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Untrustable
Mar 17, 2009





But the little pop-up said don't trespass. I sent off a request to have it removed.

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ephphatha
Dec 18, 2009




seiferguy posted:

Gift giving is probably my favorite thing now. My girlfriend and I try to top who can send better gifts to each other based on wordplay.

My opinion of someone goes slightly down when they send me a Starbucks/Sprint gift, especially now since you can toss specific gifts.

I love getting sponsored stop gifts, we don't have any around here and it's hilarious to me to get a postcard with just a giant logo on it.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Untrustable posted:

So will the Eevees be tied to research or just spawn everywhere? I've never done a community day but if they just spawn everywhere I'm gonna wander downtown and set up lures on 3 overlapping pokestops.

if they're like previous community days, they'll spawn everywhere and you will have research tasks to catch X eevees which may reward you with more of them

so both, but mostly spawns

Mustached Demon
Nov 12, 2016

Sunglasses Eevee?

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
Only if they retroactively fix squirtle first

Modus Pwnens
Dec 29, 2004

Untrustable posted:

But the little pop-up said don't trespass. I sent off a request to have it removed.

No one likes a snitch

Kowak
Jan 1, 2007

Untrustable posted:

So will the Eevees be tied to research or just spawn everywhere? I've never done a community day but if they just spawn everywhere I'm gonna wander downtown and set up lures on 3 overlapping pokestops.

Since the Pokémon Go community loves to go crazy over rumors, feel free to spread this around to freak people out when it doesn't happen: I'm thinking they're going to have the research tasks be tied to the evolutions somehow.

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Untrustable posted:

So will the Eevees be tied to research or just spawn everywhere? I've never done a community day but if they just spawn everywhere I'm gonna wander downtown and set up lures on 3 overlapping pokestops.

Edit: Also there's a pokestop in town that can't be used because it's a loving water tower surrounded by a chain link fence that you can only get to through a locked gate. Is there a way to report that? Because it's unusable.

Get a selfie-stick and a foot-long hotdog.

Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...
Did anyone ever figure out if, since Niantic extended the evolve time to Monday to get Last Resort, we would have a huge window open to receive Last Resort at the start of Sunday's community day event until 1pm PST Monday?

I assume the windows for us to get Last Resort are going to be 11am-2pm PST Saturday, and then 11am PST Sunday-1pm PST Monday. Wish they'd specify because a lot of locals are nervous about evolving an Eevee they want after 2pm on Sunday when community day normally ends. I guess the Sunday community day just means all the extra Eevee spawns only go from 11am-2pm as usual and they'll turn them off but leave the Last Resort carry-over from evolve eligible to 1pm Monday mainly as a chance for people to walk 10km if they wanted it on an Espeon/Umbreon.

Some people said Last Resort is alright on an Espeon and Flareon if you wanted like a neutral all-rounder attacker, but who doesn't have good type advantage members to switch to unless you're like early level 20s and lower?

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009
Is being able to throw gifts away in any way useful? Just give them away. Why is this added to the game?

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe

Untrustable posted:

So will the Eevees be tied to research or just spawn everywhere? I've never done a community day but if they just spawn everywhere I'm gonna wander downtown and set up lures on 3 overlapping pokestops.

Edit: Also there's a pokestop in town that can't be used because it's a loving water tower surrounded by a chain link fence that you can only get to through a locked gate. Is there a way to report that? Because it's unusable.

Those were Guardian Portals in Ingress, submitted by players specifically to be inaccessible to others. I made a bunch of them back in the day in power plants, electrical stations, etc.

:spergin:

edit: is there usually a sale in the store on community days?

FistEnergy fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Aug 10, 2018

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Robokomodo posted:

Is being able to throw gifts away in any way useful? Just give them away. Why is this added to the game?

In theory if you're an active player who somehow only adds IRL friends then you will get more than you can send.
(I have 67 friends and I somehow seem to spin more than I can send as it is.)

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

~Coxy posted:

In theory if you're an active player who somehow only adds IRL friends then you will get more than you can send.
(I have 67 friends and I somehow seem to spin more than I can send as it is.)

But I’ve read that they don’t count towards baggage space. They don’t affect anything.

Sjonkel
Jan 31, 2012
I'm a little confused about this community day. As far as I've understood, I should walk an eevee to 10 km before monday and evolve it during the day for a Espeon, otherwise just evolve some before Monday and hope for a Flareon?

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

Sjonkel posted:

I'm a little confused about this community day. As far as I've understood, I should walk an eevee to 10 km before monday and evolve it during the day for a Espeon, otherwise just evolve some before Monday and hope for a Flareon?

You can do that any day. But if you want a shiny with the special move, then yes. Evolving anything during community day just affects the special move.

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

Beastyfella posted:

I think I just spotted a local goon... Although there are probably multiple 9/11 memorials...

I’m sure there plenty of steel beams, completely unmelted by jet fuel, in community parks all across this great nation of ours.

Mine is in Chesapeake, Virginia though.

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

Robokomodo posted:

Is being able to throw gifts away in any way useful? Just give them away. Why is this added to the game?

so I can send people a gifts ffrom cool stuff like the pissing man statue instead of some lovely plaque.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

Psion posted:

did you get 50 coins earlier that day from something else

No I don't believe I did. I'll keep an eye out today since I don't have anyone in a gym right now.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

FistEnergy posted:

I've sludged hundreds of trash Mons this week and no Ditto. I'm assuming the Zigazoon and Rattata that fled Great Balls today were both Dittos and now I want to die

Join your local city/metro area raid Discord. People regularly call out where Dittos are in mine. This goes for anything, whether it's looking for Snubbull or Spinda pokestops, Larvitar/Dratini/other rate spawns, or basically anything rare is regularly tracked by my Discord group.

CROWS EVERYWHERE
Dec 17, 2012

CAW CAW CAW

Dinosaur Gum

Robokomodo posted:

Is being able to throw gifts away in any way useful? Just give them away. Why is this added to the game?

Some people don't like giving everyone over and over the same gift from the signal box in front of their home, or the Starbucks they've been sitting in for the last two hours, etc, or just boring stops like bus stations. They prefer to send gifts from interesting landmarks (or at the very least not a Starbucks). Likewise some people consider it insulting or otherwise not worth it to get a Starbucks gift and will not open it if they have another they can open. With 20 gifts available to be opened per day and hundreds of goons available to friend in the spreadsheet alone, choosing to send interesting gifts can be beneficial to getting friendship levels up as well as being considered polite.

Mykroft
Aug 25, 2005




Dinosaur Gum

DizzyBum posted:

EX passes went out a few hours ago. We triggered one and it's on a Saturday, so yay! :woop:

Yeah, I got my first one and.... I’m out of town that weekend, I hadn’t realized they would be scheduled for a week+ out. Trying to coordinate with a friend to see if they can do the raid for me.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Some people don't like giving everyone over and over the same gift from the signal box in front of their home, or the Starbucks they've been sitting in for the last two hours, etc, or just boring stops like bus stations. They prefer to send gifts from interesting landmarks (or at the very least not a Starbucks). Likewise some people consider it insulting or otherwise not worth it to get a Starbucks gift and will not open it if they have another they can open. With 20 gifts available to be opened per day and hundreds of goons available to friend in the spreadsheet alone, choosing to send interesting gifts can be beneficial to getting friendship levels up as well as being considered polite.

That’s absurd.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Like who doesn't jump spam open box and click through as fast as possible because it's all a waste of time?

Also semi-related trading has a cooldown timer associated with it, really fun having to wait one extra second before starting another trade for no reason, thanks Niantic.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.

Robokomodo posted:

That’s absurd.

A gym near my house is a memorial to a murdered 8 year old girl. It's in a park so it's a really good location to raid at but it's close enough to the road that you can spin the stop as you're passing. I wouldn't ever want the gym removed but I don't really like sending postcards from it.

oddium
Feb 21, 2006

end of the 4.5 tatami age

all of my gifts are like tombstones and monuments from the graveyard packed with pokestop a and i like to send them as memento mori

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


If I haven't opened a gift from any of you in a couple days, rest assured I'm getting to it. I always open from oldest to newest.

CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:

Some people don't like giving everyone over and over the same gift from the signal box in front of their home, or the Starbucks they've been sitting in for the last two hours, etc, or just boring stops like bus stations. They prefer to send gifts from interesting landmarks (or at the very least not a Starbucks). Likewise some people consider it insulting or otherwise not worth it to get a Starbucks gift and will not open it if they have another they can open. With 20 gifts available to be opened per day and hundreds of goons available to friend in the spreadsheet alone, choosing to send interesting gifts can be beneficial to getting friendship levels up as well as being considered polite.

This sounds stupid. I prefer to be showered in gifts and I don't care if they're all purple frappuccinos.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



my favorite local pokestop is called "stanky water fountain" or something to that effect. it's on the other side of town so i really only see it on special raid days (ie zapdos, articuno, and the upcoming moltres days), which bums me out 'cause i'd love to inundate all the goons on my friends list with stanky water.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
There's a "lady parts sculpture" stop not far away from my girlfriend's place which is a top tier gift.

When I go traveling I like to rack up the Seattle Seahawks 12th man club gifts at the airport to send to my TFF brethren to keep up the image that the 12th man are indeed insufferable assholes.

Beastyfella
Mar 5, 2008

I have lost all powers of reading comprehension and counting ability hours ago

Ballz posted:

I’m sure there plenty of steel beams, completely unmelted by jet fuel, in community parks all across this great nation of ours.

Mine is in Chesapeake, Virginia though.

Well, apparently twisted metal sculptures are more common than I thought. Ours is in Arizona, right next to the playground.

Psychobabble!
Jun 22, 2010

Observing this filth unsettles me

Willsun posted:

Did anyone ever figure out if, since Niantic extended the evolve time to Monday to get Last Resort, we would have a huge window open to receive Last Resort at the start of Sunday's community day event until 1pm PST Monday?

I assume the windows for us to get Last Resort are going to be 11am-2pm PST Saturday, and then 11am PST Sunday-1pm PST Monday. Wish they'd specify because a lot of locals are nervous about evolving an Eevee they want after 2pm on Sunday when community day normally ends. I guess the Sunday community day just means all the extra Eevee spawns only go from 11am-2pm as usual and they'll turn them off but leave the Last Resort carry-over from evolve eligible to 1pm Monday mainly as a chance for people to walk 10km if they wanted it on an Espeon/Umbreon.

Some people said Last Resort is alright on an Espeon and Flareon if you wanted like a neutral all-rounder attacker, but who doesn't have good type advantage members to switch to unless you're like early level 20s and lower?

Niantic has said that the evolution window for the special move is for the start of community day Saturday until Monday 1pm. So from Sat 2pm-1pm Monday.

Yes, "some people" (the silph road) have said that it'll make Espeon and flareon top tier attackers. I'm planning on evolving some because I'm swimming in tm's.

Edit: it was put into the master file and oof. It doesn't look good. Last resort is canceled

Psychobabble! fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Aug 11, 2018

JUST MAKING CHILI
Feb 14, 2008
I'm a fan of the UK goon that keeps sending me "GIANT BEE".

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


Stuffed Grizzly Bears for the lot of you!

Captain Duvel
Dec 14, 2009

Kharmakazy posted:

I got you fam. I routinely send out gifts to brown faced avatars from confederate statues. Not on purpose... it's just all we have here for pokestops.

Haha holy poo poo are we friends. I was just driving my route in SC and I sent out a Confederate staute gift and was thinking what if I sent these to all the dark skinned avatars as a joke

Teeter
Jul 21, 2005

Hey guys! I'm having a good time, what about you?

Untrustable posted:

So will the Eevees be tied to research or just spawn everywhere? I've never done a community day but if they just spawn everywhere I'm gonna wander downtown and set up lures on 3 overlapping pokestops.

Edit: Also there's a pokestop in town that can't be used because it's a loving water tower surrounded by a chain link fence that you can only get to through a locked gate. Is there a way to report that? Because it's unusable.

They spawn everywhere. Places with higher spawn density such as your triple pokestop downtown area are perfect and will have a steady stream of Eevee during the three hours.

The most recent Squirtle community day also tied spawns in with research rewards by rewarding the special sunglasses squirtle and a higher shiny chance. Prior to that, Larvitar and Charmander CD had special themed tasks but I believe the rewards were mostly just items like ultra balls.

omnibobb
Dec 3, 2005
Title text'd
Is the BiggaFigga in here?

My son opens all my gifts in the morning on the way to school and every time he gets to you he drops his voice real low and says your name and its cute every time.

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
My city has two dick-themed stops and one breast sculpture. I try to grab those whenever I'm near! Unfortunately many fun stops and gyms have been renamed to more sensible and boring things.

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

I have a full friend list, so I rage open the 20 I can and send every gift I spin up.

I know there's lots of goons with gifts in limbo in my list, I'm getting to you!

I just can't always get out to the places I want, so the sprint store right next to physical therapy is fueling gifts as much as I can. ENJOY YOUR SHINY DEALS GIFT

Teeter
Jul 21, 2005

Hey guys! I'm having a good time, what about you?

Hot tip: If you select a gift to send/receive, mash the X button immediately after clicking "Open" or "Send" and it will back out to the friend menu but still process the action. It skips the animation for the gift opening or postcard being sent, but you can always check the journal afterwards for a recap of what you've received. You can save dozens of seconds by powering through your friend's gifts this way.

Teeter fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Aug 10, 2018

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

seiferguy posted:

There's a "lady parts sculpture" stop not far away from my girlfriend's place which is a top tier gift.

When I go traveling I like to rack up the Seattle Seahawks 12th man club gifts at the airport to send to my TFF brethren to keep up the image that the 12th man are indeed insufferable assholes.

I look forward to seeing this gift in the future.

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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

There are some good pokestop names near me but I usually try and save ‘Lubricating Oils and Greases’ for my girlfriend.

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