I’m quite enjoying playing at this very reduced level. I miss the folks in my corp, but it’s kind of nice playing by myself again…
Archive for fun
Upon reflection
I’m just gonna ignore Mr. WTF (with the very unfortunate new player name). While I can add a zillion blogs in Viseu, link to them, get my friends to vote it up in the industries, and then continue to reindex the heck out of them daily (which I admit, I have been doing, at least the reindexing part), it just contributes to his paranoid delusions. So let him live in my trans logs. He didn’t stop me before and he’s not going stop me now.
He seems to be having fun obsessively taking note of my very occasional visits to his blog and sniping stuff. Who am I to stop him?
Dude, enjoy yourself.
B$ 2.0
I had my account reset tonight. It feels good. It took a lot longer than I thought it would to divest myself of my holdings. I made a lot of donations. Finally I donated all my wealth to the Hall of Fame.
I stepped down as IM a few weeks ago. It was fun. My fellow IMs were great. I had a blast cleaning industries, but it got to be too much. And way too many asshats with persecution complexes. It stopped being fun.
So now what? Well, I’m still going to play, just scaling it back a bit. And it’s going to be fun again.
The not-so pesky fly
is trying some mild passive-aggressive stuff. Not sure why considering I haven’t been playing much of late…
Magical mystical 23!
I have recently started entering some of the contests that various players offer for BlogShares. A fellow player, who goes by the handle of Rantz, has for a reason I cannot possibly explain, an affinity for the number 23. Given that I love the number 42, I really can’t judge the guy. Anyhow, he’s founded the 2,300 Chippies corporation (some corporations are more fun than anything else). The rewards are chips. Since chips equal money and also contribute to one’s rankings, it’s incentive indeed.His most recent contest is interesting. I have a shot with some of its facets, specifically this one. Namely blog about the contest. I’m going to have a go at the logic puzzle (although, Rantz, if you’re reading this, vegemite? and don’t tell me Google is my friend. I looked it up, but it just sounds so darn bizarre. I should be able to complete the voting/modding part. I love doing that. And collecting the Geek ideas is probably something I can accomplish as well. The math one–not a chance in hell.
Signs you may be playing too much B$
Based on the understanding that I am from the U.S., speak only English, and didn’t get the most thorough grounding in geography.
- You automatically make the conversion to B$ system time in your head.
- Someone tells you about a cool blog and the first thing you do is see if it’s in the system yet.
- You know the difference between Danish and Norwegian or Chinese and Japanese at a glance.
- As you drive through another state, you see the sign for a tiny town, and you say “Oh, yeah, I have ideas in this one.”
- You know the states of an obscure third-world nation by heart.
- You can fill in crossword geography clues without resorting to a dictionary.
- You understand how the Persian calendar works
- You wake up in order to turn a blog or catch a drop.
- You schedule your personal life around turning a blog or catching a drop.
And yes, I fit these categories…
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