Due to the immense popularity of the mobile app, this thread was created to talk about, tell stories of, and just generally brag about anything and everything relayed to Pokémon Go. Have at it!

Battered and bruised, FourLegged slinks into the P.Go Lounge. "That kid with the cap isn't around here?  Good."

I don't play it, but my wife does. She would appreciate any tips people might have which involve catching Eevees. That is her primary interest. She's on blue team.

Catching Eevees? Is she having trouble finding them, or actually getting them to stay in their balls? That's an important distinction.

Team Mystic for the win!  Both Kagura and I are blue team.

Catching Eevee is more a matter of finding them than anything else, I think. Just like with any other pokemon. Kagura will probably be better at giving advice than I am, she gets more time to play. Her commute is a bus through the city, mine involves me actually driving myself.

I'm on Red team... To heck with you all. :P

I'm on team Stop Throwing Those Balls at My Head. They Really Hurt!
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 01:57, Wed 17 Aug 2016.

Well, then stay in the pokeball, FL!

The ball is maybe a half a foot across, how is a fully grown koala supposed to fit into that thing?

If a 30 foot long snake made out of boulders can fit into it, clearly you can too.

I've just seen a few minutes of archival footage of previous Pokémon "Masters" at work and frankly I am horrified.

That Ash Ketchum(sp?) is a villain.  Forcing his pets, (servants?) to beat other members of the animal kingdom so severely that they must bend to his will and be ensnared by the Pokéball.  Even as I condemn young Mr. Ketchum, I know that he is merely a product of the culture in which he was raised.  From birth, he was brainwashed into believing that his ultimate goal in life is to become a Pokémon Master.

The real monster in this tale is Professor Oak.  Encouraging multiple generations of children, (as young as 10 years old!) to go out on their own to hunt and ensnare the world's more exotic fauna for sport!

Are those poor innocent creatures being converted into energy and trapped in some kind of prison matrix? With the strong ones occasionally being released to compete in twisted gladiatorial combat events just to raise their Master's status in the community? To win trinkets of accomplishment. What good are badges when innocent Pokémon suffer?

What does the Pokémon get?  A little sustenance, maybe a pat on the head if they are conventionally cute, and reconverted into energy until their next battle.  Either battle or training.

What is their 'training'?  More combat? Performance enhancing food pellets that force them into metamorphosis well in advance of their healthy natural evolutionary timeline?