Friday, November 15, 2019

Adult board gaming

Adult board games are fun and educational for children, and as such they are widely used in schools. It's hard to imagine how anyone could oppose allowing children to play board games in their homes without being accused of being anti-education.

However, board game advocates are well aware of the fact that this doesn't mean that we are "anti-education." Our main purpose is to create games that are fun, educational and accessible to a broad range of people. Board games can be used in schools as part of their curricula, but that doesn't mean they are compulsory. That would be a huge step backward from the role board games have been allowed to play in society.

To quote one of my favorite board games, "The game of war is no longer played for pleasure, it is played to win." Board games are played to win. But if you're playing a game for fun then the game is not fun and you should leave. That's a lot of hard work to make a fun game for your friends.

I say "games should be fun" but I don't mean to imply that if you want to play a game for fun you have to make your game "fun". If you want to make a game "fun" you have to understand what makes a game fun. What makes a game fun for me? It's about having fun. It's about trying new things. It's about seeing a good game through from start to finish. What makes a game fun for you?

It's about doing the things you love to do, whether it's watching a film or playing a game. It's about your friends. It's about people you don't know but you think you know them. It's about all the different things you might not know about the characters you love to watch. It's about the moments when you find out you're the person they thought you were. How do you think people respond to that? It is about enjoying things for the fun they are. You can be happy or sad or angry, but if you're just watching for the joy it brings, then you're missing something. Do you believe it's possible to have fun in all things.

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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Don't get scammed and prepare for Black Friday like a PRO

In a month the most consumerist week of the year will take place, yes it's Black Friday again, a US tradition that has been exported worldwide and, probably, gives us the best offers of the year just before the Christmas season.

From the experience of our top buyers we will give you 5 tips on how to not getting scammed on Black Friday and get the most of it:


  1. Prepare now, do a list of what you need or want to buy and do your homework, look for models, prices and alternatives. Every year offers start sooner, so expect that next week by November 1st some store will start moving. Having the reference of the usual price (not the MSRP) will give you a better perspective deciding if it is a good or an average offer.
  2. Consider availability. Start looking these previous offers, but don't be too hasty. Some stores will start with some not so good offers but if the product you want is highly sought you will have difficulties finding it on Black Friday day.
  3. Check your local stores. Due to the big boom of online stores seems like we forgot local stores to get good offers, but every year they are getting more in the loop of Black Friday to get their cake piece, so if you can check your local stores there could be also good offers.
  4. Don't rush. I know it's a flash offer and it will go away soon, but it's better to not have something that getting something useless. Even if you did not prepare if it is a good offer make a fast check on Where Should I buy and it will give you an average idea of the price comparing amazon and ebay, also showing you historic prices and recommendations.
  5. Stick to the list. It's a really good offer buy do I need it? Really? Sure? Ask it 3 times before buying if it is not on your initial list.

That's all for now, we are pretty sure that we will be talking more about Black Friday, it's getting near, get ready!

Monday, September 10, 2018

My blog got disabled. How you should restore it

For almost a week this blog was disabled, maybe you did not notice if it's your first time here, but the Google robots marked it as a spam blog and then no one could access the blog, it was deleted on my blogger account and could not restore it. The only thing that I was able to do was to request a revision by a "human", as the process is automatized it has a probability of error, even it may be low. I did the request which, as stated by the request form information, should be done in a couple of working days. But as you may guess, this did not happen, as the days passed I thought that I should take some action, and of course googled my problem which I found to be quite recurrent.
If your blog also has been disabled for being marked as a spam blog, you should have received an email with:
Hello, Your blog at https://mtboffers.blogspot.com/ has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we've removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible. For more information, please review the following resources: Terms of Service: http://www.blogger.com/go/terms Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy -The Blogger Team
I found the blogger help forum where many people request help for problems with the platform, and also many where asking to recover their disabled blog, following some of those threads I found out that the reasons are mainly that your blog may not be following the Blogger Guidelines, which as a more schematic guide that I found on the forums are:
  • Affiliate marketing (Please, don't confuse this with "affiliate networking"!).
  • Automated traffic redirection, to another Blogger blog, or to non Google hosted content.
  • Commercially funded adult content.
  • Content created with scripts and programs, rather than by hand.
  • Content or links which reference account hacking / password distribution / password sharing.
  • Content or links which reference code deconstruction / reverse engineering, to bypass normal use of proprietary software.
  • Content or links which reference referral-based activities such as GPT ("Get Paid To"), MLM ("Multi-Level Marketing"), MMF ("Make Money Fast"), MMH ("Make Money from Home"), PTC ("Pay To Click"), or PTS ("Pay To Surf").
  • Content scraped from other blogs / websites.
  • Copyright Infringement.
  • Large blogs with multiple, unfocused / unrelated subjects.
  • Links to Illegal Downloads / Streaming / Torrents.
  • Monetizing of adult content, aka porn spam.
If your blog has been disabled you should follow the next steps, which are the steps that I followed to get my blog restored:
  1. Identify the possible infringement/s of your blog but as you aren't able to access it and correct it check your other blogs, if you have any, and correct them, so they also behave as the guidelines suggest. Also if your deleted blog and any of the other blogs has repeated content, even it may be created by you, should only be available in one of the blogs, then delete all repeated content if you want to restore your blog, even delete blogs that you don't use or have repeated content. This is not mandatory but is a way to convince that you are serious in your desire to correct your behavior following now strictly the guidelines, remember to mention it when you ask for help.
  2. After all your blogger data is ready to get reviewed, submit the review request on blogger.
  3. If after a few days, at least 4 days, your blog is still disabled, go to the blogger help forums, in the Something is broken section, where you can ask for help. You need to Post a new question requesting assistance, to jump over a small step you should include a screenshot of your my blogs section at Blogger, where it shows the blog that you want restored, so the people at the forum can confirm what was the reason of your blog disabling, as I saw that this step was always required I already posted the screenshots on my question.
  4. In your question you should include your blog's URL, the date you received notice of your blog disabling and the date you filed your initial review request. If you need some inspiration in writing your request here you can read mine and see how it was resolved.
  5. If nothing has changed when you post your question, +Nitecruzr will respond your request, asking for your own review on what may be the problem with your blog, according to the blogger guidelines, and accepting in the most sincere way where you may have infringed the Blogger guidelines. If all seems ok your request will be forwarded to Blogger Support where they will do a final evaluation which can not be appealed.
After all these inconveniences our blog is online and working ok now, our thoughts are a little wary of what really happened with the spamming process and why it triggered right now. Our blog has only a good visited post which by chance is critic to a product, our comparison between the Edge 500 and the new Edge 520, that criticisms a new product that really does not offer any good improvement over an old product of the same company.

There are many people online that think that blogger disabling blogs may be caused for abuse of the Flag Blog button, but as Blogger claims that just brings the blog to the attention of a human that reviews the content. Maybe that "human" thought that our blog contained too many links and product promotions, but as you can see most of our product posts have a critic side. All this happens because we can't afford a personalized host yet, until we can reach a small amount, if you want to help us you can buy at amazon through our links and contact page.

Thanks for reading!

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Cheques regalo de amazon como forma de pago alternativa sin comisiones

Los cheques regalo estan ideados para hacer hacer ragalos sin mojarse en qué producto comprar, ideales para pequeños regalos en nacimientos de los hijos de amigos para que los nuevos padres puedan comprar según necesidad. Pero a partir de aquí no tendemos a darles más uso que para regalos de este tipo.

Pero hoy en día nos encontramos con el boom de las compras online y gracias a esto hay un par de tipos de empresas que se están aprovechando para ganar grandes cantidades de dinero, hablamos de empresas que se encargan de mover dinero, y pienso sobretodo en empresas especializadas en pagos seguros online, por ejemplo Paypal o similares y empresas que gestionan cobros mediante tarjeta o similar. Este tipo de empresas cobran un porcentaje que no baja del 3% de cada transacción, lo que perjudica claramente al vendedor ya que tiene que reducir su margen y al comprador porque repercute en un incremento de precios.

Estos porcentajes tendrían cierto sentido hace 10 años, pero hoy en día en que todas estas plataformas están automatizadas y el coste de servicios online se ha reducido en gran medida no deberían superar un pequeño coste fijo para transacciones menores a 500€ por ejemplo, y dejar de ser un porcentaje. Hay plataformas modernas, que ya plantean modelos así pero como acostumbra a pasar en España todavía falta para que esté disponible y nadie se atreve a llevar la contraria a entidades bancarias.

Por todo ello, estos últimos meses me planteé que alternativas había y gracias a amazon.es, y a los amazons de los distintos países, se me ocurrió aprovechar los cheques regalo como forma de pago, que no tienen comisiones, y el único inconveniente es que obligan al que lo recibe a gastárselo en amazon, pero quien no tiene compras que hacer? Y cómo ya sabréis en amazon podemos encontrar prácticamente de todo y además a buenos precios.

Otro factor importante es que para los que hagan ventas online como forma de negocio, los cheques regalo se acumulan en tu cuenta de amazon, por lo que en ningún momento te llega dinero real en tu cuenta bancaria, y aunque tampoco conozco los pormenores legales, es probable que no tengas que tributarlo.

Recuerdo que hace tiempo que ya hacemos pagos y empezamos haciendo el pago de una PS3 de segunda mano que tenía intención de comprar, y nos pusimos de acuerdo en hacer el pago mediante un cheque regalo, de esta forma los 2 nos evitamos pagar más y cobrar menos evitando las comisiones de otros servicios.

Si estás buscando algún producto puedes utilizar el servicio Where Should I Buy? que te permite hacer búsquedas rápidas entre los amazons y ebays de diferentes países para poder comparar precios rápidamente.

Si estás pensando en utilizar los cheques regalo utiliza nuestro banner directo para comprarlos, gracias!