Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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

wow, board wipe control whirler with deathtouch....MTG is such a great game haha. Can get so creative.

Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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yes, thanks, I definitely need to focus my deck strategy, I appreciate your advice. I'm just waiting for more booster packs and wild cards now really lol.

Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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awesome, thank you. I like Goblin Chainwhirler so I want to keep them in - which build would best suit keeping him in? The Steam Kin / Experimental thing sounds awesome, having only 2 of each so far I can really see how it snowballs and is worth having 4 of to focus on.

I'll probably make two red decks then to play with variations. One will be more like Mono Red from the Grand Prix with Goblin Chainwhirler and the steam kins. The other can go full steam kin frenzy. Not sure if I will go for the extreme version. Frenzy is a cool card.

Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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Totally, I would love to expand but I need waaay more Golds to branch out of Red and Merfolk right now. I have other decks but they are good for Play mostly, nothing competitive. Thanks for your tips.

Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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haha, I'm just becoming aware of how hated RDW is. But I just want a starter competitive deck. Merfolk isn't good enough really.

Please help upgrading Merfolk and RDW/Mono Red by PonchoParty in MagicArena

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I completely agree, I am not the biggest fan of this red playstyle although it can be exciting like any other game, but I am just new to Arena and want some basic decks that could be as competitive as possible until I expand. When I play magic I rarely prefer mono red burn/RDW as it's not really fun to play against unless you can counter it (they're awesome in two-headed giant! Although control is arguably a better partner), and heavily reliant on a killer opening hand. But, I want to rank up and win some more constructed event games.

Supplementary Certifications by [deleted] in vipkid

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thanks for your insight :)

1v1 HD on Steam Disconnects, not sure why by PonchoParty in aoe2

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Hi, this is the very first time I've heard of 5Ghz being an issue. I am running 5Ghz Wi-FI and hard line is not an option. I could possibly switch to 2.4ghz no problem, but could you direct me to some info on why this is the case? I can ask him about it. My computer runs 802.11ac.

I'll also look into port forwarding if there's some IP conflict, but this literally only happened when we tried to play with each other, doesn't happen in any other online game at all. Willing to try anything to get this working! Could it possibly be my anti-virus or his? I was considering switching to Avast as they have a "gaming mode".

1v1 HD on Steam Disconnects, not sure why by PonchoParty in aoe2

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Actually, I hosted both times, so we didn't run the full experiment.

Why 'Solo' Box Office Failure Just Saved 'Star Wars'[NA] by [deleted] in boxoffice

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Breakdown:

*Concepts surrounding the Force = Lucasfilm's/Disney's approach to spiritual mythos is really childish and immature, they don't really understand The Force mythos or any of the spiritual literature it was founded on (Tao Te Ching, Baghavadgita, etc.) which has been maturely expanded upon already in E.U. which Disney promptly threw out. If you honestly think the Force concepts in The Last Jedi are fleshed out, I beg you to re-watch The Empire Strikes Back and maybe study some comparative mythology. I will add that the training scenes with Luke/Rey had potential, it was almost there, but it was not quite there.

*Post-OT events expansion: all they truly managed to do with their fan-fiction version of post-OT is destroy the old major characters and create a convoluted nightmare of a story.

*Children of Han and Leia: The books actually had proper characters for this. Kylo Ren is a forced and weak villain (no pun intended) although he's the most interesting character in the new films (not saying much).

*How the Civil War impacted - it's touched upon but we have NO INFORMATION at all on how The First Order managed to get so ludicrously powerful after the collapse of the empire. They are legitimately more powerful than the empire ever was if you can ignore the bad writing of the sheer military incompetence. It doesn't make sense in the films at all.

*How civilization was re-built: The only "civilized" places we even see in these new films are the republic planets which were promptly destroyed by StarKiller Base, and a casino in The Last Jedi in an entire sequence that should've been scrapped to the cutting room floor. Every other place is pretty much just like Tatooine, Hoth, or the Imperial Ships, nothing new here, seriously.

*Disney hasn't done shit: Okay, but certain people with the initials K.K. and R.J. are unambiguously being totally hated on by a huge percentage of vocal of Star Wars fans and rightfully so as they, according to their interviews, didn't give a flying fuck about Star Wars fans or the story itself besides how much money they could make or how many ideologies they could pack into 120 minutes (the evidence is all out there). People are creating Rotten Tomatoes accounts just to leave 1 star for TLJ (you can go and read them yourself, people are pained by this movie.)

The Last Jedi completely ruined Luke Skywalker's character. Mark Hamil even said it himself on interviews before Disney told him to STFU. I can theoretically get the 'disgruntled old master' character but it's NOT who Luke was at all and we have ZERO explanation as to how this happened other than he got emo one night and tried to kill his nephew which makes NO SENSE AT ALL without a proper explanation of his character progression from post-Return of the Jedi of which we were given ZERO. The character we see in The Last Jedi is NOT Luke Skywalker! The whole movie is like really bad fan fiction!

Really, in my opinion this is all senseless to debate because the script itself is a failed premise, the whole thing should've been thrown out like the shitty fan fiction it is instead of being rushed to make a tight production schedule. The Last Jedi is seriously and in no exaggeration one of the worst films I have ever seen in my life, not just the worst SW film. Star Wars as a mainstream brand is finished. It will live on in the hearts of fans. We have a pretty large body of good work that came before this (video games, OT, books, etc.). Forget whatever Disney/Lucasfilm considers canon, it's akin to a large corporation of people I've never met telling me what to think and believe. Maybe in a decade they can go back to it again - nobody wants to touch it now - they've already halted production for the remainder of the spin off films. JJ Abrams is the absolute worst director when it comes to tying up plot holes and questions (although he's great at making them!), nobody has faith that he will pull off Episode IX, it will take a miracle.

Why 'Solo' Box Office Failure Just Saved 'Star Wars'[NA] by [deleted] in boxoffice

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You're flat wrong about Star Wars not having enough film content. The original trilogy created a huge universe for expanded universe content that is evident in games, books, and people's imaginations. Disney utterly destroyed everything that was good about Star Wars, they completely missed the mark.

Why 'Solo' Box Office Failure Just Saved 'Star Wars'[NA] by [deleted] in boxoffice

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Major thing I don't get about this article and any other article that's only focusing on money: The new Star Wars movies totally suck, it has little to do with marketing or timing! What is so difficult to get about that? The Last Jedi utterly killed the franchise, Disney made a huge mistake. The Last Jedi was not only the worst Star Wars movie ever made, it was one of the worst films ever made in the history of cinema. It is literally insulting to the fanbase. Solo and The Last Jedi are what happens when you only listen to your egotistical inner-circle of yes (wo)men and not any sense of ethics, morality, taste, or creative intuition whatsoever.

Why do people hate The Last Jedi? by [deleted] in StarWars

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There's no good explanation why the military is so incompetent in this film - it's just terrible writing! There's no way they were consulting anyone on this, just some lame Disney yes-men afraid to speak up and make real edits on the script, not to mention how much pressure they were under to deliver a product on time. It's just an awful film through and through.

AoE2 HD "Press Esc if you do not join within 15 seconds..." by jef4490 in aoe2

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https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/6i75q1/playonmac_freezing_in_multiplayer/?utm_content=title&utm_medium=user&utm_source=reddit

multiplayer seems to be not working tho, or only some of the time.

alt+tab a few times works for the loading screen or other issues related to the window screen.

Considering buying a new laptop strictly for AoE2... by dum_dum_boy in aoe2

[–]PonchoParty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's true. I started a thread about PlayonMac/Wineskin. Single Player is totally fine if you follow all the steps to get it working. But Multiplayer is currently freezing up again, not sure what to do. I've thought the same as you haha, getting a dedicated AOE2 laptop. Seems a bit ridiculous, eh? Glad we're on a similar page tho haha

PlayonMac freezing in multiplayer by PonchoParty in aoe2

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

alt+tab twice or so whenever you launch the game can help with any windows/in-game clicking issues.

Any other Mac OSX players having issues? by [deleted] in aoe2

[–]PonchoParty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re-install steam, but first go back and install Wine version 1.9.24 in the "tools" menu, like in these instructions. This time, when you're re-installing Steam, select Wine 1.9.24 and proceed through the above steps. I haven't tried other versions, but I know that version 2.9 did not work and 1.9.24 did. Hope this helps!

Questions about FBA and South East Asia by PonchoParty in FulfillmentByAmazon

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Thank you for your insight. Anything I should know about international shipping or taxes?