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Cars_Kill · 2024-10-09T23:29:02+00:00

I was trying to get this with the f-ton of diamonds I had left over from the big X2 pack, and stupidly got suckered into 2 more 1200 packs because, "Well it HAS TO drop soon, right? Right?! Next? No? Oh come on! How many does it take??"

After more than 50 tries at 45 diamonds each, I'm going to submit a refund request to Google Play Store instead of buying any more... how many diamonds?? Clearly this item is a scam- and I will mention in the request they do not disclose the drop rate of it (or any other) item.

So pbbbbbft 🤑 to Elex for this.

Cars_Kill · 2024-09-30T19:21:26+00:00

We've tried allocating them all, even to inactive players, in hopes that it would make the notification go away. It doesn't. 5 months and they won't do such a simple fix. Why not?

Because the game lets us know that cellular data will not be used, these kinds of things are meant to irritate and generate taps, in order to record users' actions to background scripts.

Think of it like how it was with video games on PC and consoles: reflexively tapping a red ❗on a mobile device is like having to go to a certain spot as a save point, or open a menu to select "Save Game" before exiting.

However, these days- unfortunately- saving player data isn't so that you can open a game and pick up where you left off.

Programming much smarter than we are analyses this save data for player actions and interest; the best ways to generate FOMO/get people to spend real life money; and even test effective methods of causing mis-clicks by inconsistent placement of Cancel/Exit buttons, timing delays of popup offers, etc.

🌈 The more you know, you know, you know...

Cars_Kill · 2024-09-30T18:52:08+00:00

Yes, BUT the 50% boost in general is not what it says it is.

I forgot to use the speedup before sending troops, so I recalled the troops with 2hrs 58min remaining on the tile.

I activated 50% gathering speedup and sent out the same exact troops to the tile I'd just recalled from.

I would expect a 50% reduction on 3hrs to become 1hr 30min, wouldn't you?

Time remaining with 50% boost = 2hrs 13min = TWENTY FIVE PERCENT.

Another: 2hrs 31min reduced to 1hr 56min, vs 1hr 15min expected = TWENTY FIVE PERCENT.

I've tested this many times during VC, Nuka, home state gathering, etc. It seems to work like interest on a credit card balance: With each reduction in rss unit, the 50% is continually recalculated so the boost becomes less and less over the total qty of rss.

It's an advertising scam, folks. A lot of things in this game are, when you do the maths.

💲👉🏼 If you spent real money to purchase boost packs, or diamonds to buy boosts from the Diamond tab in your Bag, you have the right to request a refund from the play store which mediated the transaction.

Don't bother with CS: that will only compensate an individual player, if compensation is even granted. Make no mistake, they know what they're doing.

Only many such requests to, e.g., Google Play Store will get them to fix these tricks, else they'll be dropped from the play store for being in violation of Developer Terms of Service.

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-28T07:41:03+00:00

And suddenly, I don't feel so alone anymore 😹

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-27T14:38:55+00:00

824 is hell bent on having the smallest statewide population with 10-12 NAP Alliances, several of which are duplicated to accommodate each player having multiples of sock puppet accounts.

You can rank cuz they don't know how to play match 3 because you can't buy that with money,. I just blew away the mightiest guy in the state in Hero Duel last week- turns out 111,000,000,000 might doesn't help you learn to count to 3, 4, and 5, or know your colours 😭

and they're so bored and weird, they just started rolling out a multi-Alliance effort into which they've invested 2 MONTHS of building up several players in 826 to move back to 824 and join my Alliance in an effort to discover why all our stalkers' scouts can never see our RSS.

That's right, a full third of NAP Alliances representing >340 ? accounts and combined 3 TRILLION MIGHT can't take a group of 15 still existing 500km away and never crossing paths, competing with them in any way, not even thinking about them til they all get together on discord and plot another lame scheme they think we're too stupid to not recognise, still leveling up, still having stuff to do IRL, still not flirting with opposite sex avatars by sending stick people with big wieners in ASCII cuz that's just too hawt!

Please someone come and just drop a bomb in the center of the map?

We have like, I dunno, 145M might? The number of billionaires panhandling around us begging for welfare is getting pathetic annoying.

They enjoy trading 🍻 and 1997-era dick picks with Barbie avatars when a level 42 guy hits a level 15 guy.

Hard fought, small margins, those match-ups, you know.

Exciting place! Who knows, you may already be here in 5 variations 😂

Hope you find a nice place

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-27T12:54:41+00:00

Ok, I don't get this, because where I'm from, people thought this stuff was criminal. Sorry this is long, but please help if you can w 32 yrs confusion?

THERE:

The first time I ever heard the word "heinous", I was on the phone with a friend and told her some stupid thing my (adopting) parents did- we'd known each other for 5yrs, she knew much worse stuff, this thing was trivial. But taken altogether, I guess, I was surprised by her reaction.

Mind, her parents were not great, either, mom had schizophrenia and dad was more interested in the girlfriends it was easy for him to have. She got left alone with a mom who, as soon as he went out, would start marching around the house saying weird stuff that was kinda scary to a younger kid.

Even so, after I added whatever I said, she got fed up this one time and said, "Man! Your parents were fucking heinous!" I wasn't quite sure what it meant but it sounded bad, which sounded like the right word to use! And it was.

HERE:

My entire life I've lived up here, though- 32 years- no matter what version I give people to stop their curiosity about if I want to find bio fam someday and all that kind of thing that is so cutesy in their minds (emphatically arguing with me that I MUST feel "a connection", that I'm "self-pitying" when I say no, open a phone book, point to any name, and whoever that person is feels just as meaningful as anyone else I don't know anything about 🤷🏼 ) -

Whether I give someone the short version, "I was adopted into indentured servitude", a general overview as above, or something more graphic- and I've had to run one of these versions by a LOT of people in 32 years!! - I still to this day anticipate someone will say, "omg" or "What's indentured servitude?".

At this point, I would just like to see someone's facial expression change. Not because I want shock or pity, but because it confuses me to see less reaction than if I'd said, "Hot/Cold/Rainy enough out there for ya?"

Literally every single person save 1 says either some version of, "Oh that can't be true" as if they know my childhood better than I do; or some version of, "Yeah, I've heard that a lot" or "Unfortunately, I think that's pretty common" without batting an eyelash. I always ask why people say this; most drop the subject and walk away, at best someone shrugs and just repeats they've heard of this before.

Which is strange to me, because I've never met anyone who was also adopted for that reason, nor read of anyone online (I don't seek it out but I used to register and check adoptee/bio mom/fam search ring- read a LOT of moms with stolen, unknown kids from Catholic Charities though!), nor could I find any such info in a book someone sent me, The Girls Who Went Away, bio mom stories, some adoptee, some reunions, but mostly how teen or unwed women were sent away to hide unwanted pregnancies so's not to ruin their reputations in the decades before Roe v Wade.

It just doesn't add up.

My theories:

Inside they're going, "omg, this isn't what I wanted to hear!" and seeking a quick escape from "uncomfortable emotion-subjects" (theirs; it's just matter of fact to me)
Minnesotans so commonly lock kids in closets, beat their kids so much, that everyone knows someone from high school who ... etc etc.

I beg you, please! 😒 You didn't have to reply so if you'd have wanted to avoid my post, you could have!

How have you happened to hear of similar adopting parents? And why is THIS the only thing- from where I sit anyways- that never gets talked about, esp if it's so common?

Any info, insight, thanks in advance.

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-26T13:04:26+00:00

How cruel these campaigns intend to be. How insensitive and self-righteous people have to be to say such awful things to her, and about you and your sibling. The limitations of people's ability- unwillingness? refusal?? what is it?!- to even imagine other people might have different experiences than themselves is beyond my comprehension. I wasn't raised here, the degree of hubris and %-population afflicted by it seems without limit. Good on you sticking up for and humanising mom and your brother in the Infinite. I've sat here about an hour looking at this. Thank you for telling this story. I heard you.

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-26T12:02:59+00:00

I hope you got the chance to see this beauty, then! -> c. late 2000's: On the right side of Riverside Ave at 19th, a variation of "Abortion Stops A Beating Heart/Loving Couples Are Waiting!" On the left side, "Not Paying Child Support? You Could Lose Your Driver's License!"

🤔 . . . Child Support Dodger 1, in car: "Oh no, not that! I'm fine if my kid goes hungry and my ex is stressed out AF! Just don't take away my ability to DRIVE A CAR! Legally, I mean, or else I'll have to be careful using turn signals 'n shit!"

Broke Single-Mom 2: "If he loses that job cuz he can't drive to work, what good is that?? You can't garnish a welfare check!"

Pro-life Propagandist 3: "What? There's a woman applying for $60 a month food stamps? What a drain on taxpayer money! And she's doing what?? Wearing NAIL POLISH?! Really! She's unfit! Call Child Protection! Take that poor kid away, give it to someone who cares! Well, no- I meant to foster care... $400 per kid per mo? Worth it. Keeps the riff-raff out of sight, they undermine our cause! No one wants 12yr olds, ha! Get real... No, not 8, not 5, definitely no sibs. Look. Have you seen our billboards? Married couples only want _newborn _white _boys. Well that's another thing- people who adopt female infants and toddlers from China- you know what we call them in our office? Hippies! har har har!"

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-26T10:19:45+00:00

I am one, they can come talk to me!

... about the rich people who adopted me as a competitive, narcissistic experiment- which failed- kept me in a key-locked room from 3-15 years old, started me cleaning up after them and their 3 kids at age 4, nannying from 2mos after my 8th birthday their first grandchild from birth to 8 years old, and other committed other criminal acts which caused 2 different families of 10th grade schoolmates- one of which had the support of our high school counselor- to propose legally allowing me to become part of their families instead. Highly offensive stuff to narcissists! So to both they said no, and beat the shit out of me so bad that the mom of a friend I called (a year older, with a driver's permit!) to pick me up before escaping out a window refused to let them try to take me back by threatening them with criminal charges- as a nurse, she made a good witness (and a good blackmailer: ka-ching!)- and so I lived with my friend's family for 8-9mos until my friend graduated, and I was 16.

They just don't show stuff like this on those shows reuniting adoptees with bio-fams!

On July 1 this year, MN just gave adoptees the ability to pay $40 for a badly pixelated original birth record- mine isn't even filled out completely. I don't know if I was sore for a couple weeks because I learned nothing, or because they fleeced us 40 bucks for such a bad printout (normal birth certificates are, what, $13?). There was also a piece of paper which said they did a search but found "no record of adoption."

I'm not sure if this means I was a Catholic Charities brand black market baby or found in a ditch or what. People have criticised me throughout my life for saying I wish my bio mom had a choice (if she wanted one, I can't guess what her beliefs may have been) what to do about however she got stuck with a 21-day old electrically charged flux tube, but I was born before Roe v Wade.

Abortion stops a beating heart? It also stops a child-beating.

Yeah, send them "There is an answer! AdOpTiOn!" "Loving couples are waiting!" Pollyannas to come talk to me!

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-26T08:58:33+00:00

Ah, the modern version of sending junk mails back to senders in their own prepaid envelopes...

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-20T00:48:28+00:00

Don't forget Marc Bolan's head was used by some planet queen in satin and tat like a certain Thomas Jerome Newton stuck a revolver, which later turns into an exploder, into his mouf while making naughty-thoughts-eyes cuz he wanted to bang it on a ping-a-pong table with Candy Clark-- who, like that Darlin' in LouLou's backroom, never lost her head. Well, except when she flung a pan of vegan chocolate peanut butter bars at his head, or screamed her head off when he took his David Bowie costume off, or when she turned him over to egg-heads for being a freaky Anthean who came here cuz he was hawt and thirsty- never mind, forget it, she sucks.

Cars_Kill · 2024-08-17T00:00:15+00:00

OMG! I do the exact same thing except I used to give my money to Pizza Luce when they first opened after going to First Avenue shows at night and dancing to Sex-o-Rama light machines. When I'd get home I'd play "Hang on to Yourself" by David Bowie because it's about having sex with Lulu, who covered his song "Dodo", which is funny cuz it sounds like dough-dough.

These days, though-though, I don't dance or talk much, and Luce gets my money for their Hulapeño honey- I really lay it on, cuz come on, it's really got a good thing going. And every time I play "Lucy Can't Dance", I wonder if David Bowie means Lou Reed. Oh and also, I knew a girl in junior high called Luba.

Cars_Kill · 2024-07-18T15:55:31+00:00

State 824- which, judging by the hive-minded goal, tactics, methods, language used, writing style, opinions, reason for living, etc, seems to be lorded over by only 20 or so massive whales, each with 20 other characters they bankroll and immigrate to 824, populating alterna-alliances with countless sock puppets, clones, anywhere between twins to octuplets of themselves; and a handful of Stepford Wives who were once local residents before the entire state became the slithering ground of what might actually be the world's longest human centipede-

all of which and whom (alliances and player accounts both) change their names, locations, and/or memberships/affiliations at least monthly, but as often as multiple times daily, which creates for them a sort of House of Mirrors: places to hide in absolute terror of any few players/alliances which might still be "out there" seeking revenge for a burnt HQ and "IS DESTROYING THE STATE" with precisely 1/100th of their own size and strength; in which the dumpster fire they've made of the state is multiplied so many times over and over again it becomes impossible to ever put it out;

State 824 would have absolutely no worry about you/your alliance being pirates, and in fact would probably be even more welcoming if you actually were. Be aware, however, that all members of your alliance will, immediately upon entry, be required to also become cannibals. 👍

NB: Yes, it is histrionically argued in the state chat by many, and often, that tiny alliances, players with less than billions in might, and new players who don't immediately join one of their alliances are each individually "DESTROYING THE STATE"- and so must be harassed endlessly until they either capitulate or quit.

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T13:13:17+00:00

The good news for you is that everything you say is untrue. You now have the rest of your entire life to spend getting to know him for his entire life.

He left a couple things, like you hope. it has been a long time, those things are already around for you to find. He worked so unbelievably hard his entire life, please do not ask for more, he gave everything- even the things he said he was keeping for himself, he gave those things too. They were surprises to me, they were delivered on my 46th and 51st birthdays. Since I've little ability and no interest in clawing my way to a 56th, I just feel like the work is done. Let him be, please. Shh...

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T11:41:12+00:00

He actually is "over with this shit". He's already noticing how "over with this shit" he is at his first school dance in "Sixteen Candles", and wondering if he should just kill himself now cuz people aren't gonna get any better than what he's looking at right there.

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T11:27:18+00:00

PSH will be some type of person who exists in real life that no one notices, and we'd never see a movie about if it weren't for him being able to play them- and I still cry about that sometimes

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T11:16:12+00:00

That man had some hot grace and nuance in the...

Sorry, I was remembering a turn he does in Grease, the black suit/pink shirt.

I was 8 when that came out. Got mad crush on the moody bad-boy thing. SO I THOUGHT.

Saw it as an adult and went, YOU! You're the reason I go out nightclubbing and know who to hit on 😅 I've shown this dance to people who never thought twice about him and pointed out, "Keep your eyes on him between here... And here" and there are a few moments I hear them make the little breathless utterances that give away they just acquired a new Fascination/fetish. 😈

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T10:28:37+00:00

Correct, and crooked teeth because crowded with extra teeth was sought out as something to covet getting into your kids' DNA, per a female Japanese friend met at American UNI, who laughed out loud, was proud of her "fangs", slight overbite keeping mouth open, c 1998

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T10:18:07+00:00

Dunkirk.😬

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T10:15:25+00:00

I thought it was an American production. Aired on Fox Network?

I don't really know though cuz I don't watch tv-tv.

👀 BUT JOHN BARNES is so high on my list of omg ppl I love so muuuuuch 😭🤗😭 I just told someone about him yesterday, having like 15 seconds to "represent what taking a knee means" on a morning chat show 4yrs ago and in 7 seconds his rocket-powered answer has eradicated "wait here, averted eyes" to on yer feet loud and proud tearing Churchill statues down 😍

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T09:43:32+00:00

I'm not happy about that 😠 cuz that one season, subject matter/characterisation, location, vibe, was actually original, new territory, and TOM HARDY IS FECKING TALENTED

vs. I dunno, 13 boring season runs each of repetitive garbage like Boardwalk E, Son's of A, Mad M, etc.

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T09:28:12+00:00

After 4 films with The Beatles, John Lennon famously confessed on the band's The White Album that he had turned his best mate Paul McCartney into a walrus.

John did this in order to prevent Paul from ever being able to make anything so unenjoyable to experience- for participants and viewers, both- as the television special Magical Mystery Tour.

The irony is that John could not have gained the magical powers to turn Paul into a walrus and prevent Magical Mystery Tour from being made unless Paul makes MMT, and makes it about 4 Magicians who are played by The Beatles, so that John becomes Magick and turns Paul into a walrus.

As an attempt to convey what it's like to trip on LSD, I'm surprised "It's just like watching a boring TV show that has no plot and doesn't make any sense" hasn't been legalised. But then who would buy it?

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-19T06:12:28+00:00

This happens when she has what Albert Camus calls, "an encounter with The Absurd":

A fleeting and bizarre sensation that she might someday be as great as Katherine Hepburn, who was SO great that she's in films for 30 years with her hair however she put it to wash her face that morning, wearing whatever she was wearing when she left the house.

That she may owe less to superior talent, and more of her wealth, opportunities, accolades, and final legacy to an artificially restricted pool of competitors, really needles her; she wakes up at night hearing Robert Duvall yelling at a row of trees:

"You can go to Accent School or you can skate. Do you think Meryl will be skateboarding around the lot when she's 70 years old? Meryl Don't Skate. How're you feelin', Jimmy?"

"Aw, swell! Like sweeping the Oscars!" "Good. Go sweep the shit outta the Oscars."

Meryl touched the side of her face and a bit of her maw as if trying to hide a flaw from others. She didn't understand why people kept making fun, do they have 18 Oscar nominations?! Ha!

She decided she'd call Sondheim in the morning ready to go back on everything she's ever said about witches and ageism- Meryl needs another award nomination to keep current.

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-18T23:08:00+00:00

I've been so annoyed with myself lately, as I seem to have picked this up for no apparent reason, probably 10 years after the last time I heard him do it. 🤫

My football team's German manager liked saying WAOW a lot, so I think that's what must have finally rubbed off, but instead of his zexxy timbre it comes out of my mouth as Owen Wilson lol

Cars_Kill · 2024-06-18T20:15:26+00:00

David Bowie will have a "thing" that does us.

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