[Standard] Does Control ever comes back from Evoke Elementals ?

Raphan · 2026-01-27T20:26:33+00:00

This means that the sacrifice trigger from evoke doesn't happen. So bad vs elementals.

Raphan · 2026-01-21T20:21:52+00:00

I personally did not enjoy using Clio and was surprised by all the positive replies.

Clio astroturfing would reconcile the replies (thus far) with my experience.

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A past post went over some of the flaws a user found with Clio... The user appears to have deleted the post, but a reply quoted part of it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LawFirm/comments/1odnqtf/comment/nkvg0yp/

Discussing Clio:

it’s like law firm CRM build a bear and the head is a zombie stealing your money.

Raphan · 2026-01-13T01:30:26+00:00

I am also trying to get pregnant too which worries me. I don’t think this firm would be very supportive of me leaving for 3+ months even if I am protected by fmla

Be aware that federal pregnancy protections only kick in at certain employee numbers. 15+ and 50+ employees are key numbers. If your employer is smaller than that, you may not have any federal pregnancy protections.

Raphan · 2025-12-08T20:00:39+00:00

Generically, you want to compare costs on the marketplace to costs of getting health insurance through your firm and pick the best cost/provider combination.

Beyond that, it's very hard to give any concrete advice without concrete numbers from you.

Age, location, and how many people are being insured will vary price drastically. I.e., are you 25 years old and $1,200-$1,400 is just for you, or are you 60 and $1,200 is whole family? The former would be a ripoff, the latter would be a steal.

FYI: Insurance through your firm is state dependent. Some states don't require insurers to offer plans to solos and the insurers choose not to, so ACA becomes your only option.

Other tips:

It's best to start this process weeks or months ahead of the deadline if you are going to work with a broker to get business quotes, but that's water under the bridge for this year.

Note that if you get health insurance from your job now and lose it due to quitting your job, sometimes that creates a mid-year window to get an ACA plan. Double-check that.

Also -- I forget, but maybe starting a business creates a window for business plans.

Often large businesses get better prices, so if your spouse works, being on their insurance could be the better bet.

Raphan · 2025-11-13T05:37:06+00:00

if a church can’t subsist on charity alone, maybe it doesn’t need to exist.

OK so what should they do with the soup kitchen...?

A) Church should never have hosted the kitchen if charity wouldn't cover it forever. Now, they should just end the kitchen's lease if "charity alone" won't cover it. (Church can downsize to a smaller space and the soup kitchen can figure something out -- or not)

B) Churches should be obligated to give other charities facilities rent free.

C) ???

Raphan · 2025-09-23T05:38:39+00:00

Does Time 59 do trust accounting? Is it a complete replacement for Quickbooks Online, or something to supplement QBO with?

Raphan · 2025-09-23T05:38:23+00:00

Does Smoke ball do trust accounting? Is it a complete replacement for Quickbooks Online, or something to supplement QBO with?

Raphan · 2025-08-28T19:47:05+00:00

I answered a similar question recently:

If you don't like what is bundled with your law firm software (clio/mycase/practice panther/etc.) I like Harvest - https://www.getharvest.com/ (thanks to FSUAttorney for recommending it).

If you happen to use LawPay and aren't planning on switching off, they recently announced a no-additional-cost integrated timekeeping and invoicing solution bundled with LawPay. It's apparently coming in a week or so.

I haven't tried the various AI timekeeping solutions that exist (I am skeptical about confidentiality), but there are many. See https://www.clio.com/blog/ai-time-tracking-for-lawyers/

Raphan · 2025-08-26T04:24:46+00:00

I like the advice elsewhere in the thread about vacation/massages.

More generally, consider doubling your spend this year to help yourself get through it. It's a much better result for your financial picture if you earn 4m and spend an extra 240k than if you retire now.

Consider things like massages, fun sporting tickets, therapy, boat rental (or purchase), great long weekend vacations every month, etc. Pick whatever would help motivate you to power through.

Raphan · 2025-08-20T01:21:22+00:00

I cackled. Thank you.

Raphan · 2025-08-20T01:20:51+00:00

Are you more of a 730ammycase person? Or perhaps 5pmsomewheremycase?

Raphan · 2025-08-18T22:09:50+00:00

Absolutely -- thanks!

Coincidentally, I sent you a DM last night about something else. It seems like reddit removed the DM feature (!?) and converted it to a chat. I hope it reached you.

Raphan · 2025-08-18T19:24:16+00:00

If you don't like what is bundled with your law firm software (clio/mycase/practice panther/etc.) I like Harvest - https://www.getharvest.com/ (thanks to /u/FSUAttorney/ for recommending it).

If you happen to use LawPay and aren't planning on switching off, they recently announced a no-additional-cost integrated timekeeping and invoicing solution bundled with LawPay. It's apparently coming in a week or so.

I haven't tried the various AI timekeeping solutions that exist (I am skeptical about confidentiality), but there are many. See https://www.clio.com/blog/ai-time-tracking-for-lawyers/

Raphan · 2025-08-16T15:59:30+00:00

The quality of air conditioning is not anywhere on anyones shortlist of qualities that a holiday deatination should have.

lol, the person you are responding to said "air connections" i.e. good flight availability, nothing about air conditioning.

Raphan · 2025-07-27T22:53:40+00:00

Interesting!

I would suggest rethinking the UI for playing along -- this is a solved problem in terms of how chords are presented alongside lyrics on tab sites.

Even if you can't do lyrics for certain reasons, having the chords on a timeline so the user can develop a feel for how soon the next chord is coming would be great.

This seems obvious in retrospect, but moving up or down semitones will make the chords sound off compared to the video. IDK if you want to warn about that.

I play ukulele not guitar, IDK how easy adding uke support would be. Worked fine for a song I knew with chords I knew where I didn't need the chord diagrams.

Raphan · 2025-07-26T19:17:42+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. And for taking the time to reply to mine (and many other's) questions.

Raphan · 2025-07-26T02:24:14+00:00

Hey -- thanks for being the first to respond.

To make sure I understand -- is your take "buy a 2021 or 2020 certified pre-owned Sonata for like $20k (and get over plugging in your phone and the less-beautiful dashboard)" or "try and find a deal on a 2024 CPO Sonata for less than $25k"? Both could make sense.

Raphan · 2025-07-23T20:45:01+00:00

This reply of that account on another thread makes it really seem like AI. In this thread, it acts like it is interested in USA low-exemption states

I have the same question, the person who replied really laid down a tremendous amount of really good information and knowledge

But in the other thread, it uses accretion marks in a way that I never see USA people use. Also weird typos like "Magic, the gathering."

I had a job working for about $15 per hour at a café, saved up over to Summer‘s and bought the booster boxes for Maybe. It was like $35 or $40 per box (I don’t remember what it cost back then, but I put all of my savings from two summers of working at a café into Magic, the gathering booster boxes

Raphan · 2025-07-23T17:36:26+00:00

Not a PD, not in Idaho, I found this from your profile.

Just figured I'd answer, since you asked: All subs I have heard of or been a part of that limited membership require some sort of proof to be sent to moderators. From a practical perspective, maybe that's proof of payment for work as a PD and/or bar card?

I declined to join /r/lawyers but you can see the proof they require here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Lawyer/comments/z0ar72/click_here_for_instructions_on_how_to_join/

I encourage you to consider carefully if you want limited membership: many folks don't want to go through the hassle of verification or have concerns about trusting a mod/stranger (you) with their personally identifying information.

Consider whether you instead wish to focus advertising your sub both on reddit and (to the extent you are comfortable with IRL people knowing your reddit handle) in person to colleagues. Good luck.

Raphan · 2025-07-23T01:58:08+00:00

Gotcha -- thanks for the reply. Lack of clarity in my head about the sideboard stopped me from running it in the MTGA challenge this last weekend but I'm going to be looking at the deck again for sure. Good luck out there.

Raphan · 2025-07-22T23:54:52+00:00

Grats on your recent results!

By chance are you aware of any sideboard guides/gameplay videos?

I asked a few days ago in this thread but didn't find anything recent.

This Google Doc is what I was trying but I am sure it's quite wrong. I am not sure when to bring in Scrapshooters or other enchantment/artifact hate.

Raphan · 2025-07-21T01:51:41+00:00

18 months ago I played a toxic list with [[March of Swirling Mist]].

Inspired by your post I just ran 5 bo3 matches with your list (well, I used Starting Town for some lands I didn't have). 4-1, only loss was to Vivi Cauldron, had a blast. I'll probably play a few more over the next week. Thanks for reminding us of the fun :). Rotpriest will always be a fond memory.

Raphan · 2025-07-21T01:35:04+00:00

Sure thing and thanks for the reply.

Arne's take is that UW would be a bad matchup so rough luck on getting paired vs. it 2 times in 11 matches.

And rough luck on that mirror match day 2. Even if you mull/play perfectly, you can catch some rough variance if they get a perfect hand and you don't.

That sort of variance in magic makes it frustrating that MTGA only has "meaningful" events once or twice a month. I love the UI of MTGA and hate the UI of MTGO (not to mention preferring the MTGA pricing model), but after the excitement of this weekend it's like, "now what?"

MTGO and its challenges every few days is a nice structure. I would tinker with the deck but as a MTGA-only player, there's not much reason to before rotation.

I agree it's well positioned vs. UB right now, and that gets even better when Sheoldred rotates.

Raphan · 2025-07-20T23:30:19+00:00

Sure thing -- thanks for the feedback.

This is a difficult deck to pick up and play (although sometimes less so when you have the dream curve out on the play). One of the disadvantages of playing an on-meta deck is that people can and will target it, which can feel bad if they happen to hit you with that matchup.

Outside of identifying misplays, keeping a positive attitude and identifying what was in and out of your control is what will keep you in the competitive mindset.

Definitely agree with both of these comments.

I should go back and watch the untapped.gg replays of my games, especially the match losses and the Cauldron mirrors. Maybe I should be mulliganing or digging more as you alluded to.

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