End of season came and went. I did not have any chests for this Splinterlands season since I rented everything out. Now I did think I would only have to start the next season from Silver since I was in Gold 1 when I skipped for the season.
But I guess you have to start from scratch and for the past 3 days I have just been grinding it back to Gold. Actually, I went into Gold by accident. Since it is better for me to stay in Silver and just farm SPS, so be it.
Today I decided I don't have the patience to care for the much ado about maintaining ECR and all that jazz and with the league just generally needing many more assets than I have it is best to call it quits and just get what I can get.
A big thing I realised is that I am in no way losing money ever. If I don't play that is just losing the potential of earning. That is pretty much the same as Hive, and although that leads to another thing I will just mention what I decided to do now.
Splintermate.com
Since every Tom, Dick and Sally are using bots I figured why not. I use to use one a while back which was pretty nice to control via telegram.
From what I can see 
There is nothing that beats not having to speak to people, so being able to register with keychain and pay my 1HBD per bot is super nice.
I did spend 2 hours wondering when it will play though, but that bug with the toggle not working will be fixed. Now I am writing this after the bot only having played one match for me so far. A lot of monitoring and possibly forcing a lower league might still need to occur.
One thing with all these bots is that they are based on what others play. Many times it misses certain variations and I don't know if it would play those in the back to add to the DB or if it just kinda regurgitates users play.
Maybe that is why ArcheMage runs at premium since it possibly learns instead of replays.
However, since Splinterlands is at the best of times a 50/50 coin toss of a game I think just replaying will do a well enough job.
To be fair 1HBD is buying me a shit ton of minutes saved not dealing with things I rather not be dealing with now and for that it is already a win.
Aside
As an aside, the other part of unrealised money or the potential to make more or less is something I need to focus on now also.
Specifically I need to remove my reliance on my salary. It has come to my attention that I am far too tethered to things and with those are people.
Although in the same breath I am saying I would be tethered to another means of earning, and fair enough. That means will be one I choose, and if I don't earn it is on me.
So I am not sure what everyone else is tethered to but for me at least it has been a long time coming to realise that the standard way I find myself locked in expectation and then lull myself into familiarity only to die at the hand of complacency is not exactly something I want.
Oddly I want complacency but I can make one promise, that peace of mind will only come when everything else is gone.
Possibly the first step is this shitpost, and then another and they are built ontop the mountain of shitposts before them.