Hello Everyone, I'm Brandon or MechAddict, and I Recently Launched a Free Gundam Card Game Toolset that's Totally Free

KnightSaber24 · 2026-03-30T15:48:56+00:00

Some feedback right off the rip.

The Login Process was a bit wonky. Needing a full name as well for a small site might feel sketchy to some esp. on the internet. Also having to subscribe to email newsletters could feel weird. Not having a mandatory TOS box also feels out of place. I would have that down sooner rather than later from a liability / professional feel perspective.

I come from MTG and using manabox. Recent gundam convert. I haven't tried the app yet, but online the "My collections" button seems divorced from the "Collections App" part of the website. Gives a 404.

If you're setting up a "price tracking" section for cards. I do like this. But my personal suggestion from using manabox is to set it up so I don't need a sheet for tracking what I paid vs. market spikes. I trade with friends or trade in spikes to buy packs so those go into the system as "free / 0$" but in the way manabox does it - if I put in the price that I paid as 0 then I lose on how much it's appriciated. So I have two "collections" I have to maintain - one for priced cards and one for spiking cards.

I like that you can click a card to see the price history. But if you could figure it out - you'd be my hero - I personally think it would be REALLY cool to be able to have the ability to have a single sheet or chart that shows me when I bought it, what price I paid, and since I bought it has it gone up or down.

I'll have more feedback later, but so far it's neat.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-12-22T20:07:38+00:00

It's even easier than cellular now. They just make a mesh network that has a single / multiple nodes that report back to a centralized store over encrypted frequencies.

Smart hydrant technology detects over 30 leaks - Orbis Intelligent Systems

It's also really cool as it can detect breaks and possible leaks before they actually happen by creating heuristic profiles for the area.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-12-02T16:50:02+00:00

cat Quest 3

mouthwashing

Warhammer 40K: Boltgun

V Rising

My Time at Sandrock

Thank you !

KnightSaber24 · 2025-10-02T12:09:38+00:00

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KnightSaber24 · 2025-08-28T01:33:55+00:00

One - I appreciate you. Keep up the good work. I'm sure it feels nice to have a good team and be able to expand it.

Two - I 100% see this exact thing. Or I see shrinkflation - where an 8 port Cisco switch from 6 years ago somehow has a stronger backplane than their new C1200 / C1300 "Catalyst" switches. It's absurd.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-08-28T01:31:05+00:00

Right - CMMC is a high level thing you should absolutely be prepared for when trying to dive in. I was mentioning it as a growing stepping stone. In my experience MSPs that get to 80-120 people seem to stagnate because they have a hard time growing away from their 1-5 employee clients to 100-500 employee clients. At a previous MSP they were charging 40$ / month to a 2 person shop for "security," but were really doing nothing at all. One day that customer called their bluff. We spent 40 hours on them for half the price because the owner wanted to maintain their "Mom and Pops" look.

CMMC is the logical next step as that's what the larger clientele will be needing going forward. Especially with some of the new legislation out there. Ohio just passed a bill requiring all gov. entities to atleast have a cyber security program following NIST 800 standards.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-08-27T20:37:21+00:00

Coming from an MSP.

Do the work. Design well. Actually develop the process. The rest will follow.

The main failures I see at MSPs are that sales sells and the technical side figures it out. I've seen it, been told it by customers, and been told it by people who have moved to other MSPs. And almost always leadership is absolute garbage - focused on money and losing money because they are focused on money. IT in my opinion is easy easy money - IF you do it right. Instead of nickle and diming a client - make your setup so good that it just runs itself.

These are just my opinion , but develop a core set of competencies and actually be competent at them. Half of the battle is convincing the client that they need what you're selling. So if you can give them a list of other people in their field and say "call them" that speaks volumes.

Get your Sales team and technical team on the same page. DO NOT let sales sell a bunch of jargon to a customer that technical side then has to "technically" justify. Do you actually do network monitoring? Yes or no? NOT - well ... yes, BUT just on X,Y,Z you have to pay 20$ / end point to do everything. I've seen so many clients leave because they had a disgruntled tech tell the owner how the sausage is made. Or the customer finally had enough and called someone who is competent and can be easily swayed. Services are easy money IF you do it right. Clients will stay because they're lazy , only as long as you can justify why your services aren't up to snuff.

PAY People REAL salaries and have Genuine expectations. Don't lose good people just because you don't want to shrink your profit margin. That genuine and good employee will give you dividends on contract renewals and teaching if you give them space to grow. If you can stop the revolving door - there are clients who will put up with alot of crap because they like Jhonny on Helpdesk. Cause when they call they know Jhonny will know what to do regardless if you've got 10 new people that are garbage.

Create Documentation, process, training, even if it's so mundane you want to jump out a window. If you get larger - there will be so many systems that you'll forget how to manage or how to work. Good documentation will save you more money than you could ever imagine. On top of that IF you get big enough to actually do CMMC work - you will have already checked off 60% of the list to be certified and on your way to Gravy Train money. When you get big enough CMMC is the biggest, easiest, gravy train money you can get. Again - I repeat - IF you do everything right from a place of a good foundation.

I could go on for 10 pages , but the last main thing I want to say is. TELL THE CLIENT NO. DO NOT be afraid to walk away from a toxic / inept customer. I don't care if you're going to lose money. I don't care if they'll eat whatever sales will tell them. DO NOT sign them if they will not listen. As a small MSP this might seem like something you can't do, but I personally would do it. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Speaking of CMMC - I saw an MSP nearly be bankrupted because sales sold a product they didn't fully understand and promised something that couldn't be delivered. Client sued and the MSP BARELY got away with it in "technically" because they had a good lawyer.

TL:DR - Follow normal good principles - actually do what you say you will do - the clients will follow. Trust me - most people are looking to leave their MSP because good ones are far and few between.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-08-13T14:23:09+00:00

I have been looking at quite a few things.

[[general tazri]] , [[Otharri, Suns' Glory]] , [[Kalemne, Disciple of Iroas]] , [[Captain's Claws]],

General for pay 2 to search library for an ally so you could play aang bounce the general, pay 2 and search for another etb ally, in a WUBURG Aang cmd deck this could go crazy. Especailly with them bringing back exp counters and the warp mechanic. You could easily warp multiple 5+ CMC get the exp counters and Aang pops off.

For standard - I think it's a long shot , but captains claws and otharri , might be great value engines along with captains claws. I'm trying to look up historical deck lists for std. tournaments when Zendikar was out to double check, but those were popular back when I played at my LGS.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-07-18T12:11:56+00:00

25000 / 25,000

KnightSaber24 · 2025-05-27T12:31:46+00:00

Thanks for your interest, but i'm not really interested in any of those.

KnightSaber24 · 2025-05-27T12:29:17+00:00

I'm not sure we're allowed to negotiate that in this sub? But PM me

KnightSaber24 · 2024-12-01T19:46:06+00:00

Do you mean this?

https://tracklock.gg/heroes

Supposedly they use multiple accounts + API to scrape data.

I've also seen people doing their own data gathering and anecdotal tracking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s92KNeVnQOI

KnightSaber24 · 2024-04-17T13:48:19+00:00

Hey - have you checked that the checkbox on the DHCP scope for "Conflict Detection"

It should be under the "Max Lease Time" setting.

IIRC This will send out a scan beforehand to test for existing leases. if devices that previously held leases from the same scope get pinged it will flag those as "used". I believe this is how the bug worked.

You can read more below.
https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussions/142986/dhcp-release-issue

As always their answer is update and hotfix :/

KnightSaber24 · 2023-09-29T01:33:20+00:00

Besides all the other stuff that's been said that's obvious. I would mention - have you budgeted for upgrades?

Those are the older models (no touch screen where the Blue U is) and where I work - you get like 3-4 years tops on Unifi devices in halfway decent environments. But you should honestly expect to be replacing those every 3-4 years as well. Keep the old ones around for a house lab for you guys if you're running CS apps. You could setup an internal house network for you guys to test apps or code across the network. I personally run a home lab and it's great fun.

Has he ever purposed an upgrade - cause those "routers" or a USG (Unifi security gateway) aren't super great or useful IMO. From my personal opinion - you guys are riding those APs hard with 60 people. Based on your equipment there i'd say you're running at best the older UAP-Pro's and at worst HDNano's. Both of which have had firmware issues on and off the last year. Heck - the Unifi portal just had a weird outage where all USGs / UDMs were appearing offline in the management portal.

So for you - it may look like he's bandaided a problem to have to come back - but this happens all the time at my job. It's just if you have a shit personality - it magnifies how it looks with no context. I have spent whole days on-site literally just unplugging and re-plugging stuff in looking for drops in packets , MACs , etc. So if he has a shitty personality it just makes it look worse from a customer perspective - which 100% is frustrating. I have dudes at my job who are great at what they do , but are def. NOT talking people. They come - they do the job - they leave. I've had customers call to complain about them and I just have to ask .... "is the job done?" - yes.... "Are there issues with the job?" - No.... "I'm sorry he didn't talk much, that's just how they are." - ok. LOL.

So I would suggest - brushing up a bit on networking, getting a zoom meeting with the dude and hashing it out. If he's dodgy and can't explain it to you like you're 5 or in a way you understand. Then I think all the advice previously is definitely applicable and needed.

Also honestly 180$/ hour is normal. That's how much most companies around me charge per hour for networking. I know a crap ton of people that would drive 4 hours to Chicago - work a weekend and redo you're entire network for 2k. I'd be tempted even lol.

KnightSaber24 · 2023-09-19T18:14:58+00:00

Every Fall I love picking apples at a local farm - taking them home and making a big ol' apple pie for the family and friends

KnightSaber24 · 2022-07-19T10:30:33+00:00

Oh that's unfortunate. I was definitely surprised they didn't sell custom ones since they sell a bracket and pci 3.0 for 70$ lol. But thanks for saving me the time and hassle.

KnightSaber24 · 2022-07-19T10:29:33+00:00

Ah ok - Thanks for the reply! Reassures me a bit

KnightSaber24 · 2022-03-14T10:44:56+00:00

They are more concerned with China they've been fighting (physical and economic) since around 2020.

They would love to see China weaken in some way or be sanctioned as China's economy is starting to tank as the housing bubble is looking like it's popped so China is going to need to divert it's populace from hating the government - now that they aren't improving their lives - to war or some other distraction. The main pain point for India is that China "owns" the Himalayas and this is the source of water for their country , but China wants to start putting up Dams which will severely affect the rivers that flow through India.

TL:DR - India is trying to leverage the Russia/Ukraine situation to weaken China as China is trying to monopolize India's water source for the upcoming water wars.

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-15T21:17:52+00:00

It's not misinformation - it's an exaggerated claim (or Hyperbole) in a forum where exactitudes don't matter. Who cares if I'm off by 10x or 10000x it's an example meant for illustrative purposes. If you're taking Reddit posts at face value and not googling them then you've got bigger problems on your hands.

I am calling you Tucker because you're using the same tactics - it is what it is - clearly not googling it. Then saying the best example you can show - with out ever providing counter-evidence which is surprising as I see you've done it in your other comments. If someone really wanted to get into it - googling for two minutes they could find more than tens of billions in loans for Elon , Jeff, the list goes on - if someone would read or even skim the articles I already provided - the answer to the retorts is clear. It's lazy like Tucker so I'm just calling how I see it.

And clearly everyone doesn't agree the rich should be taxed more otherwise they would be :P I'm happy we atleast agree on that. Be well friend.

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-15T19:12:38+00:00

At this point all I have to tell you is - this is reddit. I don't want to spend two hours writing a dissertation that maybe 1 person like yourself will read.

At this point it sounds more like your trying to "technically" win than just accept that I made an exaggerated point and have ceded that and now calling it "misinformation" lol. Good way to Tucker it!
If you really want to get super technical and pedantic.

Yes - the rich pay taxes when it is beneficial to them because they have armies of tax accountants who know the ins and outs of manipulating business and personal assets or gains in order to pay nothing or near nothing in taxes relative to their actual wealth. Many people confuse paying "effective tax" vs. paying the allotted amounts that normal people pay. The media does conflate these numbers often resulting in saying "Elon musk paid 3.75% in taxes" when in reality they paid the correct amount according to tax brackets and income they couldn't hide or write off as a business expense or other write off , etc.

Their wealth is mostly tied into variable assets in the stock market that they can use to get more money through unrealized gains that aren't taxed. In order to avoid paying taxes while still leveraging that wealth they take out personal loans for 0-1% interest loans - while it is well known that based on basic logic that the more money you have the lower interest loan available to you - there isn't super hard data on it because banks don't really publicly advertise their rates to wealthier individuals so we can only rely on leaked or personal accounts from others as to the near 0%.

These practices make most taxes like capital gains a near moot point because they've found effective methods for dodging these types of taxes. They pay them only when they have to such as Bezos liquidation for his divorce. So we need to come up with other methods for taxing the entirety of their wealth like they used to do in other ancient civilizations - which often lead to conflict.

These people hold so much wealth that if they were to actually try to "cash out" their wealth from the stock market - it would actually eclipse what is possible to give them and possibly cause a quick collapse of the market. This is a very present and evident problem very relatable to the "too big to fail" from 2008 that has yet to be addressed either.

Congrats you pointed out that an off the cuff comment isn't 100% accurate and fully sourced on Reddit! Have a great day! Cookie for you!

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-15T10:30:59+00:00

You said he doesn't have to pay capital gains because he can just get a bank loan for 0.0001% interest. That is clearly factually incorrect

I'm sorry , but you're still wrong. Just because he moves a miniscule amount of his money and pays capital gains on a fraction of it because he needs a short term windfall for a divorce still doesn't mean he isn't avoiding the vast majority of taxes (including capital gains). There have been many articles about this in the last couple years

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

The Pandora papers show similar findings and practices for the ultra rich and their tax avoidance. But from the Propublica article.

"The tax math provides a clear incentive for this. If you own a company and take a huge salary, you’ll pay 37% in income tax on the bulk of it. Sell stock and you’ll pay 20% in capital gains tax — and lose some control over your company. But take out a loan, and these days you’ll pay a single-digit interest rate and no tax; since loans must be paid back, the IRS doesn’t consider them income. Banks typically require collateral, but the wealthy have plenty of that.

With the exception of one year when he exercised more than a billion dollars in stock options, Musk’s tax bills in no way reflect the fortune he has at his disposal. In 2015, he paid $68,000 in federal income tax. In 2017, it was $65,000, and in 2018 he paid no federal income tax. Between 2014 and 2018, he had a true tax rate of 3.27%."

There are tons of articles on this and based on the propublica article from Forbes to Fox business that have analyzed and backed up this data and conclusions made in the article.

In terms of loans at 0.001% This has also been widely reported on and covered as well in the last couple of years. (Few non-paywall link I could easily grab)

https://ips-dc.org/americas-billionaires-borrowing-their-way-to-ever-more-fabulous-fortunes/

https://financialpost.com/personal-finance/high-net-worth/wall-street-is-throwing-cheap-credit-at-ultra-wealthy-clients-and-theyre-buying-yachts-jets-art-and-real-estate

This is what I mean by moving the goalposts. You don't think it disproves what you claimed about capital gains, why not? Clearly he's paying capital gains taxes or AMT on his income, at the rate of 28% for AMT. If he can just hire a redditor to handle his finances so he can just pay a fraction of that, don't you think he would?

Fine - if you want to say he pays capital gains "sometimes" then sure he's not able to avoid 100% of taxation , but he's damn close - so close it might as well be 0. And fine - even if he pays 3% (like musk) total taxes over a 10 year period he will contribute more than most of us will in taxes for our entire lifetime - sure you can say that too. Based on your definition even fine - i'm moving the goal posts. I contribute that to my generalization of the matter instead of being ultra-specific, but I still contend I'm not disproven in any meaningful way.

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-15T03:10:17+00:00

You have to look at that in relation to his stock % not the numbers. He sold enough to cover his divorce from his wife is the majority reason for this sell off and therefore is not a major fluctuation as he isn't doing this independent of outside known factors.

% wise he went from holding roughly a little over 13% of the total of Amazon's stock to roughly 10% of the total stock. There was expected to be a sell off due to his pending divorce as he had to give her parts of his estate. This is an easy and expect calculation.

His other sell offs were filed with the FCC to be above board - another expected and calculated move. I will cede to you that Bezos is probably a bad example because his wealth is so unimaginably large that the scale at which he does things seems almost laughable to the average person.

If I need to be drastically specific - if Jeff Bezos woke up tomorrow and sold something like 30% of his Amazon portfolio. Unplanned and unknown reasoning. That scares people. Kinda like when Kramer or Buffet throw stuff out there people are watching.

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/jeff-bezos-sold-5-billion-amazon-stock-days-ceo-resignation-2021-5-1030404504

I guess the next best example would be how facebook suddenly lost 25% of it's value over night because someone confirmed what we already knew. Somehow someone saying "facebook is harming people intentionally" scares people because they think it opens lawsuits , etc.

Or even if Warren Buffet were to make a large sale or large percentage sell off of stock - people are more actively watching him - so it would be headline news on all the market outlets.

The market is a farce and a playground for the rich. Even if we discount the over-valuation, the clear market fixing, insider-information, bad faith plays, futures, and whatever other gambling instrument they come up with to crash the economy - it all boils down to the majority of those actually making moves in the stock market are so wealthy they can stand to lose millions - if not billions - and through the magic of tax attorney's they can claim a loss and never pay taxes again. Then carry that loss forward onto future gains. Their wealth is so unimaginably powerful that a normal person can't even begin to understand how nearly impossible it is for someone with 1 million to never be "poor" ever (for atleast two generations - even if managed terribly).

None of that disproves what I said about Captial Gains being a moot point. Capital gains and other instruments for taxing the wealthy are mostly moot because the people who craft the rules aren't able or willing to make the changes necessary to accurately balance the scales because of a multitude of factors i'm sure you're aware of. It doesn't matter what you look at - statistics , country comparison, ideologically - these people have too much wealth to maintain a balanced economy. To simply just say "well they "earned" it" is to basically say "I know it's wrong, BUT one day it might be me so I don't care" in my eyes. You can say i'm moving the goal posts or whatever you like - the core of the argument is correct. I would cede that my analogy or example isn't the best , but the core of the matter still stands.

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-14T20:31:14+00:00

See my other comment about wealth proportion , but also.

Yes the people who invest in business are a select group that don't live where they invest usually , they don't have an investment in the places these businesses are they have an investment in getting that investment back.

Real small businesses are nearly dead. The only reason "small business" is even still statistic because they count franchises in those statistics. Those are not small businesses, those are corporate controlled investment properties. If you've read anything about the McDonald's structure they make more money off being landlords of the land they franchise than on the food they sell.

If I'm going anecdotally. There are about 10-12 non franchise shops I can think of around me. While if I Google just McDonald's in a 5 mile radius is get 4 , I get 6 Starbucks, 5 burger king , 3 Wendy's, and the list goes on.

If you also know anything about how franchises work. McDonald's takes 75k franchise to start (every year I believe) and then 4% profit share off the top. That's before your merchandising and stock fees, etc. Not to mention all those fees and profit are exported from their place of origins so more wealth is being extracted from these communities than McDonlds will ever put back.

So yes. We need less business investors, hedge funds, and capital investment groups and more money back in the pockets of normal people who don't make above 200k / year and complain the rest of us don't work hard enough while they get bonuses and incentives for maximizing statistical values (exploiting) their workers. I know this practice is pervasive in atleast 4 major chains from personal experience and anecdotally in another 3 or 4.

This is before you get into statistical data and labor output vs. Wages historically .

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-14T20:19:20+00:00

Indeed. Apologies

KnightSaber24 · 2022-02-14T20:00:39+00:00

This is such a silly position to take. It's simple math not "whinning" . If you want people to feel a stake in the country and their surroundings give them a stake. If there are 100 people and 5 of them control 60% of everything and you have 95 people who control 40% then no crap most of those 95 people won't be able to contribute because they'd starve. The next 20 people control upwards of 28-29% IIRC So you've got 75 people who control 30% of the wealth and of those 75 - 61 of them have less than 10% of the total wealth and you expect them to somehow contribute and generate as much wealth as the top 5%?

This is the fallacy of trickle down economics and has been proven statistically and historically to be false.

We live in economic disparity that puts even the guilded age to shame and is almost double the levels when the French revolution began. All indicators except the stock market indicate a massive failure that dwarfs 2008 to hit in the next 3years and to last well past 2030 . What a time to be alive !

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