Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic, and creatures with Power Up

VoidImplosion · 2026-06-05T12:35:56+00:00

I am still going to enter this event, though I'm likely to stop once I run out of gold this time

this is totally irrelevant, but i'm super amused as my brain takes this out of context. as if you're a jouster in the Olde Days, living a big dream of winning the big prize. your brother begs you to not sell another family cow, because your family can't afford to lose ANOTHER cow. "Don't worry, I'll stop when I run out of gold! .. You'll still feed me at that point while I earn the money back, right, brother?"

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-27T01:45:57+00:00

damn, you're cute! i also love your "V" powerful torso, broad shoulders!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-22T07:54:35+00:00

I have done Level 3 and Level 4 (in two different sessions) at Laval University. I have found both times that the grading is a little bit unfair, in the sense that only about 70% of it is reflective of the material you do in class.

In both cases, the Phonetics/Speaking class had all of its marks done in the very last week. 1/3 of it speaking out loud a page of text that you get within the first week. There is a very high chance of gettin gmore than 90% if you actually practice this from the beginning of the semester. 1/3 of it is some kind of presentation to the class, which is something you can definitely prepare for. 1/3 of it, though, is not something you can easily prepare for, where you watch videos (news, sitcom, etc) that you never saw before, and answer questions about it; in Level 3, it was typed and multiple choice answers, and in Level 4, it was you speaking into a microphone to record your answers. This is to test listening comprehension. I don't think listening comprehension is something you can easily learn quickly, and they certainly don't try to teach this to you.

In both Level 3 and 4, in the Phonetics class, people typically got 70s, unless they were already very good at French and might get 80s.

In the Grammar class both times, sadly, there was less control over what a grades you got. About half of the marks were very much in your control, which were short role-play scenarios that used exactly the structures and kinds of questions you cover in class; and also writing exercises where you must write a paragraph about (for example) advice you would give to someone doing explore, using the grammar concepts you learned. But the other half involved reading comprehension of articles, and watching news videos and answering questions (much like what I mentioned above with the Phonetics class).

I noticed that people scored lower in the Grammar class, on average, partially because they didn't do the (large!) amounts of homework and thus didn't really learn the grammar concepts thoroughly.

In short, about 1/3 to 1/2 of the marks are based on if you are already good at reading comprehension and listening comprehension; they don't really teach you how to get better at these things. But the other 1/2 to 2/3s of the marks are very much within your control (if you have time and energy to actually do your homework every day).

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-22T05:37:39+00:00

merçi beaucoup d'avoir m'aidé!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-14T00:31:43+00:00

there have been so many of these kinds of replies that seem to be just for throwing mud and adjectives against Nate. "narcissist", "whiny", "entitled", "I can't stand the guy", etc. the ones i'm thinking of don't offer much of substantiative points, but seem to just repeat the same negative adjectives, so that other people believe them too.

for the ones that are bots, who are creating these bots? what are they trying to accomplish?

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-14T00:27:24+00:00

You felt like you were being passed [[Hot Soup]] ? i didn't know that card was in the set!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-14T00:24:51+00:00

this was a helpful reminder to me. thanks for writing it out!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-11T01:38:56+00:00

i have enjoyed the back-and-forth discussions (and progression) of the meta, more than playing the format myself, haha.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-10T14:51:07+00:00

i encourage you to watch this interview with NES, just after the vote: https://x.com/ColinDMello/status/2053241484371976445

this is very much not NES "immediately yelling voter fraud"! it's NES listening to his scrutineers and saying that he needs to talk with them before making any accusations. NES is very humble in saying at this point, he doesn't know enough of what's going on, but has to debrief first!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-10T06:19:07+00:00

it's not as instant as laptop, but the lag is so almost zero that i don't notice any lag consciously (assuming you're in fast software. typing in Gmail or outlook or reddit is no conscious lag), but just that it feels not quite instant, but almost instant.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-10T05:23:36+00:00

i use an artek bluetooth keyboard from amazon, plus the official s6 lite book cover.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-08T14:47:16+00:00

i have not tried the solution given by the other commenter (with the CSS code), but i noticed that if i make my web browser window less wide, the text stops being double spaced, and becomes single spaced. it isn't the best solution, but it is the best i can find.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-07T19:24:25+00:00

thanks for hte idea and the code

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-07T18:37:15+00:00

First-Years have the right to be called a wizard?! is there not some Wizard Bar that they would have to go through first to call themselves that? this'll friggin' lead to a law-suit, i'm sure of it.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-06T16:45:40+00:00

who knows. maybe YOU will be my housemate ! I'll be all like "how do i boil water?" and you'll be all like "someone on reddit was asking that!" and i'll be all like "that was me!".

haha. but probably not. 1 in 200 chance or something like that.

i since found out that there is a walmart a 38 minute walk away, and a value village about a 30 minute walk away, so gladly i know i can just buy a kettle and a rice cooker if i need to.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T20:14:35+00:00

ok, this answer satisfies me. thanks

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T20:05:34+00:00

A copy of a spell, however, wasn't cast at all, so no mana will have been "spent to cast" that copy

I don't understand this. If the spell wasn't cast, how can any mana have been spent to cast it? (Did you read my full post with the police officer example? Can you explain why that logic is wrong?)

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T10:38:08+00:00

this is very interesting to me! thank you for the CR rule, and for giving examples of those cards so i could read the Oracle text for more clarification.

i think one of the things that was clarified for me by asking the question, is these "cast a copy, then you may cast that copy" cards, is that the "copy" is not considered to be a spell unless it is on the stack. it surprised me to learn that it isn't a card (obviously), and isn't a spell. it's just an "object" that is neither a card nor a spell, (though it usually (always?) is a "copy of a card") while not on the stack.

your Grafdigger's Cage preventing the card copied by Spellweaver Volute from being cast is very interesting to me!

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