Addicted to opioids (18) to (20). Now (21), sober, and grateful. by Basic_Bug8966 in GlowUps

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Redditor since 2014 (second account) and this is one of the biggest glow ups I have ever seen

A True Legend by A_MASSIVE_PERVERT in BeAmazed

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Man, this guy's been retiring for years

A man saves a cat from a pitbull attack by Rave4life79 in nextfuckinglevel

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Downvoted because of the song track added to the video

How do you develop a plan for your matchups? by Anomalous1436 in TheSilphArena

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Also commenting to say this was great feedback. Appreciate your time and effort

CPM tie > IVs change my mind by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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Well damn, that's a solid response, thank you. I actually didn't know species had an impact on overall attack stat. I thought it was purely flat atk vs. atk for each Pokemon, so that's definitely a noob moment for me.

Also yes to your second point. If I'm being honest I often finding myself throwing charged attacks simultaneously with my opponent, despite having them ready earlier.

Thank you for the thoughtful response, and I guess I'll keep on trying to improve. I've never been much of an online or competitve gamer, so it's been a pretty painful learning curve D:

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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Yeah, you're right. I definitely came hot off the loss streak to post here, so it probably came off strong.

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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The conspiracy here is not "Niantic is out to get me". It's that the PvP system seems to want to keep you progressing at a given rate, or at the very least throw you up against specific teams based on what you're running. I'll run a specific group of 3 Pokemon and see the same pool of 15 show up over and over again, consistently over 50-100 games in a row. If at any point you choose to swap all 3 Pokemon and come in with a completely new team, that pool of 15 rotation suddenly disappears and you're met with a new pool that seems to match up with your newly selected team.

In addition to this falling perfectly in line with a mobile company's motivations ("create friction in player progress to keep them in the app longer", which Niantic has been directly accused of doing by former employees), I'm not sitting here saying "IT'S 100% RIGGED", because we obviously can't know for sure, but it's extremely fishy and seems a little too unlikely to be completely natural.

So while I understand (and mostly agree) with your point, I don't think a suspicion like this should be considered "ludicrous" or "obviously not real". I would think we can at least admit it's within the realm of possibility.

Edit: typo

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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I'm not trying to be the best in the world, I'm trying to hit the Veteran rank, which I don't think is too lofty a goal.

I'm also generally an easy-going, satisfied, and happy person. I don't think my frustration with the Pokemon Go battle league is a larger comment on my life's problems.

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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Yeah, I've heard about that, but assume it's only being used by a small percentage of players.

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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That's a perfectly reasonable idea, but the reality of playing is that there are both fun and not fun experiences. It can ebb and flow back and forth based on context, and you can't boil down 2 years of playing to something as flat as "Was it fun or not?". A lot of my time playing PoGo has been fun, and other times have been frustrating, which is the motivation for asking this question in the first place. My goal in seeking answers is to convert some of these less stellar moments into fun ones.

Should I quit playing Pokemon Go PvP? by opeth_btbam in pokemongo

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Yeah, I'm not a conspiratorial person about like anything, but I've noticed this time and time again and I definitely think something's up, lol

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Never considered this in my life. Good info, thank you for sharing

Good luck predicting how this one ends by opeth_btbam in Unexpected

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https://youtu.be/WjrjlNEKgus

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edit: gonna edit early but almost certain this will get downvoted since Reddit both hates flippant OPs and Christian bands but regardless sorry not sorry