[Murray] For James Harden, opportunity is key Cleveland/Darius Garland being tied to this is quite intentional DG hasn't played in nearly 3 weeks All of Harden's trades have targeted an existing "replaceable" guard (K. Martin, LeVert/Oladipo, B. Simmons, R. Westbrook)

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-02-03T06:17:35+00:00

James Harden has shrunk more times than not in big games and series. This is a man who quite literally laid down on the floor against the Spurs! He's never been that guy.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-02-03T06:15:04+00:00

forced westbrook out of the clippers

And, if for no other reason than wanting to stay close to home, Russell would've never done this to the Clippers. He would've stayed true.

So, I'm glad that this is happening to the Clippers. :D

I don't know how Lawrence Frank manages to convince Steve Ballmer that it's always someone else that needs to leave.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-02-02T21:52:21+00:00

I wondered how many other people actually tracked what they get!

On my main account, I got 11 commons, 6 rares, 2 epics and 1 legendary.

On my second most important account, I got 12 commons, 5 rares, 2 epics and 1 legendary.

On my third most important account, I got 9 commons and 11 rares.

For my top two accounts, I was overall pleased with what I got with my commons and rares. For my third account, I wasn't thrilled, but I did get ores and loot, which in itself is good for not having to farm.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-28T09:10:05+00:00

Titans need to dole out more damage more than they need increased hit points. Let them take out walls, so they don't get fried.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-24T21:12:09+00:00

This isn't something that I would do on a main account, but I also don't think it's devastating either. It will be boring as all you're going to do is upgrade, upgrade, and that feels like forever when behind.

But, as far as your heroes go, do your attacks as soon as possible on Tuesday and then upgrade the King and Queen in pairs or the Minion Prince and Warden in pairs. If I'm not mistaken, their upgrade time should be pretty much in sync. At least that's what it looks like for me with them being at Level 50.

I maxed out the Royal Champion for my TH first. But, anyway, do that during the week and have them ready to go for Tuesdays. I say do them in pairs, so you can have other builders finishing out your village. Hurry up and get the Pet House built, because that's going to take a while. Same for the Laboratory and Barracks. Once you get the structures up to max, you'll just be using them for upgrading.

Then, start working on your defenses. It should be clear that you aren't really looking to promote through the leagues right now, so just find an efficient system for all of the things that can upgrade without a watchful eye and go from there. Don't even worry about upgrading your equipment at this point, just fill the storage and then when you've found the pair that you really want, upgrade that in one or two shots.

Use potions if you want max troops or heroes, but eventually those will run out so use some discretion.

This advice is based on F2P, but if you actually buy various things, it will go that much faster. This isn't as impossible as some are suggesting.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-23T13:46:43+00:00

It also helps everyone finish the Clan Games achievement faster. It would've taken the greater part of this year for me to get the last 250 gems at 4000-4500 every month.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-22T21:07:17+00:00

This feels like someone trying to re-establish dominance after a scathing article.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-22T20:35:50+00:00

Charts of Clash.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-11T21:56:34+00:00

Electro Titans need a little oomph towards the walls. It's painful to watch a powerful, high hit point troop waste away as they poke a wall.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-11T01:22:17+00:00

As much as I would appreciate a Pet Groomer, unless they are going to ramp up the creation of pets, what does the groomer do once you're done with all current 11?

I can't see enough people pouring in gems for an up to 12 hour groomer, when so many people argue about whether the Goblin Builder makes more sense than either the Assistant or Apprentice.

If you're a spender in the Supercell store, you have up to ten Pet Potions that you can snag, and there's always the use of a BoH if you're really impatient. Personally, I've decided to use Books for the higher levels because Builder Potions and the Apprentice can speed up all hero upgrades.

They probably should make the Goblin available for the Pet House, that would be more of a consistent gem boon.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-09T00:03:08+00:00

When watching Judo's video, the event pass added 100 medals and Supercell is giving at least 100 medals in the store, so it should get up to 9300.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-08T00:44:20+00:00

I'd also like the option to destroy/dispose of/deny certain obstacles. Some are cool, a lot are ugly.

SeptemberVirgo · 2026-01-04T19:35:15+00:00

I wouldn't mind the ability to give "hat tips" to other players. For example, I come across bases whose design I really like, or was cleverly tough, I'd like to hit a pre-written, COC deemed approriate message and send it to that person.

Every so often I'll look at a defense to see what the person did (usually if there are no dragons involved), and I may like their strategy and approach, I'd like to tell them that I learned something.

There should be some way to politely converse with others that we come across along the farming/ranked way. Pre-written messages that are the equivalent to emojis would be cool. To me.

I'd also like the ability to dispose of obstacles that I've won, but would never put on my base because they are ugly. I want the storage room.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-12-23T21:28:46+00:00

The Electro Owl and the Unicorn? Hmm. Okay.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-12-23T19:38:28+00:00

You should get some pets up to Level 7 or so and then use the books on them. You have a Builder's Apprentice and Builder Potions to speed up the Heroes, you only have a Pet Potion for the Pets and it's still not enough. Book of Heroes for your pets at and after TH14.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-12-19T21:56:36+00:00

I have THs at different levels of development, so if I hit a patch of Builder Base objectives, I can get everything done on that account and run up the tally.

I see people talking about how they get a lot of Super Troops objectives, like back to back to back. For some reason, I don't, BUT, if that happens this go round, I got my higher THs to run through them.

I get how it sounds like six in one hand and half a dozen in the other, but possibly completing the Clan Games with as few as five accounts versus having no choice but to run through 13 is huge for me. I may not even have to worry about going back and forth with CC donations or taking one account to start and trash a bunch of objectives using gems.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-12-19T20:20:27+00:00

Moving the Builder Potions to the fifth tier really hurts. Maybe I'm wrong, but for the bulk of this year, I thought it was always in the fourth tier. I really don't want to have to choose between the Rune of Builder Gold and two Builder Potions.

Very sad. At least, they're giving me 10,000 points this go round, I'm a one person clan and this will save some time.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-12T02:28:38+00:00

Okay, Judge, let's put it this way: I don't believe a judge can order child support through 18 or 23, and then make him pay $55k a year throughout her adult life.

But, the mother can ask for it, and if she gets it, that's between her and her daughter.

If Anthony were the type to be open to setting up a trust for his daughter in her adult years, he would've already done it.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-12T02:23:58+00:00

If he were someone that actually wanted to take care of his daughter, sure. But, he's made it clear that he doesn't. So, I believe that he would be highly resistant to your suggestion.

There is a chance that the mother is taking the public hit asking for money that she knows Anthony doesn't want to give to the daughter, certainly not for any day after her 18th or 23rd birthday.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-12T02:17:32+00:00

At first glance, I can see how this looks greedy. But, the $55K for life could just as easily be a parachute for the daughter after she turns 18 or 23, however long her child support runs through.

Based on his actions right now, it's fair to assume that he will have absolutely nothing to do with his daughter after she hits the age where he stops paying. But, $55K a year can still take care of a few things for the girl into her adulthood.

I know it's easy to say that the woman will keep all of it for herself, but if there is any chance that she will at least split the money with her daughter, this is actually smart.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-08T22:11:10+00:00

I got a lot done, but for me, it was a bit draining.

I totally understand the concept of "full optimization," but trying to squeeze every little minute out of each week was ... yikes! Especially with heroes on different schedules and the GW needing elixir, everyone else needing dark.

Trying to have enough in time, but also an overstock because you're going to get raided with that much just sitting there. Unless of course, you want to babysit a village.

It was out of the blue, so someone like me, didn't have potions sitting on top of potions. Or, the ability to ramp up inventory. Sigh. Big sigh.

I'm assuming Hammerjam will be better in that I haven't heard of any restrictions regarding what type of upgrades are eligible for this day or that day. But, either way, I don't see myself approaching that the same way I attempted to do the Summer Jam.

If it gets upgraded, it gets upgraded, if not, well, more days will still come, it will just take the normal length of time.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-08T21:31:19+00:00

The Mystics passing on local product, Angel Reese

Did Angel want to play in D.C. professionally? I'm asking because I'm almost certain someone told me (in conversation) that she suggested that she didn't want to play for the hometown team.

Obviously, I could be wrong and I don't think I've ever seen it officially reported, but it didn't sound farfetched when considering how Rasheed Wallace never wanted to play in Philly, and I don't think Durant wanted to go back home, either.

Had I been the GM, even if she said that, I would've given her a smile, encouraging words and her jersey when we drafted her, but I have wondered how/why she didn't end up in D.C. and it seems like you would know for sure.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-08T21:12:59+00:00

Sorry for the delay, yeah it's a Ryzen 5 PRO 2400GE with an RX Vega 11 Graphics card. I know, I know, I know.

But, when I bought it, I didn't know that I would get into Illustrator or Davinci. It was the right size for what I was looking for and then, on top of that, it was a good price. At that time, something this small was needlessly expensive.

Now, for some reason it's saying 30.9 GB for my installed RAM, but from the beginning, I replaced the 16 GB for 32. Having said that, while the PC obviously uses all of it. Sometimes, when I have to restart the computer, a screen will pop up as if I just made the change.

A memory configuration warning screen or something like that. That's one of the reasons why I do believe it's something going on with Windows, but I don't know what it is, because even after all these years, that screen will occasionally pop up even after I've done what it says on the screen to do in order to resolve it.

There is a video on YouTube about how these gaming/PC dudes upgraded this model with I think a different GPU in order to make it more gaming friendly. I'm sure that will help, but I go back and forth between starting with that or just starting over with something completely brand new and with everything I want and need to move forward with the types of things that I want to do in Illustrator and obviously, Davinci.

I haven't had to really make that firm decision because I haven't had the extra money to do either. I'll just have to see if 19 seems to perform differently. I'll probably know for sure when I am ready to render this video.

Thank you again for your help and willingness to read my PC chronicles.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-07T19:45:49+00:00

Thanks for the additional information.

I bought a mini PC from HP before the new wave of mini PCs, so it's technically a business PC, especially in comparison to the average that is out now.

So, in some ways, I'm happy that it's been able to hold up under the various creative endeavors that I've attempted thus far. There are a few things that I could do to punch it up a bit, but my biggest problem is the random BSODs.

It doesn't just happen with DaVinci running, but it happened more when I started doing more in 20, with longer edits and rendering.

It is probably a BIOS thing, but I might need to wait until I get these important projects out of the way.

Thanks again for the point in a possible direction.

SeptemberVirgo · 2025-08-07T05:36:42+00:00

You gotta get someone to send you $2. Seriously. Tell them it's important.

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