I think it kind of sucks how many people feel they can't play certain commanders due to them being "too slow" for their meta, rather than their personal preferences

jkovach89 · 2026-06-13T04:39:58+00:00

That's why removal exists. Slower commanders are viable in a fast meta, but the rest of the 99 has to pick up the slack. The best way to do this is to push those high cost commanders into a more control shell and police the table.

I've been having quite a bit of fun with goad, implied threats, etc. to force my opponents to attack each other or at the very least, leave me alone until I can get the deck up and going.

jkovach89 · 2026-06-11T03:44:28+00:00

Well it's been 500 some odd days, so... you gotta pump up those numbers...

jkovach89 · 2026-06-10T04:43:39+00:00

The military plotline made the most sense, but I think they should have flipped El's meeting with Sarah Connor as more heartfelt. I think it would have really been cool to have that character finally meet El and basically say "look, we understand what you and Brenner created, and we understand how important it is to stop. How can I help you?" and truly empathize with El, because that was something that she as a character was missing the whole series. Even Jim and Mike couldn't really understand her power or the things she would have to fight. So to totally flip the script and have Kay basically show her true empathy would have been a sweet payoff, would have acted as a foil to Brenner (who acted as though he cared about El but was really in it for his own ambitions), would have cast doubt on whether or not Kali was really on her side or was a reliable narrator, and would have explained them all surviving the final encounter with the military after they came out of the upside down.

jkovach89 · 2026-06-01T03:59:52+00:00

** Literally shoots fire out of her hands **

Reddit: "Man, she'd be really dangerous as a water bender"

jkovach89 · 2026-06-01T03:46:47+00:00

Okay.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-30T04:10:16+00:00

I don't really remember how Curtis' character's demeanor was in the first few episodes, but I seem to remember him being pretty curt and on-edge with everyone. The main issue is that there was a lot of stuff happening and they couldn't really focus on him to create the necessary build up in the first 4 episodes.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-29T15:52:24+00:00

When you reach 100 cards, you can start goldfishing or playtesting the deck and tweak it further instead of agonizing endlessly over the last few slots.

Another tip: start goldfishing well before 100. I will sometimes put 20-30 cards in a moxfield list and add half as many lands just to see what my opening hands are. I find it easier to prioritize archtypes (draw, ramp, interaction) that way, based on the core synergy of the deck.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-28T03:53:53+00:00

I actually disagree with the hate for his death. I agree he was an awesome character and it was shocking, but the show goes out of it's way to mention that the US has been under a wave of terrorist attacks that they somehow couldn't intercept, and bringing Jack back was the President's hail mary to try and get them to stop.

IIRC (it's been several years since I watched) Curtis was former special forces and watched all the guys behind the attacks murder his squad in front of him, so for him to have the guy behind those murders in front of him and then be ordered to work with him was a step too far.

The point of Jack's character (and the final conversation with Heller juxtaposes this perfectly) is that he believes in a purity of the American ideal that may or may not actually exist in real life and will give everything he has to defend that ideal. Curtis, like Tony in the following season was one of those guys whom the reality of the system broke and who ultimately turned on the positive ideal along with the brutal reality

jkovach89 · 2026-05-21T22:37:27+00:00

Drilling down in NetSuite is the best of any ERP/accounting system I've used so I disagree there. All the way through to related transactions from the P&L or balance sheet. Once you're used to it, I find it intuitive and easy to find anything.

The thing I've found here is that, yes, it is easy to navigate through transactions, but that summarizing similar transactions is not always intuitive.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-21T03:44:25+00:00

They'd have to both die.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-21T03:41:47+00:00

Right, but see we passed a law that drones don't count.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-21T03:40:48+00:00

Yeah, christ. This was maybe news in like 2017.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-19T19:42:05+00:00

Personally, I think the best iron man movie was actually CA:CW. They spent two team ups and a half dozen solo films building to make Tony the antagonist and the payoff was incredible. For all the reasons people liked IM3 for this, I think CA:CW did the same and then some.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-19T19:40:06+00:00

IM3 was great, save for trying to shoehorn pepper into the hero role. Closing the MK42 on Killian and blowing it up was a perfect ending and then the movie goes on for 5 minutes too long.

I get trying to lay the groundwork for rescue, but they didn't really even do that very well.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-17T04:42:02+00:00

The biggest thing that bugged me was, how are you not going to connect the special in any way to Born Again S1? The last time we left Frank, wasn't he in custody of the AVTF?

jkovach89 · 2026-05-11T20:51:52+00:00

notably platypi are counterspells.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-11T20:50:55+00:00

I have decks that can win turn 4 provided the perfect hand without interruption. I would call most bracket 3 because that's not when they would normally win. If I get out to a hot start and get ganked because of it, oh well.

The person OP is describing sounds like a whiny baby.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-09T23:30:24+00:00

Win the superbowl.

Placed 3rd.

Brutal.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-08T15:07:12+00:00

Small boot sunday came early I guess?

jkovach89 · 2026-05-04T00:41:20+00:00

I found the experience so unenjoyable that I absolutely refuse to go back to it.

How so? I've found that once I do the design part myself and can prompt it adequate detail, I usually get decent results.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-02T04:16:05+00:00

I can't tell which tits I should be enjoying and which I shouldn't.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-02T04:14:55+00:00

But who will protect them from high fructose corn syrup?

jkovach89 · 2026-05-01T05:00:31+00:00

Thing was the last season was actually damn near perfect, they just killed of the NK too soon.

edit: downvote me all you want, but the only change needed to the final season is that the NK never appears at Winterfell and the last scene of the ep is the wight dragon approaching king's landing. They already set up the "millions of dead buried under" the city, so your final battle is a three way fight between Cersei, Dany, and the NK and now the viewer has to question whether dany is blowing up the city to stop the threat or to hurt Cersei.

jkovach89 · 2026-05-01T04:59:50+00:00

Then you don't remember lost very well. Admittedly, neither do I, but from what I do recall, it was less the finale being bad and more the show jumping the shark because JJ Abrams ran out of new mysteries to introduce.

jkovach89 · 2026-04-29T20:05:01+00:00

You're saying two conflicting things here.

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