thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Wow, really? I guess that unfortunately makes sense. I have a dock for my work laptop that charges and works for HDMI/etc but it uses an entire two USB-C ports at once.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Short answer is yes. Long answer is that with text it's much easier to stamp out illegal activity because keyword searches are cheap while semantic searches in images are pretty good but extremely computationally expensive. You can't just scan for illegal activity in images the same way you can nigh instantly scan a body of text for "illegal-site.com".
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Post the link! This isn't Twitter where you get penalized for posting links.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
The Beehaw instance has defederated from the Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works instances. Each instance is responsible for sending updates to other instances. Defederation means that no outgoing updates are sent and no incoming updates are honored.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 0%
Ya there are definitely seemingly random cards in there. Some of that is the precon effect where there's definitely some minimum amount of synergy but also some big things that don't require the synergy engine to be going.
I had forgotten about Perennial Behemoth and Conduit of Worlds so I'll have to pick those up!
This is one of my first attempts to make a "precon" style deck with an obvious game plan and that especially that doesn't require prior knowledge to play. I don't have nearly enough "play an additional land" effects but those are pretty price-gated anyway. What do you think? EDIT: The fetchlands are proxied.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Well there's the problem
Reddit, which is based in San Francisco, has in recent years tried to turn from a rough-and-tumble internet message board into a full-fledged social media business by adding executives and strengthening its advertising capabilities.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Seconding Smart Launcher. Automatic categorization beats pretty much every other feature I can think of in a launcher.
I try to treat my devices as commitments as far as spending but disposable as far as usage habits and not having invent my own categories helps me just USE my phone instead of playing with it.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I've been enjoying Honored Heirloom. A 3mv mana rock that doubles as targeted grave hate.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Would you say you're reanimating the memes from the graveyard or is it more of exiling the meme from your library and being able to play it until end of turn situation?
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I use it for everything that doesn't explicitly need to be shared or anything that is going to be printed. I needed to print a document as a booklet and LibreOffice had that feature and Drive didn't.
I also keep a baseline suite of apps installed on every machine and that includes LibreOffice.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Seconding the basic rules. You can get pretty much the entire vibe of the game from this. You can even create characters!
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
$50 for nothing. Cool.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Depends on the exact shape and size of your model but for anyone wondering your can get anything from a separate nozzle you have to reach in and aim yourself to an entire toilet replacement.
I have a unit that fits comfortably under the existing seat with the controls on the side.
If you're really annoyed by how your current unit fits you might look into the ones that completely replace the seat.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I use Kavita because calibre-web doesn't have reading progress. It can be a bit weird about what metadata it picks up from scanning your library. I have a lot of problems with books having the wrong metadata until I manually rescan the library.
I mostly play Magic with people that I've taught the game and gotten hooked on it. Because of that I always keep the new player experience in mind when building decks and some of them are even built with that as a hard constraint. These are the decks I keep that I give to newer or rustier players. They tend to have a bit everything or else commit hard to just the one theme where the theme is obvious. [Halana and Alena Counters](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/a9OQ4gX5G0GUT2JtgEC_sQ) - Make your commander big then they make something else big every turn. [Sloguurk Self-Mill](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/AaurRTMnSEiTdl_sLK_NgQ) - mill yourself, make your commander big, draw lands from the graveyard, play them. [Ramp City Svella](https://www.moxfield.com/decks/r3VgXNGixESu_L8Loitmbg) - Ramp ramp ramp, cast fatties, profit.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
That sounds great. I care about the new player experience as well and it's cool to see such a "what you see is what you get" commander get some love. I need to pick one up, actually.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I forgot to mention I also have a samba share running on it and it's sooooooo sloooooow. I might need to reflash the thing just to cover my bases but it's unusable for large or many files.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I always tell people that she's essentially the fixed Golos. She ramps and cheats spells and has a meaningful color identity.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I use SSH to manage docker compose. I'm just using a raspberry pi right now so I don't have room for much more than Syncthing and Dokuwiki.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Same here. I think people put undue meaning on the idea of having one single canonical correct place for a topic. Classic FOMO.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Yep! This library should help you get started.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Is it "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software"? I've heard only good things about that book. Do you do any coding or related engineering? Do you think it's more or less fun the more related knowledge you have?
I work in software and was wondering if it's worth it.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Messiah to me feels like a stepping stone but I don't have anything bad to say about it. It was essential for Paul's character because he ::: spoiler spoiler gives up instead of following what we later learn is the Golden Path
:::
It feels like he's at the height of his prescient powers in Messiah which is important for the above spoiler.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Ah but you see now instead of tanking on three cards in hand they're all tanking on 30 cards in hand. The monkey's paw curls!
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Currently reading Heretics of Dune. It's...very different from the first three but only as different as God Emperor of Dune was.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Reminds me of a character in The Expanse who gets illegal hormone gland implants that can be activated for a burst of heightened awareness. The drawback is twofold. When the activation wears off the user experiences debilitating nausea for several minutes. Over the long term the illegal part comes into play because you know those things aren't rated for health and safety. This character requires regular blood transfusions/dialysis due to toxin buildup from shoddy workmanship.
Anyway, that's an entire tangent. I'm excited to see if there are interesting complications from a doctor who's strapped with combat drugs of questionable ethics.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Long may she reign! I can see the enduring appeal of those commanders. They both get everyone in on the action.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
It's always good to be able to choose to be the bad guy. I like the honesty that kind of deck lets you have.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
The fact that it's an instant is wonderful. "But what about...Second Breakfast!"
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I"m the first one to agree with you but I also know people that wouldn't play otherwise. I suppose that LTR is modern legal so there should be great opportunity for fun and easy 60 card decks as well. Although I find that it's often logistically difficult to capture someone's interest in doing a one on one activity as opposed to a group activity.
I teach new players as A Thing I do and even have a gauntlet of decks built for exactly that so I'm confident in my ability to construct games that avoid the major pitfalls. Obviously that's not the same thing as a regular game night but eh.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
There was a lot of hype when Kenrith was spoiled that "he's perfect for politics". I'm just saying that hype was misplaced when you're probably going to only target sometime else with his activations on average twice per game if you're not comboing out.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
I think LOTR is the perfect set for playing Wizard's Tower, haha. I think one of the in universe wizard's towers is called Orthanc.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
A fun fact about those furnace filters is that combined with your aver 20-22 inch box fan they're a cheap way of getting very clean air in your house with a Corsi-Rosenthal box. https://cleanaircrew.org/box-fan-filters/
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
That does seem like a go hard or go home deck. You're going flat out to commit to casting three spells on as many turns as possible. It's like the opposite of a [[Birgi]] deck where you have the payoff in the command zone instead of the enabler. I like it! I'm also a sucker for any commander that actually wants you to buff your creatures. It's something I think is less prevalent than I would like in my experience.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Jodah seems very fair to me especially compared to the new Jodah. "[[Fist of Suns]] on legs" seems like a fun and fair proposition. Like, it's just ramp. You have to commit to having Big Expensive Commander Cards in your deck to make the juice worth the squeeze. I'd rater get smacked in the face with a splashy 10 mana spell from deep in Magic's history than see [[The Great Henge]] go off again.
Jodah also seems like it's fun because you can kind of put whatever you want in it, more or less, as long as the cards are splashy enough.
I have long said that [[Svella]] is a "fixed" [[Golos]]. She essentially does the same thing by both ramping and drawing cards but doesn't give you five colors for no reason and serves as both an early and late game mana outlet. It's a deck I often give to newer players because the gameplay is pretty well advertised by the commander. What do you think of my deck?
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Those are exceptions that prove the rule, I think. That you aren't just going to randomly hand out counters, cards, and reanimates because without that infinite mana you won't be able to defend yourself against the gifts you gave out.
I'm just saying it's lame that it's not worth targeting other people without having those specific synergy pieces in play.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
That's awesome! I love the "spin the wheel" aspect of Atla Palani. You can cheese it by stacking the deck with whatever you want but ultimately it's still random what you get each time.
Have you heard of modular decks? The idea that some part of the deck is randomized each time. For example with Atla Palani you would have a stack of cards kept separate from the deck and before each game randomly deal a number of them into your deck before you shuffle.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
That's great! I was wary of the functionality of PWAs the first time I used them (fearing a lack of functionality) but it's been a breeze with every one so far.
Firefox for Android also has the "Install" feature although I don't know if that's technically a PWA or just a sandboxed browser window.
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Love that card. I don't have it in any decks but it's worth at least half an [[Ancestral Recall]] in decks that want it.
I like [[Kenrith, the Returned King]] conceptually as a political commander but it irks me that aside from the red ability it's basically not worth it at all to activate the other abilities targeting anyone but yourself. I love the black reanimate ability, though!
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Test: [[Torgaar]]
We all have *that* deck that just survives even though it isn't the best. For me that's [[Torgaar, Famine Incarnate]]. It's not the best mono black commander in any way but its particular combination of effects to me is emblematic of mono black. It's a bit of a swiss army knife and so I find myself hard pressed to really change anything about the core of the deck. What's your pet deck?
thecdc1995 1 year ago • 100%
Hype for reprieve! It feels like a cards that should have been printed way back in Time Spiral block. It surprised me that it didn't already exist.
I'm personally excited to use LTR/LTC commander decks to get people into the game!
https://i.imgur.com/elQSYKG.jpg I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF). # 330 "books", 2.24 GB All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story # Link This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps. # README https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link # Tools used - Tampermonkey to single out the article content on the webpage. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ - SingleFileZ to download webpage and assets as a single file. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/ - Calibre E-Book Management to manage metadata like title, series, covers and also to generate the final folder structure. https://calibre-ebook.com/ - Bash scripting to rename downloaded .zip.html files to just .zip so Calibre can understand them. - Irfanview to create the collages. https://www.irfanview.com/ # Future In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. There's is also no source that I know of that has a complete mostly of all free web fiction with working links. It's a mess on the mothership. Enjoy!
I like [Torgaar](https://scryfall.com/card/dom/108/torgaar-famine-incarnate) as my Mono Black Stuff deck and am looking to trim the fat a bit. The [Burglar Rat](https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/214/burglar-rat) effects are up for cutting but I'm not sure what direction to go in. [Painful Quandary](https://scryfall.com/card/bro/111/painful-quandary) seems cool for when I set something to 20 with Torgaar?
Cross posted from Reddit ---------- https://i.imgur.com/elQSYKG.jpg I finally did it. I went through the entire web fiction archive and turned it into EPUBs (except the NEO manga PDF). # 330 "books", 2.24 GB All stories have the proper metadata with title, author(s) and series (set/block/anthology) and include the proper cover image as shown on the MTG Story Archive here: https://magic.wizards.com/en/story # Link This is the link to the Google Drive containing the files. The anthologies and chapters are separated by folder so you can choose your preferred reading experience. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CKIzFmunFLEfPgBXyHw0exEnNelG-7Ja?usp=sharing It was A LOT of work but made much easier using a variety of software tools to automate the most important steps. # README https://drive.google.com/file/d/16wNjwaW7YgHX4CQ_CblvD-W-_i1crzYr/view?usp=drive_link # Tools used - Tampermonkey to single out the article content on the webpage. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tampermonkey/ - SingleFileZ to download webpage and assets as a single file. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/ - Calibre E-Book Management to manage metadata like title, series, covers and also to generate the final folder structure. https://calibre-ebook.com/ - Bash scripting to rename downloaded .zip.html files to just .zip so Calibre can understand them. - Irfanview to create the collages. https://www.irfanview.com/ # Future I know Reddit is...in flux so I figured now is as good a time as any to release a dump like this. I hope it's something people want. In the future I may write custom software that would let me scrape a database of links and do every step automatically but that would take longer than the one whole day it took me to do this. Enjoy!