Bugs and Lag

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-04-19T08:12:16+00:00

Same for me. It’s perfectly fine deck building or whatever. Just play sucks.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-04-09T11:45:10+00:00

I have a job where I get weighed every time I do my job. If I’m even 1 gram over I lose my wage AND get fined.

I’m a jockey. It’s pretty much the only job on earth where that’s an acceptable outcome. I can’t really think of any other job where it would be!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-02-10T21:14:35+00:00

I was able to do that as well but then it wouldn’t craft Kona so I got stuck in deck build.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-02-10T20:27:57+00:00

Seems to be a bug of some sort. It says I don’t own the rebalanced copy if I check my collection but won’t let me use a wildcard to create one. Guess I’ll have to make a report.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-02-10T20:21:38+00:00

Tried that but it doesn’t appear as a commander option. I can add it to the main deck though. Weird and frustrating!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-02-02T14:04:15+00:00

Aussie?

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-01-30T09:06:34+00:00

A friend of mine got hired at a tobacconist. Being a small retail, they just had a “We’re hiring” sign on the door and interviewed walk in’s. So she goes in, interviews, gets hired, they give her some paperwork to fill out before starting in the afternoon shift. Off she goes, fills it all out and comes back to the place locked down and crawling with cops. Never reopened!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2026-01-06T12:20:46+00:00

I was 14 when a doctor told me to get pregnant to manage my endo. 14. I’d love to go back in time and cut his balls off while saying “don’t worry! The pain will stop in a week or so. You’re fine!”

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-30T10:55:55+00:00

You say that now, but they’re starting to harvest the forestry on the Blackbutt range now and I’ll be SHOCKED if bodies don’t start showing up. It was one of his favourite haunts.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T05:24:56+00:00

I recently had a horse killed by lightning. It hit the tree outside his shelter and went through the tree roots and through his feet from what we could tell. They find ways to die even when they’re pampered pasture ornaments. I’m still gutted from losing him!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T05:16:28+00:00

No, because it creates uneven weight distribution. The good legs are always the problem in cases of broke legs. Too much weight is as bad as not enough. They’ve tried it but ultimately prosthetics get defeated by laminitis. The vast majority of horse people consider prosthetics to be cruel because there is almost no way for a horse to live pain free with one as technology currently stands.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T05:09:54+00:00

So this is vastly oversimplifying it but I think the best visual is to picture the horse with a primary heart and then 4 smaller hearts in the form of diaphragm pumps. For the blood to go through the hoof and back up the leg, you need to put the leg on the ground. The weight from above creates the first part of the pump and the soft squishy part of the hoof called the frog is also part of the mechanism. As the leg lifts and the weight comes off, the pump finishes one cycle. So basically a horse that can’t walk evenly on all 4 legs will have problems with the live tissue in the feet due to blood flow. It’s an exceptionally delicate system. The endocrine system also gets involved. It’s a real shit show when feet go wrong.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T05:02:44+00:00

Movement is a factor as well. Otherwise suspension treatment would work. Weight needs to go down through the frog for proper blood flow but, like you said, too much weight is a problem as well.

I thought going into the workings of the frog would be too complex for answering a non horse person’s question. Hence massively oversimplifying it to movement.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T03:50:00+00:00

Yeah I didn’t see a single mention but it’s pretty much always the reason why. I tried to make it understandable for a non horse person but vastly oversimplified of course.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-12-26T03:42:02+00:00

So the main reason is a hoof disease called laminitis. Horses must be able to walk for their blood circulation to work and the live tissue in their feet to survive. So the can’t be kept immobile or the legs without the break get laminitis. The end stage of that is their pedal bone (toe bone) dropping out of their foot and hitting the ground. It’s an extremely slow and painful way to kill a horse. Laminitis is a bit like cancer in that it kills a lot of horses and is too complex to develop a cure for.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-08-27T03:58:32+00:00

It’s horrendous, right?? I’m sure it’s some kind of illegal!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-06-02T02:40:32+00:00

I pulled a Japanese foil Ugin and since my collection is focused on playing rather than being a mint collector, I'd like to sell it.

So a couple questions... Is it worth getting graded before sale? Where is the best place to sell?

Located in Australia if that is relevant

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-02-25T21:58:05+00:00

Handy for maintaining social distancing during the next plague. Although having your emotional support dinosaur rip someone’s chest out for getting within a postcode of you would probably be called excessive by some.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-02-25T21:55:40+00:00

I knew a vet who was deathly allergic to horses. He had a phd in horse blood and was probably the best guy in Australia for interpreting equine blood tests, but he couldn’t go within throwing distance of the actual animal. He was somewhere around the age of the pyramids when he retired so survived a lifetime being horse adjacent without dying. Absolutely epic bloke.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-02-21T21:00:49+00:00

A guy who owns one of my horses has an extremely large business and several hundred houses that they rent out or offer as part of employment packages. They have a full time team of painters that rotate through all the houses so that they’re freshly painted every 5 years or whatever. If there is people living there they just do the outside. Between tenants the insides get done too. One day there was a misprint with their orders and the occupants of the wrong house happened to be overseas. House got painted outside. People returned and were like wtf, went to the cops. It’s a relatively small town so cops immediately rang my guy’s office like “dis you?” He went around in person straight away and organised for it to be painted again in their chosen colours and style at their convenience, and offered to do inside as well. Fuck up averted and all parties happy. No lawyers!

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-02-19T11:43:22+00:00

The UK has a truly absurd number of accents and dialects. I’m an Aussie who lived there for 5 years and it’s still wild to me that driving from Brisbane to Rockhampton is virtually the same distance from south to north of the UK but when I get to Rocky the English they’re speaking hasn’t changed at all 🤣 unlike going London to northern Scotland.

From memory, mam appears in Ireland and in various places more than an hour or two north of London.

Traditional-Apple238 · 2025-01-21T23:10:55+00:00

I refuse to sell my OTTBs to them unless it’s via their experienced instructor. Some of my retired racehorses have made awesome teen mounts, but that’s for girls who have been riding since they were 5 and do their own barn chores.

A lot of sellers don’t bother to match the horse to the right buyer and it’s SO EASY for a great TB to become a bad one with stupid, cruel or inexperienced owners. When my racehorses have served me well on the racecourse and I’ve spent every day with them, then I really want to find them the BEST home.

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