UConn James

Mrags, there's 241 at ya. Enjoy your eggs underneath the Pimento Grove this time. Hope the tastes don't clash. Jboyst, I'm like 150 away from the arena...! I dunno what time the update's gonna happen. I didn't get the neighborhood visits in until just now, so if it's @5-6 as has happened a few times, I may be screwed by just a few.

Hate to say it, but 3-13 sounds 'bout right given the givens.

Just dropped 231 on ya mrags. I'm at ~ 9,100. Gonna be close whether I get the arena or not, and may actually depend on what time they roll out the update on the 9th. This has been one of the worst designed contest they've done on this game. I'll just reiterate that. Many people on the EA forum have said that, basically, you had to take up a deal with someone to mutually swap eggs like me and Mrags. Coupled with the tedium of whacking snakes --- and there always being a straggler or two or three that's hiding under buildings or in house farms --- having to plant eggs just sucks. Going through the whole neighborhood literally takes 3 hours. Mrags, using donuts to get the WD prizes costs ~250 and reduces in a slow prorated fashion as you get closer to the goal.

~300 at ya, mrags. I would've done it last night, but my nieces wiped me out over the weekend and My hands were really shaky. Just went over 8,300 snakes. Really hoping I can get the arena and Tatum. He's got a tiger walking task. How sweet is that?

Heard about this project a while ago among several JB ones that are in the works. Thought it was in very limited release, but there you go.... And yeah, this music isn't for everybody. What's not on CD is pretty raw stuff at a time when recording was seriously not where it is today, and yet it's all that's left. My nuclear family is very much "not a fan." And not just due to audio quality. Admittedly, there are a number of tracks that even I skip over. He experimented a lot with different styles and some it don't work for my ear. But what Jeff did well, he did REALLY well. I don't recall offhand whether they've officially released "Forget Her" (Jeff was very adamant that he did not want to for personal reasons). I only recently came upon "She is Free" and have it in regular rotation in the iPod, and even those family members who dislike have asked, "Who is that? That's a good song!" Then there's "I Know It's Over" hits a chord for me at a current life station.... Sometimes it's hard for me to listen to his stuff because some of it is just... well... depressing. As he said himself, by the end of a concert his mind was literally chemically altered by where he had to go in some of the songs." And so I can't spend too much time on those myself. Nevertheless, he had such a great voice. If he had lived and matured past the angst and whatever other issues, no doubt he would be among the top artists. Yet scrounging YouTube for bootlegs is pretty much all that's left....

At ya, mrags!

It's a suit. There is also a limo available in the premium items for 40 donuts. The update also seems to have affected the ratio of eggs collected in neighbors' towns. Maybe EA tweaked it during the update due to some of the complaints. The difference was noticeable. jboyst, I believe the next update will be out on 9 May and the Whacking Day contest will be done. TSTO Facebook page had a pic of the Captain McAllister character and said we'll "be seeing him soon." This may be conjecture, as in the past deadlines like these have come and gone and events continued.... We'll find out. Oh, mrags, delivery was made and I've got ~90 more when I get some time.

Yup. This ain't like the Christmas one where at least the houses stood still and you didn't need to wait for them to come out of the woodwork. And as I wrote above, the egg-placing causes monkey-arm. Taking forever. I'm hoping my deal with mrags will mitigate some of the problem of getting eggs, as we'd just be shuffling them back and forth back to each other and eventually get snakes out of them.... I think. I hope. Not liking how this update was designed....

OK. I now have a little bit of what David Pogue (tech editor for the NYT, NOVA Science Now host, and all-around funnily awesome guy) calls "monkey arms" from too much tablet use.... And I've had a bit of the shakes in my hands from a med I've been on since Jan. But they're delivered!

Game on, mrags! Just to confirm first before I dump like 300, that your handle is the mrags one. I'm not so concerned about it being 1-1, but I need to be getting more than I have. And it's stupid b/c I've got the full 100 friends now and I'm literally getting like 30 in the last week, after I'd been distributing. And to add insult to injury, I see towns in my travels where every free square that can have an egg has one and the person is on level 10or 14 and obviously hasn't played for six months or died or got locked out of their account. And yet, they get all the eggs. SMH. As soon as I get the missile launch codes, I'll have my lawyer fax over the paperwork for your signature, dude! ;-)

OK. So, I'm still less that 6,000 and there's 8 days left in this. I really want the arena and Drederick Tatum at least (one of my favorite characters). Problem is I'm not getting reciprocity on the eggs. Like, nowhere near. In the past week, I've gotten maybe 30 placed in my town. I'm currently sitting on 300 that I've gotten in two days. I'm looking for someone who will do an exclusive egg-swap. All I collect for all you collect.

I wrote the EJ? an EJ (and then came back to my town last night and saw an EJ on my own grass --- you know what they say about great minds!!!) and a GO BILLS.... I'm about to score the baseball stadium today, probably. mrags, seriously, if you need threads, go to the link above for the EA forum I posted above and click on a latter page of an add-me thread, write those names down and friend them in the game. Best way to get a lot of friends for during these events.

The last several years since my interest in reading every scrap about the Bills and the draft players is, "Meh. Whatever...." As people have said here, I root for the laundry.

Actually, I believe it's affected by other people spraypainting your various buildings, and you cleaning them up. That's kind of why it's appreciated for neighbors to take the time in the neighborhood visit to find any that aren't tagged. Catching Sideshow Bob increases it. Having and using the prison increases it, I believe. Sending Wiggum on patrol does as well, I think I've read. That said, the metrics for the star ratings are very finicky --- one day you can have a 5 and the next a 2 and then w/o doing anything it'll be a 4.... I wouldn't worry about them much.

Honestly wasn't me. Go into the move-around mode and then click on the things in the lower right that allow you to make the houses and vegetation/structures see-through and you should be able to find it.

Lenny and Carl arrive with the Buddhist temple.

Mrags, I banked that much while they still had the friend/neighbor bonus during and after the holidays. Basically, if you had a neighbor who had a lot of premium items, you would keep going in and out of their Springfield and it would build up the cash payout per house. So, instead of getting $17 per, I once got ~$30,000+ per tap x 100 friends. Gotta say that it's taken a lot of the imperative out of playing Nd trying to save up cash. This particular loophole was closed in an update. That's a somewhat common complaint about the donut use WRT the small pink buttons. They did start a 'Cancel' button next to it when you order a premium item. I actually used the 60 they give at he start of the game for stupid speed-up stuff b/c I didn't know donuts were going to be scarce like this.... Did another snake egg dump for you guys. Enjoy.

What stage does the Lifetime network movie appear? It would seem to me that the FBI photo release flushed them out. They figured they would be tracked down very soon anyway, so they just went for broke and went on the offensive.

I threw down a $50 for donuts when I got an ITunes card over the holidays. I've tried to be conservative with it, but I did get a couple of the deals that the salesman guy Max offered like the Springfield sign and the Hank Scorpio lair together for 250(iirc). I also did the friends bonus thing and racked up ~$10M --- even after getting those big $ items, I've got $7.5M left now. No one says that you need to plunk down coin for the game for premium items. You can do all the free stuff and it's still enjoyable. Haven't been on nearly as much since Jan., as I wrote maybe 10 min. a day. That Burns Manor B is me, and that's fine. I've lifted a number of things myself, i.e. my tire fire and garbage till area with the jagged gravel path.

There's actually an EA forum with add-me threads for 'neighbors' here: http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/categories/show/233.page Sorry, I'm on my iPad so I can't make a link.... I really try to limit it to ~10 min a day, and try to make it during down time at that. Anything more just seems... not good.

Haven't made it on the neighborhood in a while, but I'll be returning the favor right now. Thanks. I have no idea how I'm going to make it to 12,500....

How big of a dick move was that?! The host guy was like, Take a shower first and then.... I'm sure the resort really appreciated having to clean that --- actually, probably having to drain the pool and start over with as much crap Philip had on him and the dirt contrail he left. How scrambled was that tribal? Wow. They were just frantically whispering, trying to figure out which of thir own Seven to snuff out. Then followed Philip's advice to force the two idols out. Then, the ringleader is gone and it looks like the alliance just falls apart. Well played, Malcom!

I'm with Jim here. I don't think I've ever heard of a dog that actually watched the teevee. Reacted to sounds from it, yeah, but not watched the screen. On balance, I suppose my dog doesn't really do anything that other dogs don't do. Just, he does them in spades. As my father says, "He's 500 m.p.h. down a dead end road!" When he starts slowing down with age, it'll be a welcome respite, but I don't think that's going to happen for another 10 years.... Very vocal, high-energy, curious. Maybe the only weird thing about him is that he likes being towel-dried WAAAAAY more than he ought to.

Catch-and-release keeps lawyers, judges and bailbondspeople in business, don't you know?

No "The Story of Luke" in the indies?