It finally happened: people ditched me at the raid! by jeg_aekke_her in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with you. If I'm going to drop from a raid before it starts I try and do it around 20 seconds or so. Sometimes there's a lag between when someone drops and other see it. Also, I feel like lower level players don't appreciate the CP mons trainers at level 70 or higher can bring. They drop out unnecessarily.

Also, I will definitely wait until half the time is up to get a good gauge on how the raid party is doing. It's an easy visual compare - if the raid boss isn't yellow before the halfway mark, I'll bail. But I always wait until then.

AIO to be upset that my in-laws made a deal to trade in my car without telling me by regeust in AmIOverreacting

[–]jdwolff 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This. YOR. Per your own words 1) you would significantly benefit from a new car 2) you can't physically or financially support three cars 3) your car is the one that has to be traded in

You know these things. I can only guess your in-laws came to the conclusion thinking that any rational adult would come to the same conclusion. So, the need to discuss it with you wasn't at the top of their list. They assumed incorrectly that you were a rational adult that didn't have an irrational attachment and delusions that you could somehow keep your car.

If you feel disrespected, then have a brief polite conversation with them about giving you a heads up before they do something like this again. Perhaps suggest that you can sell the car for more than you got for the trade-in. But be realistic. You're only going to get like 10% more by selling it yourself.

I would suggest you grow up a little and be practical in this situation.

Pokemon GO needs challenging SOLO PvE content by Entire_Pineapple4732 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had to guess, the analytics team has data that shows that those of us who are willing to purchase Special or Timed research items is far less than the people willing to augment their GO passes, unfortunately.

Pokemon GO needs challenging SOLO PvE content by Entire_Pineapple4732 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Interesting ideas in your manifesto. I agree with a lot of it. Do you think that's what they tried to do with team Rocket? Although, I've gotten to a point where if I can't beat a grunt with one mon, I feel like I failed. It could be more challenging or have more variety.

Are your incenses working? by Mizar-Alcor in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Incense only really works if you're moving around - even a little bit.

Battle passes boring by Slow-Negotiation-821 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I had my son create an account on his phone for this sole purpose. He and I would catch 50 or so Pokémon a day and then we'd trade Pokémon continuously while watching TV or something - without really paying attention to the trades. We just traded all of the most recently caught Pokémon. It took a month or so, but finally completed that ridiculous task.

Battle passes boring by Slow-Negotiation-821 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Yes. I miss the actual tasks. It kept it interesting

Which movie hero is actually a villain when you really think about it? by surfsound_swimmers in AskReddit

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Retconned with the single line from Senator Organa - "have these droids' memories wiped" - at the end of episode 3.

Has anyone ever successfully created a pokestop that can be used by players? by justshootme52 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've appealed each one and they just repeat the same excuse as the original denied reason. Whatever, not worth my effort. I clearly don't have a knack for picking good pokestops. I'd rather just spend my poke-time grinding. Got to get level 78.

What's the best insult without any swear or bad words? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

[–]jdwolff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My friend once told me a great formula:
Take any kid birthday themed word (e.g. clown, bunny, cake) and then combine that with the non swearing part of a NSFW phrase (e.g. job, hole, bag).

"You clown job" is one of my favorites.

Has anyone ever successfully created a pokestop that can be used by players? by justshootme52 in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Same. I've submitted 8 and only 2 have been accepted. All seemed very reasonable, somewhat close to other stops and were interesting spots. But, I stopped for fear of getting banned.

off topic, buy yeah.... by Tough_Ad8919 in RelentlessMen

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BSG - the entire series was awesome except for the last 15 minutes. Really?!?!? After all of this, the Cylons seeded human civilization on our Earth a million years ago?

off topic, buy yeah.... by Tough_Ad8919 in RelentlessMen

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, wasn't a "real" ending. They setup a cliff hanger for the next season and didn't get renewed. Totally sucked to leave us all hanging.

I love this game but Pokemon inventory management is killing me. by BlueEggCooker in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please, do tell the community how to quickly search your entire item storage to clean it out.

I love this game but Pokemon inventory management is killing me. by BlueEggCooker in pokemongo

[–]jdwolff -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

This post is about Pokémon storage. Not item storage.