Top 10 tips for 2025
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CHANGELOG:
Game Changes:
-New Empire Slots: 10 new empire slots have been made for new players to join.
-Border Expansion: The world borders have been expanded to include: Africa, Mongolia, Central Asia and half of Siberia.
-Policy Changes:
All policies have been deleted. From now on when expanding you may either conquer one province at a time that is 30,000-75,000 miles, and lose 7,000 troops each time you do so. Or you may conquer multiple provinces that total to 30,000 miles total and gain 3,000 troops.
-Major War Changes: A new feature has been added to help wars become more strategic as well as more balanced. Feature is:
Generals, for the cost of 20,000 manpower each. A general is completely randomized and can either give a hefty multiplication bonus to your army in offesne and defense. A generals ranging bonuses are between 1x and 1.5x. Meaning, if your general had a defense bonus of 1.5x, a defending battalion of 100 troops could take on a battalion of 150 enemy troops, contrary to that, if your general has a decrease bonus of just 1x, a defending battalion of 100 troops would be equal to an enemy battalion of 100 troops. You cannot reroll generals, a general has a 1/15 chance of dying per day.
New Borders:
Week 1/52
Updates:
5k time: Haven’t run any 5ks yet
Miles: ran 13 miles so far (a little behind, but it’s week 1, we’ll survive)
Run a race every month: no races so far (but I said there weren’t any in Jan so we’re good)
Finish school early: On break from school this week
wasteof app: No more progress so far but I have until July
Some other project: Decided I want to make a blog/personal site
Book of John: Been reading it every day
Crush: not going to see her until August
iPhone and Apple Watch: They aren’t out until September
Driver’s license: No progress
Get a job: Haven’t done this yet, I’m lazy
This week was a bit lazy, but I was on break from school. I’ll ramp things up in the couple next weeks.
Happy New Year everyone!
I spend too much time on wasteof. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only one that is worth coming back to multiple times a day.
Now, I present my goals for 2024. The goals are all specific and quantifiable, so I can measure if I complete them. Here they are:
Run a 5k in under 20 mins by March, under 18 mins by August, and under 16 mins by November
Run over 1500 miles in total
Run a race every month - except January because I can’t find a single convenient race that month.
Finish school early - I’m on track to finish 1-2 weeks early, so I want to keep, if not improve, that lead
Bring the wasteof iOS app to feature parity with wasteof2 by July, and to parity with wasteof4 by November
Do some other big coding project
Read the book of John, taking it slowly through the book - Goal is 3-4 verses per day, John has 879 verses so it should take up the majority of the year
Become (at least) friends with my crush. “Becoming friends” is defined as getting her phone number. I won’t see her until August, though and I barely know her. And I’m the most awkward person ever. We’ll see.
Buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 when they come out.
Get a driver’s license by August - I need 60 hours of driving practice in total, I have about 10 so far. I haven’t been trying though.
Get a job.
Repost this weekly with progress updates on what I’ve done to keep myself accountable.
2023 was the greatest year of my life. 2024 will be even better. Let’s get it.
One thing I haven’t said that I want to do this year is get a branding identity, and redesign my personal site (lindsey.studio). It’s garbage on mobile and not really good for anything other than looking pretty. (I am proud of it though, I’ve seen many other OS-homescreen style sites and none are as functional as mine.) I want to make it a more normal site, with a blog.
Fast Food ranked
S: Chick-Fil-A, Five Guys, Cinnabon, Moe’s, Culver’s
A: Marco’s Pizza, Chipotle, Pizza Hut, Jersey Mike’s, IHOP
B: Popeyes, Domino’s, Dunkin’, Bojangles, Freddy’s, In-N-Out (only been there once), MOD Pizza, Sonic
C: McDonalds (but only their nuggets), Hardees (aka Carl’s Jr), Dairy Queen, Arby’s
D: Taco Bell, McDonalds, Subway, Wendy’s
E: Burger King
Happy New Year everyone!
I spend too much time on wasteof. But of all the places on the internet, this is the only one that is worth coming back to multiple times a day.
Now, I present my goals for 2024. The goals are all specific and quantifiable, so I can measure if I complete them. Here they are:
Run a 5k in under 20 mins by March, under 18 mins by August, and under 16 mins by November
Run over 1500 miles in total
Run a race every month - except January because I can’t find a single convenient race that month.
Finish school early - I’m on track to finish 1-2 weeks early, so I want to keep, if not improve, that lead
Bring the wasteof iOS app to feature parity with wasteof2 by July, and to parity with wasteof4 by November
Do some other big coding project
Read the book of John, taking it slowly through the book - Goal is 3-4 verses per day, John has 879 verses so it should take up the majority of the year
Become (at least) friends with my crush. “Becoming friends” is defined as getting her phone number. I won’t see her until August, though and I barely know her. And I’m the most awkward person ever. We’ll see.
Buy an iPhone 16 Pro Max and Apple Watch Series 10 when they come out.
Get a driver’s license by August - I need 60 hours of driving practice in total, I have about 10 so far. I haven’t been trying though.
Get a job.
Repost this weekly with progress updates on what I’ve done to keep myself accountable.
2023 was the greatest year of my life. 2024 will be even better. Let’s get it.
I am proud to say I’ve made a lot of progress on the wasteof iOS app (still don’t have a unique name)
I added posting and profile pages, as well as pinning posts, reposting, following, deleting posts, and more. Very soon I will be sending out a beta version. If you use an iPhone, let me know if you want to try it.
Checklist:
Completed:
Login
Feed
Post pages, and liking and commenting
Explore
Messages
Posting and reposting
Profile pages
Pinning posts (not unpinning however)
Deleting posts
To-do:
Editing posts
Deleting and reporting comments, reporting posts (reporting is implemented but doesn’t work for some goofy reason)
Walls
Editing your own profile
Chat
Widgets
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There’s no way to argue that AI is not going to take over humanity after reading this.
What’s the best thing y’all got for Christmas? I got some Heydudes, a couple gift cards, and polarized sunglasses.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
— Isaiah 9:6, written about 700 years before the first Christmas
Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals.
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gonna delay this by a week. mostly because only 3 people have picked a province so far
Welcome to Battle for Canada!
Fight your fellow wasters to control of the country in question. Make friends! Make… not friends! Wage war! Get territory!
Current map:
(colors are picked based off whatever color occurs the most in your pfp. at least to me)
Owned by @8bitosc. Inspired by @oren’s @b4us and @syl’s @b4eu
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Rules
Everyone starts with one province. Choose wisely, as you won’t be able to change it once the game begins.
Game starts on the 30th
Every day, you can comment under the wall to perform an action.
Each day, you can capture two census divisions (https://www.mapchart.net/canada-census-divisions.html) that your country borders. Or, if you want, you can wage war on another player for some land.
Controlling parts of the country gives you a boost. Every province you gain 75% control of gets you an extra census division to try and reach to. Your starting province doesn’t count towards this.
War rules: Each person starts with 1,500 troops. You gain an extra 100 troops per census division under your control, and an extra 1,000 for each full province. You decide where to place your troops; whoever has more troops wins the war. If you’re involved in multiple wars, you can decide where your troops go.
Have fun! Please
You all could probably find my address without much effort.
Giving out your last name on the internet is a lot bigger of a deal than giving out your first name. If someone has your last name, they can find out pretty much anything about you. I’ve found multiple random internet people’s home addresses (I’m not a stalker I promise!) just by doing google searches with their names. Imagine if I was actually trying to stalk them.
Also, personally, I kind of wish I hadn’t given out my last name. Oh well.
Giving out your last name on the internet is a lot bigger of a deal than giving out your first name. If someone has your last name, they can find out pretty much anything about you. I’ve found multiple random internet people’s home addresses (I’m not a stalker I promise!) just by doing google searches with their names. Imagine if I was actually trying to stalk them.
Also, personally, I kind of wish I hadn’t given out my last name. Oh well.
