i had a customer today casually suggest that some of our product outages were due to "socialism" and that it needed to be stopped. this puzzled me, as i work for one of the largest retailers in the US and we loooooove making profit for management and shareholders. examples of product stock inconsistency: we have plenty of Frito-Lay products on the shelf. we don't have any masks in adult sizes. i'm not sure which products this customer was looking for. i'm also not sure…
i had a heck of a time trying to get noisy the last few days, some my problems some site problems, but now i'm back! i don't have much to say at the moment, but hopefully i'll be able to use the site today and share some of my thoughts. i missed y'all!
yep, that's right, it's lerk again with some #Splinterlands DEC Rewards pool information. looks like there was another 2 million or so added to the pool recently. can't say exactly when ( learn 2 program already, lerk ), but looking back through my battle record it seems like there was a bump in rewards 3-4 hours ago. but anyway, this means Ranked wins are worth roughly 40% more than they were earlier today. good stuff! get battling! unless of course you're trying to…
this one goes out to @PopPopPrego in particular: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_213c4979fab9ef7c2dd5e842a2bd8835 i couldn't help but think of you, and i'm wishing i had that miss chance formula. i also realized after starting the battle that i played Parasitic Growth, but i meant to play Feasting Seaweed like my opponent. i think that change would've made the battle go strongly in my favor, but i'll take the scam win regardless. the dance of the Sand Worms is…
seems like my little corner of the internet is very popular at the moment. i suppose that's great news, but it makes some sites near unusable (sorry noise!). oh well. i made a #Splinterlands renting blunder earlier but i'm telling myself it's okay because i'm making that DEC back renting out my own cards. speaking of which, i rented out my Djinn Biljka for 80 DEC. i don't mind that i could've rented it for more. as it stands, that's like 10-12 Ranked wins worth of DEC. i…
they sure printed a lot of monsters with Flying in this most recent batch of #Splinterlands rewards cards. makes one wonder.... of the 21 cards, 6 have Flying. Gargoya Devil is a good one. i can see him now, shooting Thorny Boy's monsters in the face from Close Range with nary a scratch. lovely. of the 21 cards, only 3 die outright to the 2 damage from the Earthquake ruleset (one of them being Djinn Biljka who is like a rock or something so i'm not sure how that works but…
because i'm momentarily obsessed, more Venari news: someone snapped up a bunch of Wavesmiths, pushing the price to $12. Seedsmith price creeping up, Bone and Crystal relatively stable. there will be some serious buying when whichever high level players decide they want these in their collection. they might be waiting as well....
i think the Venari cards might be the most impactful for general #Splinterlands gameplay, especially in the Bronze/Silver leagues. i'm disregarding Venari Heatsmith because that's a different sort of card (and an interesting choice by the devs for that). pardon the image below with missing artwork, it's mostly for stat / price reference, from monstermarket.io i'm personally expecting the price to go down before it goes back up, so i can't help but check this page multiple…
i'm not sure the chance on this, i guess it had to happen to someone.... 1st day of the new Rewards cards has been so good to me! currently listed at ~$400, or 71K DEC, but you know i'm not selling. EDIT: market is in flux, down to $300, but again, this is just one metric and not the card's true value. now i'm imagining where i might use this. Camouflage is very interesting, seems best in the last position to maximize attacks before it can be targeted... i can probably rent…
there is something very satisfying about consolidating a bitcoin wallet. i've kept my noise payout threshold rather low at 20 cents, just so i can gather up my coins every few weeks and smash them all together in whichever arcane address configuration i so desire. lovely. pointless and lovely.
just over 4 hours from my previous post about the DEC rewards pool -> https://noise.cash/post/19gjvprx and the number went up! it's back to 5.857 million and climbing....below you can see a win i had from 10+ minutes ago earning 3.615 DEC, and a win just now earning 7.482. DEC price hasn't changed much at all, so i'm not quite sure what happened.... and if i haven't completely lost it, i feel like it jumped from 2.85 million to 5.85 in seconds....so they can print DEC…
there are finally enough #Splinterlands players to start draining the DEC rewards pool. you can see the current balance here -> https://game-api.splinterlands.com/players/balances?token_type=DEC&players=$REWARD_POOL i did some informal sampling earlier over the course of 20 minutes, seen in the chart below. definite decline. it had closer to 7 million balance a week ago. so what does this mean? DEC is once again becoming scarce, which will likely drive up its price, which…
looks can be deceiving.... i read an article summary yesterday, saying that after the discovery of the "Red Delicious" apple, farmers kept selecting fruits that looked the best, that had the most even dark red color, but these apples lost some of the flavor profile that was found in apples with some *aberrant* golden patches and striping. eventually, after 100+ years of selecting for fruit-stand presentation, they created a mealy, bland apple. a customer returned a package…
this is just my sort of thing: a cover of the Seinfeld theme in the style of 'So What' from Miles Davis' Kind of Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lApmdT2PllU the cover art, with all its little in-jokes, absolutely sells it.
market dumps right in time with the new Moon....let's see if it gets excited again in two weeks.
so it seems like low Bronze league in #Splinterlands is filled with bots....thousands of bots. unless i'm wrong, i've faced at most 10% real human opponents in the last few days.... but, when faced with new challenges, you learn things. check this sweet anti-Thorns composition i learned from multiple opponents with ZERO cards of their own: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_b627a5c94796b25cec07265841118168 i was rather lucky with the "Healed Out" ruleset nullifying his…
busy busy busy busy.....with nothing! "life" has us running around to complete all these absolutely necessary tasks to ensure our survival. but "life" is beating in our chests and does not understand paperwork.
i didn't rent any cards at the end of season this time. it's hard to find affordable cards and it didn't seem like i'd make my DEC back. i took it up to the wire before deciding. 36 minutes left in the season and i was on peakmonsters.com, considering the options. i had enough rating to make it to Gold III, and 13 additional chests.... in other news, i've been staking more SPS. i had reached my previous goal and was accumulating liquid SPS for a bit, selling 1-2 every few…
good summary of the most recent #Splinterlands AMA: https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@brybro27/splinterlands-ama-summary-august-27th-2021-9pm-eastern the most important piece in my mind is the Chaos Legion presale, which will require vouchers to purchase. you get airdropped vouchers based on your *STAKED SPS*. 1 voucher + $2 = 1 pack, to be airdropped at the end of presale. this makes a ton of sense and i'm glad i've been staking most of my rewards. at first, i couldn't pass…
thanks to @potta for alerting me (and others) -> https://noise.cash/post/l3vv29jx RLY got listed to Coinbase and i've been so busy i didn't notice. i've talked about it before, you can go to rally.io for more info, blah blah. but what i wanted to say was, someone is selling a ton of RLY, but like drips from a faucet, 10-20 RLY per second. RLY is generated by users holding "creator coins," currencies that give holders perks redeemable with a particular person / celebrity. if…
wowowowowow. a *fun* couple of days that have left me frazzled. i work in an hour, but it's a short shift, thankfully. then i need to worry about some other important things for the rest of the day, and get left hanging by others that are chronically unhelpful.... did i mention i found a dead body? not really going to say much else, out of respect. but that does something to you, especially when you don't expect it. ugh. still, i'm finding time to grind some crypto, so i…
( roughly half of ) the modern Bronze #Splinterlands meta-game in a nutshell: https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_799b3ab25d0b34996bf78e81ca2ad1cd i love 2 minute long coin-flips. i hope you do, too.
i'm not earning a ton of DEC or SPS. i don't have a $$$$ collection, but i still think i'm making some good #Splinterlands decisions. take this post from two weeks ago -> https://noise.cash/post/1g724p6g @TrocProcLock asked me how much the Wizard cost (first image). at the time it was roughly 3300 DEC, about $15. second image was meant to be from monstermarket.io, which would show 8191 DEC as the cheapest Wizard (level 1 for us Bronze minnows, holla!)....instead i posted the…
i miss a day and my my hearts are worthless. cruel, cruel noise. i went to bed at 8pm last night after having a massive panic attack. yay. slept for nearly 12 hours but i still feel like garbage. i'm not pleased with life, is how i would put it. i can't really describe the feeling better than that. some things are still interesting, but the *color* is gone.... i need to eat a salad or something.
here's a new one, i'm guessing the Splinterlands server's are a bit strained: in the image below you can see two losses, one after the other. i submitted my team for the first match, and was waiting for the team reveal, which never showed, and then i was given a loss screen for the second match.... i concede that the first match was pretty weak on my part, but to lose a second match simultaneously? i'm not sure what happened at all. but DEC miners don't give in when the…
who needs reality television when you have Bitcoin community drama?
i think my opponent and i both forgot that our monsters lost their abilities, hehe. https://splinterlands.com?p=battle&id=sl_fd7598c7f866e8baf2ddc07d7b72af29 i was countering Yodin Zaku in my mind.... pay attention! don't get goaded into a composition by your fleeting assumptions. i guess what i mean to say is: take your full time (2 minutes, 45 seconds?) to think about your compositions.
Splinterlands Ranked is back up, DEC rewards are higher than normal due to the day off, get in there folks!
i rented my way into Gold III to end the season, thinking there was no way i'd compete at that level and i'd just have to wait for my chests.... i'm now league capped again, at 2313 rating. could progress to Gold II but i don't have enough card power. i'm not going to invest in more rentals, though. getting 4 extra chests won't be worth it. but i am pleased to know that i can "hang" in Gold, even with my ~14,000 true card power, and i've made back a good portion of the…
i wrote about Splinterlands team composition earlier ( https://noise.cash/post/lp3mrgzv ) and this recent game (first image) i had is a good example of two players attempting to be optimal against the other: https://splinterlands.com/?p=battle&id=sl_04c2f8306439c23ef06afafba4fc5ec8 three Splinters available: Fire, Death, and Earth. i looked at my opponent's recent battle history (image 2), and had roughly the following thoughts: --they own Thorny Boy! --they like Magic+…
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