I've never played a Pokemon game or seen an episode of the cartoon, prior to Pokemon Go. I was certainly aware of its existence, but by the time it was becoming wildly popular in the US, I was already in college and well outside the target demographic. I can't remember anyone I knew being into it.

lol two middle aged men randomly dropping in a car in front of my house.

I see them from the window and theyre looking at their phone so I open my pokemon go.

Easy 1309 Weezing. 80 IV but i think best two moves possible with acid and sludge bomb

I played Red/Blue/Gold/Silver on Gameboy Color, played in Pokemon card tournaments for a little while, and watched the cartoon sometimes.


this gave me a hearty lol

guy has a ****ing DEWGONG on the gym nearest me. first one i have seen (or seel for that matter) in the game

I caught 2 dewgong in the wild in the last week but I'm a dirty tracker cheat.

I should have had one but it just didn't show up for me. Showed up for the gf who was sitting right next to me and was on my tracker.

Finally managed to hatch a nice snorlax. Had a wild one with 120cp but this one was 1750cp with zen headbutt and quake, powered him up to 2057cp and he's now by far my highest (next is 1650 vape and flare).

Hatched one seel and two shellder, but otherwise I've seen no ice guys. I wonder if Niantic will change things up in the winter?

I've seen plenty of both by the beaches I frequent (long beach, San Diego, and Santa Monica).

Anyone found a reliable locale for Grimer/Muk? That and Chansey r most likely gonna prevent me from completing my NA pokedex.

Evolved a Rapidash today without ever encountering a Ponyta in the wild. 4 egg hatches in total.

Seels and dewgong are everywhere in my city. Dratinis as well actually.

I have yet to see a pikachu though, and eevees are really uncommon as well.

Hope they make a new update on the nests soon; but not before I reach my 100 dratini candies!

Arghhhh. Finally got a decent growlithe to evolve and I think it has a terrible moveset. Fire blast is still best right? Had bite/flamethrower.

The moves change after evolving.

Oh yea. I meant I evolved it and that's what it got.

I've played Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver, TCG, Stadium, Stadium 2 and Snap when they came out, Sapphire, Emerald and FireRed on an emulator.

Looks like Fire Fang/Fire Blast is the best.

Owned Blue and then Yellow when they came out, Emulated Gold/Silver and one of Sapphire/Emerald/Ruby (with the drought/flood storyline and Rayquaza) and one of the DS ones, Black/White maybe? (With that legendary dragon/ghost types iirc) on PC, which is great for people too impatient to play the entire game on the actual speed.

Can't imagine this game being much fun without nostalgia, I don't like it that much as it is. I especially dislike the fighting, don't even mind that gyms are so easily taken and so hard to hold but not being able to choose your moves and having to mash buttons like an idiot annoys me.
Not being able to fight random pokemon (or trainers) is meh, entire game is like a huge safari zone except that there you might have had more options than berry / ball / run? I can't recall, I never really liked the safari zone or its pokemon.

I got bite/bulldoze so consider yourself lucky

I have another 180 candies so I'm not tripping. They're everywhere but this was the first I'd caught that was a reasonable level and IV.

I feel like I got cornholed. I hatched a 587CP Kabuto from a 10k egg. Of course, I know nothing about Pokemon because, well, i'm an old man, but, I still feel like I got in the ole chocolate wizz way on this one.

What's the problem?

is it good? is it bad? is it normal? I have no idea. I keep reading people hatching !500+ things from 10k eggs. FYI i'm level 23

Well first of all, keep in mind that Kabuto can evolve. So you're looking at a final CP at least above 1600. At level 23, that's a pretty solid hatch. Also, Pokemon hatched from eggs generally have solid IVs as well. Finally, Kabuto/Kabutops are relatively rare depending on your area (I personally haven't seen either yet).

Thanks. I had no idea. it was really funny because right after I hatched it I had one pop up in the wild to be caught as well and that was a 533. Prior to that I hadn't seen one in the wild ever.

Yeah, I'd love to hatch another Kubato, I need them to evolve and have only seen one in the wild.