man in my life. So the funny part is though. Is that Empoleon? So I'll Pokémon have listed. Although it's mostly ignored. They have listed a height stat. And so Empoleon is listed to be five foot seven or for everyone else in the world. That's not in the United States. That's 1.7 meters, which is roughly the same height as Napoleon Bonaparte was the real Napoleon Bonaparte. So, there we go. very educational Joe Yep, according doesn't even that pup is good for PVP being water Steel type. I can see that I haven't personally messed with him in PvP, but Are you yeah, I've got I don't have them Empoleon. I've got the other two though. I just haven't done the walk away because his community move is going to make all the other moves useless, right? That's kind of how it works kind of how it works, isn't it? Yeah, we don't want you to feel useless. So hit us up show a Pokemon go podcast.com. Well milk whole milk. You will melt them out man. I can't do it now. Yeah, we will not. Q no promise with a real word will make you feel much better about your life and your game especially compared to mine Pokemon go podcast.com has a speakpipe tab that you can Nashville and others are fans of using so go there and click the tab use your phone ringing device. 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We need I think it's a thousand freaking subscribers on YouTube just to get a name and that's what we're trying regular subscribers freaking the sequences. Yeah, absolutely. So we need a thousand of you. We've got like a hundred or so I think on there now, but that's a long way to go to a thousand so I know a lot of shows like do iTunes reviews. I don't care about that Toons reviews. I need you to help her unless I send them that's true. But because they were so so brutal and bitter at first but we definitely need some help getting our YouTube name. So if you'd go it just subscribe to the channel. It's giant-sized team up. If you search that or Pokemon go podcast if you search that you'll find us over on YouTube and we would appreciate your help Joe. Where can they find you on the way? You can find me at Joseph underscore art on Twitter specifically and you can find me at a sort of geekdom all over the place. 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