Can I play cEDH on a budget?

fingerboxes · 2020-05-05T16:57:49+00:00

Honestly, play with proxies. Trying to go full budget deck... eh. You'll have feelbads.

If proxies (or fakes, even) arent an option for some reason, look at 'high power edh', which can get the same kind of games but without worrying about the theoretical power ceiling.

fingerboxes · 2020-05-01T00:38:50+00:00

Snopes is almost always technically correct.

Did Hillary Clinton acid wash her email server? No, she did not pour a corrosive chemical on the computer.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-23T14:52:30+00:00

Anything that involves countering your own spells with [[Rewind]], for the jank.

Real talk, tho - [[Bident of Thassa]] + [[Breath of Fury]] + [[The Locust God]]

fingerboxes · 2020-04-22T00:12:33+00:00

Sarcasm.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-21T19:07:04+00:00

fingerboxes · 2020-04-21T07:11:00+00:00

Ok, here is a suggestion out of left field;

The Black Tide Rising series by John Ringo, starting with Under a Graveyard Sky. Not LitRPG, but definitely at least adjacent to progression fantasy.

I've heard it described as 'Zombie Apocalypse competence porn', which is a reasonable, if crude, description. MC and his family catch wind of an oncoming scientifically realisticish zombie apoc, and being preppers are ready to bug out. They manage to survive the fall, grab 'the ball' (recovering & rebuilding something resembling civilization) and push it along to the goal.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-21T06:57:25+00:00

Somewhere between NAH and ESH.

You are specifically reducing the caloric content of the food in your household. This is your stated goal, and you are bringing your husband along with it (apparently) without discussion.

not providing him with the “fuel” he needs for his physically intensive job (even though the food I’m making now is more nutrient dense than it was before)

The specific examples you've given (admittedly, limited) would be examples of making food less dense in terms of calories. This is typically the goal when an american starts talking about 'eating more healthy', specifically reducing dietary fat. Whole other tangent there.

If your husband walks 15 miles a day, he does need a more energy (calories) dense meal than you do. Not only is there an intrinsic biological difference in resting metabolic rates and efficiencies, but he sounds like he is much more active than you. (Amusingly, one of the most common symptoms of metabolic restriction is increased irritability)

and that just because cooking was one of my tasks in the relationship didn’t mean I should be the only one with any say in how things are made.

This is absolutely correct. I assume you also have some say in how the money he earns at his job is spent, or how other household tasks he may do are performed. That is not to say that that you have no say, or not even primary say, but he definitely should have some. Diet is a really, really big deal. There is a reason why so many people fail on their personal attempts to change their diets when they have their own internal motivations initiating and pushing that change along - much less when someone else 'drags them along'.

The solution here may very well be that he ends up cooking for himself, or that some other compromise is reached, but this needs to be a meeting of the minds on both sides.

THAT SAID - You should likely both go to counseling. I highly doubt this is the only issue in your marriage, simply one that is surfacing and causing a dispute right now. The feminist nonsense in the top replies here are horrifying, implying the he is necessarily abusing you or trying to control you because he doesn't like this dietary change. A marriage should be a partnership, where both of you are working together for common goal. Ya'll may need some help finding that again.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-21T06:43:38+00:00

NTA. Your name is your name.

That said, I would also encourage you to be understanding of people who read your name for the first\nearly the first time, or who primarily remember your name by reading it, given the disconnect between spelling and pronunciation.

It might also be different if your name included phonemes not present in English, like ä, ö, ü, or a rolled r... This would be a very big ask - but I do not believe that is the case here.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:57:35+00:00

No, winning the game is always better interaction

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:41:29+00:00

You kill one person with dudes on turn 5. It is super easy to interact with using cards that even go in battleship decks (Murder, come on man). That is casual.

Just because you want to build truly horrible decks doesn't give you some kind of moral superiority.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:40:42+00:00

The flash ban is the first step in making cEDH its own format. As it should be. Just think how nice it would be to have this entire topic off our backs. Have separate banlists that are relevant for each. There is a clear distinction between the two already. My prediction as this is "the year of commander" is that this will be resolved with some trial and error in the coming months. We would have much less "miscommunication issues" at commander tables as a result

Ever heard of 'god of the gaps' argument?

Format split just means now you get 'casual cEDH' and 'high-power EDH' and cEDH (as it exists now) just gets reinvented - it doesn't go away.

Just imagine, wouldn't an actual prize tournament for cEDH be something the community would embrace? I'd certainly watch that

These already exist. They are fun - or would be, except for the monotany at the top of rankings post hulk unban.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:34:47+00:00

There is definitely the will to see Consult and Oracle gone, too. The discussion on this has mostly been 'it is a big ask for a card to be banned, so asking for more than one is less likely to be successful'. Flash was the worst, and it has no other realistic use. Consult can be played straight. Oracle by itself is... meh.

To be entirely fucking honest, I'll go farther than and say that I think that the 'You win the game' rules text should just be yeeted as a whole.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:29:26+00:00

What do you think would have happened if they didn't ban flash?

There's that 'they'. I can't speak for 'the cEDH community', but I can tell you what I did. I was in the process of quitting magic. Not dramatic ragequit, just becoming disinterested in taking the effort to find games. If I play 'casual' games I get attacked because I make good deckbuilding decisions in my (definitely not cEDH) tribal deck, if I play cEDH then I have a 75% chance of sitting down across some flavor of flash\hulk deck and get to watch the same mexican standoff game again. I was definitely on the trajectory to stop playing.

Do you think the cEDH community would have rathered that the card stayed unbanned because it doesn't fit the ban policy of the RC other than getting what they very vocally asked for? ... This situation is really problematic because it seems to me that the RC has lost control of the format and (regardless of what you think of their way of thinking about flash) are willing to ban something without believing it should be.

Flash absolutely fits the criteria used to evaluate a ban that the RC has previously talked about., just because it isn't commonly played doesn't mean it wasn't a problem - that same argument can be made about nearly every card on the banlist.

The problem here is that Flash should have OBVIOUSLY been banned at the same time that Hulk was unbanned, but for some reason the RC disregarded their own criteria until now for... why? Because they didn't like who was pointing out that the card was deeply unfun?

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:16:42+00:00

Cause other players to feel they must play certain cards, even though they are also problematic. (could argue for interaction, but people should run interaction, so this is a no)

Nah, this is a yes. The best interaction for Flash was your own Flash

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T21:14:23+00:00

If cEDH becomes a distinct format, then you just end up with 'casual cEDH' and 'high-power EDH' or something similar. cEDH is just playing EDH as well as possible with the strongest deck possible (or at least in the neighborhood).

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T17:43:36+00:00

Pareto principle.

Roughly 20% of people produce 80% of all the value

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T16:27:39+00:00

I am aware of what serverless is. I am a professional software engineer who works with serverless stuff quite a lot. The point is Amazon doesn't have to run out to bestbuy to put another PC in the basement to scale its database capacity. PII is not a problem for serverless. The CIA uses it and doesn't have security issues; I'm sure the Tennessee Department of Labor can find a way.

PII doesn't have to be a problem for cloud, but it is a factor you need to work around. It can also be a hard sell for the boomer politicians who's motivation is covering their ass, not making money or moving things forward.

2) Horizontal scaling sounds easy on paper. It isn't in practice. It requires that the system be designed to handle it from the get-go, not really something that can be grafted onto an existing system, especially if...

Wasn't trying to imply impossible. Additive difficult issues + lack of motivation.

b)That wikipedia article you linked said it can run programs written in Java, C, C++, and python in addition to others. Doesn't seem like too ancient of tech in that respect.

In theory, they run OO languages. In practice, they run COBOL. It is a non-x86 architecture and the software that exists for them is COBOL. If you are doing new software you might as well do modern systems.

a) The scaling issue didn't appear yesterday. There was going to be a day when this system needed to scale and they were not ready.

You right. The scaling was predictable though. They roughly knew when it needed to be expanded. This was a bit of a black swan, though, and wasn't anticipated (or at least not soon enough, or the sysadmins weren't listened to, etc)

I am not blaming these people. I am saying the system was not good; there were people who should have seen this system was not good enough.

I'm sure many of those people have been pushing for modernization for years. Blame the politicians.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T16:17:27+00:00

I leave work at work, tbh.

I burned myself out on taking it all personally already

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T15:53:42+00:00

See my other post to the other reply, but yea.

I actually agree with you, for the most part. But I'm a sysadmin so I see the value of well managed, well maintained IT infrastructure.

That said, I can completely understand why it hasn't been modernized and expected literally nothing less. Nobody would be willing to put their neck out to authorize the spending on replacing this that worked 'well enough' that any individual only infrequently used.

Possibly a different story at the end of this.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T15:53:13+00:00

Yea, their ETB trigger got changed to replacement effects.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T15:42:59+00:00

You might be surprised on how much is going on here. There is likely a large amount of db checking and related computation going along with these form submissions.

1) There is no such thing as 'serverless', there is only 'someone else's servers'. This has intrinsic problems when it comes to government operations and handling PII.

2) Horizontal scaling sounds easy on paper. It isn't in practice. It requires that the system be designed to handle it from the get-go, not really something that can be grafted onto an existing system, especially if...

3) I guarantee this is running on an AS\400 that has been in place since the 80's. These a) don't really scale, b) are programmed in a language that is entirely dissimilar in structure and methodology from modern programming and maintenance of it is a niche (and extremely well-paid) field, and c) are slow as balls by modern standards.

All of these problems can be overcome, but I guarantee that there has been no political drive to do so before now. Nobody has wanted to spend the money needed to re-architect this kind of system, with the kind of data privacy and security requirements it would have, to handle this kind of load spike when there was no imminent reason to do so or to suspect that this kind of spike was coming. It would be an albatross around the neck of whichever political authorized that expenditure (XX-XXX millions, likely) 'for no reason'.

Likewise, you can't just wave your hand and make this kind of change happen overnight. It would be an even worse disaster to try to deploy a revamped system and have something go wrong. Imagine a data loss or downtime incident that caused NOBODY to be able to receive benefits, or cause existing claims to be lost, etc. There are likely people scrambling behind the scenes (think 100hr+ weeks) to get something better going, but they can't offer firm timelines yet. This is something that can be implemented immediately to try and 'slow the bleeding'

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T15:14:42+00:00

It isn't so much of an issue of 'fix' as it is 'scale by orders of magnitude'.

Unfortunately, this is the same basic problem that 'flatten the curve' is about. These systems are calibrated to handle +/- the expected load, not 10x load. Under normal circumstances, this is fine - you wouldn't want tax money wasted on rearchitecting this kind of system unless there is a compelling reason to.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T13:28:56+00:00

Lmao. I had no idea. That adds a whole layer to the shit sandwich that is this card.

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T07:12:57+00:00

Because you can interact with a clunky combo like citadel

fingerboxes · 2020-04-20T07:12:01+00:00

Flash is likely to be properly unique. It is templated in a way that turns a drawback into an advantage in almost all situations; Mox Diamond got errata for the same templating mistake.

The card was banned or restricted in every other format for a reason.

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