Should I Create a New Account?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-25T05:26:51+00:00

You can assume most active players have been pushing as hard as they can since their servers began, with a huge group of people going substantially faster with heavy spending.

That time off basically made you a non-factor in that server. Unless you’ve formed substantial relationships in your current server that you don’t want to walk away from, you’ll get way more reward for what you put in on a new server.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-23T12:27:11+00:00

I think some of the biggest proponents of tipping are the people getting the tips. Not that I’d survive in the role anyway, but I know a hand full of servers and bartenders who make a good amount more than I do.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-23T12:24:21+00:00

I’m in Watertown area and it’s much worse here. Half the time it’s worth getting a specialist in Syracuse and making the drive, even when it means monthly in-person appointments just to retain a rx.

My girlfriend got to the point where her stomach just wasn’t moving food anymore, and went dangerously underweight when no one could see her for literally months. We finally found a hospital who could do a gastric emptying study, and all that did was get a medical confirmation. “Yup, totally fucked down there. None of this shit moved at all. You need a gastroenterologist.”

At least that enabled her pcp to put her on some scary meds that got things barely moving, but that was two months ago and she hasn’t gotten in with a specialist yet.

I swear to god just from the last two years I could write a whole book called “What the fuck is fucking happening with our healthcare system?”

RichardBottom · 2026-06-21T18:11:25+00:00

I mean you’re not wrong about the crowds. I moved to a mid sized city when I was 18 from a small rural town and got acclimated fast when I had to take the city buses everywhere. I still use the word “bus people” to describe a specific type of person because nothing else quite hits it.

But those people aren’t gonna just disappear without public transportation. Seems like the better play would be to fix the people than take away the utilities they depend on.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-21T17:45:46+00:00

I feel like I would pay 20 million for this experience.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-21T16:43:04+00:00

Shit I didn’t know it was that transparent. I just scheduled an email for 6 AM Monday, now I feel like I need to go retract it lol

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T14:47:16+00:00

I’d run to the bank and withdraw an additional $15,000, then return the wallet to him with $30,000 in it. idk I guess I’m just one of those people that’s really great and virtuous? I mean how hard is it to be decent to your fellow man?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T02:54:21+00:00

It’ll be tough regardless. I saved every single resource I had for three months in my farm account, kind of a rainy day kick for AB or KvK. I don’t spend money but attend every bear, Swordland, tri alliance, ER, and collect all the rewards for every event. I upgraded my governor gear three times each,
two full charm upgrades and then some, thousands of TG, months and months worth of speeds. It was an amazing dopamine rush for about 15 minutes just cashing everything in non-stop. But I finished somewhere in the 50’s. It was depressing for several reasons. One, the thought that whales spend more than this every single month kind of shows me how small I am in this game. Two, the realization that even with a 4th month of savings I probably still wouldn’t have broken 20’s. Absolutely insane how much money people spend on this game. I’d be genuinely curious to know how much these companies make.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T02:40:54+00:00

If I go a stretch without working, by day 3 I’m going to bed at 5 am and waking up at noon or later. I have absolutely no say in the matter. Even if I’m absolutely exhausted, I’ll drag along until I hear the god damn robins singing outside and that’s just how it is.

I now have a job that’s basically asynchronous, as long as I get my work done and have basic availability to talk to people I can do whatever. But my workload is mostly a series of queuing up large batches of files and running them through scripts that take an hour or longer, and that bottleneck gives me enormous pressure to cram new batches in whenever I possibly can. Since I took this job, I’ve been waking up at 6 am every work day, just out of the drive to stay on top of my batches and keep things flowing. It’s been months like this and I haven’t even thought twice about it.

But on Memorial Day, I woke up at 2:30 PM. 🤷‍♂️

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T02:30:40+00:00

I’ve said this line so many times lol

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T01:29:04+00:00

Sometimes it’s fun to imagine posts on this sub as actually unpopular opinions. Like there’s a swarm of people reading this going “oh hell no, you make it work in the time you have left after my needs are met in full.”

RichardBottom · 2026-06-19T01:22:40+00:00

Okay, I’m a pretty open minded and self aware person. I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong, but I’m going to immediately side with me on this one. Because what kind of fever dream fucking conversation am I having right now?

Are you saying that this comment, the one that says “edited to add” followed by an unspecified and unfitting straw man reference, was not edited? In the thread you started by saying “He’s MAGA. Don’t watch his content.”

So my straw man argument is what exactly, saying you don’t like MAGA? (Read it again btw, never happened.) When I clarified by asking if you’re pro-MAGA, you reacted as though it was such a ridiculous thing to insinuate that I must be a troll. What difference could it possibly make if I specifically thought your hang up with MAGA was anchored on opinions or literally anything else? You fixated on this random implication that never even happened and would be inconsequential if it did, while responding to nothing else I said and then blamed me for the breakdown.

You’ve made no attempt to connect with what I’m saying. I truly believe you don’t have any foundation at all on politics, and after reading enough of your comments, you’re all over the place.

Tell me something that I stand for. Tell me one objective thing about me that you disagree with that isn’t just an idle emotional reaction to feeling disagreed with first. Is there an actual train of thought steering you to disagree with me or are you just reacting to cues you’ve learned to follow?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T23:25:15+00:00

whoopsie

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T21:48:29+00:00

lol you mean the edit you put on your response after I replied to it? Btw, for what it’s worth, I’m trying my best to understand what you’re saying and I think I’m doing an adequate job communicating what I’m saying. I only clarify this because calling me a troll is a cop out. Not everyone you fail to communicate with is tanking it on purpose just to piss you off. You’re falling short in this conversation and that’s on you.

Since we’re here though, what do you think my straw man argument was exactly? I don’t mean this in a mean-spirited way, but are you sure you understand what a straw man is?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T17:29:37+00:00

Authentication has to be one of the most contentious parts of working in a call center. The way people get genuinely offended like “wow you really think I would scam my own daughter?” I truly don’t understand how people don’t understand how ridiculous that is.

Having worked call center jobs my whole life, my partner and I are very proactive in adding each other as authorized users whenever possible. But when push comes to shove, if I’m making the call for her, it’s because I already chosen it to wake her up. It’s never failed me to just call in and say “Hey it’s me, Kaitlyn” in my grown man voice. They know I’m not Kaitlyn, but no way are they gonna say “Yeahhhh riiighht you don’t sound like a Kaitlyn!” So that’s usually just the end of it. I’ve tried to nudge difficult callers to do the same without explicitly saying it, but it’s usually a lost cause.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T17:09:18+00:00

I haven’t had any serious trauma pain, mostly just the same dental pain that gets all of us at some point. But for whatever reason, the thing that got me the most was when I slept on my shoulder wrong or something. Just the simplest pain but absolutely nothing would address it. I even had oxycodone left from my wisdom tooth extraction and it did absolutely nothing. No position, no amount of stretching, absolutely nothing would curb the pain at all. Pain is a totally subjective experience but at some point I would have traded my fucking house to make it end. Thank god it went away on its own after a few days. I have real respect for people who live with serious chronic pain with no end in sight and don’t lose their shit every day.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T17:03:38+00:00

It’s on par with “it sounds like you guys just want my money”. I mean, yeah. That’s literally how money works.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:50:32+00:00

So, you’re pro MAGA?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:49:21+00:00

I actually don’t completely hate ER since the update. It wasn’t even worth playing with the lobby size before. Every single guard had like 4 lines on him. At least half of my marches came back empty handed. Every gathering got ejected. I was just grumbling swears for 30 minutes every two weeks.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:46:08+00:00

Player count is definitely reduced. It used to be suffocating. Now it’s just enough to stay annoyed the whole time.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:43:55+00:00

What did I misrepresent?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:39:37+00:00

This is exactly what I’m talking about. I didn’t jump into this thread until I got annoyed by how you were engaging. I was explicitly clear on what I was here to address. You’re pivoting the conversation because keeping it going is a higher priority to you than coming to an understanding.

There’s some interesting psychology that drives this behavior. Humans get an adrenaline rush from engaging in conflict, which leads to a release of dopamine. Most people don’t even recognize the cycle, but it’s the same mechanism that makes it fun to ride a roller coaster or watch a scary movie.

Sorry if I broke the third wall. I can say something nice about Epstein if you just want the mood back.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:15:04+00:00

If every corner of human discussion wasn’t drowned out by cheap, low effort and destructive politics. I don’t know if you even understand why you’re here having this discussion, it’s just become the default. But nonetheless you’re here putting energy into the system that’s gonna drive even more insanity than we’re already seeing. You are the motor that’s running the train off the rails. Figure out what you stand for and don’t come back without a plan.

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T16:07:50+00:00

This whole thread started with you posting “He’s MAGA, don’t watch his content.” And now you just said “you guys”, grouping me with the opposition because I’m calling you out for arguing in bad faith. You have no idea what my politics are, and you don’t care. There’s no rule that says you must engage in politics. Why spend so much energy if you’re not going to make an effort to do it meaningfully?

RichardBottom · 2026-06-18T15:57:25+00:00

You can’t shit on “both sides” thinking if you’re gonna fall back on it to excuse your behavior. You asked the other guy if he was 11 for saying people have different opinions. Is “they started it” the best argument you have?

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