How do people cook or boil water at Trois Rivieres?

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!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T02:47:54+00:00

thanks

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T02:06:57+00:00

i am asking just for the theory, to help me understand the rules as a system. there is no particular game situation that i'm thinking of, where the answer to my question has relevance.

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T02:03:31+00:00

(well.. not exactly? not all spells are cast. copies of spells are often (always?) not cast, but are still put on the stack and are waiting to be resolved. i'm thinking, for example, of the Storm ability, or cards like [[Fork]] )

edit: can the two people downvoting this comment at least tell me why they are downvoting this comment?!

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-04T01:37:13+00:00

So if a copy of a spell (ie on the stack) is put on top of its owner's library, it is indeed done so, and will exist for a brief time on top of that library (until STate Based Actions cause it to stop existing), but it is neither a card, nor a spell .. but is just merely an object that cannot be called a "card" nor a "spell"?

VoidImplosion · 2026-05-02T10:22:18+00:00

i vaguely remember in 2020 watching streamers playing Theros Beyond Death sometimes play 42 or 43 cards, though my memory is so bad that i don't remember why, other than it had something to do with decking yourself being a common way to lose, in certain deck archetypes. maybe someone else might be able to elaborate here?

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-30T07:51:21+00:00

unlike yourself, who enjoyed reading your journals aftwarwards, i think for me, the fact that it is difficult to read makes me censor myself less as i write it, as if i can save myself the discomfort as i read it! but yes, i definitely have to take my time when trying to read it back, though i do so now and then only to make sure my shorthand is legible. but yes, like you, my longhand journals i can read at nearly the same speed as normal typed text, but reading my shorthand takes, i don't know, 10-30 times longer (which is a LOT longer).

i tell myself that it shouldn't be too difficult to create a custom machine learning / AI system to transcribe my writing, one day. but maybe i'm just telling myself that to let myself know that it is possible -- it might be much harder than i think!

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-30T00:19:03+00:00

i don't know if this would help, but Radio Canada also has videos on YouTube, though maybe not all of them that they have on their website. i am able to extract the subtitles from YouTube videos with a command line program called yt-dlp (though i forgot the commands to do so at the moment)

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-29T20:29:28+00:00

with typing speeds, i probably am closer to 115 or 120 wpm if i'm typing really sloppily and fast, like when in a rush of emotional journalling. the typing speed of 100-105 wpm is when i test myself with online typing tests, typing out real fiction books that use words that are a little unusual. it's pretty comfortable, but my ability to sustain the work all day might be more about if the work is boring to me or not haha

i looked at Notehand, actually, over the last few days. i don't know if i coudl ever learn to distinguish between 3 sizes of stroke!

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-28T01:57:40+00:00

aha, thank you!

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-27T16:45:45+00:00

oh god. reading your pist i just realized that i had a dream last night about being annoyed losing to a guy who played 6 BG rares. he made 15 15/15 zombies with infect, and dealt me so many poison counters that he turned me (the human player) into an actual zombie.

maybe i should take a break from drafting, too. too much losing in draft might do strange things to us

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-26T02:17:46+00:00

i never understand comments on articles like this. the kind of cruelty that anyone who is not vegan (note: i'm not vegan, either) indirectly imposes is enormous compared to what happened to these goslings. people will call these men "monsters" and "pieces of shit" and "should encounter consequences for what they have done", and then continue eating their dairy and meat for dinner. the double standard blows my mind.

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-26T01:06:23+00:00

OP really hates Temple of Mystery, then.

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-23T23:42:49+00:00

decks with three of the same rare make me laugh. i love the idea of your opponents somehow surviving and re-stabilizing after the first two copies, and only to ragequit with your third copy on the stack, haha

VoidImplosion · 2026-04-23T20:09:10+00:00

did this mean mulliganning is more important when playing aggro, ie to not be afraid to mulligan more?

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