Pokémon GO Gym Update Rolls Out, Brings New Hacking Penalties

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A much-anticipated update to Pokémon GO is rolling out across iTunes and Google Play which includes re-designed gyms and an all new badge system, but those trying to illicitly catch Pokémon may be less than pleased. Posted to Reddit by A Niantic staff member, the game’s developer has a new plan to combat use of third-party programs in order to keep gameplay fair.

With the announcement of Raid Battles and the new battle features, we are staying true on our commitment to ensuring that Pokémon GO continues to be a fun and fair experience for all Trainers. Starting today, Pokémon caught using third-party services that circumvent normal gameplay will appear marked with a slash in the inventory and may not behave as expected. We are humbled by the excitement for all the new features we announced yesterday.This is one small part of our continued commitment to maintaining the integrity of our community and delivering an amazing Pokémon GO experience.

While short on details, it certainly seems like a step in the right direction to make the game more fair for players who spend time exploring he real world to catch Pokémon.

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  1. It’s official…. I have become a pro helix… I can beat Ribbon girls higher ranked than myself with eae

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  4. After being in Mankalor’s MK 200cc stream, I hopped into 200cc World Cup, and oh man, tonight is just not my night. So many 1st place finishes taken away last second and then long stretches of being hit by items and literally not being able to move xD Oh Mario Kart xD

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          • I’m a big fan of Mankalor and if he’s streaming and I’m not working, I join the tourney he is playing in. Sometimes he’s not streaming and just racing in 200cc World Cup and I’ve been lucky enough to get to be in a couple lobbies with him.

            This was today’s stream. The 4 races I got to play against him starts at 1:02:08 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9E4D0jjN_U

          • Feh, the only stream I’ve ever been in was some rando twitch guy doing showdown battles I moped the floor with him and he apparently wanted me to help make a Ground team for his stream
            He was so bad it was almost to a pity, he fucking wanted to use Whiscash

          • Nice. Me and Mankalor have gone back and forth. I went 10-3 in one lobby against him, then went 6-12, and today went 2-2.

          • I repeat, feh
            My competitive scene is in the pits
            Splatoon is getting slow since I decided to only play Splat Zones
            MK8D I hardly feel like doing
            Showdown I’ve been doing less and less to preserve what fleeting sanity I still retain
            And Arms I had a mental/emotional breakdown since I freaking cannot beat the damn final boss that lets me fight on ranked

            So yeah not in a good place right now

          • Just like wow I am an altaholic, I never focus on a singular sport
            I’m just always fighting and trying to prove my worth to as many contenders as I can, but if I’m not fighting then what do I do all freaking day

            I really need a change of scenery,

          • I play whatever I’m in the mood to play. The thing with Mario Kart tho is that I never get bored with 200cc. It’s an addiction, this speed class needs to be a mainstay.

          • I have a weird showdown addiction trigger
            I get a nearly biological need to play a match after I’m done *Whistles* off

  8. Hey just so you know I’m dead right now because I just saw Hamilton and it was so good I died. Also I’m seeing it ahain tomorrow because of some craziness so yeah I’m dead

    IT WAS SO GOOOOOOOOD

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  9. I really hate myself sometimes
    I go downstairs to get a before bed snack, notices we have boiled eggs, decided to make an egg sandwich which became a hastily made egg salad sandwich on toasted bread with ham cheese and turkey
    It was delicious but no I’m fully awake

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      • You can eat animals and live different animals, it’s called ‘humans are meant to be omnivorous so I’ll just stick with that’

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        • Yeah that’s y I freaking hate these creatures called humnaz they r not logical, they humiliate any creatures that less clever than them …..this planet get tired of these humanz ……..the most thing that I hate about them they just embrace their habits with out any meaning of understanding ,they just follow wat the others do and one those habit is eating animals.

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          • 1) You are human

            2) Literally every carnivore/omnivore does this, it’s not just a human thing. And in fact, we’re the only species that cares about even attempting to kill our prey ethically.

            3) No, blindly following a vegetarian/vegan diet without knowing the risks is embracing something without understanding. Eating meat is doing what your body was formed to do, because we can digest (cooked) meat just fine with no problem when a herbivore would probably get no benefit at best and sick at worst. On the other hand, a completely vegan diet is harder to maintain, has less variety, is most likely going to be more expensive, and if you dont know what you’re doing you’re probably going to give yourself malnutrition and then all sorts of shit like the forms of anaemia and osteoporosis when you’re older.

          • I am vegan for 3 years and I have np………plus wat u saying is just a myth u can get protein and nutrients u need + I didn’t flow any pattern I figure out wat my body need throwing meditation (it’s almost In my country no vegan) ……..ur talking about killing our prey actually we r not we r doing the worst we isolate these animals and separate them from their kids and force them to breed(with out having sex) if them animal industry keep expanded like this we can’t live in this planet anymore (u should read about Methane problem) …………….+ our body r not designed to eat meat u should study the 5 type of teeth more we r bears u should be aware of the length and the shape of our Intestines it’s much different than the lion and tiger have (check that) if u r really want to flow the nature u shouldn’t flow canines but monkeys and gorillas r more similar to us and they eat no meat except those atypical cases.

            Sorry dude but if u want more expansion discuss about this topic I think this not the right place to do that but ready to do that in anyplace u want even if u want me to do on the showdown.

          • 1) You can get protein and other nutrients from a vegan diet, but you need to fucking research and not just ‘meditate’. It’s hard to balance the nutrients needed when you’ve only got so much choices, and you’re potentially missing key nutrients such as iron and high biological value proteins unless you go out of your way to eat them.

            2) The animal industry expanding isn’t an issue with the concept, it’s an issue with the population of humans. Eventually, if the population continues to grow, similar issues will occur with crops.

            3) You listed *carnivores*, and humans are not carnivores. Humans are omnivorous, so of course our digestive system is going to be differen. And finally, if meat was unnatural, then we wouldn’t be able to eat it as a staple of our diet. Simple as. But humans have ate meat for thousands of years and have gotten iron, protein and fat they need from it, which is more in flow with nature than vegans having to take supplements and fly foods in from other countries.

            You have a vegan diet and follow it for ethical reasons, good for you. But for the science side of things, you’re obviously clueless asf

          • 1)I did a fucking research more than u imagine ……i was implying I didn’t flow wat others did

            2) if the population continues to grow that means we need more animal to serve these ppl ……that’s mean this plant will end more early if we didn’t go vegan

            3) u can get iron, protein form planet too ……I didn’t wat the fuck r u talking about eating meat just make fat illness and heart attack I didn’t have any kind of illness on those 3 and I doing my sport far better than I did before years I told u just make a research on Intestines part if ur able to eat meat that’s not means that have no effect on ur body

            actually ur the clueless one it seems u didn’t read the latest WHO report that says red meat Causes cancer …..science the is on the vegan side.

            Just a question if I can convince u that veganism is healthier and better will u become vegan? if ur answer is no just end this conversation immediately. http://www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/

          • Eating *too much* red meat is the problem, the reasons vegans and vegetarians are healthier is because they pay more attention to their diets on average than meat eaters tend to. A meat eater with a healthy diet is going to only have slightly less or negligible health differences to a healthy vegan or vegetarian.

            I said you can get iron and protein from plants, just that it’s harder because you have to consume more than you would with meat. And you also have to diversify your protein sources to make sure you get all the essential amino acids. You don’t have to do that with meat, which offers more variety than soya, the other source of HBV protein.

            Not balancing meat and plants in the diet will cause both to deplete faster. Eating exclusively plants will cause plants to be more in demand, and eating too much animal will cause the same effect.

            Don’t even try to get on to me for not researching, this is literally the career I’m going for. I’m not saying veganism isn’t good, I’m saying that a omnivorous diet is what is natural and that it’s not bad to have if you look after your health and nutrient intakes as you should with any sort of diet – vegetarian, omnivore, vegan or piscetarian.

            I’m not insulting vegans and vegetarians, I’m saying to fuck off with your militant vegan shit. Your choice is yours, omnivore’s choices are there’s. Veganism comes with downsides and isn’t a perfect improvement to eating meat, it’s an alternative. And people can love animals and kill them for food because surprise surprise, some people feel an attachment to the species they don’t eat as well as non sensical (meaning not for meat) violence towards livestock animals.

          • Really !!!!!! “Not balancing meat and plants in the diet will cause both to deplete faster” …this is the dumbest shit I have ever seen did u really know wat how much these animals actually eat and how much gallon did they drink of course u didn’t ….their food can feed 3 Africa.

            ur body didn’t need this amount of the protein …..some of vegan food though have the same amount of protein that found on the steak just like broccoli.

            Stop talking about omnivore shit cuz u don’t know wat r u talking about we have nothing to do with omnivore. http://livinontheveg.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/human-anatomy-teeth.png

            Meat shouldn’t wait that long in the body so our body didn’t ready for that due the length of our Intestines while meat eater have short one. https://image.slidesharecdn.com/teeth-131109091818-phpapp01/95/teeth-37-638.jpg?cb=1383988770

          • I’m actually dying here. Broccoli contains roughly 2.8 grams of protein per 100 grams, whereas beef had an around 26 – you’d have to eat nearly a kilogram of broccoli to get the same amount of protein as you would in red meat, and even then you wouldn’t get all the essential amino acids from it because it’s Low Biological Value protein, whereas meat and soya (something you should’ve mentioned if you’re such an intellectual vegan) have High Biological Value. With meat, you get all the amino acids you need without having to meticulously track every amino acid in your Low Biological Value diet and you also don’t have to consume a kilogram of broccoli to get a similar amount of protein.

            If you’re a vegan/vegetarian your protein should come from nuts, pulses, and soya, as well as mycoproteins (but I believe most of those do contain milk so they’re not suitable for vegans). If you’re eating enough food with lower values of protein, good for you, but if you have to eat a lot of lower protein foods to make up for it you may be taking in excesses of other nutrients such as fats and carbohydrates and they can build up and cause weight gain, hypertension, heart disease, etc.

            The reason we look more like herbivores is because we evolved from frugivores. However, humans have evolved to have meat in their diet, as seen by the fact that we can get large qualities of essential nutrients from iron that we have to eat larger, less sustainable amounts of plant matter to obtain, as well as the fact that that certain nutrients come in meat in a form more readily consumable than in plants (meat has heme iron and non-heme iron, whilst plants only have non-heme meaning vegetarians have to eat more iron products to be as efficient in iron absorption as meat eaters, which is far less practical than just straight up going for heme).

            Humans have been eating meat for thousands of years, and whilst we do need to cook it and we don’t have a fully omnivorous system, we are omnivores. We can eat meat, we do benefit off of eating meat, and there are some nutrients where meats are the only practical natural option for it (such as omega 3 from fish). And in fact, omnivores barely have to rely on supplements at all if they have a good diet and no dietary issues, whilst some vegetarians and vegans have to stuff supplements down their throat just to get their nutrients if they haven’t planned their diets well or if they have no good sources of certain nutrients nearby.

            It’s also worth noting that early humans couldn’t just fly over foods from over the world, they just had to deal with what they were given, meaning you could fly in all your different exotic foods to balance your diet. Hell, that’s probably why we began eating meat, because we entered areas where we couldn’t find all the nutrients we needed from plants and we needed meats to fulfill our needs for certain nutrients.

            Also, what I’m saying is that if we don’t balance meat and crop, and we move strictly onto crop with our growing population, we’ll start having problems with crops as well. The point I’m trying to drive through your cringy ass skull is that the issue you’re trying to prove here is not an issue with purely just meat, it’s an issue caused by supply and demand of meat due to having billions of people wanting meat. When we were Hunter gatherers or a much smaller population with more traditional farms, these problems were a non issue. The problem is the population, not the meat itself. The same will happen to every single resource until we gut this planet dry or we drastically lower population (either through something like China’s one child policy or another genocide, and thankfully most people want neither of those).

            I can do this all day buddy, I’m away to write a first year dissertation on vegan/vegetarian shit so I know what I’m talking about. Good for you if you do too, but saying that the quality of broccoli protein is the same as meat protein really has me doubting your:

            A) Sanity
            B) Intelligence
            And
            C) Reliability

          • How cheap u just focus on this silly broccoli point and didn’t respond on Intestines and teeth issue I will tell u y cuz u can’t prove these ……but I will go with ya u can type on google this “broccoli vs beef protein” it’s a very common topic on the internet yeah some sources said that broccoli have more protein than beef others said it just a vegan myth it’s not true I don’t care which is true but for sure u these numbers that wrote is fucking random cuz the anti vegan source said it’s 6.8 for broccoli against 12.8 for beef I don’t care either cuz I don’t need all these fat to have some protein that’s proof how professional u r ….don’t use ur ass but ur brain and don’t use random number with me.

            I don’t need ur advice to tell me wat to eat cuz I know that very well I depend on whole grain seed and nuts,dal, beans,avocado…….etc. (I have pretty muscled body shape as well due to that I don’t believe ur myth.

            Ur information is old asf u can get omega 3 from avocado and nuts in fact u can get all nutrients u want from plant …..actually all animal stuff r filled with colesterol and modern research prove we did any amount of colesterol from out side our body can produce from its own

            u still saying ur omnivores shits if we r evolve to be omnivores how can the origin(frugivores herbivores) is not working anymore wat kind of fucking logic did u have if our body can consume meat that’s not mean it has no side effect on our body ur fake meat myth will proven false soon such as milk myth…..elephant, rhino gorilla all these animals have np and have a muscles that can wip ur ass.

            If the the population is still increasing while we consuming meat in the same way our planet will be no longer exists anymore …..u just need more responsibility for mother earth.

            Ur shitty cheap way in discuss prove how weak and clueless u r ….I warn u I will give u a free endless attack, even with my shitty english I am the baddest guy here so punk shut the fuck up and respect ur self.

  11. So here’s what I learned it seems
    I’m an EXTREMELY good Helix in most situations but….
    Curved Arms mess with my dodging
    Twintelle in general fucks me up
    If the person has the parasol I flat out lose the match from the loadout screen

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  12. Does anyone here legitimately play Pokemon GO? I quit the game when I saw my data usage after one day of gaming. I have a subscription to the BuildStore, so I just have emulators on my phone as an alternative. If you not playing Pokemon GO, why did you stop?

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