The mons that were your gym defenders are now your raid fighters. I made the mistake early on of putting a few of my heavy hitters in gyms and regret it because they ended up stuck. (my poor tyranitar has been trapped for 4 days and counting.) Fought a raid on sunday where the only reason we won on the 4th try was…

It’s worth noting that Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau is openly gay and has served as grand marshal of the parade. so yeah...

Just a minor correction. Jeronimo Yanez was a Police officer in St Anthony, not St Paul. St Paul is the state capital with 300K people and St Anthony is a tiny, shitty suburb to the north containing 9K people. 

They’ve been bumping the level for raids down steadily, last I heard it was 27, so hang in there.

If you were casting a Very Special Episode of Law&Order in which an old white guy kills a young black guy the crime may be a hate crime and the cast have to struggle to figure out the truth and find justice yadda yadda, and that guy walked up for the casting call you’d say “Naaa, too obvious...”

I discovered a few years ago that I could pick up any of my old transformers (which haven’t been out of a box in 25 years) and change them purely on muscle memory, including Jetfire. I was looking at them and thinking “I wonder if I can remember how... *flip flip snap pop flip snap pop* Oh, OK then...”

There was (or possibly still is) a yellow super beetle for sale by owner near me. Saw it parked with a sign while walking in the park and went over to take a look. Exterior was in good shape, seats kinda worn, generally looked like a good relatively easy project car for a gearhead. (which I am not) I’m not normally…

Indeed, a non-trival number of shooting incidents seem to follow the pattern of “Officers on the scene are working to resolve the situation, then another officer rolls up and within 10 seconds starts shooting.”

On a long enough time scale every bad parking job becomes moot.

Ran when parked.

I keep a few cans around for emergencies of the “Oh fuck I didn’t sleep well last night and I have to attend a boring meeting right after lunch” variety. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I enjoy the taste, but it’s tolerable for the length of time it takes to chug a can.

A friend had a story about having a great local pizza joint in town. Great pizza made with fresh ingredients for very reasonable prices in a family friendly atmosphere. It closed down when it was discovered that not only was it a mob money laundering front, the rooms upstairs were being used for prostitution. They had…

Star for you.

The thing that ticks me off the most are the stories of seeing the same trainer in 30 or 40 gyms. I can see getting into a few extra gyms in case a couple get knocked down before you can collect, but sewing up 20+ is just being a dick to the other players on your own team.

The primary reason for my continued success in the game is my bus commute, which takes me past 40 pokestops many of which are at stoplights or other places where the bus has to slow or stop. Reliably being able to spin 60+ stops every day allowed me to pass my wife in level despite starting 6 months later than she did.

Glad I wasn’t the only one to have that thought.

My mother-in-law lives in Santa Ana right off the 5, like close enough to see the freeway from the house. Last time we visited there the freeway was as crowded as a typical Minneapolis rush hour at 2 am in the morning.

Every time I think we’ve reached peak SyFy, they say “Hold my beer...”

Fox News: “Muslim Iman defends crazed murderer.”

Well obviously the armed, trained men wearing body armor were in great fear for their lives. I mean after all it was a black person with another black person inside her. Who knows what those two were capable of?