I thought the lesson was “Don’t steal someone else’s private photos and expose them to the world, and if someone else does, don’t contribute to it by looking at those photos.”

The worst was Nintendo with Pokemon Black 2 / White 2, where they actually locked the *easy* difficulty behind beating the game, or else having a friend that did. (And I believe it was specifically White 2 at that.)

The problem here is that the person breaking the rules isn’t the only one at risk. To extend your analogy, it would be like if someone were to climb over safety rails, there would be a small chance that someone else could get killed. In this case, maybe you do more than simply shrugging and accepting it - maybe you…

When human lives are on the line, it might unfortunately be a necessary trade-off that people won’t be able to do that.

Well, this is Niantic, not Nintendo. Nintendo’s had almost zero involvement with this game. They basically gave out the license, provided the 3D models, and said “Have at it.”

Ah, the good old No True Scotsman argument. How I’ve missed you...

This new system might work well enough for urban (and suburban to a lesser extent) players, but many rural players don’t live anywhere near a Pokestop. Add to that the fact that spawn rates are far lower in those regions, and the only way they could play was with some sort of tracking system. But if the new tracking…

...You did wait until they’d left before putting the locks on your gates, right? I mean, either way is cool, just asking.

My best guess is that they’re too wedded to keeping Pokemon child friendly. MMOs require actual communication, and that’s a line Nintendo doesn’t want to cross for fears that parents will stop letting their kids play the game because they might interact with strangers.

But in this case, there’s little reason it can’t be more fair. Imagine if a game came out where blue-eyed players were given twice as many rewards as other players. Would you shrug that off with “Life isn’t fair”? The pokemon spawn distribution is decidedly biased towards urban areas, and there’s no reason it needs to…

Because prominent streamers cheating can normalize cheating, which can ruin the gameplay experience for non-cheaters in any multiplayer games featured. This doesn’t affect Twitch directly, but the legal status of streaming games is unclear, and so they rely on a good relationship with video game companies to ensure…

My guess is that it’s because if you go the normal route and do chargebacks through the credit card company, then Sony has to pay for it (at quite a hefty fee too - can be like $30/chargeback*). Issuing a refund, however, is much cheaper.

According to Google’s reverse image search, that’s Robert Redford.

I knew a woman who was in the New Zealand army,* and when she was in the US she was once attacked by a robber with a knife. She’d disarmed him before she’d even realized she was being attacked, thinking he was giving the knife to her. Trust me, hearing a story like that doesn’t get old.

Damn lucky, congrats! One of the best evolved ones to nab in the wild, and at such high CP too.

The article here says she’s the daughter of Professor Layton, so unless they plan to rip off Futurama, I don’t think she’s going to be one of his ancestors.

There’s already a speed limit detection, but all it does it prevent you from making progress in hatching eggs. It shouldn’t be hard at all for them to program in something to happen (a splashscreen etc.) to prevent other activity. This will affect passengers playing the game as well, though. It might be an acceptable…

I’d hardly call it a large portion, but this is one of those things that’s nearly impossible to pin down accurately, as most rape accusations reside in the large grey area between “provably true” and “provably false”. The common statistic is that 2-8% are provably false, and only a similar number of rapes reported to…

I think it needs to be stated that if someone is driving a vehicle toward you, shooting at it is in no way self-defense. That is, it does not in any way help to make you safer - if anything, it puts you in more danger. Vehicles have a lot of momentum behind them, and there’s almost nothing you can do by shooting at…