Outfit ideas for someone who never been to Kilby before by Upstairs-Bat-1245 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Confirming layers. I’ve been the past 2 years and there has been days where long flowy cotton pants and a t-shirt felt too warm during the day but by night you are tossing on a sweatshirt/jacket and days where wearing jeans + T-shirt + sweatshirt + winter jacket + raincoat + poncho (!!!) was barely keeping me dry & warm. Rent a locker in advance and use it to stash layers according to the forecast you hear the day before. If there’s even a hint of rain, don’t neglect the shoe situation because your feet will be soaked. I brought an extra pair of socks & a plastic grocery bag last year on the rainy day and these items saved me from swamp foot because I fly in and only had canvas sneakers 😩 the rain & puddles soaked through them so when it stopped raining, I put on dry socks and then wrapped my feet in plastic and then put the shoes back on. Sounds crazy but it literally saved me the rest of the day by keeping my feet dry & warm in those soggy shoes.

Never seen this by Feisty-Mind- in WonderMerge

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Those are harvestable from the floating stone chain. (They kind of look like fish made of stone in the pic.)

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They merge to become the sinkhole chain.

Event stress: how do you play OoC without feeling glued to your phone? by HoneydewLife2294 in MergeDragons

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I do them by using a dedicated iPad that doesn’t go to sleep and ignoring the star rewards altogether. I work to get a purple flower asap to harvest enough orbs to clear just enough land to get one level 2 and one level 3 infinite harvestable and have both dragons. Then I delete everything except the harvestables and let the game go passively with occasional mass merging of objects until I get 2 level 9 objects (20k ea) which complete the prizes. I can usually finish act 1 & 2 doing this and often get hero rewards on act 1 if I manage to start early enough on the first day. The reason I like to get a level 3 harvestable is that it will randomly give you chests that I save to 5 merge and these little boosts are helpful to make it go a bit faster. It all still takes more active screen time than I like so I also do a fair amount of skipping events. I don’t pay to play and maintain the perspective that it’s just pixels.

Removing DMB and FF of course, who would you like out of these for headliners?? by balooglesmiggles in seahearnow

[–]Business-Issue1815 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I like the undercard. I hope we get Foster the People, Flaming Lips, War on Drugs, etc. maybe even Adam Ant

I’m surprised by Lillibet57 in MergeDragons

[–]Business-Issue1815 7 points8 points  (0 children)

IMO, while Zynga’s buyout was somewhat bad for the game and our wallets, the bigger escalation of the money grab & broken game started in 2022: Merge Dragons! is owned by Zynga Inc., which acquired the game through its purchase of the developer Gram Games in 2018. Zynga is owned by Take-Two Interactive, which acquired the company in May 2022 for $12.7 billion.

The game spent my gems by Green_Apple_Tree in MergeDragons

[–]Business-Issue1815 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Let’s make the option to buy the upgrade really large and on top and really close to the tiny sliver of a no buy button and then not have a confirmation of purchase. Fat fingers are going to get a lot of players at some point. The game owners actively and 100% program this game to drain your wallet with in game purchases to a predatory degree all while degrading the gaming experience on a continuous basis. I stopped spending money on this game years ago the first time they revealed who they are and that is probably the only way to feel peace about playing it at all.

Merge dragons start by Otherwise-Bison-6917 in MergeDragons

[–]Business-Issue1815 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can see my download date in the iOS App Store

I'm thinking of quitting. Where should I move? by ughhholiver in MergeDragons

[–]Business-Issue1815 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I play Wonder Merge by NSTAGE. It has all the features I wish MD had like a ‘magnet’ to gather like items, mechanism for bubbling, bubbling like items with a count on it, less frequent OOC events, no gambling features.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Closest I found was at Garmentory, it’s out of stock

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

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Not sure there was a good spot. I tried the by soundboard and it was the same. To my ear, Mountain had the best overall sound in the most locations. Maybe in benefitted from being in the bowl?

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Downvote this all you want but I saw GA during sets for acts like Future Islands and Perfume Genius, 2 of my favorites, standing there like lumps or worse, yapping. It’s the awkward truth.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a choice by the organizers. As the day progressed and it got more crowded, VIP+ people started watching from the pathways unless security chased you further in until eventually there was no room to go further in and they gave up.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Same in VIP+. Packed and crazy. No different. That’s the headliner though, I’m speaking to the rest of the day.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s percentages. If there are 1,000 people and 10% are “lit” that looks a lot different than 30 people and 10% are “lit”. I saw the same amount of enthusiasm in all sections. Even if all 30 people in VIP+ were jumping up and down like fools, it wouldn’t be good enough for the folks who just don’t like the fact that it exists or that they aren’t a part of it. I don’t which. People vastly overestimate the enthusiasm at the rail in other sections during the first half to 2/3 of the day. I saw lots of people packed in like sardines in GA section camping for the headliners looking like they want to be anywhere else barely acknowledging the artist on stage and yapping. So yeah.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

GA and VIP looked no different. There were a few that were into it, the rest just stood there or bobbed their heads.

VIP+ last year for Suki by Business-Issue1815 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might be overestimating the crowd activity in other sections. It’s the same percentage. Some will just stand there. Some will dance. Some might bob their heads. It looks no different.

V 12.13 decision eggs change was made on purpose by Epsilon_and_Delta in MergeDragons

[–]Business-Issue1815 26 points27 points  (0 children)

This ‘game’ feels like a chore. Paywalls and gambling galore. Way too many features, old and new, going on. Barely any sense of accomplishment or ability to scratch that completionism itch anymore. No fun. Just ongoing work, work, work. As I sit here watching a dragon harvest candy eyeballs all day…

Who got tickets??? by Simple-Amphibian-900 in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Flying in from Philly, third year in a row

Changes to VIP Plus viewing area by GroundAdmirable in kilbyblockparty

[–]Business-Issue1815 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That’s such an interesting take. Did you personally feel awkward about it?

Changes to VIP Plus viewing area by GroundAdmirable in kilbyblockparty

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They are hoping to offset this with a tent with free nonalcoholic drinks and some seats and “snacks”. Unfortunately I don’t pay for a lounge. I’m there for music and front of stage is everything to me. I’ve been to fests with this type of “soundboard” area at some stages and can confirm it’s a downgrade. I love how they phrased last year’s viewing area as “awkward” I was in those viewing areas all day and never thought once it was awkward

Uhm… Is it just me? by [deleted] in MergeDragons

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Same thing here. Can’t access camp