People try to live life to the extreme, attaining extreme amounts of success and wealth using extreme methods to make it happen. We’re given the premise to “go hard or go home”, but you know what?

Yeah, I’d rather go home. I’d rather lay on the couch all day and be in my lazy. I’d rather be relaxed and happy than overworked and overstressed. I’d rather be inside and at ease than go out and make things hard for myself.

That’s not to say I won’t achieve, that’s not to say I won’t make things happen, but I do so within my means. And I do so…*eventually*. I put hard things off and take it one step at a time. I procrastinate…with purpose.

 Despite all these claims that you must “strive for the impossible,” I’d rather do what’s, I don’t know, actually fucking possible. I mean, I like to think of myself as a practical man, a lazy one perhaps, but also very practical. And in being practical, I know my limits.

Of course, we’re told, “the sky is the limit”, implying that there really is no limit at all, because the sky is infinite. The sky expands to the stars, planets, and the whole galaxy. 


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The same goes for us, the same goes for people. Face it, we can’t ALL be the exception. We can’t all make something big happen.

But that’s okay. That’s completely okay. It’s okay to not want to be big or make big things happen. It’s okay to do….just enough. It's okay to be an Average Joe or Jane.
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Put it this way, most people in history, upon the billions and billions of people on Earth that have ever existed, haven’t made the history books.  Yet, we all seem to want to try and make a name for ourselves.

We get so obsessed with making a mass impact that we fail to appreciate the role in which we live in. We’re so passionate about what *could be, that we fail to even notice what is. We live our lives in an imaginary future, rather than in the reality of the present. And that makes us blind to just how dang good we already have it.

Besides, making a name for yourself ain’t all it cracked up to be. I mean, think about it, just because you did something to hit the history books in your life, doesn’t mean you lived a good life.It just means you lived a life worth writing about. But a life worth writing about isn’t necessarily a good life.

Look at the news, what are they writing about? All the murders, the diseases, the disasters, the drama. That’s what sells the newspapers.

Heck, guys like Hitler and Stalin have made history. And I know that there are also wonderful people like Martin Luther King, as we just celebrated recently, Gandhi, and others of the like. I’m not trying to downplay the positive heroes and heroines of history. Point I’m trying to make here though is that being a big deal in the eyes of society (and history) is really not that big of a deal.

It’s better to live a humble life, a lazy life, and actually be a good person than it is to make your life a boasting performance.

That’s not to say you can’t perform and do great things that influence people and make a change for the world. You can make little changes. You can do just enough and still have lived a worthwhile life, whether or not your name is remembered centuries from now.



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I mean, we of course,  all like to think of ourselves as the protagonist of our own story. And because of all these TV shows and movies, we fall in love with the idea of being some sort of hero. 

So let me put it this way: Perhaps you’re not the hero, but the sword merchant that sells the hero the sword that is ultimately used to slay the dragon.

What I’m getting at here is this idea of balance, the idea of doing JUST ENOUGH to get by, to fulfill your role in the universe at large, even if it’s really not that much, even if you’re not the big hero. You can be the sidekick and still kick ass!

Maybe your role isn’t to work hard and succeed, but to relax and be lazy, remind people that there’s admiration in leisure, in taking time to rest and be at your ebay.

 I’m not about to get up n’ go just for the sake of getting up n’ going. There’s no sense to “git r dun” right away when I have all the time in the world.

Of course, one might claim oh no! Time here in life is limited. You must make the best of it. And I suppose at this point it becomes a philosophical debate over what exactly allows a person to “make the best of life.”

Is it obtaining external perks like notoriety or fame or hordes and hordes of wealth? Or is it finding inner-peace and happiness within yourself?

I’ll leave that up to you to decide. To each his own I suppose, but I’m here to tell you what the procrastin8r does. That’s my mantra.

One of the most vital aspects I aim for, personally, is balance. 

The procrastin8r lives a life of balance. He never does too much of anything. Obviously over-doing something is not in his nature -- never overworked, overtired or overstressed.

He never does too little either. While it may not get done *right away*, it does get done *eventually*. Shit will happen, slow n’ steady. There will be *just enough* progress to matter.

Now let’s briefly get into how balance looks in the different aspects of your life, briefly, how being a regular dude and not some sort of hero to the world..




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You can’t give too much, because that makes you a people pleaser. And being a people pleaser
Is a full time job. You don’t want a full time job, so don’t make one for yourself!

Now of course, if you take too much for yourself and demand too much from others that just makes you a flat out selfish prick. Don’t do that.

Remember never do *too* much of anything, as a procrastin8r. Always do *just enough*, nothing more, nothing less. 

Give n’ take. That’s the basic premise of any healthy relationship.







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Look what’s happening in our lives. From our work commitments to our responsibilities at home and even our social commitments, we have so much booked in our schedule that we never put aside time to be fully and completely relax -- other than of course, the holidays, which is the one time of year where people do let loose and stop pushing themselves to succeed, as we covered earlier.

We gotta finish that report, we gotta fix the leak in the bathroom, we gotta go meet up with our friends at the bar, we gotta pick up the groceries, pay the bills, e-mail our boss, put the dishes away, take out the dog and the trash, shop for a new pair of shoes, give our parents a call.

Of course, you might have been trying to skip that last one. Point is, there’s always something we’re running around and doing. Always.

But here’s the thing, fellow procrastinator, you’re gonna love this…
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Acting on your immediate response usually leads to terrible consequences.


​When has it ever helped you to yell immediately when you feel anger? When has it ever been beneficial for you to scream when something stresses you out? When have you ever gained an advantage by doing something out of jealousy?

​Impulse is a terrible habit, yet it's easy to pick up.

In the world of immediate gratifications, we tend to let our emotions take the steering wheel and drive where were going, and, well more often than not, that leads us to quite a messy crash, where we hurt ourselves, we hurt others.

So much pain, so much drama, so much life hassle, worry, and stress can all be avoided, completely null n’ void if we just take the time to relax ourselves, ya know give ourselves a break and allow ourselves to slowly, but surely, find the best course of action in any given scenario.

Now of course, taking your time to do things like solving your problems doesn’t work as a band-aid. It doesn’t just magically heal your wounds and cure the pain.

But it does allow you to properly treat the pain rather than rushing 

Think about a surgeon, he’s gotta take his time, slow n’ steady, in order to perform a successful operation. Imagine if you had a surgeon rushing to get his job done. You wouldn’t want him picking around your body.

He’d cause more harm than help if he was swiftly sharpening his scalpel, then proceeding to go to stab town.

Treat your life like your job is a surgeon, not a racecar driver. Your goal is to be accurate and efficient, not win the race.

Now before we wrap up, I want you to repeat this phrase with me, as it’s the real main takeaway I’m trying to make here. You ready? Here it is:





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Remember, slow n’ steady wins the race. Move like a sloth, climbing up that tree, to the top of your goal, nice and freaking slow.

Take things nice n’ slow, man, like our spirit animal, the good cuddly sloth. Relax on into your goals. Don’t push for them. Goal achieving doesn’t need to be any sort of hard work or vigorous effort. Make your life simple.

You’ll get there…eventually. Ah, the favorite word of a true procrstin8r -- eventually.

Eventually is not a time frame, but a mindset. You have in mind that no matter what, you’ll get there, you’ll make it happen, you’ll make do.

It may not happen tomorrow, or even really any time soon, but it will happen *eventually*, at some point, in the future.

This mindset alone makes it easier to accomplish goals because for one, you’re no longer pressuring yourself to achieve things by a certain deadline or due date. For another, you give yourself plenty of rest to have energy to actually get the thing done that you want to do, as opposed to exhausting yourself to the point of mental, physical, and emotional fatigue. And finally, you also have a positive outlook towards your goals, because even if you hit failure, it’s no big deal; you trust the process and will still get there “eventually.”

Now let’s take a deeper dive into why “Eventually” is better than a New Year’s Resolution









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Live your life in such a way that you fulfill your own desires, not in a way that fulfills the desires of others.

Besides, most people that disapprove of your “lazy” ways have no independent thoughts or feelings for themselves. They follow a life protocol they’ve been handed as a child, and criticize anyone who doesn’t follow the outline (which they didn’t even write for themselves) to an absolute T as an adult. They basically never grow up and stick to the brainwashed beliefs they were force fed as a child.

It’s the reason people get upset when you don’t go to college or have kids or work a day job. That’s the story they were told to follow as kids and that’s the story they try to play out, even if they secretly don’t actually want kids or don’t want to work a corporate job.

They suck up and don’t complain, because that’s what “you’re supposed to do.” You’re supposed to go to school and get a good-paying job. You’re supposed to raise a family.

But us lazy sons of a bitches don’t suck up or buck up for anything we don’t want to participate in. People only hate us because we’re doing what they want, and they meanwhile don’t have the balls to do it.

Any worthwhile goal is going to take more than a year.

That’s a fact. Big goals take a BIG amount of time.

And one year is pretty short, in the grand scheme of things.

Here’s the thing about making a New year’s Resolution, in a nutshell.

Either…

 A. You wind up burnt out before you even get a chance to make your NYR happen, or..

B. You get it done but wind up doing a very shitty job at it

Low and slow is the way to go. Be lazy about your goals. Embrace your inner sloth and climb up that tree…eventually. Don’t try to jump up the branches swiftly -- you’ll probably end up falling and hurting yourself.

Go carefully, slowly. Take it one little move at a time.

Don’t push yourself to get up and go and do something BIG by the year 2023. I mean, it’s not that you can’t or won’t do something BIG and admirable and noteworthy. 

It’s just that, you’re willing to take a bit more than a year to make that happen. Procrastinate and put off your New Year’s Resolution ‘til later. You’ll do it….EVENTUALLY!



Take it easy,


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Freedom is taking happiness back in your hands, back under your control. It’s doing things on YOUR TERMS, not your bosses, not your judging peers. YOURS.

You do what you want, when you want. You be your own boss

That’s where laziness comes in. It’s all tied together. You see, when you truly embrace your laziness, you’re not working to earn approval or trying hard to accomplish one thing or another. You’re simply…just enjoying yourself. Good old fashioned enjoyment.

So stay home this holiday.

Not to mention, the fact that we’re literally living through a global pandemic, there’s no better excuse than now to sit at home and quarantine yourself, aka relax and be in your lazy.

I’ve always said that [New Year’s Resolutions are bullshit,] namely because it’s often associated with striving hard to achieve some sort of big ass goal that never really amounts to anything.

New Year’s Resolutions are designed to push you into being “more”, which as we already talked about doesn’t lead to happiness. If you must go into the New Year with some sort of new goal or mindset to adapt, then I suggest you take one of the lazy.

Make it a point to make the other 360+ days of the year like you would a holiday. Relax and do what you want. 

Of course that won’t prevent people from judging or criticizing you.[ Haters are gonna hate. Procrastinators are gonna procrastinate.]

Besides, that fat jolly man in a red suit does the opposite of what we all do. Guy relaxes and does what he wants for the whole year and works ONE, one single night of the year, then takes a twelve month vacation.

Strive to be like that lazy Santa Claus. Strive to do absolutely jack diddly squat all year long. Make a grand total of ZERO progress. Take all the time off you need. Go on vacation from your vacation. Be the least impressive version of yourself. Embrace your inner-sloth and intertwine yourself with lazy.

In fact, being lazy is no longer something you do. It’s who you are. You aren’t lazy. Lazy is you.

Hark the harold, all dudes sing “Glory to the new Sloth King!”

Here’s to a marvelous 2022, fellow procrastin8r.

Take it easy during this next trip around the sun.






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Point is,  even greedy corporate companies let their workers take the day off. No other holiday do we collaboratively as a society decide to like, take it easy, ya know? We’re always forcing employees to show up for work, especially in the retail industry.

It almost is, we’re almost living in a sort of fantasy world during Christmas, where we leave behind this work hard driven culture for 24 hours.

I mean even Independence Day, the great American holiday, is not just a day to enjoy barbecues in the summer park and watch fireworks at night. It’s a day to buy sales.

And good god, Thanksgiving has pretty much just come an expansion pack to Black Friday at this point. Don’t even get me started. Get up and go shopping for these limited time deals!  Every holiday, besides Christmas, we’re expected to do something.

Even if we remove the whole go to the store to shop for the exclusive deals thing in other holidays, there’s still something we’re expected to do that requires us to leave the house in order to celebrate it, like walk around trick or treating for Halloween or go bustling through a crowd to watch a parade on St. Patty’s Day or take your date out to a fancy restaurant on Valentine’s Day. 

You get the picture. Most holiday celebrations involve some sort of exciting activity, whereas Christmas it’s a rather passive activity. 

Sit inside, open gifts, eat food. That’s it. You don’t have to leave the house. And sure, you may have to travel to your aunt or grandma’s house or whatever, but you don’t have to leave *that* house once you’re there.



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​Also you may argue that you have to do Christmas shopping and decorating. A lot of it at that. But that’s prep work. That’s stuff you do BEFORE the actual holiday itself.

I’m talking about the holiday, not all the ridiculous BUY NOW propaganda you get leading up to the day or the pressure to find a tree, cut it down, and decorate it with lights and ornaments that you gotta slug down from the attic. I’m talking about December 25th, not the days or weeks leading up to that specific date.

Christmas (again, December 25th, not the season prequel to the main event)  is legitimately the ONLY day of the year where it’s acceptable, at least in the judgement of society, to not have to do stuff, the one day of the year where no one gives you a glaring eye if you say you don’t want to work or leave the house.

I mean people may ask, Oh what are you doing for Christmas/the holiday? And you’ll tell them “Oh I’m going to so and so’s house.”

And what are you gonna do there? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You’re gonna sit in the house all day, maybe open presents, maybe eat a big hearty meal.

But you know what you aren’t doing? Leaving the house to do shit. 

And Christmas is the only day of the year where that sort of activity, or lack thereof, is completely respectable, perhaps even encouraged. 

There are such fond memories of the holiday.

I mean, you remember waking up as a kid Christmas morning? That pure blissful excitement! Pure bliss.

Man, I’ll tell you what, as an adult, I’ve been chasing after that excitement of Christmas morning during childhood. Nothing beats it.

The mystery of when Santa’s gonna come, what he's gonna bring. It was really something. And I’ll tell you what, the thing I enjoyed most, like any kid, was getting to open those presents and play with my new toys all day.

No school, no homework. My mom didn’t even make me do any chores on Christmas when I was a kid. It was awesome! A day to completely relax and be in my lazy, doing whatever I want.

Likewise, as an adult: no job, no work, just playing with toys all day, doing what I want, embracing my laziness.

Anyway, we’re gonna take a look at what makes Christmas such a holly jolly lazy good time in today’s blog entry, and without further ado, let’s dive…right into it! 











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​Laziness is the spirit of the holiday

Parents let their kids play with toys and don’t really expect them to go around the house doing very many chores. 

Employers let their employees stay home with their families instead of coming in for work. Everyone is given a “real” day off, without any expectation to do anything productive. It’s quite a rare phenomenon in this work hard culture in which we live in, truly.

I mean it’s not every day, namely once a friggin year, that you can sit at home and eat milk n’ cookies because it’s festive. Yeah, try telling your boss you wanna snuggle up in your jammies with some fresh chocolate chip cookies and a cold glass of milk any other day of the year. He’d look at you like you're crazy and better not think about it if you wanna keep your job. He won’t allow it.

Heck, try telling that to your friends that’s how you’re gonna spend your weekend and they’ll think you’re a lazy loser who doesn’t wanna go out. But on December 25th? It’s completely acceptable to eat cookies and drink milk all day. It’s fine to sit by the fire in nothing but your underwear downing a mug of egg nog. It’s okay to be lazy…for a day.

Christmas is the one day of the year where laziness is absolutely and completely okay, at least in regards to general public and its consensus. You’re not looked down upon for getting drunk on eggnog for breakfast. You’re just being festive. You’re not seen as a bum for not dressing up in a three piece suit and instead wearing reindeer slippers and a santa bath robe; you’re just spreading holly good cheer.

It’s odd, isn’t it? I mean how things that *typically* have such a bad stigma in society are 100% acceptable for one day.

Like what difference does it make if it’s December 25th or July 17th or September 23rd? It’s just a date on the calendar, really.  There’s this arbitrary ruleset of what’s acceptable behavior during the other 364 days of the year that seem not to apply on just this one.

And often this ruleset dictates that you be professional, you be hardworking, diligent, or otherwise a productive member of society.

Yet it’s funny -- it’s funny how the one day of the year where no one is being productive is the happiest of them all.

Christmas reminds us of the importance of Leisure

Leisure is the big “L” in L.A.Z.Y. It’s important to take time to take a break, to do nothing, to fully and completely relax. Otherwise, you’re like the hare who couldn’t finish the race because he was too tired. Without giving yourself proper time to rest, you’ll never finish the race, you’ll never finish anything. You’ll fall short of your goals and wind up exhausted, completely burnt out.

You’ll do your best to make do, but realize you aren’t really going anywhere because you’re flat out too fatigued to move at all, yet alone make big moves. 

You feel dead, a walking zombie. Your body has become an animated corpse, fueled by coffee to keep it from completely rotting

Frankly, one day in the entire year isn’t enough Leisure at all.

Come December 26th (Well maybe the 27th since the 26th is a Sunday this year), you’re gonna snap back to reality.

Man, that’s gonna be a heavy Monday isn’t it? I mean all Mondays are pretty darn heavy, but this one in particular, the one right after the holiday, is pure agony.

How can we say that we need to keep the Christmas spirit alive all year round, then in the same breath say “Back to work on Monday” or worse, “Gotta start a New Year’s Resolution.”

The point here is that Christmas is the merriest time of the year, and it’s the ONLY time of year where we fully embrace our Leisure. 

And in our relaxed state of mind, we’re able to see the beautiful decorations all around us. Everything from the mistletoe to the holly to the plastic reindeer in your neighbor’s yard. It all seems rather…spectacular.

Yet the minute we go back to our ordinary lives doing ordinary things, the spectacular-ness of the world all but seems to fade away. The world becomes grey and it’s just another day. December 26th just another day of the ordinary.

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Notice the decorations in life throughout the year

Only on Christmas, do we see the brightly colored lights on people’s porches along with the giant inflatable characters and Christmas wreaths. We spot the stars and angels on top of trees, illuminating from the windows of houses on the street. We listen to the carols of people singing and hear the bells ring. We smell the freshly baked gingerbread cookies and taste the chewy cinnamon along with a  cold glass of eggnog.

During Christmas, we notice the little things -- all the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells the world has to offer.

Perhaps all those festive things would become rather dull though if we were to see it every day. The Christmas tree would be just another plant. The colored lights, just another bulb. We’d become oblivious to the beauty of it all.

We tend to do that in our everyday lives with the beautiful decoration of nature that surrounds us, just ignoring it. Perhaps we’re too up tight, we’re too high strung, we’re too goddamn stressed and on edge to feel any sort of appreciation towards the elegant allure of the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells of this little rock in space we call home





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Give the gift that keeps on giving -- your laziness

Enter that state of mind you feel on Christmas day, one of true happiness and jolly good spirits. Become tranquil and achieve inner-peace.

Relax into your own self. Stop trying to become more than what or who you already are.

Be lazy

 Know that you are enough. You’ve done enough.

You don’t have to strive to be enough. You don’t have to work hard at it.

You may not be the best, but that’s okay. Neither is your aunt Nancy’s fruit cake.

Besides, you’ll get better…eventually.

But for now, you’re already a present to the world. So go be you. Go be that lazy bastard you are.

Don’t stay wrapped up inside. Don’t top yourself with a bow in attempts to look pretty. Show who you are. Besides, some of the ugliest gifts can have the prettiest of wrapping papers. That is to say: some people attempt to look good in the way they “present” themselves but they really have a distasteful character on the inside.

And hey, maybe you’re a bit ugly. I’m ugly too. We all have scars and flaws that we’re afraid to show. But remember, your gift is in who you are, not what you can do or what you can provide.

I never wrap gifts. Of course that might just be because I’m too lazy, but part of me also wants to show what I’m giving without hiding it. I apply the same principle to real life.

You don’t rewrap the gift you give on Christmas after you give it. So when you give yourself, don’t hide and wrap yourself back up.

You say you’re lazy. Well, show the world how joyful it is to be lazy.





Merry Christmas and take it easy,



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Ahoy there fellow ProcrastiN8r!  Christmas is just around the corner and I bet you’re looking forward to the holiday. It's  a chance to see your family, eat good food, exchange gifts, and of course  relax all day in your xmas onesie while sipping hot cocoa and egg nog.

It’s no wonder people say “Keep the spirit of Christmas alive year round”. I mean people are in a jollier mood than usual this time of year and it would be awesome to achieve that 365 days a year, not just for a few days or a couple weeks at best. 

 I’d say a vital factor in lifting people’s spirits up so merrily isn’t so much the gingerbread houses or the stockings on the wall or the bright colored lights decorated on a tree. There’s no gift nor elf nor fat man in a red suit that brings the joy people experience during the holidays.

Religious people will say it’s the birth of Christ that brings about this merry good cheer within people’s hearts (Keep the Christ in Christmas, they’ll say)

But I’m not one to believe such superstitions. Besides, Christmas was only moved to December in order to match the date of a pagan Winter Festival. At any rate, the reason people feel “it’s the most wonderful time of the year”  is because, well, it’s the holiday, meaning there’s no obligations, no work, no stress. 


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We must aim to achieve a Permanent Holiday in our minds, to embrace our laziness all year long and truly find inner-peace.

Of course, in order to achieve that, one of the things we must do is eliminate the need for hard work. After all, think about how much less stressed you’d be if you didn’t have to run to your 9 to 5 grind Monday thru Friday and could still afford to pay bills.

Passive income, that’s what you want, or at the very least, easy income. You want to make a living without working your ass off at a day job and live that life of a permanent holiday. You want to be lazy and get away with it. 

You want to quit schlepping a typical 40 hour a week job and still get paid enough to put food on the table and a roof over your head.

Fortunately for you, there are plenty of ways to make money from the couch, and one of those methods we’ve talked about here recently is Play to Earn gaming. Yes, you read that right : playing video games to earn money.

And I’m not talking about setting up a Twitch channel and gathering a following or testing games or writing reviews about. I’m talking about just plain simple playing.

Certainly, playing video games all day and getting paid fits the mantra of living a permanent holiday. I mean I don’t know about you, but gaming all day definitely  sounds like an ideal holiday for me.

Anyway, we’re going to take a look at another one of these Play to Earn games in todays blog, called LvlUpand without further ado, let’s dive…right into it!








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WTF is Level-Up?

Level-Up Gaming  is a registered LLC in the United Arab Emirates and they are in the early stages of creating a platform for third-party developers to publish their game and easily add “Play to Earn” features.

Basically by playing the games on Level-Up, players will be able to earn the native LvlUp token, a real cryptocurrency, based on the BSC (Binance Smart Chain). More details on how the earnings all work in a bit.

But for now, let’s look at what Level-Up gaming is all about. Basically, we’re seeing here what will soon be a platform for developers to integrate their game into a Play to Earn model, without having to go through the whole song and dance of setting up their own token on the blockchain, writing out a whitepaper, preparing tokenomics to show how funds will be allocated, and all the other intricacies that come about when creating a P2E (or Play to Earn) game.

It makes creating P2E games more accessible for developers and gives gamers a lot more options to choose from. It’s a win/win.

This could potentially be the next “MiniClip” but for P2E. Maybe I’m dating myself, but MiniClip used to be the biggest website to play online flash games. MiniClip banged on the hype of flash games back in the day, and perhapsLevel-Upcan bang on the hype of P2E and become huge.

 We could quite possibly see this blow up into a “central hub” of sorts for play to earn gaming.

Additionally, they want to attract advertisers to further increase revenue, as well as the prize pool (like watching an ad before playing a mobile game or seeing a banner like you used to on flash game sites). 

That’s the vision at least. This is a long-game project (pun intended).  





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Since it’s not really an NFT reliant game (or platform of games more accurately stated), instead of earning profit based on the NFTs you own, you earn profit based on the LvlUp token you HODL.

The way it works is you play games to earn an ROI on your LvlUp coin from 2.5 - 5% DAILY, depending on the trading volume.

You can earn anywhere from 0 to 100% of that 5%.  We'll call it the "claim  prize" for simplicity's sake. 

So, let's say you put $100 in LvlUp Coin, for example. The "claim prize" would be 5% of that $100, so the max you could earn in a day is $5, with a one hundred dollar initial investment. (Of course, as mentioned this claim prize percentage fluctuates and you could be looking at anywhere between $2.50, or 2.5% and $5, or 5%, with that initial $100 investment).

Let's then say then you play enough games to earn 20% of the claim prize. So 20% of the $5, nets you $1. (If the total claim prize was at $2.50, then you’d be looking at 20% of that and earn 50 cents).

Now if we up that to $1000, well then you're looking at up to $50 a day in the claim prize, again depending on the trading volume, which determines the percentage profit of that claim prize.
That’s pure profit, by the way! Let me explain…

See, unlike a lot of other Play to Earn models, the coin stays DIRECTLY IN YOUR OWN WALLET. This is absolutely HUGE, guys.  It's not put in some type of temporary pool you need to "collect” from and be charged a tax when doing so, like BombCrypto, or even a certain level you have to reach before claiming, like [Heroes & Empires].

A lot of these types of games will charge upwards to 30% to collect your coins and also have a minimum balance to collect. Not LvlUp.

Here, you can just sell your coin on the exchange, since like I said it's in YOUR wallet. They're not taking the coins from your wallet; they simply keep track of the public balance.

In other words, you can pull out your investment AT ANY TIME.

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Of course, since it is a coin on the crypto market, the price of LvlUp coin can fluctuate and you can lose money on your investment in the typical market investment way.

But as far as losing money IN the program itself, that's one risk that's eliminated here.

 I'm not here to give you financial advice, of course
Please do your own due diligence before making any sort of investment decision. This is for entertainment purposes only.

Anyway, let's talk about earning that "claim prize," shall we? Every time you play a game, you get more percentage of the “claim prize".

Right now, they only have one game ,like I said. It's basically a Pac-Man clone. It usually takes me 2-3 games for me to reach 100%, and it's important to note that LOSING A GAME adds percentage. You DO NOT have to consistently win. 






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It's not Win to Earn. It's literally PLAY to earn. 

Although,you should note that the higher score you get, the higher the percentage gain of your daily claim prize will be. In other words, winning does allow you to hit that

But you don’t HAVE to win. It’ll just take you a bit longer, and require you to play more games if you’re losing and dying easily. You can still hit that max daily claim no matter how skilled you are at playing the game.

They're planning on launching more games in the near future, but even with just the one, man I mean, I'm making 2.5 - 5% ROI on the DAILY just by playing friggin Pac-Man.

That's 2.5 - 5% PLUS the performance in the market (or maybe minus to be fair). 

Keep in mind, you can easily earn 2.5 - 5% ROI daily by playing Pac-Man, so even if the token price continues to dip in the market, you still have that 2.5 -  5% "buffer" to at least break even.

Of course, since it is a coin on the crypto market, the price of LvlUp coin can fluctuate and you can lose money on your investment in the typical market investment way. And as always, never invest more than you’re willing to lose. Also, keep in mind, I’m just a lazy dude with an opinion, not some sort of professional financial guru here.


 Accounting for gas fees, (it does cost gas in BNB to collect), it's still 2 - 4% and some change daily. Not bad for running around a maze, eating pellets and ghosts. Heck I used to *pay* tokens in the arcade to play that game, not earn tokens for playing it.
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Wrapping Up:

Level-Up is an easy and awesome way to earn a bit of crypto playing games. While right now, there’s a very limited selection in those games, and by limited I mean there’s only one: Pacatto, the potential here is HUGE.

In just a few minutes per day, you can be earning profits on your investments. It’s kind of like staking crypto, but you get to keep the funds in your wallet, and instead just need to play a few quick games. It’s genius

I know I haven’t talked about staking here before, so I’ll go over it briefly (and perhaps it’s something we can dive deeper into in the future, as it is an effective way to make passive income with your crypto).

You basically put your crypto from your wallet into a pool that can be used as liquidity for people to exchange.

Staking usually offers high profitable incentives.

For example, as of writing, Axie Infinity offers 113% APR for staking AXS, PancakeSwap offers up to 67% APR in their coin CAKE and SplinterLands, an NFT trading card game, offers up to 50% APR in SplinterLands Shards (SPS)

Usually there’s an unstaking fee or a delay of up to a month before you can access your funds into your wallet.

Level-Up, on the other hand, offers similar high APR, but without the need to actually stake and take the funds out of your wallet into a pool and instead just the need to actively play games.

We’ll see how big this platform can grow in the future, but for now, I mean, it’s literally playing Pac-Man to earn a bit of income. That’s some lazy money, my dudes.

Anyway, I’m gonna wakka wakka on outta here and go take a nap.



Take it easy,



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Of course “NFT” is a bit of a buzz word now. And the market is only becoming flooded with them. Most of the NFT games out there are trash, and most of the upcoming ones in the future are going to be...well, trash.

But that’s the case in any game store: Xbox, Steam, Playstation, Google Play, Apple -- the majority of games on *any* platform really kinda suck. There are diamonds among the wreck, but you really gotta sort through a lot of shit to find them.

Speaking of diamonds, many games nowadays *already* have some form of “premium” currency. Brawl Stars has Gems, Dead by Daylight has Auric Cells, RuneScape has Bonds, just to give a few examples, but the list goes on and on.

The Blockchain transforms this premium currency in games  from pure profit for the developers into profit for the players. It’s no longer just a set of some premium points you have within a game but a real crypto that can be traded on the market and later exchanged for cash.

Of course, I don’t want you to get so excited about the idea of NFT that you immediately go jump on any project that mentions their game has NFTs in them. When push comes to shove, you are making an investment. 

There’s always an upfront cost to purchase NFTs and start playing and you’re going to have to factor that in before you “press start to play.” Just like an arcade machine, you may win a prize or...you may just lose your token and wind up with nothing.

So it goes without saying that you should NEVER invest more than you’re willing to lose. Treat it like a trip to Dave n’ Busters or Chuck E. Cheese. Pretend you’ll never ever ever see that money again.

How tf do you start playing Heroes & Empires?

1 .Following similiar steps in getting started with Bomb Crypto, you want to pull up your MetaMask Wallet, and in case you don’t have one yet, simply head on over to MetaMask.io and download the extension.

Record your secret phrase. As in...WRITE IT THE FUCK DOWN.. And keep it some place safe.

And some place safe, believe me, is NOT anywhere on your computer or on the cloud. Use that good ole fashioned pen and paper shit we used to use back in the ancient times and write it. Don’t share this with anyone. If someone has your secret seed phrase, they have all the funds in your wallet.





2. You need to send BNB from Binance or Crypto.com exchanges to your MetaMask wallet. Remember, to send extra to cover gas fees! Cars can’t run without gas and neither can the block chain.

You can purchase BNB with fiat (like US Dollar) from your bank account to the exchange.





3. Once you got all that outta the way, you’re going to head over to Pancake Swap or Poo Coin and swap BNB for HE token (Heroes and Empires Token).

You need at least 5 Heroes, not 5 Hero Token, but 5 HEROES in order to begin playing.



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4. Go to the Heroes and Empires Market place at https://market.heroesempires.com/ , connect your wallet via Meta Mask and purchase your first 5 Heroes.

You cannot do quests or even earn AFK rewards if you have less than 5 Heroes. The only thing you could do with less than 5 Heroes is maybe flip the NFTs on the market, but you can’t actually play the game.

Hero prices range from about 20 HE for the common/weaker ones to 1200 HE for the stronger, more rare ones.

With the current price of HE at 30 cents each, you’re looking at $6 per hero minimum. Times that by 5 for your full party and you’re looking at a total of just $30 (plus gas fees) to get started. That’s a lot cheaper than the hefty entrance fee of $60 in BombCrypto or your typical new game on PC or console.

(Edit: fixed prices)

But that also means you’re earning elss. At least right now anyway.

Keep in mind, this game JUST launched, so if you do decide to buy some NFTs here, you’re getting in early and getting in early can mean you pick it up cheap before the price soars. 

Of course, it can also crash and there’s no guarantee you’ll make a profit, but the potential is certainly there, and I think this one certainly has potential.

CryptoBomb is far less intuitive and that token (BCOIN) is already worth a couple dollars each. We’re looking at a game that looks and feels a lot more polished, at least as far as idle games go anywhere.

It fits your standard top view 3D graphics you find on mobile games and has a lot of mechanics that encourage actual strategy, not just click work or click rest.

Anyway, let’s get into what kind of team you should set up to start.











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​Dude, what friggin Heroes should I buy?

Now you can of course the poor man’s team and go ahead and grab the cheapest Heroes you can find. Friendly Golem, Chicken Bomber, Knight Minion, Trainnee Sniper, and Caster Minion is just about the thriftiest team you can buy. You can often find deals on the marketplace for less than 20 HE each for these.

It’s enough to get you started, but progression will be slow and you won’t unlock the ability to earn HE, yet alone cash it out for quite a while if you 

While going the cheap route,,you’re missing out on Heroes with good abilities, and more importantly Team Synergy.

Synergy is basically bonus passive effects that can really turn the tide in battle. Each Hero has a race and a class.

When there are two Heroes (or more) of the same class or same race, they get a Synergy bonus. That bonus continues to stack up to 5 Heroes.

The races are Beast, Demon, Elf, Goblin, God, Human, and Undead. The classes are Assassin, Knight, Mage, Mech, Ranger, Warrior, and Warlock.



Now, I’m not going to go over each and every synergy, but I’ll go over some noteworthy ones. You can check out the full list of class/race synergies here:

https://support.heroesempires.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408265840025-Hero-s-Races-Classes



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​Great got my team! Now what?

You can go to  “Play Now” from the main home page, login/connect with MetaMask and then you’re in.

You’ll automatically start earning AFK rewards without you having to do anything. Of course, if you want to maximize your efficiency here, you’re going to want to start doing the Campaign battles. This will get you earning extra xp and more important extra gold.

XP doesn’t level up your characters (and furthermore ability to bring down enemies). All it does is increase your “plyaer level”, which for all intents and purposes is just a number. There are some extra challenges that earn you gear, gold, and even HE that are tied directly to your player level, but other than that, it’s not something to get too caught up on.

The main thing to focus on here is Campaign stages for now.

Now I’m gonna break this down real simple so you know what you’re trying to achieve: Your goal here is to get to Stage 5-1 in the Campaign,

That’s the level you get to actually unlock the cash out option. 
Otherwise you have HE that’s sitting in the game, but can’t be claimed to your wallet. 

Hit the “Battle” button and put together your formation. I recommend putting your ranged attackers (mages, rangers, warlocks) in the bank and your more tanky/melee characters (warrior, knight) up front, unless the enemy team has an assassin. An assassin is able to sneak past enemy front lines and attack the back line directly.

If you’re really getting stuck on a stage, pay attention to where the enemies tend move and place your party members to counter them accordingly. If for example you have an Assassin taking out your warlock/healer in the back, try putting a knight there to counter their sneak attack.









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The Journey to 5-1

You definitely want to make a heavy push to get to stage 5-1 as quickly as you can, because then you’re just playing and not playing to earn.

You can win a total of 40 stages per day. Eahc chapter has a different set of stages within it (1-20, 2-30, etc). So even if you do push, it still will take a couple days to hit that point.

In order to reach the 5-1  stage quickly , and get those 40 stage wins per day, this will probably require you, at some point, to shell out a bit more investment on your part for HEs.

I shouldn’t say required. More like, efficient. But I guess paying to level up is always efficient in any game, right?  I mean, it’s technically not completely necessary to buy any extra HE token. Like your typical mobile idle game, you CAN earn premium currency, in this case HE through gameplay alone. No purchase necessary (other than your initial 5 NFT Heroes anyway).

See what happens is when your HERO (not to be confused with Player level) reaches a certain threshold ((10, 20, and 40), you have to pay HE in order to LIMIT break and continue leveling that character.

The stages in the campaign simply get way too hard for you NOT to pay HE token and level up your characters past the threshold. You can, like I said, use the supply you earn in-game, but again you won’t be able to claim any tokens to your wallet until tage 5-1, so it’s up to you.

You don’t have to worry about going past level 60 too much, because at that point, you SHOULD be able to hit that ever shiny stage 5-1

Now, if you decide to go the “f2p” method of earning HE and not putting any more money than your original NFT purchase (which is your “game purchase” essentially) and want to rely on getting more HE through gameplay alone, the main way you’ll be earning HE in the beginning will be through daily, weekly, as well as “progression” quests.

Daily and Weekly quests reset within the time given in their title. Of course, some of the daily and weekly quests are locked behind unlocking certain features in the game, which again comes down to hitting certain campaign stages. Once you’ve gotten to 5-1, you’ve unlocked everything. You’ve got the full game. You’re kind of really just playing the “demo” up until that point.






Other milestones in the game include…

2-12 for Madness Tower
2-20 for Clan
2-28 for Colosseum
3-1 for Store
4-1 for Summon
5-1 for Withdraw





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The Tower gives you extra gold and even Hero shards (used to summon rare/epic heroes)
I recommend taking this part of the game slow, as you’ll want to be able to defeat at least one challenge each day in order to earn your Daily quest bonus.


A Clan may be worth joining for more extra rewards, but don’t be getting your hopes up in joining a clan for free. Many clans charage a minimum of 80 HE token as a “tax” in order to join as a member Gotta be careful too here because some of them will just take your HE

You’ll have to reach out to the clan leader via discord and send HE to their personal wallet address. There’s no in-game way to pay for joining a clan, and the developers haven’t come out and said anything about people externally charging membership fees.

So for now, it ain’t against the rules and it’s the way Clans sort of work in Heroes and Empires.

 So you’ll either have to wait for Stage 5-1, allowing you to claim your in-game earned HE or buy more HE on Pancake Swap/Poo Coin to join a Clan. 

Why join a clan though? Well, you get an easy daily quest you can complete (participate in a Clan battle) and can also earn access to the Clan store to buy shit.

The way the daily quest is you earn points for completing quests.
Every 20 points earns you a treasure chest (up to 100 points). Higher tier chests, unlocked through the daily/weekly chests have higher rewards, some of which include up to 75 HE.

You’re always guaranteed certain quests each day/week like  “complete a campaign quest,”  complete a stage start a match in the colosseum,

You can also play the Dungeon, which is kind of a “roguelite mode”, where each of your Heroes has one life and you try to make it as far as you can. The Dungeon restarts every 58 hours. Just an additional way to earn more gold, shards, or summoning scrolls.






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Earning HE tokens/profit.

The Coll\osseum, or PVP mode which is unlocked at Stage 2-28, is where the easy earning of HE tokens come in. Of course up until 5-1 you can only use those HE to level up your characters and can’t claim it yet.

And you may be thinking, as I did, that Summoning Heroes would be the most profitable thing to do, but no, not quite. While you can at level 2-28 start summoning heroes and sell them on the marketplace (without your funds being locked up in game instead of your wallet), it costs a summoning scroll, which alone is so rare and hard to find in quests AND 50 HE.

Yeah, so unless you pull a Hero worth more than 50 HE, it really ain’t worth it. You’re going to get mostly commons, which sell for a measly 20HE or less. You don’t even break even in most Hero pulls!

Of course, you *could* get lucky and pull an Epic worth thousands of HE, but let’s not rely on luck and look at a more stable earning method.

You earn 3 HE for each win in the Colosseum/PVP match. And you can have up to 3 free wins per day. It says you have 3 “chances” but chances just means wins, because you can lose several matches in a row but only spend a free ticket when you actually win a match. And as long as you keep battling, you WILL eventually win 3 matches.

You can also pay 5000 gold to purchase more tickets into the Colosseum or earn additional tickets through quests.

But let’s say you ignore the daily/weekly quests. Let’s say the campaign has gotten too tough for your heroes and the tower is impossible. You’d have to pay more HE to level up and progress stages but you don’t want to do that.

Well, 3 HE per win in the colosseum and 3 wins total gets you 9 HE. At 30 cents a pop, that’s a little less than $3 a day, which adds up to $90 a month.

(Edit: They recently added an update where you only get 1 HE for a lose, so you're no longer gaurnteed a 3 HE reward from a victory. Still you're looking at anywhere between 90 cents and $2.70 per day on a single account, not including daily, weekly, and tournament ranking rewards

You can also use 5k coins to purchase an extra ticket to the colleseum for another PVP match. The higher Stage you are at the higher AFK rewards you can earn, which means the higher amount of colosseum tickets you can purchase per day, thus higher amount of HE earned per day. Keep in mind though that coins are also used to level up your characters, so you have to make the decision to "cash out" and play in PVP to earn HE or push your game progress further to unlock a higher AFK earning rate )



And like BombCrypto, you can use multi accounts to maximize profits, and while there’s no limit to how many accounts you can be playing on your device at once, you can own a total of 5 accounts.

So the absolute MINIMUM you can earn per day, assuming you eventually compound your HE and get 5 full accounts, is $15, which is $450 per month. Not bad playing a freaking idle game.

But that doesn’t even include the HE you earn through quests as well as the ranking system. Basically the higher rank you are, the more HE you earn as a bonus each week for earning that rank in PVP. You can potentially earn THOUSANDS from this each month.

Of course, while the game is Play to Earn it’s also a bit of Pay to Win. The top players are the ones who poured thousands and thousands of dollars in this game .But you can eventually reach maybe the top 3000 realistically.

Speaking of top players and climbing ranks, one of the best ways to find out good team builds, is to look at what the top players are using once you have access to the leaderboards. You can basically look at what Heroes and formations the TOP guys are using and then copy that load out for yourself.





Wrapping up:

There you have it, another NFT Play to Earn game. I tried to make it as concise as possible and get you on your way to earning that easy peasy income. We’ll cover another NFT game next week as well, but until then, I got some Coliseum battles to fight. 

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 And of course, ya got the turkey, which to be quite frank is probably my least favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal as a whole. Don’t get me wrong. I mean, I love me some turkey. But compared to the other delicious fixings on the table, it’s really just subpar. Let’s face it ya’ll, mashed potatoes are the heart of Thanksgiving.

But anyway, besides the food, you know what else I’m really thankful for? NFT games. You know me, always looking for the easiest way to make money from the couch. Like you, I’m too lazy to get a real job. So today, I’m happy to share with you one of my most profitable methods of lazy money-making as of recent. I’m always thankful for ways that let me make a living while lounging around all day, not really working. Let’s take a look at this new online money-making method ofNFT games. And without further ado, let’s dive...right into it!

First of all, WTF is NFT?

NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. It’s basically a certificate of ownership that you own a unique digital asset. Now before you go scratching your head, let’s break that down.

For something to be *fungible*, it means that it’s easily replaceable. Take a dollar bill for example. Someone could take your dollar bill, rip it to pieces, then hand you another dollar bill, and you likely wouldn’t give a fuck because you still have a dollar bill. Likewise, a share of Amazon holds the same value as any other share of Amazon. Fungible assets can be traded or swapped among assets of the same type and still be just as valuable.




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We’re talking here about your in-game achievements, loot you find, creatures you collect, and characters you unlock becoming REAL WORLD goods that can be traded for real money.

This is groundbreaking. We’re blurring the lines between our physical world and the world of the digital.

I mean, Mark Zuckerberg stood in front of us a few weeks ago and made this whole big speech about how the MetaVerse is coming. There’s all this talk about the MetaVerse.

 This is it. It starts right here. It starts with NFT gaming. We now see digital assets hold real world value and allow games to create a “play to earn” model, where the time you invest into a game can actually earn you monetary compensation (and not just bragging rights). There are now a plethora of  and this is just the beginning.

Over the next coming weeks, I want to share with you some of the profitable NFT and Play to Earn projects I’ve found and today we’re starting with one called “BombCrypto”

Now before we dive in here, I want to throw out an important disclaimer as I always do, and here goes: I am NOT, I repeat NOT a financial advisor. I’m just a lazy dude with an opinion. I’m not offering you any sort of advice. It’s your money and you have to make your own decisions with it. Do your own research before you invest ANYTHING. Make informed decisions. This article  is for your entertainment purposes only.

Anyhoot, with that out of the way, let’s take a look at the first NFT game we’re going to cover called Bomb Crypto.




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I did play a bit of Tap Titans and Clicker Heroes idle games back in the day when I was bored. It’s easy enough to play passively and still get the joy of “winning”. Idle games aren’t typically my style, but if you’re really into them and you love classic Bomberman, this will be right up your alley.

I mean I definitely see the appeal in idle games though. You get the perks of “gaming”, like that false sense of achievement in leveling up, without needing the skill and concentration that’s usually required to actually game. They can be addicting as hell.

And some of the idle games can get quite complex when you start adding multiple tasks, characters and dungeons to level, prestige bonuses for starting over, the list goes on and on. 

This one, however, doesn’t have any of that and is really quite simple to play, which leads us to the next part.
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​Ideally, if you want to maximize your profits, you want to aim to do this every 2 hours. Heroes regain mana/energy at a default rate of 0.5 per minute. They have a max mana depending on their Stamina stat, with 1 Stamina giving you a max of 50 mana.

You’ll probably be getting a lot of Common/low leveled heroes too, so with a .5 mana regain per minute, you’re looking at exactly 100 minutes, so like I said roughly 2 hours.

Now you can upgrade the mana regain rate by purchasing a house.

But trust me, unless you’re willing to shell out thousands of dollars, you’re going to be relying on the “Rest” function The houses are mad expensive, but we’ll get to the prices of starting to play in a second here.

You can have 15 “active” heroes, and up to 500 heroes in total. Thing is, inactive heroes don’t regain energy, which is kind of lame if you ask me, so there’s really no point in having more than 15 unless you wanna gamble your chances to find a more rare hero with higher stats.

As I mentioned, each Hero has a list of stats. I told you Stamina was one of them. The other stats are Power, which determines how much damage they do with their bombs, Speed, which obviously determines their movement speed, as well Bomb Number and Bomb Range, which are both sort of self explanitory.





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Basically, higher stats = faster clearing of maps. And that’s really the goal here, clear as many maps as possible, open as many chests as possible, earn that juicy loot!

Anyway we’ll go over some more in-depth tactics behind maximizing profits and efficiency soon, butI just wanna go over the basics for now.

In sum, you’re looking at semi-idle game, and semi-idle means semi-afk. In other words, you can be doing other shit on your computer or even phone and make money, while your Heroes do all the “Work” for you.

I really think the main appeal here is earning money and maybe having a BomberMan themed screensaver, because that’s essentially what it is - a screensaver. The game is completely on autopilot. There isn’t much “play” to it at all.

That said, it is quite “da bomb”.
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​How do you get started?


1. First order of business is you’re going to need a MetaMask wallet., as you’ll be using that to login to the site by connecting your wallet.
MetaMask is a free Chrome extension. When you sign up, you’ll get a secret phrase. WRITE THIS DOWN.

I mean WRITE IT. get out a piece of paper and pen, write it down, and store it someplace safe.

I don’t recommend copying//pasting or saving it anywhere on your computer or online. 

That’s because if you get hacked or keylogged or something and someone gets a hold of your secret phrase, they get a hold of your wallet and all your funds in it.

Take the security measure to protect yourself by writing down that phrase physically.

2. Now once you have the extension downloaded, you’ll need to make sure you connect to the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). You can find out how to do that on the official Binance website here.

https://academy.binance.com/en/articles/connecting-metamask-to-binance-smart-chain


3. After your wallet is all set up and connected to the correct network (the BSC), you’ll need some BNB (Binance Coin) in your wallet. You can purchase this on Crypto.com or Binance exchanges with fiat then transfer/withdraw it to your MetaMask. Make sure you have enough extra to cover gas fees. Like a car needs gas to run, the blockchain needs gas to confirm transactions. Gas is the reward/fee that you pay in order to incentivize miners to actually provide the hash power that runs the blockchain. If miners weren’t paid for their hash power, then no one would mine crypto, so we give them fees/gas for their service of mining.





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4. Once the funds (plus gas coverage) are in your wallet, head on over to PooCoin or PancakeSwap to exchange your BNB for BCOIN (or Bomber Coin). You want to search for contact Addresss:

0x00e1656e45f18ec6747F5a8496Fd39B50b38396D


When it comes to NFTs or any crypto project, Always double check the official website of the official project to make sure you’re sending your funds to the right place.

There are scammers that try to use fake contracts/fake tokens to try and steal your money. It’s basically an elaborate phishing scam to make it look like the token you’re looking for when it’s not


.4.Connect your metaMask wallet to BombCrypto to login and begin playing.
 You need at least one hero NFTBomber Hero  to get started, which costs 10 BCOIN (+ gas), and at the time of writing, BCOIN is priced in at around $8 each, so you’re gonna need $80+ gas fees (maybe $90 to be safe) MINIMUM to start playing the game.


Now I know what you’re thinking. That sounds like a lot of money, but hear me out. There’s ALWAYS an upfront cost when it comes to gaming in general. The typical new game will run you about $60. You also need to buy a system or PC plus a controller or keyboard/mouse in order to play the game. Plus, if you’re on console and are playing a multiplayer game, you need to shell out an extra fee to use the online services. The initial cost to start playing *any* game can run you HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of dollars.

And here’s the thing, once you play your traditional game, once you pick up a copy of God of War or Minecraft or Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty, Overwtch, Fallout 76, or whatever tickles your fancy, that’s a straight up EXPENSE. You can play the game for hours upon hours, unlock all the in-game rewards and levels and still never see any sort of return on your investment. Gaming as a hobby can run your wallet thin and it comes at a complete cost to you.

Best you can do is resell the game  on the market, but that only applies if you get a physical copy of the game or are selling your peripheral (controllers, mouse, etc). Most game purchases nowadays are digital downloads and offer no course for the buyer to resell it. You basically put down money as a loss to you.

Either way, whether you play games with NFTs or not, there is an upfront cost to get started. The difference is with NFTs you can earn that money back and then some.
You can earn money playing games, doing something that would *normally* cost you money to do anyway.






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In general, you want to save on as much gas fees as you can by eliminating actions that require gas, which in this case is minting new Heroes. That’s another reason why there’s an advantage to putting in a bigger up front investment as you can mint multiple Heroes at once (in batches of 5 or 10), which saves you more gas as opposed to minting one Hero at a time.

Once you mint your Hero and process it, you can click Treasure Hunt and begin playing. RIght now, there’s just one mode, but Senspark plans on adding more modes in the future.

If you don’t see your Hero, try clicking the red chest at the top left of your screen and clicking “Claim” next to Hero Rescue. You may also need to open your brown chest (labeled “Chest” in text) from the main screen

As your hero, you can get a knight, a cowboy, a frog, a witch, vampire or  a doggo. But it doesn’t really matter what “class” they are. What matters is their stats and abilities and those stats and abilities don’t seem. One type of Hero (eg. cowboy versus frog) doesn’t favor one stat over the other. It’s all random.

The different classes of character types seem to be nothing more than cosmetic. In addition to stats, you can sometimes pull Heroes that have Perks that give extra bonuses, like the ability to move through blocks. The best two perks and really only noteworthy ones are the one that gives +.5 energy per minute while resting and the other that has a chance to not consume mana when throwing bombs. The other perks are meh.

You don’t get to choose your perks or your stats. It’s completely based on RNG. You’re rolling the dice here.
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How much can you make?

With a full party of 15, assuming mostly commons and maybe a few rares, you can earn about 4 BCOIN per day, which after we do some math (4 x $8 per BCOIN) is $32 per day. This number can grow if you happen to get lucky with your Hero pulls and get those Heroes with higher rarity, because again rarity determines stats and stats determine treasure hunting speed. There's also a slight chance (emphasis on slight) that you can find a prison and unlock a free hero.

I actually managed to pull a Legendary from a purchase and this dude is fast af boi! Put it this way, my “main” account has a full team of 15 Heroes and earns about 4 BCOINs daily. The alt account, where I got the Legendary in has only 11 Heroes, yet earns 7 BCOINs ($56) daily . Less Heroes but one Legendary makes the profits practically double. So you definitely want those Heroes on the high end of the rarity chart I gave you.

You need a Minimum of 40 BCOIN to cash out from your game’s Red Treasure to your actual wallet. They then charge a 3% fee to “Claim” your BCOIN into your wallet on MetaMask.

You have to pay a gas fee to Claim and then another one to exchange it back into BNB then another fee in gas to send that BNB from your MetaMask to Binance or Crypto.com (SO MANY GAS FEES), so maybe closer to $30 per day. Again that’s as of writing anyway. If we take a look at the price chart, we can see a solid growth in the price of BCOIN.

It could go up, it could fall down. But I think in the long run as more and more people join this game (perhaps millions as Senspark, the developer managed to pull off with other games in the past), the price will only continue to rise as BCOINs become more and more valuable. Just my opinion, man. Do your own research of course.












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​Using Multi Accounts to Compound Profits

After you hit that cash out threshold, you could just take your money and run, or you can use it to compound your profits.

Now, I’m going to tell you this so you avoid the same mistake I did and take a better, more strategic course of action.

I had a full team of 15 Heroes and mistakenly thought I could swap the energy depleted Heroes out for ones who are fully rested and recovered.

It was only after I upped my roster to 17 Heroes that I realized, the Inactive Heroes DON’T RECOVER ENERGY!

They need to be “active” and at “rest” in order to regain history  (which sounds like complete oxy moron). Basically, any number of Heroes you have above the 15 cap are literally just sitting in your account, not recovering energy, not earning you money.

Now the developers do have plans to open up a marketplace, where players can buy, sell, and trade their Bomber Heroes. After all it is YOUR Hero NFT.

If luck is on your side, you could probably just sell your rarer heroes for a straight up profit. Selling commons would probably barely get you to break even.

Also while we’re on topic of the Bomber Hero marketplace, once it’s opened, it’s probably a better run for your money just to buy rare, epic, or legendary Heroes rather than minting new ones. They’ll of course, I would imagine, be more expensive than just 10 BCOIN, but doing so would guarantee you don’t get a shit hero with all 1 stats.




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​Playing it on Your Phone:

One of the best ways to maximize your profits is giving yourself the ability to play this game on the go. I mean that way you’re not having to sit in front of your computer into to hunt treasure and earn BCOIN

Most mobile browsers, unfortunately (at least the default ones liek Chrome, Safari, or FireFox) don’t allow browser extensions like MetaMask to be installed.

And if you download the MetaMask app, it doesn’t allow you to connect to sites; it only lets you send and transfer funds within your wallet. Booo!

Fortunately you can download a browser that allows installation of extensions called Kiwi Browser. Now this is an Android only app, available on the PlayStore. Just download the browser, go to Metask.io, download the extension for Chrome, and BOOM you can use it to connect to BombCrypto from your freaking phone!

I even use this while I’m at the computer so I don’t have to keep switching tabs and can just look at my phone on the desk at a glance.




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Payment Proof

I mean already, people say “sleep is for the weak” and advocate forgoing rest in order to work, exercise, or otherwise “continue to hustle”. It’s this attitude of “don’t sleep unless you absolutely NEED to”, and even then, push yourself to stay awake for one more workout routine, for one more project complete. Just keep the hustle up and don’t stop! Sleep will only slow you down.

Hustling and Bustling. That’s all we do, or are expected to do at least.  We’re always in a rush, or very well pressured to be in a rush. We’re in such a hurry to get things done that we don’t take time to “stop and smell the roses” or take it easy once in a while, for that matter. We’re always jumping from one task to another, one obligation to the next. And never really take the time to...relax.

And any time we  try to spend in Leisure (the big “L” in L.A.Z.Y.), it is seen as a complete and utter waste of time.  Being the only conscious beings in the world, who are aware of what time is and how it works, we end up pressuring ourselves to always make use of that time rather than watch it fritter away.

A squirrel doesn’t choose to spend his day collecting nuts, he  just does it out of pure instinct for survival. Likewise, a lion doesn’t choose to spend his day hunting gazelle, he just does it to satisfy his hunger.

Animals don’t plan or schedule how they’ll use their time efficiently, they sort of just go with whatever hunch they’re feeling. But ya know what? Because of their lack of awareness of time, they don’t feel so pressured to get things done with that time, like we as humans do. They do what they want, when they want, without any sort of  There’s admiration in that, quite frankly. -- doing what you want with your time, rather than chaining yourself to a freaking schedule and beating yourself up about being late.

The lion feels no guilt or remorse by lying in the field all day. He just feels like he wants to sleep, so he does. Now if that lion were a person, we might call him out for “wasting his time”. Think about an employee who sleeps on the job. They're not only wasting their own time, but wasting company time as well, at least that’s how it’s seen in a corporate central society.

Certainly, there’s a limited amount of time we have in life. None of us get out alive, so you might as well have fun while you’re here and appreciate every single moment.

And for all intents and purposes, there’s no sense in wasting any of that limited time you have. Now of course, with that said, that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to be vigorous about your time, just conscious about it.


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​We’re all completely wasted!

Every second of our lives is spent towards some means of productivity, whether that’s grinding 8 hours on the daily at your day job, cleaning up and doing chores at home, or paying bills, there’s always something we’re doing to make use of our time. Life becomes an eternal to-do list. Once one thing is checked off, about three or four more tasks take its place. It’s a never-ending call of duty.

And that’s the false notion I really want to address here today: that we must consistently MAKE USE OF our time. It’s okay to have a small to-do list. It’s okay to be lazy ,contrary to popular belief.

Making use of your time means performing noteworthy achievements or making progress towards said achievements. While there are kudos for doing that, to a certain extent. I mean it is good to level up and earn a praiseworthy accomplishment or two once in a while.

But if you’re constantly doing that, if you’re always no matter what  being productive, despite how physically tired or  emotionally drained you may feel, well that means you’re never taking time to unwind and rejuvenate that energy loss.

And if you don’t take time to unwind, then you’re tight and on-edge. You’re mentally unhinged and emotionally unstable. You deplete yourself of energy and wind up, well, pretty damn wasted. In attempts not to waste time, you end up wasting yourself.

I mean let’s face it, just like there is a limited amount of time we all have, there’s also a limited amount of stamina we have too. Doesn’t matter how much or how long you “push” yourself, at some point or another, you are going to hit fatigue. 

Of course, the message of encouragement will be to “just suck it up”, to keep moving, and never give up.  Giving into the pressure to call it quits makes you weak.

Look, man, taking a break doesn’t mean you’re giving up. It means you’re respecting your own mind, body, and spirit. Conversely, if you quit that makes you strong. It takes strength to recognize your limits and know when it’s time to take it easy and stop your achievement streak for now. It’s actually rather weak to ignore all the signs in your mind and body to stop, just to “prove thyself” or whatever. Besides, you can always continue your goal later. You can finish up your achievement...eventually. Slow n’ steady wins the race.

If you try to rush to the finish line in one go, you’ll exhaust yourself before even getting there.

Cut the go-getter and tough guy mantra and instead BE HONEST with yourself. After all, telling the truth is the one thing you should NOT procrastinate on. You’re lying to yourself about how much you can handle.

It’s more stoic and classy to say “okay enough is enough here. I’m done.” than to barbarically insist like an irrational caveman: “CROGG NO HURT! CROGG GO ON! Calm you tits, dude. Relax. Seriously. Be lazy one in a while. You need it.









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​There’s no down time.

We’re constantly on the grind, always exerting effort towards *some* task or another, non-stop persisting to get more things done. We never really settle down or ease up.  

 Weekends are a laughable excuse for a so-called “break”. It simply isn’t enough time to recuperate after a long 40+ week of working. We have chores to do, groceries to shop for, bills to pay. There’s really hardly any time at all to just chill. We have to many obligations to attend to to allow ourselves to fully and completely embrace our Leisure.

Even recreation is something we don’t permit to restore our energy. The time we spend on hobbies is time spent either trying to improve our skill, learning new techniques, or otherwise achieving some sort of goal. We even use recreational time itself to be  proactive. You don’t play guitar simply to enjoy playing music, but to practice scales or chords. You don’t go out for a jog just to enjoy the outdoors and relish in the feeling of breathing but to get a good cardio work out. You don’t cook to appreciate the tastes and smells of food, but to prepare a meal for your guests. You get the gists. In doing things we enjoy, we fail to make that time enjoyable. We turn what should be a Leisure into productive work. We must focus on finding pleasure in the things we do, allowing our hobbies to relax us, rather than become just another pressure in life for us to get better at.

 Don’t pressure yourself, man. Just enjoy what you do, without any sort of ulterior motive (like improving skill, completing a project, winning a game, etc.). Play to have fun, not to win. Value satisfaction over victory.

Look at the Dude, he bowls not to win or get a strike. He bowls because he likes it. He revels in the joy he gets from bowling. And that’s it. He abides and does his own thing, regardless of how productive it is or isn’t. He does the thing just to enjoy it. And that’s how we have to aim to spend our recreational time.

Vacation, too, becomes not a time to relax and take it easy, but an opportunity to make the best of it and take advantage of all the excursions at the place you choose to travel to. We build ourselves a hard itinerary to follow -- scuba diving in the morning, jet skiing in the afternoon, fireworks in the evening, and clubbing late at night.

Everything on vacation is scheduled and pre-planned. We then pressure ourselves to fulfill said schedule of activities we had planned, even if we feel too tired to do it. We wind up coming back home after a week or two and need a vacation after our vacation.

You know the feeling. You come home from your tour in Europe or trip to the beach or hike out in the Grand Canyon or wherever your vacation destination was and you just feel so drained.

We’re all waste, completely burnt out. We have no energy. And the time we could use to revitalize that energy is instead used to deplete it even further. We’re running on empty and barely getting by.












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​Well fellow ProcrastiN8rs, the weather’s getting cold. You know what that means. Time to hibernate and refuse to leave the house for the next few months, staying warm on the comforts of the couch.

I don’t know about you, but man, I HATE the cold!  Much worse than the heat. Don’t get me wrong, being hot is uncomfortable. Especially when you’re just like...standing there and sweating your balls off. I mean, it’s one thing to be working out or doing some heavy physical labor and working up a sweat. That happens. That’s kind of expected. If I’m moving around a lot or exercising, I’m gonna sweat. It’s inevitable.

But it’s a whole other realm when I’m literally just standing there and freaking pouring buckets of perspiration from my skin.  The act of being idle becomes a sweaty activity. It can be so hot that being lazy is impossible, because even if you’re just lounging around doing nothing, you feel sweaty and out of breath, like you just ran a marathon.

That, my friend, is certainly uncomfortable. I’ll admit. It’s not something I particularly enjoy, but I’ll tolerate it. But cold? Cold is actually painful. It literally HURTS to be cold.  I mean you reach the point where you can’t even move. Your face, toes and fingers transform from human appendages to icicles and your muscles become numb. You’re literally frozen.

It’s awful.

The Super Awesome Deals are Super Not Real!

We all want to get that special gift for that special someone...and maybe that special someone just so happens to be ourselves. Either way, when it comes to gift buying, we want to save money.

Saving money in some “super deals” has become the whole gimmick of the season. Black Friday has slowly expanded into Black Month at this point, with “pre” Black Friday sales launching as soon as we howl at the moon one last time on Halloween night,

Black Friday used to be a single  day where stores would sell all their overstock at a huge discount, but  it’s turned into a month-long phenomenon.

Now stores are purchasing products for the sole purchase of being sold/displayed during Black Friday time; no longer selling just their overstock of supplies but going out of their way to buy MORE supplies just for the sake of filling the shelves. I say Black Friday “time” here too because as a key note, it’s no longer a single day of the year, but a whole fucking season of sales.

And here’s the thing, it’s not even really *that* great of a deals anyway.

See, there’s a lot of hype for grabbing a good deal. So much to the point, where stores aren’t offering the deep discounts that they used to during Black Friday time and instead are offering similar discounts to the random sales they have throughout the year. You’re really not saving that much.

It’s all marketing. They sell you the *idea* that you’re getting a really good deal, when really it’s no more of a discount then you would have gotten during a random sale day in June, for example. Sometimes, they don’t even cut prices at all, but play off the psychology that people are out on the hunt for a good deal, so they just label it as such.

Even legit companies become quite scammy this time of year,  just to feed off the hype. 




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The Opportunity of a Lifetime!

If they aren’t offering you a deal of a lifetime, well then they’re certainly going to try to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime.

While the elves are busy making toys, scammers are busy making scam programs.

You’re going to see EFT games, alt coins, and High Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs), all promising HUGE returns right around this time of year.

This is to get you to shell out your hard earned money to fill the owners’ stockings. You’re going to see a lot of BIG projects with very ambitious goals or otherwise promises to fulfill pop up like Christmas trees in people’s houses right around now.

Funny how  everyone gets so inspired by eggnog and figgy pudding to achieve such grand things. Those grand things will melt away like a snowman, as each program disappears as quickly as they came.

And sure, they may pay, at least for a little bit. But the program will close, the site will shut down, all before you get a chance to hit any sort of profit margin.

But don’t be discouraged from investing in them at all.

There are strategies you can use to come out on top. It’s a risky game, but one worth it if you manage to pull it off. You gotta play HYIPs like James Bond plays his dating game: get in early, get out fast.

The early bird gets the worm, as they say. And as much as a prcorastin8r as I am, investing in an HYIP or new alt coin or EFT is nto something you want to be late to the party for. If you’re interested in how to play the HYIP game, I have an article about that I wrote before.

Anyway, unless you’re playing the game the right way, you’re going to lose. Even if you do play by the right rules, there’s still a risk. It’s a gambling man’s game for sure. 

Just don’t be throwing your money at  investment opportunities of new startups or otherwise “groundbreaking” technology or whatever.

That’s all story and fluff. ‘Twas the night before losing all your money, if you’re not careful.

And finally, the last thing to look out for, is not necessarily a scam, but definitely a loss trap with your investments.





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