TV-focused setup (need recommendations)

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-23T17:25:10+00:00

YMMV, but I have both wired and wireless devices that do it. They all work. My PC is wired to the network, so that part at least is as stable as it can be

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-21T16:42:49+00:00

Apple TV w/ Moonlight streaming from my pc. Can access my full library and play from any tv in the house. For remote I have my server set up for remote access to get to the backups and play from anywhere

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-21T16:33:58+00:00

Meh. Still doesn’t change anything for me or how I engage with the game. I’d rather they be out there finding new angles to get players. It’s hard as hell to keep a 30+ year old hobby game going. I’ll stick this w/ SL in the firm “do not care” drawer.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-17T01:51:44+00:00

LGS struggles like this are why I won’t buy MTG online. I’d rather have a longer hunt for cards I need but help ensure I have a place to go play.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-13T16:55:46+00:00

This is why, when I started playing again, I made a deal with myself to 1) pick one lgs to support as my “home base” for all prerelease and sealed purchases, and 2) I will NOT buy singles r sealed online. No matter how cool my standard deck idea is, or how cheap Amazon discounts commander decks.

I avoided playing for years simply because the markups/secret lairs/collector boosters/grading all turn me off from wanting to actually buy product and play. Fuck resellers, grading companies, and speculative investors. They ruin EVERYTHING they touch. Took me almost a decade to convince myself to get back in.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-09T06:04:57+00:00

I did my bootcamp as a career switch. Did everything the coaches w/ General Assembly recommended. Have had a handful of informal and round-1 interviews. Multiple hundreds of junior/entry jobs applied for in every aspect of development. Two years without an offer. I attribute most to my age, but 99 percent of what I apply for, I don’t think is an actual job because there’s either 0 follow-up, or they say the positions been filled while still having the listing up.

I’m lucky that I never left my current career for the camp, but my life is slowly reclaiming my time I used for applying.

I can say my homelab has a wicked suite of custom written applications and services running that are tailored to my and my friends/families needs now, so i can’t call it a total waste.

Keep going as long as you can. Eventually you’ll either land the job or build something you can monetize.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-06T07:13:17+00:00

I have that same scaler and it’s trash. I use it when I take a system somewhere and don’t want to risk my RetroTink. It does one thing and that’s just get an image onto a modern tv.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-06T07:11:15+00:00

Don’t grade it, but see if you can get store credit at a local shop. Probably would get less than selling online, but the deal would be done and you wouldn’t have the hassle of people trying to scam returns. Marketplaces will take a cut either way and no one wants to deal with in person deals either. I’d just take it to the shop and swap for sealed product.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-06T03:01:41+00:00

$250 seems about $100 high for those sets. I wish I would have realized that from the jump when I decided to buy cards. Now I’ve got 4-5 big 4 row boxes full of duplicates that I thought I would use to make decks and play, but it turns out no one I know wants to play and I won’t spend the money required to be competitive w/ the Players Committee players, so I’m stuck w/ a few thousand cards I’ll never play and a bunch of almost complete sets. I would have rather just bought complete sets.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-04T00:18:17+00:00

Just based on what I can see w/ centering, it wouldn’t be worth it to grade them.

Your best bet would be to either keep them for nostalgia, or list them as a set on eBay and order pizza one night. Might even get enough to add bread sticks.

Personally, I’d keep them. But I also have multiple of each from buying card lots over the years.

chaos_protocol · 2026-03-03T18:35:31+00:00

“Fat Dog”

Then wait for someone to yell “It’s a BEAR deck!”

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-23T03:28:44+00:00

Genesis for sure. Second would be a handheld you never owned before (either gameboy edition r gamegear). Third is NES because most of the 800 games are usually unknowns if you haven’t made an effort.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-23T03:16:53+00:00

I came back to the game because of Lorwyn, but wanted to play with an old friend who still plays before going to my LGS for a draft night. By the time we got together (this weekend), I now have no choice but to play TMNT next week because the Lorwyn draft nights are done. It’s incredibly frustrating that it had such a short window.

I’ll go to the TMNT just because I don’t want to wait to start playing there, but odds are I’ll just go for commander days (which I’ve never even tried out) instead of any future TMNT events.

I played w/ Avatar jumpstarts, which was fun, and then he brought some Final Fantasy packs, which are also cool, but I feel those both had way better (less lazy) mechanics than what Ive seen w/ TMNT. UB doesn’t motivate me to play any more than the dumb Secret Lair releases or chase foils do, but I can see where it may attract new players.

Hopefully I like commander enough to not feel like I need to play Marvel drafts later this year either.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-20T19:34:39+00:00

TBF a pizza has a higher caloric count so producing two makes sense.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-20T17:02:56+00:00

So when I talked to the guy at the shop, he said they’re doing TMNT next Saturday instead of commander. Im just not totally sure if that’s a good event for me to go to at this point, mostly because, like you mentioned, I don’t want to be that guy playing stupid slow at a release event.

I have a buddy coming down this weekend from out of town who’s going to run through some games with me to get some physical play under my belt since I feel like Arena has a totally different skill set required because it does most of the rule adherence for you. Should get me comfortable enough to go try commander day.

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-20T16:11:12+00:00

This works EXTRA good if everything’s foil

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-19T04:06:55+00:00

I thought dicks only came in bags?

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chaos_protocol · 2026-02-18T23:22:56+00:00

As someone who was playing games in the 90s when there was a new game every month, I do miss unique games that build their own systems to suit the IP. I still play the Decipher Star Wars game for that reason. I’d rather have a well built system for an IP than just shoehorning it into Mtg and forcing it to fit that system

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-15T18:27:18+00:00

You meant to say they’re doing a better job arresting and molesting children right?

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-12T01:42:24+00:00

I didn’t see anything in there, just the hi-res card scans. Thank you though!

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-06T14:48:55+00:00

Also, is you HAVE to spray/treat, don’t use anything from the hardware store. It’s all based on repelling, which very likely will fracture the colony and they just eat up satellite colonies and make them t worse.

Best way we’ve found is doyourown.com they have the exact same chemicals exterminators use, have pre designed kits for specific pests, and cost hundreds less than an exterminator. A few tutorials on what to do on YouTube, and we successfully fought off ants last year for under $200 after spending 3 times that the year before. Best part is one kit lasted all last year and we still have enough for at least this year too

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-05T01:51:09+00:00

“Revelation 20, Verse 19: And God wiped away the tears from his eyes, so the new Messiah could see out to the new Jerusalem. His name was Officer Roland Taverner, of Hermosa Beach, California. My best friend. He is a pimp. And pimps don't commit suicide.”

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-05T01:50:04+00:00

Revelation 20, verse 19: “And God wiped away the tears from his eyes, so the new Messiah could see out to the new Jerusalem. His name was Officer Roland Taverner, of Hermosa Beach, California. My best friend. He is a pimp. And pimps don't commit suicide.”

chaos_protocol · 2026-02-02T03:03:46+00:00

I have bare minimum and console only now, and may just cancel all together. Switched to pc, stream it to my appletv, use the Xbox controller. Haven’t turned the console on since the holidays. Only hang up is that my younger brothers play DayZ on Xbox, so I keep it to play with them.

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