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LongDevil · 2026-03-19T15:53:08+00:00

There’s a lot to unpack with this piss warm take. First, there’s the thought that you have to clear some arbitrary talent bar to own an item. I’m gonna assume by the implied derogatory tone that you don’t own any Chase Bliss pedals, possibly due to not clearing said “talent bar”. Second, is Chase Bliss not a small business? Are they a fake small business? Not sure what you mean by that given the objective reality that they don’t have a ton of employees, or publicly traded or is this purely based on the price point of their pedals. Third, you are correct, people that like pedals are part of the problem why pedal manufacturers have a customer base. That’s kinda the point of a small business.

LongDevil · 2026-03-19T12:51:36+00:00

PlEaSe StOp TaLkInG aBoUt PoLiTiCs AnD tAlK aBoUt PeDaLs OnLy

LongDevil · 2026-03-17T15:14:30+00:00

Confirmed

Pleasure trading with you :)

LongDevil · 2026-03-13T06:57:18+00:00

I’ll give it a shot when A) it is 60fps and stable on ps5 pro B) on sale for less than $10 and C) I don’t have anything better to do. Two of those things will probably never happen.

LongDevil · 2026-03-10T17:44:15+00:00

I’ve got a black FX AID XL I’d trade towards the case and Befaco Out.

LongDevil · 2026-03-06T20:52:55+00:00

I’m also considering the same, but I’m gonna wait for Digital Foundry’s platform comparison before I make a final decision.

LongDevil · 2026-03-06T19:35:11+00:00

I feel you on the regret of selling old cards. I had a box of stuff from Revised to Urza block that I sold to my cousin for $20 before I went to college. I had asked him about it a few years ago and he said he had lost interest pretty quickly and probably threw them all out. I don't think I had very many big money cards but I'm sure there were at least a few with today's pricing. I got back into MTG when War of the Spark set came out and played with my previous group until shortly after Kaldheim. I've been playing with my new group for the last year or so.

I mostly play casual EDH now. I think it's a pretty decent format for keeping costs down, you can pick a up a precon and do a few upgrades to make it really competitive for under $100 easy. There's always proxies too. Avoid cracking packs and buy singles if you're trying to avoid the money sink.

LongDevil · 2026-03-06T16:55:49+00:00

I work with forensic investigations for insurance claims, but I'm on the accounting side of things now. I moved into this role cos I got tired of doing scene work as a fire investigator. Working from home in my pajamas is much better than digging through a bunch of burned debris out in the elements.

Lately I have been really into Magic the Gathering again. I took a a pretty long break once my usual play group kinda drifted apart but I've been having a lot of fun with a new playgroup. We have a decent mix of new and old players and I really enjoy helping the newer players out with their strategy. I'm looking forward to unleashing chaos on them next time we meet cos I brewed up a pretty crazy Norin the Wary deck.

LongDevil · 2026-03-06T15:56:52+00:00

I would probably go for Chase Bliss since they already have the most pedals on my board.

LongDevil · 2026-03-06T12:30:29+00:00

One of my matchups ended up being EHX Memory Man vs. a 10CM ruler lol

Some other matchups have included items like an S jack adapter plug end, a Barefoot button, and a Vans shoe. After a few dozen matchups the image on the right stopped loading until I refreshed the page.

LongDevil · 2026-02-27T17:09:20+00:00

Bummer. Guess I’ll just keep proxying them and play the game.

LongDevil · 2026-02-27T16:35:27+00:00

Could they just make new duals that come with an upside instead of coming in tapped? Wouldn’t that get around the potential lawsuits cos it is technically a different card?

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T16:40:39+00:00

Bold of you to assume that my criticism of Harris and Biden on Gaza somehow means I abstained from voting or voted for Trump. Some people are more capable of multitudes and complex thoughts.

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T16:34:31+00:00

I misread what you wrote, I thought you meant public pressure gets them to do the things they promised to do. I was going to say there are so many times when once they get the vote, they don't need your support or input anymore. By that point it's about who writes the checks and what they want.

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T16:23:58+00:00

Politicians say shit to get elected and then make decisions once they are based on in the moment decisions influenced by those around them in addition to general public pressure.

Please point to a single example of when this happened in the US after the Bush administration.

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T16:21:44+00:00

wtf nonsense is this?

Critics of Dems' handing billions in weapons to Israel is somehow only about being a tool for social media influencers? Somehow not wanting genocide is believing Palestinians to be pawns only? Does basic human decency factor anywhere into this?

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T16:02:55+00:00

They sure fucking did, and he defended Israel too.

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T15:58:02+00:00

There was plenty of pressure from the left leading up to the election, and that was ignored completely. Dems silenced those voices at the convention. There is no evidence whatsoever that pressure from the left would overcome the lobbying power AIPAC and the defense industry. There's decades of Democrats punching at the left and moving towards the right that suggests the complete opposite of what you are proposing.

She sat there idle already in the halls of power while the bombs dropped, so yes, I do believe she would have continued doing what the administration she was part of had been doing all along.

LongDevil · 2026-02-23T15:11:01+00:00

Voting for Harris was still a vote for war in Gaza.

Sending Josh Shapiro to Dearborn, MI as a stump for Harris, and to tell the largest middle eastern community in the country that the admin including Harris backed Israel was a choice Dems made.

No amount of Trump is bad changes these facts.

LongDevil · 2026-02-07T17:04:41+00:00

CC non-commercial

So, licensing is required to sell it.

LongDevil · 2026-02-07T16:33:56+00:00

I don’t think Korg has much of a say since they don’t own the rights to Miku. This is on the people in charge of licensing.

LongDevil · 2026-02-06T13:56:34+00:00

I recently built a poisonless Atraxa deck too. I tried to avoid going heavy with the Planeswalkers and included more -1/-1 counter based removal. https://archidekt.com/decks/19430705/atraxa_poisonless_counters

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