RE: SMALL TRIBUTE TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED OUR CRYPTO COMMUNITY GROWTH ON STEEMIT
What constitutes a good post? It is very subjective. I spend a lot of time on my daily Zombie Adventure, but few people appreciate the effort. At least I enjoy hosting the games and rewarding my players for their participation. We have fun and that is important to me. I enjoy the interaction and get many good laughs from the comments. To me, that is my reward.
I do also enjoy meeting new people and having intelligent conversations with them, however, I need to curtail the amount of time I spend socializing so that I can do other things like maintain my household and cook and eat. As of late, I have not been getting any exercise and that is not good for my health. I should be taking even more time away from the computer to look after my own health because without health, there is nothing.
For me good posts are travel, art and food for the most part. Also I look at the winners in various contests so I can improve. I do not play games, so zombies would not be for me.
I hear you on the computer/life balance issues. I am an accountant and worked crazy hours for most of my life, so this is not much different. At least I do not have a commute :)
This platform seems to be geared to blogging-type posts, especially those geared to crypto-currencies and also to technology stuff. I find it quite amazing how many people have told me they don't have time to play my game, yet I find them heavily invested in the Steemmonsters game. My game is just too low-tech for them. At least you stated that you don't play games (which is far better than saying you don't have the time). I know many people that don't play games and I respect that. Not everyone wants to waste time playing games. In years gone by, I worked 3 jobs at once, while trying to raise my children, so I know what it means to be busy! I figure I have paid my dues and now it is time to stop and smell the roses once in a while. I deserve to take time out to play and have fun, because my days here on Earth are numbered. I need to enjoy the time I have left. If I can create or be part of something that leaves the world in a better way then I will feel accomplished. That is my intention for this platform. I have not given up on it yet. I'll stick around but just not put all my hopes and dreams into it. I'll watch and adjust my involvement as I see appropriate. I have planted a few seeds and am watching to see if they grow. It takes a community to make it happen and so far it doesn't look promising, but things can always change.
Are you retired from accounting now?
Yes, I am almost 60 with Rheumatoid Arthritis. I just never played games - even board games or cards as a kid. It's not in my personality.
The reason people play monsters here is because it is part of steem. You will have a hard time getting them to switch. And gamers already have other games they play, so they have limited time. If you cam make your game a steem dapp, you will have better success with this crowd and attract others to steem at the same time. There can never be enough games, as far as I can tell.
You are a bit younger than I am. I've been retired for 10 years.
I'm sorry to hear about your Rheumatoid Arthritis. That sucks.
You are the 2nd person who said that. I don't really understand the difference though. My game is part of Steem too! So is Steempunk and so many other games that popped up more recently.
Yes, if only I was a programmer! As I said, people here like the technology. They enjoy gadgets and ignore the basics. To me it is like food (something you stated you were interested in). Basic foods are the healthy foods. All these NEW processed foods are fake food and foods that contain additives that poison us and contain ingredients that the body doesn't know what to do with. This is why we suffer so many illnesses now. Many are caused by inflammation of the digestive tract, which causes a variety of symptoms as the body struggles to react and repair itself.
Similarly, the simple games allow you to use your imagination and interact with other players in a way that can't be done on Monsters.
I'm very curious to know how you managed to get that army of bots from fulltimegeek to upvote all your comments. What a huge support that is!
I have no idea how the bots showed up, but I thank God for this gift. It just started recently. I am in the engagement league by @abh12345 and I've noticed some others of us have them now too. I think maybe it's in support of that. All of us make 100's of comments a week on other people's posts. In the past I just got gentlebot a few times a month maybe. It's not all comments - maybe 1 in 5. I am not tracking it since it would take too much time!
As to the games - I really do not understand them since I do not play them or pay attention. I have not heard of the other one you mention. The little bit I do is for my son when he wants me to enter a contest for a card. Does your game run on the blockchain? I do not know for sure, but I think that is important.
You do not need to program the game - you need to collaborate with a steemers who can do it. Steemmonsters was a big project to get a game on here at all. There was a huge push, major support from the big guys, and then it took off right away with players. That was a nice alignment of good fortune few projects here have.
We are on the same page about the food additives. Getting those out of my life is the reason I was able to lose "half my size" 8 years ago and why I am even on the internet at all. I try to help other people lose weight naturally like I did and fail repeatedly. I'm sure all my years of consuming crap is part of the arthritis problem.
According to him (Asher), everyone that comments is automatically on the league. Only the top people show up on the charts though. I doubt I will ever see my name there because I don't work at that as one of my goals. If it would happen, it would be purely by natural process such as having this conversation with you.
Steempunk was the very FIRST blockchain-based game to appear on Steem. My game came shortly thereafter, however, my game is a play-by-post game and does not require any special coding. My game does use several dice-bots that were kindly provided by one of my players. Simply by posting the game via Steem, it is forever etched into the blockchain, so YES, it is on the Steem Blockchain. Not only that, but instead of PAYING to play, you GET paid for playing (in up-votes).
There is the catch... you need to be part of the IN TEAM.
I followed the Keto diet for 6 months to see if I could shrink a tumor. The tumor didn't change in size, but I lost a lot of weight in the process, eating lots of fats and never feeling hungry. I highly recommend the Keto Diet for losing weight. I wouldn't be surprised if indeed, your arthritis was from the bad food. That means there is still hope for a cure. Unfortunately, it is not easy to find clean foods that are not laden with pesticides. I've been trying to grow some of my own food the past few years, but struggle with bugs and animals getting to it before I do. Garlic and rhubarb seem to be the easiest to grow, along with a variety of herbs, but those are not food staples. I still have much to learn about growing foods.
You have to comment on one of his posts and ask to be in the league. It's not just by making comments anywhere. My second blog is in it, but not as active. I got onto the chart once so far with that one and hope to do better.
I use diet called aip. It's a bit like keto. When I am strict with it I do better. But my budget and location mean I eat too much rice at the moment and pay the price. I'm not in a position to grow food, but all the food in SE Asia is far superior to what I was getting in California. That was very unexpected. A majority of the additives in the US food are not allowed in these countries so I do not have to spend as much effort seeking clean food.
It is definitely important to seek the big guys here. Probably more so in your case than mine. I have not made the effort and I feel like I should. I feel happy with the connections I have though and I cannot complain.
Hmmm... I asked Asher how to get into the league and he said everyone was in it. Oh well... probably makes no difference anyway.
As for food, I thought it should be easier to find clean food there than here. But yea, eating rice is a no-no for a Keto diet. Rice is a grain and grains turn into sugars. Practically no carbohydrates are allowed. The idea is to switch the body from eating sugars to eating Ketones, which are made by the liver from fats. This stabilizes blood sugar levels and helps tremendously with diabetes. The science of how the human body works is just starting to be discovered.
How did you end up in Malaysia? I don't think that's a common destination for N. Americans.
Here is an excerpt from a book I just read about repairing a leaky gut:
When the gut barrier is compromised, it results in a condition called
‘intestinal hyperpermeability’, informally known as ‘leaky gut’. In a leaky
gut, these junctions become consistently bigger, allowing the passage
of harmful, larger elements such as toxins, pathogens, and even food
particles to leak into the bloodstream [2]. It’s like having the castle gates
continuously open. Additionally, every time an unwanted particle or
pathogen enters the bloodstream, an immune response is triggered. So,
if the gut continues to be ‘leaky’, the immune system has to be on constant
attack. Thus, when a leaky gut is not healed, it leads to continuous and
body-wide inflammation.
Unfortunately, this is taxing on the body, and can lead to a person
developing a secondary inflammation-related condition or more [3]. It
is not uncommon for people with chronic GI inflammation to develop
autoimmune ailments such as Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis,
multiple sclerosis, and ulcerative colitis.
As far as I am concerned, "leaky gut" a new illness is caused by the gmo products people consume every single day in their processed food. All is high in the chemical pesticide "round up." This pesticide kills bugs by exploding their stomachs.
This just got added to the us food supply in the late 1980's. Hmm...
Hopefully it will soon by outlawed and is not allowed in many countries already. I'm glad I live in one of them now. But the damage is done for many people and they pay the price. But they still eat it and so the cycle carries on.
Germany just outlawed it, but our almost 3rd-world N. American continent just keeps poisoning its people!