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Title: With friends lists and gifts, Pokémon Go finally improves for rural players—sort of
Post by: HCK on June 28, 2018, 04:05:13 pm
With friends lists and gifts, Pokémon Go finally improves for rural players—sort of

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<p>I love the stories from the first days of Pokémon Go: the tales of shut-ins venturing out into parks and public spaces to find not only Charmanders and Bulbasaurs but sometimes new real-life friends who shared their passions. At its best, early Pokémon Go lent truth to the phrase “augmented reality,” as people found their local corner stores or libraries became “PokéStops” for replenishing the supplies needed to play. In an age when people bark at others for staring at screens rather than faces, Niantic’s game managed to blaze a middle road.</p><p>But me? I spent those halcyon days on a remote and dusty South Texas ranch, hunting Pokémon of my own through swaths of skin-ripping mesquite beneath a 100-degree sun. Or trying to, anyway. Half an hour would go by before I found something to toss a ball at, and when such a thing would appear, it was almost always a near-worthless <a href="https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/pokemon/19-rattata/normal" rel="nofollow">Rattata[/url] or <a href="https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/en/pokemon/16-pidgey" rel="nofollow">Pidgey[/url].</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3284382/gaming/pokemon-go-improves-for-rural-areas-with-friends-lists-and-gifts.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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