Alright, I've had a few days away from Steem and it's been nice to do some other things - the guilt of not posting anything though!
Three days without a top level post, and your sole income is STEEM? Yeah OK, that's not really the way to do it, but I felt like a need a break. My account didn't get hacked, and if you checked my comments you will have seen the odd one knocking about. I even curated one of acidyo's posts, a bit like what glenalbrethsen will do from time to time on the Engagement League post. Own content though, I've not felt too inspired to produce this week.
Normally I'll go out and about, for a walk or a cycle and take some photos along the way. The weather has been poor though, and who wants a photo of a beach when the sun isn't shining on it? The data posts are always an option, but I've been trying to limit those to once per week. I know some people like them and others really could not care less, so I'm trying to mix the content up to please (or not bore) people.
The break this week has been mostly occupied by gaming - an ideal pastime when outside looks gloomy. @drugwars is just about keeping me interested and I'm logging on once or twice a day to upgrade buildings mainly. It seems that there are less attacks taking place at present, and so (touch wood) it's easier to collect materials for these bigger upgrades.
I also sold all my FUTURE tokens via the Byteball wallet, risking the temptation to spend those on building upgrades in the game. My 75,000 FUTURE made about $70/80 worth of GBYTE which on top of the STEEM returned from the game puts me a little above break even. I may or may not have a couple of alts. playing the game too, all of which are ahead, phew!
Last season on @steemmonsters, I somehow reached the Diamond 1 league just before end of the season which provided me with a bunch of free reward cards. However, they were all pretty average and so didn't really add to the total value of my cards. Which is:
I would say I've probably spent about that much on cards, but I've also sold a few too. Here's hoping that Splinterlands and the work by yabapmatt can grow the value here, both for me and for our blockchain in the future.
Instead of cashing out the GBYTE earned via @drugwars, I used these (and a little STEEM) to take part in the on-going BEOS rainfall that was announced recently. This was a bit of a gamble as the BEOS account cost 500 Bitshares (about $35) and no-one (or at least not me) knows how much these BEOS will be worth. Will it have been better just to buy $35 on BEOS on whatever exchange they are listed on?
There are still about 80 days of rain left and so I could have anywhere up to 100,000 of these tokens when this distribution ends - They wont have to be worth much to at least break even on the cost of the wallet?
Those games wont occupy you for 3 days though, but this one will :)
Elite Dangerous has been out just over 4 years now, and they are still building on it. The original release lacked plenty, but as with all digital downloads, why bother waiting until you have a finished product before bringing it to the masses? Let the people play, test, and improve the game with patches. Sound familiar?
The latest update involved a rather mean species becoming a bit more proactive and starting to attack Starports. I wish the video clip was mine, it's rather well done I think, and all game footage too. I have tried previously to record game-play, but the quality is terrible - I guess I need a better machine.
So yeah, I've been saving people from burning Star Ports, as well as doing a bit of mining so I can upgrade my ship so I at least stand a chance against the Thargoid nasties. As my brother plays, it's a good excuse to catch up and have a natter while we are flying together in a Wing. Apparently the UK is enjoying some awesome sunshine this Easter weekend, and I hope the same goes for you, wherever you are.
Thank you to the people who have contacted me on Steem and via Discord this week asking how I am, that means a lot. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of things soon, starting tomorrow with the EL post.
Enjoy your weekend!
Asher
