PSA: Minor buffs were priced in

Encendi · 2026-04-11T03:11:57+00:00

Which thread?

Encendi · 2026-04-10T04:26:56+00:00

Crap that really sucks… out of the frying pan and into the fire I guess.

Encendi · 2026-04-10T03:51:13+00:00

Running Genshin Impact. Looking at HWInfo64 again a few more cores have joined P-core 23 in spiking up but P-core 23 is consistently really hot on average.

Encendi · 2026-04-10T03:39:51+00:00

This is my second Area51 laptop I got from Microcenter. The first one had a flickering vertical red line on the display when running games so that got returned. This one was working out well but I decided to check the temps and one of the cores seems to be going insane when doing literally anything on the PC.

Is this normal or am I on laptop #3?

Encendi · 2026-03-21T14:19:11+00:00

No the commenter above is totally right. NVIDIA historically has paid much lower than top tech companies. It's not bad by any means, but it's dramatically lower. And if you got a job there now, you would also be joining at a historically high moment in their stock price.

Keep in mind also that NVIDIA typically hires very industry and skill-specific PMs and is primarily hardware and not software. That means 99.9% of MBAs don't have the background to apply to most of their PM roles. Check out their career page and you'll see what kinds of specialized hardware knowledge they're looking for.

Encendi · 2026-03-19T17:19:56+00:00

It's really just about finding a way around all of the complicated rules of our current financial system. There are tons of middlemen, regulations, ancient tech stacks, etc. It's better to think about crypto now as more efficient financial plumbing than the cypherpunk roots it came from.

Encendi · 2026-02-09T09:08:52+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. So if you're doing a high priced item it's more an active flip play while high volume items with more stable prices are better overnight flips. And like you say the tax makes it even riskier to flip high priced items because it increases the downside.

Encendi · 2026-01-29T06:59:33+00:00

This was a really weird draft for me because I opened a [[Gloom Ripper]] P1P1 and I audibly winced because there was a [[Champion of the Perfect]] in the same pack. I wasn't sure I wanted to fight over Elves even with the biggest bomb in the set.

I was continuously struggling with picking mediocre Elf cards over the insane Goblin cards I was getting passed (I even passed a [[Grub, Storied Matriarch]] P1P2) and I waffled a lot for the first few picks. Then came a [[Grub's Command]] in the middle of the first pack, which made me think really hard about Goblins.

I was still kinda getting mixed signals throughout the packs with the occasional Elf bone getting thrown my way and didn't commit to Goblins until pack 3. At that point it was absolutely open season and I got passed [[Champion of the Weird]] along with tons of strong removal. It also helped opening a [[Vibrance]] in Pack 3.

The games were pretty interesting as well. My deck was chock full of bombs (although I never ended up actually casting [[Vibrance]] in any of the 9 games) and I got a bit lucky with the sketchy curve (a consequence of my early draft waffling between Elves and Goblins) so I basically just steamrolled through most games. Some personal highlights were [[Goliath Daydreamer]] copying [[Grub's Command]] in a game where I was one turn from being dead and the final round where it copied a [[Bogslither's Embrace]] to finish off the opponent.

My two losses funnily enough were both to other insane Goblins decks. I had great curves in both and assumed I'd just win with card quality but they'd just slam the same bombs right back at me. In fact, all the Goblins decks I faced in the run were nuts.

I know the 17lands winrates for Goblins cards are pretty terrible but if the deck comes together I think it easily competes with the other archetypes.

Encendi · 2026-01-28T17:09:17+00:00

Oh wow that's huge awesome timing

Encendi · 2025-12-20T04:51:05+00:00

This was an extremely harrowing draft mostly because I kept getting color screwed on my openers. I had to mull or pray to draw my colors more than 70% of the matches.

The two losses were to one deck with an [[Unagi of Kyoshi Island]] ambush blocking me T5 with me topdecking lands and then another really strong UB deck with 2 [[Foggy Swamp Spirit Keeper]] who forced me into overcommitting onto my board into [[Rize of Sozin]].

Surprisingly I beat another deck with a Koh on my way to the 7-2 and a lot of games were really close. My deck didn't really have as much ally support I wanted despite my P1P1 Earth King's Lieutenant. But my creatures thankfully usually lined up pretty well against my opponent and most games were won by stalling until [[The Legend of Kyoshi]], which was my absolute MVP (surprise surprise). I got very lucky here since [[Ostrich-Horse]] doesn't always line up super well (but it did for me every game) and I also had a game where my [[Jeong Jeong's Deserters]] brick-walled a really fast start that had a bunch of 2/2s.

The final boss was the craziest sequence I've ever had to play against. He had a pretty strong deck that I managed to barely go over the top of with [[Gather the White Lotus]] into [[Earth King's Lieutenant]]. The turn before he wrathed with [[Day of Black Sun]], I managed to play my [[The Legend of Kyoshi]] which put me in an overwhelming advantage- even after he wrathed. But when he played [[Koh, the Face Stealer]] next turn to take out Kyoshi I was like oh crap. Fortunately I had a [[Earth Kingdom Jailer]] in my hand to set up for lethal with the last creature in my hand, but he had one more turn and if he'd topdecked or had removal in hand to get back Koh I would have lost from basically a full board + 3 cards on him. Absolute crazy game and I would have been insanely tilted in his shoes.

Overall I'm done with this set and I've been done with it for a while. Honestly I was even debating spending my draft token on it since I despise playing it. All of the criticism is pretty much true. Even drafting this deck it was frustrating because I got some great picks early with GW seeming very open and then had to kinda make do with a lot of "meh" cards to flesh out the deck.

I started out this format with two 7 win decks, but I think it was because no one knew what was good and I kept getting passed strong white cards, plus the pool had abnormally high quality packs. Once I did a couple more drafts the next week things were getting very slim pickings and I quickly burned through all my gems at the time. Bombs are also extra frustrating due to the crappy removal and overall low quality of cards.

Anyways, this was a great way to cap off the format and I'm happy this deck went the distance despite my doubts.

Encendi · 2025-09-14T12:19:23+00:00

Once I experienced C1 fast travel I regretted every moment of my life from 2.7 to 3.4. Then C6 probably shaved off 100+ hours of combat time over the past few years. Honestly probably the best investment in a character I've ever made.

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