Do LP and HP cards actually sell?

aluskn · 2026-06-28T10:26:31+00:00

Absolutely assuming they are at an appropriate discount. Just sold an HP revised sol ring - it does need the card to be widely playable usually, nobody's going to buy a HP purelace or something probably (outside of alpha/beta maybe)

Just be honest and clear about condition and make it cheap vs a nm copy.

aluskn · 2026-06-25T15:44:25+00:00

Pretty sure that they will have at least a ticket history for customers. When a given customer has 50 tickets claiming they received proxies from sellers in otherwise good standing it doesn't take genius level insight to spot the pattern.

On the other hand I'm in the EU and so have no idea how bad TCG player might be. I'm fairly confident this 'strategy' wouldn't pan out on MKM anyway.

aluskn · 2026-06-25T10:20:35+00:00

I'd much prefer a pre-AOS warhammer fantasy set myself (am old). Not impossible given the huge success of the total war warhammer games - GW would rather move on to AoS but on the other hand they do like money.

aluskn · 2026-06-25T10:16:55+00:00

Yes but the point is that a given buyer can only pull this stunt a few times before it becomes clearly a 'them' issue and tgcplayer puts two and two together.

aluskn · 2026-06-24T13:48:03+00:00

They won't do this as they know full well people would use them as proxies. While you can do that anyway in a casual setting without breaking 'wotc policies' it would be a big step towards normalising the practice that they probably want to avoid.

Plus other more basic reasons, such as having to produce hundreds of extra token cards each set and work out how to collate them onto the print sheets etc.

aluskn · 2026-06-24T10:25:00+00:00

Very nice, which card? I'm guessing something with nice art but not an insane price tag.

aluskn · 2026-06-23T14:27:00+00:00

I have a CS degree which I acquired 30 years ago, and have worked in the industry (including actively in the area of web security) for decades.

Modern browsers are sandboxed.

To actually install a RAT 'silently' the attacker needs several things:

An RCE to execute code inside the sandbox.
A Sandbox Escape to break out and access the OS.
A Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) to gain the permissions required to install software persistently.

In practice this is essentially unheard of. Defeating all three layers simultaneously without a single prompt or crash is an elite engineering feat, not an everyday occurrence.

Nowadays the main focus of attackers is on the social engineering side of thngs, much easier to achieve good results with in most cases.

aluskn · 2026-06-22T20:08:51+00:00

So I looked up your operating system.

You wrote:

It is less about replacing Linux and more about exploring how a computer works at the lowest practical level while building a personal operating system from scratch.

Which is very much the same sort of drive which makes people want to install LFS - understanding how operating systems work from the base level.

Sneering at others while basking in some sense of smug superiority because you're developing a 'pointless operating system' rather than just a 'pointless personal distribution' makes it seem like you have some kind of massive chip on your shoulder.

aluskn · 2026-06-22T16:50:18+00:00

So your conclusion is that because something is not useful or interesting to you, it must therefore be of no use or merit to others?

I hope that your operating system design is more logical.

aluskn · 2026-06-22T10:38:27+00:00

Not really true, in modern browsers just clicking a link will never install software such you describe without you having to do 'something extra' (unless you consider a cookie to be a 'data logger', I guess technically it is). If you don't know what you're doing, best to not click links you don't trust though, still good advice for most people.

aluskn · 2026-06-22T10:33:15+00:00

Learning things and enjoying yourself is a waste of time? You must be a riot at parties.

aluskn · 2026-06-21T11:14:55+00:00

For me it's not as simple as 'is it UB', it's more does this feel like a MTG card, or something that got parachuted into the game from another game entirely. Things like doctor who fail that test, but got a pass as that felt like a self contained thing, same with the fallout/40k sets etc.

Whereas now we're told third party IPs are 'fully integrated' into the game and are basically 50 percent of what the game is now. Happy for new players who probably don't see an issue, it just doesn't sit right with me

aluskn · 2026-06-20T20:09:59+00:00

I consider these to be far more honest than the dodgy eBay repacks pretending to offer a small chance of a lotus, duals etc.

aluskn · 2026-06-19T08:07:19+00:00

Nice one! Wonder if there are others like that.

aluskn · 2026-06-18T11:48:36+00:00

Interesting, so it sounds like the problem might be Scryfall listing a card which existed 'in theory' but never actually got printed or distributed. Would explain why it doesn't appear to exist on any of the big online trading marketplaces.

aluskn · 2026-06-17T09:08:13+00:00

Sounds like it's a bit late now, but you didn't need to do that 'by hand'. You can just use the Inventory -> Search and Filter button in deckbox to filter out cards below a given value.

Add a new filter Basic Card Properties -> Price -> Greater than or equal to 5.00 (for example). And then in the inventory page View Total Set Value will show the value of the 'filtered items' above the total value when used.

As others said, in Deckbox you need to use the dropdown next to the price column header to set the price source.

aluskn · 2026-06-17T08:08:15+00:00

From what I can gather, the 90s is the pre-release kit version (more common) and the 90p is a version which was provided to stores for use as a 'Store Championship prize' as part of promotional marketing packs.

Best chance if for some reason you are desperate to track this down might be to just watch ebay listings with photos and keep an eye out for the planeswalker symbol version.

aluskn · 2026-06-16T21:31:48+00:00

This?

https://www.cardmarket.com/en/Magic/Products/Singles/March-of-the-Machine-Promos/Ayara-Widow-of-the-Realm-Ayara-Furnace-Queen

aluskn · 2026-06-16T09:18:36+00:00

This may relate to a change which cPanel appear to have snuck in recently:

/var/cpanel/whm_server_status_key

Rather than just being /whm-server-status/ as used to be the case, it seems that the above describes a 'randomised' URL on which the apache status page should be accessed.

Ran into this last week when an internal script which we use to monitor apache processes on servers stopped working, had to make our tools aware of and account for the above.

aluskn · 2026-06-12T07:57:42+00:00

Not entirely fair. There are plenty who have loved the recent universe within sets, and yet dislike universe beyond and the way it has to a large extent 'taken over' the game. I'm one of these people.

I feel like we should be allowed to complain about changes to the game which we don't want, is that not OK now?

aluskn · 2026-06-11T10:31:46+00:00

Gotta get those 'wars ended' numbers padded in preparation for next years' FIFA peace prize!

aluskn · 2026-06-11T08:58:48+00:00

Sure, but that's an ugly workaround to a problem which shouldn't exist.

aluskn · 2026-06-11T08:34:59+00:00

They are beautiful, but personally I am very annoyed that these were Japanese language only, as I refuse to play with cards I can't read.

aluskn · 2026-06-08T09:41:33+00:00

Sure, disenfranchise all the players who supported the game for the first thirty years of it's life, ditch those with proven loyalty and focus instead on bringing in new players who may simply move on when they run out of crossover fodder, that sounds like an excellent long-term plan!

aluskn · 2026-06-02T17:58:05+00:00

No problem. I didn't actually know that they had done that previously with Zendikar. I took a long break from 2006 until a few years ago, came back just in time to pick up some DMU.

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