u/Survivor_Fan_Dan

Hey guys, I got a new phone today, and I had previously been using Android to play RoB, and I have a good thing going with premiums, Toothless at level 100, and MH level 13.

The problem I'm running into is, I tried to fuse that account to my working Facebook account but apparently when I was way younger, I had already fused some way weaker progress account to Facebook, and there's no way to disconnect that, and I really want to play on my good account from my new phone.

If there are any ways I can transfer my good account between 2 opposing platforms, let me know, you'd be my Savior!

For context, I was doing a few brawls lately, and a pattern I noticed was:

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I use blind from Pouncer on a dragon with armor break abilities like exotic smokebreath, and it refuses to damage his allies with that, or 3rd ability as long as he's blind, and a dragon next to him that ISN'T blind uses his stronger abilities against my team.

Or ...as soon as blind wears off, the dragon suddenly has no 2nd thoughts on damaging my team. It's not just a one-off, it's a continuous pattern with all rival dragons I've dealt with since the anniversary update, and it made brawls 10x more difficult.

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It was bad enough 5 months ago, when they did that one stupid update that damaged brawl matchups, and had to rescind it. I hope they do the same here because what the heck.

I'm sure it's been discussed to an extent, but I just keep thinking about how sick and twisted the 50th games were - not just as a whole but also from the reaping standpoint, and pertaining to some specific tributes' chances to win at any stage of the games (or lack thereof).

I believe Haymitch mentioned somewhere that Snow wanted the second quarter quell to go well because the first one was likely a disaster for the Capitol. Now we know that Capitol was very fragile during Haymitch's games, and they needed to cover up a LOT of fuck-ups or things that just went south that were caused by tributes themselves. That also came at a price of some tributes' winning chances.

Nevermind that Haymitch was reaped illegally for interfering with a peacekeeper who was trying to off his girl, there were tributes who were reaped as a direct consequence/punishment for their predecessors' errors or rebel plots. A glaring example of that was Ampert, Beetee's son. Beetee made it abundantly clear that he saw no way for Ampert to get out of the arena alive, and wanted his death to mean something (trying to drown the arena's generator). Ampert stood no chance to win no matter what he did. He couldn't count on Ampert outlasting every other tribute because the game makers would ensure his death with either a mutt (which happened), a natural disaster, or some other means that would ensure he was history. He was marked for death, execution, erasure.

Then there's Panache. It was a surprise to me that Panache, for his size and strength, was not a volunteer. Until there was a theory that his relative, Palladium Barker, a victor of 46th games supposedly had upset the Capitol in some way. It could be assumed that Panache was also marked for death regardless of his stats, sponsors, and overall favor with the Capitol (which turns out wasn't there either, because Haymitch narrated that Panache made an ass of himself at the interview and he was easy to hate).

Then there was the Gamemaker incident, where Haymitch and Maysilee were running away from Silka and Maritte, and they encountered 3 gamemakers cleaning up goo from the grass. While Haymitch and Silka stayed back, Maysilee and Maritte had 0 hesitation killing 2 gamemakers, with the third one killing herself by jumping into the sub A head first, crushing her head on concrete floor. Following the deaths, Silka was immensely upset with Maritte, claiming the Gamemakers in the regulation room will now make sure the 2 lose the games. Maysilee mocks Silka, asking her if she's still "holding on to that dream" because she didn't attack the Gamemakers like her ally.

Sure enough, the stunt with the Gamemakers reaped consequences for both Maritte and Maysilee as they both were killed by their own set of mutts as direct punishment.

Perhaps Snow didn't know how to punish Maritte's family, so it was easier to kill her off rather than have her undergo what Finnick went through after 65th games, and Merrilee would be a total mess from losing Maysilee (which she evidently was, as she was self-medicating as stated by Madge or Katniss in Catching Fire) but regardless, going back to how Snow wanted the 2nd Quarter Quell to be flawless, he did not want a troublemaking tribute to be let go without dire consequences. You could make a case that he let Haymitch live regardless of his stunts, but I figure Snow wanted to make Haymitch's life a living hell by killing his family in a house fire, and planting poisoned gumdrops to make sure Haymitch holds himself accountable for his love's poisoning. Haymitch even tells Katniss in Mockingjay that he was held up as an example to the young Finnicks, Johannas, and Cashmeres as to what will happen to them if they had refused to play along with the Capitol.

So while Haymitch can be considered an exception to the "Snow kills all 'problematic' tributes from the second quarter quell", you could argue that Snow succeeded in killing his spirit, his optimism, and his love for life ("I would welcome death if it wasn't for my promise to Lenore Dove"/"With that, she condemns me to life").

What do you think in regards to the elevated cruelty of the Second Quarter Quell?