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If I had only two things that I was really good at, the two things that come to mind are writing and deftly passing off written instructions to somebody else.
The Life Partner will be very quick to confirm this particular intellectual hiccup, considering he’s been handed instructions on everything from desk chairs to kitchen gadgets on a regular basis. Even getting a new board or card game of any kind has the same response. When we participate in family gatherings, I always sit out the first round so that I understand the game completely before participating.
When I went to college as a teenager, I was lucky if I had a B average. By the time I went back as an adult, YouTube was a thing and I graduated with a 3.9 gpa.
If I watch enough videos, I will figure it out eventually; that’s how I learned crypto from That One Guy. But give me a set of written instructions without someone translating them for me, forget it. The likelihood of me getting anything straight without losing something, breaking something, or stressing out so bad that I give up is pretty low.
After several mishaps where I got stuck with gas fees that were greater than the cost of the jpeg I wanted to buy, going to VeVe was such a relief.
I push button - I get comic. Not only that, but I get a comic of someone that I know. Spiderman! Green Goblin! I didn’t know that I had arrived at the start of a big wave, and Click, Click, Miss was going to be a growing problem.
So, just like everybody else, I went on YouTube to find out how to manage it. I went to the drop streams of the One Guy That’s Still Here, and Another Guy That Isn’t. We learned about upcoming comics by Those Two Guys Kidnapped By VeVe Never To Be Seen Again (except once a week, when they’re let out for good behavior).
Thanks to those streams, we knew just how many people could share in our misery of not landing the drop.
After a very long wait, the waitlist came! I no longer had to worry about my location, outdated phone, and lack of ethernet cable. Peace at last! I could join and meditate on the green truck instead, falling into a sea of tranquility like an American Yoga YouTube Guru wearing expensive stretchy pants! Namaste.
That was until recently, when that sea of tranquility was utterly destroyed!
Recently, a lot of drops are coming with a long list of instructions that make me want to go to Ikea to find some lighter reading material.
So let me see if I've got this.
I push button (Namaste) and hope to get X collectible of X rarity and have X amount of MCP I might be able to wait X amount of time to get an X random collectible on top of the original UNLESS I try to buy it from the market… which doesn’t work on this drop but it might work on the next drop… and don’t worry, your collectible won’t get burned unless you do the next drop, where you can buy it from the store and you have to pay extra to have the right to burn your own collectibles. But of course, if you don’t get the X collectible, you might be able to get a whole different craft for X item, assuming you go back and try the store again to get the right item, it will lead you to a drop that makes you “Click, Click, Miss”. In other words, even if you somehow understood the algebra you may not get it anyway, because someone else either beat you to it or had a connection before the app lagged out and went blotto on everyone else.
But it’s still worth going for it because one set leads to another set… and even if you have no interest in the first set, you can’t get the second set without buying the first set or waiting until someone else sells the second set if the market is working.
Please make sure you completely understand the rules before the drop or you’ll end up spending the rest of the day on X or the forums complaining about not getting the drop because either the first instruction, the second instruction, or the third instruction went wrong in the process.
So… I guess I saved some MCP? I think? Anybody out there making flowcharts of these drops? Maybe then I can figure out what went wrong. Even office store desk kits have a Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3 that I can rely on. VeVe doesn’t even provide that much with the complicated drops.
I know this sort of stuff throws me off by nature, but the fact that I’m now constantly scratching my head makes me wonder how someone new to the platform would navigate that.
As for myself, I think I’ll just stick to comics. I will just stay in the sea of tranquility and let others deal with decoding the collector’s codex. Instead, I will meditate on the benefits of keeping it simple, and leave the instructions to someone else, because they certainly weren’t written for me.
So for now, I'm just going to let the rest of you figure out instead.
See you in the market!