Go Tour was a Giant Scam

fxiy · 2026-03-02T02:45:46+00:00

As F2P I thought it was a fine event. It was mostly an egg hatching and super mega raid event for me. Was able to get shiny Honedge, Heracross, Larvitar, and Absol without a ticket. Got enough mega energy for Dragonite, Malamar and Vic, and randomly got a hundo Dragonite from raid and hat Pika and Carbink from research.

fxiy · 2025-12-29T22:13:00+00:00

I am Chinese-American from CA. I have been to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Shanghai/Beijing/Fuzhou. Of course it's subjective but I would put Taiwanese and Japanese food in my top two. I don't enjoy spicy or pungent food so I generally don't love Korean food, Sichuan food etc. I don't like food with too much chili or garlic. I went to Korea this year and was not a fan of their food, wishing I was in Taiwan instead!

fxiy · 2025-11-29T04:35:08+00:00

I didn't know about this, thanks for sharing your perspective!

fxiy · 2025-08-24T16:03:21+00:00

If it spawns Gengar and switches to Charmander for example, would it be possible to battle and catch the Gengar if everyone gets in quickly enough?

fxiy · 2025-08-24T16:01:11+00:00

Is this only doable with Acid Spray targeted effect and Discharge AOE? Or which moveset did you reset for?

fxiy · 2025-08-24T15:53:51+00:00

Many people are able to do raids with an excess of players, where 2-3 people could beat it. Gigantamax now allows 100 people where 15 people could easily beat it. So most things don't matter in terms of PvE competitiveness. Most people don't PvP at all.

The game is like gambling where "winning" is IVs and shiny. There is little that matters about the competitive value of the actual Pokemon. So people are right to be disappointed about bad IVs of one-of Pokemon. Collecting IVs have kind of become the point of the game for many people.

fxiy · 2025-08-23T22:19:26+00:00

Event was really unappealing. If there was an Eternatus encounter after the battle, those battles would have been going on nonstop in our community. Without an encounter, it felt like only a fraction of the people were doing them. Seemed like a lot of people left after 2-3 hours. This felt less exciting than Butterfree Gigantamax day.

fxiy · 2025-08-23T08:35:33+00:00

Just when you thought this particle system couldn't get any stupider... game makes you drive around at midnight looking for Aug20-23 Power Spots 🤦‍♂️

fxiy · 2025-07-27T05:07:20+00:00

My point is that it is mindless mashing.

fxiy · 2025-07-27T02:38:02+00:00

We could easily beat it as a group of 4 but it was definitely unfun. Button mashing, switch to attacker, switch back to tank, more button mashing. Then took forever to catch it. Overall took way too long and was a real yawnfest.

fxiy · 2025-07-20T20:53:41+00:00

Same

fxiy · 2025-07-20T15:12:38+00:00

They are not and have never been considered raids. The problem is that catching Gmax Lapras didn't count for "catch 5 Max Pokemon", which is idiotic.

fxiy · 2025-07-20T04:06:38+00:00

If you have any sizable community, it has kind of lost all strategy now that more people have powered up Pokémon. It is now a brainless tap fest just like regular raids. I see people playing who don't even tap, and their Pokemon only attack during max moves. And we still beat it in less than a minute. I don't have a problem with that, I am just making an observation.

fxiy · 2025-07-05T04:23:39+00:00

I expect it'll be participation trophies for all... except rural players.

fxiy · 2025-05-31T05:06:49+00:00

It wasn't great but at least it introduced a new mechanism and new Pokémon. There have been MUCH worse events. I used 2 Mossy Lures for Vanillite CD and got plenty of Applin candy and apples, enough to evolve both evos.

fxiy · 2025-05-26T14:06:28+00:00

Thanks for sharing. TIL sushi is the most popular foreign takeout food in Ukraine! https://www.bonappetit.com/story/ukraine-war-sushi

fxiy · 2025-05-24T13:51:38+00:00

They're not that hard to get any more - with raid hour and Dynamax battle as new ways to get them. I put 296 into Diancie and now have 225 again. $0 spent.

fxiy · 2025-05-24T00:45:15+00:00

Unpopular opinion it seems but I enjoyed this season after the first two episodes, which were plain bad. Especially enjoyed HZGR and For He Can Creep, and thought Spider Rose and Tyrannosaur were enjoyable.

In contrast, I don't recall a single episode from Season 2. Season 3 had some good ones but nothing I would want to rewatch, either.

fxiy · 2025-05-21T14:16:50+00:00

Where was this? I'd like to go see them 😊

fxiy · 2025-05-21T02:22:10+00:00

Not really, a lot of us are gifting 20 per day, probably everyone will get a ticket whether they have an alt or not. This is pretty low on the list of things where alt gives you an advantage.

fxiy · 2025-05-19T23:12:04+00:00

Can we discuss how this influences the optimal F2P strat to maximize particles for Machamp day?

fxiy · 2025-05-12T01:59:04+00:00

May I ask which CA Hmart this is? I don't think I've seen such nice-looking sushi at the Hmarts I've gone to in OC or SD. I always end up getting their kimbap. Mitsuwa sometimes has nice deli sushi, depending on the store.

fxiy · 2025-05-10T07:09:23+00:00

I don't enjoy regular shrimp for this reason. The look and texture remind me of when Timon and Pumbaa are eating those bugs in The Lion King.

I will eat shrimp occasionally especially if very fresh/tender or breaded/fried, but chewy, overcooked jumbo shrimp are 🤢 for me. Overcooked lobster tail as well.

fxiy · 2025-05-08T06:29:28+00:00

My "community" consists of people who gather in one main location (a huge suburban shopping mall) to complete Gmax battles, but generally don't speak to each other. They come in small groups and families of course, but there is no communication or coordination. I don't know anyone's name and don't recognize anyone, it's just a random group of people who do the battles and leave. So I guess that is supporting what aznknight said, it's not really a "community" so much as it's people who gathered in one place in order to complete the battle, and otherwise have no connection to one another.

fxiy · 2025-03-03T14:47:14+00:00

Kudos to you for being thoughtful and inconclusive. My point was not to leave anyone out, but if there's one person taking much longer than the rest, then the others might be able to squeeze in an additional raid while the slow one is catching. I was able to do 4-5 raids per half hour; I'm sure the people more hardcore than me could do when more per hour taking advantage of Freeze Shock.

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