No Shop Token yet, but this is the best I’ve done in a season yet. I started in Chapter 5 Season 2. I’ve been pulling off some super sweaty shenanigans that I’ve never been able to do before. Fingers crossed my Token will come!
@aakashgupta I worked at a haunted house years ago, 2014 if I remember right. There was a guy that had one of these masks. It was super uncanny valley wild how realistic it looked.
@FinneJay@Leonardaisfunny That was my first thought lol
First we had Midas dropping emotes in France, now the son of God and Taco Man are in the lobby.
@zaraeleus I sincerely don’t understand the butthurt. The game has literally not changed aside from the chance you might get something neat. It would be a totally different scenario if they were charging players for an extra battle pass or something just to qualify for the token.
@6thumbs Congrats! My fiancé and I have been grinding since Monday but no such luck yet. We’ve gotten most of the cosmetics though aside from the gold rapper guy.
As for when to use the 2026 token, I’ve heard that the middle of December might be best. They were going off of last year’s.
There's a saying on American social media:
"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."
I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.
So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.
"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)
"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)
"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)
"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)
"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)
"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)
"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)
"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)
"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)
"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)
And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.
"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.
The people running toward it.
There are always so many."
So, America.
You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.
We're not imagining you.
We're remembering you.
@_z4rlet_ In a weird not so linear comparison, this is how I feel when it comes to the base Pokémon games. I started in ‘98 with Gold/Silver. I very much prefer those to the newer ones. I think they put too many bells and whistles into the new games, but that’s just my preference.
@_z4rlet_ Everything ebbs and flows. Give it a couple of years & more people will go back to builds. Either from nostalgia or from new players that are tired of zb. Also, speaking from my own experience, some newer players (I started in Ch5S3) are more inclined to zb because it’s familiar.