If you’re going to do the level-up trick by evolving a lot of Pidgeys, Weedles, and/or Caterpies while under a lucky egg, those are other good buddy options.

Seriously? There’s nothing hard about this. It’s just tedious. You just have to catch 101 Magikarp (one to evolve, and 100 x (3 catch + 1 trade-in) candies to cover the cost) and boom, you’re done. You’ll get it even faster if you happen to hatch a Magikarp egg, which comes with bonus candies.

I wish someone would tell me why it is that depicting Team Valor as a bunch of jerks has become a huge Internet in-joke. It’s in every meme I see.

It’s not really such a big surprise, and honestly, I’m a little surprised you never mentioned the huge number of churches that are Ingress portals—since that’s where they come from. They’re recognizable landmarks, there are lots of them around, they’re generally safe places, and often they’ve got some great…

Yeah, I know. I had read about it before, and that’s why I tried it. It beats the hell out of tossing and turning for hours unable to get back to sleep. By getting up for a few hours, I can sort of “recharge my sleepiness.”

I have that sort of problem, and I ended up arranging my sleep schedule so I go to bed around 7, get up around midnight, then go back to bed around 4 or so. Seems to work, for the most part.

One caveat about the mod—it’s still being developed. Some users (including me!) have run across a bug where it causes your game to crash whenever a character moves. The developer’s working on fixing that; meanwhile, if it happens to you, simply disable the Squad Cohesion mod, load the save, and finish the mission,…

Personally, I use ‘em both. Google Maps for when I’m bicycling around or using public transit, and Waze when I’m driving. For pretty much the exact reasons given above, though one the article doesn’t mention is Waze’s gamification of the driving experience—the more you drive, and the more you report hazards and such,…

It seems pretty clear that Karma simply didn’t have any idea what they were doing when they launched the service. I’m quite happy with Refuel, and always have been—don’t use enough mobile data in a month to need a monthly plan. But apparently Karma was way too optimistic when it started to offer “unlimited” bandwidth.

As I understand it—bearing in mind it’s just hearsay, not anything I heard from HG—Big West and Studio Nue aren’t interested in working with Harmony Gold. And, as many anime studios have been, they’re not really concerned enough with Western markets to go to any legal effort to put stuff out there.

You’ll get a bigger discount if you go to one of the conventions Mayfair attends, like Gen Con or Origins, and collect all five ribbons from their game demo tables. Then you’ll get a 50% discount on one game of your choice. I snagged their “Catan Traveler” edition that way this year.

You’ll get a bigger discount if you go to one of the conventions Mayfair attends, like Gen Con or Origins, and…

It’s Cory Doctorow novel stuff. :) I could see the protagonist from the “Little Brother” novels using this to share data at resistance group meetings in a way the government couldn’t sniff. :)

That’s because you’re not living in a Cory Doctorow novel. :)

Could someone rewrite this article to remove all the hyperbole and put the relevant information near the top instead of at the very end? Sheesh.

And Chris “Moe the Barkeep” Latta.

You contradict yourself when you say Taco Bell food is too salty, but you have a goiter from eating it. Commercial salt is iodized, which means iodine was added to it, expressly for the prevention of goiters. If you eat anything flavored with commercial salt, you're not going to get a goiter.

I strongly suspect this game is intended to be a sort of "alternative continuity" to the original Borderlands games. The fact that the archetypes are roughly equivalent to the four Vault Hunters from the original game (right down to a "bird" for the hunter!) and one of the boss villains strongly resembles Sledge…

This is why the stores with more savvy, like Fry's Electronics, will only match prices on things that are sold specifically by Amazon. I don't think "Amzon Electronics" would fool them.

Arby's doesn't have WiFi at every location last I checked. The one I lived near in Springfield, MO until last year didn't at the time I left. (Of course, I suppose it might by now.)

Speaking of poop transportation...