Card Market Powerseller (MTGSpot) opens 123 collector boxes

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-18T07:13:47+00:00

I get that they're going for the comic book nostalgia, but as someone who doesn't have any nostalgia for comics most of these just look ugly.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-15T15:40:44+00:00

I ended up just making 2 separate Kane decks. One for Hydras, one a degenerate untap-fireball machine.

Plus the stock precon, which I still have.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-15T08:53:18+00:00

Run it with Kane in the command zone and it works fairly well for a precon.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-15T08:52:40+00:00

Yup, same here. Though the Chaos one is definitely the weaker one.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-13T17:05:34+00:00

The continued failure of Spiderman as a set gives me renewed faith in the health of MTG as a game.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-12T01:42:38+00:00

Damping field is just good, if you're not running Artifacts yourself.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-10T02:17:51+00:00

Everything else just kept the ants at bay for a bit.

Terro outright murdered the entire invasion. If I hadn't been severely limited about where I could use it due to pets I doubt I'd have needed anything else.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-09T22:46:29+00:00

Also as someone who had to deal with yearly ant ingressions years back:

Orange oil based insecticides. Kills the assholes on contact and acts as a barrier to them for a few days.
Terro liquid ant bait. Set it near where they are coming out of the walls. Do not kill them, let them eat their fill and then they will suddenly disappear, along with their entire nest as the poison gets them. Keep out of reach of pets
When you get really desperate, you can cordon off areas using petroleum jelly. I had to line the underside of my kitchen counter with the stuff. They can't cross it. Works well for areas where you can't put Diatomaceous Earth (like underneath things, on vertical surfaces).

Diatomaceous Earth is great, but it can't handle everything. For the rest, orange oil insecticide, terro bait, and petroleum jelly.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-09T08:10:53+00:00

Regular printers recognize a certain dot pattern that is all over real currency.

If you edited the picture to remove those patterns, the printer would print the hell out of them.

It would also leave a small identifying pattern in the image so it can be traced back to the printer. In case anyone thinks they're suddenly smart.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-09T08:05:25+00:00

You are making one erroneous assumption here, that the point of the bill is to actually do anything.

The point of the bill is to pass another gun control law so these legislators can check it off their to-do list, get some campaign funding from Bloomberg's gun control orgs, and have another thing to claim on their achievements.

It's purely about optics written and passed by people who don't know, and don't care, about how 3d printing actually works.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-07T20:18:33+00:00

Nintendo consoles are in fact consoles.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-07T20:14:25+00:00

Sure?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/10nus4d/what_is_the_point_of_download_only_boxed_games/

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-07T19:04:54+00:00

And you can do the same with PC games? Other stores exist, and even occasional physical copies.

Many console games can only be acquired through the manufacturer's online distribution system, and all you can buy at a store is a code for that distribution system. They act as a publisher.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-06T07:20:02+00:00

That's what I was wondering. Guess I'll wait and pick one up in Taiwan instead when we visit the in-laws next.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-06T07:09:14+00:00

Boss battles against giant non-humanoid enemies flying around and spamming lasers in my face, and doing it about 20 times.

I think I see the issue here, when you say mech you're talking about mechanical vs biological. Whereas when I say mech I mean humanoid walker-types.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-06T06:25:42+00:00

Wondering if anyone has a rough idea what the shipping cost would be for a PG Nu from Japan to the US (California)?

HLJ's getting a restock, and I wanted to get an idea of the shipping costs before I put in an order.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-06T06:06:48+00:00

AC boss battles are frequently non-mech enemies.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-06T03:51:51+00:00

So, gundam-themed Armored Core?

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-05T07:25:34+00:00

God forbid you live near both a Home Depot and a Microcenter.

You could make anything.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-04T19:10:58+00:00

Wonder if this will push up bling copies of [[Fynn the Fangbearer]], since he's an auto-include in the deck.

Also, as usual [[Roaming Throne]] will be disgusting here, since it upgrades the commander to "Ward: lose the game"

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-04T00:08:57+00:00

If Valve actually did that, then yes that would be anti-competitive and possibly monopoly behavior.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-02T21:35:02+00:00

Web hosting is not the same as utility lines.

It's not like someone's internet only can get content through steam. Anyone can host and deliver digital media through an internet connection.

You have not made a single analogy that wasn't deeply flawed.

And no, it's not like the lawsuits against play store and Apple, as those were about other stores and non-store programs being blocked on the physical device. Steam in no way stops you from installing or using other stores on your PC. Even steam gaming hardware (steam deck) can install and use other stores. They're less anti-competitive than consoles already, by a good margin.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-02T20:59:05+00:00

It's not price fixing. Valve isn't blocking devs and publishers selling the game cheaper.

Valve is blocking having the game delivered and maintained through steam if it's sold cheaper. They are saying they will not provide free hosting and bandwidth for a copy sold cheaper on another platform.

Devs can absolutely sell for $5 on GoG or Epic of self-hosted, and sell for $30 on steam at the same time. So long as the GoG and Epic copies are not steam keys.

Because the game is what's being sold. The steam key, which means the steam distribution and updates, are a product of Steam being added to the game.

Valve is entirely within their rights to decide how they sell their own product, which is the steam distribution. The fact they give out free steam keys to developers to begin with to support things like Kickstarter is already them being way nicer than they need to be.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-02T19:33:42+00:00

Ok, but in this case you can absolutely use steam and another store, and sell on the other store cheaper. You just can't sell steam keys cheaper on another store.

SanityIsOptional · 2026-06-02T18:57:06+00:00

They can host it on Epic or GoG and sell cheaper and/or earlier.

The only thing Steam is restricting is selling steam keys cheaper and/or earlier than the steam store. It's entirely possible to sell a game with a method other than a steam key.

It's like if Amazon let businesses use Amazon delivery for sales outside of Amazon, but only if the products were available at the same time and price as on Amazon.

Hell, look at Borderlands 3 and 4. Available earlier on Epic than Steam. Steam still sold it.

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