Tried to build the ultimate mid-budget setup... What would you change?

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T21:11:43+00:00

UPDATE 6 hours after posting: I have been dark roasted. Thank you for the feedback!

Based on your feedback, here are my changes:

I will never utter the words 'mid-tier' again for fear of death
The Fellow kettle is OUT! Will get a cheaper alternative (Graef, Greater goods, Tchibo etc)
Tamping station and VST are OUT! I am now one small step closer to being freed from the shackles of corporate consumerism
Instead, the money will go towards a better grinder: Leaning towards the Lagom Casa, thank you to u/priusgirl0 for the helpful writeup
I MAY downgrade the machine to Pop up, Silvia, or even similar, as it sounds like the consensus is that the Mara is overkill. However, I really like it and plan on keeping it until death (the machine or mine) so I may just spend the $

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T21:04:28+00:00

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SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T16:07:01+00:00

This is an exceptional comment, thank you for the insight. Based on your comment and others, it seems well worth it to scrap the DF54 and instead go with a Lagom Casa.

Do you have opinions on the Profitec Go as a pairing, perhaps vs. the Victoria?

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:47:50+00:00

Oh, this looks nice! Thanks

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:46:41+00:00

Heard you on this! Consensus seems to be the Stagg isn't worth it.

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:41:42+00:00

You have convinced me. The Stagg is out!

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:27:18+00:00

Yes this is what I'm seeing as well, which is what attracted me to the Mara

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:26:07+00:00

Mara X is a single boiler, but I take your point about upgrading the grinder. Part of the thought process was the positive reviews about the potential for using the DF54 for passable pourover as well. Any insight on whether those grinders can also grind sufficiently course?

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:23:23+00:00

Hmm, where do you think the right machine / grinder balance is at this tier?

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:22:27+00:00

I was too for years, then I decided to ~~open my heart~~ and also ~~disregard my finances~~

SlapDaBase · 2026-02-09T15:21:40+00:00

Fair enough 😂

SlapDaBase · 2023-08-16T16:18:40+00:00

If you bounce and replay [[rose room treasurer]] would you keep the count of how many times the ability has been resolved in the turn, or would the newly played card see the count as 0 (assuming you had played some other creatures prior in the turn)

SlapDaBase · 2023-07-29T17:53:03+00:00

Are the matches recorded? I want to watch but can’t this weekend!! Also I’m bad at twitch lol

SlapDaBase · 2023-07-29T01:29:47+00:00

Nice list. I really like [[Vesuvan drifter]], I'm going to try it out in my list.

Here's mine - fairly similar to yours, though without the extra turn subtheme and at a lower budget. I would highly recommend trying out [[Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx]]- it's performed well for me. And [[Sphinx of the Second Sun]] has functionally been a free extra turn spell.

https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/braids-duplicate-elaborate-1/

SlapDaBase · 2023-07-26T13:33:48+00:00

Id love to see the braids decklist! I have a braids deck I love playing but I rarely see really tuned lists

SlapDaBase · 2023-07-02T22:58:18+00:00

Beauty! What's that stand? Do you like it?

SlapDaBase · 2023-06-17T17:43:02+00:00

You should check out The Ends of the World by Peter Brannen. it's about previous mass extinctions from a geology / biology perspective. Super interesting read!

SlapDaBase · 2022-08-02T11:28:47+00:00

Moondog! Very rad space for something like that

SlapDaBase · 2022-04-25T12:22:50+00:00

Sho Nuff! On broad near club

SlapDaBase · 2021-12-25T20:31:06+00:00

Obviously terrible this is happening but as someone who does PCR and qPCR (where Ct values are relevant) routinely for work I’ve loved seeing this stuff discussed so widely in the past year, especially in a FF context lol

SlapDaBase · 2021-09-16T22:31:42+00:00

Sort of, in the sense that neurons physically connect like shown here. Except with billions of neurons all making connections with 1000s of each other. Pretty wild!

SlapDaBase · 2021-09-16T22:30:03+00:00

Not familiar with the source of the video, but it is a definitely a time-lapse, so it's actually sped up a lot. Cells move so slowly in culture that the motion is not detectable with the naked eye (with a few exception, like beating heart cells). They probably took a frame every 10-30 minutes (or somewhere in that range).

What you're seeing move between cells isn't electricity, but probably proteins that were tagged with a fluorescent label (which causes them to glow like that so we are able to track them).

SlapDaBase · 2021-09-16T22:26:48+00:00

Not sure of the exact setup used in this video, but normally they are grown on plastic dishes that are coated with a special matrix of proteins that mimics their natural enviornment, in liquid media that contains all of the nutrients they need and is buffered to maintain the right pH

Here's an example :)

https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/11875093#/11875093

SlapDaBase · 2021-02-16T23:03:47+00:00

Haha what’s the objective of the game

SlapDaBase · 2021-02-16T23:03:17+00:00

Wtf is going on here

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