I found Invisible War to be okay, actually. Admittedly, I played Deus Ex and IW years after their release when they were part of a classic games bundle I bought, so I played them back to back. It wasn’t as in-depth as the original Deus Ex, but it did some interesting things (some of which have been integrated into…

Keep in mind those are pre-tax totals, and that Japan has similar social programs to Germany, so taxes are relatively comparitive. Even worse, the price of living in Japan tends to be higher due to population density. Really, these guys are making very little in terms of raw salary, but that might not reflect their…

Oh, I understand, the idea that some people on this thread have expressed “Why didn’t Niantic do this?” is why I pointed out the realities of why they might not do this.

To be 100% clear, I’m not with Niantic nor am I on a developer team. I’m more of a hardware/networking/security guy, though I do have a BS in Comp Sci so I’m fairly familiar with programming (my knowledge is about 8 years out of date though). My input in regards to UI usually boils down to “What sort of hardware or…

Heh, glad to help. I’ve worked with UI design folks before, everything always looks slick and shiny in their mock-ups, but they rarely take into account that this sort of stuff has a resource cost. Sometimes you just need to keep it simple.

A lot of these ideas are nice, but I wonder how hard some things might be to implement. Player battling, for example, is probably coming at some point; but finding a way to make it possible without putting too much of a strain on the game servers/resources could be tricky, for example (doubly so for multiple people…

It depends on how you respond to her. There’s also a couple of other instances where he might say it depending on what options you pick (I seem to recall he says it when he’s talking to the anti-aug guy at his speech).

Hell no! Chocolate Fudge is the best! Fight me!

England and Portugal are not contenders. England hasn’t been good since the early 70's and Portugal is more or less the same, particularly without a healthy Ronaldo. The Dutch are legitimate contenders, but that has little to do with winning the Euros in the past and more to do with the fact that they’re almost always…

What a fucking asshole.

A bit deceptive there, given that every soccer jersey does that.

That’s pretty standard for soccer jerseys, it’s part of how they make money. This is Manchester United’s, for example:

As a millenial, according to NBC, I’m too engrossed in my various technology bubbles to care about this. Fuck off NBC.

Not a bit.

I have no idea what is going on in NerfNow. Is this some sort of avant garde art?

So they say the demographics are getting older and that young people don’t like watching sports in the article...why is it that soccer viewership keeps going up then?

^Fucking this. I was in the gym the other day, looked up at one of the TVs and saw women’s wrestling on, then I looked at my BBC News app and...it already had the winner on there. Maybe if they actually showed the damn thing live people would watch it, instead of just keeping up with it on Twitter or ignoring it.

Because they legitametly thought that people who weren’t cheating couldn’t get that much XP in a single day. To be clear, this is really fucking hard, damn near impossible, to do this; you have to be extremely dedicated to the idea and you need to spend some cash (or have a lot of Poke Coins built up) to do it, plus…

To be fair, getting 600,000+ XP in the game is really, really, really hard to do; setting that as the upper limit beyond which you suspect cheating is pretty legitimate, in my opinion.

Well yeah, because God doesn’t exist.