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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mind if I crosspost this to /c/[email protected]?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Man, that is a stretch and a half.

...Which makes it perfect for this community, I suppose

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hmm, if an NFL player gets suspended without pay, does the team get that salary cap money back?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

That's actually pretty damn good ball placement, especially for a WR.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can kinda see the "too fast" complaint with stuff like Brawl or other unranked modes, but in any ranked modes, winning is the point, so I feel like there isn't really any room to complain about fast and efficient decks in ranked play. Idk which modes you tend to play, so that may or may not be relevant. At the very least, fast decks let you get on to the next match sooner.

Agreed on ropers, of course, though I don't see a whole lot of intentional roping that often. However, I usually play Brawl, and otherwise have only have one janky ranked Historic deck that usually hangs out in silver, so I don't know if it's worse in higher rank tiers. More often I see people who just seem to have trouble making decisions quickly, or don't seem to notice that they have priority until the rope starts. It's mildly frustrating, but it usually doesn't appear to be intentional so I try not to get too mad about it.

On wilds, I actually got into the Arena alpha test back in the day, but I've taken a few multi-year breaks from it since release. I've found that if you play consistently across the lifetime of a set, you can end up filling out a lot of it, but actually catching up on sets that you've missed, especially if there are years' worth of them, is a nightmare. I'm probably going to have to wait for another rotation before I can really think about trying to get into Standard. I can't imagine how bad it is for brand-new players...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Which is why it failed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Other than the pets and to some extent the triggers, this mostly just seems like complaints about Magic itself. It also strikes me as odd to complain about decks that are too fast and decks that are too slow simultaneously...

At any rate, my main problems with Arena are the horrifically slow wildcard economy and the lack of multiplayer Brawl.

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One of my childhood best friends transitioned and another came out as bi. I think a lot of it is just that people with ADHD and/or on the spectrum tend to get along really well with other ADHD/spectrum people. Since those traits heavily overlap with also being LGBTQ+, those who don't fall into that overlap end up making friends in their youth with a lot of people who eventually come out later once they figure themselves out.

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Astro what now?? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Just a quick and simple logoswap this time. Hope yall like it!

 

The DLC may have had a buggy as hell release, but the soundtrack still goes hard AF.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

What are some commanders that you would build in a heartbeat if they worked just slightly differently?

I've always lamented that Toshiro Umezawa's ability didn’t also apply to sorceries. Spellslinger isn't really a theme that's associated with mono-B, so Toshiro's effect is rather unique and interesting.

But then you look at Black's selection of instants, and outside of spells that just kill things, the selection is dire. There’s some card draw, a handful of niche/limited reanimator pieces, the odd ritual here and there, and an assortment of other odds and ends. There just isn't enough quality or volume to build a theme around anything other than just killing things.

The only way to incorporate actual wincons that are related to the theme of the deck that I can think of would be grinding everyone down with Blood Artist effects and heavy board control, and if you want to win with Blood Artist, why not just run Aristocrats instead?

If it were instants and sorceries, Toshiro would be able to do a lot more interesting things that otherwise couldn't be easily accomplished in mono-B. Breaking timing restrictions on sorceries might've been kinda problematic back in the original Kamigawa block, but these days there are enough commanders that can do that, to the point where it's probably not that big of a deal.

Any other commanders you wish worked just slightly differently?

 

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Bigfoot (lemmy.world)
 
 

I live in a pretty old house in the midwest, built 1929, bought in '21, single-story, ~1300ish sqft, and with a large, spacious basement. Every time summer comes around I've had issues with the basement getting MUCH colder than the rest of the house (like >10 degrees F difference), presumably due to poorly-insulated floors and cold air sinking. The HVAC is still capable of keeping the main floor at the temp set on the thermostat, but the temperature differential indicates it's working quite a bit harder than it really needs to be, and is probably wasting quite a bit of money.

I'm planning on getting an insulation specialist in at some point to go over options for shoring up the insulation, but I'm wondering if there's anything else I could do to recirculate air in the basement through the rest of the house - even with good insulation, I feel like the laws of thermodynamics would still result in a basement at least fairly colder than the rest of the house.

Is there anything I could look into that is reasonably cost-effective for circulating air from the basement to the rest of the house so my HVAC doesn't have to work so hard in the summer? Thanks

 

Why yes I have been playing a shitload of Pokérogue lately, why do you ask?

Wikipedia lists five composers for this game, so this is composed by one or more of: Koichi Nakamura, Hiroaki Tsuru, Mikiko Ohashi, Kunimi Kawamura, and/or Hitoshi Yamagami

 
 
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