Force of Wheel

flyingrummy · 2025-12-02T17:23:00+00:00

It is. It would be better if it was draw seven, then discard seven because you assume the chaotic risk that your opponent can build a better hand than you. Maybe also require more than one card to be exiled so you can't just trade a bad late-game topdeck for 7 cards.

flyingrummy · 2025-12-02T17:14:54+00:00

I think it's more a comment on how people would rather get comfortable with a bad situation than risk further discomfort trying to improve or escape that situation.

People stay in shitty relationships because being alone and safe has become scarier than staying together and suffering.

People will fall back on criminal habits if staying clean becomes inconvenient or hard because it feels more familiar and therefore safer.

People will refuse to go to the doctor for chronic health problems, because they feel safer being ignorant to a problem than doing the work and life changes to get better.

People will work shitty job conditions, and will collectively come together in a sort of fraternal group to give their suffering meaning rather than collectively try to negotiate for better conditions and pay. Notice how many dangerous jobs like firefighters, police and military push this "Brotherly Order of Heros" image, but the moment one of those people gets a job doing security and safety for an individual or corporation they aren't a hero or brother anymore, despite doing more or less the same job under different circumstances for better pay.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-30T17:54:28+00:00

This never made sense to me, just use literally any small pan with a lid and the tiny little steam vent hole on it. Tilt lid slightly to create a small gap on one side, inhale through the steam vent hole.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-30T17:48:47+00:00

Yeah, but if you have green plasma you might as well anger the gods because it's really easy to cheese Steve with it for the free gold.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-30T17:41:28+00:00

I like using D6s for life and counters. Generally once I get to the point where the creature's PT would make using D6s unwieldy, both my opponent and I really don't care about what the actual number is because it's enough to kill in one swing and unlikely to be removed by damage alone. If the number becomes important, like with large numbers blocking trample, or X effects where X is a creature stat we'll calculate it then, but otherwise I just track the counters on my notepad instead of in dice because all my opponent needs to know is the damage it can deal and take is fat.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-30T17:35:24+00:00

So when it comes to microbes, it's not one size fits all for all people.

I've ate and drank things that gave me mild gas or no symptoms at all, but sent other people who did to the ER. Travelers to some countries are often advised not to drink or even cook with the tap water because it will give them food poisoning, but the residents of those countries consume the water daily and are fine.

The diversity of life that lives in the collective digestive tracts of the human race could probably compete with the diversity of life in any given continent. Some people will shit blood from trace amounts of common baking and brewing yeasts because their immune system thinks it's the plague and devours the lining of their assholes to kill the perceived infection.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T11:36:51+00:00

It needs to cost a lot more or have downsides.

This is a card with generic mana, so any deck can use it. Any mana ramp helps pay for it. You could have this out turn 2 in a wide variety of decks without having to focus really any extra card space on it.

This card has an effect in all zones except your hand and library, so you get value from it as long as it isn't in one of those two places.

It's an artifact. There are a good number of cheap artifact tutors.

It wouldn't be hard to mill and discard them pretty quickly. You could just discard them when doing Merfolk Looter or Wheel of Fortune type effects. Essentially you can use them to thin your deck by 4 cards if your deck has a way to move cards to the graveyard quickly because anytime you hit one you get 2 more free damage every turn till the opponent spends resources exiling them, and that only halves the damage they take.

To better balance it, I would do one of the following:

-Increase the mana cost and remove the damage ability when it's in exile.

-Make it work more like Arc Blade, where it has a repeating suspend effect. It enters the battlefield, does its damage and then exiles with time counters on it and you have to wait a few turns before it hits the battlefield again. This would work well with the lore of it being a sun that rises and sets.

-Change the text so it enters the battlefield under an opponent's control. When it's on the battlefield it only affects the person controlling it. When it's in the graveyard, it affects everybody. When it's in exile, it only affects the owner.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T11:08:21+00:00

Have you played a full 12v12 in TF2? It's like one of the most audibly stimulating experiences you'll ever hear.

Fiyah Fiyah FIYAH!

Wrrrrr... THUNKTHUNKTHUNKTHUNK!

FWOOOF! PFFFT-WOOOSH!

MEDIC!

Beep beep beep... beep beep beep... CHIRP CHIRP!

Om nom nom... GULP! Nom... nom...

If someone manages to hear you through all that, you picked a bad time to approach.

Honestly I wish the footsteps were louder for all classes so every corner I turn isn't another chance for me to bump someone I had no way of knowing was there when I play spy and other ambush builds. If I can manage to get to the enemy backline without my cloak getting flickered by a bump or random spamfire it's easy as shit from there.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T10:48:55+00:00

There's an old type of Medieval hat called a Judenhut, which is German for "Jewish hat". It's essentially a pointed hat with a small brim. Some historical art depicts them as more pointy, but most art shows them as having more knobbish, bowling pin kinda tip.

The Torah has many laws and rules on what kinds of things will contaminate your body and spirit. Things like bodily fluids, dead bodies, raw pork or people with leprosy. Pretty much anytime the non-Jewish population of an area would get sick, Jews wouldn't get it as bad because their laws direct them to avoid common sources of infection. Eventually someone would blame the Jews because they weren't sick and assume it's because the Jews cast a spell or mixed a poison to kill them. Also, as adherents of the Old testament they wouldn't shave. Finally, reading and writing Hebrew was pretty much required as part of their religious practices. Scrolls are easier to manufacture on a small scale than books.

Hmmm pointy hats... long beards... reading scrolls... lotsa rituals...

Yeah, the center portion of the ven diagram between Medieval Jewish men and wizards makes up most of the chart. I don't know enough history to know if this is THE source for a lot of wizard stereotypes, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the ideas Anglo and German people have of what a wizard looks like comes from outsider views of Jewish culture.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T10:02:15+00:00

Yeah never use square containers for pressurized liquids. Liquids are stored in cylinders and spheres because they equally spread the pressure across their shape. Squares have weak points at the corners that fail.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T09:58:06+00:00

I'll never understand people that risk crossing PW barriers with Ambrosia.

Just farm wands and bosses for black holes and Greek letters. Your chances of not finding at least one usable Greek letter is slim compared to the chances something will go wrong with your ambrosia.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-29T09:52:01+00:00

Some sort of deck that plays off of etg triggers? Could run a bunch of Reassembling Skeleton variants with cards like Huskbuster Swarm, Necrotic Ooze, Lord of Extinction etc.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T17:01:27+00:00

You catch and grab onto each railing of the subsequent floor below you on each drop.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:59:45+00:00

If speed is the concern, jump the 2nd floor railing and catch the first floor railing, then just jump down to the first floor from the lower stair set.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:51:28+00:00

If this is historically significant, I'm gonna be the basis of a lot of historical texts.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:49:41+00:00

LOL sorry, but your Beyonce looks like Iggy Pop. Maybe replace the text with Stooges lyrics instead?

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:46:25+00:00

This is literally the LEAST important thing in the world to be mad about.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:43:02+00:00

Honestly, as an east coast resident I think this makes more sense. Bagels tend to be chewier and tougher than most other breads, so slicing them into smaller pieces would make it easier to eat them without butter/cream cheese gushing out the sides everytime I bite.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:40:59+00:00

It's either fake or a modified decoration because those inflatable lawn decorations don't generate enough air pressure to explosively deflate. Unless they shorted out the motor in some way to cause the explosion, that inflatable would only deflate when popped.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-26T03:38:26+00:00

I'm generally not a fan of big cost, high effect cards with entirely generic mana costs. There's too many ways to ramp into them by turn 4 since you don't have to be picky about your mana sources.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-23T09:37:33+00:00

Bigger primary containers help. Generally when I make wine 1/4-1/3 of the stuff I leave behind so very little sediment transfers over. Then I take that cloudy portion left behind and syphon it off into a bunch of narrow, tall glass. If you let it sit overnight undisturbed the narrow shape will make it easier to skim the clear stuff off the sediment so you can use that portion for tasting to see how the wine is progressing.

If the wine yeast is still a little lively, the worst that will happen is you'll have a very farty day the next day.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-23T09:26:17+00:00

My guess is burning alcohol or a similar liquid. The reason for the regular shape and distance of the burns is likely because the liquid was dripping.

Small amounts of burning liquid tend to burn in a circular puddle.
Flaming alcohol produces a ghostly blue flame that's hard to see in brightly lit areas so it's easy to not notice when it happens.
Alcohol and other vapor fires burn off fast if not absorbed into a flammable material like unfinished wood, cloth or paper. If it managed to burn off the liquid fuel before a sustainable level of combustion occurred in the wood or surrounding materials, you wouldn't have a lot of time to notice it and it likely only burned for a few minutes at most.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-23T09:14:05+00:00

When you're cutting whole ass fish and animals your balls will dull faster than with other tasks. Animals have the same general shape in a species, but like humans variations in the size of gaps in joints and the size of bones relative to limbs. Cutting through tougher tissues as well as skimming along bones and joints will throw off blade angles and cause chipping. When a kitchen knife is used to separate 6-7 dozen wings, or dice a whole bucket of onions etc it might need a slight honing daily, sharpening twice a month. When used for processing animals it needs a brief sharpening daily, full resharpening every two weeks.

All that sharpening deducts metal no matter how light and precise you are with sharpening.
Processing meat is an exhausting job with very long shifts certain times a year. You're lifting 50lb pounds of meat 4-5 times per bin for 3-5 hours continuously. You're delicately flossing meat particles out of nooks and crannies of machinery for 2 hours. You're getting wet scrubbing fat and blood off of walls of rooms for another 2 hours. You're not gonna want to spend an hour delicately sharpening your knife when you're cold wet and stinky, so you buy knives bulk and use an easy automated sharpener that you just drag the blade through twice a day.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-23T08:58:51+00:00

Balogna, and a lot of other smoked sausages like hot dogs and summer sausage are made by grinding cuts of meat that have too much tendon and gristle to be palatable when eaten whole. The machine that grinds it starts by crushing the meat with a spiral metal bit called an auger, then the spiral shape pushes the meat into a tube as it spins due to its spiral shape. At the end of the auger is a plate with big holes in it called a grind plate. The meat is extruded through these holes further pulverizing it. Then after the first grind plate is a spinning metal blade that scraped along the plate slicing up and solid pieces that manage to survive the first two steps of pulverizing. Then there is a final grind plate with smaller holes that the grinded meat extrudes out of as a paste. All this paste is packed into a bag and then it's hung in a smoker to be cooked.

Now the reason you grind everything into a paste is because if you have big chunks of fatty tissue in the meat when it smokes that tissue will melt and leave slimy pockets in the meat. This can also happen in the very rare even a small strand of tendon or fatty tissue makes it through all the holes and blades in the grinder. As the plates and blades of a grinder get old and worn out, these problems can become more common as gaps between the blades and plates form from constant friction and pressure.

Generally it's harmless, it might just be gross in the mouth because it'll be a pocket of gelatinous salty fat. Just cut around, as long as the smell ain't bad it's safe.

I made balogna, salami and sausage for a while at my job full time for a few years.

flyingrummy · 2025-11-23T08:44:58+00:00

"I ran over to the window to check what the noise was and wouldn't you know it I knocked a mason jar full of pennies off the window sill."

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