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300-400 Viewer Average and Partner in 5 Months Here is my Advice

Just yesterday I hit free twitch turbo partner on twitch after roughly 5 months of streaming (somewhat) consistently. Today I'm hoping to share some decent advice and give my own (learned) opinion on some of the frequent yet not always useful tips shared around here.
Before writing this I did a cursory search through the subreddit for frequently asked questions so hopefully this answers most of the ones that I myself have any experience to answer.
My simple request: I'm not going to be posting any links to my stream or anything but if you go out of your way to find it please don't follow/subscribe to the channel unless you are genuinely interested. Thanks big boss.

Should you stream?

If I have to read another thread or comment of a person asking if they should stream I am going to scream. What do you people expect to hear? Yes, please stream the world needs you, you will be rich beyond your wildest dreams and have all the clout to have ever been cloutted.
I know people who usually type out questions like that probably don't read posts but here is a hack I've used to answer my own dumb questions through out the years. Say that shit out loud and respond to it like someone asked you the question. Nine times out of ten, you end up answering it yourself and on the off-chance you actually don't you should have a more actionable question.
Example: Instead of asking "should I stream?" you end up realizing the only thing holding you back is having no mic or something. The question then becomes "I want to stream what's a good cheap mic?". Which is a lot better and doesn't make people want to pelt you with rocks.
For those of you who ask "should I stream or is it a waste of time?" please, I BEG YOU, stop. Most of the shit you do is a waste of time, you either want to stream or don't. Make a decision based on that.

Webcam, do you need one?

This question is asked so often that I see it every time I come on the subreddit. Unsurprisingly, the answer is always the same as well, yes you do.
However I disagree.
I have never streamed with a webcam, not a single time, yet I'm still here and somehow managed to get partnered.
Now, I know why every one parrots the same advice, it is because the people making tip threads, youtube videos, etc., all say to use a webcam. Harris Heller said it once and I'm pretty sure that was enough for the people who copy and paste what he says in text threads here to become their mantra.
The truth is, all that matters is the content. Ask yourself do you do/want to do a lot of react/just chatting content? If so, you probably want a webcam since your content will focus around reacting to content. Lirik doesn't use face-cam because his content is his gameplay and commentary, not his face. Corpse literally blew up and is famous for not showing his face (even though he is still a personality).
I know the whole "Lirik doesn't use a face cam" argument is going to be met with people saying "exception not the rule!!!" but seriously, just use your head. Half the people you watch probably don't need face cams. MoonMoon probably doesn't need a face cam, Critikal didn't have a face cam until he already had over a million subs on youtube, schlatt didn't either, Dream doesn't, AdmiralBahroo doesn't, almost every DBD streamer I watch doesn't, just think for yourself.
The point I'm trying to drive home here is not just that a webcam isn't required, but also you need to look at what you want to create and decide for yourself.
Edit: I saw someone say somewhere that you need a webcam for sponsors. That's cap. I've had a sponsor and nobody has seen this ugly mug.

Equipment in general

People like saying that they need this this and that before they start streaming. This is just stalling. Until last month I hadn't owned a desktop PC my whole life. Before that it was just laptops and using my phone to read chat or look up things. You obviously need SOME equipment to start, i.e. a computer and some form of internet connection, but that doesn't mean you need to pick up a shure, a streamdeck, 4 monitors, 6 consoles, and whatnot.
Here is my setup. Keep in mind I literally just upgraded this last month after saving up for several months:
For those of you who are probably saying "GROSS A PRE-BUILT" remember that part prices are actual aids right now, not to mention the availability of even finding good parts. If you have the cash go pre-built that shit is amazing.
My recommendation:
Stay with your shitty set-up as long as possible but make sure to pick up a good mic first. Big streamers (looking at you Ludwig) shit on the Yeti, but straight facts all you need is to EQ that shit a lil bit and nobody will bat an eye. You don't have to pick up the Yeti (there are lots of cheaper options) but that's just the one I and many others have gotten since it is reliably a good ass mic.
Audio <- chat engagement <- pc upgrade

YouTube

How many people have to tell you bums to focus on YouTube before you do it? Twitch sucks ass. I'll say it, i'm brave. No discoverability, especially to those of you at the very bottom. Make a goddamn YouTube and start pumping out videos, it is not hard.
Ludwig made a power point on how to be a streamer that talks about a few things but the most important point of all was what he said on creating content for stream/YouTube. This isn't the exact timestamp but it do be close: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/896089267?t=01h24m14s
That advice is coming from a top streamer who also has over a million subs on YouTube by almost exclusively taking twitch vods and editing them for YouTube.
As for getting views on your videos here is my advice from my personal experiences:

My understanding of YouTube

So obviously, clickthrough rate and audience retention are the things that are constantly brought up when talking about gaining more views and what not, but I am fairly comfortable in saying that there are other metrics that you should be paying attention to.
Let me hit you with a something that would make Dream shake in his boots. I don't subscribe to anyone on YouTube. *gasp*
The reason for that being, I almost always have the videos I want to see on my home page. I never have to go, "wonder if x YouTuber made a video" since YouTube knows I watch and enjoy their stuff. The question for most people being, how does YouTube know what people like and how does it suggest it to them? Basically, by seeing how often people engage with your content AND also what type of content you create. (although keep in mind, youtube tries to throw new videos at you a lot as well, these are usually in-line with content you engage with though)
For engagement, think of it as like affinity points in a video game but in reverse. Before you get to bang that smoking hot sim, you got to woo them. Every time someone likes your video they get a point, every time they comment they get two, every subscription counts as like 10, watching an entire video might be 20, etc. Obviously, these are made up values but I hope you follow what I'm putting down here. Once they get enough points you start showing up more in their home page.
I know this because I have a different account on my phone that doesn't have the same suggestions as my main account because I watch different things on my PC than my phone. However, I do like to look at the comments while I'm taking a dump or something. Problem was, my videos were rarely every recommended. I solved this easily by liking a couple videos. I didn't even watch them, just liked and read comments. LITERALLY NOT EVEN SUBSCRIBED AND I GET NOTIFICATIONS ON MY PHONE SOMETIMES WHEN A VIDEO DOES WELL!
In other words, by getting people to like and comment on your videos you are almost guaranteeing they see future videos from you.
Now, keep in mind, engagement is only a small portion of the whole pie. And even though you might engage with a content creator often, there is still a chance you miss some of their videos because of one other reason, the content's genre.

Content Genre

You might have noticed this phenomenon on various different creators YouTubes, but sometimes they create a video that bombs. Usually, this happens when they create something outside of their niche. This could be as simple as changing games, or as radical as changing the entire direction of the channel. Even if you engage like crazy with a creator, if they change the content enough, you won't get that shit recommended to you.
This is the main reason some creators have several channels and why some even get pigeonholed to one type of content. The reality of it is, if you build your audience on one piece of content and then want to change it, you will be fighting an uphill battle. One of the best ways to fight that is to diversify early OR better yet, emphasize your personality over the content. Jschlatt shits views and he does whatever the hell he wants really. Same goes for jacksepticeye, markiplier, Ludwig, Critikal, XQC, and numerous other creators.
That being said, doing one game/genre isn't a bad strategy either. A metric fuck ton of OfflineTv's videos are the same game. DisguisedToast played Hearthstone on repeat, then switched to TFT, THEN switched to among us, and his videos absolutely kill. Valkyrae is one of the biggest streamers period and all she does is play/upload among us and rust. Then of course we have all the minecraft streamers too.
It's really up to you to decide, but I'd recommend going towards personality content since that allows the most flexibility.

Other Social Media (Twitter, IG, etc)

Lots of people here seem to think that they don't have time to do YouTube or some other BS they think up as an excuse, so they think that twitter, instagram, tiktok, etc are all ways to grow. Trust me, they are not good ways to grow.
These are all stupid treadmills that trick you into thinking you're doing something when in reality you aren't moving the needle by much if by any at all. Posting ten dumb tweets and reposting memes on IG seem "productive" if you frame it in the light of "content creation" but the two people that see all of these things don't really give a shit. Spend that time working on a video for YouTube.
Don't give me this "I don't have time" bullshit. Do small videos and work yourself up, become better and faster. Perfectionism is a cute word for procrastination.
Ok, now that I took a shit on them so hopefully, you won't grind on them all day, these are still ways to grow and are important. Having multiple platforms for fans to communicate and engage with you is always a good idea, but don't spread yourself so thin early on when nobody knows who you are. Prioritize the thing that will get eighty percent of your results.
I personally have a discord for people to come and chat in. Thing is, I had no intention of doing so because I don't really use discord that much. The only reason it exists is that people kept asking for it in the comments on my YouTube videos so I made one.
TL;DR: Don't put the cart before the horse :)
Edit: Oh ya I forgot to mention. TikTok is trash for growth. I won't mention names cuz that's probably toxic(?) but there is someone signed on luminosity who has 690k TikTok followers and 95k YouTube subscribers who barely cracks 100 views on Twitch and has a hard time getting over 1k on YouTube. So don't go thinking TikTok leads to immense fame ya darn kids

Hosting/Raiding

Getting hosted/raided means actual jack. I remember pretty clearly when I had like ten viewers, I got hosted by someone with twenty-five or something. I think only one person ended up saying anything in the chat to me about it and although some stayed for the entire stream, by the time I went live again I lost all of the people who were in the host. This seems to be something others have mentioned as well, you won't retain almost any views from hosts/raids.
Edit: Please do try raiding/hosting or otherwise networking with other streamers at least once. Your mileage may vary and it could end up blowing up your channel. Who knows?
Edit edit: Having something that you can do during the stream is huge when getting hosted/raided. Most of the time, if not all of the time, a streamer is ENDING their stream and sending viewers to you rather than timing it for your own content. So if you are doing something uninteresting or are in the middle of something you are going to get less retention than if you did something crazy to impress the newcomers. In other words, having a strategy for hosting/raiding growth is key.

Speaking on stream

This seems to be something a lot of people struggle with on Twitch since so many people ask how to do it when nobody is watching/chatting. Coming from someone who had this problem, the answer is pretty simple, talk for the content not the chat.
What I mean by this is you should be focusing on your content more than the chat. Since I play games, what I do is just say some shit about whats happening on screen and sometimes say something that is hopefully funny. Pick up a garbage item? Say something about how garbage the item is, ez.
If you're streaming to NO VIEWERS you shouldn't be streaming to stream anyway. What you should be doing is making a YouTube video in the hopes of getting viewers to watch your stream. The only way to do that is to have good content planned out that should effectively act as your script. Again, Ludwigs stream on this is good (it'll probably be a video soon) so make sure to check it out.
A more recent problem I've had was just how much I engaged with chat (suffering from success I know). When I went to edit the videos I had to cut large swathes of the video because I was just chatting to people. Make sure to avoid this when you are actually trying to get content out for YouTube as it can mess up the flow of a video and make it harder to edit. You still can chat with people just make sure not to go overboard. Again, Ludwig is a perfect example of this, just look at his videos and streams and notice the difference between the two.

Streaming as a job/hobby

I hate this dumb argument of streaming isn't your hobby or twitch isn't your job. You have 24 hours in the day, subtract 8 for sleeping and depending on your job, 9 for work. All that extra time can be spent doing whatever the fuck you want. Want to get big and make money streaming? Do work. Want to just stream while you're playing games anyway? Do that.
IF YOU WANT TO BECOME A PROFESSIONAL AT SOMETHING YOU PUT IN THE AMOUNT OF EFFORT REQUIRED TO DO SO! So stop telling people it has to be a hobby or it has to be a job. It can be either for christ's sake.

Partner difference

I have a checkmark which makes me a better person.
No, but seriously, partner doesn't really do much other than add more emote slots and some quality options. Also, you don't gain extra cash as a partner either. I don't have the mystical bounty board or god-tier split, just the checkmark to flex baby.

Opinion on affiliate

Devin Nash made a video about how affiliate is a scam, which is kinda true but only for people with no viewers. Having the sub button is huge and even when I was small small, affiliate gave me a couple hundred bucks a month for no effort on my part. Patreon is probably better though, no lie.

Twitch "grind"

If you stream 5+ hours a day without making content that lives somewhere else please form a neat line so I can smack you all. People saying they have no time drives me nuts, but when they also "grind" all day AND say that, it makes me want to punch air.
  1. Stream YouTube friendly content
  2. Stop stream and edit content
  3. Upload and plug twitch in the video
  4. repeat
That is the only "grind" you should be on. Affiliate is stupid if the 3 viewers you have are all just you on a different ipad.

Luck

You know what? Maybe PewDiePie got lucky and that's how he is such a big YouTuber. Maybe early twitch streamers got all their views because they were early adopters. Or maybe these people only got lucky because they showed up and actually put the effort in.
There are plenty of videos on my channel that looked like flops at first. They got like a couple of hundred views and didn't do well. However, after continuously publishing, a whole bunch of them ended up blowing up and becoming some of the most-watched. Without publishing more videos they would have ended up dead in the water. Consistency > luck.
I don't believe too much in luck when it comes to doing very simple things (LIKE MAKING A YOUTUBE VIDEO) but you literally cannot win the lottery if you do not purchase a ticket, it's that simple.

Editing Software

A couple of people asked this so I thought I should add it here. I use davinci resolve for my videos. Previously, I used hitfilm or something like that I can't quite remember the name, but I had to switch because they don't allow you to have split audio channels (i.e. one for desktop audio and one for mic audio).
I've literally never touched any paid software like premier or anything because, again, I'm a cheap ass.

What should you upload to YouTube?

Seriously just look at Ludwig, smallant, DisguisedToast, literally every top Twitch streamer with a YouTube. All three of the people I just mentioned are over one million subs on YT and are top streamers, so they are definitely doing something right.
In terms of off-stream content, guides are king. If you're a small YT channel with ZERO subs you can still get thousands of views by hitting the search algorithm of YT. My first 3 videos were uncut gameplay, guide video, guide video, in that order. Guess which ones have tens of thousands of views and which has less than a thousand? Guide videos are insane for small channels.
Edit: Actually, let's just call it searchable content. Searchable content is king

Ending notes

I think that's about it for this post. Hopefully, I covered everything although I doubt I did. If you have any questions I'll try my best to answer them and will probably edit the good ones into the post.
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I went through 700 reddit comments and collected 131 ADHD pro-tips!

So there was that awesome Reddit thread with a bunch of ADHD'ers sharing real tips that have changed their life.
I thought it was a great change from most advice on the internet which is written by non-ADHD'ers (and it's painfully obvious that it is).
I read through the 700+ comments and paraphrased, merged and categorised all the tips.
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The 131 tips are split into the following categories:

General

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🌟 My Favourite: Enjoy the journey more than the destination, don’t be in a hurry to finish something you are doing, but always at least do something small everyday. Life is not a race, rather, it is an accumulation of smaller improvements to oneself. ~ (u/ksettle)
People are in such a rush these days… You can’t expect to become a superhuman overnight. Focus on sustainability first and enjoy the journey.

Cleaning

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🌟 My Favourite: Listen to podcasts/audiobooks when doing chores. My excitement to listen to a new episode of my favorite podcast motivates me to do boring stuff like dishes or laundry. (I personally listen to podcasts) ~ (u/dani-tp)
Cleaning became so easy once I started using a “side” to stimulate my brain. I’m mostly watching TV shows when I clean right now (this also works for cooking!) .

Memory

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🌟 My Favourite: Use Spaced Repetition to study for your exams, remember things about people in your life, and literally everything you can possibly make a flashcard for. ~ (u/beatadhd)
Is it narcisstic to put my own tip as a favourite? Well who cares, it works! Spaced repetition is fantastic and honestly feels like cheating*. There are a lot of free tools out there which work great. I’m currently using my own private tool* 😉

Time Blindness

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🌟 My Favourite: Get an electric toothbrush with a timer. ADHD people have time blindness and it’ll make sure you brush for at least two minutes. ~ (u/insaxon)
Yes. Two minutes can feel like two hours for me. Or I’ll brush for 20 seconds and think five minutes has passed. I can’t trust my brain, so I started using an electric toothbrush with a timer

Distractions

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🌟 My Favourite: Use a noise-cancelling headset and listen to music/white noise/brown noise. Enables hyperfocus and blocks out distractions (“I don’t regret getting diagnosed late, but I do regret getting noise cancelling headphones that late in life.”) ~ (u/rn7889)
Stop scrolling right now and go buy the noise-cancelling headset. A noise-cancelling headset + some noise like music/brown noise is essential if you have ADHD. Feel free to thank me later once your life changes.
If the headset isn't in your budget: Brown noise + earphones will get you 80% of the way there.

Getting Things Done

🌟 My Favourite: Body doubling - if you need to do some work that requires focus without much fun, have someone in the room with you. They could be working too, or not. Just having them there makes everything just a little more interesting and a little more accountable. ~ (u/Creebjeez)
I feel like a lot of people are missing some sort of accountability system in their lives. I don’t do body doubling but I use Beeminder to keep me accountable.

Emotional Dysregulation

🌟 My Favourite: You’re allowed to let things go. Forget irrelevant things and forgive yourself. Ignore the awkward thing you did last week. Life will move on. ~ (u/bitetheboxer, u/optimisticaspie)
Stop hating yourself. Don’t look at the future. Don’t look at the past. Look at the present. I used to always hate myself for being so unproductive. I realised how pointless that was and I started to focus on improving myself in the present.

Sleep

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🌟 My Favourite: Set two alarms when you get up in the morning. One to get out of bed and one for your medication. e.g: 5:30 AM wake up and take medication and then fall back to bed. By your 6AM alarm you’ll have waken up and your meds will have kicked in ~ (u/BizzarduousTask)
What a great lifehack. I’ve been doing this the past few days (except I don’t wake up at 6AM) - it works pretty well. Also I throw my phone on the other side of the room so it forces me to get out of bed.

Relationships

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🌟 My Favourite: For maintaining eye contact: Imagine a red dot on someone’s nose for intense focus. Bridge of the nose for paying attention. ~ (u/asmugone)
Haven’t tried this one but I used to have trouble with eye contact a few years ago so this stood out to me. I’m pretty good with eye contact now, but I’ll be trying it over the next few weeks anyway.

Work

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🌟 My Favourite: Learn to say no to taking on things that you know may cause you stress and excess pressure just because it’s money. It is not worth it, just put the boundaries that will save your mental health in the first place and you won’t have to deal with the fallout later. The more you do it, the easier it becomes. ~ (u/Somewhereonabike)
God yes… ADHD people have a dangerous habit of overcommitting to stuff. Personally I think I just forget that I’m already working on X, Y and Z. Sustainability is important - don’t overcommit.

School

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🌟 My Favourite: Visit your school's inclusivity and disability team. They will hopefully have policies for helping people with ADHD ~ (u/beatadhd)
This is something I never took advantage of while at University, but I probably should have. A few assignment extensions when my meds stopped working would have saved me from countless all nighters…

Executive Function

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🌟 My Favourite: On tough days. Use the 1-thing theory. Just try and accomplish just one-thing for that day. e.g. Clean the kitchen. ~ (u/soggysocks63, u/GoodGuyVik)
A bit less life-hacky compared to the others but I’ve found that getting started is a lot easier when you only have a single priority.
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Nutrition/Medication

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🌟 My Favourite: Use a 7-day pill organiser with AM/PM slots and put your medication and supplements there. ~ (u/ImprovedMeyerLemon)
I know a lot of people have issues with remembering if they took their medication. This is an easy, simple and cheap fix.
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MacBook Pro and iPad Pro vs Surface Pro X

I'm looking for opinions on my situation. I used to travel extensively for work, but with COVID, have been WFH for the last year. Later this year I will likely go back to some travel (maybe 1 week per month) and WFH the other weeks. I have a work laptop (Lenovo) that I'm required to use for work. I also have a gaming PC at home. The work laptop gets used 9-5 and the gaming PC on some nights/weekends, pretty much only for gaming.
I also currently have a MacBook Pro and iPad Pro. The MacBook sits on my desk and is used for personal tasks while I'm working (e.g. browsing internet, researching stuff, YouTube videos, Spotify, etc.). I don't really do many heavy tasks on the MacBook or move it from my desk too much. The iPad Pro is my portable device that I use around the house, and when traveling. I have to bring my work laptop when I travel, so the iPad is a good secondary device to watch movies, browse the internet, etc. I like the iPad because I can download shows from Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV, etc. and watch them offline on the airplane. It's also a good device for taking notes during meetings.
I have an ultrawide monitor and keyboard/mouse that I can quickly switch between these 3 computers as needed.
I'm debating whether it makes more sense to get rid of the MacBook and iPad, and just use a Surface Pro X. I was thinking the Surface Pro X could be my personal device that I use at home while working (replacing the MacBook) and my around the house/travel device (replacing the iPad). My main concern is around the ability to download shows for offline viewing. I know there is a Windows Netflix app, that can download shows, but I don't think the other services offer this. So I won't be able to download Disney+ or Apple TV shows. When I have internet, I know I can just use their website, but even that experience isn't quite as good as a dedicated app like the iPad offers.
I tried getting rid of the MacBook and only using the iPad, but I missed the multi-tasking capabilities of a real laptop. For example, if I'm doing some personal research, I like to have lots of tabs open, spreadsheets, etc. and be able to easily multi-task. The iPad just doesn't cut it yet. I can manage on just the iPad when I travel, but for other times I'm home, I like having a real laptop on my desk for personal use. I've played around with using RDP to connect my iPad to my gaming PC, and that works ok, but still isn't the best experience.
I used to have a SP4, but hated the battery life. The updated form factor and longer battery life of the SPX are appealing, and I'm not worried about any app combability issues, because it's my second (or maybe even third) device.
Just looking for opinions from anyone that is in a similar situation.
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I am 30 years old making $135,000 live in San Francisco, CA and work as a Scientist

Section One: Assets and Debt
Retirement Balance: $25,000; I didn’t start contributing until last year. I got out of grad school end of 2017, and once I got my first job I focused on saving up a good emergency fund since I live in such a HCOL city.
Savings account balance: $25,000; $20K emergency fund, $5K for car down payment (I’ll be making this purchase soon)
Checking account balance: $1,300; I try to only keep bill money in there + $500 buffer, payday is in a few days so this is low
HSA balance: $3,600; Since I chose the HSA plan at work, my company fills it up to the deductible every year. This is my money to keep, and this has been racking up after a few years of low medical expenses. It came in handy when I had to have surgery this year, I was able to pay exclusively from this account.
Credit card debt: none, I pay balances off each month
Student loan debt: $20,000; This is all from undergrad tuition: my living expenses were paid by working and some help from my parents, my grad school was paid with fellowships. Payments have been suspended during COVID. My original plan was to pay it off this year, but COVID and everything else has made me rethink that. Instead, I’ve decided to put money toward moving (with rent prices down I was able to move to a much nicer place for only a little more) and putting a hefty down payment on a reasonably priced car. With help of my bonus and tax refund I can definitely clear my debt in 2021, but I’ll wait until we know more about what Biden plans to do about student debt.
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Section Two: Income
Income Progression:
• During college: $10K-13K a year; this was through various part time jobs in retail + working at a lab at my university later in college. It wasn’t much but it paid for my living expenses. I’m really glad I worked in college, although I wish maybe I had worked a little less so I could have more of a social life. Regardless it set me up to be a lot more independent than most of my peers
• Grad school: $30K a year stipend; Right after college I went straight into grad school to get a PhD in biomedical science. Programs in this field usually cover tuition and provide a stipend since you’re working in the lab of your advisor. Tip for anyone looking at getting a PhD in this field: if a school offers you admission but won’t cover tuition and stipend through research or teaching assistantships, DON’T DO IT. It’s a red flag, plus you’re better off minimizing debt if you want to stay in academia.
• First job in biotech: $97K salary + up to 10% bonus; Once I graduated, I got a job at a biotech company on the peninsula. I didn’t negotiate because I didn’t know that I had any leverage to since I was just coming out of school. Turns out negotiating really isn’t part of the company culture and people really are paid the same market rate for the same work within the company so it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Typically get a 5% cost of living raise every year.
• Promotion early this year: $123K salary + up to 10% bonus; this was something that was expected, my boss and I had been in discussions about my work
• Unexpected raise: $135K salary + up to 10% bonus; Recently got an unexpected pay raise, I suspect this was pre-emptive since I’ve recently picked up extra work that makes me more marketable. I probably would have asked for this eventually, but they beat me to it. My company works really hard to make sure people feel well-compensated and appreciated, which really helps when the workload gets stressful.
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Main Job Monthly Take Home:
Deductions:
• Roth 401K: $1,125 a month (10% gross salary)
• Medical/dental: covered 100% by work.
Monthly take home after deductions: $6,300
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Section Three: Expenses
Rent: $2,900; I live alone in a one bedroom apartment with my cat. Moved from a studio this summer, I would never had been able to get a place this nice (nice building, remodeled kitchen+bathroom) without the COVID rent drops.
Renters insurance: $15
Savings contribution: $1000 a month at least. Right now that goes towards a car down payment. After that, it’ll be split to extra debt repayment (to pay student loan faster) and short terms savings like for vacations.
Student loan: $300 a month (suspended due to COVID)
Donations: $175 a month; Split amongst food banks, KQED, ACLU, and planned parenthood. Every time I get a raise I pick up a new donation. I also gave about $2K this year in ad hoc donations.
Electric: ~$35 a month. Steam heat (radiator) is free in my building so this doesn’t fluctuate in winter.
Wifi: ~$35 a month
Cellphone: $110; includes iphone payment that ends in a year
Subscriptions: $50; Netflix, hulu, amazon prime, hbo max (I really should cut on of these)
Car insurance: $100; Two years ago I gave my car back to my family for my brother to use after I moved to SF, but I still came back and drove it enough for me to need to keep my own insurance on it just in case. When I buy the new car it’ll get transferred to that one.
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Day One (Monday)
8:00 a.m. — My alarm goes off, and I’m technically awake but still so tired. I cuddle with the cat and catch up on youtube for a while before I get up and make some tea.
9:00 a.m. — I settle in the start the day: mostly just triaging emails and dealing with some small tasks so I can get them off the list. I’ve been working from home since March; I work in data analysis, so my computer is my lab. For the most part it’s been pretty successful, but sometimes I fall for the lure to work in my pajamas. After about an hour of work I quickly shower and get ready for my first meeting.
12:00 p.m. — My meetings are done so I heat up lunch- today its pasta leftovers from last night, along with a coke. I spend the break watching a West Wing episode, I’ve been bingeing recently and I’m almost done!
2:30 p.m. — I hit a lull in work, so I get my bags and mask and walk to the grocery store. The best part of working from home is being able to go do errands on off hours, especially now that we’re all trying to avoid crowds. I listen to podcasts on the way over: this time I’m catching up on the Wall Street Journal Money Briefing.
2:45 p.m. — I buy my groceries for the week: ingredients for chopped salads, a few snacks, and a few frozen meals. Since I have a lot of leftover pasta to eat, I don’t need as many things as I usually do, so I use the opportunity to stock up on a few staples. You have to think ahead when you have to carry everything home every week! $48.76
3:30 p.m. — I get home an put everything away. I eat a lacey cookie and make sparkling water out of my sodastream while I settle back into work. Right now I’m doing all the prep for a big analysis coming up soon, so it’s a lighter week. Once that data comes in, I’ll be working like crazy.
6:00 p.m. — Done for the day! I decompress and play silly games on my phone, then get up to make dinner while I watch more West Wing on my iPad. Tonight’s dinner is chopped salad with romaine, cucumber, tomato, green apple, bacon, blue cheese, avocado, and balsamic dressing. I only need part of the green apple for the salad so I slice the rest to eat on the side. I also crack open a shandy to have with dinner.
8:00 p.m. — My period is coming and I have a hankering for sweets. I warm up a slice of pancake bread I got today and try a little bit of the peppermint bark liqueur I found this weekend. This combo is everything!
9:30 p.m. — I’m trying to go to bed earlier so I turn off the TV, settle into pajamas, and read before bed while cuddling with the cat. Right now I’m reading Dying: A memoir by Cory Taylor. I turn out the lights at 10 and listen to the Dear Hank & John podcast on a sleep timer.
Day One total: $48.76
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Day Two (Tuesday)
7:30 a.m. — Even though I went to bed relatively early I still wake up exhausted. I hit the snooze button a few times before getting up, making tea, and getting ready.
11:00 a.m. — Done with morning meetings so I take an early lunch, more leftover pasta. I also clean up around the house for a little while, it’s hard for me to concentrate in a messy environment.
2:00 p.m. — Feeling sluggish so I make another cup of tea before my last meeting.
3:30 p.m. — My meeting is over, so I take a minute to take care of some life admin before I get back to work. I write out my rent check, drop it off in the office downstairs, and send my mom a link to an immersion blender since she wants to know what I want for Christmas. I see Naturalizer is having a 50% off sale on boots so I buy 2 pairs. My boots wore out last season and I still haven’t replaced them. I also set up a monthly donation for the Oakland food bank (see monthly expenses). I recently got a raise and want to up my donations. Since I already give to SF food bank I thought I’d spread the love. $107.43
6:00 p.m. — The last thing I need to do for work today requires running some code for a while, so I start that before making dinner. Tonight it’s another chopped salad and some sparkling water. I eat while watching more West Wing.
8:00 p.m. — Pre-period cravings are kicking my ass (or at least that’s my excuse). I have another slice of pancake bread and some tea while browsing NPR’s 2020 book concierge and tagging books on my libby account. I also text my boyfriend for a while and we make plans to hang out later this week (standard COVID note: he also lives alone/WFH and we live in walking distance to each other, so we consider ourselves one bubble).
10:30 p.m. — I get ready for bed and read more of my book. Light’s out by 11.
Day Two total: 107.43
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Day Three (Wednesday)
7:30 a.m. — My alarm goes off, and the cat jumps into bed immediately for cuddles. We hang out for a few minutes then I get up, make tea, and start getting ready for the day.
9:00 a.m. — I start work, this morning it’s a bunch of code to review. Queue staring at my screens for three hours.
12:00 p.m. — Lunchtime! More leftover pasta, I’m getting bored of these leftovers but I don’t want to waste food. I have that and some more sparkling water.
1:00 p.m. — I recently got a new ipad, and I need to drop off the old one at Fedex to get the trade-in credit. I walk over to drop it off and enjoy the fresh air. On the way back I order a peppermint mocha from Starbucks on the mobile app. I try to order from the million independent coffee shops near my house most of the year, but the holiday drinks bring me back to Starbucks every time. During the walk I listen to podcast about Biden's cabinet picks with some interesting discussion about foreign policy. I don't know enough to have a strong opinion yet, but I would like to learn more! $5.50
4:00 p.m. — I just spent a good chunk of my afternoon talking with so many people just to make a small update to code. So frustrating! I'm tempted to make a drink to have while I finish work, but I resist and just have more sparkling water.
4:30 p.m. — I get a call from the medical center I got a procedure from last month. They said they sent me a statement, but they somehow not only got my street number wrong but also the zip code. I pay the $140 bill using money in my HSA (that's money put in by my company, so I don't count as an expense).
6:00 p.m. — I just spend way too much time ironing out another issue, I’ve earned my drink. I crack open a beer and make another chopped salad for dinner. Tonight I’m drinking a Baked Hawaii pastry stout from Temascal brewing. It’s absolutely delicious, but halfway through drinking the can I realize it’s 11% ABV!! Tonight just got interesting.
9:00 p.m. — Turns out drunk at home me isn’t that interesting: I spend the night watching West Wing and texting a friend. I’m in bed by 11ish.
Day three total: $5.50
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Day Four (Thursday)
7:30 a.m. — I get up and make tea like I always do. I decide to actually get ready properly with makeup and jewelry today so that’s new.
9:00 a.m. — Start work, this morning I’m working on an internal presentation.
11:00 a.m. — I prep an apple and peanut butter for a snack.
12:00 p.m. — I heat up the last of leftover pasta for lunch. Good, I’m really getting sick of it.
1:00 p.m. — I sit down for my meeting. I present the first half, then spend second half munching on a few sour jellybeans I had left from last week.
3:00 p.m. — I make more tea and move to the couch to finish up my workday. I also customize my imperfect produce order for next week. I don't actually get a ton of produce from them, but I really like some of their meat and dairy options. I get apples, oranges, kiwi, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, avocados, bread, salmon, chicken breast, bacon, snack cheese, and some peppermint chocolate covered pretzels. That, plus my hello fresh coming next week, will be most of my food a few weeks. Those will get charged to my account next week when they’re delivered. I try to spend $250 a month of groceries, but craft beer and fun cheese sometimes make me go over.
5:30 p.m. — I’m sick of working, so I get changed out of sweats into decent clothes and walk over to my boyfriend’s place. I stop by the market on the way over to buy tea and a can of water chestnuts (the only other thing I need for meals next week). $7.58
6:00 p.m. — I get to my boyfriend’s place just as the food delivery arrives, I get chicken tikka masala, rice, and garlic naan. I only eat half so the rest is saved for leftovers. We split a stone espresso stout and talk. Since vaccine schedules look so good and cancellation policies are great, it makes sense to consider booking a trip to Hawaii for late summer. We agree to think about it and pull the trigger before Christmas. $25 for Indian food
7:00 p.m. — I’m not a fan of the stout so I open up a cider. We settle in and watch TV
9:45 p.m. — Technically we're under a 10pm curfew, although I can't really figure out what that means this time. I'm tired anyway, so I say goodbye to my boyfriend and walk home. No one is out, so I walk home with my mask off. Something about being in nice clothes and without a mask on hits harder than it probably should. I miss normal city life so much. Just as I think that a big-ass raccoon pops up walking on the next block, which ironically never happened to me in normal city life even though it totally sounds like it would. Luckily the raccoon is more scared of me than I am of it, and I make it home in one piece.
10:30 p.m. — I make a cup of decaf tea and settle into bed. I decide to start a new book Survivor Song, I find zombie-ish apocalyptic books oddly comforting right now (finished Severance by Ling Ma a few weeks ago). This one is about a rabies-like disease, really glad that raccoon ran away earlier.
3:00 a.m. — Oops, got so engrossed with the book I stay up incredibly late to read the whole thing in one sitting. I reset my alarm to 9. WFH for my company has its perks!
Day four total: $32.58
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Day Five (Friday)
10:30 a.m. — I accidentally sleep through the alarm and wake up in a panic. It isn't the end of the world, but I still go straight to my laptop while still in pajamas and start work. There was a mini crisis early this morning that luckily I wouldn't have been much help in, but I spend the rest of the morning dealing with that and various other fires.
12:00 p.m. — I shower and get dressed. Lunch today is frozen lamb vindaloo for lunch and a coke to try and perk me up.
1:00 p.m. — I’m still predictably exhausted, so I make some tea and try to power through a task before a meeting.
3:00 p.m. —More tea and a lacey cookie before meeting.
6:00 p.m. —I still have more work to do but I'm drained, so I call it a night. I heat up last night's Indian food, grab some more sparkling water and catch up on youtube to decompress.
8:00 p.m. —I clean up a little round the house while I watch the new Grey’s Anatomy. I can’t believe I’m still watching this show.
11:00 p.m. — Watched more West Wing while curled up on the couch. I head to bed; I want to get up at a decent time.
Day five total: $0
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Day Six (Saturday)
8:00 a.m. — My alarm goes off. I stay in bed browsing the internet on my iPad.
9:00 a.m. — I get up, make some tea and prep breakfast. Today I try the pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes from Damn Delicious. My resolution this year was to make 50 new recipes and I’m on track to make it! These pancakes are fantastic, I’ll definitely make them again. I pack up the leftovers to bring to my boyfriend’s house later.
10:00 a.m. — I settle in on the couch and spend the rest of the morning playing games on my ipad and listening to podcasts.
12:30 p.m. — I jump in the shower and get ready. I’m training for when we’re back in real society again, so I actually do my hair and makeup today. Today I play with eyeshadow and do a purple smokey eye. My boyfriend texts to say that he already ate lunch so I heat up frozen lamb vindaloo for lunch.
1:30 p.m. — Time to head to my boyfriend’s house. I pack up my overnight bag and the pancakes, put my boots on, and head out. I drop my stuff off at my boyfriend’s house and we head out to walk around the city. We started doing this when the pandemic started, it’s a great way to spend the afternoon. On the walk I finally see the parrots of Telegraph hill, although we aren’t at telegraph hill. They’re really cute, but so loud, I’m glad I don’t live closer to them!
3:00 p.m. —We stop by a place to get Irish coffee but the line is massive (this is the last weekend of outdoor dining, so everyone is out). I don't want to wait in line, so we keep walking to find somewhere else to go.
3:30 p.m. — We see a Mexican restaurant and decide to stop for snacks and drinks. As a bonus the tables are really spaced out and there aren’t a ton of people seated. We want to help businesses out and enjoy a last weekend being able to eat outside, but it seems counterproductive to eat at a crowded place. We get 2 margaritas each and split some appetizers, making sure to tip extra. $51.26
5:30 p.m. — As we walk back towards my boyfriend’s apartment, we see that the cocktail bar he really wanted to try has a ton of tables available. We pick a table far away from the others and have 2 more cocktails each. I also get some garlic shrimp noodles. We each tip extra here too. $66.71
7:00 p.m. — We trudge up the hill and head to my boyfriend’s apartment. I buy some snacks and a la croix at a corner store on the way. $7.00
7:15 p.m. — We spend the rest of evening watching TV and sobering up. We end up going to bed pretty early, around 10.
Day six total: $124.97
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Day Seven (Sunday)
9:00 a.m. — I wake up and laze around in bed for a while. After I get up we eat the leftover pancakes and I help my boyfriend with some chores that require 2 people (there are a few disadvantages to living alone).
11:00 a.m. — I gather my things and walk home. Once I’m there I drop off my things, and head straight back out to grab a few items. I’m out of body wash so I walk to Walgreens to buy that and a soda. On the way home I realize I don’t have any food for today (Hello Fresh is coming tomorrow), so I pop into the deli and get a sandwich and some chips. The sandwiches are huge so it’s enough food for lunch and dinner. $27.20
3:00 p.m. — The rest of day is spent alternating between cleaning and hanging out on the couch. I look at my email to see that Aerie is doing 10 for $35 on underwear, so I fill up my cart with 10 pairs + a swimsuit and sweater. I haven’t bought any clothes this year, but now things are starting to wear out so I need to replace things all at once. $89.47
7:00 p.m. — I toast up the other half of my sandwich. I spend the rest of the evening reading and watching TV, I’m in bed by 11.
Day seven total: $116.67
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Total for week: $435.91
Grocery + Dining Out: $239.01
Fun + Entertainment: $0
Home + Health: $10
Clothes + Beauty: $196.90
Transportation: $0
Lastly, reflect on your diary: This definitely was a more expensive week than normal. I’ve been delaying buying clothing for a long time, so I finally have started to catch up. I tend to do that after I get a raise. This was also the last week of outdoor dining for SF so I used this as an excuse to eat out more, I feel so bad for all the workers about to get laid off again.
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Have a happy and safe holidays everyone!
(Edited because I found a few typos I missed when I proofread, so embarrassing! TA me from 4 years ago would be so ashamed haha)
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[Click/Press Here] MEGA POST #2: Everything You Need for Android Spoofing 2021 - Guides, GPX Routes, Poke Maps, Nests, Discord Groups, & Frequently Asked Questions

MEGA POST #2

This is the MEGA post where you can find everything you need for Android Spoofing in 2021. All the green text are links you can click with your mouse or press with your finger to lead you to the topic.

Table of Contents to this Ultimate MEGA POST:

  1. Events for the Month
  2. Our Subreddit Rules, read, and follow them.
  3. New to Spoofing?
  4. Game Guides & Tips
  5. Android Spoofing Method Guides
  6. Other Android Guides
  7. Frequently Asked Questions

[Topic #1] February 2021 Events

[Topic #2] Rules

To read with detailed information: https://www.reddit.com/PoGoAndroidSpoofing/about/rules
  1. Be respectful.
  2. Apple iOS: Xspoofer, iPogo, and iTools are not allowed here!
  3. No Selling, Trading, Buying, Giveaway, Pokestop Nomination, Meltan Box, Donation or Account services
  4. Sharing a Discord Invite is allowed if you follow the Discord Group Rules.
  5. No YouTube or Video links
  6. No Pornographic or X-rated images.
  7. No Splitting or Sharing PGSharp key because of scammers!!!
  8. Android Emulators: VMOS, BlueStacks, Nox, MuMu, LDPlayer, and etc. are not allowed here!

[Topic #3] New to Spoofing?

All About Three-Strike System: Red Warning, Temporary Ban, & Permanent Ban 2021
How to Spoof, Follow a Cool Down, and Avoid a Soft Ban (cannot spin Pokestop & all Pokemon flee) 2021?
How to Snipe or Shiny Check a Pokemon
Discord Group Invite Links List for Raiding, Sniping, Friending, Trading, and Battles
VPN does not add a joystick to help you spoof 2021
Spoofing with Android Emulators: VMOS, Bluestacks, Nox, MuMu, and LDPlayer
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[Topic #4] Game Tips

How to Level Up Fast with Go Beyond Exp Bonus Chart
GPX Route Downloads & Creating Your Own GPX
Poke Maps: Websites You Can Use to Search for Pokemon, Quests, Raids, and Go Rocket Stops 2021
Nest sites & List of Pokemon that Do Not Nest
Pokemon Inventory Search Filters & Saving Favorite Filters 2021
Regional Pokemon Locations
Multiple/Bonus Raid Passes Guide by aditya-lr
How to get Poke Coins: Free to Play & Pay to Play Styles
Shiny Rates (website)

[Topic #5] Android Spoofing Method Guides 2021

All Spoofing methods and bots are subjective to the punishment of the Three-Strike System: Red Warning, Temporary Ban, & Permanent Ban 2021 post.
[No Root Method] Pokewalk FAQ, Guide and Info
[No Root Method] How to Downgrade OS Firmware and Downgrade Google Play Services JAN 2021
[No Root Method] PGSharp Modified App - up to Android 11, easy to set up, Enhanced Throw support, Free User and Premium User available - Updated January 6, 2021
[ROOTED METHOD] How to BUY and ROOT your Android device for Rooted Spoofing Methods Guide 2021
[ROOTED METHOD #1] Smali Patcher Guide for Android 6.0 to 11.0 devices Oct 2020
[ROOTED METHOD #2] Systemized Spoofing App with Tin Foil (alternative old method)
[ROOTED METHOD #3] Enhancer with special features Nov 2020
[ROOTED METHOD #4] Pokemod with Virtual Gotcha, Shiny Scanner, & much more! Feb 2021

[Topic #6] Android Bots 2021

All Spoofing methods and bots are subjective to the punishment of the Three-Strike System: Red Warning, Temporary Ban, & Permanent Ban 2021 post. These are all the known public bots on the internet. Since I do not have an interesting in botting, I cannot help you setup these bots. You are own your own when comes to botting, good luck!
Charbot, the very hard to set up Pokemon Go Bot
Polygon#, new Pokémon Go Bot and Enhancer in one app
New Android Bot - RAB

[Topic #7] Useful stuff

Mirroring screen of your phone (rewritten)(updated) by xplod24
NemoADB for GPS Joystick [multi-device teleport and fast map loading]
Send coordinates from PC to Android Phone (Oreo or above) with Python (Tutorial Setup + Script) by notrlyinterested
How to use a Macro Recorder to Automatically Evolve Pokemon and do Raid Battles
Samsung Galaxy Split Screen Dual Accounts *Work in Progress
Adventure Sync Using Machines (Defit and Pokewalk Alternatives
How to Create a Free Rare Pokemon Tracker Using a Second Account
[Timezone] TimeBie - Time Converters among Different Time Zones
[Trading] Pokemon Go Global Trades (Subreddit link)
[Paid Ticket Events] All about Safari Zone and Go Fest for 2020 (was written before the Coronavirus outbreak)
[Unlinking Account] How To Unlink Gmail/Facebook from a permanently terminated Accounts
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[Topic #8] Frequently Asked Questions

These are all the questions I get when people leave PokemonGoSpoofing to join us. I get asked this a lot about why and what happened. Time flies by so fast, I don't remember the exact dates and events may not be in the correct order.

What happened to PokemonGoSpoofing?

  1. I joined as a moderator some time in 2018 in PokemonGoSpoofing. It was just Apple iOS spoofing methods: PokemonGo++, iSpoofer, iTools, and the four Android methods (No Root Downgrade & Rooted: Smali Patcher, Systemized, and Taichi). Everything was great because iOS spoofers would help out Android spoofers posting Pokemon Coords and Lure Parties. Android spoofers would go to the lure parties to help out.
  2. Things started going down hill for iOS spoofing when Apple started revoking iOS app certificates more often. I used to recommend to new spoofers about buying an iPhone SE/6s as a solution to start spoofing without the headaches of trying to spoof with Android (PGSharp didn't exist yet).
  3. A lot of people started to complain because installing iSpoofeiPogo wasn't easy anymore. People couldn't spoof. People also stopped sharing Pokemon coordinates, nests, and lure parties. This created a lot of problems. People complained about not getting what they want and also seeing too many spam posts where people made a request but no one completed them.
  4. Pokitomojo hated hearing complaints, and he told me to handle it and put up new rules to stop the complaints. I added a post title and body text filter into the automod to automatically remove these posts and anything people complained about because manually reading and removing every post is way too much work. This was a benefit but also a curse at the same time. If someone posted something about "I got a Red Warning," the post would automatically get removed by the automoderator. Not all of the posts that were getting auto removed are spam. It was a lot of work to go through all the spam posts to read and approve them, which means to unremove them from the spam folder. I gave up on this and ignored all requests.
  5. It's back to where everyone was complaining about every damn thing. I knew for sure the subreddit was going to shit because other people were saying the same thing. I opened my own subreddit PoGoAndroidSpoofing as a backup option because Pokitomojo was gone a lot. What this means is he goes on random vacations that lasts anywhere from 2 weeks to 2 months without telling me he was going to away.
  6. There was a banwave starting with VMOS and Pokemod in November 2019. Then, iSpoofer and iPogo in December 2019. Finally, he came back from his vacation in January 2020 to tell me to ban VMOS and Pokemod. I thought it was pointless because VMOS was dead and forgotton while Pokemod had closed their app to the public. I silenced the banwave with the post title and body text filter. (This is why you also don't see anyone posting about anything related to bans, red warnings, and strikes anymore because the automoderator automatically removes these spam posts.)
  7. Then, I heard about PGSharp. I tried to reason with Pokitomojo to allow it. He said no because he doesn't want people to go through another banwave. He wanted to keep the subreddit limited to "ban proof/safe spoofing method" only. This is where I disagreed with him because he won't ban iSpoofer, iPogo, and all of the 3rd party appstores for iOS. People were still getting Red Warnings/Srikes for these but only moderators can look into the spam folder and see everyone's "I got a Red Warning" posts. The only thing for iOS that is considered "ban proof/safe" is the iTools dongle, but it was constantly out of stock. This is why he allows iOS modified apps but not Android modified apps.
  8. In March 2020, I became very frustrated because of how Pokitomojo was heavily depending on me to do everything for him. A lot of people want to spoof and only want the easy way, I have a solution for them (PGSharp!), but I cannot make a post about it because Pokitomojo doesn't allow me to. Eventually, he went on his random vacation again. Then, I started driving people to PoGoAndroidSpoofing. A week later, I got banned from PokemonGoSpoofing.
  9. A few months later, kiljoymcmuffin (PokemonGoSpoofing owner) came back, so I asked him to rejoin hoping if I could get him to pass ownership to me. He was gone for over 1.5 years. He still wanted keep his throne to himself, so he made me the main mod and Pokitomojo a lesser mod. I told him I was going to leave because it wouldn't work out if Pokitomojo was still around. I eventually convinced kiljoymcmuffin to pass ownership to Pokitomojo because I wanted the subreddit to see what kind of mod Pokitomojo really was, and this still holds true today.

The Problems of PokemonGoSpoofing subreddit

This is from my point of view or being a moderator. If the owner adds new moderators, this is what you would have to deal with. I think you are better off not trying to be a mod for this subreddit.

How is PoGoAndroidSpoofing is different from PokemonGoSpoofing?

  1. I take a realistic approach to spoofing/cheating in a game. It's not my responsibility to restrict what you can use or cannot use to spoof with. I put warnings in my guides to let you know you can get punished for spoofing/cheating. I don't feel responsible or liable if you get a strike on your main account. If you didn't read the warnings, it's your fault. This is why I allow all Android modified apps like PGSharp, Enhancer, and Pokemod along with Android bots because I don't advertise them as safe or ban proof. The whole point of cheating in a game is to take risks.
  2. The reason why I don't allow emulators is because every Reddit spoofer will tell you to avoid using emulators, since emulators have been through multiple ban waves. This is a standardized belief for most Reddit spoofers. Not everyone uses Reddit to find information on how to spoof. YouTube is also a source of information, but YouTubers fail to tell you the risks of using an emulator to make you keep watching their videos to earn more money.
  3. I only use Android devices, so I cannot help people fix their iOS problems. I always tell iOS users to YouTube their problem, and I always get a "fuck you" or "Why are you even a mod?" response. There's no point to support iOS if each iOS method has their own website and Discord group with their own customer service department.
  4. A new subreddit is a lot better than a broken subreddit. A new subreddit doesn't suffer from the "spam" and toxic people problem. I haven't received a major complaint since March 2020. The only complaints I have gotten so far are about the "spam" problem that plagues PokemonGoSpoofing where the complainers see Pokitomojo is not doing his job and... expect me to do it even though I am not a mod over there anymore.
  5. I actively play Pokemon Go. I am more involve in the community. I try to keep everything up to date as possible instead of leaving it being archived. An archived post means you cannot comment anymore when a post becomes 6 months old.

What happened to December 2020 - January 2021 Banwave?

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My thoughts on this subreddit, Internet communications, and reddit in General. (Please excuse the length.)

I, don't really have anything meaningful to contribute to this subreddit. It was an effort of 2 people who were tired of being banned from semenretention and wanted to express ourselves. But eventually, the trend of over-regulation spread like the 'Rona. You see it yourselves. Karma requirements. Bots. Automated deletions. Over-regulations.
Excessive bans. Siphoned information. I'd bet to wager, a conversation cannot be had between two individuals without the other, first, inspecting your post history and attempting to summize you as a human being / character. I understand this is pureretention. This was my home. And I have lurked here. It has been embedded in my brain to automatically come here when I open my browser. I've been doing it for 2 years.
So I come from a time when the internet lacked accountability. As a means of expression really. Someone here said to me, "Take some time off the social media." - Yes. I agree with that sentiment. I spend too much time on here. Lurking. Reading. Browsing. Youtubing. I will have to put myself through another "Disconnect." in a few months, after I make some living arrangements, until then I need to make use of the internet for the time being.
I stickied a post, that pointed to a particular users "pornographic" past as "retribution" for being banned from semenretention. That was my retribution. Putting a post on sticky and saying, "Hey look, this guy used to watch porn a long time ago. Don't trust him." Stupid huh? I don't know if any of you guys have noticed this, speaking on behalf of myself and in general, on an instinctual note, I've come to a bit of a resolution that the majority of our society is plugged into the matrix. I believe we are no living on another plane of existence.
The online community, the world wide web, cyberspace, etc. I have a niece, who is about 3 years old. She cannot speak clearly with words, but she can hold an iPad and solve organized puzzle games with various shapes. I'm not too sure how I feel about that. Society has forced us to socially isolate, and lock-down due to pandemic guidelines and I think it has pushed our resolve further into the dependence of electronic communications. I have a family member, who, spends 15 hours a day on their phone simultaneously watching T.V.
I feel a lot of us, have come from a past integrated from electronics, electronic stimulations (Sexual) and have found ourselves battling to peel back the layers we have lost. I can't speak on behalf the world, but from what I have noticed in my personal growth is that, sometimes it is good to disconnect to become closer to the source of things. Organic, wholesome, things that bring us closer to the source. Sidetracking here..
The legitimacy of communicative platforms has become more profound as the oncoming generations raised on social media, are embedded without knowledge of what it was like before it. So it is natural that now it is being treated as such, which might describe the polarity of our political climate, given, not all of us have been raised enveloped in social media and online communication. This was invigorated when I logged into reddit to see "team colors" signifying solidarity with a political movement I have not wholeheartedly agree with. Second, the carpet beneath my feet which laid the very foundation I believed my podium taken, easily.
During the chaos, melee, and transfiguration of our society with the pandemic, lockdown, riots; I experienced a "Targeting" of sorts from Reddit administration that truly made me believe I was on the shit-list. That has since subsided. But I could not participate in any Subreddit's I disagreed with, were banned from previously, as well as any trace of old usernames I created being completely cleared from existence. Even usernames, that I had forgotten about, stemming years behind. This systematic "cleansing" of past usernames, and targeted bans lead me to even further not take Reddit seriously anymore.
I have noticed a Trend in Reddit culture, that leans with keywords like "Cancelculture" "wokemovement" and a subreddit, that represents my local community has taken the stance of "silencing the opposition." - Which only pervades a culture of fear and stunted growth. Can individuals grow when they are silenced? Only bitterness grows. Engagement, contradiction. It is only through destroyed indignation that we learn our most valuable lessons. Thus, my existence has been weeded out. A passing on to another generation. I can humble myself and comply with the new "Wokethought" movement, or maintain my individuality. Individuality, is being weeded out unfortunately.
No more "Woe is me." I believe, everyone here will find out where their alignment lies. All purpose, weather it is self improvement, hobbying, communication, information, will bombarded by these new ethereal guidelines; and because the majority of our consciousness now lay in subspace, reality will be effected by it; we have seen a reflection in this reality when, despite "Social distancing" warnings, thousands of people took to the streets to protest in close quarters; yet no spike in Viral transmission was ever blamed on such actions, as there seems to be a freedom of accountability for said movements. I'm moving in the wrong direction here....
..My point is this. The very fabric and foundation of my previous stance on posting here has been removed, in fact, the ground on which I walk on is untrustworthy, like the entire platform of Reddit, thus I do not feel this a place to entrust information or insight if I have any to share. (after thinking heavily.)
And while, I am thankful to the soul who felt, I was welcomed to return; I prayed. I prayed justice would be restored. That the right thing would be done in the name of the subreddit. After being banished from pureretention for approximately (8 months?) to my dismay and shock, it's quite a miracle I'm actually invited to be a moderator here. Let's be honest. The good Lord ruled I was unworthy of this title, and it was stripped from me. Which made me question the incident, but the ethics behind a social platform that could do such a thing. Again, I come from the old days of the internet. Back when...
The internet was not very regulated. It was very "4chan" all over the place. Lack of rules, regulations. Nothing "politically correct." - Hate was a common thing. I'm not here to say, "That was ok." - But the new methods of thinking in this ethereal, cyberspace are very regulated. Something I'm not used to.
Putting a banner targeting another subreddit, well, that wasn't a big deal in my playbook. but I've learned the methods of communication and how they are governed are drastically different, and I no longer put any weight into a user name, or a reputation. Because we are all targets. And when we speak out of the common "herd" ethos, we will be targeted.
I want to give thanks to all of the people here who are keeping this alive and allowing me to have a voice. But I ruined my welcome a while back. I'm not sure what the future looks like in communicative platforms, but I don't think I'm able to hold a position here much longer. I haven't had much insights on the topic, and don't know if I have any more meaningful contributions, other then, keep trying. Keep moving forward, and peeling back the layers of bad habits accumulated over time. I'll lurk here, but moderating, or even having an interest in the future of this subreddit will be out of my scope..
Maybe it's fear? Maybe it's shame? I relish in the delight of anonymity. And it feels good to say something pertinent that people can align with; but lately, maybe I have been out of touch. I am getting older. Retreating further into the recesses of my mind. In fact, isn't it within our own hearts and minds, that we find God? If anyone has done a "Disconnect" - turned of social media, the fear, the madness, the circus, the bickering, the political angst, turned off the distractions and disciplined themselves to be in the silence...
.. And seek the goodness within ourselves, or the ancient texts, or relish in the company of friends and family, isn't that what truly matters? In these times, I believe, more then ever, we must have diligence in our self, but have faith in God. I am nothing without a faith in a higher power; and I hope all can agree on that sentiment.
God has humbled, and cast me down from my metaphoric throne, and I have been verbally trampled on by all manner of interactions, online. I've been surprised and afraid at the oncoming generation; I can sense the attitudes and the brutality and maybe the angst and anger at the older generations; see, older generations are blamed now for the current state of things. Sorry, rambling...
I thank the people, and God for allowing me to have a claim in something I felt, I was able to create, a platform for freedom of expression. If I banned anyone, I believe I tried my best to clear the ban list shortly. And maybe, others here felt they got their retribution, as I was an outcast in this subreddit I created. I was banned in my own subreddit, for disagreeing with the new "powers that be." - which to me, was a message. That being said....
The fact I am invited to moderate and speaking before you all is a testament that God is real. That if we have faith in Good things, good things will be restored. Bless you all.
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14 Suggestions for ROK From a 2 Year Player

I have been playing ROK for a little over 2 years, 100M+ player. I am a low spender, and by this I mean that I only buy the 30 day gem supply and the odd Writer of History bundle when it pops up. Overall, I think ROK is a great game and have no plans to stop playing anytime soon. I have seen a tonne of changes done by Lilith and Legou that have greatly improved the game, which definitely helped to keep things from being mundane. Despite what most on this sub believe, I feel that the game is very well balanced and accessible to FTP. It has aspects that are PTW, but compared to other games out there, this one is very fair. For instance, the first two wheel commanders in the game are still staples in the late stages of the game. I have played other games where the whole currency system changes every two months so that everything that was good, now is completely replaced by something entirely new and much stronger (cough War Robots cough)... Games like that are PTP.
With that being said, here are my biggest areas to improve to make the experience even more enjoyable:
Edit: Formatting and spelling...
1. Lag and General Performance Updates: This will always be number one. I run the game on a new iPad as well an older iPhone 6+. It is virtually unplayable on the iPhone as it will crash immediately. After multiple restarts I can finally manage to send out my farmers, but it is incredibly painful. About a year ago, it was very playable on the iPhone, except for large scale wars/events. Unfortunately, it seems to be getting worse and I don't foresee this issue being solved in the near future.
2. Reward Long Term Players: The 200 continuous VIP points is great when starting out, but is irrelevant when you are going for VIP 14+. Regular players are what makes the game, regardless if they are FTP or PTW. Commitment to the game should be rewarded. I would suggest a bonus of 10 gold heads every 100 days logged in. At least it’s something and it's not enough to affect the balance of the game. Also, it doesnt have to be continuous, just for every 100 days logged in, this way if someone is travelling and doesn’t have access to internet, they are not punished. Alternatively the reward could be additional VIP points.
3. Golden Key Commangers: By now everyone is fully aware that you dont spend gold heads on key commanders. The possible exception to this being CC and CM in early game. I currently have Cleo and Sedoneuk maxed and CC, EC, Ishi and CM one or two skills away. However, I continue to get mostly Cleo and Sedoneuk heads. This is frusterating. I understand why Lilith doesn't stop the drop rate for commanders that are already maxed as this would greatly benefit the PTW crowd. However, I suggest adding an item to the alliance shop that would function as a "Commander Blocker". Make it a few million alliance credits so it takes a long time to obtain. This would essentially be an item that prevents you from getting more of one selected commander's heads from gold keys. This way you also won’t feel as bad investing gold heads in key commanders, as you can just block them once maxed.
4. FTP Commander after Aethelflaed: Once Aethel is maxed, it is disappointing that there are no other commanders after her. I would love for another team skill based commander to be next. Or alternatively, change to a key commander, even a gathering commander (or gathering commander chests).
5. New Commander Suggestion: A commander who excels at stopping farmer killers. For instance, their active skill is to immobilize the enemy for 10 seconds. This commander could even be a gathering commander, but would be exceptionally helpful for certain scenarios, e.g. AoO, silk road, rally counter attack, and obviously stopping farmer killers. This commander would have to be weak otherwise (hence maybe a gathering commander), but would serve a very specific niche role. Perhaps this could be the next FTP commander after Aethel?
6. Event Optimization for Late Game: In particular events like the Lohar Trials and Fort Siege. Once you get to a certain point in the game, these events are essentially not worth the effort involved. Would love to see some new tweaks, such as the ability to just solo the Dauntless Elite etc. once your own Lohar commander is maxed.
7. Rallying Forts: For the love of god, once your castle reaches Level 25, just give the option to solo forts. It is so painful to have to wait 5 minutes for teammates. Most of the time I dont even bother with forts, except during KvK. If you can solo a level 5 fort, then you should be given that option at your own risk. Note, that this only should apply once you already max your castle (otherwise bots). Rallying should also have an immediate launch button option only available when full. This could change AoO and KvK.
8. Ceroli Crisis Matchmaking: This has been a point of frustration for many people. The minimum power level requirement needs to be increased for each level. Nothing is more frustrating than joining a team on Hell to see two of your teammates run out there with T4s...
9. Add a Clear Button to Hospital: Self explanatory. Troop training has a clear all troops button, why not the hospital? Actually I know why, because it's to annoy people from taking the alliance healing approach. Well, alliance healing is a critical part of the game now, so I suggest that Lilith should just embrace it, remove the 1000 help limit, and put more effort into combatting healing bots. Honestly I really dont think it would be hard to find and remove healing bots.
10. Passports for Late Game: The method to obtain passports to migrate works very well for early game, even mid game. However, in my opinion the requirements are too steep for late game players. I am now 100M+ power and it will take years before I can migrate. As a low spender, I dont plan on spending $1000 just to migrate to a new kingdom. I migrated twice before at much lower power, but have been in my current kingdom for a year. Unfortunately it is on the decline and I am starting to think that a new home would be better. Passport migration for FTPs above 60 M power would be exceptionally difficult, if not impossible.
11. Use for RSS: RSS is helpful for healing and training. Once you're done building and researching, you begin to stockpile it. Last migration, about a year ago, I gave up roughly $4B RSS. I would like to see a trade in feature that allows you to potentially get alliance credits or something of value in return. Now that I'm full T5, I wish I had all that gold i gave away lol :(. War is very expensive...
12. Ability to Write Own Text: You know the emojis and text buttons that your troops can use on the field? Allow the player to have one or two custom texts. I can see the concern that Lilith has with profanity or racist text, but I believe that could be effectively blocked out. This would be helpful for writing basic commands in Ceroli to clueless team members. I could also see some hilariously creative text bubbles being used during open war kvk. Translations may be challenging...
13. Testing Centre: A scenario setup like Expedition where you can try your commanders out against an opposition army of your choosing. This would be beneficial to those of us who like to know more about the analytics of the game and run different setups to see what truly works best. It is not always easy to do this in game with other players. Expedition allows for this to be done to a certain degree, but a Testing Centre would be pretty cool. Especially if it had a quick simulate button like Canyon.
14. Siege Commander: What if we had a legit siege commander for open field. Maybe with a crazy +100% speed boost and actually strong enough to be legitimate. Seems ridiculous, but amazing nonetheless!
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[Achievement?] Ranking: Brand New Objective Truth (1/2)

Ranking in Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage is not exactly an easy thing. Since the primary method of point gain for any event is to ‘play the game’, usually the solution is to ‘play the game’ more than everyone else to get the highest rank possible. This obviously isn’t always the case, as Parade has no ranking element beyond SSS rank and Carnival is just a glorified high score ranking. To break it down:
…The above is all information directly lifted from a post I made nearly a year ago, where I played M@GIC Forte 2258 times in 174 hours to celebrate it being added to the game, and accidently became a Mayu/HinakoP in the process. At the time I only offered the info I had on Token, and not having officially participated in a high-end groove run felt that it would be presumptuous for me to present my expectations for one. Fast forward nearly an entire year, and I now have a perhaps unfortunate level of experience from ranking the most recent Groove, Never Ends. That said, the strategies I utilised did not resemble what is the expected style of play, so I will do my best to provide all the facts I know about Groove here.
 

Groove Ranking Primer

Groove has existed since the debut of Tulip in Starlight Stage (January 2016?), experiencing several evolutions both major and minor since its original conception. It began life taking a random selection of three (non-collab) songs from one of the three types (rainbow included as a wildcard in all three) and slapping a fourth encore song on the end that required reaching a particular point threshold (called applause) during the first three songs to actually play it. Completing the first three songs would award you points for how high you managed to make the applause go, and completing the encore would award a fixed number of points based on your score rank.
Worth noting that the fourth song is the new one people actually wanted to play the event for, thus forcing them to go through filler to reach it. A popular interpretation of the event said by men wiser than I is that Groove is taking the bus through the bad neighbourhood, having to make three shady stops before finally reaching your destination. From a purely casual perspective it at least exposes the player base to more songs they may not have had the time to explore, challenging them to diversify, and offers the chance to run into cool combinations of songs. However, it often causes problems for people trying to achieve full combos or high score runs on the event song, being forced to play three other songs before it every time they fail, which is very detrimental to those who cannot calm their nerves and extremely detrimental to those just want to play the damn song already.
Anyway, the basic mechanics have changed three times since the beginning;
The 2x points option being added was particularly innocuous, and in fact changed an old strategy where playing the groove and instantly leaving the encore would be more point efficient. The applause cap being raised is likely in response to continued power creep in cards added since the beginning of the game, making it easier and easier to reach 50. The difference in points received for 50 applause versus 100 on a master groove is only a mere 25 points (480 vs 505).
The real devastating calamity here is when Live Party was added as an option for Groove point gain. This would have been a neat feature to be able to casually rank Groove with your friends if it worked as everyone expected, but for some reason the points gain per minute with Live Party is significantly higher than playing Groove, at least during 1x. This change completely modified the way the first half of the event was played when ranking competitively, going from a solo endurance game into a team-based speedtest.net simulator.
 
The basic mechanics when translated into functional requirements for ranking would be as follows:
Groove is a wretched amalgamation of two different events in one, meaning you should be twice as prepared (or maybe 5x as prepared) to run it than if you were to run something like Token. Having a multiplayer segment means you need several other people to be as prepared as you as well, where those people also need to abide by some of the rules above (fast device, low ping, try not to disconnect). After that, you must jump into one of the most skill demanding score attacks in the game, where combo is the primary aspect that will determine your applause.
Tie the above with the requirement to have your M1 Mac Mini emulating Starlight Stage, living next to the game server in Japan using a hardline to avoid disconnects, be able to invite 4 of your buddies around to also receive the ping benefits and speed benefits, and somehow remain sane enough to press the Play Groove button after hour 190 and not think the entire game has changed into a limbo designed purely to torture you. You start to see why planning to play Groove in at least a slightly effective manner is not simple.
That said, for every insane person out there willing to take on this challenge, there will always be others attempting the exact same thing. Chances are they’re facing the exact same problems, and have likely already reached out on Twitter to find others willing to suffer with them for the first half. While it’s not possible to fill all of the above requirements with maximum efficiency, there’s usually enough instability in the event runtime to allow for mistakes to be made and still come out on top. Usually.
 

Event Preperation

My own preparation for the event saw the completion of, maybe, three and a half of the requirements above? Like I said, there’s a lot of instability surrounding this event, and getting close enough to achieving all of the above was enough to give a chance at a high rank regardless. The rank you end up with is likely dependent on how many other teams of other players were able to be formed for the first half of the event, with very little people choosing to forego Live Party in favour of just playing perfect applause grooves for the entire event, unless you’re a robot. Sorry to all robots out there, but this probably counts as cheating.
I still live in Australia, and must suffer the internet curse I am bound to with horrible stability and slow speeds. Even if I was capable of moving to Japan for a week and playing the game there, there’s the tiny problem of a global pandemic preventing anything like that from being a good idea. Not that it would be a good idea anyway. I would also expect to not play all 198 hours of the event, but more on this later.
I already had an A13 processer in the form of an iPhone 11 I picked up before last year’s December Token that was still in mostly functional condition. Since then, the A14 had been released in the iPhone 12, which would be another accessible upgrade to brainlet simpletons like myself, but it was becoming more and more evident that the increases from device speed were negligible compared to the losses suffered from making mistakes or just from ping. Alternate properties to focus on when selecting the device become apparent, such as the weight when carrying it around for 100+ hours, or the temperature to not feel like your lap is going to get burned from someone spamming the Twitch chat. Worth noting again, the speed of your device will be throttled by the slowest device in your Live Party room during the first half of the event anyway, so if you’re stuck with your pal on his Samsung S5 then you may want to consider buying them a device rather than yourself.
Another addition is to get a secondary device for yourself. This can be used to complete business while still playing the game on the first device; just being careful not to log on in the wrong order and delete your entire play.
Then comes the resource preparation for the two separate parts of the event: The Live Party segment (1st half) and the Groove segment (2nd half). Saying half is a little misleading as the Groove segment is usually always shorter than the Live Party segment, but both feel like they take a lifetime to complete anyway so that’s kind of meaningless.
 
Groove Segment (2nd half)
The Groove part is all about achieving the most applause possible with the least effort. Most of this is controlled by player skill and team composition, but is also assisted by the appeal bonus from the support team. Groove support teams work like normal ones where you get a 50% appeal bonus from the 10 highest appeal counts you have for that type of song (or groove in this case), but with the additional bonus of the Groove type being applied to the cards first. So in the case of a Vocal Groove, the cards with the highest appeal will likely end up being your vocal cards, who receive an incredible 150% bonus to that stat. If you’ve taken a look at your inventory and noticed that one weird card you’ve got with 10,000+ vocal appeal, you should think to yourself: What if I had 11 of these? And one in every colour? Or maybe, you don’t think that, since not everyone has the wallet to make that happen. Nor the stupidity. Or maybe you did have the resources to make it happen, but you spent it all on your Chieri4 instead and it’s a Vocal Groove. You can’t always win.
This is about the only way to increase applause in a passive way. The rest comes down to things that you have to control more actively, as depressing as that is.
The teams you use are going to depend on the circumstances you find yourself in after you have already been playing for hundreds of hours. The objective is to reach 99 applause on every single groove, but this is not going to be a reality, especially after all that time battling with Live Party. In the grand scheme of things, I narrowed down three team compositions that had any relevant difference: High Scoring, Ultimate Defence, and one that sits in the middle of this scale. You can see these teams below:
 
This team uses Resonance to take full advantage of the stat bonus for the groove and combines several skills with high percentage bonuses for very high scoring per note. The amount of defence on the team is limited to only healing from synergy and nothing else. Worth noting that I had to roll for Syoko5 during the Live Party segment of the event, which was a dramatic endeavour.
  • Halfway. Uzuki1, Minami4, Chinami1, Nao3, Rika2.
Offers 3 layers of protection and a plethora of scoring coverage. The combination of Uzuki1 and Minami4 effectively covers 50% of the song for you, while Chinami1 with Tuning and Rika2 with Overload give a near 100% percent resistance to anything other than misses. This offers nearly as much protection as a regular auto team, but scores far, far better. Chinami1 as centre instead of a usual Skill Boost adds 30% extra appeal to the team and gives a better scoring skill, while opening up another slot to use Symphony instead for the far better boost. The only significant difference between this team and the below one is the inclusion of Helen1, which changes the functionality greatly enough to make them worthwhile as two different teams.
A variant of the above team that allows full auto during the encore song. This team setup worked in principle but when optimising it for vocal attribute, cracks started to show. The centre effect only existed on Cool cards, Helen is the only Damage Guard of her class who is also Cool, Nao3 and Minami3 (both Cool) are the vocal equivalents that sync on 9 seconds with Uzuki1. There was no efficient way to fit a Passion in here without sacrificing either functionality or appeal. I decided to swap Minami4 for Rika4 in the end. Again, having a secondary device to complete business during the groove section can be done while autoing the encore with this team for no loss of appeal (and very little loss of time). This is probably one of the best scoring options to take while still being able to auto, and whether or not this had been figured out by other players was a mystery, but I like to think very little of myself so I assumed I was not alone.
 
Understanding the line-up in these teams requires understanding the minimum required of the player to achieve 99 applause. The most effective method is to keep one’s combo high for the majority of the Groove, trying to only break combo towards the beginning of the first song or the end of the last song to benefit the most from the ridiculously high multipliers offered around 1000 combo. The other effective method is simply having absolutely insane scoring potential per note, where any combo saving pieces are removed in favour that you’ll hopefully just gorilla your way through most of the song and end up with a bunch of applause anyway. The High Scoring and Halfway teams above try to fill those two ends of the scale.
A defensive team ideally can score 99 applause while also giving the player additional benefits, such as the ability to auto the encore song where applause no longer matters. This usually required running one of the many Damage Guard SRs that have a high uptime but low activation chance alongside one of the many cards with a centre effect that raises the chance of skill activation. Since the colour of the groove is random, you cannot plan in advance to use the type of damage guard that corresponds with the groove and get the free on-type chance activation bonus of 30%. It’s also not advisable to change teams too often, as this obviously wastes precious time. Note that while using a Skill Boost in the centre slot would be the expected solution, the existence of the Cross Type cool cards give a 35% bonus to skill activation which when combined with cards like HELEN we can create teams with 100% skill activation chance and still receive additional benefits such as more appeal bonus and a better active skill, since Skill Boost is massively outclassed by Symphony in this day and age.
Beyond that, the only plan for groove is to pray you aren’t too brain dead to play.
 
Live Party Segment (1st half)
I kinda dodged talking about planning for Live Party and talked about Groove related preparations first instead. The reason for this is that I while I did indeed achieve the requirement of having a setup that allowed as little disconnects and deaths as possible, and I did indeed have a full Live Party room with 5 accounts capable of doing the same, I was missing one crucial aspect that I did not explicitly mention. I did not have 4 other people to play the game with me.
I didn’t mention it since it’s technically not required.
 

How not to play Live Party

Cheating is hard to define. I’m not starting out with a vague statement like that to imply I may have cheated, since in reality all I did was solve a problem with a much more convoluted solution due to my extreme lack of trust in other people and myself. I did not realistically expect to get 4 other people to assist me to play a video game for ~100 hours straight, and instead of investing time into making friendships where someone would offer to help me in that situation, I instead spent it all on planning a solution that would give me full control of my fate at the cost of sanity.
I present the Rank 6 Shift Project.
Lovingly named after a certain level 6 shift project which also involved having countless clones die for the sake of one achieving great power, the basic setup was to prepare 4 other accounts that had access to the correct cards with the right potentials to form an auto team in Live Party, and do so on relatively fast devices in a setup accessible by one person with knowledge that they would still need to live as a human during the hours of operation.
What you can see in this image of it in action is 4 iPad Minis, 5th Generation assembled within a large tray with enough room for charge cables to be inserted or removed as necessary. These devices were chosen as they have a relatively fast processer (A12), have a large screen size for ease in pushing buttons, and are ‘cheap’ to afford ($600 AUD). Having all the devices have an identical aspect ratio was important to avoid confusion around the location of on-screen buttons, and to avoid speed throttling by having even one device with a slower processer. Having a high battery life was also desirable as being forced to keep this thing plugged in for too long was not ideal either.
As you’ve probably already figured, yes, this was not a smart idea and I cannot defend my decision. I will continue to explain it however.
 
Live Party Mechanics
The actual mechanics behind how this abomination replaces other players is more than just surface deep. In a regular Live Party room, you would have to complete the following steps to make it through one whole cycle, which would repeat thousands of times:
  1. One player hosts the Live Party room.
  2. Four other players connect via code, friend list or public lobby.
  3. Each player that is not the host hits the Ready button, chooses whether or not to play with stamina, and accepts.
  4. The host starts the Live.
  5. A random song is selected and all five players are given a fifteen second countdown that can be skipped by all pressing ready again.
  6. The song is loaded, played and the results are determined and shown in a secondary screen were players are again given a fifteen second countdown that can be skipped by all pressing ready again.
  7. All players continue through the various results screens before being either returned to the lobby, or kicked back to the Live Party main menu due to disconnecting.
  8. Repeat from step 3.
This is modified to be the following when controlling 5 accounts:
  1. …
  2. The four players who are not the hosts forcibly quit and reopen the game, cancelling the rejoin option when prompted.
  3. They then manually rejoin the room as in step 2, while the host completes the live and skips through the results screens.
  4. Repeat from step 3.
If one player is in control of all 5 players, there is several issues that need solving to not only ensure you can get through a loop, but can do so at a competitive speed. Having all devices be the same ensures that as little mistakes are made as possible when it comes to pushing on-screen buttons such as the Ready Up and Continue buttons. Where possible it is best to avoid having to press buttons all together, or to only do so when time permits. Ideally, you’d play without the use of stamina so the extra players never have to refill, but taking the extra time to check the tickbox is a significant loss of time in the thousands of live party games you’ll have to play. Not to mention that stamina can be refilled in slow time while reconnecting to the room and waiting for the host to finish the live. Since those accounts are already ready and waiting, it is easy for the host to spam through the results screen where the other players are listed as disconnected, and be returned to the lobby again. This also means that the speed of the other devices only throttles the start of the song loading times, and will have no effect on anything at the end of the song.
All devices would be operating on the same network, so it would suffer the same weakness as any other room should connection break, as failure to connect on even one account would break the flow of the room. Having the host device have access to a roaming mobile network as backup allowed me to avoid any connection hiccups which are a severe threat when playing, as connection errors during Live Party are not well understood and can lead to numerous errors such as being stuck in the Live Results screen unable to continue or randomly closing the room and not giving you any points for the play. Another common issue would be if the host starts the live before all accounts are ready, leaving one out and adding in a random from the online queue instead who probably breaks the team comp with his Nanami N card used for fan grinding. This is largely avoided with this setup since all 4 accounts are typically readied in the same hand motion before moving to the main account to start the live. It’s technically an advantage, and I will take any advantage I can get with this disastrous set up.
 
Live Party Autoplay
During the actual song playtime, if a player achieves 30% of notes as misses, the game automatically disconnects you and you receive a 20% penalty to event points. If this happens to the host, the room crashes and needs to be remade. If you die, you aren’t disconnected but you suffer a 50% penalty to event points. Playing on Master+ is required for the highest event point gain, and Passion has the overall fastest songs. Since Live Party teams still operate similar to a regular team (just without a guest) they are also capable of functioning as an auto team. The major difference is that centre effects no longer apply to every character, and instead apply individually to each character regardless of whether they are in the centre or not. This means that Damage Guards that previously would not achieve 100% activation chance could do so if they had a centre affect that gives an increase to activation chance. Cards with 60% chance to activate their affects could already achieve 100% through the on-type bonus of 30% and also the flat bonus from skill potential. Also, notably, score has no affect on the event point gain in Live Party, so you can get a C score and still walk away with maximum efficiency.
With all this in mind, the auto team I replicated on 5 accounts looked like this. Both Passion Perfect Locks are used which offers a 12s/15s setup. A full analysis of all songs reveals that 12s/15s is nearly as robust as the much more popular 9s/12s, with the weakness being that it is safer to play for the first 12 seconds (until first Perfect Lock activation) rather than only the first 9. Since scoring is not an issue, 2 Damage Guards are taken to absolutely ensure death is avoided. Skill Boosts were best for their high uptime, and would still achieve 100% activation regardless of type/colour since their own centre effect still applied to them despite not having a tri-colour team. The timer on the Skill Boost was not relevant, as long as it’s not 7. Ew.
So that’s how it would be. While this is still autoplay, it is potentially more thought-demanding than playing the game normally would be, since all 5 accounts need to be constantly managed to ensure no error is made when re-joining, that they all still have plenty of stamina, that they are not about to run out of battery, and that they are all accessible once the live is complete. This resulted in less than 1.5 minutes of actual auto-time where I did not have to do anything, and 1 minute every loop devoted to hitting ready, starting the live, closing the game, reopening, and re-joining, and playing the first few seconds of the song on my main account at the same time.
I again must repeat, this is not an ideal solution. Having 4 other players back you up and do these tasks for you as was intended is the only strategy I would recommend after trying this, and at least makes you feel like less of a degenerate since you didn’t have to create 4 imaginary friends.
 

Event Run

I already knew that I would be at a disadvantage due to using the Rank 6 Shift Project as a substitute for actual players, both in speed and in mental capability. Staying awake for a long time is incredibly hard even when just autoing a token event. If you’re trying to do the same while needing to keep the mental aptitude to manage 5 accounts at once, you have a much, much more difficult situation facing you. I was under the impression that the ‘measurement’ of remaining focused over long periods of time in sleep studies was known as Vigilance, but I don’t know if it’s fair to put this in the same category. This isn’t something you’ll have people doing research on in any official laboratory anyway, unless it’s happening in some secret underground Starlight Stage lab as we speak. The same place where they developed Haruna2.
What I’m trying to say is that while I would appreciate someone calling the application of this strategy impressive, the reality is that it’s incredibly stupid.
Knowing this disadvantage, I had to plan for as little sleep as possible but still enough to make it through the Live Party section while maintaining sanity. Thanks to the assistance of Zhu, the best in the business when it comes to supporting terrible decisions by rankers, we had prepared a 7-hour-max sleep cycle that would use three sets of sleep; 2 hours, 3 hours, and 2 hours as the expected breakdown. These sleep times would be spread to get maximum advantage of feeling refreshed and to attempt to avoid the usual problems when staying awake for very long periods, such as microsleep choking and total mental shutdown.
Sometime within the first few days the game server went down for about 30 minutes, which I used to get some sleep which overall felt kind of useless and only made my head cloudier, so thanks for nothing Bamco/Cygames. Other than that, I had two hours sleep half way through the Live Party segment, and 3 hours of sleep before the beginning of the 2x Groove segment, with a potential 2 hours of sleep to use during that groove segment if required.
Usual strategies such as quick 2-minute naps in between auto plays were less and less effective due to the immediate mental requirements of setting up the devices after waking and would often lead to making mistakes or just falling back asleep immediately.
My Brother came to stay with me for a few nights to help me out, since he’s a great guy. I feel bad since I made the implication (and truly thought) that I could do other stuff while playing, but this quickly turned out to be impossible. Fortunately, he managed to find plenty of ways to entertain himself, so I really hope he didn’t waste too much of his time here.
The painful reality sets in day by day, where you notice just how boring ranking Groove is. When your hands, brain, and eyes need to be near constantly occupied by the game, there’s really not much you can do outside of continuously managing your game state. I don’t particularly have much to add to the Event Run section because of this; I can’t remember much of what I did since I didn’t really do anything. Just play the game. And often not play the game, due to completely forgetting how to do so on two separate occasions.
 

Results

I often try to keep my personal opinions away from posts like these, beyond inserting the occasional joke that requires a PhD in the history of #cg_general to understand. It is an achievement post technically, but just like my last one about token events I found myself talking mainly about the hard facts of Groove and the strategies that can be used to combat it, not very much about the actual ranking experience from my perspective. I think an entire essay could be written on the psychology surrounding the desire for any human to willingly stay awake for 200+ hours straight, which would be best left completely separate to strategy discussion like this.
But this is a results section, and I haven’t even talked about what result I got, nor why I even chose to rank this event in the first place. I don’t know, it’s got a Cinderella Clock in the background, I guess? I like clocks? Karen and Fumika are pretty great? So are the rest of the singers?
Maybe I just wanted to test the Rank 6 Shift Project to see if it actually had any competitive viability. The conclusion I’ve come to is technically yes, if you’re not in the weak ~99.9999% of the population who can’t seem to stay mentally sane after hour 150, like me. Did I even have a choice? It’s not a muscle I can exercise, or a technique that can be mastered. Every time you want to ‘practice’ you potentially do more damage to yourself and don’t improve at all. You either can, or you can’t. Or you can cheat, I guess. I once again made countless mistakes during the event, many of which are my own fault and are somewhat expected to happen over the course of the event, but the major ones are all tied into the approach I decided to take to even be able to compete in the first place. I didn't even get rank 6, so the name of the technique is a big lie.
Despite everything I just said, I paradoxically still had a lot of fun. I don’t think anyone helping me had fun, I don’t know if any of the runners around me did, but I sure have some interesting memories from the experience. While I didn’t have much community support during the run since I did it in secret, I’d like to thank a few people who have given me information or support in the past (either directly or indirectly) and who have generally been great people to know of:
  • Zhu, and the gods in his stream chat,
  • Rayvur, for giving me a goal to sink to,
  • Lolicore, for being aware that I exist,
  • Rafe, for still managing to provide useful information despite not playing the game anymore,
  • Dwr3k, and the others in VC (looking at you morstain) for doing god’s work and hosting a CG anime rewatch.
 

Fun Stats

  • I earned 16.8 million fans over the event, raising me from a total of 764,079,984 to 781,869,928. This is nearly identical to the 16.5 million fans I earned during my token run last December.
    • My breakdown of fans across Cute, Cool and Passion has evened up a little where Passion was falling behind, with 249, 296, and 235 million respectively. Cool needs to calm down a little.
  • I leveled up 0 times, from 500 to 500.
  • I have no idea how much gold I earned since I went from 68.9 million to being capped. I haven’t even tried to empty the impossible amount left over in the present box.
  • I had 63k jewels prepared, which I knew was more than enough, but I could not doubt the possibility that Syoko5 would be a relevant card to roll for. I’m not sure how much I spent in total on the event and Syoko, but I only have 17k left now.
    • I saved some jewels by using 6,450 stamina from bottles. I still have 21,620 stamina left over in bottles.
  • I got 3 memory keys from live party drops.
  • I gained:
    • Only 1544 rookie trainers, despite selling 4000 of them in fear of capping.
    • 360 trainers, 160 veteran trainers, 18 master trainers.
    • 158 cute earrings, 134 cute bracelets, 34 cute tiaras.
    • 243 cool earrings, 145 cool bracelets, 33 cool tiaras.
    • 2253 passion earrings, 1173 passion bracelets, 235 passion tiaras.
    • 1692 shoes, and I went from 8k dresses to being capped.
  • Natalia, featured on the passion auto team I used, earned over 2 million fans during the event. I only bring this one up because she’s pretty much the only idol I used that wasn’t already 10 million or above.
  • I pathetically attempted to use my Live Party Emblems before the event taking them down from 900k to 722k. I ended up capped half way through the Live Party period.
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