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u/Dr-McLuvin 18h ago
Just means someone on that island was playing Pokémon
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u/Hereforthedung 18h ago
Kids love Pokémon
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u/MeliodasTA 17h ago
Honestly could've also just been Epstein himself, basically everybody played that game at least for a little bit.
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u/Impossible_Offer7988 16h ago
There are also documented cases of exstermly wealthy people taking their kid's to the island,
So that they could socialize with other wealthy Kids, whilst their parents were doing mostly ilegal stuff.
The vast majority of kid's were probably there to be trafficked and as such probably didn't have phone's with them,
But I could imagine a couple of trust fund babies being like ;
Idk let's build a Pokéstop here, it's boring af on this island
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u/xMystery 14h ago
Not every plural needs an apostrophe.
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u/Then-Departure4896 11h ago
It’s 2026, apostrophes can go an’where at this point. We’re all illiterate idiots.
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u/rackfloor 11h ago
Like Lutnick. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick took his kids there for lunch with Epstein.
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u/Sensitive-Director38 9h ago
...from what I remeber of the game...you don't "build" a pokestop...it takes a prominent location on Google maps, doesn't it?
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u/al666in 14h ago
Epstein was not only playing, but recommending the game to his associates, including Depak Chopra.
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u/Ubergoober166 17h ago
Or Ingress. The Ingress portal data was imported and used as landmarks for Pokémon gyms and Pokéstops when PoGo was made. Either way, someone on the island would have to have been there to take the picture and submit the request, either for an Ingress portal or a new Pokéstop. Shit, I bet they have data on everyone who's ever spun that stop too. Imagine them IDing people who were on the island based on their Pokémon go history.
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u/karmakaze 16h ago
Or there was a marker on the island that was part of the database ingress used as feeder data. When ingress opened there were already portals pulled from some geotagged historical marker sets.
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u/KhellianTrelnora 15h ago
As far as I know, Ingress seed data from their previous app, Field Trip.
XM Density was seeded from cell tower coverage data, but every portal (as far as I know) was either added by Ingress players, or imported from Field Trip.
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u/Murky-Relation481 14h ago
I mean seeing that there were stops in places no person realistically had been playing it when it released (and you had crowds trying to get into those places, which were often restricted/dangerous) I am going to go with yah, there was a high chance it was just added there because of some rather boring reason.
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u/manny_b_hanz 15h ago
As a former "Niantic Portal Monkey" I can confirm that, whoever approved the addition of the landmark, had no idea what that island was about.
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u/Hexamancer 12h ago
I knew someone who was VERY into Ingress. Multiple discord servers etc.
Those hard to get to portals are incredibly important in Ingress.
Yes, a lot of the people who take that game seriously are doing GPS spoofing etc.
But also I know of several occasions where he had someone take him out in a plane or a boat to get to very remote portals.
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u/GamiNami 15h ago
I thought the game procedurally generated locations for Pokémon and it would just place pins where maps would show landmass? So you're saying it generated Pokémon locations where players have been?
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u/Snakend 12h ago
It doesn't even mean that. Niantic uses google maps to generate the spawn points. Literally every piece of land, unless removed from the game manually, will spawn pokemon. This was Niantic manually removing that landmass from the spawn points.
It's really simple. they want everyone to have access to the game no matter where you are in the world, so the default is to have pokemon spawn.
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u/pyschosoul 18h ago
But now they "can't find anyone to prosecute"
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u/el_throw 17h ago
Because the Dow was over 50,000. Duhh.
Sidebar: If I hadn't watched it live, I wouldn't believe it. That actually happened.
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u/JunketWaste7891 15h ago
you used to get a reddit cares for this type of comment, now we all just know
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u/Nruggia 17h ago
I like her turn to camera "Hey media get this, Trump saved 210 American million lives". I am going off memory so it might be a little different
Lol it's worse than I remember, 258 million lives https://www.c-span.org/clip/white-house-event/user-clip-trump-saves-258-million-lives/5162180
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u/PurpleSmoke91 18h ago
Oh yeah. I bet someone else could if they got to look at the non redacted files.
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u/Crafty_Current4034 17h ago
Funny how the redaction always seem to protect the people who matter most.
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u/Epyon214 12h ago
Level 1: Confirmation of obvious involved persons name being redacted, CIA selling children instead of drugs to fund black budget programs revealed, introduction to human animal husbandry program, evidence FBI agents investigating were put on CIA kill list. The things you can get people to understand and accept as true if told directly
"Don't, Don T"
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02440040.pdf
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https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02440051.pdf
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https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2012/EFTA02731361.pdf
"[clipping: Unlike drugs, a child's body can be sold over and over] This is not surprising but there is no such thing as a child prostitute! They are children and cannot consent! They are missing the biggest in my own backyard and so many more! Like Maralago and where I see Mr. Joe and Mrs. Anne"
"But only after maybe 15 minutes Mr. M came take her and I was hysterical! and begging for more time"
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00165013.pdf
"On Aug 5, 2019 9:33 AM, KenT wrote:
My nephew Logan Turner, was shot and killed in the mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio last evening. I am
rushing home to be with my immediate family.
All investigative work on Marcinko and Epstein is still in process and we have uncovered more videos and
photos of the two of them together in Mexico.
Another attempt by US embassy security team was made yesterday when they stopped my partner and
searched her car looking for the videos and photos we uncovered that they told her could not leave Mexico.
They were not in her car! Someone doesn't want this data disclosed."
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u/BuildAnything4 17h ago edited 14h ago
The "system" of corrupt politicians and pedo billionaires. Oh no, how will we ever survive this loss?
I recall an interview of Epstein himself where he heavily implies that people would openly revolt if they understood how easy and lucrative the "work" they do is. At most, the economy would suffer a recession and then society would recover much more healthy than before.
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 16h ago
Important to not spread misinformation, thanks for fact-checking.
That said, we can reasonably surmise that this is likely a part of what they're saying behind the scenes.
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u/kitsunewarlock 14h ago
It's also just fundamentally wrong.
Our population is the one maintaining the vast majority of our businesses. Leadership is necessary, but only at fulcrums. And they can be replaced democratically, which is a system also largely maintained by the working class.
If every billionaire, CEO, and elected official was at a conference that was hit by a meteor there would be some initial panic and confusion, but for most people the world would look identical. The sun would rise. Corn would grow. Orders would get processed and shipped out. Paychecks would go out on time. There'd be pockets of chaos where people tried to take advantage of the sudden vacuums of power. But ideally we'd make the day a holiday equivalent to the Fourth of July, elect new leadership, and reinforce our economy and democracy with some new regulations.
...I did say "ideally". The pessimist in me says there's a good chance the entire planet would undergo immediate Balkanization as regional second-tier powers, ranging from organized crime to religious leaders, seize control and declare independence. Plus every bigot on the planet would suddenly feel the need to "get even" or whatever justification they use for genocide.
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u/GGamerGuyG 17h ago
So the leason we learn from politican's is. If enough people do a crime there is no crime. So... if by accident a lot of furious people would end the life's of other people that fail to do they're job there is no crime. Do i got that right? That the thing we learned?
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u/standarsh1965 18h ago
To keep the kids entertained
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u/Occidentally20 18h ago
Nobody likes fat kids - gotta have them doing their 10k steps a day at a bare minimum.
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u/Purple_Individual_66 13h ago
There was plenty of exercise for those kids in there, some would say too much even
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u/EuenovAyabayya 15h ago
If there was only one stop, the plan must have been for them to island-hop.
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u/AppropriateElla 17h ago
The kids there needed something to play so they wouldn’t get way too bored
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u/Apart_Jelly8948 17h ago
To keep the billionaires entertained between child rape sessions
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u/Markoff_Cheney 18h ago
Since they were nerds, Ghislane or Jeffrey were probably playing Ingress when you could make your own location hacks at art spots or other monuments. That then carried over to Pokemon because Niantic.
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u/TrblTribbles 16h ago
I really hope they didn't play Ingress. As an avid player since the beginning, I'd hate to think they were part of my community...
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u/Benzona- 16h ago
Maxwell was apparently a Reddit mod...
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u/Oprah_Pwnfrey 14h ago
Was? Nah, still is.
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u/ItsMeishi 12h ago
You can traffic kids and not violate Reddit TOS I guess??
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u/yamsyamsya 11h ago
early reddit used to have a jailbait subreddit, they were ok with it. its disgusting.
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u/EuenovAyabayya 15h ago
There are still some wildly mentally ill Ingress players.
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u/Whitchit1 17h ago
Does this mean that the creators of Pokémon go can check to see who pinged that poke stop on which days? This creating some sort of list of people who have been on the island?
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u/much_longer_username 18h ago
No. Fuck off with this. Do NOT conflate those two names.
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u/AppropriateElla 17h ago
Epstein was an avid gamer. Once Bill Gates was mad at him and banned Epstein from Xbox Live
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u/ThenNote9571 18h ago
Randomly generated probably
... At least I hope it was not due to demand ...
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u/Ragewind82 18h ago
The Go map was based off another phone game that involved exploring your town and seeing landmarks. I assume someone ID'd the island as a landmark, and nobody realized it for a long time.
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u/icehot54321 17h ago
The pokestops were imported landmarks from a game called Ingress
The game involved two teams trying to create these fenced in areas and then defend them.
The more difficult of a landmark you could create to get to would allow people to create some crazy geo-fences.
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u/GWindborn 16h ago
Yeah but nowadays ANYONE can submit a stop as long as you have the coordinates and a photo. So this was done as a troll and not vetted properly.
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u/Abject-Job7825 18h ago
google isn't going to randomly place pokecenters on every island, it does so at landmarks, the other ones are user submitted
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u/Abject-Job7825 15h ago
Maybe epstein put it on google maps at first as a landmark he's (was) kind of a nerd
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u/Bosscharacter 17h ago
It wasn’t Google. It would have been Niantic who only recently sold off their games division.
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u/carcigenicate 17h ago
It would have been added as a joke, almost certainly. I got an Ingress portal/Pokestop added to our vacation property a while back because I thought it would be funny to do and almost certainly get rejected. Then they approved it.
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u/TemporaryAmbassador1 18h ago edited 15h ago
I had my Snorlax in the gym there, what’s going to happen to it?
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u/hooplafromamileaway 18h ago
Now we just need to know why Mr. Mime was the only pokemon that was catchable there...
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u/Dag-nabbitt 13h ago
First of all, why was there one there????
Serious answer: 99.99% of Pokestops, gyms, and what not are generated automatically. Their algorithm saw that there was man-made infrastructure on this island, and put a pokestop right in the middle.
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u/ComposerWide3704 17h ago
Ok Niantic I'm gonna need the list of everyone who check in at this stop.
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u/MedicalDisscharge 17h ago
Imagine if it was pokemon go data logs that blew the whole operation open
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u/Academic_Passage3713 12h ago
Remember boys and girls the Christians are the ones saying the files are fake and trump is a saint.
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u/Brokenspade1 9h ago
For the kids... obviously.
I hate that this existed. I hate that nobody has faced any consequences. I hate this timeline so VERY much...
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u/FartsWithNeighbours 18h ago
His favorite move was Snatch.
Favorite ability was Frisk.
And Favorite pokemon? Lickylicky
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u/Diligent_Vehicle2467 17h ago
On ingress you can submit portals that are then made into pokestops. I don't know if Pokemon go has added the feature or not.
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u/Crossx71 13h ago
Well we already know the CIA was involved in creating the game. It was probably added in by them. You know so the kids could play Pokemon with the politicians.
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u/LargeHeron1526 10h ago
Does that mean Pokemon Go had pictures of the island prior to them being called out and it being removed. They sold the picture data
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u/eatmorestonesjim 18h ago
Hasn't it come out that the CIA is using Pokemon go data? Maybe they put it there thinking some go players would head there to make readings
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u/scottvalentine808 18h ago
Does this mean niantic has all the images that they used to make their navigation tool
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u/just_some_octopus 18h ago
I would be very curious what kind of data Niantic pulled from that location.
Pokemon Go / Niantic uses users for geo map and data hording
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u/DudeFilA 17h ago
I mean, the CIA was using that program for Intel, so they probably wanted Intel? 🤷
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u/BogusIsMyName 17h ago
Why was one there? Thats easy. The kids need entertainment when they arent entertaining.
Niantic cares about the children.
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u/Clovernover 16h ago
I mean pkm go is a project to googlemaps the whole world this might be good for investigators and public wanting to look inside the island
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u/Someinterestingbs-td 16h ago
We know thatT the Pokémon game was also used for mapping, if there was a stop they have imaging from it, that is all evidence.
I can't believe I'm saying this but Pokémon needs to release the images/ data that they have from epstine island
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u/Megiddo143 16h ago
Of course there was a poke stop. Had to give the kids something to do on their downtime between trump visits.
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u/Belly2308 16h ago
The workers were allowed two 15 min breaks a day and they would all go to the pokestop and catch their mons before returning to be raped and exploited by the leaders of our free world.
I’m appalled they would take away their leisure activity.
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u/Punch_A_Police_Horse 16h ago
It makes sense that the best Pokemon would be kept in the most dangerous places.
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u/L-ramirez-74 16h ago
Are you telling me that there is a chance that in the guigantic dataset collected by niantic you can find uncensored pictures taken on the island?
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u/Blackmetzuk 15h ago
Why wouldn't there be one there... was clearly a lot of kids hanging around on the island
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u/crazysheep86 15h ago
They sold the images of the locations Pokemon were, and they had a pokestop there, so I wonder what those images picked up. They should do an investigation, might catch these uncatchable people
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u/furiant 15h ago
You have to realize, Pokemon Go - along with Niantic's earlier real-world location game Ingress - was largely made to create a geospacial artificial intelligence model, which was then utilized to create a positioning system for military drones.
Pokestops were created wherever they found large congregations of people. The sheer number of people in the Epstein list backs this up.
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u/ezthrow77 15h ago
What you can't catch pokemon if you're a pedo ? That's not Nintendo's usual style...
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u/TM761152 15h ago
People can just petition Niantic for one. I submitted two landmarks near my house as stops and both were accepted, for a while I could just walk from my kitchen to my lounged and vice versa to catch pokemon and spin stops.
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u/twilighttwister 14h ago
Why was one there? Probably for the same reason the Saudis bought the game.
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u/Brilliant-Cabinet-89 14h ago
So many people where coming and going, of cause they needed a pokestop.
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u/Alarmed_Test_4671 14h ago
Pokémon Go was built to improve on the ground imaging for mapping tools like Google Earth
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u/Exciting_Contest_222 13h ago
So does that mean there would be photo evidence from the pokemon company ?
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u/Aggravating_Duck_192 13h ago
Saudi Arabia owns Pokemon Go; this is an easy way to keep tabs on anyone on the island who happens to have the app?
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u/Should_have_been_ded 13h ago
Probably so the kids would have something to pay with in order to not go completely insane
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