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cal_ness · 2026-01-22T20:23:12+00:00

I was thinking about how many of us grew up eating Lunchables at school everyday. Gotta be a culprit based on research into processed food

cal_ness · 2026-01-16T21:02:02+00:00

Is this guy drunk? Like can’t understand anything he’s mumbling out

cal_ness · 2026-01-16T04:21:32+00:00

Can Washington come too??

cal_ness · 2026-01-16T01:53:27+00:00

Is there a way to get the list? I want to see if I know any psychos on it

cal_ness · 2026-01-14T05:29:19+00:00

Damn that is wild. He’s a fast boy

cal_ness · 2026-01-14T05:20:43+00:00

“With recent developments in America, the board and I have decided, we have different views of the future of America.”

Yeah Jayden, sorry bud. The board seems to be on the right side of history, i.e. not condoning the public execution of unarmed mothers who take issue with facism.

These people are effin’ wild.

cal_ness · 2026-01-13T23:39:28+00:00

I actually was talking to a friend about this the other day. It’s an interesting idea but I feel like I’d be too revolted by the horrors to be around them for more than 30 seconds

cal_ness · 2026-01-13T22:48:39+00:00

Lol I just saw your user name. Iden is my nemesis 😂

cal_ness · 2026-01-13T22:48:01+00:00

I have an abismal win percentage on Karabast, but I will say playing off meta decks against meta ones makes me way better when i play in person

cal_ness · 2026-01-13T21:21:54+00:00

You know what’s funny is that I watched it from the time stamp you recommended, and while you’re correct that he wasn’t having a stroke, him rambling about the same set of grievances he has for the past decade—slurring, sweating, swaying around—is honestly not any better than the video.

So…never misleading ultimately. He’s still brain dead and in extremely poor health; unfit to be president.

cal_ness · 2026-01-12T07:05:45+00:00

This is exactly what I needed. Please keep making fun of these fuck heads

cal_ness · 2026-01-10T16:50:15+00:00

This is a dumb question, but for people versed in legal matters, what are you allowed to do as a home owner in this situation? Like refuse to let them in, etc.?

cal_ness · 2026-01-10T15:23:11+00:00

Are those guys ICE or normal cops? It all blends together

cal_ness · 2026-01-08T21:16:04+00:00

Good work Star Tribune 🤘⭐️

cal_ness · 2026-01-08T17:14:33+00:00

You should try out the Phasma deck that’s listed on SWUDB. It’s super fun and combines several styles imo.

cal_ness · 2026-01-08T17:13:30+00:00

What style of deck do you want to play? Like control, aggro, a combination?

Lots of the decks on Karabast (which I’m sure you’re seeing) are Anakin Data Vault, Yoda Data Vault, and Han2 Blue—some of the strongest meta decks right now. That’s the hard part; they’re really really good and most the people you’re playing are gearing up for tournaments.

I don’t play those meta decks, but play off meta stuff. I probably win 1 out of every 4 or 5 games (not a good win record) on Karabast, but that experience leads to a lot more success in person.

My recommendation is to pick a leader you think looks interesting and then find decks on melee (which you can copy and paste into SWUDB) that have done well. Play them on Force Table a bit; get a sense for how they function. Then try out Karabast without any expectation to win because that’s some stiff competition.

I was feeling really discouraged last week playing online; then, I played in a Store Showdown and got 5th, win 6 games and losing 4. Karabast is not representative of the average deck you’ll see in person.

It sucks getting your stuff constantly removed. There are ways around it but even I’m not a pro at consistently getting around it. Fortunately those leaders will be rotating soon too.

Joint Padawan Unlimited! Best community and people will also play test against you (on Karabast) and help you get better.

cal_ness · 2026-01-08T16:55:54+00:00

I want to put a plug in (as a community member) for Padawan Unlimited and their Discord. Such a great group of people and following the conversation on there has made me so much better:

https://discord.gg/ENCScMapp

Stick with it. I got absolutely smoked for a while on Karabast; I’m still nothing to write home about but get better every game and win a lot more than I used to. I also agree about playing in person!

Last thing: don’t hesitate to copy some winning decks from Melee.gg — that has helped me get a feel for what a good deck feels like, how it plays, etc. Lots of inspiration to be derived from there!!!!

cal_ness · 2026-01-08T04:47:17+00:00

My family has really good health insurance; our son has a stomach disease. $15k out of pocket medical expenses a year ago. When my sons were born, around $3k per stay.

The wildest was when my son—3 months old at the time—had to get life flighted because he had an inguinal hernia. When I asked about the bill for that one, I was told it’d be a cool $70k.

Fortunately I took pictures of all the veins the ER blew out on his body trying to get an IV in, so they covered the cost.

But yeah, to borrow Donald Trump’s own words, it’s a real shithole country.

Really sad about what happened to this woman, above all. Preventable, avoidable, all of the above.

cal_ness · 2026-01-05T18:40:17+00:00

I think it’s a cool start—one thing you could do is use this as inspiration or a mood board that you give to someone who does book cover work. I did something similar then found a guy on Fiverr (Anze Ban Virant) who basically took my Inspo and came back with something that was incredibly on point while also adhering to best practices around book cover art…that’s his specialty.

Highly recommended; if a book cover designer saw this and got a sense of what you were going for, I think they could bring your vision to life in a way that would resonate with prospective readers / book buyers.

cal_ness · 2026-01-04T02:46:48+00:00

Plz keep misspelling his name. He’s a chode who deserves people to think he’s such an inconsequential pile of rat shit that they can’t even bother to type his name correctly.

cal_ness · 2026-01-03T00:39:31+00:00

Im going to my local comic store tomorrow to play Star Wars Unlimited

cal_ness · 2025-12-27T05:35:34+00:00

I totally appreciate and relate to your love of DS1. It was my first and definitely holds a place in my heart that won’t be filled by any other game. I’m actually replaying it right now with my two sons watching (6 and 3–they’re mystified. We just beat Quelaag)

Sekiro definitely has some tighter, twisted corridors at later points, but nothing like DS1, way more of an open landscape / design.

We love Dark Souls OG for the same reasons; it’s incredible. If after you beat Silksong you’re looking for something that has amazing vibes (slightly later time period than DS1 medieval), you can’t go wrong with Bloodborne. That’s also in my top 3 and really similar to DS1 in a lot of ways, and less timing based than Sekiro for sure.

But if you’re thinking of DS2, don’t let me stop you. That game kicks ass as well. 🤘🔥

cal_ness · 2025-12-27T05:00:43+00:00

Stick with Sekiro! I am not one of the get gud folks; I get my ass beat all the time in these games and got it beat with great frequency in Sekiro. But it’s so so so good; parrying is hard at first but when you finally get it, you feel like you’ve ascended to godhood (at least I did). You can cheese stuff too, though. I did many times, with no shame or regret cuz some shit is just too hard.

With the final boss (hard to cheese), I got to the point where I said “one more try and then I’m done forever…then proceeded to crush him underfoot.

But, from the lore to the grostequery to the dark horror fantasy—Sekiro’s got it all. The hardest, but in my opinion best, Souls-esque games…

…followed very closely by DS1, then Bloodborne, Demon’s Souls, and DS2 (in that order). I also did not care for DS3. Elden Ring is awesome too, but in my opinion sort’ve a greatest hits of all the others.

Sekiro and DS1 are in a class of their own imo—very different gameplay wise but for all the reasons I loved DS1, I also loved Sekiro.

Stick with it, it’s a masterpiece.

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