• Kalkaline
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    1721 hours ago

    Niantic has the tools in place to pull off the next big thing, digital graffiti. You don’t need a shoot-em-up FPS or quests or anything like that, just give people the creative outlet to scan an object and draw a massive penis on it and share it with the world.

    • @NOT_RICK
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      1220 hours ago

      Niantic can’t even make a good Pokemon game let alone anything else

      • Kalkaline
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        1120 hours ago

        I just said they had the tools, I didn’t say they were going to do it.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          520 hours ago

          Fair enough. I feel like they exist at this point to just bolt a licensed IP to Ingress.

          • Magiilaro
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            218 hours ago

            It is so sad that they killed Ingress with their shitty new scanner app. It is out for years now and is still running like crap on my 2 year old upper class android phone. I really loved that game

            • P03 Locke
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              311 hours ago

              I loved that game for a brief time, but I felt like I could have gotten into a car accident with how much I was trying to take over outposts.

    • @Zahille7
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      320 hours ago

      You’ve almost described Jet Set Radio Future or Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, although those games are single player.

      There is a multiplayer mod for BRC though.

        • Magiilaro
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          -118 hours ago

          It is not really IRL when you put tags and graffiti on photos, even when it is combined with AR.

          • Kalkaline
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            515 hours ago

            You got me there, your pedantry makes me never want to talk about hypothetical video games again.

    • @Yggnar
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      320 hours ago

      Generally the type of people who make graffiti worth looking at aren’t the sort of people who want to draw with a tablet and stylus.

      • @[email protected]
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        420 hours ago

        Seems like a win for society if a significant percentage of the people making graffiti not worth looking at would switch to digital instead of physical graffiti then.