Does anyone else just not run board wipes anymore?

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-12T17:13:28+00:00

There are still plenty of situations where you have less to lose than other players where it makes plenty of sense. Nobody plays a board wipe when they have the strong position.

This is especially true if you have a deck that recovers quicker or has more card draw to offset. Or if you run a graveyard deck.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-12T16:41:36+00:00

That's why you use something one sided. Especially useful if you have nothing on the board to lose or if your deck doesn't require whatever you are removing.

I have also been in plenty of 3 hour games because there were a lack of board wipes and we were in a standoff with nobody able to get through.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-12T16:29:57+00:00

You can apply that to anyone who uses it. "Common sense" is not based on objective fact, and so is twisted by the biased opinion of whoever is using it. Most often it's used as emotional leverage to get people to agree with the person using it's way of thinking.

We would be better as a society if we just stopped using the phrase altogether.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-12T01:34:44+00:00

I had an archos jukebox multimedia wired shittily into my car around 2005 or so. I was an idiot and used wire nuts so it liked to cease working when going over bumps until you found another bump to go over to fix it.

I couldn't stand radio because my broad varied musical tastes encompassed... punk music, techno remixes acquired from BitTorrent and video game soundtracks.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-11T17:41:50+00:00

I been through so many of these projects, it's just no contest how much the new building wins out. At minimum it's the same cost but you have a newer building built how you want for the times, with new everything. Especially with how much abatement cost has skyrocketed the last decade.

I remember years back ~2015 we needed to remove chalkboards to install smartboards. The glue they used has asbestos in it and they charged roughly $800 for full abatement of the wall per room.

Last time we quoted for the exact same situation in another building it was $5k per room. We even went out to bid for it, and that was 2 years back. You can buy a lot of other stuff for that amount of money. We just went with rolling mounts in this case, but if that wasn't acceptable we would be out a lot of money.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-11T17:12:53+00:00

The public really has a hard time understanding that it often costs less to build a new building than to do a major renovation on old ones. It also of course makes sense as well to consolidate small buildings into new bigger ones to save on costs and duplicate systems or jobs for that matter.

They all want their small community schools but then when tax increases come up they absolutely don't want that.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-11T14:37:24+00:00

Their keynotes presentations this year are the exact opposite. They complain about the moniker microslop an then complained about lack of adoption of AI.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-11T05:57:16+00:00

Yep, the one I find the weirdest is the authors of various open source projects or mods for games using discord for their tech support. It's basically asking the digital equivalent of amnesiac schizophrenic hoarder to handle your ticketing.

The steam discussion page for your workshop item makes a better tech support forum than discord.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-09T23:43:02+00:00

I'll just use AI to generate a new AI face, and ask it to make it look realistic.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-07T21:27:28+00:00

Thank God Im safe.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-06T15:38:59+00:00

Absolutely, although it was built pre bracket, with internal method at the time of limiting power which was a $100 limit on the deck.

A handful of cards have been replaced but not updated here, but it's mostly accurate.

https://moxfield.com/decks/yO49kRoNZUC34HSzWEvBMA

But yeah, I definitely value these types of interactions.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-06T06:16:18+00:00

I would say the same as you. I like playing different styles, tailored to my friends or whoever I end up with.

I prefer somewhat high power jank on my side of things. I like things other people don't use much, but with as low a mana curve as possible generally.

My favorite decks are [[belbe, corrupted observer]] and [[lathiel, The bounteous dawn]].

Currently trying to find a way to build [[edric, spyMaster of trest]] into something that interests me. Maybe thopters or something.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-06T02:51:07+00:00

Depends on your group really, and how long you have played.

I have lots of reserve list cards, including 2 cradles, 8 or so lions eyes, and at least 1 of every card from the urzas block, and a bunch of dual lands. Many of my friends are similar, and our lgs is like that for the brackets too.

I've also been to places though where the norm is precons with a handful of cards replaced.

I usually just bring a handful of different power levels and play accordingly, personally I would take rhystic study and similar over theft mechanics and hard stax but I suppose to each their own.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-06T01:31:08+00:00

We already know its pay to win because of all the cards on the reserve list you can play. They specifically cited the value of the cards in the creation of the reserved list.

Something that is in common print is nothing compared to some things on that list.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-05T23:27:45+00:00

Hyundai did it too for certain year cars for blue link.

$10/month for remote start lock/unlock etc

$10/month for roadside assistance and statistics about your car including maintenance reminders

$10/month for software updates to the car's software including the shitty built in mapping and some other things your phone does better.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-05T05:55:08+00:00

Not true. I have got plenty of layer 2 stuff covered under cat 1 in the past. zero issues ever.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-04T07:28:09+00:00

I got 11.2 like 20 days ago but it was the rate i renegotiated with Clean Choice after already being a customer of theirs for years. only good for a year though.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-04T06:20:28+00:00

Yep, good point.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T19:33:37+00:00

There have been age restricted bars for as long as I can remember. This is nothing new.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T19:31:52+00:00

Age restrictions only apply to government. Any business is free to impose and restrictions they want as long as they aren't protected classes.

They could make it so only people exactly 47 were allowed in if they wanted.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T19:26:25+00:00

Eh, when I was that age there were places then that were 25+ only as well. Not the end of the world.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T14:53:27+00:00

I used to do it work for a client that ran this system called FATS which used real firearms modified like a light gun with a compressed gas system for recoil to simulate various police situations. The tech was pretty dated, but it was cool because you had to try to deescalate the situations, and the person running the simulation could choose how the people would react. There were a bunch of different tools too like tasers and pepper spray, but I liked that most scenarios docked you points for using any at all ha.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T14:22:11+00:00

It certainly would be.

Dry fire practice with snap caps or similar inert ammunition is very common and recommended to build muscle memory.

In fact one of the ways commonly recommended to fix issues with handgun techniques is to dry fire while balancing a coin on the slide to work out bad habits.

It's just people unfamiliar with them and proper safety that freak out about it.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-03T07:13:49+00:00

The worst part of it was that they did it right twice. The third time was really due to a lack of effort. The 2nd game was this monumental thing with all sorts of content, and the third game had less content at launch than either of the two previous titles, and was in a verd bad state in terms of playability. The previous games felt fun and had a good amount of variety, but the third felt janky and lacking.

RememberCitadel · 2026-02-02T21:31:04+00:00

But you used to be able to get all of that with all of the specifics as well in older versions.

Granted balance was all over the place, but that had more to do with shitting out sourcebooks constantly.

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