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Westheim · 01-04-2019, 10:13 AM

I don't know, maybe it's me, but my neck thickens up when I see people bitching about a gold card in their pack. I know, you'd like it, Sunshine, but you're not going to be the first OOTP PT player to haul three perfects and two diamonds from a single standard pack...

A slight detour now. I play the federal lottery all the time. There are two drawings a week. I know my chances are pathetic, but from time to time some numb, dumb idiot wins €15m and it might as well be me then.

From July through December last year I went 19 straight weeks winning ZERO. Not even a consolation price. Not even with my priced Raccoons Retired Numbers. The last drawing before Christmas I then won five bucks. Did I write an email to the lottery complaining about those sad five bucks? No. When I won my first five bucks in almost half a year, I didn't throw a tantrum that I didn't win the jackpot.

Chances for a gold card in a standard pack in PT are vaguely in the same ballpark as winning five bucks in that lottery. The ticket roughly costs the same. When I drew my third Zack Wheeler, I had a good laugh. Okay, it was the laughter of a crazed guy that had seen too much ****, but I didn't make a new thread just to sound off.

Bear with developers of all games, any game, for a bit, that have to put up with people whining or cussing over their games all the damn time, usually for no reason. The game clearly states the odds. They are not in your favor. There is no need to sound off about the next pack with Steven Matz (61) and five 40-somethings. We all open those. None of us gets anywhere with them. Those cards are 50 PP towards the next pack. Only very few feel the need to voice their continuous disappointment about it. You will open many of those before you pull a perfect card.

And then somebody whines about pulling a gold? Pff!!

I could not be a game developer and live off that. Because I would tell all these whiners what I think of them, in frank terms. I will consistently have sympathy for game developers that deal with threads like the one that was merged into this cesspool in swift fashion, so they can focus on something actually important. E.g. their game.

01-04-2019, 10:13 AM	#962
Westheim Hall Of Famer Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Germany Posts: 13,615	I don't know, maybe it's me, but my neck thickens up when I see people bitching about a gold card in their pack. I know, you'd like it, Sunshine, but you're not going to be the first OOTP PT player to haul three perfects and two diamonds from a single standard pack... A slight detour now. I play the federal lottery all the time. There are two drawings a week. I know my chances are pathetic, but from time to time some numb, dumb idiot wins €15m and it might as well be me then. From July through December last year I went 19 straight weeks winning ZERO. Not even a consolation price. Not even with my priced Raccoons Retired Numbers. The last drawing before Christmas I then won five bucks. Did I write an email to the lottery complaining about those sad five bucks? No. When I won my first five bucks in almost half a year, I didn't throw a tantrum that I didn't win the jackpot. Chances for a gold card in a standard pack in PT are vaguely in the same ballpark as winning five bucks in that lottery. The ticket roughly costs the same. When I drew my third Zack Wheeler, I had a good laugh. Okay, it was the laughter of a crazed guy that had seen too much ***, but I didn't make a new thread just to sound off. Bear with developers of all games, any game, for a bit, that have to put up with people whining or cussing over their games all the damn time, usually for no reason. The game clearly states the odds. They are not in your favor. There is no need to sound off about the next pack with Steven Matz (61) and five 40-somethings. We all open those. None of us gets anywhere with them. Those cards are 50 PP towards the next pack. Only very few feel the need to voice their continuous disappointment about it. You will open many of those before you pull a perfect card. And then somebody whines about pulling a gold? Pff!! I could not be a game developer and live off that. Because I would tell all these whiners what I think of them, in frank terms. I will consistently have sympathy for game developers that deal with threads like the one that was merged into this cesspool in swift fashion, so they can focus on something actually important. E.g. their game. __________________ Portland Raccoons, 92 years of excell-.... of baseball: Furballs here! 1983 1989 * 1991 * 1992 * 1993 * 1995 * 1996 * 2010 * 2017 * 2018 * 2019 * 2026 * 2028 * 2035 * 2037 * 2044 * 2045 * 2046 * 2047 * 2048 * 2051 * 2054 * 2055 * 2061 1 OSANAI : 2 POWELL : 7 NOMURA \| RAMOS : 8 REECE : 10 BROWN : 15 HALL : 27 FERNANDEZ : 28 CASAS : 31 CARMONA : 32 WEST : 39 TONER : 46 SAITO Resident Mets Cynic - The Mets from 1962 onwards, here.