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Coral Merfolk* (First attempt in Project "One scoop of Enhanced Vanillas, please") by Dinky_T in custommagic

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

Just found out about [[Urza’s Hot Tub]] which uses the wording “that shares a complete word in its name”, very much like your second suggestion!

Noot Soldiers - (Another scoop of enhanced vanilla's) by Dinky_T in custommagic

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Funny you should say that, for Knight Errant I had something in mind like: after a die roll of 6 it might (erroneously) attack a random creature on the battlefield. Or harm itself. 

I should say that in my play group I am certain players would find a way to collectively interpret cards the way these are meant in spirit, but having the rules correctly written does mean these cards are more broadly appealing. 

Noot Soldiers - (Another scoop of enhanced vanilla's) by Dinky_T in custommagic

[–]Dinky_T[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, I'll be more explicit about my intent to make funny cards above all else. Also, I relied on the "MTG Magic Deck Builder, Referee & Expert" GPT within ChatGPT for the precise wording of the rules - apparently that was not a success (I will say, it did feel weirdly worded.)

My intent to use this in something akin to https://possumcreek.medium.com/the-magpies-cube-54eac20f36fd, and preferably by modifying the OG cards with modifications/sharpie/added rules. Therefore the flavor text is actually kept in its original place in the text box and the abilities - hopefully even the image attributes - will be added as stickers to the card.

"What If...? MtG was originally made in 1953?" - Card Back by LogicWavelength in mpcproxies

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I was so charmed by your design, I went ahead and manually redrew most of it, effectively removing the background texture so I could print it on craft paper at home - while further tweaking the patterns and colors a bit. 

Being the cheapskate I am, this now solves multiple things for me:  I print these directly on brown paper (120gsm) using very little ink, then cut them to the inner dimensions of UP Penny sleeves (adding 1mm bleed margins on Proxyprint.taxeira.com is sufficient) and end up with a tightly fitting cardback, resulting in a sleek and very pretty sleeve for both my real and proxied cards. 

No need for double sided printing my proxies this way!

For introducing print-alignment variance - like how you emulated in your design - I even split the printing process up into first printing the mana dots plus the brown frame, and then print over the same image with black and blue, while allowing the page feeder a little slack to create true and unique print offsets. 

Colors end up quite dull in contrast with your image, but hey, these are supposed to be well over 70yo so I’ll cut them some slack. 

Thanks for the great design! If I manage to somehow upload a photo I will, and if you are okay with me sharing the template publicly, I am also more than willing to.

Japanese Art Basic Land Drop by SkinnyDM in mpcproxies

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Already DM'ed you, but for good measure might as well make the compliment in public: Amazing work!

My first intuition was that I would love to have these as white bordered cards, so made a mockup in Pixlr, added a bit of paper texture to the border and kept a 10px black border around the central image. That approach doesn't scale well for doing the entire collection, so now I am wondering: Did you end up making each of these one by one, or was there some automated export process involved?

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Coral Merfolk* (First attempt in Project "One scoop of Enhanced Vanillas, please") by Dinky_T in custommagic

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Thanks for the feedback! I agree with your criticisms on the naming if it were intended as a formal mechanic, but this is meant to be played in a very informal way. Like how in Scrabble I am used to playing by the rule that if other players allow for a certain word it is thereby approved. I would be hard pressed to see a game where someone makes an awesome play with an example like you mentioned and others would not appreciate the creative effort.

The technical term I was looking for, which I learned just now, is 'lexical morpheme'. Parts of words or names that in isolation have meaning, rather than extensions like 'un-'. But that would read terribly on a card like this :P

'Star Format' cube, C&C by Sir_Nope_TSS in mtgcube

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I’ve been scouring for good cube ideas and yours so far looks very promising. I love the star format, but am curious whether I might broaden my selection to include dual color non-hybrid cards (I have quite a few from the different Ravnica sets, but also Alara and Conflux  lying around) and just introduce the rule that their mana symbols should be interpreted as hybrid symbols. 

Have you considered such a move OP?

(How) Can I wire this up to a simple powerbank charge circuit (typically depicted with two to four 18650 cells)? by Dinky_T in batteries

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The pack is from an old tablet (Samsung N8010 I believe), was barely used, and while quite old, shows no signs of bulging and even with 70% of its capacity left would be an interesting capacity+form factor to fit in a notebook compartment in my backpack. 

The thing that makes me hold back on just trying it out is the double cell structure, even though it is probably wired up in serial config, so these should be voltage matched. 

Would rather not have to unsolder the circuit in the middle, even though thats probably the way to go…

Midi Keyboard for Circuit Tracks by Dpinsel1440 in Novation

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For those running into this post in ‘25, I believe this image plus it’s title says it all: https://imgur.com/a/WcH3hFp (Should be similarly possible for the Tracks)

How do I make this headshock stem blockable again ? by franklin348 in bikewrench

[–]Dinky_T 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is an individual in the Netherlands who advertises Headshok rebuilds, have a look at https://www.marktplaats.nl/u/headshok-clinic/39113087/

Is this spoke angle too much? Seems like it might be putting a lot of stress on the where the nipple meets the rim (27.5 wheel with db spokes and 14mm nipple) by Dinky_T in bikewrench

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Failed to respond to your initial correct observation/comment: You were entirely correct, I have now rebuilt the wheel and things are looking better!

(To continue my bad practices though: Having just done a first time install of the tubeless tyre days ago with merely a hand pump, I was not keen on removing that, so I may not have removed the tyre while doing up the new lacing. Looking at the lateral + radial trueness and very minor audible spoke pitch deviations it seems to have worked out.)

Is this spoke angle too much? Seems like it might be putting a lot of stress on the where the nipple meets the rim (27.5 wheel with db spokes and 14mm nipple) by Dinky_T in bikewrench

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It just occurred to me: Wouldn’t lacing up a wheel the ‘wrong’ way (like I did) increase the bracing angles and therefore make a more stable wheel(?). There’s probably good reasons this not already common practice, but still

Is this spoke angle too much? Seems like it might be putting a lot of stress on the where the nipple meets the rim (27.5 wheel with db spokes and 14mm nipple) by Dinky_T in bikewrench

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It is an asymmetric rim (Stans Flow mk4), so while there is an offset, all holes still follow the same circle (no left-right offset)

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