In-Game Events and Gatherings

No problem at all.
Hope you get the help you need and you can get back to gambling again :)

Was wondering this to, I don't want to sign up for yet another GTC provider if its just a temporary thing.

Its because Shattered hasnt payed them as of yet think there a few months behind.


I personally dont like the other they offer Had problem and dude was twatwaffle

Hi,

Unfortunately ShatteredCrystal haven't paid us in a couple months so we needed to divert to Markee Dragon until ShatteredCrystal is current again. We hope to be able to offer both providers again soon.

Bought a Charon ticket 136Mill
Won said Charon.
1.6Bill in my wallet.
So much win

Are the results of the Mini-bonk posted anywhere? I see that there is a link on the main page to click for this weeks winners, but all it is showing is last weeks. Thanks.

Thanks for the heads-up, I switched to Markee Dragon for the time being.

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A little odd is usually the default description people who don't know me well use. It is rare for someone to start off with "very odd".

The quote you provide is from my very early days of playing blink, and is perhaps my first post about playing blink. I see a lot of errors I made in the original. You posted it all but I condensed it to specifically address the comment you made about a disparity between what I said in this early post and other comments I have made at other times.

I have never gambled in a casino, bought a lottery ticket in any state or country and my only gambling experience prior to blink has been playing poker with friends when I was a young soldier. I have spent a lot of time in casinos, though. The US Army liked to, perhaps still does, hold conferences in casino hotels as the rooms are less expensive, air connections are usually not a problem and the back end expenses of a conference, the meeting rooms, projectors, snack tables, unlimited coffee, tea and water, plus little things like tablets, pens for everyone are either very cheap or part of the reward for bringing such a large party. Air travel is particularly cheap as destinations such as Vegas, Reno, and Atlantic City have every airline landing there, so the ticket prices have lots of competition. I remember attending a conference in Reno hosted by the an Army Reserve Division, the 104th, headquartered then in Vancouver Washington. When I got tothe the conference, it seemed like half the attendees were from the 104th, which by the way had units in the 12 western states. I asked one of the planners why the conference was not held in Vancouver WA area. They had done a pretty good job of determining the costs associated with hotel, air, average meal costs in the hotels, plus the many backend conference expenses, and it was cheaper to have a convention in Reno or Vegas for them than to have it in their own back yard.People often want to think about US Government entities "living it up" on the taxpayers dime, and some do, but the Army Reserve has way more mission than they have money and not enough lobbying power to change it.

When I was stationed in Europe in the ealry 70s, many old casinos still had the atmosphere of a casino in a James Bond Movie with the men in tuxes and the ladies in evening gowns. Besides the gambling, they had shows, lots of shows and Revues, and great meals and it all came free, if you bought a certain amount of chips. Visiting such casinos was a practice of many of the officers in the unit I was in at the time, the 2/13 Infantry, part of the third brigade, in the 8th Infantry Division. when my unit was in a maintenance phase It was a well known custom for us to squeeze out 5 days leave and those of us guys who'd found something that would pass for a tux at the thrift shop. We'd buy enough chips for the days we would be there, most would gamble them away, but my wife and I just cashed in the chips that got us in the door.

I've said all that to say I have seen a lot of gambling on several continents, some of the back room gambling Thailand, I never understood, but it brought a fight about every two hours and that was the attraction.

My education got off to a late start as I joined the Army as a high school dropout, which you could do in the 60s, but I attended a high school and graduated at age 20, two years after becoming an 18 year old Drill Sergeant in the summer of 1965 at Fort Jackson, SC. Later, after Officer Candidate School Nov89 to May70 at Fort Benning, my civilian education really began and I sort of got dragged into stats. Back in those days, the only places to gamble were in someone's dining room or go to Vegas. There were no state lotteries, some states had horse races, but all the gambling took place at the track. I never knew a bookie, never travelled in those circles. But as a student of stats, I could gamble all the time and it never cost anything. No computers and hand held calculators were very expensive at first, so it was a stubby pencil and slide rule for me. I deconstructed many gambling games I had watched over the years, seeing some constantly lose and other doing a little better. I used to take notes on the ones who were doing a little better and then use statistical theories to find out why, and more importantly, how to predict when, they were going to do a little better. I created formulae of trends, and tried to include every variable I could possibly apply. In Europe, especially Switzerland, there was no air conditioning needed so I knew the humidity was not constant, so I entered that as a variable in every game which included dice.

I can't take credit for inventing randomness, but I sure did create a lot of formulae to prove it existed.

Ok the quote. I used what is called poetic license to state something everyone could understand, rather than go into th detail necessary to state what is the full truth, especially when the full truth would make little difference. In the context of that forum post, had I said, "I've never gambled in a casino, but I know a lot about it..." I would have had no credibility. If I had laid the background, I would have run out space. I gave it to you as it seems you have read everything I have posted.

Confirming that FT. Benning (Home of the Infantry) is nothing to trifle with and that we still use some casinos as a military ball location.

I was going through the past Promo blinks to see the winners and their numbers and I saw this.


http://cogdev.net/blink/?act=profile&id=90449485

Person has played 7 blinks. Won once. Has 10 achievements somehow, 0 isk blinked, and magically won a 500mil promo? Also, favorite blinks total up to 16, while played 7 blinks?