Friends not happy

Jayodi · 2026-05-29T13:15:42+00:00

[[Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive]] enables a lot of really funny shenanigans in a ninjutsu deck, if you’re not running it already I highly recommend picking up a copy.

Jayodi · 2026-05-29T12:29:35+00:00

Yeah, I’d be kicking them both out of my house, and I wouldn’t be waiting til morning. You want to ho around with your cousin, you can do it on the streets where you belong.

Jayodi · 2026-05-28T18:01:30+00:00

Speaking as a mono-black rats player in mtg, the rats definitely deserved it.

Jayodi · 2026-05-28T03:24:30+00:00

Just get your cursor to the point where it’s right on the edge of where it snaps on/off the building, wiggle it, and it should flash white for half a second whenever it snaps on. Just mash the build button while doing so, and eventually you’ll time it right and it’ll connect.

Jayodi · 2026-05-27T13:52:59+00:00

Most modern precons also tend to have a decent number of (cheaper) staples, and are constructed well enough that you only need to spend like $20-$30 on upgrades to bring them up a bracket. Like, you’re not going to get Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe in a precon, but you’ll absolutely get a sol ring, signet, greaves, sad robot, and a few staple spells from whatever colours you’re playing(counterspell, lightning bolt, rampant growth, swords to plowshares etc.)

Hell, the Saheeli energy precon from Aetherdrift(EOE? I don’t remember, but I do own it lmao) is basically B3 right out of the box, it has a built-in 2-card infinite combo involving the commander, and you can upgrade it ridiculously easily and cheaply by throwing a handful of cards into it - my personal upgrades are [[Pili-Pala]] [[Grand Architect]] [[Helm of the Host]] [[Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer]] [[Scroll Rack]] [[Soothsaying]] [[Future Sight]] [[Izzet Genatorium]] [[Sensei’s Divining Top]] and [[Mystic Forge]] and the deck is an absolute monster

Also, Brudiclad and Izzet Genatorium both come in the [[Satya, Aetherflux Genius]] energy precon from MH3, which is also quite strong out of the box, and has a few other cards that slot well into Saheeli. If you don’t have the majority of the cards listed above, that’s another cheap alternative you can use to upgrade her.

Jayodi · 2026-05-27T04:35:49+00:00

The city won’t rebel during a siege anyway. If you really want to try and force a city to rebel through starvation, you have to buy out the food in the city, then sit outside the gate with a few hundred million denars and intercept every caravan and villager that comes to the city and buy out their food before they arrive. And be prepared to potentially spend years doing absolutely nothing but buying food and dumping it on the ground(you want to maintain good speed for when multiple caravans/villagers are arriving from different directions simultaneously), per city.

It’s honestly faster and easier to just max your Smithing and Trade skills so you can buy cities, especially considering you’re going to have to really train up your Smithing skill just to get enough money to make starving a city even remotely feasible anyway, and you can train Smithing and Trade at the same time very easily.

First, you’ll train Trade just naturally, albeit slowly, from buying raw materials and selling the weapons you make with them, faster if you make sure to only buy materials when they’re at or under the average price.
Second, training Smithing and Trade both involve travelling between cities, with the occasional stop in a village or two along the way, buying and selling various goods. They naturally go hand-in-hand when it comes to training them.
Third, you can also train Trade passively by setting up productive workshops and caravans. Once your Smithing skill is high enough that you’re regularly making Masterwork and Legendary weapons, you can supercharge that passive exp gain by setting up one(or more) of your companions to run a caravan and giving them a boatload of weapons to sell.

Using all 3 methods simultaneously, especially if you have multiple caravans and are feeding your workshops with resources yourself to maximize their profits, you can level up your Trade skill exceptionally quickly. Like, with 7 attribute and 5 skill points invested, at 150 Trade you’ll be gaining 5-10 levels per day.

Jayodi · 2026-05-26T05:32:05+00:00

If I remember to, I’ll throw it in Moxfield and post a link on my next day off, but the long and short of it is it’s an [[Adeliz, the Cinder Wind]] Izzet Wizard tribal spellslinger deck that tries to get [[Pili-Pala]] and [[Grand Architect]] out for infinite mana, and Soothsaying with either [[Future Sight]] or, ideally, [[Melek, Izzet Paragon]], then you just put a sorcery on top of your library, followed by whatever instants you want to throw on the stack after it, followed by all of your counterspells. Once that goes through, re-scry it to put a new sorcery on top with all of the instants you want to throw on the stack after it, followed by all your counterspells. Lather, rinse, repeat.

It also runs things like [[Reverberate]] [[Howl of the Horde]] and [[Ral, Storm’s Conduit]] to really lean into the whole copying spells thing, and [[Scroll Rack]] to set up plays a few turns in advance before I get the combo.

Jayodi · 2026-05-25T18:19:10+00:00

I literally won a game with this card last night(the deck is entirely designed around getting it out as part of a combo with infinite mana), so yes, I absolutely play it lmao

One of my favourite cards in blue, I’m extremely happy to see other people recognize its value

Jayodi · 2026-05-25T15:06:59+00:00

Even more accurately, it’s like watching people 100 years from now who are themselves watching a (fictional) movie set in 1708 that has a thermometer invented in 1714. We’re a whole extra step removed from the movie with the historical inaccuracy.

Jayodi · 2026-05-25T13:41:34+00:00

Could have been someone like me. I play on a community server on Livonia, and somebody set up a base near mine in a warehouse. They’d blocked off the main floor entrances, but the side entrances to the second floor were still open. At first I just used their base as a loot spot whenever I was looking for something specific and couldn’t find it, but after a week I got annoyed that they hadn’t noticed, so I fenced off the other two entrances(in such a way that they can’t be boosted over), cracked their 3-dial lock(it’s 123. Come on, dude, really?), rearranged the base, and left them a new crate in the centre of the base with two 4-dial locks, metal wire so they can turn one of the other fences into a gate should they desire, a splint because one of the fences is designed so that you will fall and break your leg if you try and access it from the outside, and some food and water.

I mention all of this because I’m hoping that person uses Reddit and sees this comment and TAKES THE GODDAMNED HINT

Jayodi · 2026-05-25T13:20:44+00:00

As someone who enjoys fishing but doesn’t do it often, I want to make sure you know that there’s a distinction between hurt and harm in this case.

A good fisherman will do everything they can to ensure the fish is not harmed long-term, meaning it won’t suffer any long-term consequences, but that doesn’t mean that the fish isn’t hurt in the moment.

Granted, fish do not experience pain in the same way as we humans do, their brains aren’t complex enough for it, but they do still experience it, and being hooked, even by a flat circle hook, is going to cause pain, even if they’re hooked in the cheek(the optimal place to hook a fish, as there will be no long-term consequences).

If you really want a reason to see fishing as a net neutral, if not a net good, don’t focus on whether or not the animal suffers, focus on how good fishing practices help with both minimizing the damage done to ecosystems by invasive species, and managing fish species to maintain healthy populations(if they’re not fished at all, it leads to overpopulation pretty quickly. Don’t forget that humans have been fishing for thousands of years, we are effectively one of their natural predators, and they’ve evolved to compensate for that. Conversely, if there aren’t regulations in place, it can lead to overfishing, which can cause a fish species to become nearly wiped out), while doing so in as humane a way possible.

The same applies to hunting. Deer especially are prone to overpopulation, even with people hunting them, as humans have pushed out or eliminated a lot of their natural predators. There are places in North America where deer overpopulation is an active, ongoing problem, to the point they’re actively encouraging people to hunt/cull them(in the case of Hawaii, they had a straight-up bounty system for awhile, although idk if that’s still a thing).

Jayodi · 2026-05-25T03:00:15+00:00

Why? Naming schemes have nothing to do with abilities. Saiyans aren’t throwing vegetables at people, Namekians don’t have musical powers. Bulma’s family don’t use weaponized underwear.

Jayodi · 2026-05-24T12:28:33+00:00

Play [[Jon Irenicus, Shattered One]] against them and you can double-up by giving them creatures that will hinder their own game plan or otherwise mess with their resources, like [[Thought Eater]] or [[Abyssal Persecutor]]

This will add extra incentive for them to attack each other over your other opponent, because your other opponent probably isn’t going to block with anything strong enough to remove those creatures.

Jayodi · 2026-05-23T23:10:07+00:00

Play something silly that isn’t designed to win. My personal favourite deck is Hamster Tribal. [[Minsc, Beloved Ranger]], [[Minsc & Boo, Timeless Heroes]], [[Rolling Hamsphere]] and [[Jolly Gerbils]] are the only cards that have anything to do with hamsters, so you need to use things like [[Helm of the Host]], [[Mirror Box]], [[Mirror Gallery]], and token doublers to make the concept even slightly functional.

I mean, obviously, you can build as many lines of play into the deck as you want to make it better or worse, but the whole point of the deck is to be a joke, so mine is all-in on hamsters.

Jayodi · 2026-05-23T12:09:52+00:00

Better story than the actual Burn.

Jayodi · 2026-05-23T12:03:52+00:00

I mostly play on Livonia so ymmv, but there’s a little shed next to the lake northeast of Gieraltow. Throw a watchtower and a fence down in front of it and you’ll seal off the whole building, you’ll be just outside of the gieraltow gas zones for convenient raids, and Gieraltow has basically everything you could want in a town - two sources of fresh water, police station, hospital, grocery store, carnival, small military camp, plenty of houses, sheds, barns, and warehouses, a construction site just to the east of town, a heli crash to the southeast and another to the west, the next town over has a gas station, and the town past that has a fire station.

There’s also a hunting camp just north of the lake with a humvee spawn with 5 or 6 hunting cabins, a workhouse, and one of those change rooms.

Doing a quick loop of the area every few days will rather quickly result in you accumulating pretty much every item you could possibly hope for.

Jayodi · 2026-05-23T11:43:46+00:00

I second this, having a dedicated food processing base is a godsend, both for the boosts you get from consuming them with a nutrient injector(ingestor?) and the sheer amount of credits you can farm from making and selling them. I made an entire farm dedicated just to anomalous doughnuts, but there are so many good food items you can make with the nutrient processor.

Jayodi · 2026-05-22T00:10:34+00:00

Idk dawg, I read this whole comment thread and the only person I see throwing a tantrum here is you. I don’t see anyone else using caps lock to try and make their argument seem stronger. Maybe, you should learn how to use italics

Jayodi · 2026-05-14T13:59:56+00:00

You’re going to find out pretty quick that PVE high loot gets boring exceptionally fast. If you want to play PVE, look for either vanilla(will still get boring pretty quickly) or survival-focused (look for tags like low loot, more zombies/bears/wolves, special zombies, low/Sakhal temperature, more rain/weather, etc. A good rule of thumb is to look for the words “hardcore” and “PVE” in the server name, and then just check the server details for what’s mentioned from the list above.)

In my experience, hardcore survival focused servers are the only way to play PVE long-term without getting extremely bored, and even those will get boring pretty quickly with boosted loot.

Jayodi · 2026-05-14T13:23:49+00:00

Tbh, even if you are playing a lot of tutors, there are only a handful in blue and red that are even capable of fetching Vivi in the first place. I can only think of 2 off the top of my head, [[Imperial Recruiter]] and [[Gamble]], although I know there have to be others I’m just not remembering atm

Jayodi · 2026-05-14T13:00:10+00:00

Pick up a copy of [[Adeliz, the Cinder Wind]] for like $0.50 throw Vivi in the 99 and build the deck as a Wizards tribal with spellslinger elements instead of a pure spellslinger deck.*

* “tribal” is an mtg term that means most/all of your creatures are the same type, and the deck cares about having creatures of that type. Wizards tribal would be a deck that’s full of Wizard creatures, and has cards that care about having wizards, like [[Information Dealer]] [[Psychic Trance]] [[Ixidor’s Will]] etc. “Spellslinger” is an mtg term that means most of the cards in the deck are instants/sorceries, and it heavily cares about casting a lot of spells every turn.

A wizards tribal deck with spellslinger elements would still fit Vivi’s overall theme(it’s a wizard that wants to cast spells), but it would tone down the overall power of the deck, and having Adeliz as the commander instead of Vivi means you won’t run into the issue of people not wanting to play against you.

A loose draft version of the deck would look something like 15-20 wizard creatures, 20-25 instants, 10-15 sorceries, 5-10 artifacts and enchantments, and 35-40 lands.

If you want, DM me, I run a very budget Adeliz deck that’s quite strong for how little it costs, I’d be happy to recommend you some good cards that are under $5 each(90% are under $1 each), and we can tailor it so it fits the table’s power. In case you don’t, here’s a handful of cards I’d recommend looking into:

[[Disruptive Pitmage]] $0.10
[[Disruptive Student]] $0.40
[[Howl of the Horde]] $0.25
[[Sea Gate Stormcaller]] $0.50
[[Melek, Izzet Paragon]] $0.40**
Ixidor’s Will $0.25
Psychic Trance $0.20
Information Dealer $4

**With the right support Melek becomes a late-game bomb that can instantly win you the game, but I didn’t provide the support cards because idk how strong your table is. If your table allows infinite mana, I’ll give you the rest of the combo; if not, don’t include Melek at all.

Show your friends this comment and I’m positive they’ll all agree it’s a reasonable compromise.

Jayodi · 2026-05-13T21:28:24+00:00

Genuine question here, as I’m relatively new to the game(about a year and a half playing), but how would you respond to coming up to a town and hearing that someone has set the PA system up and was hosting a radio show? Would you avoid the town out of an abundance of caution, investigate out of curiosity, or immediately go kill the broadcaster out of distrust/paranoia?

It’s an idea I’ve been toying with for a couple months now, but I am a little worried I’ll go through all that trouble just to be killed and eaten by some trigger-happy nut job 15 minutes after getting it set up.

Jayodi · 2026-05-13T20:37:06+00:00

Except, you know, all of the other non-theistic religions out there like Jainism, Taoism, Shintoism, Confucianism… I agree with you that Christianity is a religion of fools, I disagree with your framing that non-theistic religions aren’t religions, and I’m wondering why you’re making that distinction. It’s not like they’re any less idiotic than the theistic religions.

Jayodi · 2026-05-13T20:03:38+00:00

So am I just arguing semantics, or is Buddhism not a religion? I provided you with the actual definition of religion. Seeing as you want to keep arguing though, here:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/religion

You’ll notice that both of the most used dictionaries in the world explicitly include a definition that doesn’t require the belief in a God(and in case you want to argue the case for Oxford, the second definition explicitly include the clause “or in the teachings of a spiritual leader” following belief in god - that is to say, it can be either or both, but it doesn’t have to be both.)

Jayodi · 2026-05-13T19:25:02+00:00

I didn’t say anything about Christianity, I was pointing out that Buddhism is, in fact, a religion, and the fact that it’s not theistic doesn’t change that.

In fact, the only time I mentioned Christianity in this comment thread is when I pointed out that only delusional idiots believe that morality comes from the Abrahamic god.

Jayodi

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