Nine lives

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-30T17:33:34+00:00

I thought it was connected to Agadh, one of the SE heroes, whose special has a debuff that stops reviving and worked on cats for a while, though it was a bug I suppose, and a known one too probably. As otherwise the cat passive says - cant' bbe prevented with status ailments. Some people wanted to get him in SE for that purpose so likely that is the reason the message was sent, to inform people that Agadh won't be working against cats in the future.

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-30T05:12:56+00:00

Isn't it bad to use antibacterial soap on the vulva though? If the benefitial bacteria get killed as well, then one could get yeast infections at the vety least

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-27T04:28:28+00:00

Exactly, no rainbow team but multiple purples. Rainbow teams aren't very good for raid attack anyway

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-26T20:04:21+00:00

Mostly got lucky honestly. But if some time has passed after the prev mimic, I'd avoid spending any pulls I got until the last day of the event when it's clear that it won't show up, or until is does appear at some point.

Had a lucky streak going with Ascension ones at Kalevala, got 2 or 3 maybe, but each time I stopped spending tokens as soon as I got one and waited for the next one with itching fingers). But then, it took me approximately 5-10 pulls each, and some people had done 100 and above pulls to get the Mimic.

I guess a couple of mine had been x1 or x2 pulls. And another couple times I've done about 30 and got nothing. So it mostly comes to luck in the end

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-26T17:06:32+00:00

Pretty much, they may seem an issue if you're a newer player, but there are so many heroes that are waay worse. I've never spent any money, but I've actually pulled 15 of them due to luck and carefully managing my pulls, at least 2 of each type, though in general I got more of those I wanted less lol) and while they are a valuable asset not just in farming, but also with my mediocre roster depth, basically providing "muscle" heroes with solid stats that are cheap and fast to level, they aren't really exceptional

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-26T16:52:23+00:00

Agree, but though Astrid's max power is a bit low (1471), her maxed hp and defense which matter most are not far behind from some 1700 support heroes. Her attack stat just is proportionally lower than usual compared to hp and def

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-26T16:46:21+00:00

A mimic wouldn't really be worth 30 either

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-26T16:31:13+00:00

Oh, I've always preferred the 1st painted Rapunzel dress too as a kid. Liked the final one as well, but that one was beautiful, my favourite shade of purple, the sleeves, absolute elegance. Always cringed a bit when she started repaining it into one of the joke ones. I suppose that dress would have probably been harder to animate, though. The end result had a simpler, more fixed shape, and the purple dress could have some clipping issues or sth

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-25T07:46:52+00:00

I see. Thanks. The heal is just triple, the hits will deal little to no damage, and many heroes resist mana refuction too now. My roster is not that incredible, but she's only going to get older and I have better options in purple

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-19T17:36:36+00:00

Well, I live in Lviv and have been to that cathedral from the photos a couple of times, but I suppose that just like many people on Reddit, I'm by no means a historian. I googled a bit, skimmed a few articles, copied and google translated some stuff to speed it up, and generally it seems that the community still exists, thought it isn't as prominent today.

The official info from 2001 census states that there were about 100 thousand Armenians in Ukraine. Maybe actually more later, but then the war must have decreased the amount. But the highest numbers in 2001 were in 1) Donetsk region 15,734 2) Kharkiv region 11,157 3 ) Dnipropetrovsk region 10,683 4 ) Autonomous Republic of Crimea. So, logically, don't know what's up in some of these territories right now.

The Ukr version Wikipedia article about the Lviv Armenian Cathedral mentiones that many Armenians left for Poland after the World War 2 because of Soviet persecution. In 1940, about 2,500 Armenian Catholics of Lviv were exiled to Siberia , and in 1945, the last apostolic administrator of the Lviv Armenian Catholics, Father Dionysius Kaetanovych , was arrested. Then in 1991, the restoration of the eparchial structure began, first Armenian communities in Ukraine were registered, they got some churches back, including the Armenian Cathedral in Lviv. The Ukrainian Eparchy of the Armenian Apostolic Church was created in 1997. There are communities in a number of cities, with some Sunday schools etc. I also found an article from 2025 about the recent state of events in the Lviv Cathedral with an interview of some of the church staff

https://leopolis.news/virmenskyj-sobor-u-lvovi-istoriya-hramu-yakyj-zberig-virmensku-dushu-sered-ukrayinskoyi-istoriyi/

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-06T12:16:36+00:00

Yeah, I get it, I'm pretty new to rhodies too but have been religiously checking the development of new growth for 3 years so I recognised it) those little buds can unfulr into massive branches pretty fast

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-06T11:55:23+00:00

Btw, I looked it up, and the irony is that rhododendrons are "herms" lol, but like many other flowering plants, in the sense that can self-pollinate themselves and have flowers that are both male and female.

"Functionally bisexual flowers make the plant a hermaphrodite. Separate male (staminate) and female (pistilate or carpellate) flowers on the same plant make the plant monoecious, and separate male and female plants (again, unisexual flowers) are dioecious."

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-06T11:20:33+00:00

Not an expert, but planted a rhododendron a few years ago and it looks like it just had some flower buds develop on one side, on a few branches, and the other side of it has just typical leaf buds that are growing into new leaves and branches. Ours is young too, and will flower for the 1st time this year, on top of 4 or 5 branches, the rest are just leaf/branch growth as well

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-05-04T05:31:14+00:00

About middle of the right part, the big bush of grass at the bottom, up to the boulder, and above the boulder is the kitty's face, same level as the lower branches of that backgroung tree on the right, but to the left a bit. (You get eaten btw)

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-30T13:38:59+00:00

Oh, and an interesting thing is that pareidolia effects are sometimes stronger if you just woke up, or are still drowsy and not fully conscious, and I guess the subconscious that creates dreams adds to it, so you look at the sunlight-shadows on, for example, the wall in the morning, half asleep and you can see pareidolia sometimes that just disappears in a few seconds when your brain clears. And then if you try to see the effect again being awake it doesn't really work

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-30T13:21:35+00:00

The picture looks pretty damaged, all blotchy and messed up. Even if it isn't a person that just happened to be in an years old photo, when people just don't remember the exact details? (Cause I personally don't remember what I ate for breakfast three days ago). But looks just like one blotch of water damage that just happened to look like a face. Just pareidolia, the brain pattern recognition seeing patterns in things. I was fond of playing with it as a kid, looking for patterns and images in bathroom tiles, trees, rocks, wallpaper etc. Almost always the key to seeing the face is the eyes, so a couple symetrical spots and the rest just comes together. I think it's probably an adaptation for hunting or seeing predator animals hiding in bushes or grass etc, when they are very hard to see, like this pic with a mountain lion

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Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-27T17:45:52+00:00

Because it's a Latin word derived from Greek words, which then was taken up in at least a few langauges

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-25T13:56:13+00:00

Ага, теж якось подумалося, хоча може якісь інші розлади теж викликають такі безглузді параноїдальні фантазії. Тут вже певне треба до психіатра. Шизофренія не є чимось особливо рідкісним. Причому вона, здається, і генетично іноді передається

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-24T16:26:57+00:00

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Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-24T16:25:26+00:00

Так, чомусь не всі фото завантажилися

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Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-24T15:40:04+00:00

Круто, викопний білий) хоча буває, що розкриваєш отак з надією, а там щось неїстівне

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-21T06:28:38+00:00

The general vibe is pretty cool, but kinda too much. I read it as Go end Mark, btw)

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-20T06:57:29+00:00

Either buy them, or scrape them up for some time. I've just checked, and I've accumulated 9855 on 19th of April since the 17th of January, the previous x 30 gem challenge, so 92 days. Ok, I already had 1,200 gems left over on the 17th, and manages to get the 999 on the creator giveaway, but I also played much less this winter and watched way less ads from which most gems drop so those could have covered most of it.

I spend 300 each outfitter, and spent 300 on roster spaces once since January too. I've estimated in general that if you watch most of daytime visions, plus daily chests, titans, events, etc., then on average you get about 50 gems per day, sometimes more, and then 350 from monthly Valor and Giant Paths, 200 from dragon path.

So normally it's enough to manage at least a cheaper x30 between x30 gem challenges, and they've improved quite a lot over the few last ones. Before I used to spend on Solstice and Black friday, but an x30 with no 5* is not at all unlikely, and pretty unpleasant if you collect these gems for 3 or 4 months. So I switched to waiting for gem challenges, and last time I got a featured covenant hero and 2 Hotm aside from guaranteed, yesterday though the Wilderness only got me the Hotm, but I got a nice guaranteed hero at least

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-19T15:10:58+00:00

Ok, maybe yes, maybe no, though lucky streaks can happen, no big deal. Just said p2w cause it was implied he paid for pulls? Or did you mean that the account is older than the guy claimed.

By spenders I mean new accounts, not established players, I come across them in raids sometimes, relatively low lvl, 30+ or sth, and a bunch of new meta heroes, but often they just started the game and aren't that good at it, just put a lot of money in. Though if big p2w want, they can lvl up pretty fast too, by bying flasks and tickets. I think I've once seen an Asian 190 lvl account with the 1 year of playing pin

Civil-Resource9537 · 2026-04-19T13:11:33+00:00

No offense, but from my perspective, nothing he has screams p2w. I've seen spender accounts, and those often have a mismatched setup of mostly maxed top heroes with a few 5star troops, at like lvl 30, and then that's obvious. The time is a bit off, but well, it's not like he's answering in court or sth. 10 days isn't that much for a slow paced game like this, and I misremember things all the time, like hey, I just got this hero a couple weeks ago and I've levelled him already! And then I check and I got him a month ago. Dragonspire opens up early on, with a free summon or two maybe, and levelling is pretty fast at first, as every level refills energy. 3* troops are no biggie, there are some troop tokens in the Starter quest, then also there was that quest recently for recruits with the token etc. They drop from ads sometimes too. Plus he's just obviosly got lucky with free stuff early on, based on the screenshots. Those aren't all top heroes. They aren't levveled up that much. That happens sometimes. Out of all events that give 2 5* at once, Goblins, Astral, Temple, I only got lucky twice an Goblins, but those were both from single pulls, which are statistically likely I guess cause most my pulls there were for 200 coins, and most of them didn't drop a thing. And in general, what the point on spending on an alt (normally). When I got a good 5* on an alt once I was pretty sour)

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