[Off-Topic] Community Chat Thread

[TheAmericanSpirit]

In pointless things that I've spent way too much brainpower on, I've finally figured out why they named the black mana myr Leaden Myr instead of Lead Myr. It's so that Lead (Plumbum) isn't confused with Lead (Duco). I feel like I should've figured that out soon since I always make fun of Lead Dental whenever I drive past it.

I really hate that google couldn't tell me this first, but pardon my ignorance: what is lead (duco)? I only know about plumbum and it's bugging me.

[Guardman]

In pointless things that I've spent way too much brainpower on, I've finally figured out why they named the black mana myr Leaden Myr instead of Lead Myr. It's so that Lead (Plumbum) isn't confused with Lead (Duco). I feel like I should've figured that out soon since I always make fun of Lead Dental whenever I drive past it.

I really hate that google couldn't tell me this first, but pardon my ignorance: what is lead (duco)? I only know about plumbum and it's bugging me.

Lead (Duco) is the Leadership type of Lead. But it also might be because my latin is really, really bad.

[TheAmericanSpirit]

In pointless things that I've spent way too much brainpower on, I've finally figured out why they named the black mana myr Leaden Myr instead of Lead Myr. It's so that Lead (Plumbum) isn't confused with Lead (Duco). I feel like I should've figured that out soon since I always make fun of Lead Dental whenever I drive past it.

I really hate that google couldn't tell me this first, but pardon my ignorance: what is lead (duco)? I only know about plumbum and it's bugging me.

Lead (Duco) is the Leadership type of Lead. But it also might be because my latin is really, really bad.

Thank you, the Latin threw me.

[Venedrex]

My favorite word for this is pitch.

Pitch me that baseball.
Your pitch is off.
The boat started to pitch.
Apply some pitch to that to waterproof it.
I have a great concept I'm trying to pitch.
The pitch of the roof isn't too bad.
Meet me for some cricket out on the pitch.

I could go on. At some point, maybe we should just make a new word for one of these seven+ different meanings?

[Guardman]

My favorite word for this is pitch.

Pitch me that baseball.
Your pitch is off.
The boat started to pitch.
Apply some pitch to that to waterproof it.
I have a great concept I'm trying to pitch.
The pitch of the roof isn't too bad.
Meet me for some cricket out on the pitch.

I could go on. At some point, maybe we should just make a new word for one of these seven+ different meanings?

Then there are words like run and set that have hundreds of meanings.

This reminds me of a book one of my uncles got me in high school. It was about Alchemy or something... I don't know. I just remember them trying to come up with an unambiguous language. And were idealizing the whole thing. It being really stupid, boring, and I didn't finishing it.

On a different note, apparently Modern Horizons 2 is the best selling set of all time now. I guess everyone was acting like they were a kid at Trader Joe's and trying to find the monkey.

[Venedrex]

This reminds me of a book one of my uncles got me in high school. It was about Alchemy or something... I don't know. I just remember them trying to come up with an unambiguous language. And were idealizing the whole thing. It being really stupid, boring, and I didn't finishing it.

Coincidentally I played Alchemy and found it was written with an unambigous language, really stupid, boring and I didn't finish it.

[Hermes_]

[Lorn Asbord Schutta]

As some of you know, there is a whole Custom Cards section here on Nexus and we have some monthly contests running there. One of them is a Card Creation League, which ends with an open poll to determine the month's winner from among the finalists. It is only a minute or two to read the designs and cast a vote, which you can do here. You can do it with no further attachment and at the same time each vote is a valuable information to the finalists. And if you have even more time and nothing else to do, you can comment on some or all designs you find particulary interesting.

[RxPhantom]

I'd like to tell you about the recent trip my Kykar, Wind's Fury deck took to Magical Christmas land.

I wasn't doing great. I was answering threats one-for-one but not really able to establish much of a winning board state. My board was Kykar, Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, and four tokes from each. I was starting to run out of gas. But then, The Mirari Conjecture hit its final chapter, and from these humble beginnings, over 100 points of damage were dealt. Come with me, won't you?

So, as the Conjecture hit chapter III and allowed me to copy every instant and sorcery that turn, I started off with Preordain. On the second one, I saw it. I looked at my hand, back to the card, back to my hand, back to the card. It was Insult // Injury. I cast it, put a copy on the stack, held priority, then calmly announced: Fork. I now had a 16x damage multiplier and plenty of mana left over to cast the Aftermath portion of Insult // Injury, which would also be copied. Those eight humble tokens knocked out two players, and Injury took care of the third.

[Hermes_]

Only an idiot would uninstall skyrim and close to 200 mods, only to reinstall the game and start modding

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[Venedrex]

Only an idiot would uninstall skyrim and close to 200 mods, only to reinstall the game and start modding

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I don't know about 200 mods, but my favorite pastime is to carefully select 10-30 mods for my imaginary world famous Minecraft modpack, tinker with them until everything is perfect, play for a few minutes, determine that no one would ever enjoy this pack and better versions exist, uninstall everything, rinse and repeat three months later.

The hilarious thing is, I know that I'm going to get another crazy modpack idea and start over, but I literally just find the process of pretending to make a modpack so much fun that I'm never frustrated at all and have a great time even when I decide to scrap everything and begin again. Its like the Minecraft version of endlessly building the perfect deck but never actually building IRL.

For example: Hmm, I should make a Post-Apocalyptic modpack, that's never been done before. But my version will be different. Ic2, Wasteland mod, tweaks to spawn settings, mob spawn controls, bunker starting items, oh yeah, it's all coming together. Later on. This is stupid, no fun, why would anyone ever play this modpack you can't even experience half the game! Whoever designed this was a moron! Anyways, time to start making the perfect Minecraft experience, hmm let's see Thaumcraft, Forestry... 1.7.10 of course.........

[TheGildedGoose]

Didn't have "Eraserhead vibes" on my House of the Dragon finale bingo card.

[ISBPathfinder]

Anyone else playing Marvel Snap? I wasn't sure it was going to be for me but then suddenly I realize I have been playing it for multiple hours a day since it launched last week. Its monetization feels like I didn't just get bent over by blizard / hasbro and I am wondering what's happening lol. The free to play option is actually totally fine and they did a great job putting players against similar collection level opponents. It feels really weird because most free to play try to steal all your money and let you flex with spending which the game has very little options for. It looks like they are going to try to monetize on cosmetics which feels really refreshing for a TCG.

[Dunadain]

Anyone else playing Marvel Snap? I wasn't sure it was going to be for me but then suddenly I realize I have been playing it for multiple hours a day since it launched last week. Its monetization feels like I didn't just get bent over by blizard / hasbro and I am wondering what's happening lol. The free to play option is actually totally fine and they did a great job putting players against similar collection level opponents. It feels really weird because most free to play try to steal all your money and let you flex with spending which the game has very little options for. It looks like they are going to try to monetize on cosmetics which feels really refreshing for a TCG.

I haven't even touched i yet, but after such a glowing endorsement I'll give it a shot.

[Lifeless]

I was turned off by hearing it was like Gwent and I'm not a fan, but I've still been meaning to give it a try. I'm lucky if I have a half hour for games right now and that time is usually spent in PvE Legends of Runeterra (speaking of games that are very free to play).

[ISBPathfinder]

I was turned off by hearing it was like Gwent and I'm not a fan, but I've still been meaning to give it a try. I'm lucky if I have a half hour for games right now and that time is usually spent in PvE Legends of Runeterra (speaking of games that are very free to play).

I have no idea what Gwent is but it is free to play and games generally take about 5 minutes so its really nice even if you don't have much free time to give it attention. It is designed for mobile so you can play from the phone and it has a good mobile experience.

[Hermes_]

so if your a Doctor Who fan who has D+

[Dunadain]

That's pretty hype, I watched all the seasons you get for free with Amazon Prime, they were pretty good, not good enough for me to buy the more recent series, but goodenough for me to check this out.

[Moonlighter]

so if your a Doctor Who fan who has D+

Oh man I can't wait for the inevitable MCU crossover. [Disclaimer: The previous sentence is a joke and Moonlighter can and will wait instead of watching Disney do the same thing to this IP that they like to do to their other IPs.]

[DirkGently]

Updated piloting photo (where I'm not sweaty please stop calling me sweaty )



Been flying my syndicated plane for the past week and it's been super fun. Handles incredibly compared to the rental planes. And so damn cheap. I'm paying less than 60 USD per hour. Trying to get my CPL done by February, we'll see how that goes.

[Legend]

Been flying my syndicated plane for the past week and it's been super fun. Handles incredibly compared to the rental planes. And so damn cheap. I'm paying less than 60 USD per hour. Trying to get my CPL done by February, we'll see how that goes.

Cool. My stepdad (now 82) was a small plane pilot for about 50 years and instructor for about 30, until he had a heart attack. After he recovered, he took to building simulators for personal use and "flies" from home to this day. At one point, he had an actual plane fuselage in his mancave with a simulator in it. Pilots are a different breed.

[Dunadain]

Anyone else playing Marvel Snap? I wasn't sure it was going to be for me but then suddenly I realize I have been playing it for multiple hours a day since it launched last week. Its monetization feels like I didn't just get bent over by blizard / hasbro and I am wondering what's happening lol. The free to play option is actually totally fine and they did a great job putting players against similar collection level opponents. It feels really weird because most free to play try to steal all your money and let you flex with spending which the game has very little options for. It looks like they are going to try to monetize on cosmetics which feels really refreshing for a TCG.

I haven't even touched i yet, but after such a glowing endorsement I'll give it a shot.

So update: yeah it's pretty fun! With a pretty fair f2p experience.

[Hermes_]

Updated piloting photo (where I'm not sweaty please stop calling me sweaty )



Been flying my syndicated plane for the past week and it's been super fun. Handles incredibly compared to the rental planes. And so damn cheap. I'm paying less than 60 USD per hour. Trying to get my CPL done by February, we'll see how that goes.

You equipped Cobbled Wings

[DirkGently]

@Hermes_ lol, hey now, it might be a microlight but it's certainly more structurally stable than optimism.

[TheGildedGoose]

New deck idea: unsleeved Jon Irenicus, Shattered One where you donate HP/MP drawback beaters like Drinker of Sorrow. The sentimental copy of Phyrexian Negator I kept when I sold out 15 years ago is slightly water damaged...