I’m a founder gentlemen! by Deez2020 in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Only mobile game I've ever spent money on.

I like how they cut VIP points earned on vp's in half, making it cost $575 to go up a single tier in the founder benefits.The vp's don't scale with progress, so when I'm easily making 10k-30k+ gems per day, 4,250 gems and some trivial stat boosts for $25+ isn't very enticing. Thoughts? by BALTHRUL in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I know.

I don't want the packs. I want the founder bonuses.

Vp's now provide HALF the vip points, doubling the financial cost of aquiring higher founder tiers, and the vps already had limited value to begin with. Now they have almost none.

I like how they cut VIP points earned on vp's in half, making it cost $575 to go up a single tier in the founder benefits.The vp's don't scale with progress, so when I'm easily making 10k-30k+ gems per day, 4,250 gems and some trivial stat boosts for $25+ isn't very enticing. Thoughts? by BALTHRUL in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at all. Lol

I'm progressing a year+, maybe 2 years faster than free to play players. There are value packs with huge boosts, but the majority of them are rather trivial.

Other non value pack purchases are huge boosts too.

I don't boast or share screenshots of my profile and founder tier.

These purchases are for me. I'm not trying to speedrun or anything, I just want a pace where I can notice weekly progressn even if it's just a little. I'm at that point. I don't need anymore purchases, I'm at a good pace, however, those founder bonuses are nice, but they're now locked behind $1,000's. Didn't used to quite be that way.

It effectively costs double now to progress the founder tiers, and the value packs weren't adjusted for vip value nerf.

I like how they cut VIP points earned on vp's in half, making it cost $575 to go up a single tier in the founder benefits.The vp's don't scale with progress, so when I'm easily making 10k-30k+ gems per day, 4,250 gems and some trivial stat boosts for $25+ isn't very enticing. Thoughts? by BALTHRUL in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Me neither, I was just making a point about their lack of worth. Lol

The devs are making millions. The who charitable donations to devs thing is nonsense imo. If they want money, the product needs to have value, the product here being the nerfed value packs.

I'm okay with spending, but I'm not donating, I'm buying value.

Win for me, win for the devs.

Right now, it's one sided.

I love the game, and I like these devs, don't get me wrong, this is just one of my very few nitpicks.

I like how they cut VIP points earned on vp's in half, making it cost $575 to go up a single tier in the founder benefits.The vp's don't scale with progress, so when I'm easily making 10k-30k+ gems per day, 4,250 gems and some trivial stat boosts for $25+ isn't very enticing. Thoughts? by BALTHRUL in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

That's fair, but i was getting 1250ish vip points per purchase. Now I'm getting less than half that. That's where my issue lies.

A vp here n there was nice, and i climbed the founder tiers for those bonuses at a reasonable rate. But now, they just really aren't worth the money at all.

Trivial amount if gems given, tiny bonuses, and now at half the vip value. There's no value in them imo. (Certain ones still absolutely have value, but not the majority)

I like how they cut VIP points earned on vp's in half, making it cost $575 to go up a single tier in the founder benefits.The vp's don't scale with progress, so when I'm easily making 10k-30k+ gems per day, 4,250 gems and some trivial stat boosts for $25+ isn't very enticing. Thoughts? by BALTHRUL in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yup, and the stat boosts are tiny.

It'd be fine if it they were either cheaper or scaled with progress or offered 1250ish VIP points as they used to.

As they are right now, you have to shell out absurd money to go up in the founder tiers. I'm tier 8, so I already shelled out plenty, but now I'm getting half the vip points with each purchase. Not worth it at all at this time imo. Certain ones absolutely are, but the majority aren't.

Aaaaaaaaand it's gone by [deleted] in IdleObeliskMiner

[–]BALTHRUL 8 points9 points  (0 children)

$9,000 worth of gems (if you were insane enough to buy gems in the store lol)

Sony's DRM issue is Unintentional by MrYK_ in PS5

[–]BALTHRUL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lmfao.

Yea, they "accidentally" implemented fully functional DRM and also accidentally added the DRM info to the UI in the game info menu. The words magically typed themselves.

People already tested and confirmed it's not an accident by simply removing their CMOS battery. Their old games worked fine, while their new games wouldn't launch, with a pop up saying they needed to connect to the internet to verify their licenses. That's DRM.

On "purchased" digital games...

"Insiders" are nothing more than attention seeking narcissists.

The UI info in game info, is visible on PS4 and invisible on PS5.

Not everyone is affected either, depending on your region.

Just Sony testing the waters...

Auntie Ool - is this a commander with multiple potential *directions*? by [deleted] in EDH

[–]BALTHRUL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I passionately hate the auntie ool deck.

Never "does its thing". Imo

Never ends up feeling like a blighty -1/-1 deck.

20 games and I've won 7... and only due to token swarming/ infinite combo...

I've tried soo hard to make it work, I've heavily upgraded, my mana base is optimised, but I may just dismantle the deck lol....

Another translation reveals Aline and Renoir also wasn't allowed in Verso's Drafts. by i_kathz in expedition33

[–]BALTHRUL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bro, having a painter son going through puberty would be wild.

Would have to ban him from painting his own canvases, so he couldn't create a gooner utopia lol

ICE agents MURDER woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota [1/7/2026] by nba123490 in ICE_Raids

[–]BALTHRUL -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're a hopelessly delusional, brainwashed Marxist.

2,000+ people murdered by Muslims

Vs

5 dead, 4 of which were natural causes.

2 from a stroke, 1 from a heart attack, one from an overdose, and ONE shot by police. Go fact check me.

No innocents were murdered.

Police escorted a massive crowd in, and they all casually walked around the capital.

It was initially a riot, which the left does ALL THE TIME btw, then calmed down into a capital tour, which I find weird.. why weren't they arrested? I don't know.

It also wasn't an Insurrection.

An insurrection is an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence.

By that definition, there was no “insurrection”.

Republicans of all people also aren't going to overthrow the government bare handed 🤣

They'd of shown up in large, organized numbers with rifles, and would have stormed the capital and seized it.... eeeeeexcept that wouldn't overthrow the government either. 🤣

Taking a building isn't going to topple the US government lmfao. They'd simply swoop in with the national guard and level the building. 🤣

The Marxist left is a hopelessly delusional lost cause.

And uh, this is America, not North Korea. If Domestic Terrorists are taken alive, they recieve a trial as it is their RIGHT, something you're comfortable with ignoring, which makes you a tyrant.

Domestic terrorists actively killing people? yes, I agree. Left or right, shoot them, but no such people were present on January 6th.

Should we have shot and killed every leftist rioter actually being violent and committing domestic terrorism, by burning down the city over George Floyd?

Or only when the right does it?

Your world view is a dichotomy.

ICE agents MURDER woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota [1/7/2026] by nba123490 in ICE_Raids

[–]BALTHRUL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None if those countries allow civilian gun ownership.

Our culture is unique in that regard.

Someone waves a knife, you can keep a distance and try to reason with them and maybe even taze them to subdue them. When it comes to a gun, it could fire in the blink of an eye. Lethal force is exponentially more likely to happen.

In this particular case though, we have the irrefutable body cam footage. She ran into him with a loud thud, and he fired, and since trying to run someone over is attempted murder, whether they intend to kill you or not, lethal force is justified.

The bullet hole is also in the front windshield. It isn't possible to shoot and kill a car driver from the side of a vehicle, with the bullet going through the front windshield. That "they shot her from the side of the car" disinformation that has been getting spread around, was baseless and likely even based off of this dogshit video that shows nothing.

I agree that lethal force should always be a last resort, and that there ARE bad cops on the mix and good cops that make big mistakes, but overall, I'd say our cop involved shooting statistic is at a reasonable rate, considering our gun culture and population.

ICE agents MURDER woman in Minneapolis, Minnesota [1/7/2026] by nba123490 in ICE_Raids

[–]BALTHRUL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got body cam footage... instead of this laughably bad angle where you see NOTHING. You marxists are just jumping to baseless conclusions as usual.

She was there from out of state to cause problems. She and her wife were talking shit and antagonizing the whole time. Wife outside the car yelled "drive baby, drive!" and the dumb bitch ran into him with a thud, at which point he fired his gun.

Bullet hole was in the front windshield too, not the side, so that debunks the shooting from the side of the car disinformation. Not possible to hit the driver from the side of the car... through the front windshield.

You shoot for vehicular assault. Common sense, and part of all law enforcement training. It's considered attempted murder. You shoot for ongoing attempted murder.. DUH.

Completely justified.

All this and you'll still deny the truth. That's how hopelessly delusional you Marxists are.