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9:03 AM
quick and probably very simple question for the room experts that doesn't seem fit for the main site. Can anyone confirm that to buy Japanese-only games on the PSN Store the only way is still to have a Japan PSN account and as such there is still no way to have any form of English interface, right?
 
@GodEmperorDune According to everyone's favorite unreliable source of knowledge Wikipedia, he was theorized to have Marfan, but they haven't tested his DNA so far and he doesn't show other important symptoms like heart concerns or sight issues.
However, it is possible he had a Marfanoid syndrome like MEN2B (multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B), a form of cancer
 
Or he was just tall and lanky
(which is a bit redundant, true)
 
@KevinvanderVelden that's half my commute indeed!
I remember when my commute to university was like 10 minutes, it still felt like too darn much.
COMMUTING IS A STATE OF MIND.
@Derpy this should be a good fit for the main site
go forth, and ask
 
9:29 AM
My commute is 20 minutes if I can get a ride, 1h30 if I have to take the bus
 
@badp At least now commuting (above ground) == Pokémans
 
Because I have to first walk 15 minutes to the bus stop, then wait another 15 minutes at my layover location
 
@fredley eh
 
@badp It is? Wouldn't this fit in the "Question valid only at a specific point in time" rule?
 
aren't you supposed to be walking?
@Derpy I don't really see that
 
9:31 AM
@Nzall About an hour with public transport for me
 
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Q: Can't log back into account

VivianeYesterday I accidentally logged out of my Pokemon Go account and logically was sent to the page to create or login into an account but no matter how many times I try it always says my password is wrong (when I know it is not). I tried going to the "forgot user name" and "forgot password" pages an...

 
But I have a car soooo
 
This is the reason why my commute takes so long
When I can get a ride, I can just keep going on the N1
 
Yeaah, go public transport
One of the reasons I left my previous job
 
but Belgium has a bus system where there is only 1, maybe 2 major bus lines between cities
and I end up living in 1 city and having to work in the next
and the only bus between Antwerp and Mechelen is the 500
so I have to get on that one somehow
which means a 10 minute detour just to get to that bus, plus another 15 minutes waiting for the other bus to arrive
 
9:36 AM
@badp Commuting is Pokémen time
 
@fredley pls
if you can do anything during your commute, it is sleep
if you can't sleep during your commute, it's just dead time
 
@badp I can't even do that, because I have to pay attention where to get off
 
@Nzall citymapper will give you a notification when it's almost your stop
 
@GodEmperorDune see, pugs are terrible dogs
 
@badp even if the bus is late?
 
9:37 AM
@Nzall it's based on GPS
 
I see
 
And with pokemon go running you're already using the gps so
 
you might even find an app that gives you geofenced notifications, who knows
 
Can I even catch pokemon on the bus?
I mean, it travels much faster than walking
 
You can
Once you start the capture thing it doesn't stop unless you run or capture it
 
9:39 AM
btw, does anyone have a link to that ingress map that shows the location of pokestops?
 
9:51 AM
@badp No sleep, only Pokémens
 
@badp reading is also valid
 
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Q: How do the Attack and Defense stats work in Pokémon GO?

dragonfireFrom looking at the game's data file, it appears that each pokémon has 3 hidden stats: stamina, attack, defense. I've figured out what stamina does from reading this page on a wiki site. Stamina determines a pokémon's HP. However, I still don't understand what attack and defense do. Pokémon have...

 
i feel like there should be a stop on all "Why won't my phone play Pokemon Go" questions
 
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Q: What happens with excess items if my bag is full, and what should I do to avoid losing items?

MoritzLostThere's a default limit of 350 items to the bag (even though you can expand it through the shop). I am currently level 6 and have already ~250 items in my bag. I haven't done battle yet, as all the gyms in my area are too strong for my pokemon at the moment. So I have a lot of Pokeballs, Heals an...

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Q: why my phone not supporting Pokémon go?

Aditya GoswamiI am using micromax spark which is running on 1 GB RAM and Android lollipop 5.0 I downloaded the game from apk mirror When I run it ,it display the niantic logo and suddenly my phone get restarted Everytime Please answer any fix of this problem I will be very thankful

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Q: I cannot take leave from my clan

AVENGERI am mithu. and My village name is Avenger #89Y8G2RV. I entered in an Indonesian clan. The clan name is KLATE CREW. I am not permanent member of this clan. Now I want to leave the clan. But when I click my clan there is nothing to show. That's why I can't leave the clan.

 
holy fuck my throat hurts
and the doctor's office is closed today
perfect
 
@GnomeSlice you go to doctor for that?
 
@GnomeSlice Get the spray anaesthetic stuff
 
10:37 AM
get yourself a lemsip from somewhere
 
@Chippies it's been getting worse for the past 3 days
 
lemsip also good
 
plus I need to go to the doctor for another thing anyway
and this might be related
 
@GnomeSlice Throat infections are awful. I had one where I couldn't speak for a week.
Second worst pain ever
 
@GnomeSlice that's how it usually works, it's quite shitty
 
10:38 AM
yeah well, it might be like an sti or something
 
@GnomeSlice It's not.
 
those honey candy suckers are somewhat helpful
it gets worse and then it gets better
wtf bridge, sending my messages in wrong order
 
@Chippies Dissolvable cocodamol is good too if it's legal where you are
 
i keep getting like fluid in my throat too
 
(it's made with codeine, which is illegal in some places)
 
10:40 AM
@BelgiumPeople @Arperum @Nzall, wtf, why is "voormiddag" a thing?
 
@fredley according to google, that's paracetamol and codein, which I only know as something you take when you're sick
 
@KevinvanderVelden Because people hate us and want us to be awake before noon?
 
but I'm not really into taking medicine unless I'm dying, so maybe it's pretty mild
 
@Chippies Paracetamol and Codeine are just painkillers. You take them when you're in pain.
 
@Arperum there's already a perfectly good word for that why do you need a second word!?
 
10:43 AM
Codeine is an opiate, hence some places don't allow it
The third class of painkillers are anti-inflammatories, which come in two types: steroids, which cause issues if you take too many, and non-steroidal, which can be harsh on your stomach (sometimes you take proton-pump inhibitors if you're on a long course to minimise the risk).
Ibuprofen is the most common non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
 
@KevinvanderVelden Because you are thinking of "ochtend", and that's like even earlier. 11AM is not "ochtend", that's voormiddag.
 
cc: @GnomeSlice anti-inflammatories can help with a sore throat too
 
@Arperum nope, it's morning until it's afternoon, no stops in between
 
idk anything about those
 
@KevinvanderVelden No. First morning, then before noon, then noon, then afternoon, then evening.
 
10:46 AM
I'm still going to the doctor though
 
@fredley SCREAMS
 
@fredley What was the worst pain ever?
 
@fredley I still needed to do some more screaming at you for that last link you linked to me.
@Nzall SCREAMING INTENSIFIES
 
@Nzall @Arperum doesn't like talking about the things that happened to @fredley
 
@KevinvanderVelden well, tough luck
 
But testicular torsion is not a good thing
 
@KevinvanderVelden It kinda nearly sorta happened to me. It's a lot of pain.
 
@Arperum Oh I didn't know you had a near-miss
 
@fredley No.
 
@fredley Fuck.
@fredley You.
 
10:49 AM
@fredley No. Just the pain.
And no reason why it was all swollen and hurting a ton.
 

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ouch... < goes to cross legs then decides against it on balance of probability
 
Still don't know why that happened. I had a minor case of it last month again or so. But it went away after a couple hours before fully developing into everything is extreme pain.
 
@Arperum Well once you've had the surgery (a bilateral testicular fixture) it can never happen again
If you think you're at risk, it's probably worth getting that done in advance
But yeah, I still have post-surgical pain from time to time (15 months on)
 
10:52 AM
My balls just retracted themselves a little
 
But I can run and cycle and stuff, so my balls aren't really limiting me any more
 
@fredley and if they start limiting you again, what will you do next time? get rid of them?
or do you like the thought of having children?
 
WILL YOU DARE CLICK ON THAT LINK
 
I've sat on my balls. It was quite unpleasant, but luckily not as bad as @fredley's case
 
@fredley It's been happening extremely infrequent the last years. Like, the painkillers ended up going bad two years ago and I only noticed couple months back because I was cleaning up.
 
10:55 AM
5k egg hatched, pidgey, fml
5
 
@fredley I've had a 5k egg for over a week now, it has reached 4'ish km now...
Once they make it so the game tracks stuff with the screen off, I might actually care more about it
as it stands right now, it's not very enjoyable to me
 
@Chippies yeah... unless there is a charger where i'm going it's a pain
 
speaking of which, I should download the legit version from play store now that it's available in Canada...
 
@Chippies Think you can upgrade over the top
 
It's got nbothing to do with torsion, it's just one epididymis(not sure this is the right word?) that randomly swells up a ton and then hurts like hell.
@fredley Yes.
 
10:57 AM
@sequoiad the battery isn't necessarily a huge issue for me, but I just hate the idea of having the screen on the whole time, as well as the fact that if it's in my pocket and my screen is on, it may get some touches from my leg through the pants
@fredley what do you mean?
 
@Arperum Yeah, that can be chronic and basically untreatable
 
@Chippies Battery saver mode in game + turn phone upside down helps a ton.
 
@Arperum I wasn't about to say that, not at all.
 
I have a 10k mah battery
The ultimate Pokémans accessory
 
@Arperum I'm still not sure what battery saver mode is supposed to do tbh and what is having the phone upside down supposed to help with?
 
10:59 AM
@Chippies If you go to the app store you'll see an "update" button instead of an install button.
 
@Chippies battery saver just dims the screen slightly
 
Also stops rendering when upside down
 
@fredley Your definition of slightly is broken.
 
(Where upside down is defined as microphone below speaker)
 
@fredley at what point does it do that? because in my experience it dims the screen and then just locks after few seconds
 
11:00 AM
@Chippies locking isn't stopped by the game (another dumb thing) you have to set that yourself
 
@Chippies I have an app to keep the screen on all the time
 
@Chippies The locking has to be a phone setting.
 
does it stop the phone from accepting touches though?
 
I use this, which requires no dodgy permissions, unlike a lot of them
 
because I have pocket dialed from my pocket by accidentally not locking the screen as I put the phone in my pocket
 
11:01 AM
Allows you to have a widget that sets screen timeout, which is very handy
 
@fredley I can set it to not lock for 30 minutes, which is plenty of time, imho
I just don't like the phone accepting input while in my pocket
anyone know if I have to / should uninstall the "not-legit" version before I download the play store version?
 
@Chippies shouldn't need to
 
@Chippies worked fine here just updating
 
3 mins ago, by Arperum
@Chippies If you go to the app store you'll see an "update" button instead of an install button.
 
you just need to re-sign in
 
11:03 AM
hm, I just went to pokemon go page and it doesn't even offer to download/install, it offers me to uninstall of open
there's not even an update button...
 
@Chippies Do you have the 0.29.2 version?
 
what version do you have?
 
@Arperum yes
 
That is the most recent version.
 
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Q: Should I concentrate on the stronger characters or try to make the weaker ones useful and catch-up with them?

VoprosnikOk this question is a bit tricky and I am not sure if I summarized it in the title. Here we go. Suppose I have an CRPG hero party. Some characters are already stronger or happen to level up more quickly, while other characters are newcomers and weaker. When this happens, usually I try to make th...

 
11:04 AM
figured there would've been an update when they released it in Canada
I guess not
 
nope, client version seems to be the same wherever you are
 
Yeah it's all server side
 
Tip: set your screen brightness to adaptive mode and set it to low brightness, it will go nearly black in your pocket
@KevinvanderVelden nice, I just tried this and it goes to black screen instead of rendering everything
 
There's a logo on it that you can just see but yeah, lot less processing
 
the bad part is that my headphone jack is on top of the phone, which is a bit limiting in this case...
@KevinvanderVelden and I got an AMOLED screen, which is very power efficient on black screens :)
 
11:09 AM
I don't really understand why people walk with their phone in their hands, it'll buzz when it finds a pokemon and don't you know where the pokestop are?
 
they are watching the "nearby pokemon" display.
 
hm, just threw a spinning pokeball and it hit the weedle in the face and instantly disappeared...
didn't even bounce
 
@KutuluMike hmm that makes sense
 
I'm going to try running the game tonight at work with all this new info I just learned :P Will see how the battery takes it...
 
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Q: What actually happens when you touch the screen on pokemon go?

Jordan Richard Lloyd PriddleWhen you are on the GPS screen, showing the roads and that etc. you can tap any where on the screen and a blue ring appears with a strange noise at the same time, what does this actually mean? has it got anything to do with locating/revealing Pokemon or the leaves that move about occasionally?

 
11:21 AM
@fredley you can treat it. Just amputate.
@Chippies I once accidentally pocket dialed the Google Auth number in Sweden
 
Amputation isn't treating
 
@KevinvanderVelden Depends on how attached you are to your nuts
 
@KevinvanderVelden it's solving the problem at the cause
 
Killing the problem isn't the same as curing the problem =p
 
If your problem is pain caused by a part of your testicle, and you cannot treat it in traditional ways, then remove the source
 
11:25 AM
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Q: Cannot get last remaining Dynasty member

MacMacI'm stuck on finding the last dynasty member (currently have 6) and I need the final one for the final trophy to get the Platinum trophy. I've found some forum posts mentioning that you can get a dynasty member in the start of the Colonial era and the Modern era (in Sandbox mode), after sending ...

 
I'm going to guess this is a badger nope situation
 
Sorry, I might be a bit more... extreme in my thoughts than some people might cope with
 
I mean, aren't most situations badger nope situations?
 
@Nzall s/extreme/edgy/?
 
@fredley nope, I just lack the spamfilter between my brain and my mouth that other people use to know when to shut up
 
11:30 AM
@KutuluMike Currently the stepcounter is broken though :(
@Unionhawk It is. Very much.
 
graphana
divideSeries(#A,#A)
"120"
graphana, pls
 
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Q: Do I really stink or are people just being mean?

Tomáš ZatoI noticed this thing. People do seem to talk about nasty smell when I bump into them or get close. Some are pretty direct: "You smell like [unaudible / forgotten]" I overheard similar insult with spanish accent with puto at the end. Some are indirect, such as woman exclaiming: "Whats th...

 
11:47 AM
@Arperum that's true but I doubt most people know that.
 
People I've met do
 
12:02 PM
@Lazers2.0 Like IRL, the solution is: either take a bath (i.e. go swimming) or change your clothes.
 
@fredley is it a brillant pokeman?
 
Pidgey is blenderfood
 
@Arperum it still sorts them by distance in the nearby list
as long as there's more than 1 pokemon nearby, it works decent'ish, even if the steps don't show the distance very well
 
Morning
 
@LKM Or so it seems. The breakdown I have read indicates 30% Apple, 30% Pokemon IP company, 30% niantec (app developer), 10% Nintendo.
 
12:13 PM
\o
 
@badp Pokemon Go is free though
 
hah.
 
Turns out IAP makes a lot of money
 
you underestimate the will of people to spend money on free things.
 
It's the top grossing app on the play and app stores
 
12:15 PM
@KutuluMike well, yes, but I was referring to this:
Most copies of Pokémon GO sold on iOS. Apple gets 30%. Nintendo owns 33% of The Pokémon Company. Does Apple make more $ on GO than Nintendo?
 
oh.
i assume apple gets a share of all in-app purchases since they have to go through the store
 
yeah, it's just that the wording implies that the game itself has "sold" so many copies
when really, the game is free
 
Well it's distributed many copies and sold many coins
 
I'm not sure if "most in-app purchases have been on iOS" would be as true of a statement
 
/shrug
 
12:17 PM
although it probably would be
android users are cheap
 
@Chippies Hah maybe not
 
Source: Android user
 
Oh wait, I parsed that as "most IAP for an app on the iOS platform"
 
or iOS users have more money than sense
windows phone users... wait, are there any?
 
Yes, there's exactly one windows phone user and his name is @arda
 
12:19 PM
@Unionhawk the tweet implies that most downloads for the game are on the iOS platform, which I suppose is public information. I'm not sure if same would be true if we replaced "downloads of the game" with "IAP on the platform"
 
@Chippies Ah I see
 
I assume IAP statistics aren't as publicly available as number of downloads
 
btw, how is @arda?
 
6 mins ago, by arda
Morning
alive, I suppose
 
oh, missed that
 
12:21 PM
and judging by the fact that he has internet access and time to say "morning" on Bridge, I'd even go as far to say alive and well
 
@Unionhawk not since may
 
Oh, well in that case no
 
@arda Congrats! Who is your new friend?
 
Using Android
 
@Chippies almost certainly true given historical trends
 
12:23 PM
@Chippies I have max three in vision when I'm at home, generally one or two. I have not been able to locate where the third one would be spawning. The others spawn at ~200m away from my house along the street (one to either side)
 
besides, if it's not 30% apple, it's 30% google
 
Tbh I'd go back to Windows Phone if it had pebble and pokemon go
 
not much of a difference there
 
either way it becomes 70% Niantic and The Pokemon Company
so /shrug
 
@Chippies well you do have "top grossing"
 
12:25 PM
The problem with having GPS-based programs on Windows Phone is that you have to support Windows 10, which means also supporting desktop Windows 10
 
@Nzall ...and?
 
@badp that doesn't work between platforms though
 
@Chippies yeah, so you can't compare platforms like that.
 
Which also means that you have a platform where it's much easier to interfere with the app than normally
 
@Nzall not really. You can just disable download for pc from store submission thingy
 
12:26 PM
I guess Pokeman Go is listed here as the #2 top grossing thing on Android
behind Clash Royale
(what the fuck is a Clash Royale)
 
So you know Clash of Clans, right
It's like that
except not at all like that
 
dunno if that chart is specific to a given region
 
@Nzall android emulators on PC are a thing too
 
@Nzall the data is decompiled already, plus there is already a sub like /r/pokemongodev
 
@badp it's basically Clash of Clans, if Clash of Clans had a bastard child with the Moba genre
 
12:27 PM
@Nzall also a thing, gps emulation on native android
 
no base building, just placing units and casting spells with mana
 
Niantic isn't new to banning cheaters tho
okay, so what the fuck is a clash of clans? I've seen a few ads but... yknow what, it doesn't matter, I'm not playing any of those anyway
6
 
@badp p2w age of empires
 
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UnounKilleri have a friend who has the call of duty modern warfare cracked version (I know, I know, its illegal but he is low on funds) but i want to know if we both could play multiplayer together. i have doubts because mine is the real version and his is cracked and it might not work. has anyone tried cra...

 
It's an addiction engine designed to generate IAP revenue
@Lazers2.0 TARGET ACQUIRED
 
12:29 PM
Well not so p2w, but f2p with money taking you forward much faster
 
Yes
It's a base building game or something idk
 
@badp if you got 2 hours to watch, Totalbiscuit did a livestream on it
 
> I know, I know, its illegal but he is low on funds
 
@badp it's a microtransaction-laden timesink that I utterly HATE
grrr etc
 
@badp speaking of banning cheaters, I wonder if TPPGO is still a thing or if they got rekt
 
12:34 PM
I've not read them being banned
Their twitch page says nothing about it either
 
@Unionhawk how are they doing that? I mean, doesn't it require swiping?
 
No idea
I mean, obviously they're doing location by spoofing
other than that no idea
 
There's a tap command, I presume there's a swipe command
 
What, do you say like "tap 100,300" or some nonsense like that?
 
Uuh more like chess coordinates, D 16 or something
 
12:38 PM
well as we all know a tap is a 0-length swipe
 
I mean, he's not wrong
 
This thing
 
i know in testing android stuff you use motionevent obtain() and give it a series of y co-ords
presumably something similar
 
@arda have you played age of empires?
 
@Chippies yes
 
12:46 PM
It's like Dark Souls meets Age of Empires meets Candy Crush
 
If you think clash of clans is anything like it you haven't
 
That is rts while this isn't
 
@KevinvanderVelden can I continue not having?
 
@Unionhawk I... uhh... what
 
Yes.
 
12:47 PM
@arda I think the only things in common is that they're both medieval strategy games
 
Yeah
 
@badp You are not allowed to not have played Age of Empires. You are required by law to fix that
Probably
 
kinda like a whole lot of other strategy games are...
 
I mean, it'd be a good law
 
 
12:48 PM
@KevinvanderVelden luckily I've already played through the first tutorial stage of AoE
I was unable to complete the second scenario though
 
My Pogo experience
 
AoE: Rise of Rome ftw
 
genre's not for me
 
@arda What kind of tool is that?
 
@KevinvanderVelden pokemon go map
Uses a dummy account to check location of Pokemon around me (gets location from browser) and shows them on exact locations
Because the steps thing is broken as hell
 
12:51 PM
Hmm blocked at work unfortunately so I'll try that later
 

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