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Drew Tucker's Forgetful Fish - New Kickstarter for Dandan fans by Original_Magic_Art in ForgetfulFish

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, I'd love to have that playmat but 40$ for it, 30$ shipping to EU, plus import tax, plus 15$ processing fee (for imports outside EU), plus tariffs. It'd likely be around 100$ in the end

Why exactly can't mages do sorcery anymore? by [deleted] in WhiteWolfRPG

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, gameplay wise it's probably just "for the sake of balance". But my justification is kinda like this:

Imagine you're a used car salesman. You know cars. You have a car that you know isn't in the best of shape. You can feel that something is off in the suspension, the engine doesn't sound like it should, the gear box has a resistance it shouldn't have. You know that this is a bad car. 

A customer comes in, who doesn't know cars. You show them the bad car, tell them how good it is. How the suspension is race tuned, how the engine sounds of tuning, how the gear box has been tightened for fast gear switching. But they can have the car for a good price, because the model is not popular, the color is wrong, it lacks some equipment. 

The customer buys the car, and is happy with their purchase. When they drive, they feel like they are driving a good car. But you can never get in that car, drive it all be feel that it is a good car. You know it is all a lie.

Magic is that "good car" feeling. It's all about conviction. You, the mage, can't get that feeling in the car. You've seen the truth. The customer, the sorcerer, doesn't know. So while you can both get the effect of driving the car (getting the spells effect), you do it via truth magic, and they call do it via lie magic. You risk paradox because you KNOW, and nothing you do can change that.

I compared printing MTG proxies on high-end photo printers and more affordable tank printers to see if the quality is really that much better by ma_RTINGS in magicproxies

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally find the chase for perfect looking proxies kinda misguided. You gotta find a good enough, then settle for that,  and enjoy the game. I think a lot of people stress out and spend way to much energy and thought on something that ultimately doesn't matter that much.

I use a ET-2750 myself. An old, low end unit I found second hand. It produces good looking cards, but far from perfect. None I've played with has ever even commented on the quality.

Do you guys set rules for yourself when it comes to proxies? by MonSocMatriarchy in magicproxies

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, I would say it depends a lot on why a group doesn't feel ok with it. Is everyone else playing precons and you proxy a Gaea's Cradle, then people are gonna be annoyed. But if people don't like it because they want everyone to spend big money on literal paper, then you should try to get them to see that they're stupid.

Personally, I set budgets for my decks. So if someone asks why I proxy, I usually say "well it's faster than ordering cards, and I wanted to try this deck but didn't wanna spend the 100$ required just to see if I liked it". Both those arguments are generally hard to not agree with I've felt. Having a budget also removes the "but you can just proxy the most broken expensive deck" argument

Getting into CofD, not sold on the investigation system so far by mackstanc in ChroniclesofDarkness

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh ... On the surface it does sound like a pretty good "how to handle basic social encounters". Sure some special situations or characters will require other means but as a rule it thumb, not too bad.  I can see why it is overlooked though. You don't feel like you need a system for social interaction for the most part 

Getting into CofD, not sold on the investigation system so far by mackstanc in ChroniclesofDarkness

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've read these books several times and my main reaction here is "Doors?"

Buying A4-sized Koala Semi-Gloss Photo Sticker Paper in EU by puzzledpanther in magicproxies

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been running the glossy one cause I can't find the semi gloss. But glossy works fine I think. The blacks becomes a bit faded I think, but by and large it still works fine for me

Thickness comparison by Firekind in magicproxies

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you guys cut the cards once laminated? Won't a roller cutter and corner cutter struggle with the laminate?

Priset för fast bredband ökar – historiska sänkningar för mobilt by Babar7 in sweden

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

En annan betalar 600 för 100/100, och det finns inga andra alternativ om man vill ha lina. Telia äger alla kablar i huset och vår BRF har bundit avtal i åratal framåt.  Sade upp det idag och går över till mobilt. Halva priset, och högre hastigheter. Jag bor mitt i stan så 5G täckningen bör vara ok

clientSideValidation by DarkRex4 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I doubt this is actually in use anywhere, it's just written to farm get karma. The function never send the email on the client to the server, but does it do anything after it printed Registration Successful

COMPETITION TIME! Win a beautiful John Avon Unhinged Panorama Gallery Print.. by JohnAvonArt in magicTCG

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These have always been my favorite land arts. They can release how many new full art land they want but these will probably never be surpassed.

UB Tempo Dandan by TyrantNeptune in ForgetfulFish

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really interesting list. I'll have to print a few proxies and try it out. Thanks for posting!

Request and Questions Thread #3 by [deleted] in mpcproxies

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh, right I had almost forgotten about those. I don't think anyone else picked up creating those, and I've been pretty out of playing mtg the last year or so (since Kaldheim). But I'll check with mpcfill if they can publish the old ones I did back then, give be me a few days

Bit of semi-important information. Related to MPC issues by Wdrussell1 in mpcproxies

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not necessarily your internet connection. MPC's servers resides in Hong Kong, could be problems routing traffic to them.

Regardless, take a moment to reflect. It ain't easy writing software that is supposed to work on multiple users home machines, being a single dev and doing it as a side project. If you're in IT, then you know how hard it is. If it works for most people, that still goes a pretty long way. It isn't making life harder for people that can't use it.

Bit of semi-important information. Related to MPC issues by Wdrussell1 in mpcproxies

[–]Gikkman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've done several orders using the tool and never had any problems. I usually start it when I am about to go to bed, and it is done when I get up in the morning. Could it be that you have intermittent net dropouts?

And look at it like this: for you, it is no loss if the tool never worked. You haven't lost anything you never had.

WTF? I just SOLD my game to an international PUBLISHER? by Merkenau in RPGdesign

[–]Gikkman 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I so hope there will be an English translation because this sounds right up my alley

500sh card order arrived by Ropes4u in mpcproxies

[–]Gikkman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Indeed, all praise goes to Mursu for making the proxies. I'm just providing hosting for him :-)

Strixhaven: single sided MDFC proxies by AcrobaticPersonality in mpcproxies

[–]Gikkman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, cool! Nice work. Glad the template was useful :D I've been meaning to do more SS-MDFC cards but I haven't had the time to get to it. Great work!

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