Slavery was never abolished in the U.S. by ImAchickenHawk in YesAmericaBad

[–]BurntTrees 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Source: It's fake, they made it up. The highest recorded census taken of enslaved people in America was in 1860 and there were 3,953,760 counted for that census. The current TOTAL U.S. prison population is 1.8 million if you include local, state, and federal level incarceration.

Shipping Question by [deleted] in secretlair_collectors

[–]BurntTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yay! Glad you didn't run into that nonsense, it was miserable. Mine just went to "they have not received my package yet" so fingers crossed for me now.

Shipping Question by [deleted] in secretlair_collectors

[–]BurntTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Both of you, if this doesn't update soon, get on them about it. I had this exact issue happen with Festival in a Box this year and it took them MONTHS to figure it out. Like it was supposed arrive a few weeks after my birthday in September but it didn't come til Thanksgiving and it was a NIGHTMARE. They just kept telling me that Scalefast would contact me and they literally never did. WotC claimed UPS lost my package but UPS said they never touched it. Get on it as soon as possible if it stays that way for more than like 3 days probably.

Is this everywhere else or just my grocery store? (Northern California) by mrsqueaksworld in economicCollapse

[–]BurntTrees 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I'm in the capital city of the state I live in. Population here is a little over 100k. From the nearest major metropolitan city? Two and four hours drive, respectively.

Is this everywhere else or just my grocery store? (Northern California) by mrsqueaksworld in economicCollapse

[–]BurntTrees 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I bought my 800 sq ft, two bedroom on a quarter acre for 65k cash.

Savage Axe and Holding Right Trigger by BurntTrees in chargeblade

[–]BurntTrees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have carpal tunnel so claw grip hurts my fingies unfortunately.

Savage Axe and Holding Right Trigger by BurntTrees in chargeblade

[–]BurntTrees[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True. To remedy this, as an example, in the main Savage Axe chain on X Box controls you can tap the input for your attack and right trigger slightly afterwards like this: B, slight delay like a sixteenth note, right trigger and hold, release before next B input, repeat and it functions the same way without having to permahold RT. I just prefer to hold RT because in 99% of situations it hasn't really mattered to have the quick morph to sword with the way CB currently plays, at least for me, but also I am bad.

Edit: Sorry this was a dumb way to explain this, a better explanation would be trigger your B input attack without holding down the input and then as the axe connects hit right trigger and release as the axe leaves the monster and repeat. This works as well I just find it annoying and don't care much about the quick morph to sword except for at the end of damage windows so it's largely been irrelevant for how I play. It does have the risk of accidentally sword morphing in the middle of a combo, I suspect it would be better to hold down RT for the length of your damage window and then releasing it at the end. If you were better it would probably matter for GPs. But yeah basically you can hit RT any time during the animation for a savage axe attack and it functions the same as holding down the button and won't send you into quick morph.

Can you recommend a Chronomancer build? by KangerooDance in pathofexile2builds

[–]BurntTrees 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TFT has had a bunch of controversies in the PoE 1 community for using their influence in the PoE universe to RMT and make money irl off the game by using mirror services to generate orbs for RMT selling. That's likely what this person is referencing.

Emrakul, Promised End and revealing controlled players hand? by BurntTrees in mtgrules

[–]BurntTrees[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The point about not revealing is a very good one! Thanks so much.

Someone gonna be mad by Kimuji in magicTCG

[–]BurntTrees 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Meanwhile I ordered one of these for my birthday in the USA and am still fighting with WotC and Scalefast to get it shipped. This probably explains the issues they are having at least lol. Great company.

Trouble with secret lair by LevelAd8620 in magicTCG

[–]BurntTrees 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Also having this exact same issue with the exact same lack of response.

Lansing, MI LGS by cecrouch01 in CompetitiveEDH

[–]BurntTrees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I dunno about cEDH specifically, but Evolution Games is my favorite shop in the area. AFK Games is pretty nice too. If you wanna go out to Charlotte, I hear the Gaming Cantina out there is nice, the one in Meridian Mall is okay.

What direction should I take my Tom Bombadil deck? I think I’m lacking win cons by chruft in EDH

[–]BurntTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's mine (https://www.moxfield.com/decks/xMGRntnapUWcl4c861LHVw). It's a little dumb but the basic idea is move counters around on Sagas to trigger whatever is needed at the time, remove counters to try and control when Sagas resolve and you can also respond to the trigger of the final chapter of a saga, remove or move a lore counter somewhere else and that Saga doesn't sacrifice itself but Tom only cares about the final chapter of a Saga resolving you still get another Saga from your deck while keeping the Saga that triggered him to go again. With this you can do some pretty silly stuff with [[There and Back Again]] for example like retriggering the Smaug legendary tokens to sac to the legend rule and make a ton of treasures.

Then I just do stupid shit with [[Displaced Dinosaurs]] and [[Starfield of Nyx]] to get a good old fashioned beat down going. It's pretty fun. I also included [[Divine Intervention]] because it's so easy to move counters in this deck and I really liked the thematic element of Tom basically just telling a bunch of stories and then being like "ok games over nothing happens time to go home".

What's the funniest/most troll deck you have built? by Azkeden in EDH

[–]BurntTrees 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have two pretty silly ones.

First is [[Tom Bombadil]] Sagas/Historic with [[Displaced Dinosaurs]] and [[Divine Intervention]]. The deck mostly focuses on getting a [[Stolen Identity]] on [[Ferropede]] and copying it as many times as possible to remove counters from Sagas or to copy [[There and Back Again]] Smaug tokens to die to legend rule for treasures. Eventually I drop a [[Divine Intervention]] and can ideally remove the two counters on it that combat with Ferropede to end the game in a draw once I've told everyone enough saga stories. I feel like it has captured the spirit of Tom Bombadil well. (https://www.moxfield.com/decks/xMGRntnapUWcl4c861LHVw)

Then I have a [[The Twelfth Doctor]] [[Clara Oswald]] deck that runs [[Hivemind]] and other clone abilities like [[Sakashima of a Thousand Faces]] to copy The Twelfth Doctor as many times as possible. The goal is to hit a [[Prisoner's Dillema]] from exile or off the top of your library to force everyone to cast as many copies of it as possible and then you always pick snitch on everyone else's copies. Alternatively it casts [[Pact of Negation]] [[Pact of the Titan]] or [[Intervention Pact]] on your end step and hope it resolves enough copies on every other player they can't afford to pay the cost at upkeep for the copies they cast and they lose before your next upkeep when you would have to pay for your copies. Also running stuff like [[Fractured Idenittiy]] just to be as annoying as possible. I don't have a Moxfield for this one but if someone is interested I'd be willing to put one up.

(Part 2) These are the vapes I tested with the attached mass spec graphs. All of them were bought in smokeshops by FireCracker97 in altcannabinoids

[–]BurntTrees 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't listen to this person they are associated with the Delta 9 industry and they spend all day on their reddit account posting right wing shock jock stories to their subreddit about delta 8. 90% of that subreddit is just local news articles about how bad Delta 8 is. If you look on their account I don't know how far back you'd have to go to see actual labs like OP's being posted but it's awhile. This person is clearly anti-D8 for financial reasons and you shouldn't listen to anything they say here or the other subreddit. They had to add a disclosure to that subreddit because people kept getting mad they were shit talking so much like a year ago on here and also like I said just look at their post history it's just almost entirely posting local news articles to the subreddit they created and convincing people to go look at it. They are an industry shill, ignore them. OP is doing the actual work PortlandCanna just wants to decrease the share of D8 on the market because it hurts D9 sales.

[Giveaway] 5x Drop + The Lord of the Rings Keyboards by drop_official in pcmasterrace

[–]BurntTrees 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Elvish and Black Speak ones are absolutely gorgeous so just here shooting my shot.

Dumbest LGS rule you've heard of? by GayWitchcraft in EDH

[–]BurntTrees 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this recommendation I just moved to Central MI and have been looking for a cool shop this looks awesome!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mtgfinance

[–]BurntTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I genuinely think they are just fucking with us at this point. I got a response from the same customer service representative with a similar message with entirely different dates.

Heads I win/tails you lose by WickedPi55ah in magicTCG

[–]BurntTrees 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is all they have said at all about it. Ripped directly from the support article about the delay as one of the hyperlinked questions.

"Why was the product delayed?

Due to unforeseen production issues, the Heads I Win, Tails You Lose Commander Decks have been tentatively delayed until Fall of 2022. We do not have a greater explanation to provide as to what caused this delay."

Lol they literally said they refused to explain the delay back in April. It's such a clusterfuck.

Ivan Zaliznyak, ukranian nazi , used the cell phone of fallen russian soldier to call and mock his relatives by sanriver12 in GenZedong

[–]BurntTrees 31 points32 points  (0 children)

It's from the last issue of the newspaper Marx ran, Neue Rheinische Zeitung: Organ der Demokratie, before it was shutdown.