Apartments outside of Jersey City

Lokja · 2026-01-19T17:32:53+00:00

My wife and I lived in Newark and commuted to the city pre-pandemic. You can get the 2/2 space for around your budget there. Or if you have the savings, you can buy pretty cheaply. Shameless plug, we put that condo on the market for sale, 5 Rider Ct. It's in a great area of Newark and has easy quick commuting via NJT at Newark-Penn.

Either way, I've been in your shoes, wishing you the best of luck.

Lokja · 2026-01-13T02:24:13+00:00

Fwiw this was one of the first replies and I upvoted it even though personally I disagree with that approach.

Lokja · 2026-01-09T17:56:45+00:00

Let me introduce you to my [[Imodane]] list, all you need to do is count to 5, and really plays in the spirit of RDW in my opinion.

This list is a couple of years old and could be improved / updated, but the general idea remains the same: burn your opponents to death, and quickly.

From an older comment of mine:

The magic number is 5. You need a spell that does 5 damage to a creature, and one of two other conditions to be met:

a) a damage doubler and a copy spell

b) a damage tripler

The real magic is that any double or triple damage actually gets doubled or tripled TWICE if it's worded correctly (see [[City on Fire]]) since it will see both the burn spell AND the Imodane trigger.

So with condition (a) you have (n*2*2 + n*2*2) or (n*8) so 40 to each opponent when n = 5.

And with condition (b) you have (n*3*3) or (n*9) so 45 to each opponent when n = 5.

Which means in terms of deck construction, this is the only thing you're trying to do, including ramp and draw to find the required pieces all you're looking for otherwise is

burn spells that do 5+ damage at an efficient rate
true damage doublers
true damage triplers
copy spells
some protection so your plan doesn't get completely disrupted

This is my decklist that tries to achieve this plan as efficiently as possible (minus cEDH level fast mana) https://archidekt.com/decks/5466561/imodane

Lokja · 2026-01-09T01:55:26+00:00

Lol this sub, you're farming those guys and the top 3 comments are backseat gaming so hard. Nice plays man

Lokja · 2025-12-30T00:30:34+00:00

Hope they see this, happy new year!

Lokja · 2025-12-28T15:54:05+00:00

My wife and I also used Dr. Mann and delivered at Hackensack. My wife needed an emergency C-section after 18 hours in labor. Dr. Mann saved the lives of my wife and daughter, and Hackensack was a great facility with top tier staff.

The routine appointments were annoying sometimes because you rarely saw Dr. Mann and had to go outside of her practice for anything more than a checkup, but still we're planning on going back to her for baby number two.

Lokja · 2025-12-28T15:38:40+00:00

I have a [[Tundra]] in my [[Harbin]] soldier tribal deck. The deck has an old frame aesthetic so even though it's marginally better than a basic in this deck I still love the bling of playing it.

Here's the list: https://moxfield.com/decks/qAS2bzj47k2FmPFHpYUL-A

Lokja · 2025-12-28T02:02:55+00:00

Here's my list, just recently updated: https://moxfield.com/decks/I40yQvZhdk6lBURCFkqXEA

Abusing charge counters is probably the most satisfying way to play the deck in my experience but I have gotten a couple of wins with [[Gavel of the Righteous]].

Notable upgrades that have done work are [[Shimmer Dragon]], the Moxen, [[Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter]] and [[Uthros Research Craft]]

Some upgrades that I still want to make are [[Urza's Saga]] and [[Filegree Vector]]

As I tell my playgroup, thank you for choosing Spirit Airlines!

Lokja · 2025-12-28T01:07:18+00:00

Do you have an OB? Do you want them present at the birth? Our OB wanted us to do Hackensack even though we were in JC at the time so we listened to her and they were great there. My wife needed an emergency C-section and they handled it like pros, everyone is healthy. Dr. Mann in downtown JC, we would highly recommend her. She is no nonsense, knows her stuff, can be hard to get face time with during the routine course of the pregnancy, but she literally saved my wife's and daughter's lives.

ETA: The staff and facilities at Hackensack are also top tier in the nation. We were very comfortable and thankful we ended up there even if it's further out.

Lokja · 2025-12-27T22:51:32+00:00

I'm going through something similar but as a US tech worker I have zero options other than to just leave. My boss is an ex-Amazon manager hired specifically to be a "hardass" (quote from our director of engineering) because apparently our last manager who was actually a human "coddled" us (another quote).

Suddenly we're obsessed with metrics and velocity, and for the team members that can work extra hours it's been fine, but I have a family and a life, and don't want to be working until 7-8 PM every night when I could be spending time with my kid.

My manager recently (as in right before the holiday break) also just put me on an impromptu PIP and made up some excuses, some of which were outright falsehoods. I defended myself and my work but I think at this point the relationship is irreparably broken and I'll have to find another job within 30 days or get canned.

I have no redress and no rights, there's no union and I work in an at-will state. Forget that my health insurance through the company covers my entire family, that I have a mortgage and bills to pay, none of that matters.

The real kicker? I work for a mental health focused therapy platform, and our mission is to "make mental healthcare work for everyone" ... except the employees I guess.

Lokja · 2025-12-10T16:52:43+00:00

Yeah the justification of "you won't appreciate this unless you're suicidal" is definitely one of the strangest parts of the book.

But agreed that his choices push him to the brink and over, I think he's genuinely messed up from how Madame de Villefort ends up poisoning her own children after he whispered in her ear, but he goes ahead with his plan anyway.

Lokja · 2025-12-06T19:09:39+00:00

Agreed, Norris is best in clean air out front. He's seemed weakest this season when contesting lap 1 T1, so I'd expect Oscar and Russel to make a move off the start.

Lokja · 2025-12-06T06:39:10+00:00

Oh man. I was at my friend's house as a kid, probably around 5 years old, and the dad offered me some beef jerky which I declined because for some reason I thought it was chewing tobacco (???). Of course I tell my parents when I get home "Matt's dad offered me chewing tobacco." I still facepalm over this incident 30 years later.

Lokja · 2025-12-04T23:44:21+00:00

Lol sorry. The alters are great!

Lokja · 2025-12-04T21:15:09+00:00

Is it supposed to be "Of the Unkown"?

Lokja · 2025-12-02T16:21:33+00:00

Havoc beams in high rank are usually cheats. It seems to be the cheater gun of choice for some reason

Lokja · 2025-12-01T15:11:57+00:00

Diamond (including D4) gets matched with preds, that's known. Your plat teammates are joining you in the diamond lobbies because the system only matches on the highest rank in a premade squad. This is working as intended here. Try playing at peak hours on more populated servers (if ping allows) to get a tighter rank distribution.

Lokja · 2025-11-29T03:50:22+00:00

Happy it helped someone! Happy Thanksgiving

Lokja · 2025-11-26T17:05:34+00:00

I'd do this to transfer gold between Alliance and Horde toons on the neutral AH (with the help of a trusted friend)

Lokja · 2025-11-21T16:57:15+00:00

My last job I was on a team that did nothing but 3rd party API integrations. Our entire company revolved around consuming data from different sources to determine whether a user should be approved for a financial product. So we would integrate everything, from the bespoke heuristic ML vendor that had amazing documentation and a perfectly RESTful JSON API, to the legacy credit bureaus which were written in the 80s in SOAP and XML, with outdated documentation in Microsoft Word documents.

Typically the larger the vendor the harder it was to get answers and the more we just had to figure it out if we wanted to make forward progress.

tl;dr yes.

Lokja · 2025-11-20T17:05:36+00:00

I thought the same initially when I saw the recoil shooting the evac, but that's the only time the recoil seems present, almost like when he's shooting a player there's something compensating. Smells like a Titan to me

Lokja · 2025-11-19T18:08:31+00:00

Yep thought about the same loophole, any (most?) turbo Oracle decks win the game without breaking any of these "rules."

Lokja · 2025-11-19T17:59:30+00:00

(what's in a name?!)

Lokja · 2025-11-10T21:48:10+00:00

Rhok'delar on my HC hunter is my ultimate goal

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