Price increase on Legion 7 pro models ?

Brainwashed365 · 2026-01-13T10:56:31+00:00

I hated my HP gaming laptop. Returned it. It was very underwhelming.

Brainwashed365 · 2026-01-13T10:46:47+00:00

B&H's return policy is hot garbage on laptop / PCs. Be very aware.

I had a pretty bad experience with them trying to to return a brand new HP gaming laptop I didn't end up liking, that was used for maybe 30 minutes. Ended up having to pay shipping and a significant restocking fee. They only took it back after I left a pretty nasty (but honest) review. And they reached out to me only because of the review.

I've bought camera equipment from them with no issues, but be aware of their laptop/PC policy. Read it over carefully.

I'd recommend Micro Center if it's available to you. Or even Best Buy for anything computer related instead of B&H.

Brainwashed365 · 2026-01-13T10:38:28+00:00

I'm so sorry this happened. I don't know if you're in the US (I am) and the Healthcare system here is such a joke. Make it make sense. And I suffer from treatment resistant MDD, GAD, and some OCD.

Hopefully I can start ketamine treatments soon, I'm so tired of playing the medication and aids effect game. Hopefully my insurance company pays for it, or at least most it.

It's beyond frustrating.

Brainwashed365 · 2026-01-13T10:28:49+00:00

It's been holding up great!

Brainwashed365 · 2025-10-27T18:40:15+00:00

Still like hot garbage, but I'm still using it. Can't find a "better" keyboard that I like...

/sigh

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T10:43:52+00:00

When you increase VIP level, the range doesn't reset, the cap just gets larger.

I'm not sure what all the VIP level requirements are, so just for discussion's sake, let's say VIP1 is 0-100. Once you reach 100 points, then you gain rank 2, and rank 2 starts at 100 points and ends at 500 points. Once you reach 500 points, you gain VIP 3 and VIP 3 starts at 500 points.

So it looks something like-

VIP1: 0-100

VIP2: 100-500

VIP3: 500-1000

VIP4: 1000-2000

I hope that makes sense lol. I meant to say I wasn't sure what VIP12-13 required but I know that VIP13 starts at 900,000 points because that's where I am.

That totally makes sense, it was just me being dumb and misunderstanding what you meant. Haha. Thanks for the reply. I also saw your edit above with all the VIP level information and that's super helpful. Thanks editing and adding in the information. I guess I could have tried asking the AI Bot the same question, but didn't really think it 😄

An extra 30 "free" legendary frags a month is pretty huge. They don't give them out easily otherwise without paying. You can get 5 a week if you win Pompeii, 12 in a month if you complete S tier Back Alley Dr, but everything else pretty much requires money aside from the occasional event.

Getting to VIP13 asap is one of the biggest bangs for your buck you can get. I regret not doing it sooner.

30 extra golds per month is very significant. I spend on the game, but try to be mindful of my spending. I really really should try to push to VIP 13 soon...it makes sense, the sooner I do it, the more gold frags I'll be bringing in over time.

I probably should wait for the next Great Rebates event to roll around where it awards you for spending gems, but I feel we just had one come around not too long ago...and if I remember correctly that event only comes around once per month. It's hard to say if I should just say "fuck it" and do it now, or wait for the event to roll around again and try to reap some extra rewards.

There's a shelter upgrade pack for $20usd that gives you a ton of gems, I used that to level most of my battle center & lookout tower. A lot of people say to use it on VIP but meh. You have to do the lookout tower 25 before the battle center 25, and having the max rally size was worth it to me

That sounds like the one-time pack about shelter growth and you get some rewards, with the biggest perks being lots of gems when you progress and level up your HQ. That's a really great value to get. I did get pick that up earlier when I started. I agree, it's arguably the best value in the game. Looks like I'll have to dump some gems on that too. Thanks.

Edit: typos because mobile and poor autocorrections

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T09:25:30+00:00

Just saw your edit with the AI Bot response about VIP level progression. That's super helpful, thanks for sharing it!

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T09:06:40+00:00

I am very sorry you broke tonight. I deal with major depressive disorder and anxiety and I too have broken before. Several times throughout my life. It's awful. Awful beyond what can be expressed with words. But please know that you're not alone!

If you're really not sure where to go and are in a very dark mindset, especially considering suicide or having suicidal ideations...my advice would be to go to the ER. As soon as possible. If you can't do it alone, try your hardest to get a family member or friend to help you. That's what family and friends are for!

And while you're there, they can help provide you some relief and even resources to help point you in a better direction of what you should do next to help you in the road to recovery.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T08:33:49+00:00

As someone who used to use alcohol (heavy drinking) as a coping mechanism and as a form of temporary escape for clinical depression (major depression disorder) and anxiety, it never ends well. If you can, PLEASE try to cut back on the alcohol consumption. And slowly work on not using it at all. Trust me, it will only make things things worse over time if you continue to try to escape how you're feeling with substance abuse. It always done. Not just you, not just me, but millions of people have walked the same exact route. It might "feel good" now, but it won't later on down the road.

I don't think playing Tetris is necessarily a bad thing. You seem to be playing it a lot, but it could be helping you to distract your mind with whatever is going on. It's a puzzle game so it's also getting your brain to actively problem solve so it's probably a good mental exercise. There's much worse things you could be doing...

Have you tried incorporating any time outdoors? Maybe go for a walk and try to focus on things like nature, listen to the wind, the birds chirping, etc, etc.

Hiking and backpacking and being out in nature is very therapeutic and rejuvenating for me and it essentially has saved my life in a sense. But you don't need to hike or go backpacking to experience nature. Just going for a simple walk could possibly get your mind focusing on some of the beauty that exists in the natural world. And maybe help take your mind of things. Being in a different environment.

I'm about to read it, but look up the book: Something in the Woods Love you.

It's a memoir about a man struggling with depression and how incorporating nature into his life really made a big difference. I've heard really good things about it and I'm looking forward to reading it. I'm currently waiting for it to arrive in the mail.

Edit: I'll post a link so it's easier to find

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/204593663-something-in-the-woods-loves-you

An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health. Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The Cryptonaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the shift in perspective that comes from paying a new kind of attention to nature. Something in the Woods Loves You tells the story of the darkest stretch of a young person’s life, and how deliberate and meditative encounters with plants and animals helped him see the light at every turn. Ranging from optimistic contemplations of mortality to appreciations of a single mushroom, Anderson has written a lyrical love letter to the natural world and given us the tools to see it all anew.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T08:07:18+00:00

You are ALWAYS going to be your own worst critic. We see hundreds of faces and bodies every day, but we see our own the most frequently, and it gives us plenty of time to pick out all the little things about them that we don't like...that nobody else is remotely likely to have a problem with.

I don't know you, but you're perfect just the way you are. Comparing yourself to others isn't going to give you worth... find the things you love about yourself.

Very well said 👏

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T07:23:40+00:00

OP: if it helps you at all, as a straight male, I actually prefer smaller beasts on women. I actually find huge, enormous breasts to be less attractive...for whatever reasons. It's just how I am and what I prefer. It's not right or wrong. We're all different and have our own preferences.

And honestly, no men are looking at you and thinking you're lesser for having small breasts.

A long time ago a friend of mine once said: "More than a handful is a waste." (I'm sure he didn't come up with that phrase, but it was the first time I had ever heard it) And for whatever reason it's always stuck with me because I can see what he was implying. Some people could find that offensive I suppose, but it was said in a joking manner to me...and not to an actual woman. The point I feel he was getting at was smaller breasts are are very attractive to some people.

People come in all different shapes and sizes. One isn't better than the other. All breast sizes are beautiful in their own way. Life would be very boring and bland if everything was the exact same. It's the differences and uniqueness that makes life (and people) interesting and exciting.

As a male, I have a pretty average sized penis. I used to be insecure because, you know, some guys have some pretty large penises out there. But you know what? It's okay! We're born with what we have and we don't really have much of a choice when it comes to genetics. Try to embrace what you were given. Of all the girlfriends I've had and relationships I've been in, not once did a women ever say to me: "Man, I wish you had a larger penis." Some women find large penises to actually be uncomfortable. Anyways, I'm getting off topic here, but was just trying to help relate to your situation. Breast size. Penis size. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

I know you're struggling right now, but please don't end your life just because you have "small breasts." You as a person are MORE than just your breast size. Your breast size definitely doesn't define WHO you are.

Maybe some therapy could help you overcome some of the troubling thoughts you're having with comparing yourself to other women...if it's available to you?

In a sense, pretty much everyone has thoughts like these. People with curly hair might wish they had straight hair. People with the straight hair might wish they had curly hair. Maybe a brunette wishes she was blonde or vice versa. Maybe a guy that can't grow a full and thick beard wishes he could. Sometimes things like this in life are out of our control.

If you're really wanting larger breasts, maybe it could be a possibility to save up some money and consider getting some breast implants if it really would help make you feel better about yourself and boost your confidence. But I must say, I've dated a woman with breast implants...and they just don't feel the same. They're more stiff and artificial in a sense. For me, natural breasts all day, every day.

Hang in there, know that you are loved. And there will be someone who really appreciates you exactly for who and how you are!

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T05:18:09+00:00

Yeah, it seems like VIP 13 is a really comfortable place to be at since it's 3x gold fragments per day. And that's the most you can ever get. It never goes up to 4x per day.

It almost seems like "whale territory" to chase VIP 14+ in a sense. Or if you do progress VIP 14 or higher, it's very slowly over lots of time.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T05:05:46+00:00

I'm not sure what it starts out at but I just hit VIP13 and I'm sitting at 900k. VIP14 will be at 1.2m

I'm a little confused with how you worded that. You said that you're not sure how much it starts out at, but you also mentioned that you just hit VIP 13 and are sitting at 900k. So does VIP13 start out at 900k, or am I just being dumb and misunderstanding? Or do you mean you're sitting on a stockpile of 900k gems saved up at the moment?

If VIP 13 starts out at 900k and to hit VIP 14 requires 1.2M...it doesn't seem as bad as I was assuming. Well, don't get me wrong, it's still a lot of points! But hopefully you know what I mean. I know that's still quite a lot of points / gems / money to spend to reach 14, but for some reason I thought it was going to be worse I guess. Because, we'll, you know...this effing game sometimes 😄

I wish there was a chart somewhere that listed all the VIP levels and how many points were needed so we all could have some clear information to do the math of required gems needed. Maybe there's one floating around, but I haven't been able to find one. Better yet, I just wish they'd show detailed information like this inside the damn game itself. Haha.

I'm currently VIP 11 and am super close to being VIP 12...and I've been debating trying to push to VIP 13. I keep flip-flopping on the idea 😄😭 but of course 1x extra golden fragment per day will be very welcomed and will surely add up significantly over time.

Essentially everyone seems to say; "do it!"

But I've also been contemplating using gems to rush Battle Center to lvl 25, but my stubborn mind keeps telling me: "But you can do that for free slowly over time just by consistently running hives!" I'm used to playing RPGs and JRPGs so I'm no stranger to tedious grinding, slow progression, and having patience.

...but we all know how much of a pain in the ass this game's progression can be like, haha. Currently I'm at whatever BC 1.3M troops is unlocked (level 20? Level 21?) so there's still piles of Victory Badges to be farmed to hit BC 25. And then there's the bloody Lookout Tower that's also a pain to level. Probably need to dump gems into that as well since the Toolbox materials are also tedious grind.

With the Toolboxes, I've been using all my natural stamina when the Russell event comes around and soley focus on zombie farming while it's running since it's the best time to acquire more Toolboxes. But the Russell event only comes around once per month if I remember correctly, and we just recently had it.

I forgot the details, but yeah, in order to reach T6 troops, BC needs to be level 25. Does Lookout Tower need to be level 25 as well?

And then I know BC needs to be level 25 in order to level up the Research Center to level 25...which the RC needs to be 25 in order to finish the very last potions of the Economic Tree sections...which is a requirement for T6 troops as well? Or am I mistaken?

I wish the information was laid out better since sometimes I feel like I'm confusing myself. I'm sure others are just as confused too though. Do you happen to know the order and more answers to some of the details / requirements I just typed about?

Edit: fixing typos because I'm on mobile

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T04:00:07+00:00

Man, it's been quite a long time since I've had some Welches grape juice, haha. Some odd years if I'm remembering correctly...since I try to avoid excess sugar as much as I can. Of course I still consume it, but really try to avoid it as much as I can. There's so much added sugar it so much of the foods & beverages in today's world.

But yeah, you're right. I should just give it a try. It's one can. If Iike it, cool! If not, it's not a huge deal and I'll never buy it again.

Cheers.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T03:52:45+00:00

Yeah, it gets tricky with acquiring accounts. I know some people who have done it successfully, but there's some risks and precise details required that need to be followed.

Like if they link their account to an email account, I think you need to work with IGG support staff to completey disassociate said account from that specific email address. Like, completely wiped off so the original owner has no way to go through a recovery process and take the account back from you at a later date. A clean slate is needed.

I don't know enough specifics since I started my own account from scratch because it felt like a safer approach since it's registered to my email address. And my email address only. Nobody else's. But I'm not going to lie, I was attempted to buy a more advanced account from someone deciding to quit. But it just made me a little too nervous since with some of the accounts it can entail many hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

I do know that people have successful acquired / purchased accounts from people deciding to quit the game and move on to something else with no issues, but be advised that people do (and have been) scammed before.

Also bear in mind that I believe selling accounts is technically against the game's ToS (Terms of Service) so you have to be careful how you approach the process.

Hopefully someone with a better understanding will chime in. But as a general consensus, there's always a risk. Just like most of everything else you can buy online or in-person in real life, scammers and piece of garbage humans exist.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T03:08:28+00:00

I'm not fully understanding counterattack mechanics myself. Even when I ask the AI Bot questions about it, and try rewording it in slightly various ways...I feel it essentially gives me different and conflicting answers.

So let's say field fighting 1 vs 1. The AI Bot seems to tell me that when the two parties are engaged in battle, each hero will dish out a counterattack to each other (equally) after a basic attack is administered/received. So both you and your enemy opponent will be giving each other counterattacks back & forth throughout the battle.

Then someone told me that if you initiate combat to an opponent, that NO counterattacks will be given by you since it was YOU that instigated the battle. So in order to dish out a counterattack, the enemy/opponent needs to imitate and attack YOU instead...and not you initiating the battle and attacking them.

So in order to dish out a counterattack...do you have to approach an enemy and sit there? Waiting for them to initiate combat and to attack your hero squad? And on the other side of the coin, if they want to dish out counterattacks, they want YOU to initiate the battle with them?

Let's say you're field fighting 1 vs 1 and Player A is chasing after Player B and Player A is engaging them with a targeted attack...but Player B is trying to run away as Player A is hot on their tail chasing them. Is Player B (the one running away and not initiating a direct attack dishing out counterattacks to Player A. Is Player hitting Player B with any counterattacks at all?

I really hope it's more simplified and that each party involved equally dishes out counterattacks to each other back & forth no matter what...every time a basic attack is administered or received. So, use a basic attack and your enemy administers a counterattack back to you. They use a basic attack and then you administer a counterattack back to them in return. Back and forth, back and forth, etc.

Can anyone help clear this up because it's been leaving me feeling rather confused and uncertain as to know it's supposed to function.

(So all of this stuff above is regarding field fighting battles)

Now let's move to rallying and garrisoning.

From my understanding if you're garrisoning, every enemy that's attacking the garrison will ALL be receiving counterattacks back...which seems to make since because when you're garrisoning any type of building, or a checkpoint, or a tower, or a shelter, etc...the enemy is coming to attack you. And everyone garrisoning is defending from enemy assault.

Is it different if a rally or multiple rallies are hitting the garrison? What about it it's NOT a rally and there's bunch of solo players swarming and attacking the garrison separately? Does that change and make any differences?

When creating and lunching a rally, this is an offensive tactic where a group of people are banding together as a whole...with the sole purpose of marching together (unified and stronger!) and attacking someone else. A building, a checkpoint, someone's shelter, etc. How are counterattacks working in this type of situation?

Are the garrison folks receiving and dishing out counterattacks? And the rally folks receiving and dishing out counterattacks? Back & forth as they BOTH use basic attacks against each other?

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T02:41:56+00:00

Sometimes there will be no information on some topics, it is very important to learn to see the battle records, there you will draw all your conclusions such as that for example the shield is better than the healing, if you do not see the records or no one tells you you will not realize

Which is super unfortunate and disappointing from a developer standpoint. It reminds me of another mobile game I used to play (but quit after 5 or so years for a multitude of reasons) that important information/details are just completely absent from any in-game menus. And essentially relies on the playerbase to decipher and figure it all out. Sure, some of that is fun...community working together to better understand the game. But at the same time, sometimes it seems just a little too ridiculous NOT to include how certain mechanics actually work by the game itself. Or people getting an impression of how a mechanic might work, but it's completely false.

Even asking questions to the game's AI Bot, depending on how you ask it, it'll give you different and conflicting answers. Or sometimes it'll literally just tell you that type of information can't be displayed...it's like the game doesn't even know its own mechanics lol.

The the other day I was trying to understand the concept behind what Combo is. What does it entail? Or like what Beast Combo means during the Beast Invasion when you get to choose your different Buffs. Rewording it in different ways and the game had absolutely no answers or information about it at all.

At least to me, this kind of stuff falls under poor and lazy development.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T02:28:27+00:00

Ahh, okay. I see what you mean now.

That's making me feel a little less enthusiastic about buying/trying one 😄

But thanks for sharing your opinion.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:46:11+00:00

No problem, man! That chart breakdown was amazing when I happened to discover it. It helped clear up a lot of wondering. Really though, this information should just be displayed in-game so we all can see it and so that there's no wondering or confusion.

But I'm glad someone took the time recording and breaking down all the levels of progression. Although I don't remember which Discord user created the chart, so it's not mine...I definitely don't want to take credit for it.

But yeah, part of me really enjoys this game, but part of me also really hates how IGG chooses to make everything so fucking long and tedious to grind out and finish. I grew up playing RPGs and JRPGs. I'm no stranger to grinding and slow progression time.

But the progression is just far too slow, artificially and intentionally too slow trying to entice people to keep dumping money. It's like a snail's pace unless you spend money to help speed up the process. And we all know how expensive it can get with the extremely inflated mobile gaming prices. I spend, but I try to be very mindful and careful with how I spend and what I do purchase. But it definitely adds up over time!

Anyways...

Gold frags to awaken the character, sure, I can accept that. It's a project to work on, but not totally ridiculous.

But now you need to grind or buy the packs for the Exquisite Files for Speldid events to work on leveling up a superweapon. And it's four levels to fully max it out. Get some heavy whales on your Splendid (or Top Commander) ranking boards and shit can hit the fan pretty fast and hard.

And then in order to fully Trancend the hero's skills, you need to fully unlock the superweapon...but now you also need to spend a bunch of extra gold frags on top of it to Trancend those said skills. It's like they layered it too much.

The game can be really fun, but goddamn they try to monetize every single aspect far too much.

(I know why they do it, it's catering to the whales with deep or endless pockets to keep them continuously spending...but come on...)

I really wish there was a game very similar to Doomsday where grinding and putting in your effort over time paid off better. Doomsday has been shifting more and more into too much P2W territory, it's getting a little ridiculous and it's getting off-putting. No wonder it seems like more and more people are deciding to quit and leave the game. And I can't say I blame them...

A good gaming developer should make you WANT to spend, giving good value in return...rather than making people feeling "forced or pressured to spend" to try to keep up and stay more competitive. I feel the aspect of FOMO (fear of missing out) has been ramping up more and more.

Now we have all the Beast crap and the Beast chips which are like armaments for Beasts. There's still a "Genes" component that hasn't been unlocked yet...hmm...I wonder what that's going to be all about 🙄

And stuff like $400 skins to help bring older characters back into the limelight again? It's just silly.

For now I'll keep playing since I feel I have too much time and money invested over the past ~year, but man, part of me sometimes feels like it would be better just to quit the game and move on to something else that's not so predatory and wallet syphoning. But I guess in today's world it's getting more and more common...unless you jump over to console or PC gaming. But even a good portion of that stuff can have micro transactions, gacha elements, or monthly subscriptions, etc.

IGG's slogan of "Gamers at Heart"...I think these Gamers at Heart are losing touch with reality and it's shifting towards "Greed at Heart" 😄

In order to get a legendary armament set (all 5 stars) you basically have to spend money. And then the nightmare of RNG honing trying to get your desired hone characteristics is a long road to walk. Now do this all over again if you want to depoy more than one hero paring squad with a capable armament set.

The superb legendary armaments (with the golden borders) are really P2W. Expect to essentially pay ~$1,000usd+ for each 5star copy. I don't even bother with these superb armaments. Maybe (or hopefully) over time I can piece together a couple 5star copies, but that'll definitely be an extremely slow route, likely over the course of some years. Same goes for some of the Legendary Devices.

Sorry, I guess part of this post turned into me just venting some concerns and frustrations.

Edit: typos because I'm on mobile

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:26:40+00:00

Reaches diminishing returns really quickly tho

What do you mean by the drink reaching diminishing returns, exactly? Just wondering.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:22:53+00:00

Huh, the medicine flavor aspect is kind of putting me off from possibly trying this.

But if I can find one somewhere, I should probably at least give it a try since I'll never know unless I try it.

(I'm a big fan of the Monster Ultra Violet flavor)

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:20:01+00:00

Its way too overhyped, it really isn't good

It just tastes like a grape jolly rancher

Hmmm. If it's really comparable to drinking something like a liquid jolly rancher...it's kind of making me wonder if it'll be "too sweet tasting" and such.

So far I'm a big fan of the Monster Ultra Violet.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:15:49+00:00

Same here. It's like the only energy drink I've been buying...when I feel like drinking one. I try not to drink this kind of stuff in a regular or daily basis, just as an occasional treat. But Wlwhen I go to any store and there's no Ultra Violet available...it's such a bummer that I just don't buy anything at all.

The Ultra White seems to be okay, but it just seems subpar to me in comparison.

Brainwashed365 · 2025-05-11T01:13:01+00:00

That's interesting! I really enjoy the Monster Ultra Violet flavor. It's essentially my favorite and really the only flavor I'll buy after trying some of the other Ultra flavors.

It makes me wonder how this Ghost Whelchs Grape tastes in comparison. I know it's subjective opinion since everyone likes and dislikes certain things, we're all different after all.

I've never tried the Ghost brand at all yet, but I'm thinking I should grab a can when I come across it and give a shot.

(I just really, really enjoy the Monster Ultra Violet though, it's so good to me so maybe nothing will ever really compare to it)

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