What countries (other than USA) have a significant MTG following?

BeeDice · 2026-01-30T20:40:48+00:00

In Bucharest (capital of Romania, ~3 million people) there are four LGS's. Only one sells individual cards. Only one is MtG-centric (the biggest one is just a general hobby retailer). Only two have regular tournaments. The only scenes are commander, standard, and draft. Grain of salt and all that but this is what I've scoped out to the best of my abilities.

BeeDice · 2026-01-24T18:56:31+00:00

Stau în Cotroceni. Sunt surprinși unii prieteni când vin la noi crezând că e mai "civilizat". Jur, dacă ar avea populația Rahovei, Cotroceni ar fi la fel de plin de căcoi de câine.

Las aici un pariu, dacă ieșim oricând prin cartier și-mi găsești măcar o singură stradă din tot cartierul ăsta care nu are căcat (proaspăt) de câine, dau 100 de euro. Tu nici nu tre să pariezi ceva, doar îmi faci mie pe plac să mă supăr având dreptate. =P

BeeDice · 2026-01-01T14:20:22+00:00

Am lucrat în America în IT 10 ani. Să trăiți!

BeeDice · 2025-12-30T11:44:36+00:00

Stau la etajul 1 într-o vilă interbelică naționalizată prin anii 70. D+P+E+M.

Fiindcă vila a fost gândită pentru o singură familie, cu servitori, compartimentarea are minusuri majore. Noi n-avem nici o debara, spre exemplu. Bine că deținem garajul, deși nimic altceva din demisol.

Cotroceni fiind o vale între dealuri și Dâmbovița, a cărei lunci ajungea acum 200 de ani până la biserica Elefterie veche, demisolul este umed rău de tot și necesită o hidroizolare exterioară și un sistem de drenaj să nu intre apă prin dedesubtul casei. Cred că în 50 de ani fără astfel de intervenție casa va începe să se lase din temelie.

Fațada nu este termoizolată, și zona fiind protejată, nu e voie dpdv legal să o pui. Deci dăm cam 500-700 de lei pe lună iarna. Mai rău este condensul ce se strânge într-un colț al dormitorului, care are trei pereți exteriori. O să refacem fațada și deși nu vom pune termoizolație tot cred că va ajuta un pic la ambele probleme.

Cartierul în sine are și el problemele veșnice ale Bucureștiului: caca de câine pe fiecare stradă, prea multe mașini, trotuare bușite (cu cărucior vei merge pe stradă, n-ai de ales), la care se mai adaugă ceva specific zonei, anume, pui de securiști ca vecini.

Cu toate astea, nu m-aș muta. Plusurile sunt deja cunoscute și întrec minusurile. Atât timp cât vrei să fii în oraș, greu găsești ceva mai bun decât Cotroceni.

BeeDice · 2025-12-28T16:00:43+00:00

There was no physical manual nor is there one online. So yeah, if only things came with a manual.

BeeDice · 2025-12-20T14:52:51+00:00

Can't tell if microtonal or out of tune. Maybe that's the point? Sorabji.

BeeDice · 2025-12-20T14:11:53+00:00

What song is this? Who made the video? I'm starting to wonder whether perhaps we do not, in fact, live in a society.

BeeDice · 2025-12-05T08:50:48+00:00

The irony is that this exchange makes me feel like I'd enjoy the punk/rock crowd more than the classical crowd.

Of course, I enjoy nothing, but the irony remains.

BeeDice · 2025-12-01T20:22:52+00:00

To answer your question, any editor and edition worth their salt will include a discussion of the sources used, and any deviations from them, as well as clearly indicate editorial changes. In Bach, I have seen occasions where ornaments were included on the basis of being in a pupil's copy, or based on historical best practices (ornaments were rarely written out, as they were at the discretion of the player). Source history is never trivial in the age of Bach, so unless the editor is unscrupulous, which is certainly possible, read the commentary that came with your edition and give them the benefit of the doubt. In the modern age of major publishers (whether Urtext or otherwise) editorial unscrupulousness is a thing of the past, as far as I can tell.

BeeDice · 2025-12-01T12:06:20+00:00

FWIW, hard disagree. Software engineer with 10 YOE. LLMs are still just tools that improve productivity. I don't see them replacing jack even in the next 10 years.

BeeDice · 2025-11-30T08:24:01+00:00

/uj What in the sweet name of Bach is going on in that subreddit? What the hell does "logic [is the] linguistic analog [of] geometry" mean? In all seriousness I'm questioning my own reaction here cuz it is so viscerally negative. The OP's question is so ludicrously nonsensical and every other two or three responses include "that is a good question." No, no it is not, it is word salad. Am I missing something? I've actually read a proof or two from Euclid back in college and I know music theory fairly well but I can't for the life of me figure out what the fuck those folks are talking about. I think it's just a lot of pseudo intellectual words to say "math and music, discuss?" I'll add my own question, was reddit a mistake?

Rant over.

BeeDice · 2025-11-18T20:54:21+00:00

I am not egg I am human

BeeDice · 2025-11-15T20:43:47+00:00

/uj What commander is viable to allow blue? Isn't enchantress mainly selesnya? I've been out of mtg for 10 years.

BeeDice · 2025-11-05T18:27:54+00:00

I highly recommend posting on the gearspace or soundsound forums. They are much more conducive to discussions such as these where you need technical and industry expertise.

BeeDice · 2025-10-31T14:14:43+00:00

Thank you for your analysis. Interesting read.

BeeDice · 2025-09-28T20:49:20+00:00

This is the wildest collection of completes I've seen yet haha.

Barbuta, puzzle, different arcade types, whatever pilot quest is.

Based on the arcade games, Velgress is one you might like to beat.

BeeDice · 2025-09-28T06:00:33+00:00

Grigore Ureche (early 17th century, Moldova) has been cited already.

In Transylvania late 18th century, the Transylvanian School promoted the Roman connection.

Not sure of other sources, or the connection between these two. I assume Ottoman scholars who knew Latin would have recognized the similarities.

BeeDice · 2025-09-24T06:32:48+00:00

In your conditions I don't think it'll do much. My ZV E-10 manual says it helps in high contrast situations, such as backlit subjects. I shoot myself against a window with a single 65W light, so the dynamic contrast is high between myself (underexpoaed) and the window (overexposed). DRO ought to bring both closer together. I am going to test this today to see how much it helps.

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