I agree, Sanders would have been a much tougher opposition to Trump, and I would have preferred him over Hillary any day, unfortunately Clinton's friends in the DNC actively sabotaged Sanders's campaign from within. As reported by Wikileaks, not by Trump campaign, mind you. So much for fair primaries...

...and then Clinton, already the easiest political target in the US, fell to the oldest trick in the book: trolling. Trump "accidentally" lets out a gaffe, Hillary camp bites into it like rabid piranhas, and forgets to convey what was her agenda, if any. See, Sanders actually had clear ideas how issues should be solved. Clinton's version - as conveyed by the local media - soon devolved into "please tell us what you would like us to do". It's nice to listen to the people but at some point you have to take leadership if you want to be a leader. Values are great in a mission statement, but people who want change need concrete action plans.

The final mistake was when Hillary started targeting not Trump, but Trump's voters. Amidst all the muckraking, the infamous "deplorables" line was a new bottom low. It was as if swing voters did not exist and would suddenly feel guilty instead of enraged when being called names.

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The social media outrage amazingly still continues unabated. It seems to have cyclic movement, people wind down in the evening and wake up relatively peaceful, but as the day rolls towards evening, they become more and more frenzied due to exposure to social media forming a feedback loop. And I'm becoming rather embarassed at the columns in the newspapers when the editor starts the nth tirade on how her entire world collapsed overnight and she realized that the universe is evil and how can she tell about this to her children (won't anyone think of the children?). Though I'd like to see even one US artist keeping his or her word of moving to Canada if Trump gets elected. Considering the massive flow of emigrants after similar threats in 2000 and 2004, I am not exactly holding my breath...

What is surreal though is that (according to news, though of course they only pick the juiciest subjects) there are demonstrators on the streets demanding an assassination of Trump. It did not go this far even when W. was elected first with popular minority, not even when he was re-elected. Two wrongs make one right? Democracy is acceptable only if it gives favourable results?

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If the election system constantly gives biased results, surely there would be at some point an initiative to change it? Even if the proportional method is kept, "winner takes all" is just stupid and practically guarantees a two-party system. I don't know the particulars, but has any US politician even tried to suggest a change? Silly me. Of course not, because politicians being politicians they think that next time they are going to use the system to win.

If one lives close by a shore, Magikarps are aplenty (and since every Magikarp nest also has a chance of spawning a Dratini every now and then, well, do the math). Haven't bothered yet to make a dedicate "fishing trip" (WINTER IS COMING so maybe I should while I still can), but for example around the local ferry terminal there's about 10 (or more) water-type spawns within about 100m of each other (noticed this while visiting the electronics store across the street from the terminal), many of which yield Karps.

But yeah, rural areas are screwed doubly. Not only do they not have any pokéstops, but pokémon spawn frequency is based on the amount of mobile users nearby: more exactly, based on the big data statistics Niantic pulled in 2012-3 when they were still part of Google and were planning their previous game Ingress, from which the stops/gyms are recycled (yes, they are user-added but originally to Ingress, Niantic is not accepting any new submissions for the time being because they are hard pressed to even respond to customer service requests). However, since everything is based on 3-4 years old data, anyone living in a district newer than that will find the amount of monsters quite lacking...

However, there's a nifty trick rural users can use. First, check that "Sightings" is empty and there are no 'mons or even spawns nearby (previously, these were the "someone's digging the grass" animations, nowadays one can use Ingress for the same, as exotic matter (XM) concentrations function as Pokémon spawn points). Then, pop Incense, or if a stop is nearby (and there are no Sightings or XM nearby), place a lure in there (or both). According to teh intarwebz, you should be rewarded by an influx of rare 'mons.

Just made it to level 22 btw. And fortunately Niantic folded and reverted the speed limit to 21 kph / 350m/min, so maybe I'll keep on being addicted.

So, why aren't you on Level 20+ yet?

It's obviously an "early access pre-alpha" despite reputedly having been in a public beta already, but the 0.3.x version number seems to be accurate. Practically none of the features advertised in the announcement trailer exist (PvP battles on the go, genuine team vs. team battles, "raids" and/or events, and most importantly, trading pokémons) and even a supposedly working pokémon tracking system is still in "beta testing for selected users", which would still be a much more vague system than the trailer suggests. Oh well, the launch trailer did away with all this, but it still has the bluetooth alert gizmo, and suggests that the odometer would work if the screen is turned on and/or lock screen is used (hint: it won't, the game loses the GPS signal due to how Android is made). And the launch trailer encourages cheating (not to mention potentially suicidal behaviour) because people are playing the game while riding a bicycle.

Despite the real game missing from this, it has actually managed to become a breakthrough in "gamifying" physical exercise, which I think is a good justification all by itself. Across the first world and increasingly in developing countries, sedentary lifestyle with too little of physical activity is contributing to various health problems, so anything that gets people (like me) moving is a good thing basically. Last night what was supposed to be a quick "incense run" of 30 mins (because Incense spawns a new 'mon every 200 metres moved) accidentally stretched out to 2 hours of interval training.

Also, it's funny how nowadays more and more people are clearly playing it whenever they are walking. Parks and squares are filling up with people who talk and get acquainted with each other, and of course NIMBY's are at it and are raving how public spaces should be empty and silent at all times. Oh well, at least now also in beergardens and on terraces people have a common ice-breaker to open the discussion.

Though, Niantic really should build a game in there somewhere to keep the users interested. And of course, WINTER IS COMING and since the game eats battery like no tomorrow, cold air is not going to increase playing time, not to mention that throwing pokéballs with gloves on will be impossible. Interesting to see whether the game survives until spring thaws outside the regions where snowfall is a national emergency that fortunately lasts only a day or two.

PS. Can't even blame the nostalgy, I was too old for Pokémon when it became all the rage so all this is new to me except for the "wild x appeared" and "x uses y, it is super effective!" memes.

So Erdo has denounced the European Convention of Human Rights, has arrested everyone in public office even suspected of not following the Party line, and using the supposedly constitutional (it are because I says so) state of emergency has given himself both executive and legislative powers. I think it's safe to say that he loves democracy just as sincerely as Senator Palpatine.

Really? Military coups rarely work out well. Say what you want about Erdogan, but he is democratically elected, so removing him by force sends the wrong message entirely.

Hitler was democratically elected too, so removing him by force sent the wrong message entirely?

We're talking about a guy who has never even bothered to pretend that his goal would be anything else than an Iran-style Islamistic theocracy. "Democracy is like a tram, you have to get off at the right stop", and all that. Yes, him losing in a fair election would be preferable to a coup, but getting a fair election in Turkey is a distant hope, so a coup is the next best thing. Maybe theocracy indeed is what the majority of Turkish people wants, but at some point the minority has to be protected from the majority, and Erdogan or AKP are not going to do that if they get more power.

A pity.

Could you perhaps add in the first post a line "The development team has no plans or intentions of making FH2 a standalone game or changing the engine for making FH3 for the foreseeable future"?