Dictators Are Good for Business

Yes, don’t let it deter you that the good old USA will soon be in the hands of morons — not like it is now! Keep working, do your thing, ignore the beast in the bathroom. Just keep truckin’.

That’s what I’m doing with the NEW PC games that I’m releasing this season. Who knows if we’ll have another?

Enjoy them while you can. While there’s still electricity to run the computer, and there’s still an internet on which to communicate, and while there’s still enough food on the supermarket shelves and toilet paper in the can, because that’s all changing, and fast.

It’s a dark and gloomy thought that the planet will soon be under the control of the cruelest elements in our so-called “society”, which happens to include a lot of creeps.

My definition of a creep is someone who can’t keep their knees off the necks of others, and top on my list would be … well, I have a long, long list, with which I will not bore you, but it’s got to be the sitting politicians who helped plan and execute the Insurrection.

That really annoys me. You want a stable government, not a bunch of wild yahoos with guns and roses, where the revolutions happen at 33 1/3 a minute.

Okay, so here’s the information I promised you I’d get for the pricing of the solid 14k gold real-rope fancy bezel Crystal Quantum Radio CQR Amulets:

    • TINY DIME-SIZED SOLID 14K GOLD FANCY — $1,000.00
    • MEDIUM-SIZED SOLID 14K GOLD — $1,250.00
    • LARGE DOLLAR-SIZED 14K GOLD — $1,500.00

Hey, don’t point that finger at me! It’s not my decision. Jewel called our supplier, and they now have to charge us a LOT more than we used to pay, so that’s the deal.

The very very best I can do with these is to give a 50% wholesale deal, and you only need to buy one, not multiples, to get that price, for a completed ready-to-market finished solid 14k fancy amulet, and I didn’t take a penny for the electronics or my jewelry work or the brand or anything. The prices are entirely out of my control.

The smallest DIME amulet is the size of a dime on the INTERIOR, while the bezel itself is about the size of a nickel or maybe a quarter, but I assure you, it’s small, really really small, and how I got it that small is, I think, a matter for some consideration and exclamations of thrill and wonder.

The incredibly tiny electronic parts come from a supplier that used to make teensy-weensy little radio transmitters for the military and for Private Eyes — that’s vernacular for “Private Investigators”, private “I”s, get it? Yeah, me neither, but that’s the way it’s been for years, ever since Dick Tracy cleaned up the American cities, right up until 1957, when the lights sorta went out on the eight-page full color comic section of your Sunday newspaper.

Oh, a newspaper? That’s a news cycle printed on paper and delivered to your rooftop.

Anyhow, the super-miniature “spy radio receiver” parts are precious and few and I will continue the search for more, but until I find them, these are the whole breadbasket, so I’ll make them until I run out of parts.

Now, then — there are several units on which I can still make a good price, because I already own them, and don’t have to pay the exorbitant amount they now have to charge.

Believe me, they didn’t want to raise their prices, but they had no choice, and with gold going through the $2,000 an ounce mark sometime soon, we jewelers have to face the fact that we won’t be able to afford it when only the very rich can buy it, and neither can you.

So, lemme take stock here. I have a few 14k solid gold real-rope Ammies in stock, and I’ll sell them at profoundly reduced prices, far less than I can if I have to buy them today:

I have two $20 gold piece sized and one quarter-sized that I can sell at $450 apiece — the cheapest I can offer them fresh from the maker is what I quoted above, and by the way, those quotes are for an EMPTY BEZEL!

I’m not asking anything for myself — I just want to get these incredible items into YOUR hands, and so I’m doing everything I can to keep YOUR costs to an absolute minimum.

Now, then — what about Exploding Lips?

Well, I’m mighty tickled at the ad copy that Claude wrote for it on the website, and I’ll let you fathom that out at your own leisure. In short, I’m not posting a hot link here. Go fish.

So Exploding Lips is available for download, and I know the next question you’ll be asking — how can you help?

Well, how about posting a few hundred videos on the subject, including gameplay? What about doing interviews, funny shorts videos, blogs and other social media interactions?

Okay, okay, it’s only been up there for a few hours, I should give it some time.

Fair enough. I’ll wait until the weekend before I look for responses, but then, I want to see some action!

Imaginative videos and other presentations are eligible for prizes, awarded at random from my gift shelf in the main barn.

No, we don’t have cattle in the barn. We don’t raise cattle. We’re chicken-farmers, buk, buk and a half, two buks — they’re so cheap to raise; they work for chicken-feed.

AnotherĀ  chicken joke.

So I also wanted to mention that I’m back on Diablo 2, in the Resurrected form, which gives me sound, without which I cannot play — I need the audio cues on top of hard-to-see video clues for gameplay.

I’m playing a Trapper Assassin, currently at Level 11, the result of my first 3 1/2 hours back on the game, most of which said “time” was expended re-learning the dang controls. Every game is different, and it had been a full five years since I lost the sound on my D2 and yes, we tried everything including new drivers and a system dump and restore, but nothing worked until I installed D2R, the resurrected version.

By the way, you can play it in the new graphics or the old graphics — it’s your choice. You’ll quickly note that the game itself is almost untouched.

It’s mostly an upgrading of graphics and sound, and a bit of action smoothing-out, but if you know how to play D2, you’ll know this game full well, for there is no discernible difference between old and new in the game itself.

Gheed stands ready to gamble, and there’s no sign of that guy that does the free Identify for you, remember? Don’t forget to free him from his Improved Prison Cage when you get there.

Charsi is still in Rogue Encampment, and she’s still complaining about her stupid hammer, and you’re expected to accept the quest. Hey, it’s up to you.

Meanwhile, all the familiar idiots over at Atma’s Tavern are still getting drunker and still bragging and passing out cold.

The restoration of the storyline and action will be a welcome change from that brutally ignorant “Diablo 3” that those jerks at Blizzard tried to foist off on us so many years ago.

Thanks to Blizzard North, we have a game again. I’m looking forward to having YOU join us in our Safaris — we are currently running more than 20 safaris a week now, and there’s plenty of room for YOU!

Claude can give you some advice on downloading the game and so forth at the next workshop, will will be in about two weeks from today.

See You At The Top!!!

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