A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
The original Japanese Twitter comment points out that sleeping pills is a Pay 2 Win mechanic, lol.
Skill issue
I can’t believe there’s now a Pokémon doping scandal.
TIL there is a thing called Pokemon Sleep
It came out publicly last week
I THOUGHT IT WAS A MEME UNTIL THIS POST
The thought of a competitive Pokemon Sleep scenario just filled me with the most precious mental image. The Reverse Gamer™ Room, no leds, no table full of monitors, a mega comfy bed, relaxing music or white noise machine, guides on how to have a healthy diet and regular workout sessions.
I still cannot believe there is a game for kids that recommends they set up a fire hazard in their beds.
I’m really not a fan of this game because of having to leave your phone on all night long with it plugged in. For multiple reasons, but the fire hazard is definitely one of them. Why couldn’t it sync up with other passive sleep trackers, like smart watches?
I’d be interested in using it if the data could just be pulled from Apple Health. I don’t sleep with my phone and I’m not buying a $55 toy that does what my watch already accomplishes.
Exactly, I have a Galaxy watch myself and it does a fine job of tracking my sleep despite how old it is. They made Pokemon Go able to sync walking data with the system health app so they game could reward you even without it open. I don’t know why they missed that for Pokemon Sleep, especially with all the delays
Wait, you don’t leave your phone on charge over night anyway?
leave your phone on all night long
The screen is on, assumed.
Oh, this app doesn’t work with the screen off?
Nope, averyminya is right. It needs to be on to track your sleep for some reason. I assume it’s an OS limitation for privacy reasons.
not really, no. this seems like an early dev/bad documentation issue more than an inherent limitation. I ran into this when I was trying to build my own GPS tracker for running: the OS will force your app out of memory if you run it as a normal app, you have to register the app as a service in order for the OS to leave it running in memory when you’re not actively using it. Even then, some OSes will also make you specifically give the app permission to remain running when the phone is locked or another app is on-screen. tldr - what they want to do is doable in a safe way, they just haven’t done it.
Very on-brand for The Pokemon Company to do something the wrong way. I just knew that Android at least doesn’t let you access the camera without the app open and the screen on, so I had assumed it would be the same thing with the microphone access it wants for tracking sleep.
I don’t think it’s that. I have a sleep tracker called Sleep Cycle and its able to track everything on the background and with the phone screen off
Sounds like the app is just poorly optimized, because sleep tracking with the screen off has been doable on Android for years now, and I assume it’s the same for iOS sleep trackers, as well.
What fire hazard? All bedding made in most parts of the world made in the last 50 years or so are made of very fire-retardant materials. It’s actually really hard to set a bed on fire these days.
It’s actually really hard to set a bed on fire these days.
With cigarettes, sure. With an overheated lithium-ion battery? Not really
Nah, you can take a blowtorch to a modern mattress and you’ll burn a hole through it, but it won’t catch fire and spread at all.
In fact, that’s literally how they test the flame retardant abilities of a mattress; it has to withstand at least 70 seconds of a blowtorch from a foot away. If the fire spreads, it’s a fail. That’s how most mattresses are tested under the 16 CFR 1640 standard.
I mean that’s great for the mattress, but before uour molten lava phone battery starts burning a hole in the mattress, the sheets and duvet and pillows and pajamas will already have gone up in a huge blaze so I don’t think it’s gonna help much.
Nope, all bedding materials have to undergo the same testing for flame resistance. This includes sheets, blankets, pillow cases, etc. Without the aid of any sort of accelerant, the most that’ll happen is you’ll get some smoke and charred bits.
Now granted, more people these days are buying bedding materials from Amazon sellers that may not be complying with US laws on these fire standards, so the risk is a bit higher if you’re buying online from sellers you don’t know. Which is why I always encourage people to NOT buy their bedding materials on Amazon, and instead but directly from a retailer in the US.
You can literally just Google “phone in bed fire” and find article after article after article about it.
Hey, if cuddling a Charmander while I sleep is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
there’s no way they won’t implement that later down the road… right?
I tried Pokemon Sleep and I didn’t like it. It’s way more complicated than it needs to be. It’s very much a typical mobile game, with lots of meters, currencies, timers, login rewards, etc. And it doesn’t make any sense. Why do I need to feed a snorlax to make it bigger? What exactly is my sleep doing? Does the snorlax represent the player, even though the player is clearly a separate entity from the snorlax? Why should I care about friendship meters? It’s all ridiculous.
I guess the alternative could have been " let this Munna feed on your dreams" but it might have been too creepy for most.
That site probably : “Hey kids, did you know that steroids make you better at RingFit Adventures too?”
Meth will help you defend your gym in Pokémon Go.
I might need some. Play that for long enough with the difficulty high enough and I’m wiped out.
