RedLanternTNG

Canadian. Pokémon Go player. Blocked by 2 racist party leaders for calling them out on it (Bernier and Blanchet). No more patience for anti-vax/mask idiots.

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My politest thoughts on protests in general and the #TruckersConvoy2022 #TruckersForFreedom in particular; a🧵

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#cdnpoli #mbpoli I will never understand, no matter what the cause is, why people think they can gain sympathy by pissing people off who are just trying to go about their day. Took me twice as long as normal to get home from work today to see my daughter….

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@PokemonGoApp Are you going to compensate me for the two remote raid passes I lost due to glitches during Eternatus battles or nah?

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@NianticHelp I lost two remote raid passes because of glitches during Eternatus battles. Please fix it.

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@PokemonGoApp I lost two remote raid passes due to glitches with max battles. In-game “support” does nothing. Fix it!

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In the first, the battle ended before all Pokémon had fainted. In the second, the max move buttons didn’t show up for the first two max phases, so I couldn’t do a guard or heal. Fix it. #hearusniantic

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In the first, the battle ended before all Pokémon had fainted. In the second, the max move buttons didn’t show up for the first two max phases, so I couldn’t do a guard or heal. Fix it. #hearusniantic

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@NianticHelp @PokemonGoApp My healthy ferrothorn was against a lanturn. All I needed to do was get rid of a shield and get to a power whip, when this happened. I had to quit the app and take a loss, when I had won the game. Why is there no way to have this not count against me?

[FleeceKing @ItsFleeceKing]

I remember how excited everyone was when remote raids were first introduced in Pokémon Go. It brought us all together from all places around the world, despite our real life limitations. People in rural areas, people with disabilities preventing them for being outside for long periods of time, people who live in unsafe areas, people with no in person community’s were finally able to feel a sense of belonging in our online community and make friends.

Discord groups were created for organising remote raids, Facebook groups and chats, Telegram groups, and years later, some of us have been lucky enough to meet all of the friends we were able to make online through the remote raiding system. I can say wholeheartedly there are people I consider genuine friends that I wouldn’t even know if it wasn’t for remote raids. With life in general, lots of connections that start online eventually become in person connections because of the online foundation and it’s honestly incredible. It’s no different to the connections we make online through remote raiding, lots become genuine friendship for years to come.

Yes, remote raiding was created as a temporary means to help people play from home during the pandemic. Yes, remote raiding goes against the ‘get out and go’ mindset from Niantic, but not everyone can get out and go. As time has gone on it’s proven how much we NEED remote raids to stay for good. Even if you didn’t do many remote raids a day and the recent remote raid changes don’t effect you much, please be mature enough and sensitive enough to understand this was the ONLY way some people could play the game, and feel a sense of community which every person has a right to feel and know.

The people who live in big cities like me, who are fortunate enough to raid in person and have big communities, that’s fantastic but as we know, not everyone is fortunate enough to have those circumstances.

Remove the limits to remote raids and lower the prices. There is such a concept as bringing people together without it being in person. The online and global Pokemon Go community is the majority, not the minority and that’s the truth.

- Fleece

#PokemonGO #HearUsNiantic

[RedLanternTNG @RedLanternTNG]

@animefanatic781 You got a drilbur???? That’s better than what I usually got.

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@PokemonGoApp I’d love to help out, but I’m too busy playing games that are run by companies that don’t actively try to make the UX worse.

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@NianticHelp @NianticLabs @PokemonGoApp - look at what I got while playing a @JamCityHQ game. This is what it looks like when a company cares about its product and their customers. It’s not hard. #HearUsNiantic

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@starrydays17 @NianticHelp 2019 would be a good middle ground, I think. Often enough spawns to be useful if I can’t get out for a community day, but still having the possibility of increasing the spawns with movement that might encourage people to walk more. But yes, 2020 incense was the best.

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@Rioluwu_ @ItsFleeceKing No, I stopped playing when my community was killed by the remote raid pass price increase.

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@PierrePoilievre And you’re out of truth.

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@NianticLabs So this is what you’re doing instead of acknowledging #HearUsNiantic

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@ItsFleeceKing They need to listen to their community and make changes that engage a wider range of players. The pandemic forced them to make the game more accessible, so they should be keeping it that way. They also need to actually try for good events - like, Pidgey day? Really?

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@NianticLabs @MH_Now_EN What, you want another community you can ignore? #HearUsNiantic

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@elonmusk @itsALLrisky @TitterDaily @CBC It’s not propaganda, because there are actually rules in Canada that people respect. Except for @PierrePoilievre, who just wants to create a culture war.

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@PierrePoilievre It’s publicly funded, asshole. There’s a difference. Harper couldn’t control the CBC any more than Trudeau can. Difference is, Harper tried.

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@thetrainerclubb You’d think a company that’s posting profits like Niantic has been would be able to afford to hire enough people to work on both. But no, that would require doing more than the bare minimum.