Notes about the world around us and a personal knowledge base — Antonio Nemcd’s blog
I found an old screenshot of mine and decided to post a riddle about game mechanics and quick wits.
The riddle: how do you get what’s in this screenshot?
That is, how do you fit well over 2,000 items into your Ingress inventory (2,291, for example)? You all remember the 2,000-item inventory limit — only occasionally could you go slightly over it with glyph hacks or when leveling up.
The answer is below 
Not long ago Ingress announced a new item — the Lawson Power Cube.
I read up on it — it’s interesting: a beautiful cube, said to be rare and to have special properties.
Ingress doesn’t just make you walk a lot — it demands it
Since around mid-August I’ve walked 713 km — and that’s only what was counted. How much more I walked with the screen off, with a bad internet connection and so on, and how much I rode by bike, I can’t even count.
In summer I walked in new Chinese sneakers (I never wrote about them, though I meant to), and in autumn and winter — in boots.
Yesterday I was near the 23 Serpnya metro station in Kharkiv — I’ve decided to complete at least one Ingress mission every day (it’s getting cold, and long evening walks like in summer won’t work anymore).
I got a bit cold, and one of the Kulinichi bakeries warmed me up. Kulinichi is a nice local thing (Kyiv doesn’t have it, for example): cheap coffee with a croissant or a Kaiser roll for about 22 UAH. McDonald’s is fine too, but there are fewer of them, and a latte alone is 20 UAH plus 20–40 UAH for a burger.
There’s a great little park at 23 Serpnya — I really like it, and yesterday it was especially unusual. A phone photo probably won’t convey the beauty, but take a look.
Warm lamp light, evening, yet everything is bright, white snow and trees all around. Next to it — a soldier monument, cannons, a memorial, benches Beautiful.
In mid-November Niantic gave Ingress players a present — double AP, double drops and a Vanguard medal depending on level.
Almost everyone expected the medal on December 1–2, but it didn’t come. And then, on the night of December 3, the medals started to appear.
Ingress turns three — my Vanguard medal (Silver):
Interestingly, the medal was awarded in stages: bronze first, then higher tiers.
