Jabo5779 (jabo5779)

Our origin story. @winberry @marmo.eth @kathonejo @eljuniordiaz.eth @selyn831- @coconutrinds @newtp (If you get a break from building SPROUT, saving the world with STEM, and crushing it with vertical video) https://paragraph.com/@0x4926876a4be099e9e57daf6b313d8c49427551a7/rock-and-bowl-for-the-soul

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Hmmm... I sense there may be a way in the future to get my base app 'posts' to be my Rascal Zora account posts. Or at least display them alongside my base app posts. Account linking on the way?

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Rascal and Jesse! @tamara.base.eth

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And the 2025 Best Balding Male Model Award Goes to...! 🤣 This shirt and card dropped 13,000,000 $Based in my wallet! What has Your shirt Done for you lately? @basedevo @garrett https://based.works/#/shop

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Our origin story. @winberry @marmo.eth @kathonejo @eljuniordiaz.eth @selyn831- @coconutrinds @newtp (If you get a break from building SPROUT, saving the world with STEM, and crushing it with vertical video) https://paragraph.com/@0x4926876a4be099e9e57daf6b313d8c49427551a7/rock-and-bowl-for-the-soul

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Alright... Here is the damage report from the Upgrade Frenzy! The day started off with some morning coffee and a very simple plan. Get my coop to produce the equivalent of a level five chicken in output. Easy, right? With 35,000 Eggs, I was sitting on four level threes and four level twos. First things first, get the level twos to level threes. My chances, eighty percent success rate, because I hold more than ten thousand eggs in my wallet. Katrina, Leigh, Leslie, and Leona... Bang, Bang, Bang, and Bang Success, Success, Success, and more Success. With five thousand eggs spent and four wins, I was very close to the goal. This is easy, I thought. I have the hot chicken hand! I am the Chicken Whisperer! Nothing can stop me! Then, I had a decision to make. There were two ways to accomplish my goal. I either needed two more level threes or, take a shot on a sixty percent success rate level four upgrade of my prize chicken. My rarest original chicken, Vanessa. The only one with her name. Wearing my .85 Neynar score proudly. If she succeeds, my entire coop gets a rarity bump because one of the traits is: Owner Max Chicken Level. It would be a four... FOR THEM ALL. I wanted it... bad. Too bad. So I went for it.... Five thousand eggs is ~ $350 right now. One shot... At glory... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Failed... I took a moment... It hurt. My original chicken, Vanessa. First of her name. I let her down. A tear streamed down her face. "It's okay, Vanessa, I still love you," I said as I got up from my chair to give Rascal a greenie. I took a break, I checked the market. A level 1 came up for sale, Lela. I grabbed her. Let's inch closer to this goal, I thought, while Venessa recovers. Lela went smoothly. One to two, two to three, success - no issues. Fifteen hundred more eggs down. I was one level three chicken away from my goal, and there was another level one on the market that I could easily accomplish it with. But then, there was the issue of Vanessa... She was in the corner of the coop sulking, whimpering. Each gasp ate away at my soul. I knew I couldn't walk away from her. I knew I had to give her one more shot. And so... I did... And this time... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL This time, Venessa didn't cry. She didn't sulk. She stood proud. She turned to me and said, "Thanks for not giving up on me, Dad." I knew that was it, I couldn't do it anymore. Two shots at making her the leader of the coop, and one of the rarer level fours in existence - Ten thousand eggs into the black hole that is the hopium of the greatness she could have been. I couldn't be mad at her, though. This is how life works, this is how chance works. "Thanks for trying, Vanessa." I said. "Maybe one day, you will be the chicken I know you can be. I know this - you will always be my chicken, Vanessa." With that, I turned back to the market to finish what I started. I needed one more level three and the level one I needed to do it was sitting right there - Nettie. "Alright Nettie, let's put a nail in this coffin, shall we?" Level one to level two - success. One level away from the goal! Nettie would be the one to bring me over the finish line, and she knew it. Eighty percent chance of success and one thousand two hundread and fifty eggs left to the end of the tunnel. They were rolling out the red carpet for me, I could see it in the distance - like a marathon runner, I was so ready for this to be over. Upgrade Nettie to Level Three Confirm! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAIL Now, I didn't have the same rapport with Nettie as I had with Venessa, she was fresh off the market. She smirked at me, and I noticed for the first time that she seemed a bit jittery. I told her to look at me as I held piece of corn up as a treat, she was a bit cross-eyed and some green drool seeped from the side of her beak. Damnit... I already knew what was coming. Let's try this again. Come on Nettie! You can do this! Upgrade Nettie to Level Three Confirm! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F A I L I didn't even pause, I didn't walk away, I requeued the upgrade again immediately. There was no failing, I was going to spend my entire egg account upgrading Nettie to finish what I started, I didn't care. And finally... On the third try... Nettie took. After two eighty percent success rate failures. It. Was. Finally. Over. The damage - twenty thousand five hundred eggs to raise a coop of ten level three chickens that produce exactly the same amount as level five chicken. I had done it... and it could have gone much better. But then again, it also could have gone much worse. That's not what really matters here. What matters is - I finished what I started. I got an experience from it. I got a story. The story of Venessa and Nettie's failures are both tragic and comical. I got to write something about that experience I had this morning and you got to read it. Maybe laugh a little bit. Maybe learn something from it. Or maybe just sit back in awe at the fact that someone just burned two tenths of a percent of total eggs supply. Either way, I didn't walk away empty handed, And neither did you. You never truly walk away from anything empty handed. You walk away with an experience Every time you try something. Thanks @farcasteradmin.eth For the experience. Best of luck to all of you! May the upgrades be with you.

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