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4 hours ago, livid said:

Peak Succession tonight 

14 hours ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

Hard disagree here. Pretty sure I remember reading that Tony Sirico's one rule upon accepting the role was that he never a rat or betrayed the family. I know they did an arc of him flirting with NY, but they were never going to have him betray the family like that. He wanted his character to be a true mobster, given his own former mob ties.

Yeah so I too completely disagreed with the idea of Paulie betraying Tony but then I decided to do a bit of research to see if there was much of a consensus and now I’m not so sure. There’s so much fan theory stuff out there about The Sopranos, and after I completed my first watch through in 2014 I read a LOT of it, but I don’t recall every reading anything about Paulie betraying Tony. It’s quite compelling.

I haven’t had my own theories challenged in such a way since David Chase revealed last year that Tony did actually die in the final episode. 

5 hours ago, Trey said:

She wants to know your name on there @kliq so she remembers to send you gifts first if she's limited in what she has. 

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Here’s hoping I have a lucky egg activated when the big day comes 😆

20 hours ago, Baddar said:

Double check how far ours is from reaching Ultra. Think the closest I am on here with one of you is @Carparama. Think we're 4 days away.

17 days for us. I forgot you could check, good shout.

Amusingly the person who I’m closest to is Trey’s wife 😂  on 12 days.

After that it’s Jericode on 14.

I can’t open any gifts (you guys are too kind) atm cos after buying more storage I’m almost near full again (950) with no gifts of my own, so I’ve deleted some items and then I’m gonna try and stockpile a load over the coming days to be able to start sending back.

Also - shiny Eeveelutions this weekend 

Umbreon is pretty cool, as per. Espeon looks like an alien.

12 hours ago, Baddar said:

Just made my first Ultra Friend. Had a lucky egg equipped so that's a tidy 100k XP. 😎

I need this! Half way to 500k atm.

Also, I finally have enough Swablu candy to get an Altaria 😎 managed to amass 70 candies over the course of a few days and then for the last 6 I needed I got a Swablu in an egg... although I’m scared to evolve just yet incase it forms part of a future special research task after the current Mew one 😒

I really do hope that they implement distance training cos there’s not much hope for me otherwise. 

Besides, how are people in the states meant to get Mr Mime or people in the U.K. meant to get Tauros unless they either go on holiday or know someone else who has  

Opened a pile of gifts today and hoping I manage to actually get someone myself to send back. Think I became good friends with two people today also. Just wish I had of had a lucky egg active to get 20k each time instead of 10 😭

And again tonight with someone else, another 20k 🤩

Managed to get out tonight so sent a few gifts through. Don’t seem to have got any XP for them tho, do you only get it when the gift is opened?

17 hours ago, Stick Stickly said:

Curveballs add a couple ticks of chance to making the catch. Personally, I go clockwise and flick to just above the berry icon. Usually works for me, YMMV.

I always go anti clockwise. Might have to try it the other way.

Got an “Upgrade” item for a 7 day Pokestop streak tonight so was able to evolve a Porygon finally 🤗 also became a great friend of someone on here, can’t remember the username now, but it got me 20k XP and considering I’m on the road to 500k here I need all the help I can get.

I’m fresh out of gifts and haven’t been able to actually venture very far the last few days to get some, and the few stops I’ve visited haven’t given me any, so whatever I sent yesterday was my last, plus my items have been constantly full also which doesn’t help. Actually had to delete some Pokeballs to open all the gifts I had pending - because I’m definitely not buying any more storage at the minute, 800 is enough.

3 hours ago, Chris2K said:

One time my research task was "make three Excellent throws in a row". It was binned shortly after I'd finished hysterically laughing.

“Three great curveball throws in a row” I think I got one time. I actually watched a YouTube video for tips but quickly decided it wasn’t for me.

12 hours ago, Chris2K said:

Wild Ursarings are great, they stand uncomfortably close to you nearly taking up the whole screen, then constantly attack to get even closer.

Like Wailmer, Mr Mime and others more wild Ursaring would be good for the research tasks that require nice/great throws (especially in a row) and/or curveballs.

6 hours ago, Baddar said:

Just had my first uncomfortable/annoying moment playing the game.

Baddarina joined a group that organises doing Raids together, and there was an Absol in a park about 10 minutes away. We walked over and met up with 7 others, and surprisingly all of them were older than us, with two guys who had to be 50+. Wasn't expecting that.

Before we got started, a guy with a council t-shirt on walked over and asked what we were all doing (we were standing outside a park with children inside, so I get why he might have been concerned), but a couple of them told him we were playing Pokemon and he said that's fine, and started to walk away with his massive binoculars around his neck and said "I thought that game was for kids". 

Now, nobody said anything, and it was the first time I'd seen that group of people so I didn't either, but I've got home now and it's pissing me off that I didn't make a comment. It's irritated me. I get that you're looking out for the safety of children, but why make a comment like that? If anything like it happens again, I won't be holding back.

I’ll be honest and say I did feel a little bit of shame when I started going out to public places but when I saw people double my age and whole families (including grandparents) all out doing the same I stopped worrying about it. Still waiting for someone to make some sort of similar remark to me at some stage tho.

2 minutes ago, Baddar said:

I got that Ninetails today by evolving my Ice Vulpix (with the snowflakes in the background). 

That’s how I got mine too. As soon as I hatched an Alolan Vulpix and got like 30 off candies I evolved it straight away!

1 hour ago, Walker said:

Exploits from today ...

Alolan Ninetails is so much cooler than the normal Ninetails. Same with Sandslash also. The Dugtrio is just weirdly random. 😂

Were these egg hatches or encounters? I happened across a Ursaring a few days ago, not the sort of Pokémon I’d usually expect to find in the wild. 

7 hours ago, Chris2K said:

I saw a group of people on a Zapdos raid as I was driving home from work, but just carried on going. Hooray for social anxiety.

5 hours ago, Carparama said:

I'd assume people would just be happy you're helping them.

We are going out in our small city in hopes people will join us.

5 hours ago, Walker said:

About 40 people did a raid parade that I joined. I probably said three words to anyone. And when it was over everyone just walked seperate ways without saying bye. It was perfect.

Considering what my job is I’m incredibly socially awkward when it comes to this sort of thing. The past few occasions, one of them being today, I just latched onto a group of 7 other people and didn’t actually speak to any of them - I just followed them about. Yesterday with the EX raid, I went to the particular gym and there must have been 20/30 people there. I walked up, entered the public battle and within second a girl was calling out my trainer name and came over to give me the private group code - I think I said hi and that was it. 

It doesn’t help that I don’t have Facebook and can’t actually engage with anyone outside of the actual community days or raid events.

5 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Ok so I had 6 Zapdos candy so powered it up a couple of times. Now the IV is saying 31%-84%. I don't understand what any of this means but I'm happy I got one anyway!

You can use the options in the advanced section to narrow down the range of IVs. 

Was hoping for a shiney today also. 😞

2 out of 4 for me. Raging 😒 although with those 4 raids I’m just ~10k XP off level 30 now.

Caught a shit load of Swablus today as well combined with pinap berries. Up to 240 candies or so now.

3 hours ago, Baddar said:

During my first week I caught a LOT of Swablu. Since I got to around the 250 mark, I'd use a Pinap Berry on any I found, meaning I'd get 12 candy a time with the event on. 

Since I got my shiny Swablu I've been pushing to evolve it to get the shiny Altaria. 

2 hours ago, Chris2K said:

Swablus were all over the place when they first hit the game so it's just a timing thing.

I could really do with more Zapdos candy so I have a decent Electric type to use, but I'm busy buddying my Scyther to get a Scizor.

I’ve been building up pinap berries over the last while due to running out during the Squirtle community day, so I once I get a good few more I might concentrate on harvesting Swablu candies. I do tend to see quite a few of them along a particular path nearby. 

2 hours ago, Chris2K said:

Swablus were all over the place when they first hit the game so it's just a timing thing.

I could really do with more Zapdos candy so I have a decent Electric type to use, but I'm busy buddying my Scyther to get a Scizor.

Think I might head out for this Zapdos event tomorrow. Got a few when they were on the research tasks but much like you I need some candies to power them up!

In other news:

First legendary 🤩 I powered it up hence no candies left. Got it on the very last ball.

12 hours ago, Walker said:

If you get a request from stankellitt that is me. Recently loaded this back up as well ... I've had no legendarys yet. 

My code is: 6529 6071 4799

FYI incase anyone hasn't warned you, after the research where you have to catch a Ditto and catch 10 ghosts your next lot of research will involve you evolving a Magikarp. So yeah, don't do what my friend did.

Hoping to get my first legendary today!

I’ve got nearly 500 Magikarp candies at the minute and am patiently waiting for the next stage where I can actually evolve it. It’s like torture considering what you have to go through to get that many candies.

4 hours ago, Baddar said:

My missus' trainer code. She wants some of you guys to add her so that she can trade gifts with more people.

Talking of Pokemon that require a lot of candies to evolve them... how did you end up with an Altaria  

23 minutes ago, Katsuya said:

Good job I started walking with a Magikarp then huh  

Good luck with that 😫

Left my house tonight and just along the road was a raid featuring Manectric. Looked up its weaknesses and was able to take it down myself using 2 Tyranitars, a Golem and a Graveler. 

Is there a reason I was earning double candy tonight for both Pokémon caught and hatched? Can’t see anything in the news section about it. Hatched 2 10k eggs and got a Porygon and a Larvitar, got circa 40 candies for Porygon alone (have more than enough to evolve but don’t have whatever item is needed). Also noticed a glitch or something that I’ve encountered before with eggs. Hatched three 7k eggs and got three Alolan Rattata but despite receiving 21, 36 and 42 candies respectively the overall candy figure didn’t change and stuck at 215.

Also I’m all out of gifts at the minute with not spinning any stops for a week or so, so if you don’t get any back from me for a few days you know why 😆

13 hours ago, Baddar said:

Caught my Ditto for the mission just now. A Zigzagoon spawned next to me and kept escaping the balls, so I had a feeling it could be him. Got it on the 4th attempt. Just got the 10 ghosts left to catch now which...isn't happening.

Based on what someone said upthread it looks like we’re having to wait til Halloween to complete the ghost part 😒

6 hours ago, Jerazil said:

How the fuck do I find a Ditto?

With great difficulty. I started catching everything I encountered as I had stopped because I was fed up wasting pokeballs on the usual suspects like Pidgeys and Rattatas. Whether it was because of that or because there was an increased chance of encountering Dittos due to whatever event was on at the time I don’t know (it wasn’t clear if it meant Dittos in the wild or via field research encounters) but it ended up being a Rattata anyway. 

Went to go out after work tonight but seems it was down worldwide. 😕 

Took a week off there due to a public holiday but back into the swing of things again, anyone else that has added me has been accepted and most people should have received gifts from me also. Due to not being out I’ve a bit of a backlog of items so I had to delete some stuff to accept any that were sent to me!

Noticed I’d received my first ever EX raid pass which I found rather confusing as at the start I didn’t know you had to click on it to tell you when and where the raid would be. Going to have to take an extended lunch on Friday to take part. 🤫

16 hours ago, Chris2K said:

 I wasn't aware of the Gyarados task before it was too late, I'm at 290 odd now but when the task started I had less than 100. Finding a damn Ditto was hard enough on the previous one.

@kliq just wait until Hallowe'en, it's nothing but Ghost types. And Meowths.

Think I had 70 or so. Generally I wouldn’t have bothered catching Magikarp as trying to get 400 for a Gyrados just seemed an impossible task, but when I looked up the full details of A Mythical Discovery and saw that it was essential I used all the Pinap berries I’d harvested and caught every one in sight. The few that I got from eggs helped as well.

Don’t think I want to wait that long though. 😫 

7 hours ago, Stick Stickly said:

I redownloaded GO! a few weeks back. Also stuck on part 5 of the mythical discovery. Super hype for this weekend though as its GO!'s second anniversary, and a community weekend.

4229 0725 7143 for those interested.

What bit of part 5 are you stuck on?

6 hours ago, Trey said:

I have to work both time slots for the event so that sucks. I also added a few of you (finalfinally here) and my wife added you guys as well (bemobee) since I sent her the codes to copy over. She quite enjoys the out of the USA gift locations you guys have sent and wanted to let you guys know 😂

It starts at 10am UK time and I’m out for a 30th birthday party tonight... so it’s looking like I’m going to have to drag myself out of bed tomorrow morning because the Blastoise I have I evolved in a hurry during the last community day (without appraising it) and it’s not much cop! Just wanted it to be able to say I finally had a Blastoise.

My code is 8556 7358 3030 for anyone that hasn’t already added me.

Got my first Snorlax today also. 😎

11 hours ago, Nelson said:

I'm an isolated Pokemon Go player too so any legendary Pokemon I have are via research tasks so I have all the Gen 1 legendary ones including Mew, but not Mewtwo.

Anyway, my code is 9212 5860 5478

This Mythical Discovery quest is an absolute nightmare. Was going so well until part 5 on which I’m currently stuck and have been for about 4 weeks now. Only completed “Catch a Ditto” this week (which may or may not be due to them appearing more often as part of the July Research tasks) after just saying fuck it and going back to catching everything in sight. Still haven’t managed to catch a single ghost Pokémon, hatch one from an egg or get one via a research task, so I’ve no idea how long this is going to take. I can’t remember the last time I encountered a ghost type in the wild.

On a positive note I managed to amass 474 Magikarp candies during the water themed research tasks month, so when the time comes I don’t need to grind for the evolving a Gyarados task.

EDIT: Today I caught 3 of the hat and shades wearing Pikachus, cute 😍

Also I hatched two of the 7km eggs I’ve received as gifts and got Alolan Meowth and Sandshrew. Pretty cool that their types are completely different. I even like the Alolan Rattata...

I stared playing again around two months ago when you got double XP for spinning new Poke stops. I hadn’t played in so long that most of the stops around me were flagged as new, so coupling that with lucky eggs I managed to level up from 21 to 26 in a matter of weeks.

I don’t know a single other person that plays anymore so the trading feature is a real bummer for me. It’s also the reason why the only time I’ve managed to take part in raids was during the last community day.  

My trainer code is 8556 7358 3030 if anyone wants to add me and send me gifts so that I don’t feel completely isolated. 

5 hours ago, Ace said:

I only started watching West Wing a couple of years back, but I've rewatched it so many times since. Season 5 was personally my least favorite, but even then there were still some great moments (Bartlett staring down Haffley; The Supreme Justices) to make it a good watch.

But yeah, dont stop after Season 4. Alan Alda alone is worth watching seasons 6 + 7 for.

+1 for reminding me about the Haffley stare down. His "or what?" to Leo is another great stare down.