CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I know, I really should be doing these on the day I find them, so you don't get swamped with ninety million pogo posts when you're looking for writing posts. I'll try to be better. Anyway, the gym scenery changed earlier this week, and I discovered that the special attack bar for your pokemon had totally disappeared! Okay, not. It had just moved - to the bottom of the screen. If you look closely, you'll also see the faded out button just above it. That's the special attack for my magneton. When the bar fills, and the attack is available, the button glow and you can tap it as you battle. And, finally, if your pokemon gets multiples of its special attack, the bar splits into however many attacks your pokemon gets with its special attack, and you can see how full each bar is. I really like this development. The circle glows as soon as the first attack is ready to go, but each tap only uses up one attack, provided the attack is ready. For the curiou...

Well, on the upside it looks like Niantic has made some progress on the red-banner error that stops me from raiding. And, while I *still* could not have taken this big fella down on my own, it's a little disappointing that, months after their introduction, I still can't enter raids. Mind you, what a *very* pretty pokemon - and it came to visit not once, but twice in one day. What are the chances of that happening again? <sigh> So, this is this morning's effort. Notice that I'm still being asked if I want to "rejoin" the battle, when I've never been part of it to start with. I suspect this might be part of the error, but I can't be sure. Anyway, you'll also notice the intriguing (33) at the end of the Error message, and the more detailed message, which is an improvement on the single-word message I used to get. And this is from the same gym this afternoon. Same error message,but I wasn't quick enough to screen-shot it.I will also...