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    Broken

    Niantic has broken me

    Almost the minute I posted my last essay on Pokemon Go, I stopped playing. I had just risen to level 21 which took almost an entire week to reach from level 20. My goal was to level up maybe once a day to catch up with all the other players who had been hitting the game hard since day one. But as I progressed through the game each level became more grueling. Level 20 seemed like a good goal post because of the new Pokeballs that you could unlock. I also got a full time job and Pokemon was definitely not high on the priority list. So it sat there for a few weeks. Meanwhile Niantic kept issuing updates and occasionally I would check in on them. I heard through the interwebs that the Halloween update would give out free Pokemon candies and the ghost characters would be more prevalent. I was excited to play again but the game just kept crashing. I had grown used to the idea of not evolving my pokemon because there would be a 80% chance the program would crash. But it was getting worse. Now the app would shut down without cause. It had become almost unusable. But I did want to take advantage of the Halloween update and so I pressed on. Quite frustratingly I had just dropped my phone and cracked the screen. It was still functioning and I didn’t let that stop me. But finally the program made itself unusable when […]

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