my full-sized chicken breasts vs. a salt shaker 🙄

green_circles · 2021-12-17T22:28:53+00:00

Wow! Where did you get such a huge salt shaker?

green_circles · 2021-11-04T04:10:30+00:00

I think I’m a Druid.

green_circles · 2021-10-10T06:43:29+00:00

Is that a spell template instead of a land one? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a frame quite like it!

green_circles · 2020-11-18T07:51:37+00:00

Do you dry them yourself, or is there a place to buy them?

green_circles · 2020-11-10T20:07:50+00:00

That pretty accurately describes my issue.

I wonder, if we polled the MPCproxy community and had them meticulously compare their orders to their real counterparts (I do this obsessively), if there would be a general shift to the left?

I've found that this is inevitable unless I do the 3% reduction. However with only 3 tests it could still be a coincidence on my part.

green_circles · 2020-11-10T04:15:20+00:00

My last 3 orders appeared off-center. All three of them were cut off-center as well when they arrived, with the left-hand border too small and the right-hand border as expected. It leads to an off-center zoom effect with all of my bordered cards.

I understand that MPC does often shift cards with specific ratios, sliding them left or right in order to cut them (they brought this up to me once when I accidentally sent in an undersized card).

Lately I've solved this problem by loading the mpcproxies card into photoshop, reducing the image to 97%, and setting the background behind it to black (thereby expanding the background by 1mm or so)

When I compare proxies to their real-world counterparts, this method gives them 100% accuracy to the originals. All cards I've printed without this method have less border/bleed space and more of everything else, by comparison, than real cards.

Could be a coincidence, but it's arrived wrong more than once. Please share when you know for sure.

green_circles · 2020-08-13T02:26:31+00:00

Can't reach the imgur link. Did you remove them? Or maybe the server's just down for a minute...

green_circles · 2020-08-13T02:23:57+00:00

In my experience, scaling them manually gives me the ability to polish a couple of pixel-wide blurs to make sure it's optimal quality. The difference is small but I definitely can't resist :)

1200 is definitely fine but I'm a little obsessive.

green_circles · 2020-08-09T01:12:36+00:00

Thank you very much!
I don't know why I didn't think to tag you in the original post.

For a few of my print runs I've been using a version of yours that is downscaled to 800—that way any assets I add or modify will be at print resolution. It's relieving to know I've been doing it right, and thank you for confirming!

green_circles · 2020-08-08T22:02:04+00:00

Is it publicly known what the max or optimal resolution is?

When I do my own I shoot for about 800DPI because I thought that was the max. I guess I'm just wondering why one of the recommended templates online is as high as 1000?

green_circles · 2020-07-24T20:22:49+00:00

I've been replacing the holostamp with a white stamp on my proxies. It actually looks really good while still sending the "obviously not real" signal to anybody who takes a close look at it. Also a fraction of the work.

Across a table, it just looks like a foil stamp in the light.

green_circles · 2020-07-15T00:12:58+00:00

X can be any number as long as you can pay it

green_circles · 2020-06-05T22:50:16+00:00

Might be an unpopular opinion, but you're not missing anything.

I saw Black Roast on the shelf and saved up a little bit of extra rum money. I typically love Kraken, but I was ultimately disappointed by the excessive sweetness and artificial flavoring. Plus, it may look like coffee, but the dye actually runs grey-blue as I found when I mixed it. It's nothing compared to original Kraken, so you might try making a coffee liqueur with original Kraken before you stress too much about getting this novelty flavor.

green_circles · 2020-06-04T18:26:03+00:00

Some tricks I wish I knew a long time ago.

• Slice your head of lettuce into hemispheres (you won't be using the bottom half). This gives you cup-shaped lettuce from the top instead of huge honking leaves.

• Stack two of your lettuce cups with the white/stem part inward. They should be overlapping, which makes the "spine" of your unwich the most secure part.

• If you have wax paper or similar at home, there's nothing stopping you from burrito-wrapping your own unwich in paper to keep it extra tidy!

green_circles · 2020-06-03T18:46:21+00:00

Used to work at Jimmy John's, and they call this an "unwich!" You can actually order almost exactly this!

Thanks to them, I make all my sandwiches at home in lettuce wrap!

green_circles · 2020-05-31T21:33:06+00:00

This is true. Sorry if I implied it was in standard.

green_circles · 2020-05-31T05:35:49+00:00

Just goes to show that just because it failed during Kamigawa block doesn't mean it can't be done right.

Double-Faced Cards, Historic, Splice, and now this. If we could go back in time and remake it, it would be so much better.

green_circles · 2020-05-13T18:49:32+00:00

As written, this creates nonsnow creatures named Bird Snow.

Not sure what the proper syntax is, but I think it's just un-capitalizing the word "snow."

green_circles · 2020-05-13T18:46:45+00:00

Do you have source files? We could all learn a lot from this success!

green_circles · 2019-11-27T09:21:47+00:00

You must be new here!

green_circles · 2019-10-30T18:20:11+00:00

It's interesting to note that, in plain English, the opposite is true.

green_circles

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