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### Magic Monk Arcades 
Hi all. I realise it is difficult for people to meet up at the same time as we all have different time zones. The last Magic Monk Arcades event was probably a bit rushed as it was quite close to the previous one, which resulted in nobody turning up. Let's give everyone at least a month to plan and add it to their calendars. The next Magic Monk Arcades event will be on the <b>first Saturday of November, 2022-11-05, 11am UTC</b>. I will see you at this time on my Discord server (https://discord.gg/ZXXNj7J9QY) and we will play some games. As usual, I will reward the winner(s) with Hive. Details to be revisited closer to the event, but it will be quite similar to what we discussed previously.

### Earn HIVE from Xbox Achievements?
Those of you who play Xbox, you probably noticed that achievements don't really do much. I would like to reward people who put in some hard yards to improve their gaming. In order to understand what I'm proposing, please go to my Xbox profile here: https://account.xbox.com/en-au/profile?gamertag=Magicmonk7723

You can see for the game Matchpoint: Tennis Championships, I have a gamerscore of 620/1000. This is based on the amount of achievements I have completed in the game. 

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I would like to offer anyone who has a higher gamerscore than mine for this particular game (Matchpoint: Tennis Championships) 10 HIVE, for up to 3 people who comment on this post before the end of Oct 2022. Please comment with your Xbox Gamer tag and I will need to be able to verify you have this achievement through your Xbox profile (I need to be able to see your achievements), and then I will transfer you the 10 HIVE.

More rewards will be offered later for other games!

### Turbo Golf Racing

https://youtu.be/ujViG2MwT-0

Hey all. Last time I made a video about this game, it was due to a "Waiting for QOS Results" error that I couldn't bypass. It turns out that I had to change my Xbox NAT settings to Open to get rid of this error message. More on this later if people are interested.

Basically now I can play multiplayer in this game and I have invited my gaming buddies Monchdachonch as well as PlasteredOwl who is joining us for the first time. This is a really fun game to play multiplayer with - it is similar to rocket league, but since it is golf, you don't need to rely on your team mates as much. If you have good skill, you should win.

In the video you will see how I invite people to play the game. Keeping in mind that I am playing on my PC and my friends are on Xbox, but we can still play and chat like normal, which is really cool. There is a strong emphasis in this game on aiming the shot. There is no use in driving fast if you can't hit the ball properly, because you'll have to go back to get the ball if you drive past it.

A cool feature is that if you do a flip in the air, it will recharge your boost. You should be finding ways to boost your car from start to finish, once you get good at the game. Don't try to do this if you can't aim where you want the ball to go yet. In fact, it is better to slow down, drive your car to a suitable position, then go towards the ball. This will get you a better placing to start off.