Taking something with the potential to be great (e.g. Pokemon Go) and fucking it up beyond compare, or creating a completely different product than what was wanted.
"Dude, I heard Jacob accidentally put salt instead of sugar in his birthday cake, then he tried to fix it by adding ketchup! He really pulled a Niantic there..."
by Crooked Desk October 17, 2016
Get the Niantic mug.(noun) The act of promising something, and then changing your mind when there's intense push-back from people with a lot of common sense, and then denying you ever said the first thing in the first place.
It was announced that the Ingress gameboard was going to be reset in January 2018. After a ravenous outcry from players with hard to reach portals, Ingress pulled a Niantic and said they were never going to reset the gameboard, players simply misunderstood what was said.
It was announced by Ingress in July 2018 that players attending Ingress events in August would get access to the Ingress Prime beta test. Players that had travelled to the only Ingress event in August in order to earn said beta test access were told that this wasn't the event that gives you access to the beta test. After an angry outcry form the player base, Ingress pulled a Niantic and gave all event attendees access to the beta test, claiming that this was the plan all along and that players attending events misunderstood what was told to them.
It was announced by Ingress in July 2018 that players attending Ingress events in August would get access to the Ingress Prime beta test. Players that had travelled to the only Ingress event in August in order to earn said beta test access were told that this wasn't the event that gives you access to the beta test. After an angry outcry form the player base, Ingress pulled a Niantic and gave all event attendees access to the beta test, claiming that this was the plan all along and that players attending events misunderstood what was told to them.
by Rogue Osborn October 27, 2018
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A small southeastern Connecticut beach town whose population grows three fold in the summer when all the old people return to their cottages with their attractive young granddaughters. You can pick up nice trinkets related to Niantic at the various Niantic-centric shops...(Niantic people are proud of where they come from).
Guy 1: I'm bangin' this chick from Delaware that's up here for the summer with her folks...
Guy 2: Where did you meet her?
Guy 1: Some shop on main street with a lot of Nianticy junk...
Guy 2: Where did you meet her?
Guy 1: Some shop on main street with a lot of Nianticy junk...
by Chowderhead316 July 29, 2008
Get the Niantic mug.(verb) To state a deadline with a reasonable amount of time left to complete the task in the allotted time, but instead complete the task using 600% of the allotted time.
It was announced in August 2017 that Ingress Prime would be released by the end of 2017, now it's getting released in November 2018. They Niantic-ed it.
by Rogue Osborn October 27, 2018
Get the Niantic mug.A small village brached off of a big town called East Lyme, located in sceneic Southeastern Connecticut. Has beautiful beaches as it is located along the coast line of Connecticut on the Long Island Sound. A lot of old people live here, and do generaly come back to vacation during the summer. We also get A LOT of tourists durning the summer, as we have very nice beaches. Some of our beaches are McCooks Point, Black Point, Rocky Neck State Park, Great Neck, and Hole-n-the-wall Beach. We have a 2 mile long boardwalk as well. These views are very nice, but there is one thing that always turn me and other people off, there is a big Nuclear Power Plant along the cape called Millstone Dominion, but that is not our town, it is in the next town over called Waterford.
by NadieMas9975 July 6, 2011
Get the Niantic mug.A place in the ass-crack of Pennsylvania where it's common to find dirty men in their mid to late 40's riding bikes around town as a form of transportation. The town isn't very large, only spanning about 3x2 miles, but can somehow house the same ammount of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, and various types of pills as Philadelphia. As a matter of fact, the only way most people ever heard of Nanticoke is from the stoner magazine "High Times."
Population in Nanticoke consists of the aforementioned freaks on wheels, slutty teenage girls who can find love interests in more than 4 guys at a time, hardcore kids who claim to be straight-edge but couldn't possibly be in a town so riddled with drugs, teenage males who are overloaded with testosterone and steroids who also say the GNA Football Team will take states the following season only to lose every game and continue their trademark of winning 5 games over 5 seasons, and people who are older than the town with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
Activities in Nanticoke include 3 main things for 3 main locations. On every street in Nanticoke, there are disgusting pizza places, hole in the wall bars filled with the town drunks, and churches. In general, you can get dysentary from a local pizza place, get sloshed at a bar, and then go worship at church, all on a walk down your street within one hour.
Population in Nanticoke consists of the aforementioned freaks on wheels, slutty teenage girls who can find love interests in more than 4 guys at a time, hardcore kids who claim to be straight-edge but couldn't possibly be in a town so riddled with drugs, teenage males who are overloaded with testosterone and steroids who also say the GNA Football Team will take states the following season only to lose every game and continue their trademark of winning 5 games over 5 seasons, and people who are older than the town with one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
Activities in Nanticoke include 3 main things for 3 main locations. On every street in Nanticoke, there are disgusting pizza places, hole in the wall bars filled with the town drunks, and churches. In general, you can get dysentary from a local pizza place, get sloshed at a bar, and then go worship at church, all on a walk down your street within one hour.
Adult Male 1: Let's go down to Nanticoke for the day.
Adult Male 2: Alright, what do you wanna do there?
Adult Male 1: We can do anything. I say we go get drunk and go to a football game to watch GNA get man-handled and while we're there we can start a love triangle with a highschool slut, then we can buy some coke from a local hookup I know. And once the night is over, we can come back here and snort up!
Adult Male 2: Sounds good, lemme grab my bike.
Adult Male 2: Alright, what do you wanna do there?
Adult Male 1: We can do anything. I say we go get drunk and go to a football game to watch GNA get man-handled and while we're there we can start a love triangle with a highschool slut, then we can buy some coke from a local hookup I know. And once the night is over, we can come back here and snort up!
Adult Male 2: Sounds good, lemme grab my bike.
by Keith Moran March 20, 2008
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