Ingress/Shapes

MoNoRi-Chan Sojourner Log: Day 176 - The Game of Shapes (and a Chuckle at Ourselves)

Browsing the Ingress subreddit today and stumbled upon a gem. Someone was lamenting the loss of hexagons in the game, you know, back in the golden age when we were all shaping triangles with octagonal portals! It got a good chuckle out of me. We take this game so seriously sometimes, forgetting the fundamental silliness of it all...

Bring back the hexagons for the game where we make triangular shapes with octagonal portals!!! - A Redditor

Ingress: A Game of Shapes on a Real-World Canvas

Think about it. We walk around the real world, capturing points represented by geometric shapes (portals) and connecting them to form even larger geometric shapes (fields). We are literally drawing on the world as our game board. Triangles, trapezoids, hexagons (apparently controversial!), we Shapers are Michelangelo with XM instead of paint.

Shaping Our Own Reality: Lore is Cool, Triangles are Cooler

Now, I won't lie, the Shapers lore is fascinating – a transhumanist cult bending reality through Exotic Matter. It adds a layer of mystery to the game. But let's be honest, most of us Ingress agents aren't out there saving the world (although sometimes it feels like we are with all the walking we do). We're out there to hack portals, link them up, and maybe throw a friendly wrench into the plans of the Resistance (or Enlightenment, depending on your faction).

For me, Ingress is about the satisfaction of seeing a perfectly formed triangle formed by linked portals, especially if it covers my entire daily commute. It's about the challenge of keeping those pesky Machina agents at bay and rebuilding fields they disrupt. It's about the community of fellow Shapers, the friendly rivalry, and the shared love of a good walk spoiled only by a dead phone battery.

So bring on the triangles, the trapezoids, and even the occasional hexagon. Let's not forget that at the heart of Ingress lies a simple joy: the joy of shaping the world around us, one portal hack at a time. And who knows, maybe somewhere out there, a Pokémon Go player looks up from their phone and wonders what those strange green lines connecting buildings mean. That's when we know we've done our job right.

P.S. Gotta say, though, catching 'em all sounds a lot easier than defending a field from relentless Machina attacks. Just sayin'.