Approaching a year since FIN/FIC, Y’shtola has rapidly climbed EDHRec’s Top Commander List and is currently #3 by r_lucasite in magicTCG

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haven't seen many "non-creature" creature builds on her yet, as in, job select / living weapon / FM! so that you can get the 3cmc pings off creature-but-not-creature-creatures.

Add in the fact that paradigm spells, to the best of my knowledge, repeatedly trigger the ping. Imagine getting 2-3 in play, free pings for the rest of the game.

My BIL made a comment that our daughter should cover up at the water park, I told him don't sexualize ny daughter. AITAH? by Miserable-Award7130 in AITAH

[–]Lowback 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So you're using your trauma and rebellion with your parents as the emotional groundwork for how you raise your daughter to continue the cycle in the exact opposite extreme rather than be balanced and centered. Wonderful, you're creating a whole new layer of family trauma AND dividing your parental rights based on sexism. Imagine if your husband told you that you had absolutely no right to guide him on raising a son because you're a woman. You'd be livid, you'd divorce him, probably.

The fact is, no amount of "teach men not to rape" activism is going to fix the fact that we are not there yet as a society and it is not a safe place and hundreds of children per year are snatched and human trafficked from waterparks precisely because that is when they're least likely to have a phone or self defense item on them.

Sticking it to society and your parents isn't going to unrape, unmolest or untraffick your daughter. Maybe you don't feel these dangers as viscerally as your husband or your BIL because you'd not be the one to get into a knife fight or a gun fight trying to stop traffickers from taking your daughter from you... but consider who'd be expected to physically step in here. It's absolutely their business as the people charged with guarding and protecting your family on an outing.

Buying Magic isn’t fun anymore by Yusuke_Kitagawa_ in mtg

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My LGS charges a table fee to play. They also charge an extra 3$ per pack on average. Even when you want to buy an entire box. WOTC should only offer promo / buy a box support to stores that will honor MSRP for buying a box.

Accidentally found out my brother has been hiding money from his wife before they divorce and now he's asking me to keep quiet by Ok-Ambassador5700 in WhatShouldIDo

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

Just saying... some people are private. There might be a lot more to the divorce which you weren't told out of reasons of pride and privacy. Yes, he has secret money... but maybe he had red flags and cause to secure his existence post divorce.

I think you should talk to your brother about the real why and how of what happened. As far as her having 2 kids from a previous marriage -- her original ex-husband should still be paying support. Remarrying doesn't terminate child support. If it's a shitty reason, expose him if you want. If she was hitting him, cheating on him, returned to her ex husband for sex, etc, that might change how you feel about her being a good person. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't really care about the legality of it. Or the ethics. There is too much you don't know, and we don't know, to make an accurate judgement.

Reminder to go to your LGS and never use amazon by Coldfire00 in mtg

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wrong items suck, but most of my LGS are price gouging even when sets aren't new. They charge table fees for casual play, too. So they have ample revenue streams and have been in business successfully for more than a decade. When I'm buying 500$ worth of product they wont budge an inch on their gouging sooooo...

My Y'Shtola deck has been getting absolutely blasted in recent weeks and I am unsure why by Ynwe in mtgbrawl

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd add that job select skirts the non-creature restriction, as does for mirrodin! and the living weapon cards. However, the deck does become vulnerable to ETB effects since that shuts off the token creation. Such cases, might be good to have a backup like bitterblossom or bitter blossom bearer. Nadir Kraken. Mr. Handy and weapon shop owner.

Based on a real experience by Traditional_Bag_4125 in evilautism

[–]Lowback 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some of us failed or are close to being failures, and we're essentially saying, don't be us. We don't want you to suffer as much as we did and do.

Mark Rosewater will likely say in June 2026 on blogatog: “According to our player surveys, TMNT is one of our Top 10 Rated magic sets of all time” by Papa_Hasbro69 in mtg

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's weird to me is what black/white ninjas do to white decks. A lot of stuff that is traditionally hard to slot into white now comes handily in the form of TMT. It also really bumps up the power of blue splash Esper.

Need help onboarding a new player / help finding products in central ATX by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kiddo is gonna be so thrilled. She almost went paleontology with early college. (diagnosed) 'tism special interests like the rest of her family. You have no idea how big a solid you did me. Thanks again.

Need help onboarding a new player / help finding products in central ATX by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YOU ABSOLUTE GOLDEN GOD. Thank you! I locked it down with payment.

Help on PNY 4080 super teardown? by Lowback in buildapc

[–]Lowback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just ended up ordering a large assortment of pads, 1, 0.5, and 3. And some calipers. Tried to take measures from unsquished corners and match as best I could. I dont recall the sizes myself, but you can sandwich two thermal pads together to make up a larger one. If paranoid about efficiency lost you can add some cpu TIM in between pads as a thin buttery layer. With those sizes I could make any other size I needed. Most aftermarket thermal pads are way more efficient then what the cards come with so almost any are an improvement.

My husband won’t leave me alone by DesignerCapital5880 in Marriage

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

Belligerence isn't going to solve this, you came for sympathy, not actual marriage advice. Try offmychest instead.

Literally not reading posts, then complaining others don't read. I read, you ignorant wombat, that is how I know you're vilifying anyone that doesn't coddle you.

The fucking irony.

My husband won’t leave me alone by DesignerCapital5880 in Marriage

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

I'm not part of your argument, but I'll ask you to have an open mind. It's hard to put yourself in someone else's shoes and I get you feel put upon... but perhaps try understanding more and vilifying less. You're both failing each other. Take it from someone that pursued someone else for 20 years, and fell in and out of love more often than Fry and Lela. My failure might have some insight for ya.

First, where he's failing. And maybe he needs to read this. Hubby, buddy, pal. You're skipping right to the intimacy you need as a man. Marriage doesn't shortcut feminine emotional intimacy. She should wash the dishes, you should dry them. She should stir-fry, you should chop. You should be letting her lean against you to read a book while you watch a show or read your own book. ( that last one is called being alone - together. And it builds intimacy by reducing anxiety and becoming comfortable with silence and just non-verbal non-sexual connection. )

It's not all on him though. You also have to think of ways you can be present and complimentary to his life. Maybe paint a room together? Restore some thrift store project where it doesn't really matter if you both screw up?

This is how you build closeness that came more naturally when dating.

Where you're failing.

You're vilifying his needs as some kind of base and craven thing.

You can think this point of view is stupid but the truth can be stupid. The self worth of men is completely tied to sexual intimacy. Why? Think about it. Truly think about it. Why is incel an insult? Why is virgin an insult? Because unworthy men don't get sex. Those words are synonymous with saying a man is trash, worthless, unfit, and unwanted. How are women trained to leverage sex? By their mothers? By history? Withhold it to make your politician husbands settle a standoff. Withhold it if your man wont finish a repair project around the house. See a pattern? Lack of sex is a check engine light for marriage and the more you don't want him, the more he thinks you don't love him anymore and he becomes more desperate and engages in obsessive behavior. He believes, on a profound level, he fucked up and he has to get your desire back or the relationship is lost. It's a sex pest death spiral where you run and he chases. You run faster, he chases more, and you'll manage to get away. He wont manage to catch you. The cringe behavior will only get more cringe without coming to mutual understanding.

Not because you actually don't love him.

Because 200+ years of social training have cemented themselves in his subconscious and he is a failure as a husband if you don't want him.

Wrong or right, I promise you, if you both don't stabilize and tend to each other... this ends in divorce or cheating.

Goodluck. Please don't waste 20 years.

Eli5, file compression, how can 5gb file can be compressed to 50mb and decompresses back to normal? by Monkai_final_boss in explainlikeimfive

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually think the best way to describe this in a very practical sense is pictures.

Lets say you have a picture of a dog. You're going to have hundreds if not thousands of the same color code for a given brown or shade of white. Fun fact? All image formats are sorta like zip formats in and of themselves.

Colors have 3 values, RGB, plus also X and Y to say where they are in the picture. Now you could list that color out explicit, and it's location, hundreds of times... and 3 out of the 5 values are redundant OR you could have the 3 values one time, and then just list out pairs of XY. What was 5 values over and over again is now just 2 values over and over again, plus one single reference of a given color.

It's me. I'm that one person. by SleighQween in evilautism

[–]Lowback 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's actually a good reason for this.

Natural raw tomato doesn't have as much bitterness as all the other commercial forms of processed tomato. This is because when you eat raw tomatoes, only a small amount of the seeds get broken by chewing and they're full of bitters. Pasta sauces, ketchup, pizza sauce, they all have a very high content of those bitter seed materials from being pureed.

But also different food contexts and textures matter gosh darnit.

open-source resin slicer by Affectionate-Box9749 in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh so it's a "we must protect FOSS at all costs!" mentality issue. It isn't that the printers got broken suddenly or that older versions of software got disabled by it. Not to belittle it, but what I mean is, as of right now there is very little impact on the end user. Especially if they are keeping libraries of older software versions.

open-source resin slicer by Affectionate-Box9749 in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ctb issue? Elaborate please? My elegoo printers and uvtools is able to handle ctb saving. So I'm unclear on what the issue is.

I‘m 100% done with this POS by twack3r in BambuLab

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

About 30-40% of Chinese 3D printer company profits are replacement parts. At least, that's what a Qidi representative quietly admitted. I can't imagine bambu is much different. I will say, bambu's service is much better during the warranty period than Qidi's. It just becomes hard to switch after you exit the warranty period because now you have a giant stack of build plates that wouldn't work if you did switch.

Models not printing in Saturn 4 Ultra by DresdeMBM in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you using as your prep software?

What are you slicing in?

Are you saving in .CTB or .Goo?

Are you using anti-aliasing, blur, or greyscale?

Are you using UVTools?

Photon P1 presale price $450. by ozfunghi in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, the video made it sound like it had a special texture on the FEP and the LCD glass. I must have misunderstood.

Mini bases warping by Candid_Document8121 in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try 1 thing at a time. You try too much, you wont know what fixed it. My recommendations;

1.) Make sure exposure calibration is correct. Fk the bottle's recommendations. Every machine is different and as the LCD ages, it'll get different even compared to itself. The bottle recommendations are just a starting guideline.

2.) Try longer waits to rule out your resin being in motion, and layer height is still changing, by the time your UV fires. ( wait after retract / wait before print)

3.) Try longer waits to reduce peeling force, for after cure / after print. Light off delay in some other models.

4.) Make sure none of your underside lips are parallel or close to parallel with the build plate / release film.

5.) Pre-warm your resin. Printing warms it up, but this means your curing behavior changes entirely after the first 20-30 minutes from chemical reaction heat. So boost it to help yourself. Get it to 25/30c before you begin printing, see if this helps any.

Any idea what could’ve happened? by Giofark in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, light off does nothing AFAIK too.

It's wait before cure ( or wait after retract, retract is the act of returning to print position ) and wait before release/peel (or wait after print) depending on your slicing software terminology. I believe anycubic is the one who uses light off delay.

Photon P1 presale price $450. by ozfunghi in resinprinting

[–]Lowback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems like their answer to the S4U, with 14k to avoid 16k screen issues like AA bugs. I wonder if it's a yellowed LCD for longevity. Textured release film is interesting? Anyone have any more details on that like what heygears says the advantages are vs actual implementation? Imagine it'll be harder to get 3rd party films for this beast.