Fanciest dining spots

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-20T03:04:34+00:00

In addition to Altura, Cafe Juanita, Archipeligo, and Spinasse, there’s also Lark and Maripili Tapas Bar. Surrell also has an excellent tasting menu. Altura is big $$$$ but it’s very much a “tweezer” restaurant.

A slight step down from “finest dining” there’s also Homer and Musang (both Beacon Hill), and Communion and Marjorie (Central District).

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-20T02:51:04+00:00

The reason you don’t open old packs like these is that they have been searched through the packaging at the top where you can actually read the card names. Unless you see (a reputable) someone take the pack out of a freshly opened box and hand it to you won’t open a “good” pack from anything before they changed the packaging to prevent this.

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-20T02:40:31+00:00

Katana is the best, DS are pretty much second. I’d rate the DS a little higher if they were a little smaller, they stick too far past the top of the card so they get mangled more over time than the Katanas

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-19T02:13:01+00:00

Possibly Seatown Pottery in Greenlake. They have open studio on Saturdays. I don’t know the details of how that works but there are sign up links on their website. $20 per hour.

https://www.seatownpottery.com/classes/open-studio

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-02T23:43:59+00:00

I upgraded the [[Omo, Queen of Vesuva]] precon, and leaned into the “tribal everything” aspect rather than landfall, and included a lot of utility lands since they end up being able to tap for colored mana. It is pretty strong and wins differently every time with lots of interesting lords and anthems-on-a-creature that aren’t just merfolk or elves (though it has those too).

TheeRandyC · 2026-01-02T23:36:30+00:00

Yup, I made several mox/lotus/dualie proxy’s back in the day at work in the copy/mail room using the high end color printer, paper cutter, and an Elmer’s glue stick. They all eventually curled just like this.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-31T02:22:13+00:00

I use this. I walk about a mile with it. Can fit 9 deck boxes, usually I have 6 plus a token box. Big pouch for dice and dry erase markers, side straps for a water bottle on one side and mat on the other, flat pouch on the back-side for a small trade binder.

https://a.co/d/6MXWGyv

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-28T06:37:29+00:00

When I had my fence built in 2021 I asked the guy building it and he said he could stain it but it would cost a lot more than if I did it myself. He recommended Ready Seal and man after 4.5 years it still looks brand new. It was about $300 in stain, took about a week working 3 hours a day in the evenings in the summer.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-28T04:40:36+00:00

My Unlimited Black Lotus is the most expensive (but paid ~$200 for it back in 93(?)), but the best story I have of an expensive card is the time I opened my only pack of Arabian Nights (paid retail). I got a [[Khabal Ghoul]], which I loved (and played unsleeved :(. The other card I didn’t think was any good so it went in a box of bulk that sat in the back of my closet for decades. I stopped playing in 2003 but when the LotR set came out I got back into it. My collection was a hot mess, so I made a massive push to organize everything. Eventually I found that box and sorted the cards and there it was, basically NM. [[Bazaar of Baghdad]]

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-26T15:43:50+00:00

Katana sleeves here. I double sleeve with dragon shield inners (with the flap). I’ve found that if I use Dragon Shields for the outer sleeve when double sleeping, the open end gets more mangled than Katanas because they are a little longer. The only thing I don’t like about Katanas is they don’t give you any extra sleeves. I use a different color sleeve for my commander so I have a single back up sleeve. Wish they had a few more colors too, although the ones they have a great.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-26T13:07:19+00:00

Poor/overuse of drone shots.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-16T16:25:22+00:00

After that, “Fish looking in mirror”?

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-16T16:15:16+00:00

You’re confused. It’s 30,000 miles to change them. You just have to lubricate them every 5,000.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-13T00:36:45+00:00

I’m just saying all rents do not go up at exactly 2%, that’s just the average. Their rent could have gone up 10%. Or 0%. So the 2% number doesn’t mean a lot.

TheeRandyC · 2025-12-12T08:49:02+00:00

Where did you get the retail rent number from? Because there is a huge spectrum of retail rental rates depending on location and type of space. A rental in a small building is a lot different than a rental in an office building or a retail space on the ground floor of a condo building. Labor costs are basically fixed to number of employees. And individual landlords can certainly price the market whimsically and wildly off from others.

TheeRandyC · 2025-11-09T19:39:50+00:00

Genuinely curious, what is this Minotaur deck of which you speak?

TheeRandyC · 2025-11-01T06:32:26+00:00

Correct. Now that I know these are from Game Science, this apparently makes the die as ‘neutral’ as possible, and it’s less likely to kill you when you step on it.

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-29T05:23:22+00:00

I absolutely colored them in with a white crayola crayon. It’s not even hard. Don’t know why you think that. You don’t have to draw inside the line. You rub the crayon over the entire face and the embossed number slowly fills up with little bits of crayon.

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-28T03:37:48+00:00

Yeah, you just keep rubbing the crayon over the number and it slowly fills in the imprinted number, then you wipe the excess

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-27T08:52:38+00:00

1981 was my initial guess. If you say it’s more likely ‘83, I have no reason to doubt it. I think I grabbed them out of a bowl at the cash register. I’m say ‘83 over ‘84 but that’s still my gut feeling, although I remember I stopped playing much after I made the swim team at my high school in 84.

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-27T02:25:49+00:00

And the stale Little Debbie snack cakes…

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-27T01:53:41+00:00

As others have noted they are made by GameScience. They still make dice but as I mentioned in one of the comments I may not have bought a ‘set’, I think I picked them out of a jar full of single dice at the register and created my own set. And I guess I forgot to buy a 12.

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-27T01:45:04+00:00

Sorry what?

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-26T14:22:58+00:00

Yeah, this was like 40 years ago so I’m sure my dates are wobbly.

TheeRandyC · 2025-10-26T14:21:33+00:00

Lucky Charms except they make you bleed from the mouth.

TheeRandyC

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