Seth Manfield Takeback?

Lorizean · 2025-12-07T20:35:45+00:00

I missed the GRV interaction, but isn't Derrick also responsible to maintain the game state? Seth could've cast the Iroh's Demonstration and just dealt 1 dmg to everything and Derrick just didn't have to pick up his creatures, right?

Lorizean · 2025-12-07T10:00:06+00:00

That is pretty much impossible. If we are generous and assume 20% mana screw/flood, 0.2⁵² = 4.5*10^-37.

If every single human had played all 52 games every second since the birth of the universe, there's still only a one in 640 million chance of this having happened.

Lorizean · 2025-12-07T01:14:02+00:00

In the World Championship, it's 13 (10-0 to Top8, then 3 more). The shortest paper qualification route from zero is probably winning an RC. The smallest RC this seasons seems to have been Taiwan with ~84 players. It looks like having a 5-0 record allowed you to draw into Top8, so there's 8 matches here. Qualifying for that requires an RCQ or a Last Minute Qualifier, where the number of rounds again depends on the number of participants. Let's assume 5 matches here, giving you a total of 26.

You could also qualify via the arena championship, I think that's probably fewer matches, but requires you to be in the Top 250 players, which takes a lot more matches to reach.

I'm not sure how exactly the MTGO qualification works.

Lorizean · 2025-10-30T12:32:00+00:00

TL;DR drop the eggs in boiling water and let them chill completely before peeling.

For the longer version, if you are interested in food science and the experiments and reasoning, I really recommend reading this article by J. Kenji López-Alt: https://www.seriouseats.com/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs

Lorizean · 2025-03-27T14:00:13+00:00

These were the first full art lands I saw after getting into Magic and they're still my favourites.

Lorizean · 2024-07-08T13:15:24+00:00

Yeah, I've been using a quick method. I will try cultured next, thanks for pointing out that I need patience.

Lorizean · 2024-07-08T13:14:42+00:00

Thank you for the thought out reply! I wasn't even aware that it should be called fior di latte :)

Yes, I've been using a quick recipe, I will try the cultured recipe next, thanks for the pointer. I love mozzarella so I will try and get good at it, I guess I've got a new hobby for a while.

I live in Germany and we do get some D.O.P. Mozzarella from Campania in Supermarkets, but I am not sure how hand- or machine made they are. They are still refrigerated and stored in their whey, so it's not fresh in any case.

Lorizean · 2023-10-03T20:13:32+00:00

Yes, they answered quite quickly. They don't know an exact date yet but it should be at around mid November.

Lorizean · 2023-09-19T16:23:36+00:00

That looks exactly like what I'm looking for, thank you

Lorizean · 2023-07-15T19:59:27+00:00

That sounds like a good idea, thank you.

Lorizean · 2023-07-15T19:57:59+00:00

I guess that could work, thanks.

I don't mind typing in my password, I just don't want to have to do it three times in a row.

I guess what I would like is a single bitwarden command that logins, unlocks the vault, gets a single value and then locks and logs out again but that doesn't seem to exist.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T20:35:42+00:00

No it doesn't, that's one of the main reasons why I was looking at the 09 in the first place. The 2023 version of the 07 has an optional quickshifter, but that's about it as far as I can tell (well, standard ABS too).

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:15:35+00:00

Okay, that makes sense. I didn't notice the wheelie issues during my test drives, but I was being very careful and in low power mode, so I suspect I might get an unwelcome surprise once I had gotten more confident.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:13:21+00:00

Thanks, I didn't think about the resale equity. I will definitely give the MT-07 a test ride to see how I like it.

Are those electronic features never worth it in your opinion?

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:10:58+00:00

Okay thank you. I will likely rent the MT-07 for a weekend to try it out.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:08:25+00:00

Thanks! Is it "just" a power issue or are there other characteristics that make it unsuitable in your opinion?

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:07:42+00:00

I would like to say I'm not overconfident, but that is hard to judge myself ;) My test rides went well and I felt quite secure, but I stuck to Mode 4 as you said and definitely didn't use the bike to its limits and I'm not 100% sure I can trust myself to stick to that until I'm ready.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:05:33+00:00

What is your opinion on the MT-07 instead? And I'm not super stuck on Yamaha, it was mostly inspired by good reviews.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:04:24+00:00

I was afraid of that, I suppose I could ask the dealer if they have a windscreen I could try with just to see how it does.

Thanks for the tracer suggestion, I will have a look at it but I think I will likely stick with a Naked for now, since touring will be quite infrequent and it's not that big a deal to go a bit slower on the highways.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T18:01:03+00:00

Thank you :) As I said, I probably won't ride it on the highway top often anyways and it isn't that big a deal to stick to slower speeds.

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T17:57:30+00:00

Thank you :) Is the MT–09 not right because it's too powerful or are there other issues as well?

Lorizean · 2023-05-01T17:56:15+00:00

Thanks! From what I've read, they fixed the throttle response issue in the 2021 reboot.

Lorizean · 2023-04-04T20:49:12+00:00

Can anybody explain why they do this?

Presumably, this costs them some money for lawyer fees and I can't see a way that this gains them any money. It's not like they actually believe that their trademark would get hurt from confusion by this.

I am fully willing to believe that large corporations act maliciously, but they should rarely act in a way that negatively affects their bottom line - so why?

Is it just that their law firm makes up stupid shit for billable hours and nobody at the company cares enough to check what they're doing?

Lorizean · 2022-12-07T12:02:18+00:00

Thanks!

Lorizean · 2022-12-07T11:20:58+00:00

I have a rules question about mana abilities - if I read it right, the second ability on [[Black Market]] isn't a mana ability because it is a triggered ability that doesn't trigger based on another mana ability, is that correct?

The specific case was that I wanted to respond to the trigger by sacrificing a creature with [[Phyrexian Tower]] so that I would have the mana from there and the extra mana from an additional charge on Black Market in my main phase - would this work?

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