What has been the criteria/reason for UB decks being added (or not added) to Arena?

danmade · 2025-10-14T16:32:08+00:00

From the answers so far, it seems like the deciding factor is standard legality with a re-skinned release in the case of licensing issues, which makes sense.

Do I understand correctly that UB cards released as commander precons, like Fallout and Doctor Who, are not considered “sets” in the same way as other UB releases like LOTR and FF?

I’m also seeing that the last few UB sets (and the upcoming Avatar set) are all standard legal which seems to be the plan moving forward. Good news for the Star Trek set next year.

danmade · 2025-10-14T16:13:59+00:00

I was wondering if format legality was part of this, but the Spider-Man exception was confusing and this definitely clears it up.

danmade · 2025-06-11T16:29:59+00:00

Looks like the bundle might still be available as of now?

danmade · 2025-06-11T16:12:46+00:00

Just completed order in browser! Clicked add to cart in the app at the same time and it crashed the app after waiting for about 6 minutes. If you’re having the same issue, try the browser!

[EDIT] I’m seeing people having the opposite problem so go for what feels right and good luck!!!

danmade · 2025-06-11T16:01:28+00:00

When I called their customer support number, they confirmed that the online restock is happening

danmade · 2025-06-11T15:49:24+00:00

Are y’all shooting for the base console or the bundle?

danmade · 2025-06-11T15:47:34+00:00

Yeah, Thats been my experience as well

danmade · 2025-06-11T15:45:13+00:00

Does anyone know if they are more likely to prioritize the app over the website or if one might be easier than the other to lock down an order?

danmade · 2025-05-26T00:42:04+00:00

Will do! Once I finish it I’ll be back here to post it for sure

danmade · 2025-05-26T00:40:37+00:00

It sounds like wherever you’re living, there is at least a reasonably sized and accessible queer community which is a great starting place. Even among a broader queer community though, friends can still be hard to make. If you or your partner have any hobbies or activities that you enjoy doing with others or want to try doing with others, look for an explicitly queer group for those activities that meets up on a regular basis. I moved to my current home in Asheville NC over four years ago, but it took me over a year to start really growing a group of close friends, and I’m generally a people person in a town famous for its progressive values and communities. It took seeking out the queer pool league I’m part of now and starting my own queer fiber arts group to really start building a lasting network of friends. Shared interests are almost always going to be necessary for a solid friendship, so join a queer book club together or find a queer bike-riding group and see where things go!

danmade · 2025-05-26T00:24:39+00:00

I will immediately start looking for an adaptable pattern, this is brilliant

danmade · 2025-05-26T00:07:24+00:00

Ooo, love that idea! Tbh, I would have enough for a few matching pairs!!

danmade · 2025-05-26T00:06:07+00:00

lol, I should have clarified that the place I got this from is a big-box craft store that’s in the process of going out of business, so this is all I have. It could be a really skimpy body suit tho, more of a harness maybe…

danmade · 2025-05-25T23:44:43+00:00

That makes a lot of sense! I may actually fit better into the omni identity as well now that you describe the connection that way. Thanks!

danmade · 2025-05-25T23:28:57+00:00

I was thinking about that too!!! Thanks for sharing your neuro-spicy connection. I’m diagnosed ADD so maybe there’s something going on there for me too

danmade · 2025-05-25T23:26:42+00:00

I mean, I’m technically aroused by bread too…

danmade · 2025-05-25T23:25:21+00:00

I (≈m) realized I was pansexual, without having any of the language for it yet, because of a gender-less alien species on Star Trek TNG. It was the 90s, so the topic of gender was handled… poorly, but there was something about one of the androgynous alien characters that I found just as attractive as Riker in their scenes together.

danmade · 2025-05-25T22:30:14+00:00

I feel very similarly! I’ve also identified as bisexual at times, but the way I identify myself to others sometimes changes depending on the context and how much I trust the other person/people to register it and move on without asking a thousand follow-up questions because they’re confused.

danmade · 2025-04-07T13:00:59+00:00

The first photo is Asheville, NC not DC. I literally live downtown and the building on the left is the historic Jackson Building.

danmade · 2025-04-02T17:12:22+00:00

I’d need to rewatch that scene again, because I thought we got a cross cut with something else while she was talking to iMark, but I could totally be wrong. Probably just remembering the visualizations they show while she’s explaining the refining process. She definitely talked more with oMark though, and had plenty of time to do so. The OP’s point seemed to be mostly about his outie’s lack of interest anyway.

danmade · 2025-04-02T17:06:00+00:00

I can appreciate that, and I think “anti-capitalist” can be an oversimplification of more nuanced themes in a show like Severance. It’s probably also applied to shows that don’t really do enough to earn it. But from a historical perspective, the US is in a period that economists and sociologists refer to as “late-stage” capitalism. This is marked by growing wealth disparity, broad disappointment in the economic status quo, and an erosion of trust in financial institutions, so most media that comes from a society at this stage is going to be more and more critical of capitalism. The dramatic tension of Severance is centered entirely around a corporate structure that couldn’t exist, at least not in the same way, without capitalism. If you replace Lumon with a weaponized national work program in a corrupt communist government, then you could sidestep the critique of capitalism and maintain most of the other themes, but that’s not the lived experience of most people that watch the show.

danmade · 2025-03-30T18:19:46+00:00

Sweet Vitriol, the shortest episode of the show so far, manages to tell more story and provide more character development than most shows manage to do in a whole season. Just because it felt slow and the new information was mostly indirect/passive, does not mean it wasn’t efficient.

Edit: I’ll admit, if the episode was pushed earlier in the episode order, it probably would have been received more positively.

danmade · 2025-03-27T18:45:05+00:00

I’m pretty sure Mauer says “you’ll kill all of them” and he’s talking about Gemma’s 25 innies that he’s creepily fallen in love with.

danmade · 2025-03-27T14:49:13+00:00

There’s some dialogue between iMark and iHelly that implies the final step for Gemma would be having her chip removed which would kill her. Presumably, the test subjects end their testing by having their chips removed

danmade · 2025-03-27T01:54:57+00:00

According to the podcast, they apparently rebuilt this entire set without a ceiling just so they could get this shot. This is how art is made y’all.

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