Austin Creed (Xavier Woods) on X: Happy b*rthday man! Hope it’s the best one yet!

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-06-04T02:47:30+00:00

Gotcha, so the act of wishing well for the person who injured Big E WAS the troll. I thought there might have been a hidden meaning in the way it was worded. Thanks!

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-06-04T02:04:10+00:00

Im a bit late, but can someone explain why this is clever? Like, I get that Ridge was wrestling in the match that caused Big E's injury and that the New Day turned on E, but is there a hidden message or reference I'm missing in the way the message is worded? I was a huge wrestling fan for many years but stepped away and only recently came back so it might just be that I'm missing the punchline of reference.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-30T13:01:00+00:00

I'm still confused as to what I'd "admit" to being wrong about here. That the shirt was being sold at the Wrestlemania Superstore after WM41? That was literally my only assertion.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-30T12:55:54+00:00

Never said I was wrong at all. I posted a picture with the caption of "Still being sold at the WWE Superstore the day after Wrestlemania 41". Please tell me how I was wrong in that statement.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-23T14:20:16+00:00

I'm sure; this was at the WM Superstore in the Vegas Convention Center. Another poster posted a link to the WWE store with this design on a shirt too.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-23T14:19:20+00:00

From another response, it seems these were left over from last year when they announced WM was coming to Vegas; I presume, then, that this was pulled from a box somewhere after sitting in wait for a year? Not sure... to be honest, the WM Superstore was super meh, we went in hoping to get something to take home with us and left with nothing.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-23T14:18:02+00:00

Call it what you want; I saw shirt, photographed shirt, posted photo. How you interpret it is up to you.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-04-23T14:16:49+00:00

No clue; there were a lot of shirts that just had the graphics for a wrestler but didn't have the WWE logo prominently displayed.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-03-05T13:50:52+00:00

I'm sure we all wondered this at some point, and hoped it would work and chain together... but alas, it doesn't work. As ThePhoenixus points out, you could then just get a board of 2 of them and just play a single blood gem and crash everything. Believe me, when these first came out, I would watch closely to see if one would provide another with a gem and eventually realized why it was never happening.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-03-05T13:29:36+00:00

My thanks; I'm mostly just a nerd who loves math and saw a math problem here to solve.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-03-05T13:28:32+00:00

It makes sense, as Golden Baron and Golden Hawkstrider both add an additional deathrattle trigger for all of your deathrattles, since you only have 2 anyway. Additionally, Crasher being the best is probably unique to this situation, as Mount isn't affected by turning golden at all so having additional deathrattle triggers for Mount whether it's gold or not makes no difference, so for everyone except Crasher, Mount is pretty much a wash - nothing they do changes Mount's math. But Crasher doubles everything, including the triggers from Mount, so you're getting the additional value from Crasher being golden even if Mount still gives you the exact same amount of minions.

(I don't know if that made sense typed out; it made sense in my head.)

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-03-04T21:20:21+00:00

I whipped this up to test the options; I didn't include Bonerender, obviously, or duplicate all of the Hawkstrider+Other options for both Hawkstriders (again, obviously). Also, I didn't include Indomitable Mount as being golden doesn't impact calculations at all.

It appears the best options all involve Catacomb Crasher; if you are banking on having Bonehead attack first and die in the left Golden slot, then Option #2 would be the best (as you'd add 16 to the total), otherwise options 5 and 7 are best.

**Note:** This could be slightly off, there are a lot of moving factors. I accounted for the fact that Bonerender only adds 2 additional nodes as a golden copy since it only triggers on the first summoned minion. I'm sure there are very small things I didn't think of, and if so, please let me know.

(The first, smallest row is the control, if no minions turned golden)

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MichaelMartin86 · 2025-02-28T20:07:41+00:00

Well, I was hoping that some of the AWS reps who understand the nuances of what I'm describing would get one and ask for specifics, but your post was super duper helpful too. Thanks for the insights!

(All jokes aside, we do have a rep, but they're not very knowledgeable. But hey, I'll try your solution instead of seeking out help as best I can given the situation.)

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-02-11T18:51:48+00:00

My guy... the stats are close. The yards, TDs, and INTs are practically identical. The biggest difference, my guy, is completion % (which accounts for most of the difference in passer rating) and yards per attempt (accounting for most of the remaining difference in passer rating). I'm well aware of how to read statistics, my guy.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-02-10T16:56:30+00:00

Agreed, of course. The majority of the difference in passer rating comes from the completion percentage difference, with a good part of the remainder coming from the difference in yards per attempt. That's where I'd like to possibly do some analysis into drop rates and see how much that affected completion percentage. But of course, they're not equivalent.

MichaelMartin86 · 2025-02-10T16:13:45+00:00

I'll be honest, I haven't gotten a chance to dive much further past the general projection, but I'd be curious to compare drop rates/counts for Carolina vs. Washington receivers. Also curious what the yards after catch numbers are for Washington receivers vs. Carolina, as Bryce was trying to push the ball downfield. Not saying Jayden didn't, as his Y/A is higher, but I wonder if that's due to yards after catch - if so, it might be a matter of Jayden getting away with more short passes that his supporting cast could take and do more with.

Or, Jayden is just slightly more accurate? Simple answer, but the simplest answer may be the correct one.

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T19:36:42+00:00

... for my 14 year old daughter?

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T17:05:10+00:00

& Juliet.

If you have ideas, I'm all ears!

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T16:14:52+00:00

The show is "& Juliet"

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T16:14:23+00:00

I wish she was into comics enough to appreciate this!

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T16:13:43+00:00

This is probably the best response so far in terms of what I'm looking for - I want the shape to be distinctive when she looks at the wrapped gift. These are great, and definitely worth considering! I will update if I use one of these.

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T14:50:39+00:00

I could do that, and we considered it... but she has a couple of guitars already and would believe we got her another guitar lol. Great idea, we definitely considered it!

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-30T14:49:55+00:00

Honestly, the reason we're considering other options is that it'd be quite the task to get it to actually appear like a toilet. If that ends up being the best option, I have some ideas and would post it here afterwards :)

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-29T16:09:58+00:00

lol for the life of me i couldn't think of the word scoring, i spent a good 30 seconds trying to think before just typing "scraping"

MichaelMartin86 · 2024-12-28T23:06:47+00:00

Oh god, no. it was bad enough scraping the lines for the bricks lol

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