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by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I've been drinking coffee made with an old fashioned percolator for basically since I married my wife and she got me hooked on it. So since 2005 or so. I'll drink a cold brew every now and then but I never go out of my way for anything but the percolated stuff. I more or less grew up drinking coffe...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

You'll never look back, trust me. Get you some good beans and you'll never pay for coffee outside of your house again. We've had a variety of machines off and on for the last decade and we'd never be without one now. Most cafes here in Auckland that I've been through can't make a decent coffee to s...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

On the topic of prices cratering, I'll say that I was initially skeptical of collectors boosters but now I love them. They flood the market with foils and variants making it excessively easy for me to cherry pick nice things for reasonable prices. I was initially skeptical, now I tend to grab a col...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

All of those are solid recs. Schitt's Creek in particular is probably my favorite thing to come out of the last decade.
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Now I sorta understand why the pre-modern era folks hold the likes of Urza and Yawgmoth so closely (I understand their importance, but I was never there when it happened so they will never be as close to me like Hidetsugu and the Eldrazi are). The Weatherlight story arc lasted for a long time, and ...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Swing out = Blow Out - mono white
Replies: 42
Views: 3304

Re: Swing out = Blow Out - mono white

Kami of False Hope works more as a rattlesnake than a blowout most of the time but could still be worth consideration. If you have any ways to flash in creatures or reanimate at instant speed (easier with black in the deck), you can catch some people off guard with it. Being easier to reuse than th...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Samwise the Stouthearted
Replies: 16699
Views: 1046974

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Path of Ancestry

I stick Path of Ancestry into heavy tribal lists from time to time, but otherwise stick to lands that come in untapped. Solid budget fixing with a high chance of one or more scry 1 triggers makes a decent card. It's also a passable tribal payoff, if only because the opportunity cost is low enough th...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

My beard ranges from ~2 weeks worth of growth to "haven't shaved in months." I don't think my wife has ever even seen me clean shaven outside of pictures. On instruments, I have an entry level bass from back in high school when a bunch of friends wanted to start a band (never really spent ...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Lifeless wrote:
2 years ago
I have that crazy hair thing happen to me all the time after shaving - nothing like a nearly invisible beard dagger stuck in your finger so far you have to cut it out.
Easy solution, just stop shaving. Embrace your inner lumberjack.
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Second Moderna shot wasn't too bad for me. Some muscle aches and a persistent headache for a day, but no fever or anything. It took my wife out completely for the weekend though. On reprints and card prices, what happened to Sensei's Divining Top ? It's ~3x the price it was when it was arguably the ...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I think my favorite sealed pool was Rise of the Eldrazi. Opened Emrakul, the Aeons Torn , played it mostly as a meme, and then the first game I played actually went long enough for me to hit 15 land drops and hardcast it. I have no recollection of anything else from that event. I think the last prer...
by SocorroTortoise
2 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I'm getting the second Moderna shot in about a week. You all have got me looking forward to it now.
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I was surprised by Texas Instruments TI has a pretty large industry presence. I know a few people who do/have worked for them but have no idea what specific products they make aside from the calculators I used in HS/college, which I imagine is an almost nonexistent part of the current business. I s...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

@SocorroTortoise https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-semiconductors-chips-shortage/?sref=ExbtjcSG handy dandy charts and graphics thingy Not a bad read. I don't ever really hear about the larger process nodes because I'm on the design side of things, but it's not surprising that the auto indust...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Unreleased and New Card Discussion
Replies: 9415
Views: 640328

Re: Unreleased and New Card Discussion

For Beaming Defiance in particular and not excusing white continually getting the short end of the stick when it comes to EDH, there were probably limited concerns thanks to magecraft. Any cheap instant already has a chance to be a combat trick in this set so the ones at common need to be dialed bac...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?
Replies: 103
Views: 7701

Re: Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?

I'm not a fan of lesson boards but someone showing up with a lesson board wouldn't be enough for me to not play with them. I would try and discourage it over the longer term though. Same applies to wishes, for what it's worth. If someone were to load a wishboard with narrow but devastating hate card...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Looks like a decent one. Ordering a prebuilt is probably the only way you're easily getting a current gen graphics card right now and that's a definite perk.
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

This is going to sound very cloud-shouty, but I think the onboarding process is VERY different for new players today than it was for me. I spent years playing 60 card jank against other people at my highschool...I'd give anything to look at all those decklists with my savvy eye now, it'd be really ...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I've picked up a decent chunk of stuff recently. Largely old border legacy staples from TSR, but I am sitting on a couple boxes (CMR and TSR) to draft with the group once we can actually sit around a table.
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Samwise the Stouthearted
Replies: 16699
Views: 1046974

Re: [mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Brainstorm

Brainstorm is much worse here than in legacy with the (typically) lower density of shuffle effects. It's still solid in the right list whether that's because topdeck/cards drawn matters or due to having enough ways to shuffle reliably. I'm a big fan of cantrips in general. They're likely to never b...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

We're an hour away from the Strixhaven debut stream. I should be excited - the setting's pretty decent, there's C21 to go along with it... yet I cannot muster even an ounce of enthusiasm. I think this has a lot to do with the unprecedented level of Perpetual Hype™. The time between the autumn and s...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

Hermes_ I think you're overestimating the spending power of the average worker, even in the US. Someone making $50k annually (similar to the article you linked and translates to ~$24/hr, which is definitely more than a number of people I know are getting) is getting ~$3k/month after taxes depending...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

I only posted the list because you said you weren't sure about other foundries. No worries. That was specifically about foundries that could handle the small process node, which was not super apparent from my post. I didn't find any source that had process node information compiled by foundry/compa...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

https://technosports.co.in/2020/12/18/top-10-semiconductor-foundries-of-the-world/ There are a couple things about that list that aren't immediately apparent. The first is that TSMC is the market leader, but not even all of their foundries can produce the 7nm process node that the higher end Nvidia...
by SocorroTortoise
3 years ago
Forum: Commander
Topic: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread
Replies: 7776
Views: 498655

Re: [Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

If the chip makers are taking excessive prices for their product, the companies that need them will simply find a vendor with lower prices. Price fixing cartels are pretty much illegal everywhere, so it'll sort itself out. That's more difficult when you're talking silicon foundries. I don't think t...

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