I sat at the campus gym for like, half an hour whittling its prestige down so I could take it over, then just as I did, some random red dude sniped it from under me. So I healed up and cleared him out of there with a sound beating, but before I could get anyone in the gym, his buddy stuck a pokemon in there. It took some careful timing, but I eventually managed to stick a random flareon in there (I have so many flareon, guys. It’s a problem. I just want a jolteon or vaporeon. Either one would do. Just not another flareon, please)
So naturally, the guy starts fighting the flareon to take it out, but this time, I was ready. As soon as he wiped out the flareon and the gym turned grey, I struck. I stuck another flareon with the same nickname and nearly the same cp in there.
Cue “WTF is this piece of shit glitchy game doing?” reaction from the guy. "I beat it, why is that thing still there?“ Meanwhile, I healed up my first flareon, so when he tried again, I just stuck it back in the gym. After a few times, the timing got really easy. He beats flareon, I stick the other in, heal while he’s fighting, rinse and repeat.
I was just gonna let it go after a few repetitions, but then his buddy said “Maybe it’s that girl over there doing it?” and he replied “No, can’t be, girls suck at Pokemon.”
Bitch, it is on.
I kept it up for half an hour until he ran out of healing items and had to storm away frustrated that he couldn’t seem to capture this “glitchy” gym.
You wanna be a gym sniping asshole? Fine, I’ve got better things to do. You want to be a sexist dudebro asshole? I will destroy you and everything you love.
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so i work at target and two kids ran outside shouting at their clearly exasperated mother that there’s a squirtle outside and it took everything in me not to follow them out until my fucking manager went “A SQUIRTLE?!” and ran outside to catch it
and i can’t get over it because that sounds like a clearly fake text post but it happened because EVERYTHING coming from this game sounds fake like if someone told me they caught a dragonite and the whole bus rose in a standing ovation i would fucking believe it because that’s the kind of shit that happens with pokemon go
like clearly 2016 is a fake year but finally we’re getting something unreal that’s actually good
I’m going to add to this because this entire fucking year sounds like a text post some tween on Tumblr made up for notes, but this actually fucking happened, my hand to God, may the cosmos strike me fucking down if I’m lying.
I work at a bookstore so naturally pretty much the entire staff are nerds and almost all of the younger ones (including younger managers) are excitedly playing the game, but after I’d been on break and shown one manager the Pokemon I caught (after she’d excitedly run over to show me hers), I’d gone back to work only for the intercom to go off, with another manager saying “Kit, could you please pick up the phone?”
I’m like, “oh fuck I must be in trouble for something”, but I go over and pick it up.
The following exchange ensued:
Me: “Yeah, I’m here, what’s up?”
Manager 2: “*LOUDLY* HOW THE FUCK DID YOU GET A JIGGLYPUFF”
Me: “*startled* –AT MY HOUSE?
Manager 2: DAMMIT!!!
Now, a few days later, the older managers are joining in and everybody is excitedly talking about how to potentially get our store turned into a Pokestop or Gym. I am literally overhearing dead-serious conference calls about Pokemon and being sought out for Pokemon naming advice and art by the general manager ( “How do you spell ‘Eevee’? I want to put a picture up on our Facebook page! Oh, have you found out if we can submit Gym requests yet??”). I walked into work this morning to a note from my boss excitedly telling me that Drowzee had been spotted in the cafe and could I draw a new sign with a picture of him drinking one of our beverages?
We are living the most incredible dream right now and I love it.
This is really cool.
An onna-bugeisha (女武芸者) was a type of female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many wives, widows, daughters, and rebels answered the call of duty by engaging in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war. They also represented a divergence from the traditional ‘housewife’ role of the Japanese woman. They are sometimes referred to as female samurai. Significant icons such as Empress Jingu, Tomoe Gozen, Nakano Takeko, and Hōjō Masako are famous examples of onna bugeisha. (x)
True visionaries. (via glassfeatures)
Pokémon Go has taken over our lives
Professor Poses the One Perfect Question About Race That Stumps Her Audience
It's so simple, yet so overlooked.
In a viral video watched by 20 million Facebook users and counting, anti-racism educator Jane Elliott asks her audience a question that gets to the root of systematic racism in America.
Elliott asks all white people in her audience to stand if they “would be happy to be treated as this society in general treats our black citizens.”
The video shares some blank stares from the white audience members as a hush falls over the crowd.
Elliott comments harshly, “You didn’t understand the directions,” and she repeats the question.
“Nobody is standing here,” Elliott says. “That says very plainly that you know what’s happening? You know you don’t want it for you. I want to know why you’re so willing to accept it or to allow it to happen to others.”
It’s a poignant teachable moment for those who haven’t considered empathy as a response to the injustices people of color suffer.
The clip has been circulating widely since last week’s resurgence of Black Lives Matter protests around the country. There have been many cringe-worthy and ignorant responses questioning why black lives matter as opposed to “all lives mattering.” This clip is the perfect response.
You can watch the video at the link.
being sleepy has just become one of my defining personality traits