We’re so fucking back

Thanks for putting yourself on the pyre to prove a point. Hivemind is worse here than Reddit imo, because at least Reddit has a diverse user base…

Drill, impact, etc are pretty much necessary to have cordless. I agree with the corded stuff though. Need an angle grinder or sawzall? Get corded. Way more powerful too.

Or YouTube vanced/revanced for mobile

No kidding. I swear half the commenters from .ml are fighting over a single brain cell

Homophobia? Did we read the same comment?

Unsure if AI image, or product of horrific work environment…

It’ll generally default to C drive on Windows. Most of the time, you’d click “browse” and select another drive.

If something is against “national interest” and your president is trying to become an autocrat, that means they can essentially pick and choose what national interest is. This should be setting off alarm bells in EVERYONE’S head as an obvious grab for power.

I’m not american, so I don’t have direct skin in the game, but everyone on both sides of the political spectrum who don’t self identify as fascist should be against this.

If you don’t interpret this as something extremely dangerous, you need to have a sit down and really think about the implications.

It really was weirdly good.

I’d rather cum in the sink than sink in the cum

As a guy with covid currently, it is not, in fact, over.

Helldivers 2 with friends.

Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Hadn’t played since I was much younger. Forgot how fun it was to kick everyone off ledges.

Binding of Isaac - once I figure out how to get my GOG save file on my partner’s PC to sync with my PC…

Total War: Warhammer 3. Played this one on and off. A mod I love just dropped a patch so I’m bad into it for now, until CA fucks something up again.

It could also just be a bad match up, exacerbated by the fact that they likely did some high synergy upgrades. What you could do if you were so inclined is go to EDHREC, and look up your commander. It will show you high synergy cards and top picks, and it also gives you a price. The draw back to doing this is sort of what I touched on above, where one can really get lost in the weeds of doing upgrades. It also (IMO) makes your deck less “you” and kind of turns it into some generalized, optimized deck. The feeling of performing well with a deck you made with your own brain feels better than essentially scraping the deck list off a cheat sheet.

My preferred way of looking for cards is using the Scryfall advanced search, and looking up specific keywords for my deck. For example, if I have a green/white creature token generation deck, I would select green/white/colourless, set the colour identity to include any of the above colours, and use the Oracle text search “create a token”.

That way, everything that populated will be in at least one of the colours I’ve selected, and will show me everything with those specific 3 words in it. You can really find some fun stuff.

Another option instead of upgrading is maybe to look into getting another kind of deck. Having variety is always nice, but it’s really up to you which way you’d rather go.

Some of my best commander decks are my cheapest. It’s almost all about synergy.

However

There is a saying, that the most powerful card in Magic is the credit card. I mean, look at something like Counterspell vs Mana Drain. Same mana cost, except one is cheap ($$) and the other is super expensive, and Mana Drain is insanely good.

Your friend could just have a deck that naturally counters yours, but I think having a precon deck with $120 in upgrades over $20 in upgrades will definitely give them a leg up. The only real way to compete is try to optimize synergies, which often involves upping the value of the deck.

You can stop reading here if you want, as the rest is anecdotal.

After a few years of playing, my group eventually slowly increased the power of our decks with good pulls from packs, or buying high synergy singles. You can really get lost in the weeds of optimizing your deck, and it turned into a financial arms race, which feels bad. I talked to most of my play group about this, and a lot of them agreed that this was getting kind of “pay to win” for us, and we all hit the brakes a bit with our deck optimization. The nice thing with Commander when you are playing with 3+ people, is the game is sort of self balancing. One person has a great deck and starts dominating? Well now all the others can agree to gang up on them, which can be fun.

Some of the decks in my group are crazy good, but we try and be considerate to what the power levels of the rest of the group might be playing. I think the healthy option is to just open the conversation with your friends and let them know how you feel or think, which is what you’ve done.

Personally, I love the PDH format. Uncommon creature as your commander, common cards in the rest of the deck. You can still have a great time with a lower power deck, and everyone is roughly on the same playing field due to the power limitations of the cards. A deck for PDH would cost me $30-$40 CAD, and it plays mostly the same as EDH.

The grass is not greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it.

Maybe they can see you 👀

I agree, it isn’t that nuanced. My point again, is just that the government should not be involved, legally speaking. Do you trust the government to allow circumcision under certain circumstances, but not others? I don’t.

I assume you’re in Europe or something. I’m in Canada, and our politicians are looking down south thinking they might have some pretty good ideas. Look at the bans on abortions in the USA, that are blanket bans, even when medically necessary. People literally have to flee their state to get an abortion. Their life being at risk is no consequence to these lawmakers.

I’m happy you believe you live in a place where you trust your politicians to make smart moves that benefit people. I don’t trust mine, and I will not be voting for anything that restricts personal autonomy. I can look down south and see how easily this can be weaponized against the population.

As a final note, I agree with the sentiment of the arguement. You should not be able to circumcise your kid just because you want to.

If this isn’t agreeable to you, we can agree to disagree and move on.

I appreciate the discussion regardless.

We have a large Ukrainian population here. Some 1.3 million Ukrainians.

Of course not, because a medical professional would advise against it.

Here’s an example of what I’m talking about: I had plastic surgery on my nose when I was a kid. I got into an accident which resulted in the near loss of my nose. I spent some time in the ER, and then had one of the best plastic surgeons in my area perform restorative work on my face.

If it wasn’t for this procedure, I likely wouldn’t have a nose today. Fortunately, because there was no law preventing a child from getting plastic surgery, I look completely normal as an adult.

Plastic surgery is a bit of a misnomer. There was no artificial material involved.

Do you see what I’m saying though? Giving plastic surgery to a kid sounds absolutely ridiculous, but there are its use cases, and if there was a flat ban on plastic surgery for children, it could harm people more than help, myself included.

The government often doesn’t understand the nuances of certain situations. In mine, the surgery was cosmetic, and the government could have deemed it unnecessary. I could have lived a happy life without a nose. Do I trust the government to make a logical argument for why my cosmetic surgery as a child is justified? Do I trust them to delineate between an unneeded surgery or not? Absolutely not.

Sometimes, it isn’t as black and white as Botox and burns.