The problem is that Ingress doesn’t work that way. The common metaphor is sandcastles. Things are fragile. Defenses are really only good for mitigating splash damage, so in active areas things flip back and forth constantly. There’s no real gratification from building up anything durable, but (in theory) when things…

Why should they get a refund? Are the cheaters going to pay the other players for wasting their time?

I cringed a little during the howling commandos episodes. The cheese factor of the characters was too high for my tastes.

I think that commitment was shaky from the start. Sort of. It was originally billed as a “special event”/mini-series, not a new series. I remember wishing it were a series, and hoping they’d make it one, but having low expectations due to the marketing. I don’t know if they lost a significant number of returning…

“Netflix, gaming and other things like that don’t really count for much - probably 300GB a month if that.”

At least those are issues that are actually relevant to the campaign. Making it about the superficial (albeit indicative of deep-seated misogyny) mudslinging keeps everyone’s attention off of what the candidates’ policies will bring this country if they are elected. But no one is interested in that stuff.

It is a sexy picture in that the subject of the photo is posed that way. That’s all.

@Nukatha has a good point as applied to many conversations about candidates, though I wonder if they do some of this stupid shit to steer discussion away from the issues (like the ones you listed).