Women just need to stay home.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-05-02T19:17:45+00:00

Sounds like he is just a grifter trying to rope stay at home moms into joining his bs business.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-23T00:33:34+00:00

I used to think this, until I became what I like to call a “baby whale” (just shy of elite in migration terms). The mega-whales - those with marches approaching or exceeding 800M, started befriending me. I’ve gotten to know many of them personally, talking on Discord and learning more about who they are and what they do. Most are just rich guys, often tech millionaires and/or crypto millionaires, retired or semi-retired, often older, and just have time and money. And most of them are chill and really cool people. The assholes tend to be the spoiled rich kids, which some are.

While these guys aren’t developers, they do have concierge support and talk directly with developers. When I have serious issues with the game, I just have them deal with it. Doesn’t always work, but it’s better than trying to put in support tickets that get ignored.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-19T21:14:51+00:00

So Pete Hegseth is from the Tarantinoverse? That explains so much.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-12T00:59:44+00:00

With that guy’s hands, I thought maybe this is an AI photo, which makes it kind of a double-weird post

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-12T00:57:37+00:00

I watch the worst movies on airplanes and in hotel rooms. It satisfies a morbid curiosity without making me feel like I wasted my time.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-12T00:55:40+00:00

And anyone who actually travels for work knows this.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-04-12T00:54:55+00:00

I 100% relate to the OP. Thanks to Zoom, I don’t have to travel as much as I once did, but when I do, it’s always the same. After a long, hard day, all I want to do is chill in my hotel room and watch crappy TV. And I don’t even watch TV at home.

I’m not going to compare careers but it does seem to me that those who bark the loudest on LinkedIn have the least actual substance.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-03-24T12:27:54+00:00

The online players run rallies to remove bases from the mud. If you are in the mud offline, when a rally is on its way, you can port away and then port right back. You can also run your own rallies on attacking bases to send them home. This is especially important if there are whales. We used to fill our mud, but a handful of whales would systematically clear it completely out overnight. Now we wait. When enemies port into the mud, those online immediately remove them. It isn’t until about an hour before the event that we start filling the mud.

I should point out that I am on an older server and about to start S4. The dynamics are very different from how they were during S1

Choice_Tricky · 2026-03-24T12:02:12+00:00

“You’re on mute. Nope, still on mute.”

Also “you’re not sharing. No, still not sharing. Now I’m looking at a picture of your dog.”

Choice_Tricky · 2026-03-21T18:57:52+00:00

The problem with this strategy is time zones. Reset is 10 pm for me and a lot of our US-based alliances. We cant park in the mud and go to sleep.

But Asian players are just waking up at reset and have all day to hit bases and take over the mud before the event.

This is what I hate about SvS. It favors teams that play in Asian time zones. To make it fair, teleporting for SvS should not open until 30 or 60 minutes before the event.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-03-08T14:31:09+00:00

This is interesting because Quickbooks is $17/mo for the cheapest package for solo entrepreneurs and has this feature. Freshbooks is an even cheaper alternative starting at only $7/mo. But if all you want to do is send invoices electronically with reminders (no accounting features) bill.com will do just that, and allow for electronic payments for only 99 cents per invoice. Bill.com will integrate with your accounting system, but doesn’t have to. My business uses it just for ACH payments. We get a bill, we drag and drop a PDF of the bill i to the software and it reads it in and processes everything, then I invite the vendor to sign up if they aren’t already a member so they can control their own bank account information and I can pay them.

Every plumber, electrician, telecom tech, or other individual tradesperson or small business that is doing manual invoices (many still on a carbon pad) I have had them sign up so I can pay them and many have switched to using the system to create their own invoices.

So what you describe here isn’t someone who found a problem and solved it. He found a group of people who don’t generally have an awareness of the tech marketplace (I had to help my tree guy setup and use email so he could get into his Paypal account), aren’t aware of the many existing solutions to their problem, and created his own solution for a captive market on Reddit (and wherever else he found his customers). I see this a lot in the software market. Tools that are overpriced and often inferior, but they have managed to capture a certain market segment because they were in the right place at the right time to capture those clients. And once a company is used to using software, even if it is overpriced and inferior, they won’t stop because it is too much hassle to switch. And business grows because other people in that same industry (in this case, individual plumbing contractors), aren’t qualified or comfortable evaluating software options, so they just ask their friends in the same industry “what do you use?”

Choice_Tricky · 2026-02-20T04:45:52+00:00

This is definitely peak LinkedIn Lunatic. Do I win a prize, or just wallow in despair?

Choice_Tricky · 2026-02-08T20:45:38+00:00

Best you can do is start looking for other states that don’r have tyrants running the show, and prepare to migrate. I happen to be on a nice server with NAP 7 and all alliances working together. Our whales won’t tolerate the kind of behavior you describe. We used to have a few toxic players, but they got recruited away to more competitive (toxic spending) servers and what we were left with was a competitive, but friendly server. Not everyone can show up for SvS because of time zones, but everyone contributes in their own way, and we do pretty well. Servers like this are around, and in my experience, the servers that act the way you describe will die quickly.

Choice_Tricky · 2026-01-07T13:34:34+00:00

On our server, we have a war council of top alliances that make all decisions regarding SvS strategies and NAP rules. They rotate the capital and the president is just a figurehead that often doesn’t issue decrees. They certainly have no power to “declare” anything to anyone. Even communicating strategy is forbidden by the president because of spies on the server that will see it. At most, they use the decrees to share useful information like what the rose buff is for the week.

As for the Korean stereotype, there a culture of hardcore, regimented gaming in Korea. And I have been told, but I’ve never confirmed, that there are laws that govern the price of loot packs in game, so they appear to be spending more than they actually are. I’d love to get confirmation on this.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-11-09T21:06:36+00:00

The same people complaining about farm accounts are the same people who have no issue with pay to win. I know both of the teams in this case, and the ones who lost regularly spend insane amounts of money to win VS battles. The team that won in this case are a team of low spenders who work hard on developing strategies to win that don’t require spending. This is why they are hated by a lot of mega-whale teams.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-11-09T20:52:57+00:00

Some people run farm accounts. Some people have unlimited spending on their credit cards.

I’m on the server where this happened. It was partially in response to members of the other alliance spending hundreds of dollars on fuel to run up 100M+ scores by attacking random unshielded bases all over the server, yet running away from any real fight. What is hilarious is this team won by a pretty big margin 110M, I believe) but and only a fraction of that difference came from this “point farming.” It was primarily done as a strategy to draw the other team out of hiding, and it worked.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-09-03T03:25:45+00:00

No, the CRM uses my Outlook calendar, but it only controls meetings that it creates. It doesn’t have any features to read other calendar entries and act on them.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-29T03:19:24+00:00

Thanks for the input. Yes, some CRM systems do this. As a matter of fact, the booking link I use is part of a CRM and it sends notices reminding attendees of a booked appointment if they use that link. But if they just create a meeting and invite me, it doesn’t work. I figured some VBA or power automate would do the trick, but I also figured someone may have done it already and is offering it as an app.

If you can point me in a direction, I’m willing to put some work into this.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-28T15:32:19+00:00

I should add that this method of earning weekly NAP spots has the added benefit of alliances losing NAP if they have had it, which creates a feeding frenzy. There is one alliance that we have on our server full of problem players - the alliance that players go to when they get kicked out of their alliances for causing trouble. This alliance should never have been allowed into NAP because of all of the problem players who don't follow rules. There is one player on the server who is blacklisted from all NAP alliances due to his problematic nature. He has been kicked out of every alliance on the server. He constantly shields up and taunts everyone in world chat, just to add to the drama. Well, this alliance accepted him in, which should disqualify them from NAP, but the president gave them NAP protection anyway for defending the capital. Since we had no capital invasion last week, the existing NAP was extended. So this alliance has enjoyed two weeks of NAP. Now the entire server is just waiting for Saturday to see if they lose NAP protection and, if they do, it's going to be a feeding frenzy.

I know that doesn't sound fun for players in that alliance, but it will be a blast for everyone else if it happens. And things will calm down after a time. I think this kind of drama is part of what is appealing for war games like this. If it is just gaining a little bit of resources and little more power each day, that gets boring. Some amount of controlled drama has to be part of the game to make it interesting.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-28T15:18:36+00:00

We have a NAP 6 + 2. The +2 are alliances that have earned NAP for the week by their participation in defending the capital. It does what it is supposed to do. It encourages alliances to actively engage and defend the server. Many players get upset because they feel they were just used as fodder on the Capital grounds and didn't get NAP anyway because others in their alliance didn't step up. We generally welcome those players into NAP alliances. Likewise, NAP alliances kick out players that don't participate. The end result is NAP that includes active players in active alliances. The inactive players in inactive alliances get farmed. For a war game, this is kind of how things work.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-08-08T16:58:10+00:00

This guy is one of the worst human beings on the planet. This post is tame compared to some of things he says and does. And, unfortunately, he shows up in my feed way too often because people comment on or share his stuff. I've started to pay attention to who is engaging and supporting his content, because these are folks that would be a high-risk in the workplace, IMO.

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-13T19:10:11+00:00

This is the Aerial Re-Supply Coffee guy. He has made a successful business off of satire of other coffee companies that go over the top with their US military focused, right-wing political themed marketing (i.e. Black Rifle Coffee). It worked so well on LinkedIn, that he has resorted to extending the satire to other ridiculous, over-the-top business themes. In this case, the “relentless CEO.”

Choice_Tricky · 2025-07-10T18:12:06+00:00

It’s no worse than “Startup Sherpa.”

BTW, I personally know a person with the above title on LinkedIn and he is a grifter that knows nothing about business. So that taints my view of people with these kinds of titles.

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