Honestly I do feel that using this methodology is pretty flawed precisely because of that—there needs to be some way of checking if what’s discriminated against is the name. (In other words, is the problem simply with the socioeconomic origins indicated by Black names? If we don’t still see it when Deshawn* is named…

From what I can tell, Niantic does not usually respond, period. In fact I’m surprised Forbes got an interview, did they basically send somebody to track that guy down and stalk him until he finally gave in...?

Look, the maps are actually pretty lousy if you want to navigate on foot—you are going to end up exploring no matter what. The only thing some of us are asking for is to be able to get somewhere in the game unless we’re expected to somehow take gyms with teams of Raticate. (Ha ha no.)

The temperatures outside where I live are routinely hitting levels where the local authorities will outright encouraged you to stay inside, and have been bouncing around there since around when Pokemon GO got released. Don’t go calling people fat and lazy for concluding that venturing out in their local weather…

Honestly baking in a version—one that also flags official dead zones (places where no pokemon should appear) would be good, and they can use it to route people to intentional hot zones by having a mark that basically means a rare ‘mon will appear when enough players are in that area. (Just give enough warning for…