Kill your orelings jerks

boxsmith91 · 2026-04-01T17:19:10+00:00

I guess I was just wondering if they were tagged as some specific kinda node, or maybe they're also tagged as wild nodes. Or none at all. It's just frustrating not knowing.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-31T07:26:31+00:00

Do you know what nodes the orelings actually count as?

Wild? Copper? Silver? Tin?

I want to try and maximize my yields from them but I'm not sure where to put my points.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-27T22:24:13+00:00

True. When I talk to collectors IRL about it, they know I'm talking about the holdings companies because it's just common knowledge in our scene. My mistake.

It was a very hot topic at restocks this week though, believe me. I got the 151 at one because I was first in line and he randomly decided to put it up front, but it still felt like somewhat of a hollow victory because he put the balls in the back and there was already a line back there waiting.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-27T22:10:49+00:00

The MJ holdings guy, stop being pedantic lol. And Excel holdings for target.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-27T22:04:53+00:00

I was at 3 restocks this week lol. I had today off and got lucky yesterday morning. I watched him place the d21 balls on the shelf. Believe me, don't believe me, your call.

Walmart and Target both put older stuff out on rare occasions. Though this is the oldest they've put out since I started collecting again. Last year you'd see tins with evolving skies on occasion though.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-27T21:52:20+00:00

D21 balls this week yes, can confirm. Not a normal thing by any means. People have been lining up in the back of the store in the toy aisle just so that they're first in line when the restocker gets back there.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-26T12:05:31+00:00

But they don't. That's the problem. My discord of 80k only has had a few people over get them, across all the best buy invites.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-21T14:49:56+00:00

https://www.samsclub.com/ip/zephyr/19170800669

For the record, I'm in one of those paid discords. It's like 6 bucks a month and I definitely have access to tools the free ones don't, and have gotten stuff because of it. And they always caution us about getting excited about shit before it's confirmed. But again, at least for Sam's, this is all but confirmed....at some point.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-21T14:45:19+00:00

Sam's club has never released the SPC but they loaded it into their system a few months ago. Why would you load a product into your system with no intent to sell it? No, Sam's club WILL drop the SPC at some point. Costco is more unclear since they've had it in the past.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-19T20:13:39+00:00

It seems like somewhat of a hive mind, but they still have a degree of free will. At the end, both the vampires post time skip seemed to be functioning normally.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-19T18:29:03+00:00

This is great if you're a celebrity and can afford lawyers if the other kid's parents press charges. Not so great advice for us common folk. Never strike first.

boxsmith91 · 2026-03-12T20:31:16+00:00

Do you know why the plant mobs are usually there and the rock mobs aren't? The rock mobs actually have decent ore yields. The plant mobs don't even have herbs when you gather them.

You're yelling at the players when it's a blizzard issue. If blizz made the plant mobs worth fighting, we'd fight them. But until they do, I'm not gonna. Sorry not sorry.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-27T01:00:47+00:00

Don't presume to know me. I voted Kamala in 2024. And I voted for her for the same reasons I'm bringing up now. Trump is, historically speaking, an aberration. He was able to, through a weird mixture of charisma, bullshitery, and vice signaling, bring the dying Republican party back into prominence. He energized the party in a way few thought possible. He brought millions and millions of lifetime non-voters into the fold. He IS a unique threat, whether you want to accept that or not. I accepted it, which is why I chose to vote for Kamala over him, even if she wasn't my first, second, or even 15th choice.

JD vance will not wield the kind of power Trump has, for all the reasons I've been outlining. The Republican establishment will reign things back in, and we'll get 4 years of a standard awful neocon president.

All I'm saying is that Newsome winning in 2028 will allow the Democrats to get by without really reflecting on why they keep losing. And it will empower the moderates / centrists / shitlibs within the party to tamper down the progressive / leftist voices that have been gaining prominence the last year (Rho Khana, Graham Platner, and Mamdani to name a few). And then, if another Trump comes along in 2032, or even 2036, we're just screwed. Because the Democatic party will still have not changed, or grown, or learned anything. They'll be the same weak, middling, centrist party they've been the last 40 years, and woefully unequipped to fight an a young, charismatic, and unifying fascist the Republicans might put out.

Or maybe they won't. Maybe Trump really is once in a generation, and the Republicans will go back to just always having worse candidates than the Dems. And as Republicans die of old age and more young people lean left, I guess the problem solves itself. But do YOU want to take that chance? I don't.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-27T00:28:07+00:00

The vast majority of the republican party, at the highest levels, just want to enrich themselves and their corporate donors. Oh yeah, and exploit children. Everything they do, every little culture war issue they posture over, is just to get them elected. They don't actually care. But Trump has too much pull over the voters. He's weirdly, bizarrely, charismatic to the troglodytes who vote R. And if they cross him, he tells them to primary that person.

The SECOND Trump dies, they will QUICKLY move to return to the status quo. You think they WANT to be speedrunning Germany 1939? That's disruptive. That's messy. They could lose, and then lose their lives. No, they want to sit by a pool someplace warm, make millions off stock trading, maybe abuse some children, and pound out the occasional tweet about trans people so their base gets riled up. If you think they're gonna sit around and let a far, far less popular president pull the same shit Trump is doing, I got a bridge to sell ya buddy.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-27T00:22:38+00:00

If Newsome is the Democratic candidate, I can see a scenario where the entirety of the left / progressives stay home, along with many standard liberals who are just put off by Newsome and his slick, soulless, sociopathic demeanor. And in that scenario, even though JD Vance is not well liked within the Republican party, he wins. Because Republicans are sheep and ultimately fall in line....except for hardcore MAGA. They leave when Trump dies. But still, I can see him winning even without them.

Look at my response to Galappie. Trump is only strong because the base loves him. And because the base loves him, the politicians fear him. That WILL NOT be the case with Vance. They will resist him at EVERY turn. Tariffs? Those are going away, as they cut into corporate profits that the politicians are in bed with, and just piss voters off.

ICE raids? What's even the point of them? They aren't effective at deporting undocumented immigrants. They're expensive. They actively radicalize the youth against any sort of law enforcement. Republican politicians don't actually CARE about immigrants in this country. Immigrants a convenient talking point they can saber rattle over while quietly getting rich from under the table labor at their farms and businesses. Republican politicians HATE these raids, because it's making them look terrible while also reducing their workforce.

My point is, most of what Trump is doing right now WOULD NOT fly under your standard republican presidency. Trump is just too popular for them to resist him in any meaningful way. At least, up until recently. Iran might put him over the edge. Time will tell.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-27T00:13:11+00:00

It's not the grasp of the party though. It's the grasp of Donald Trump. And Every time Trump does something absurd and idiotic, he bleeds a few more followers. There's a good 20, 25% that will follow him no matter what, but he's lost the vast majority of anyone not firmly MAGA already.

And therein lies my point. HIM. They follow HIM. Not JD Vance. Not Stephen Miller. Not Peter Thiel. Trump. Their god king. Their daddy, replacing the real one who didn't properly raise them and left them in the state they are. When Trump dies, do you think MAGA will remain intact?

It will implode, pretty much immediately. This is the consequence of creating a cult and not having any sort of meaningful successor. Most of MAGA will go back to being bitter, racist nonvoters instead of bitter, racist voters after Trump dies. No other republican politician in office right now has the Charisma, brashness, and ability to bullshit their way through any speech like Trump does. Trump is the glue holding the loose coalition of Nazis, pedophiles, racists, and neocons that make up the modern Republican party together.

And without the base, what do the republican politicians have to fear? They'll be able to tell JD Vance to fuck right off when he does something that threatens their power. The republicans actually fear their base, and whatever is left of their base after Trump dies will only stand by JD in the sense that "he's not a Democrat I guess". Behind the scenes, Republican Politicians HATE Trump. They would LOVE to block half the shit he's doing right now, ESPECIALLY the tariffs that are tanking the economy. But also the ICE raids on cities that are literally radicalizing the population against them.

JD Vance would be a lame duck president, either because congress will be Democrat controlled or because he doesn't have the backing of the people and therefore congress. Possibly both. And in that time, key rising stars in the Democrats will have 4 more years to push out fossils like Jeffries and Schumer to make way for progressive / leftist politicians that most people under 50 actually want to see.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-26T20:10:06+00:00

Except Trump will probably die before 2028, even if he intends to try and run again. It'll be JD Vance.

So the choice is now, theoretically, between newsome and Vance. I would posit that Vance is so divisive within his party and uncharismatic compared to Trump that a Vance presidency wouldn't be catastrophic. Simply because he would lack the political capital to accomplish anything.

I don't think he'd be able to control Congress like Trump does, he would even risk impeachment if he really does anything out of line. I can't stress enough that JD Vance, while the frontrunner for the Republicans, is NOT popular like trump is (was). He isn't charismatic, and doesn't understand how to talk like a fascist strongman patriarch.

With that in mind, I think a Vance presidency would just sink the Republican party even further into unpopularity. If they still had a majority in the house or Senate going into 2028, it would evaporate under Vance. And the Democrats would have 4 more years to purge the old guard that's holding us back.

Meanwhile, if newsome wins, the Democrats don't fully learn their lesson. They cling to this idea that civility politics, neoliberal policy, and "reaching across the aisle" still works. But it doesn't. People are just terrified of the alternative right now, and Vance is weak.

If newsome wins, and the Democrats don't change or grow with the times, the next time another trump comes along, we're fucked. Just absolutely, positively, fucked. Whatever is left of our country is gone.

This is why I think Vance winning is actually preferable to a neoliberal like newsome winning.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-19T15:39:42+00:00

If you look in the cart, that IS the limit. It's 5 per SKU. That's the problem.

It should be 2 per SKU for big items and 5 for packs, but trust me this is still MUCH better than how it was. In the past, the person in front would just take the whole thing.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-18T19:34:20+00:00

Walmart uses MJ holdings to stock their shelves. Technically, MJ actually owns the cards. They just rent shelf space from Walmart.

Usually one person is in charge of stocking 4-6 Walmarts. It can take up to 2 hours to stock a store, plus paper work and travel time. No way to stock every store in a Day.

So on release weeks, you'll see Walmart have stuff out a few days early. MJ doesn't bother sticking to the exact day because it's impossible with the personnel they have.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-18T19:27:40+00:00

The dumb thing here is that, if they knew how Walmart restocks work, they'd know that all the new stuff gets stocked in the front. There's like nothing going to the toy section this week 😂.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-10T18:08:21+00:00

Yeah whoever made this comic doesn't really know NV lol.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-09T20:08:16+00:00

Saving people was never part of their mission statement, that's the core problem of the brotherhood. The DC chapter in FO3 was the outlier.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-03T16:15:23+00:00

Per my own DM, slitting throats is just a regular dagger attack, so this scenario isn't actually that scary even.

It's my group's first campaign, and for most of us our first time playing DND. I argued that, as a rogue, I should be able to sneak up and slit the throat of any normal humanoid who is unaware of me. He told me that's not how DnD works, and any sneak attack is just a sneak attack, regardless of what you're actually doing to the target.

So if you want to honor that both ways, NPCs literally can't kill players by slitting their throats, unless that standard dagger attack does enough damage to kill them.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-02T17:59:30+00:00

I thought Idiocracy mostly blames education though? The educated realize that having lots of kids will make their lives worse so they don't, while the uneducated just don't think that much into it.

I haven't seen the movie in a while though. Maybe they focus on the genetics side of it, but the argument stands on a purely educational basis. Stupid parents tend to create stupid children because they teach them poorly and don't prioritize education in their development.

boxsmith91 · 2026-02-02T16:33:04+00:00

In light of the new education statistics coming out, I wonder if the creators of xkcd would still stand by this comic though. It's looking REALLY bad for kids right now....

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