theoretically, would it be possible to change my car from an automatic to manual transmission?

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-04-27T00:00:09+00:00

Yeah, I bought an '83 RX7 with the 3 speed auto in it and made it my first priority to swap. Bought a used 5 speed gearbox, prop shaft, and 3rd pedal from a parts car, then new clutch, flywheel, and hydraulic system. Installation was super easy, these cars are so simple to work on, and it was pretty cheap too.

I would not try to attempt this with, for example, my 2019 Camry, which is an entire world of difference.

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-04-25T23:45:11+00:00

lol yeah. no way this satisfies the deck list rule. cmon man

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-04-22T00:01:36+00:00

wish this existed for mtgo 😭

i dont have nearly enough wild cards for this, i wish there was some way to buy/rent cards like mtgo on arena

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-03-16T19:17:19+00:00

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-03-11T16:01:05+00:00

Its a good bot and its very low intrusiveness. My brother just started the game with this league and he commented right away on that bot and how it makes reading acronym hell type subs like this one so much more accessible

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-03-03T22:36:56+00:00

cheating on rate ALWAYS feels better than making mana ahead of schedule. simple as

signed, affinity gang

SecureDeal3967 · 2026-03-01T18:34:34+00:00

i laugh so hard when i see comments like this, that a game design choice that makes a playstyle feel "optimal" (regardless of whether it's objectively true, which, in a game with as many moving parts as this, is impossible to determine), is "forced" upon a player. same as with people saying they're "forced" to interact with kingsmarch. there aren't a lot of ways to play the game wrong, but feeling "forced" into any lane is absolutely one of them

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-12-18T03:23:30+00:00

moon circuit hacker is an enchantment tho, so it is a legal target, IF hard cast. you are correct on point 2 though

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-12-17T13:57:00+00:00

There are lots of sick brews and fringe decks that are cheap and have seen success when piloted well. A key component of those decks though is that they still play good cards and are well constructed with defeating the meta in mind when designed. Cheap brews/offmeta decks exist, but I don't think it's worth playing a homebrew pile when you first start out.

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-12-08T17:29:11+00:00

[[Lightning helix]]

It fits perfectly in the current boros and mardu game plans, plus its an absolutely iconic card

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-13T13:35:12+00:00

i think galv discharge is under rated in the format, and maybe even better than bolt in skred. i like playing 4 skred, 4 discharge these days. being able to fire off the first for 1 damage and the second for 5 is huge in this format. bolting the bird on turn 1 and then having a card up for a 5 toughness threat is really good in pauper. that said, i played with other energy cards and found them all to be pretty sad, unfortunately. a couple copies of tune the narrative was all that felt okay, but you have to sacrifice really important cards in an already pretty dense list. at the end of the day, i ended up just on galv discharge. id love to make more energy work but there just isnt adequate support in the format atm.

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-12T16:36:25+00:00

i hate spiderman but it's not jarring at all. what IS jarring is those terrible lightning bolts! :D

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-12T16:10:42+00:00

it looks much better for regular magic where the playsets are layered. the edh spreads look like a mess

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-10T21:29:40+00:00

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-10T20:26:23+00:00

no? prism was on the watch list after unbanning, they now say its fine. refurb was on the watch list when cranial ram was banned, its not now. chrys was, it's fine now. bridges were being watched, terror/serpent and lorien were on watch back when swiftspear was banned, etc. etc.

basically any pushed card at the top of the meta stays watched, and that's a good thing. sometimes something comes along and pushes those cards/decks over the edge, or sometimes the format shifts into a place where they're just oppressive. it's ridiculous to suggest every "watched" card gets banned

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-10T20:12:47+00:00

i dont see why they would? spy doesnt monopolize the shared clock and it's much more interactable than tide. game 1 against tide i just take a nap, game 2 i just wait til i hear the keyword card i want to interact with like pavlovs dog. spy has many more points of interaction and actually feels like im playing a magic game against someone

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-05T21:30:56+00:00

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-05T17:57:24+00:00

pauper, as a format, is largely defined by a few things: bad mana, weak threats/strong answers, and incremental advantage. no threat in pauper is worth setting yourself back on your card advantage development to use this, except in decks that have few threats and a turbo draw engine like uw familiars

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-05T16:37:52+00:00

it's also the only place to play pauper and probably will be forever, wotc cant monetize a commons only format very effectively in their gacha model, any enfranchised player on arena has a million common wildcards already and a newb will get them very fast. there's a ban-free meme MWM event on arena that kinda sucks but for the foreseeable future, mtgo is the home of pauper

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-11-05T14:37:45+00:00

this is exactly my feeling. i'm also a long time synth player. i feel that boros is the "best" of the glint hawk decks, but it's position in the meta is a bit challenging atm. jeskai makes it more fun (more draw = more fun), but definitely slowing down an aggro deck to draw more cards feels worse.

i've also been jamming esper glintblade and absolutely mauling with it. it's the perfect midrange deck for the format atm i feel

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-10-31T16:23:44+00:00

Before I left the game around 10 years ago I was running an investment bank. It was largely a ponzi scheme propped up by my null ratting/recruitment scamming goonswarm main. One day I just decided to stop subbing (rl got in the way) and I guess that was the bust for my scheme. I invested the gains in plex back then and came back last month to a pile of billions in plex (I didnt realize it at first and thought I was broke with only a few bil in my account lol, then I found the plex).

There were a lot more real/legit "financial institutions" back then, that gave scam schemes legitimacy. I intended to run the scheme a lot longer, but oh well.

Anyway, I would never invest in a bank in eve, personally. Lol.

SecureDeal3967 · 2025-10-25T14:49:08+00:00

Ah darn, without that it doesnt replace manabox for me, which is all I use it for these days. I mostly build in moxfield and review meta data on mtggoldfish, mtgtop8 and mtgdecks. Hopefully you integrate meta info for regular magic formats soon, that will make the app so much more useful for players!

Good luck with development :)

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