SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2018-09-08 01:36:52 +0000 UTC]

That was pretty cool to watch... though (and I hate to say this here) it's sort of odd to see what is essentially a military parade in a Western Democratic country like this go without the media calling the leaders of said country a fascist tyrant with  their hair on fire these days... They're fine when Her Majesty does it, I suppose (and by no means is this to be of any offense to her, this celebration or the UK, BTW). Hard to have a celebration like this in the US right now without being heckled.

About time the UK had something reminiscent of the Raptor. I imagine it'll be quite a bit higher tech than that, if it makes it to operational status in the 2030's, though.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2018-09-23 21:12:42 +0000 UTC]

I presume you're talking specifically about the US media. I can't imagine many in the media here in the UK would dare make such claims as it would at the very least irritate anyone who isn't on the very far-left; too alienating to your potential audience.

I'm only going on my own perceptions here but there seems to be a significant cultural difference between the UK and USA over the military and I think it's to do with how different the two countries experienced WWII. America sometimes gets stereotyped here as being a rather militaristic nation (and to be fair, it is the country with by far the most money spent on its military) but it seems the truth is that there is quite a lot of anti-militarist sentiment there. Over here, our country was subjected to the blitz during WWII; whereas for the USA, Pearl Harbour did get hit, but the country at large wasn't really impacted by the war in quite the same way.

Because it's still within living memory when the UK's sovereignty was last directly threatened and many of our citizen's came under attack, even the more pacifist among us tend to have some level of respect for the military. The last time the USA's sovereignty was truly threatened (from an external power) was arguably two centuries ago, so I think some in the US only see a military as a means to interfere with the outside world. I know a potential nuclear exchange in a World War III threatened pretty much everyone in some way, but that would have been a situation with no chance of any winners and I don't think it has the same kind of impact because of that.

Just some thoughts anyway, I could be pretty wrong about a few things.

The UK's military has gone through a lot of downsizing in the years since the Cold War and seems to now be following a doctrine of a smaller, but more high-tech force, so I can imagine us developing something like the Raptor in the not-too-distant future. Were starting to build up our force of F-35Bs to supplement our Typhoons and the last of our Tornado GR.4s are due to retire next year, leaving just the former two aircraft as our only two true combat jets.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2018-09-25 01:28:43 +0000 UTC]

The US media has been turned into a politically-driven propaganda arm for the far-left. This is not to say the idiots on the far-right are to be spared the scorn, either. But we are definitely in deep trouble over here. Something is seriously fundamentally wrong culturally right now, and it's probably been brewing for a few decades... just look at the circus our latest Supreme Court confirmation hearing has become. Folks can say what they want about their general political objections or approvals of the nominee, but the amount of Machiavellian and Orwellian defamation, slander and extortion that the politicians and pundits are willing to engage in as opposition should scare the absolute hell out of everyone right now. Donald Trump, while often blatantly vulgar and unprofessional is the LEAST of our problems; as I've feared for a while now, there's a much bigger monster hiding just below the surface, and it's beginning to make itself known. People never see the symptoms for the problem that led to them... this could cause a global catastrophe, I think. Sadly, ex-Soviet Russian defectors over 30 years ago warned of this, and it's almost exactly as they've said. We're facing a delayed-effect consequence of the Cold War's Soviet demoralization and subversion scheme right now. (cue the random stranger reading this and calling me out to be a racist right-wing nutjob like Alex Jones or something now... but I digress)

The US is militaristic, in a sense. Though, we also have a directive that requires us to be able to take on the forces of the next two biggest armies at once. Our spending is generally a reflection of that, and it IS expensive. Our problem, is that we've decided in the past few decades that we want to focus heavily social programs, too. While, I'm not exactly against those, we've not quite got the point that as it currently stands, there exists funding for one or the other... not necessarily both at once. There's a balance to be had, but... well, we're anything but balanced right now (see above). It's true, our homeland hasn't been hit like that. And when it gets hit in even the slightest bit, we're like a hornet's nest. The implications of this based on your point are worth thinking about.

And yes, I (and a lot of people over here) really wish we'd stop trying to play World Police. Before WWII, that's the way we were, and I personally wish we'd go back. It seems once we got bullied, and we bullied back... found out we're effectively a better bully and wanted the rest never to forget it. That being said, anymore, blaming the US for being a bully isn't necessarily productive, as the neighborhood is now full of them, and we can't just get weak now that we've done this. Only when the whole world decides to grow up and leave the bullying behind will it stop. I'm not sure I believe in the human race's capacity to do that.

Naah, I think you've got a pretty accurate feel for it.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2018-10-03 08:47:08 +0000 UTC]

This ended up being a bigger wall of text than I initially intended, I hope I didn't drone on:

Here in the UK, US entertainment shows are quite widely available but we only get a glimpse of what gets broadcast by the news networks. I must say it's quite a surprise to me that the bias towards the far-left is as widespread as you say, but I think that's mostly because when I see a clip of it over here there's a disproportionate amount for the right-wing that gets shown. Often it's on a political satire show ridiculing something stupid the US media has said, so as you can imagine more often than not it's a Fox News clip we see (or has Fox News also become left-wing in recent months?). It's even more surprising considering that the US is overall a less liberal country than the UK as well. So, do you think it might be the Democrats manipulating the media to undermine the Republicans or is some other entity responsible?

One good thing about the government-owned BBC here is its commitment to balance and impartiality, most importantly not favouring one political party over another. It's debated as to how well they follow their own guidelines, with some saying that there is bias while others say that they can even be "too neutral" at times, but at least they do have them in place and do their best to follow them. There are also lots of commercial channels here as well as an alternative to the BBC that are free to follow many of their own guidelines. I would say that relatively speaking, there is some level of bias to the left here in comparison to US citizens as a whole, but I think that's a result of this also being the case for the UK populace at large.

Our country was somewhat divided by the Brexit vote but it's nothing in comparison to what's going on in the US. It's almost like there's a war now between the left and right there. It's mostly noticeable online where people's opinions have become more polarised and extreme in general. You see it in opinions about films or games where someone will claim something is the "worst thing ever" despite probably claiming that for five other things this month, while others will rush to be highly defensive against anyone making any form of criticism over something. This black-and-white mentality has now spread to more important areas of discussion such as politics and these people have lost their ability to make objective arguments as a result, not to mention the lack of a sense of humour some can have as well. I think Charlie Brooker said it best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XBcmF…

Probably the thing I hate most about this polarisation is that the left-wing and right-wing extremists are almost feeding off of each other. For example, some who were more moderate left-wing may see a lot of the vocal minority of the far-right and end up moving further towards the extreme-left in a kind of retaliation. You have phrases like "Social Justice Warrior" that when coined was quite a witty way to describe people who take Political Correctness too far. However, because the term "SJW" has been overused to the point of oblivion, with lots of bigots describing anything that involves a female protagonist as SJW-propaganda for example, we've now ended up with a situation that using the term "SJW" makes one look like a bigot to many people, despite the fact that SJWs genuinely exist and are a real problem. The far-right have ironically undermined the arguments of people more towards the moderate and it's exactly the same situation on the left as well.

I don't think much of our current government here either. The Conservatives (the largest right-leaning party) were in majority power from 2015 and did the Brexit Referendum in 2016. The problem with this is that the Referendum was done as nothing more than a way for the Conservatives (who were overall pro-EU) to score points with those who wanted to leave by letting them have their say. In their arrogance, they assumed the vote would go in the Remain Campaign's favour and made little effort to plan for a potential Brexit, despite their claims to the contrary.

We saw this same kind of arrogance in the 2017 elections. In the UK, a term normally lasts for 5 years, so a new one wouldn't need to be held until 2020. However, the Prime Minister called a "snap-election" in 2017 to prove that the people still had confidence in them. During the election campaigns, all they were really saying was that they were the only ones who could deliver Brexit and would provide "strong and stable leadership" and the Prime Minister didn't even bother to turn up to the televised debates. When the polls came in, the Conservatives still had the most votes, but it was no longer a majority and had to go into a coalition with the far-right DUP (whom only agreed after their party was given £1 billion of the budget) in order to have the 50% of seats needed.

Now, the Conservatives seem to be putting more effort into backstabbing each other in the same kind of Machiavellian way that you described than actually running the country. You'd think that this would be an easy opportunity for the Labour Party (the largest left-leaning party) to score points, but they're somehow in an even bigger shambles that I don't trust them to run a country either. Who knows if either of these parties are going to get it together or if other parties are going to take centre-stage during the next election.

I'd hardly say Trump is the least of our problems, he's a pretty big one. He is definitely only the tip of the iceberg though and if he was impeached tomorrow I don't see it solving any problems.

Russia's definitely bad news at the moment. I do very much believe as well that they're doing what they can to manipulate other governments. And more overtly we've seen them do things like the annexation of the Crimea region of the Ukraine. You may have heard of the Salisbury Poisoning that took place earlier this year as well. The Novichok nerve agent was used on our soil by two Russian agents in an attempt to kill a defector and his daughter, there were also three civilian victims, one of whom died.

I've seen Alex Jones before, the guy's pretty unsettling. I do love the way nobody took any crap from him that time he was on the BBC's Sunday Politics though: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch9gQ9…

There's no denying that America's Shock and Awe doctrine is a very effective one when it comes to conventional warfare and even simply when acting as a deterrent too. But how much of it is truly necessary.

I'm sure that if the UK was capable of the same kind of power projection as the US it would be policing the world in the same way (we do it to a small extent as it is) and probably making a lot of the same mistakes. I'm not sure complete isolationism is a good idea either. There have been lots of debates during the Syrian Civil War about how we should intervene. When illegal chemical weapons were used, we launched an attack in response to draw the line against something so despicable. However, there have also been atrocities during the war by the government there without the use of chemical weapons where we have not gotten involved. It raises the question of whether we should be, in effect, allowing this to happen just because the atrocities don't cross a particular line.

I will say that my faith in humanity as a whole has somewhat dipped in the last few years.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2018-10-06 01:46:03 +0000 UTC]

It is true that traditionally, our "Left Wing" was to the "Right" of the conservatives in the U.K., however, that has changed lately. The modern Left in the U.S. (and this is VERY recent...circa 2013-2014, really) has gone authoritarian hard-left... we're talking people who idolize Che Guevara and think Stalin is some kind of hero. They believe it is OK to undermine due process to get their ways and use Machiavellian tactics to grab whatever power they need. More and more of the Left in the U.S. are becoming anti-science (because it violates their politics, sometimes) and pro-segregation (assuming you're familiar with the civil rights movements of the 60's that should underscore the seriousness of this). Academia has been infiltrated by these "Grievance Studies" departments that breed revolutionaries and activists based on Marxist and anti-capitalist ideologies. It's true that Fox News has been a laughing stock traditionally, but at least they don't try to hide their right-wing bias; they wear it on their sleeve, proudly. The Left-wing news media (almost everything else) purports to be unbiased, but it couldn't be more obvious right now that they're worse than Fox was before. It wasn't always quite this way... just an alarming shift over the last decade.

The abuse of the SJW term is actually just a dose of the Left's "Racist, bigot, sexist, homophobic, etc. etc. etc." abuses lobbed right back in their faces. It's really sad, because true notion social justice has been lost on this, and things like racism and bigotry are losing their true meanings by all the wolf-calling with them as well. And you're right about the 'evil begetting evil' between the vocal minority extremes of both sides. Members of the extremes have mastered Social Media and the cable news stations here, and are running amok with their propaganda. However, the Left has been far more successful at this than the Right in the U.S., despite what you might hear people say. From my perspective over here, sometimes even the BBC shows signs of this infection, to be frank. BBC and Thompson Reuters are OK, but only when steering clear of the opinion pieces... likely true in general, actually.

I'm not sure what to say about Brexit from over here. It looks like the E.U. is crumbling from our side of the pond, so there's a lot of us that tend to lean toward believing that it might actually end up being a better thing in the long run... but then again, that's hard to scope that out while embedded in this mess over here. I can't say that feeling isn't misinformed, uninformed or biased.

Trump... is, well, Trump. Can't really stand to listen to him without it making me want to face-palm through my face. But I think you're right about them getting rid of him. He's a symptom of the problem, largely. And so was Hillary, to be blunt. An so are so many other prominent world leaders right now, actually. I have to honestly wonder how we got ourselves into this mess worldwide to begin with. Though, I will say I think the answer lies somewhere around the turn of the century and involves remnant influences from the Cold War. Just a feeling, there, though... can't really validate that yet. The only solution will be for a moderate disruptor to engage the masses of people who are tired of both sides' hyperbole. I've no clue who that could be, though.

The leaders of Russia and China are both taking advantage of the chaos. Between the poisonings, the disappearances of prominent people and the sabre-rattling, I trust neither of them. I'll stop short of blaming them, though. I strongly feel this goes back to the Cold War and the Soviet Bloc.

In the end, my faith in Humanity is something that's taken a hit, too. In the end, Charlie Booker is right; I think it's best to just stand back and try to realize what is dragging us left or right and try to use cool-headedness and rational thought to keep us in the moderate center as much as possible... lest we fail in this and become swallowed by the partisan civil war that is threatening us over here in the U.S. right now.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2018-02-01 02:26:47 +0000 UTC]

Thanks : )

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2018-01-26 16:58:09 +0000 UTC]

Well, I mean, it's actually a very stable design, though I'm not sure it was actually realistic as a hypersonic airframe. This thing is pretty cool.... but needs moar aeon drives XP.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-12-17 03:42:26 +0000 UTC]

Huh... I wonder if we get the release date for AC: 7 on or around that date.

Yeah, I'd love to play online with you like that again sometime... if the opportunity presents itself, of course. Those were good times.

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Xrayleader In reply to Vashti08 [2017-10-31 04:54:06 +0000 UTC]

Hey!, it's Mrs Russian bot again! XD

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SentientAberration In reply to Xrayleader [2017-11-08 23:43:21 +0000 UTC]

I didn't even see this thing here... jeez.

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SentientAberration In reply to Xrayleader [2017-10-16 04:50:20 +0000 UTC]

Eh, okay, I guess. Plate more full than I'd like it, of course. But that's pretty typical these days.

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Xrayleader In reply to SentientAberration [2017-10-16 04:59:03 +0000 UTC]

I know right?, and around the same periods!

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-08-24 19:05:42 +0000 UTC]

Wow, what a load of cringe XD

Yeah, this is a lot better lol. And the trailer page is still acknowledging the version for the computer, so let's hope that stays. I find it funny the public relations folk that show these gameplay demos don't seem to know what's going on with the in-game plot because they aren't familiar with the English dialogue.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-09-28 20:11:41 +0000 UTC]

Yet more footage:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttBlRL…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7BMT4…

Why was it not possible to play Assault Horizon this way!?

The player has full control over the aircraft during these manoeuvres. No one-button activated on-rails sequences. It looks a lot closer to HAWX's Assistance Off but with a different camera.

There's also some more pictures as well:
www.dualshockers.com/ace-comba…

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-10-08 03:15:41 +0000 UTC]

Hmmm... WAY overdue feature and I'm glad to see it. Though, the implementation looks really rushed or fake... You sure that's not one-button or button-combo-triggered? Absolute full-control or an expert-mode control scheme would be vastly appreciated, though I highly expect it to be overly-simplistic to cater to those that are on the casual side or n00bs to the genre, as always. One could hope, still. At this point, I still regard HAWX2 to have the best flight mode (not the assistance-off stuff... merely its feel and flight physics were absolute pure gold).

Let's not forget Aero Elite on the PS2 also... I still have my PS2 almost exclusively to go back and play that, simply because it remains the INLY game to date that I've played that had a realistic touch to it.

IDK... I should stop getting my hopes up, I guess, and just wait until it comes out and judge it then. Just hope the PC release isn't delayed, because I intend to experiment on this extensively in VR, and will be ready for it.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-10-16 00:01:47 +0000 UTC]

Kono has confirmed on multiple occasions that this will not just be a simple button press and nothing like DFM is returning. He's also said something along the lines of precise throttle and control of the stick is needed to do this (will need to see an official English translation to be sure) and unlike combat in general, it is not designed to be made accessible to noobs. Also, just like in real life, these manoeuvres will only be useful in a limited number of combat situations.

I've never played Aero Elite. I'll have to check it out sometime.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-10-16 04:48:59 +0000 UTC]

Clearly, it seems Kono and his team are listening to feedback, at least. I just sincerely hope they can sense which feedback is beneficial to the series, because I'd argue that's possibly how they got into the AC:AH mess to begin with. You know me... I want to see something that requires some skill to do.

If you're looking for another Arcade shooter with overly-maneuverable jets, AE will likely disappoint. I really think the creators of that game did everything they could to properly emulate the legit maneuverability profiles of the aircraft in the game. Albeit, the flight physics are still highly limited by the PS2's processing power and memory. There's no post-stall maneuvers and nothing like a storyline or anything. It plays off of a flight school thing at first and eventually graduates you to a reservist that can scramble to take on threats that threaten the island your base is on. The threats and the procedures they make you do to take them on are extremely realistic. The game is a real learning experience... it'll teach you a LOT about legit dog fighting techniques and piloting a fighter jet from the standpoint of maneuverability and real-world physics.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-08-21 02:28:43 +0000 UTC]

I've moved my lunch to 2PM, won't miss it unless the weather messes it up.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-09-03 20:54:29 +0000 UTC]

Did you get to see this in the end.

There was nothing to see over here due to the heavy cloud cover, though it would only have been a little nibble anyway.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-09-05 04:06:28 +0000 UTC]

I did, but only at 98%. There was still WAY too much light. Wish I could have been in the actual shadow, itself, but that chance will return in seven years, right to my neighborhood I live in now... assuming I'm still living here in seven years (probably not). My pictures were sort of crap, though. It was hard to photograph, even through nearly black lenses.

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SentientAberration In reply to Xrayleader [2017-08-02 18:43:30 +0000 UTC]

Move still in progress, being dragged-out and will likely take most of the month. Part of the problem is that I work for a University's I.T. Department and we're getting VERY busy approaching the beginning of Fall Semester in three weeks. I'm not allowed to take much of any time off to move. Very bad timing, unfortunately.

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Xrayleader In reply to SentientAberration [2017-08-02 18:46:08 +0000 UTC]

Jeez, and i thought we students were under most pressure XD, hope everything goes allright!

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SentientAberration In reply to Xrayleader [2017-08-03 00:13:44 +0000 UTC]

We just went on Summer Break over here, and that's precisely when break for those of us working the I.T. department ends. On top of this... I'm also a student and trying to finish a long-overdue degree... so I get all that pressure on both ends ^_^;

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Xrayleader In reply to SentientAberration [2017-08-03 00:19:14 +0000 UTC]

Jeez, now i wish i could help you with some of the weight sir XD

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SentientAberration In reply to Xrayleader [2017-08-04 03:23:51 +0000 UTC]

Tough times come and go... been through this kind of thing over and over before, will surely survive this time around too. But thanks

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-07-23 02:00:04 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I know lol. The girlfriend's a huge Pokemon Go nut and is was all over that today XD

In other news... Hoooly shit, just as I suspected, I was able to get a non-VR game to work in the Rift. This time it was Vector Thrust, and it worked well beyond expectations. Full-head-tracking and everything--it was wild! It makes gunning-down enemies easier and your turning reflexes crazy good. It looked a lot like the footage in Assault Horizon... except the game wasn't utter shit (outside of the crashes about every five minutes... but that's VT for you)

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-07-27 00:17:34 +0000 UTC]

I don't know how much you heard about the disaster that Pokemon Go Fest became. I wasn't expecting it to go completely smoothly and know unforeseen problems can arise for such events but I'd have thought they'd have done a better job there. They really should've thought to put more antennae down to allow the network to cope and have more things like charging stations available. What really perplexes me though is how it took over 3 hours to get in.

At least they're handling the aftermath of this well. Refunding the attendees as well as compensating them with $100 worth of PokeCoins and making any defeated legendaries have a guaranteed catch around the event for the weekend. It's been great here as well with all the bonuses unlocked (despite not being able to meet the challenge targets due to the system issues) and running for 5 days instead of 2.

I saw an articuno yesterday but only two other people showed up which would not have been nearly enough to take it down so we didn't even try. I'm going into the city tomorrow though so I might have more chance there to get a big group. I've also evolved some new pokemon I had ready and was waiting for an XP event to use including golem, kabutops, dragonite, typhlosion, feraligatr, steelix and houndoom.

Wow, I don't think VT was made with VR in mind so that bodes well for being able to set it up for AC7.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-08-14 20:05:02 +0000 UTC]

It always amazes me how badly these companies understand what it is that they are getting into, despite their confidence in proceeding with them. This is not just a problem with Niantic; Nintendo, the Playstation Store and Xbox Live have all had examples of this (and it's not just limited to those examples, either). I have to wonder if this is simply a case of modern companies being out of touch with the outside world... which is something I've suspected for ages. It's gotten worse as the Internet Age progresses.

I've seen Articuno, Zapdos and Lugia, but I don't bother with them because I can't remotely handle them on my own, and there aren't enough players around to do anything about them.

Well, pre-orders for AC7 are up on their site, and the PC platform is not even mentioned. Not encouraging, so far.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-08-20 22:59:10 +0000 UTC]

The Yokohama event last week went very well, a far cry from Chicago.

There's never a chance of taking down a legendary in my town but things have been good in my local city. I managed to defeat but not capture an articuno and a lugia there and with the lugia we had to split into 2 groups as there were more than 20 people there. I also managed to capture a moltres today as part of a group of 8 so I've finally got one of them.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-08-21 02:30:08 +0000 UTC]

I can barely ever catch the weak ones lol. But it's cool that you managed to finally get to where you were able to nab a Moltres. So far, that's the only one I haven't seen.

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SentientAberration In reply to DR2334 [2017-07-06 16:30:05 +0000 UTC]

I've had a bit of positive inspiration again for once and get a little work on it done here and there. A lot of it has been put on hold at the moment though, because I'm focusing on an apartment move by the beginning of August. More activity should come about then, I think.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-06-26 02:54:34 +0000 UTC]

I was playing it during the fire and ice event. But now that it's over, it's boring again lol.

Level 24 here with nothing good to battle with. Can't even do the raids. They turned my pokestop where I work into a gym and I was sort of pissed... can't farm pokeballs at work from my desk anymore lol

I pretty much suck at this game. I've never gotten any special items, everyone around me is way higher level, and I can't seem to find any pokemon I actually can do anything with.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-06-26 21:42:54 +0000 UTC]

Raids are now open to Level 20 and above so you should be able to participate now.

Gyms double as pokestops now so you can still farm for items there. Select the gym, then press the button in the bottom-right corner to switch to the view above the gym. Spin the photodisc at the top of the gym to get items.

I've only done the lower tier raids so far but I've found those ones a bit too easy. My first one was a Tier 2 Raid, an 11,200CP muk. It recommended a 9-trainer party but it was just me and a member from another team (both Lv31). We took it out without too much difficulty, both of us only losing 1 of our 6 pokemon each. The next one was a Tier 1 Raid, a 4,375CP bayleef. A 5-trainer party was recommended but my flareon was able to take it by itself and only lost about 60% of its HP.

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-06-26 22:30:18 +0000 UTC]

Just saw the pokestop on the Gym and thought that was awesome lol. Still getting the Lv.24 restriction on participation, though.

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DustyMIG In reply to SentientAberration [2017-07-02 09:15:47 +0000 UTC]

I saw this not too long ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2yBcH…

I know many people aren't interested in using the AR, but as someone who does I thought this was really cool and hope to see it added in eventually (though preferably after the combat system has been improved).

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SentientAberration In reply to DustyMIG [2017-07-03 15:16:41 +0000 UTC]

The sad thing is that the AR is not as practical for a game application as-is as it needs to be for that. It's currently just sort of a gimmick with no real added value or functionality. What we'd need to make this really work is a true AR system consisting of something like a Microsoft Holo Lens or Google Glass, except sadly, the former is looking prohibitively expensive and M$ is dragging their feet on it, and the latter was released before it was practical and tanked. AR is out there, but it keeps missing the bus that its opportunities are riding on and can't seem to get where it needs to be at the right times in the market... the technology might die if the two pieces that make it great (specialized hardware and software) never meet at the right place at the right time. This happened with autostereoscopic 3D around 2011 and it's dying now. It could happen to VR too, but that one has a better chance of survival, I think.

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