The Inactives

December 19, 2011

I think it’s been so long since the last time I post something about Tribal Wars. I am quite surprise that there are some people that came here because of the the TW post I made before, and more surprisingly they actually were trying to find out how to know whether a player is active or not.

Apparently, player’s activity might be a very crucial point in this game. If you’re not active for a few days it’s guaranteed that you would lose your village, a.k.a getting nobled. That’s why some really serious and strict tribe leaders kick their inactive members or just label them as “farm” so their tribe mates can just pick any resources from that particular member.

There are at least three ways that I know how to detect inactive players.

1. The easiest way to check whether your neighbor is active or not is by sending him a mail.

You see, when you send him a mail, you can check whether he open it or not. With an assumption, if he’s active and online, he’ll check his mail and even if he doesn’t reply you’d still be able to know whether he’s checking his village or not.

However, this is a little bit tricky because some more experienced player might detect your move and use this trick to get back to you.

2. Tribalwarsmap.com

I got this link from my TW Tutor in W17. I was a noob and I was told that this is one of the best tools you can use in getting your way in TW. First, you can use it to have a bigger map and you can calculate attack time using the map. Most of all, you can detect inactive villages around you using this map.

Yeah! It’s more effective. The downside is you have to keep checking because it’s not real time. It’s refreshed once in a while.

3. Be a tribe leader

There’s a privilege, of course, for being a leader on your tribe. You will be able to see whether your members are active or not. We called the inactive. The red dot.

Yellow dot is a warning. Red means you’re a farm or kicked.

If you’re never a tribe leader, you might never know this, but since I was… Well, I am not bragging myself. I need to learn more because I think there are lots of new features in this game now.

Anyways…

You can always detect inactive players from the pace of the progress. The too-slow progressed player usually not active enough, or just don’t know how to play this game. Either way, you can always kill this kind of player. Even if you’re focusing on troops the too-slow is too slow!

Well, if you’re a TW player, good luck. If you’re in w60, we might see each other there…

Something That I Hate: “About Me”

December 11, 2011

On the last entry I told you that finally I registered myself to one of the dating sites, which now I never touch again. Well… First because I got really bored there, and second, it asked me to pay! So, I might as well left that site.

Anyway, I am not going to talk about the dating site again, because I am not into it. There’s one thing I found out really hard to do when I fill out the profile section. “About Me” form!

If you look into the “About Me” section of this blog, you might recognize my inability to write description about myself. I don’t know why but I think when you write something about yourself in the “About Me” section it was kiind of misleading. You will make the reader thought that you’re just like what you described there, whilst actually different people has different perception about you.

It should be: “My Own Perception About Me”.

The second part isn’t easier… It’s about what things interest you? How could it possible for people to actually fill in this form? What interest me? So many yet so few. I like music, but I don’t like dangdut, for example. I like food but I don’t like several core ingredients like those from onion and garlic family. How could you summarize what you like and dislike in 500 characters? That’s insane.

Seriously, sometimes I think Clive’s 3500 words assignments is so much easier than to sum up my life story in 500 characters.

But the hardest part isn’t coming yet.

It’s the “WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR”

Geez.

Isn’t that too obvious? I am looking for a prince charming in a shining armor, riding a white horse and speak ancient Elven language. His name might be Legolas. Or better, if he speak ancient Elven language with a British accent… and his name would be Sir Legolas of Mirkwood.

It took me years to think about what I would write there, but anyway… I forgot what I have wrote there. I might have left it blank >_<. But when I think about it again, what should I write there? What would I write in a form like that if I want to be very honest and blunt about my types? Hm… It would probably be like this:

I don’t care if you’re a girl or a boy. I don’t really care how old you’re as long as you’re a legal citizen, because I don’t want to get jailed because of dating an underage. I don’t care what ethnicity or race or nationality, but Elven is preferable.

If you don’t know Oasis and Blur, you might be too old or too young for me. If you know it already and you don’t like it, we would be having a lot of arguments about what good music is. If you’re a fan of Justin Bieber, you might want to know my ex, I can introduce you to her. But I like someone who can play musical instrument, because I can’t. If we’re not a match but you can play guitar, I would like to befriend with you so you can teach me how to play guitar.

If you choose the Fast and the Furious over LOTR, we’re not going to watch movie together. Especially if you think that Transformer is a better movie than Fracture. I am not a fan of Romantic Comedy though, but Love Actually and He’s Just Not That Into You are exceptions. I hate (500) Days of Summer, and people who said that there’s a similarity between me and Summer, so although you might think so just shut your mouth. I chose pop corn over nachos. And plain water over soda.

You don’t need to bring me to fancy restaurants, especially if you’re a chef. If you cook and then clean the dishes, that’s so much better. The best is, if you can also do laundry, house cleaning, fix the plumbing system, and drive. Oh.. no. Wait… The BEST is, if you can massage!

I don’t care how tall you’re, but just a warning, I LOVE high heels. If you’re not tall enough, I wish you’re confident enough. That’s fine. I don’t mind if you don’t do exercise that much. I don’t even care. Just be healthy, because it’s useless we’re doing this if you die soon. So, you don’t need to be all slim and slender, but check your cholesterol rate and your blood sugar -_-”. Oh, and have a HIV check too if you’re serious.

You don’t have to be fashionable. Please dress properly. I mean, it’s painful to my eyes to see your underwear everywhere when you bend down. Buy a real pants. Or a pair of cute underwear.

I am a liberal. And a democrat. I expected someone who won’t limit my liberty and democracy. I don’t want a preacher lecturing about how I should live my life. Seriously, you’d be friendzoned in a second. And I don’t need someone who corrected my every word, or reminded me about the meme i used in my daily conversation. Basically, I need someone who talk, but know when to shut.

Anyways, if you read this and you still interested, then you can send me message.

Cheers.

Wanted!

December 10, 2011

After some small talk with Denise few weeks ago, I found out that she actually registered herself to a dating site. Seriously? She barely touched her facebook but yet she’s on a dating site? I asked her whether she was really desperate or something, but she said that it wasn’t out of desperation. Then she kind of preached me about the 21st century dating or something.

Well…

After she talked to me like that, it occurred to me that 80% people that has a deeper connection to me was those I know from the internet. I met si Onyed, and mr. Atheist online, and they were and still are the closest person to me. I met Miiya and mr Nottingham in real life, but we actually talked more online. Even for friends… like AK, for example. I befriended her… online.

That makes me think… Should I join a dating site as well?

Oh my gosh… you started to giggle now.

I know it sound so desperate, but I tried to make it as neutral as possible. Okay? So, few hours after talking to Denise, I went home and I don’t know how my browser kept flashing this dating site ads. Out of curiosity, I clicked it. I mean, I just want to know if what Denise said was for real or not.

Well… actually those people in the dating site wasn’t all that bad looking. Some were actually attractive… but that’s the catch isn’t it? If these people are good looking and have good characters, why don’t they find someone in the real life? Are they too picky? Or they have some extra baggage (you have to watch HIMYM to know about this)? Or they just the unlucky?

Seeing at how many options there, it actually gives the chance for the picky to choose one that suit them the most. Like.. how old this person should be, how tall, what would you like for the color of the hair, eyes, or skin tone. Do you want this person to be asian, or caucasian, or middle eastern? Do you want this person to be able to play music or cook? Or do you want this person to be active outdoor or do you want a company who smoke drink and dance? Do you want to get serious or just fun? Kids or no kids?

See?

It’s like… One year of information gathering, saved up in one hour of reading someone’s profile. I am no fan of this actually, because I enjoyed the challenge to dig deeper into human’s mind and characteristics. It’s like a spoiler in a review for a movie, you’d know everything without actually experience anything. But… Hey! It’s still a place to go though…

After I see the dating site, I kind of changed my mind a little. Still not a fan of it, and I never opened that site again, but now I know why people go to that site. Sometimes, it’s just about finding an opportunity you would never find in the real life…

About Customer Service

December 7, 2011

I love AMAZON.CO.UK

I know it sounds like I am giving a free advertorial for them, but they deserved this review.

Few days ago I bought a watch from Amazon.co.uk. You know I lost my watch when I was in London and the replacement hasn’t yet come, for one and so many reasons -_-”. I need a watch, a digital one, because I am not too good with analog watch. So, when I found that pretty digital watch at amazon, I just bought it. It was cheap because it was on sale.

Yesterday, the package came. It was in a really good packaging. A neat box with a tightly closed seal from amazon. Inside the big box, there was another small box. The product box. For the watch.

But WTF?

The watch wasn’t functioning at all. Was that the battery? Was that the watch itself? I don’t know what happened, because as far as I know, when you’re buying a watch, it comes with the battery. So I called amazon.co.uk.

No.

They called me.

So, they have this funny button at their customer service page, to ask them to call you. There are two buttons to be exact. The first one is the bootycall button so they would call you right then, and the other one is the “wait 5 minutes” button. Of course I took the booty call!

And it worked!

The second I clicked that button, my phone rang. Although I expected them to call, I was quite shock of how fast the response was. It was an automated call. I had to wait for about three minutes before a man actually picked up the other line and talked to me about the product. So I explained the whole thing.

No fuss.

He told me, that apparently the watch was sold by the third party who worked together with amazon, so it means amazon didn’t have the stock of that particular product. The only thing he could do to help me was to refund all my money.

He didn’t ask me whether I want to get a replacement, or saying that it might be difficult or bla bla bla…

I want to live in this country. I want to die here.

When I was in Indonesia, I had to come to one phone provider counter and made a scene just to make my request to be heard. I had to fight with so many customer services and got nothing…

And here…

He offered me to get my money back.

Amazon.co.uk also paid for the delivery when I need to return my package.

I know I was a little bit disappointed because the product wasn’t exactly what I wanted it to be (damaged), but their customer service was the best I’ve ever experienced in my whole life. THAT is what I call the big company!

Dealing With “It”

November 12, 2011

If you want to call this entry as the continuation of the last entry, I’ll be fine with it. If you think that this entry has nothing to do with the previous one, I wouldn’t mind either. Even if you don’t read this entry, I don’t really care >_<

It’s been so long since the last time I wrote some good tips for you. I usually write tips only for the thing that I know best. Now, since I was dealing with lots of bad things, which from now we call “It” (with capital I), I want to give some tips for people who think their life sucks.

This is a transferable skill, so you can use it anywhere. Read this carefully, one day you might want to thank me.

1. You can’t change the world, you don’t change yourself, and you will never be able to change the situation. Just, change your point of view.

You might have heard lots of crap about how to change yourself to fit in. They said that as if it was so easy to do! It is gonna be as hard as heaven! So, instead of changing things you can’t change, you can just move a bit and change your point of view.

Remember when I lost my phone? Well… I can see it as a misfortune (which of course it is), or I can see it as an easy way to get rid of people I don’t want in my contact list. It’s still hard, but it’s more doable than changing the world or changing yourself…

2. Drink!

It’s only happen to me, actually. However when things went really bad, and being positive made me feel shitty, I just drink my problem up. You can start with drinking water, but it won’t help. Drinking coffee would only get up all night and make you more depressed, and drinking Baygon would kill you instantly.

I usually go with alcohol. Not for everyone. If you’re underage, go and drink milk, kiddo! Hey! Someone! Please get these underage kids out of my blog…. Security!!

3. Listen to other people’s problem

Really? Yeah of course. If your friends have worse problems than yours, you know that life isn’t so bad for you. Seriously, you can even laugh at them… you’re allowed to do that… I mean, I do that a lot.

4. Shopping

No, I won’t say retail therapy. Because I will not actually buy anything. I just like walking around, and window shopping, and… piss the shop assistants because I would just mess everything in the shop. That’s what makes me happy… you know?

You can actually buy something for real, it makes you happier… for a while. In the end of the month you will start get depressed and you have to read this entry all over again, to know what to do because you will start to think that your life sucks… again.

5. Be mean!

Muahaha… this one is actually my second favorite (after drinking). Seriously… do something mean to someone. You can make fun of your friend, or just play prank to someone you met on the street. See their reaction… if you don’t get punched you will be happy for one day. Seriously.

I did that.

And I was good at it.

6. Go die.

I think it explains what I am going to say. Personally, I don’t like this options. Not that I think that it is selfish or anything… for me it’s because I don’t believe in afterlife, so it sucks that life ends just like that. But for someone who believes in reincarnation or something, this could be your option.

You can die in many ways, poison, slit your hand or throat, shoot yourself in the head or mouth… Be creative. Jump from the high rise building is so last year, please don’t do that.

 

So… where’s smoking on this list? I can’t actually put it in my list, because now I don’t have any. Please someone send me those piece of heaven :( I really need those now, since the winter is coming…