Weekend Free-for-All & Link Bonanza

[inkstone]

Hello, trainers!

Normally, this is where I present a list of links for you to read: about the game, about its impact in the real world, about people's reactions to it. Alas, I live in the U.S. and like many people from marginalized backgrounds who live here, I am dismayed by recent events. To put it mildly.

So. There are no links from me this week. I'll try my best to get it together by next week. This weekend, though, I open the floor to you! What are some interesting stories you've stumbled across the past few days? Uplifting and positive stories are especially welcome. I think many of us from the U.S. would appreciate seeing some light in the world.

Other than that, how was in your week in PokeGo?

Comments

[healingmirth]

Yeah, I wouldn't say I've been playing more than usual this week, but I've definitely been taking advantage of the game as a reason to be outside in the sun and nominally around people (and especially people walking their puppies, etc.) without having to actually make my brain work to engage when I'm not up to it.

I hatched a perfect psyduck yesterday? Perhaps she/he/it will be our salvation!

[tyger]

I'm on day two of dailies! I'm going to do my best to walk down to the pokéstop and back every day - it's still at the 'complete wipeout' stage, but I can do it! So I will do my best. Catching pokémon kind of depends on me doing that, too, since I have a chronic lack of pokéballs at the moment. (I think I saved *one* from today's spin, but mostly they get used up on the walk there and back, hahaha.)

There's been a few machop in the same area near the pokéstop the last two days, which I think is new - I haven't seen them around this area before. I also caught my first ever rhyhorn! And a couple of top-feedback-level ekans! Dunno if they're 100% or not, but they both got the 80+% line from the appraisal, so that's pretty great. :3 (I now have *three* 80+% ekans, I already had one. Still don't have enough candy to evolve any, though! *shakes head*)

[brightknightie]

It feels slightly disrespectful of me that I've even played since Tuesday. But while I don't want to normalize what just happened here in the US, I can't be frightened and sad all the time ...

... and I did have 4 charming, rare-to-me egg hatches, all over 82% IVs: Tangela, Hitmonchan, Charmander, Squirtle.

I've long been wanting a hitmonchan with good moves, and a charmander with good IVs.


♥ everybody

[ephemera]

It's been a royal bitch of a week, on a personal as well as the public front, so I've mostly been appreciating Pokemon's distractive powers, and the part where I can still play even when I can't concentrate well enough to make sense of fiction.

I hit level 29! And caught my first Snorlax (a rubbish 500cp one, but still!) and a Kabuto, so that's two new critters for the pokedex, while the bonus event wider variety of spawns seems to have broken my no-Eevees-in-my-city run.

I'm hoping to get the 7-day streak tomorrow (assuming the part where the game froze in the middle of my first catch of the day today didn't mess things up) and am appreciating the extra stardust.

[yuuago]

One of the things that helps me most when I'm upset and contemplative is to get outside. So... PokeGo has been helpful, needless to say.

I walked almost 15km today. x_x Mayyybe overdid it... a little....

But I hatched a bunch of pokemon, including a perfect Charmander, so, y'know. Worth it. :D