My guess is that the Nearby feature was putting a strain on the servers (requiring it to make too many relative position calculations per second) and they intentionally “broke” it (turned off the distance calculation) to ease the load, and have been unable to come up with a more optimized distance-calculating…

The signal will only give the user’s position. Calculating the relative positions of a list’s worth of nearby pokémon is another thing altogether if you want second-to-second accurate-to-within-a-meter precision. At the moment the “nearby” list only seems to update once every few seconds. Since it’d be ridiculous to…

That’s not unreasonable, although for me even without a direction a working steps feature would be enough since I don’t mind playing “hot and cold”.

That seems unlikely. Either every movement of 1m in any direction would require another GPS call, drastically increasing battery/data usage, or the distance displayed would remain at (for example) 56m for several seconds even while you’re moving around and would not be accurate most of the time. Footsteps seems like…

Or something else that’s even better, or whatever they can implement that isn’t broken. It’s not surprising that they removed something that was broken until they could fix it.

Sounds like Jake the Snake would LOVE D&D and LARPing.

PoGo already starts with a Launch Screen that warns the user to stay aware of their surroundings. They’re covered.

At what point did a hair wrap become unprofessional, though? And what’s wrong with a ponytail, for goodness’ sake? Sounds like the boss just wanted to heckle her for looking too ethnic. If someone told a Sikh that his turban was unprofessional, there’d be wigs on the green, and rightly so.

OK awesome, now to complete the retro effect I say they should hire Take That to write the music.

Yep and the UK won’t vote to leave the EU

Actually no, it’s a LOT more difficult to hear them if they’re facing away from you.

It’s just that if he was talking about Flair-style robes, it’s possible he was being facetious and sarcastic in a “are you serious? Me, a heel? Can you even imagine?” way

Source?

And TBH maybe they’re right not to cater to us anymore. Back in the Attitude Era they had to go further and further to top what we had ever seen before. Not just with angles but with stunts. It was spectacular and we loved it but people DIED, like. But if you cater to kids... with kids, it’s always SOMEONE’S first…

Oh I’ve no doubt it would be controversial and there are reasons that he shouldn’t. I’m just saying that his babyface-ness is holding him back from living up to his highest potential.

I frickin’ hope so! Poison, as a type, has always been a bit underpowered and underrepresented.

Yeah Cena could be the GOAT if Vince would only let him turn heel for a while.

I’m honestly surprised that Pokémon Go doesn’t simply use your Mii and possibly your Miitomo outfit.

Police are supposed to identify themselves as police in order to avoid coming across as random psychos with guns. If you point a gun at me and tell me not to move but never say the words “arrest” or “police” I will absolutely assume you are just some random psycho

Kotaku and PA don't get along so every week Kotaku picks the shittest strip PA did that week in a pretty transparent attempt to make them look as low-quality as possible. The one you showed and the one about Pokemon Go were both funnier this week