Thread:Silverisimo/@comment-24250059-20131221224336/@comment-24250059-20140217053455

Hey, you :)

Today was still cold, but the snow is slowly melting.

I couldn’t believe I got Passion first try. I ran the combo expecting a 20 hr Magic fail, and when it came up 16 hr I wasn’t sure what it was ‘cause I hadn’t even looked at the breeding calculator. I knew it wasn’t LH/RH but I kept thinking “No, it couldn’t be”   But it was, OMG. Not sure where I’m getting this run of luck, must be pure thoughts and a noble heart, hahaha. Whatever it is, I hope a little rubs off on you. :)

Today, I’ve been trying a simple forest/wild combo for Rose or even Dino, which I still lack on Potter. All Life fails so far. I saw you got a Landworm, which at least is good for a large emerald. Did you decide what to craft? I like Tigers Eye at the baby & juvie stages, but prefer Jade at adult and epic. After looking at them again I decided I’d go with Jade, which is the opposite of what I thought going in.

I gave up on a second Amazon, but you must be done or really close, yes? Mining, my dragon food bonuses went back from 50 to 500, but my land bonuses are still at 100. I wonder how long Platinum will be available? I still have a long ways to go for a second.

Hey, I was a perfect angel as a child, haha. :)   Actually, I sent myself to Holland as a grad student, my parents were just glad to no longer have college bills to pay.   … and you’d better duck, ‘cause in Bangalore you can’t make any snowballs to throw back. :P   It would be fun to go back to Rio, but of course you can never recreate the setting of people and where you were in your life, etc.   Do you ever want to go back to Oz?

I loved the crazy politician and Valentines story. In general I think fanatics of all types are dangerous, but religious types are a special class because there’s no way of reasoning with “divine” inspiration. And history shows it can be a short walk from you don’t think and act the way I think you should, to I’m going to make you behave properly even if I have to kill you to do it. Not to mention there are certainly people who will use any convenient morals, religious or otherwise, to gain personal power and benefit. I’m much more on the live and let live end of the spectrum. Which is not to say I don’t have plenty of issues with the society I find myself in. I personally think it is heavily out of balance, with pure economics heavily outweighing human needs. There are driving forces that optimize economics, but they don’t optimize happiness, and in fact are often at odds with the latter. And don’t get me started on population growth and unsustainable use of resources, etc. … I really fear that the planetary ecosystem and we, as a species, are in for some brutal, brutal shocks in the next 150 years. As for Valentines Day, I totally agree with your view that love should be celebrated all year long, not just Feb. 14th. It is sad if it leads to pressure and depression among young people. There is some of that here, though it has never bothered me personally. I think you must be living in very interesting times in your country. I of course have only a very superficial view of Indian culture and day to day life, but the enormous changes brought on by the information explosion in the last twenty years has to have led to a degree of clash with deep-seated cultural roots. And there is no way to put that genie back in the bottle. As always, the young will blindly charge ahead and the old will die off. As for offending me, you’re going to have to try much harder than that :P. Hope I didn’t offend you, either.

Haha, if my lucky streak continues I’ll start speed hatching them while you sleep and then hiding the tiny youngsters in habitats with oversized epics. :) G’night xoxo