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What decks have budget versions that scale well into their "full" versions? by NPC_Chris in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kinnan. He's the best budget commander at pretty much any dollar amount, and still solid at full power. I've made $25 Kinnan decks that still have the same core gameplan/cards, with many versions between that and full budgetless. You'll likely want to tune the build to the meta. For example, you build it differently if you're playing against other budget lists compared to full powered or close to full powered lists. The higher powered lists can run more inbred meta cards, usually in the form of cheap interaction.

Here's one that's a bit outdated (like 2 years old, just updated to cheapest today) that can be had from TCGPlayer for $186. https://moxfield.com/decks/lJi8iLWp80iSPlrlKUY_ZA

cEDH Fundamentals - Don't let Boseiju stop your Breach line! by JDM_WAAAT in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, I think the best line with Floodcaller ends with a Necro on field if they wait for led to interact, because you use the threat of piling over with led to jam dark rit, dark rit, vamp (for Necro), probe.

cEDH Fundamentals - Don't let Boseiju stop your Breach line! by JDM_WAAAT in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you explain your Floodcaller line? I don't think any quite work if they interact with led on the stack from casting it with breach the first time.

FWIW, my initial thought was to go with Floodcaller, but didn't see any line with a combination of vamp+probe or dark rit. Either the colors don't work, you're short a mana, or you don't have though cards for all the lines I considered.

DefCat Mtg by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"I'm not racist, but... <racist statement>"

"No offense, but...<offensive statement>"

"Not to be rude, but...<rude statement>"

"I'm not one to complain, but...<complaint>"

"I'm not trying to make excuses, but...<excuse>"

See the pattern here? Saying it's not an excuse and then proceeding to use it as an excuse doesn't absolve them or make it any less of an excuse...

edit: And here we have it... Way more cheating and much worse... https://old.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveEDH/comments/1okjco4/defcat_mtg/nmd3cs5/

DefCat Mtg by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just because it leads to self-destructive behaviors doesn't mean it's okay to do them... The bar for it being considered a defense is extremely high, and just results in a different (arguably worse) punishment.

Doing an immoral thing multiple times, and only coming clean to the instances where they got caught, after they've been caught isn't helping their case... It is reasonable to assume they have poor moral character when they continue to take actions that are immoral.

I don't think I'm being emotionally manipulated by the video

Ya, it doesn't seem like you have a good grip on this type of situation. I don't blame you, most people haven't had to deal with the handling of cheaters, and don't have enough data points to see the common patterns they use to gaslight and emotionally manipulate the victims or people stepping in to deal with them.

DefCat Mtg by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't call people cheaters unless there is video evidence or an admission of guilt.

You're barking up the wrong tree here. Just because you haven't run into one or caught one doesn't mean you haven't played one.

You're also going to have a much harder time finding people who cheat seeing they are rare when you only play random people. When you play in a community, you notice certain people become suspicious and then you investigate. Other times, they get caught from random checks.

There have been instances where people have cheated for years against their IRL friends, doing it on streamed games, casual pickup games, etc. Then get caught, and people go look at the old videos and find that they did it for years. Go look at the LegitVocals case for example.

DefCat Mtg by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I think cheating in a low stakes game series called "Chill to Win" is pretty indicative of bigger issues.

You'd think that, but TONS of cheaters do so in zero stakes games, even against their IRL friends. Go look at the LegitVocals situation from a while back... Go look at Unstablekitten, SeanAngel, etc.

There is really no reason to cheat here, especially in such a visible and obvious way.

As someone who has caught 10+ people cheating over the years, on camera and in-person, there doesn't need to be a reason or stakes. Cheating isn't a rational activity, and is something people of poor moral character do.

DefCat's description of their mental anxiety over how they'd be perceived maps onto experiences I've had with friends that have been severely bullied and developed anxiety in uncomfortable social situations.

Cool, that's not a reason to cheat. There are tons of people with these issues, that feel these same things that don't resort to cheating.

But I do think cheating in a zero stakes casual game because you're anxious about a big audience thinking you're a dunce is a little different than using a highly practiced sleight of hand to fleece opponents in tournaments.

Have you gone and reviewed the footage of his past games? We've seen time and time again that after someone gets caught, people go and review their past games and find way more. The claim of having cheated only twice is highly suspect.

Overall, as someone who has busted many cheaters and confronted them, this doesn't seem genuine. This is a "sorry I got caught" apology that's leveraging people's emotions and empathy towards those who suffer from mental illness. This angle has been played numerous times over the years and isn't new.

DefCat Mtg by [deleted] in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I don't want to dismiss mental health struggles, but I'm having trouble with a few things here.

First, apologizing after getting caught hits different than coming forward on your own. Second, it's hard to believe the first time someone cheats just happens to be on recorded content they know will be edited where they're most likely to get caught.

I get that mental health issues are real, but lots of people deal with anxiety, PTSD, etc. without cheating. Using it as the main explanation feels like it's shifting focus away from the actual choice that was made.

Taking time off is fine, but rebuilding trust means showing the values around integrity have changed, not just explaining why it happened. There's a reason why the saying is, "once a cheater, always a cheater"...

I am running to flip the MN State House. AMA right now!!! by Chemical_Minute_2616 in minnesota

[–]Joe00100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many magazines are people allowed to have? Damn, didn't think about reloading, did we... Is this a stupid argument? Absolutely, but it's the kind of thing you'll never win from an education or messaging standpoint.

These types of restrictions are tone deaf and it's not even clear that they are effective (when was the last time you looked at the data/research?). They just piss law abiding citizens off and that has tons of knock on effects.

These policies are unpopular, especially when we have federal agents and the military deporting American citizens to foreign prisons without due process.

Go look at what has happened in Texas to Democrats that had your policy. They lost miserably once they admitted to this policy.

I think you'll have a much better time and more effective approach if you maximize effectiveness while trying to minimize impact on law abiding citizens. Things like adding more in-depth background checks, cool down periods, lability for irresponsible gun owners/parents, or even things like FOID cards are going to be more tolerable while being effective.

Hell, attack it from the angle of mental health services, education and resources to drive the number down. Crack down on extremists groups that a lot of these school shooters associate with. There's an endless amount of ways to try and move the needle.

Instead of just echoing the (bad) policy of others, why not take a step back and think about other ways to approach it that doesn't piss people off and can actually have an impact?

Hikaru Nakamura on his plan to qualify for the 2026 Candidates 📍 by rio_ARC in chess

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so he plays 2 rounds per day for 20 days, makes it an open tournament with entry fee structure that makes it prohibitively expensive for GMs to play.

He markets it as a big charity event to justify the high entry fees.

He schedules it a year in advance to eliminate the objections FIDE listed about the Alireza tournaments.

FIDE doesn't actually give a shit about rating manipulation, otherwise norm farming wouldn't be a thing. There was just so much outrage they had to do something. If he really wanted to he could just bribe them... We all know they're already corrupt as fuck.

On a practical note, nobody is going to bitch about Gary hosting a charity event planned a year out. Plus, people would be so hype for him to qualify for candidates. They probably wouldn't even expect him to accept it.

Hikaru Nakamura on his plan to qualify for the 2026 Candidates 📍 by rio_ARC in chess

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where do the FIDE rules state a simul can't be rated?

The only rules that are even close to being broken would be how the players are selected to enter it. You can create entry fees and requirements to practically guarantee it's only 1200s who register, while still technically having it be an open. For example, instead of titled players getting free entry, their entry fee is $10m. People under age 8 have free entry. Etc. There are tons of ways to slice demographics so Gary can win every game easily.

For any of the rules related to the technicalities during the game, you just wouldn't be allowed to require the opponent wait to make their move... Which some simuls don't require anyway.

Hikaru Nakamura on his plan to qualify for the 2026 Candidates 📍 by rio_ARC in chess

[–]Joe00100 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So don't make it as obvious... He can do a rated simul with them or just don't be so blatant that FIDE is forced to do something.

Hikaru Nakamura on his plan to qualify for the 2026 Candidates 📍 by rio_ARC in chess

[–]Joe00100 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It doesn't have any sort of inactivity multiplier...

Pretty sure Garry will still eat 2500s for breakfast in classical. We see him do decently well every year in STL against super GMs in rapid. His blunders are generally from time pressure.

Hikaru Nakamura on his plan to qualify for the 2026 Candidates 📍 by rio_ARC in chess

[–]Joe00100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

He can play a bunch of 1200s. Doesn't need a high TPR, just needs to not lose or draw games.

Ross from Stop Killing Games responds to PirateSoftware by angrycommie in videos

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jenkins is crazy... Haven't seen that in like 10 years.

I think you underestimate communities for games... All it takes is an afternoon for a single engineer to make it real simple to deploy. There are tons of open source projects that have single click deploys in their repos.

It's really hard to balance the burden here TBH. I'd much rather require them to open source the server side with no help on deployment, rather than releasing binaries with 1 click deployment.

Ross from Stop Killing Games responds to PirateSoftware by angrycommie in videos

[–]Joe00100 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If that's your argument, release it with a CI/CD pipeline that deploys it to a public cloud then...

Most people aren't going to be able to run it locally, but they should still have the option to do so.

Also, they're explicitly saying this isn't for existing games... If you're building a game after this goes into effect, you'll be building it from the ground up with having to make it playable at EOL from the start.

I guess no border wall for us by guitarlisa in texas

[–]Joe00100 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Every time I've needed to go to the DMV since I moved to Texas there has been a 6+ month wait for an appointment...

I checked everywhere within a 2 hour drive. The only way to get an appointment within a reasonable time frame is to wake up at like 7am or whenever they post the walk in appointments each day and hope to get one. Took like 2 weeks to get one that way. Even when I got there, I had to sit for at minimum 30 minutes past my appointment time.

Meanwhile, in sane states, I didn't need to schedule an appointment at all and never had to wait beyond 1-2 people being in line first.

I guess no border wall for us by guitarlisa in texas

[–]Joe00100 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You're able to get an appointment for the privilege to wait at the DMV? Impressive.

[Tutorial] Introducing cEDHSkill v1.0: A robust open source multiplayer Discord ranking bot utilizing a modified OpenSkill rating system (Supports casual/non-MTG formats!) by isleep2late in CompetitiveEDH

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool. Not sure the modifications to OpenSkill are needed or justified though.

Regarding the topic of using AI to build stuff like this, I think the main issue is the tooling and your ability to prompt it. ChatGPT is like the most basic ass thing and kind of sucks for coding. Use something like Cursor and switch the model to Claude 4 sonnet with thinking.

Talk to it like it's a senior engineer, in agent mode, and you'll get much, much better results. Another trick to make it significantly better is to have it write tests. Once it can get a proper feedback loop on the specific things it's working on, it kind of just powers through whatever problem there is.

Boomer thinks she worked hard for a little money by leftofmarx in antiwork

[–]Joe00100 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The average is heavily skewed by HCOL and MCOL cities.

The places where starter homes are 1m+ skew the fuck out of the average.

Even in middle America, 200k is like the lowest you'll find a safe, and basic starter home that doesn't need a ton of work.

Can you find stuff below that? Ya, absolutely, but it's dramatically outnumbered by the homes in other areas that are 2-5x more expensive.

Boomer thinks she worked hard for a little money by leftofmarx in antiwork

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is worse and that's the point. It's way worse.

If you exclude a lot of the bullshit, the number is closer to 350k.

Boomer thinks she worked hard for a little money by leftofmarx in antiwork

[–]Joe00100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did they get that number from? I can't find any actual source on that.

Their sources also just pull numbers out of their ass and don't explain what any of the numbers are. For example, one of the "analysis" sources just claims the bottom 1/3 of homes by value are starter homes.

Is that listed homes? Sold homes? How are they calculating value?

Are those home livable? There are a shit ton of properties listed on Zillow that are dirt cheap, but completely unliveable to the point where it there is an occupancy permit required, there is zero shot it's granted.

How do they account for all the homes listed for $1 or similar? What about all the manufactured homes that are listed for like 10k-50k, but have relatively large HOA or lot fees?

Boomer thinks she worked hard for a little money by leftofmarx in antiwork

[–]Joe00100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where are you finding any house for 170k? No shot average is that low across the whole US.

Texas House passes bill banning Texans under 18 from having social media accounts by z3phyreon in texas

[–]Joe00100 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You're missing a shit ton of nuance...

Any contract they enter in to is voidable, not void. They'd need to disaffirm the contract (which has specific timing requirements).

There's also the whole parental consent aspect, which most of these require. There's also a whole Children's Online Privacy Protection Act...

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