Court's no fun, but it happens to the best of us. It doesn't make you any less of a responsible adult or a bad person. It's just one of those things a person has to go through at some stage in their life.
I'd say don't sweat it, but I know it's a stressful thing. Just know that, seriously, it really truly doesn't make you any less responsible / adult. 
@VulgarKitten said in Pokemon Go:
Impatiently waiting the Canadian release. Anyone know when that's going to be?
It's being rolled out over time. Australia got it first, then the US... With the server issues, they probably had to delay other countries.
However, you can do what a lot of people did when it hit Australia; download it separately. It SHOULD still work, largely, if you do, but there might be some fiddly bits sometimes.
http://www.mtlblog.com/2016/07/pokemon-go-is-live-in-canada/# has links for how to do it on Android or iOS. Personally, I don't generally recommend it, BUT, I know people who haven't had issues.
Idiots on Facebook are idiots. I will be making like Elsa eventually, but man, people's inability to have civil debates really fucking galls me at times. Especially charming when their PARENTS chime in all "well done, son!" when they've done little more than act like a particularly surly teenager.
Yes, yes, I know I should not be surprised. And that it's probably my fault for engaging the schmuck in the first place.
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The first person I ever blocked on Facebook was someone's mother for exactly that kind of behavior. That woman was just vile.
On my 'RL Anger' front:
Really, really needing a 'me time' sort of day. Y'know, nice meal out. Possibly a fattening dessert. Getting muh hairs did.
...but being in desperate 'save money' mode and struggling to justify even buying a pack of cookies.
@skew said in Pokemon Go:
@Apu Do you need to move while using incense, or do they come to you? I might check tomorrow... long boring work phone call, bright and early. >.<
They come to you. Just sit on your butt and let the vibrations roll in. 
I'm 100% with you. I mean, the most upsetting thing about that Koffing at the Holocaust museum wasn't that it was there... It's that enough people were in that place, playing the game, that random chance let it happen.
Also, schools aren't generally going to have Pokestops/gyms. Some might. But Niantic has generally avoided schools (esp. elementary & middle) having them (so, y'know, there's no issues with adults lingering about). Since polling places are often schools...
But seriously. The excuses people already give to not vote? ('I don't feel like getting up early.' 'I forgot to ask for the day off.') Pokemon wouldn't magically make non-voters suddenly vote.
I mean, yes/no. Pokemon are generated based on the same algorithms used for XM in Ingress. It's not based on gyms/Pokestops at all. So you're basically saying 'They need to be aware of every potential faux pas that could happen with a Pokemon spawning, anywhere in the world.'
I am not going to hold any game to that. I mean, they can go in now and likely eliminate Koffing from ever spawning in that general region, but to prevent it ahead of time? If spawning was dependent on gym/Pokestop locations, sure, they might be able to task some poor employees to check every single one and check local customs/possible upsetting things/insults/whathaveyou... but then we'd be looking at a release date probably 3-5 years from now rather than this month.
Some people just really, really hate fun.
Or really, really love a reason to pretend they're more special / better than everyone else.
I'm just glad to see something other than politics all over social media.
@Apu said in Pokemon Go:
If they're so evil, why are they addressing the issues with the security problems and are working with Google to fix them when they could perhaps exploit it?
The funny thing is, people are still posting about how they 'have access to your entire Google account!' except they released an update on Wednesday that fixed all of that. And have made statements.
But naw, let's just do the usual social media herd mentality and focus on the bad issue that's already resolved. 
@Royal said in Pokemon Go:
Heard there was a park nearby that's lousy with Dratini. Rolled up at 8pm and there were atleast a couple hundred people there. Bonkers!
The park downtown here had about three hundred or so people on Tuesday. I was told it's had even more some nights. Kids. Folks in their 50's.
Someone shouts "SQUIRTLE!" and the mob just went running.
...I spent two hours there when all I'd planned to do was wander through.
I'm Mystic.
Because blue is my favorite color and before the game was released, all we knew was 'teams are blue, yellow, and red.' So. Blue.
@Thenomain said in Pokemon Go:
I've been sincerely wondering if there's really anything more to it than that.
Like why the teams are the colors they are? Because the original game carts were red, blue, and yellow and the mythical bird trio (which is where the logos come from) are blue, red, and yellow.
That's all it is. But Pokemon being Pokemon being Japanese, they had to give them... like... descriptions and shit. I dunno. I went blue because blue. I didn't know any of this Mystic Valor Instinct stuff. They didn't even have it in beta. In beta you just picked a color.
Rather than focusing on the results of my hip x-ray (arthritis, bleh)... Instead I am focusing on:
Since I was a teenager, I've had issues of cracking & peeling & itchy skin on my feet. Every time I've gone to get it checked out, I get told 'probably athlete's foot' and given stuff to treat that. It's never helped.
Last I was at the derma for my quarterly follow-up, I talked to the guy I was seeing. One of the fresh out of school working under an experienced practitioner sorts... Explained hey, I'v tried the fungal-treatment stuff so much, it's never helped. He gave me, instead, prescription strength moisturizer and another cream that he said acts as a 'barrier.'
One month in and my feet have not looked and felt this good in well over a decade. SO NICE.
Be vindictive.
I mean, yes, they may have needs/troubles/etc., but you may be at least helping them get help. Or avoiding things being worse on you and your neighbors.
I had a neighbor for a while who had dogs. A lot of them. And we only called once one of them broke through the fence and attacked my dog. Found out they'd been fined once and then arrested for two previous cases of dog hoarding. They were squatting on a house where the original owner had died and there was no water or power. With kids.
It ultimately turned out that the mother with the two kids was in an abusive situation she didn't know how to get out of and the cops showing up to investigate the dog complaint were able to figure this out and help her. And the poor dogs got rescued.
I am lucky to hold a gym for a few hours.
But also.
Seattle.
Everyone plays.
The roomba story has amused the hell out of me. I feel so bad for that guy, but goddamn: lol.
When I moved last year (October), I had literally just stepped into the door at the end of a cross-country (South Carolina to Seattle) drive to a phone call from my parents. The day I had left, my brother began acting very strangely. Manic. Then violent. Had admitted to mixing drugs for a 'high.' They were calling to let me know he was under psychiatric care and was, supposedly, blaming me for it. (He was blaming me, not them)
This past Spring, he mixed various drugs again, went manic, and was arrested following harassing neighbors in his underwear. He was compliant with the cops, neighbors didn't want to press charges, so he just went into psych again.
Today, he's sending me the strange messages on FB that have preceded previous situations. I checked with my parents and they said he was manic this morning, but 'seemed normal' since. I've had to block him because the messages are either entirely nonsensical, or things like:
"I want to be me, but you took that, refused to let me be and made sure I would never amount to anything."
He is 26.
I have not been 'a part' of his life other than distantly in over a decade. This because of a few times in my teens in which he was violent towards me, made threats to kill me, etc. I have tried. I have really, really tried, because I'm jealous of those who are close to their siblings. I had thought that maybe once he was an adult... but no. I can't do this any more.
@Misadventure said in RL Anger:
I am fairly sure there are some comedy specials by women comedians addressing just that topic. Perhaps your teen friend should do some research.
Funny enough (knowing the situation in question), that's what set the whole discussion off. One such video that was done in a tongue-in-cheek fashion (female comedians making the types of comments made about them re: men instead, like 'Can you imagine a male-led comedy?!').
I have this utter inability to properly sleep when there's something big happening the next day. Like traveling. A new job. A major surgery.
... or in today's case, moving.
So I'm exhausted and sick with anxiety for something that doesn't 'begin' for another... 5.5 hours.