TSTO Level 34 arrives with Springfield High School + Superintendent Chalmers, Sherri & Terri, Springfield Knowledgeum and its promo robot – Robby The Automaton and some additional decorations… Starts with Lisa ~ More soon 🙂 
The Sunsphere made it to TSTO! Bought it, rushed it and the boys are climbing it…
I love the dialogue too! Hope my fellow Knoxvillians share my appreciation of satire. Come on, we’re talking about a TV show that has made fun of everything from cities, states, countries to world political & religious leaders ~ just to name a few. 😉 Besides in the episode this item comes from – Nelson knocks it over with rock! 😀 I wish EA had included this as a 10s task (w/animation) for Nelson.
DrewDabble pointing at Nelson… Ha-Ha!
We’re no strangers to snarky comments here in Knoxville. The Wall Street Journal called us a ‘Scruffy Little City’ when the ‘WOD FIR’ opened back in 1982. Here’s a link to a recent story about it on a local TV station…
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/204681/2/keep-knoxville-scruffy-stirs-new-pride-with-old-nickname
Anyway, here’s what I’ve done with The Sunsphere (work in progress). I love to think-up back stories to go along with the placement of certain items. The angle here is, Frink bought it off the ‘Gil’s List’ website and moved it to Springfield (i.e. London Bridge ). He’s going to retrofit it with all manner of sciencey gizmos and use it as his own private SETI ‘device’ by siphoning a few megawatts from the power plant via sponsorship from Burns and the Stonecutters‘.
Final thought: I grinned so hard, I about sprained my face when I zoomed in close and got a look at the animation of the pigeons wearing wigs!!! 🙂
I’ve posted before on Texture Rendering Glitches (TRGs) from EA’s The Simpsons Tapped Out game like the one above from my Android. I call it ‘Church Doves’.
I have two TSTO games. My main game Android one has most of the premium items (since April 2013) and my ‘2nd game’ is without a single donut purchased item – so I can enjoys both POV’s.
My 2nd game runs on a BlueStacks App Player (Beta 1) on a Windows 8 desktop. While TRGs are an everyday occuranceon on my Android, I’ve never a seen a single one on BlueStacks. However it does sometimes pull an occasional ‘epic fail’ and flashes some cool mosaic screens of TSTO images. This is the first time I’ve been fast enough to ‘Prt Scr’ one. **BTW – I flipped this image for better viewing…
I recognize most of the items except for these…
Are they new or something from before I started playing in late Feb 2013. Does anyone have information about these items?
DrewDabble has his fingers crossed for certain rumored TSTO Level 33 content…
Read the spoilers here…
http://drewdabble.com/2013/08/08/what-will-be-in-tsto-level-33/
Nearly overwhelmed by ‘real-world’ work and blogging related stuff, my TSTO playing has suffered. My second (100% non-premium) game is forming cobwebs.
My vising of friends’ towns is lagging also. I’m nearly maxed out so that’s almost a hundred. I haven’t timed it, but it takes a long time to visit them all. It’s giving me flashbacks to Whacking Day, when TSTO became a part-time job. I for one, was relieved to see the laidback pace of Squidport.
Now that we can see who has visited us (except for vandalism) I’m going to try my best to reciprocate with Tappers who visit me. However, with no ability to ‘sort’ or ‘favorite’ on the Friends Screen this is somewhat laborious. Seriously, I’m getting guitar players’ callus on the end of my tapping finger from scrolling back and forth so much.
The best solution would be if EA just automatically sorted the friends that have visited your town to the front of the list on the Friends Screen.
This would give us the ability to manage more friends. Which I’d very much like – because (true story), I’ve been struggling to find a few friends to remove from my Springfield. I had nearly decided on a short list when one of them visited my town.
I’ll end by dusting the cobwebs off my second game and showing it some love. Here’s a screenshot from it. What is the rarest thing one could ever glimpse while visiting someone else’s town? I’m thinking that would be witnessing a crop of Perfection blooming. I’ve tried several times going back and forth between my two games with no luck. Not sure if it’s even possible with the lag-time involved in syncing with EA’s servers. So here’s one I grabbed directly from my second game. I’m tellin’ ya folks, it’s even hard to make a screenshot and then harvest Perfection before it rots.
One of my favorite decorations in TSTO is the “Hail Ants” sign.
Because it’s from one of my favorite episodes Deep Space Homer.
This is my favorite scene. The music is The Blue Danube which you may recognize from such movies as 2001: A Space Odyssey. It also explains the first two videos.
DrewDabble is a big fan of Arthur C. Clarke. I’ve read most of his books and will be posting about some of them soon.
This is an update to my (possibly) misunderstood post… http://drewdabble.com/2013/08/09/we-must-be-cautious/
The pre-takeover TSTO Tips Team is regrouping and can be found here. Hopefully they won’t change the URL again 😉 But if they do, just check back here because I will have probably tracked it down and posted about it. Anyway Mike, Mickus and most of gang are there and hopefully more will be joining soon.
Plus, and this is a BIG PLUS, (also long overdue) they finally have a female voice! Her pen name is minicha or ‘Em Cha’ as she’s known at Tapped-Out UK which is kind-of an online version of ‘Cheers’ (you know, like a pub where everyone knows your n…) Just create a free account and join in on the fun! BTW: Please add an account pic, this helps the more ‘visually oriented’ of us keep track of your shared TSTO insights.
OK, so maybe now I can get back to making this a ‘Multi-Topic’ blog. Woo Hoo 🙂 To which Professor Farnsworth is a clue (but not in a bad way, like his ‘good news’ usually is on the TV Show)
To borrow a great Obi–Wan line from Star Wars: “Mos Eisley Spaceport (by this, I mean the Internet)… You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”
It would seem that in the wake of the mega-hit blog TSTO Tips’ demise there are many websites and blogs scrambling to become ‘the next’ TSTO Tips (and some for profit).Not me, I’m a just a huge fan of Matt Groening (and the pre Level 30 Mr. T). I’m blogging to be helpful in a just-for-the-fun-of-it way and to enhance my (and other Tappers) enjoyment of the game. But since I’m not getting paid to do this (like others on the net seem to be, legally or otherwise), I’ve got to go make a living out in the ‘real world’. I’ll be back later with a lot more – including a full post clarifying this blog’s purpose(s)….
Until then Happy Tapping 🙂
EA has been cranking out The Simpsons Tapped Out updates lately. Will there be another one this week? If so, what might be in the Level 33 update?
Spoiler Alert! Continue reading
The human need to rationalize is very powerful. This TSTO Tips ‘Take-Over’ thing has the potential to bum the DrewDabble out, and that takes A LOT these days. The reason I would be bummed (if I allowed myself) might surprise you. I surely wouldn’t have my lip stuck out because I feel scammed. Not being judgmental – just stating facts; only fools surf the Internet thinking they can find some wonderful ‘scam-free’ perfect website to hang-out at forever. TSTO Tips was great while it lasted. Stuff changes, this is the way of things… as it is.
It’s just that Mr. T (or whoever’s doing the writing behind this) seems to have used the Dalai Lama in this scam. There was a comment in one of the two posts from Mr. T when he briefly resurfaced on July 30th. In the comment – Mr. T said he met the Dalai Lama. Here’s the thing; DrewDabble follows few (if any). If I did follow, Lhamo Dondrub (aka Tenzin Gyatso – The 14th Dalai Lama) would top the list.
Before this train-of-thought gets too much further down the tracks, or derails completely – if it hasn’t already 😉 . I’ll just stop and ask myself “WWDD” (What Would [The] Dalai [Lama] Do). He’d grin with a wonderful infectious warmth in his eyes and speak of… impermanence (anicca) or something like that, but most importantly, he’d likely have no no words of condemnation. Nor shall I.
Don’t really know where to go with this from here – except to say, there is always more to every story than what gets posted on the Internet. It is hard to believe the ‘Mr. T’ that moderated himself to Internet legend status has become some sell-out scam. So I’ll just (in the spirit of Joe Wookie Riot) end with a Star Wars reference… Maybe he was just momentarily seduced by the ‘dark side’ and will return (now for a TSTO Wolfcastle/McBain ref) to engage this hacking-mill guy Allen in some grand ‘climatic battle’.
Either way – it’s time to move on and get back to the game that’s the reason for all this hubbub in the first place. It’s time to get back to some ‘Happy Tapping’ 😀
Short update on the TSTO Tips hack or sell-out saga. While the news is still predominately bad, at least their does seem to be some good news. As the story unfolds, it seems that Mr. T had the blog “wrangled” (so to speak) from him by the owner of this hacking-mill.
Do you want to know I where I learned this info and read even more about it? What if I told you it’s a place where the super friendly sprint of TSTO Tips still exists in a much more real-time interactive environment. It’s called Tapped-Out UK. To create an account and sign in right now click or tap here.
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