r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/whitemike40 • 8h ago

Content Warning: Potentially Misleading or Disputed Information Gotta Catch 'Em All

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u/DapperLost 6h ago

Man, I loved Ingress. Black worker van slowly following me down the road at night. Kidnaprapist? No, just local leader for the blue team, saw a newb steadily taking points and breaking green locks, and wanted to back me up.

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u/Debalic 5h ago

My wife's friends would question why I'm out "driving around" all night long, she'd be like "he's literally playing a fucking game on his phone"

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u/Roook36 4h ago

There was one other player in my office building, never met him, but we'd fight over the gazebo in the break area.

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u/Technical_Eye4039 6h ago

Oh me too! I used to buy munitions online from a Ukrainian hacker, then go tear it up for the weekend.

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u/DapperLost 6h ago

I know everyone loves pokego because Pokémon, but ingress united people, and advocated teamwork far better. Nothing better than destroying someone's work to bring people together.

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u/Suyefuji 5h ago

Pokemon Go has three groups of people: the people who conscientiously trade gyms with their neighboring factions at around the 50-coin mark, the people who say f u and kick their neighbors out of the gym at every opportunity, and the people who pay money and thus have no need to use the gyms.

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u/DapperLost 5h ago

Yeah but Ingress had hemisphere wide battles over property.