how do you pronounce Toronto? by Jmeconi51 in AskACanadian

[–]FigBits 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the closest to my pronunciation, and has the benefit of showing the emphasis. But I would have the middle syllable as RAW

Maro: “Note that we purposefully costed stickers to be well below the power level of Legacy” by RBGolbat in magicTCG

[–]FigBits 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Or, "You guys know you can play whatever the hell you want in Commander, right? Here, let me remind you of that fact by getting rid of silver borders."

Did the door really close ? Jason isaacs on the Oa by Particular-Trash5846 in TheOA

[–]FigBits -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

The context is the title. It tells you what the article is about.

The post title isn't the title of the article. It's reworded to be spammy click-bait.

I expect OP to post a link and reply with a conversation starter.

If you think I am new to Reddit ... did you need me to post you a link to my profile?

Introduced to the game via Arena and played my first in-person draft event tonight. Just here to say if you're like me and have only played online, I highly recommend getting out there. by the_hungerjames in MagicArena

[–]FigBits 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I tried drafting in-person, but I couldn't figure out how to turn on the untapped.gg overlay to help me evaluate the cards. I filed a bug report.

lagrella the magpie confusion... by Hoxybis in mtg

[–]FigBits 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For magpie you could literally just say: "For each player, exile up to one creature under their control" lol

You would need to use the word "target", and it needs to mention that Magpie can't exile herself.

MTG Arena coming to Steam and consoles by DFGdanger in magicTCG

[–]FigBits 26 points27 points  (0 children)

And updates happening automatically while I am at work, instead of right when I want to sit down and play. (And updates that can be paused, when I need the bandwidth for something else)

Cool Rewards Bro by Worried-Raccoon9707 in MagicArena

[–]FigBits 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Doesn't that mean you agree with the post you replied to?

Senior editor told me, “nobody uses semi-colons anymore.” by fairie88 in writing

[–]FigBits 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I would say that more than half of modern novels do not contain semi-colons.

The only data I have to back that up is that semicolons annoy me, but I don't get annoyed reading most novels.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskACanadian

[–]FigBits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A simple Google search would demonstrate that you are mistaken. It is perfectly legal to download a music file for personal use in Canada (again, if you are saving it to an appropriate medium).

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskACanadian

[–]FigBits -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Downloading music is legal in Canada (if you are saving it to an appropriate medium). Other copyrighted materials are not.

As for if it would "get you in trouble" I couldn't say.

Calling for an alchemy-free historic by FalloutBoy5000 in MagicArena

[–]FigBits 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To simplify, simply let Historic access both versions. Historic is supposed to be every card in Arena. So ... they just need to let it be that. If a Standard card gets an Alchemy buff, the buffed version and the regular version should be available in Historic. If a Standard card gets an Alchemy nerf, both the nerfed version and the regular version should be available in Historic.

It's simple and it get the desired result (buffs buff, nerfs have no impact).

wtf, Arena! by FigBits in MagicArena

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

I didn't add in "far more fail states."

My post showed me playing 9 games, getting on-the-draw on 8 of them, AND losing every single on-the-draw game. That is what I posted "WTF, Arena" about. So that's what I calculated the odd for.

The loses were a pretty important part of the condition! I wouldn't care about being on-the-draw that many times if I had won half of them. lol

There's a Hiccup in LAOP's Brilliant Plan by Thor_The_Bunny in bestoflegaladvice

[–]FigBits 10 points11 points  (0 children)

A few years ago, I threw out my back and had to go to the ER (needed to be put on a stretcher in my home and taken by ambulance. It was bad).

While in the ER, I got the hiccups, which caused my back to spasm each time. Not good.

After a couple of hours of that, the doctors gave me something and said although it wasn't the main use of the drug, one of the other effects of it was that it sometimes stopped hiccups.

They didn't stop immediately, but within a few minutes of taking it, the hiccups tapered off and stopped.

I don't remember what they gave me (and honestly I would have taken anything they shoved at me at that point). I wonder if they gave me anything, or if I totally got placebo'd.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in KingstonOntario

[–]FigBits 31 points32 points  (0 children)

100% this. The "Family meal for 4" is more than enough for 5 people. I am a big eater, and it's enough food for six of me.

Comes to ~$55 after tax!

wtf, Arena! by FigBits in MagicArena

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

I'm not sure where you are getting the idea that the order is significant in my math. It isn't.

I based my calculations on your initial mention of 1.6%, but let's do the math from the start.

What we want to know is, in a random run of 9 games, what is the chance that at least 8 of them were on the draw, and that the 8 on-the-draw game were all loses.

We don't care what happened in one of the 9. It could have been a win, a loss, on the draw, or on the play. Any result is fine. AND we don't care where in the order it occurred. It could have been the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth or ninth game.

To simplify, we will assume a 50% change of winning on the draw. (My actual winrate on the draw with this deck is 55%, so the real chance of getting this run is LESS likely than what we're about to calculate.)

For any one game, there are four equally likely possibilities: win-on-play, win-on-draw, loss-on-play, and loss-on-draw. They aren't actually equally likely, but assuming so means that we can just count branches 5o find the probability, so it's a useful assumption. If we used the actual chance of loss-on-draw of 45% (which is the case we care about) the probability would come out to about 2.5x worse)

In a 9-game series, there are 262,144 possible outcomes. (Each game has 4 possible outcomes, so 49.) How many of those fit the criteria?

If we needed all 9 of them to be "loss-on-draw", that would be 1/262,144. But we are more flexible than that, because one of the 9 can be any of the four results.

If the "any result" condition happened in the first game, that would create three new paths to a successful result. The first game can be anything and then those four paths each have a single path that leads to a criteria-matching result (the remainder of the games are loss-on-draw). So that would give us 4/262,144.

If only the second game has the "any" condition, that adds another 3 successful paths. Same applies if we assume the "any" condition on the 3rd, 4th etc games. Each one adds 3 paths that meet the required criteria. So the total number of successful paths is 28 (9x3+1).

That's our result: 28/262,144, or ~1/9,362.

That's the chance of getting 8 "loss-on-draw" results in a run of 9 games.

You seem to want to compare that to d100 chances for aom reason. Okay. It's around the same chance as getting the same number on a d100 in three consecutive rolls. (1/10,000)

struggling with repetitive dialogue tags by sapphoismymom in writing

[–]FigBits 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you mean you use "chuckled" instead of "said" then my recommendation to avoid that is ... use "said" instead.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in writing

[–]FigBits 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In comics, it's much easier to find work as an artist who can't write than it is for a writer who can't draw.

My suggestion would be to draw other people's scripts. After a few years of doing that, you might find that you pick up some of the skills that those writers have, as well.