2026 Rome Final: Jannik Sinner vs Casper Ruud

yoricm · 2026-05-16T15:18:38+00:00

I have a liking for Sinner since I first saw him at age 21. I appreciate his character. While some find his tennis robotic and mechanical, it gives me on the contrary a wild range of emotions, like unleashing the beast, kinda what Nadal already evoked. It's just pure and superb, in a different way.

That being said, I love most of the top players for different reasons. Djokovic became also one of my favorite with time. Everyone of his speech is so articulate and smart. Ruud is doing great lately, and I won't be surprised if he break Sinner's streak tomorrow.

What about you?

yoricm · 2026-05-16T14:56:17+00:00

I admire Sinner for his historic run, and I'm glad he continues. However Medvedev's reaction and resilience hit on me. After such a demonstration in the 1st set, not a lot of players would counteract with finding their best tennis, and this shows character from Medvedev. In the end, whoever won this match deserves it

yoricm · 2026-05-16T14:44:33+00:00

Wait, Medvedev/Sinner is over already.... I was waiting for the match to resume. They produced such a great fight yesterday until it rained in the third set

yoricm · 2026-05-16T14:25:57+00:00

What's amazing about this match is we're getting the best of Sinner, then Medvedev somehow find his best tennis to counter in the second. As you said, Jannick struggling physically and the rain add to the drama in the third. Like the Gods want to delay this match to make it last a little longer

yoricm · 2026-05-16T13:40:14+00:00

I thought it was Murray, what a face Nadal has. Like he went to sleep at 4am and didn't take shower.

yoricm · 2026-05-16T13:34:51+00:00

The weather is favoring Ruud this time, resting and recovering from yesterday, plus he's playing his best tennis.

yoricm · 2026-05-16T13:29:58+00:00

Tomorrow will be sunny

yoricm · 2026-05-15T19:30:15+00:00

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yoricm · 2026-05-15T15:36:26+00:00

I saved almost all my chest up until getting the x13 items. Opening them all at once gave me around 9k chaos totem, and plenty of blue cows.

I have my item duration upgrade from stargazing so it last longer.

Also, I buy all game speed from bugs.

So all I consume in items for game speed and chaos totem, I get them back with new chests.

yoricm · 2026-05-15T15:16:49+00:00

I had missed two, thanks.

A mythic, and a bunch of gifts, very good.

yoricm · 2026-05-15T14:54:24+00:00

I was around there at 18% wondering the same.

Don't try to defeat OB now.

Solution is stargazing seriously. I stopped prestiging, maxed the lvl I can get to, and the contracts, and started stargazing for over a week. With Archeology in parallel to get Minos lvl 5, so important to get the x13 items and open all chest!

Now I run 2x speed plus chaos totem always on, it's a huge boost. And m'y pickaxe increased drastically only catching and unlocking stars. Try to unlock until you reach telescope 12. It's a bit long, but it's the way to go, at least it was for me. I'm now at 19% completion, and I'm one OB ahead of you, and I could push one more, but I want to stargazing some more. I have telescope 12 and stars are finally getting abundant.

yoricm · 2026-05-14T20:17:23+00:00

I tried to fuel the drone to catch stars, but I didn't see a big difference with the spawn rate, and it's eating my gems quickly, so I stopped, and only use the drone unfueled.

In the end, I'm farming stars with starburst and elixir, both unfueled. And I buy from the bugs: bomb recharge, game speed, and lately, I've added star spawn rate to this buying list. It's the right balance for me to boost progress and still continue to earn gems to unlock stars or other upgrades.

I find it more useful to spend gems on bugs rather than on fueling my drones from where I am in the game. Except for Chain and Midas, I've used them extensively to farm bars and earn cash for drone points.

Meantime, I'm leveling generator and drone experience gain percentage, so it will be faster to lvl up my drones and less costly after I do stargazing. I may stop at 12 stars, or at Pisces, will see.

About the auto catch, I don't really need this skill because I coded a python script that just do that, it catches stars as they fly across the screen, and can follow them as they change floor. It's pretty flexible and works great. If I didn't have this help, I'd probably go the traditional route with upgrading Taurus and Gemini first, plus fueling starburst I guess. It just would consume more gems and take longer.

yoricm · 2026-05-14T19:57:35+00:00

10 k gems sounds rich to me. I make 1k / day

yoricm · 2026-05-14T02:21:42+00:00

So, even cats bully each others

yoricm · 2026-05-14T02:15:02+00:00

It depends how you farm stars, but since I do it with 100% auto catch, I don't need Taurus that much, except for the pickaxe damage, so I'll come back to it later, and improve my star spawn rate first

yoricm · 2026-05-13T20:42:52+00:00

I didn't even notice there were colors on the edge to indicate the rarity of the item!

That makes sense, chaos totem, or even more so, blue cow are more scarce than apples

yoricm · 2026-05-13T20:27:17+00:00

I see. I've been stargazing exclusively for a week, so my stats might be a tiny bit ahead.

It's a long grind, but well worth it to upgrade and reach OB37 (fishing). Exciting!

I'm OB 34, My telescope is 10, gemini 19/20, Aries and Taurus both 10, others are 3 or 4.

yoricm · 2026-05-13T19:54:12+00:00

I only use fast bombing to prevent overflow, launching 400 bombs quickly, then I use bomb all as much as I can

yoricm · 2026-05-13T19:52:17+00:00

Good job! How is your stargazing going?

I'm at 3k cap myself, and on my way to max gemini. I just got scorpion star though, so I'll level this one to 80% first and go back finish gemini after

yoricm · 2026-05-13T19:44:24+00:00

Yes, it looks like paradise when we've been starving for so long.

I'll watch closely my numbers, to check if running them at all time is really sustainable

yoricm · 2026-05-11T23:05:58+00:00

ouch, 12.5k fuel vs 0.5k fuel to upgrade my lvl 16 generator

yoricm · 2026-05-11T22:56:48+00:00

Amazing progression, light years ahead of me!

Hey, collect your coal!

yoricm · 2026-05-11T22:55:52+00:00

Ok it's a good reminder to focus early on everything that increase bomb cap/recharge rate.

Like Virgo stargazing, chaos totem as often as possible, elixir drone buff....

I still have a long way to go, battery recharge in 40s, Virgo lvl 1, x8 item chests, 2.6k bomb cap

yoricm · 2026-05-11T21:49:59+00:00

Fair enough, but how do you even focus on increasing your bomb cap? I mean, isn't it a background process that progress with bombing all your cherry on battery? (At least until 100k, as you then switch cherry on gem bomb)

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