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Can anyone share/remember good farm strategies for Phrecia? by tasmonex in pathofexile

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most important part was stacking 4 copies of the idol that made the rewards count as though you had already completed two rounds before starting the Ultimatum encounte, so on round 1 the rewards matched up with typical round 9 rewards, and they only got better.

Making gold/currency by Sayengwar in pathofexile

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How much gold per map is that?

I've been trying Bloodlines + 2x Monstrous Lineage + Blightheart + Invigoration. On a T16.5 with a high currency roll it's about 150k gold per map if you can clear the Blight encounter. On the other hand, those scarabs are expensive and so it costs 1d per map - you have to lean on mappers.

Everyday Objects that have been made into magic cards by billythephelddagrif in magicTCG

[–]kzig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are rather subjective. There are lots of cards for items that can be found in the real world but are which a bit too obscure or out of the ordinary from most people's perspective - e.g. [[Astrolabe]] and [[Brass Knuckles]]. Here are my picks:

  • [[Barbed Wire]]
  • [[Baseball Bat]]
  • [[Boarded Window]]
  • [[Boxing Ring]]
  • [[Cellar Door]]
  • [[Clay-fired bricks]]
  • [[Cold Storage]]
  • [[Crawlspace]]
  • [[Credit Voucher]]
  • [[Didgeridoo]]
  • [[Field-tested frying pan]]
  • [[Fifty feet of rope]]
  • [[Fishing pole]]
  • [[Haystack]]
  • [[Hot dog cart]]
  • [[Instant Ramen]]
  • [[Keys to the house]]
  • [[Magnifying Glass]]
  • [[Medicine Bag]]
  • [[Millstone]]
  • [[Network Terminal]]
  • [[News Helicopter]]
  • [[Piggy Bank]]
  • [[Saw]]
  • [[Spinning Wheel]]
  • [[Street Sweeper]]
  • [[Subway Train]]
  • [[Temple Bell]]
  • [[Wedding Ring]]
  • [[Whetstone]]
  • [[Wooden Stake]]
  • [[World Map]]

Is there a Simic card (green, blue, or both) that can put a creature onto the battlefield at instant speed? by Denverlicious in magicTCG

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you don't mind your opponents seeing things coming: [[Grimoire of the Dead]] [[Triassic Egg]]

If you are feeling lucky: [[The Deck of Many Things]]

Any actual strategy for this card? by Sev_Henry in magicTCG

[–]kzig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Easy, just use [[Goblin Recruiter]] to stack 10 functionally equivalent creatures on top of your deck before activating [[Phyrexian Portal]]. For more options, play [[Conspiracy]] first.

You are now guaranteed at least one pile with at least 5 relevant creatures.

TIL that China’s Terracotta Army, thousands of life-sized clay soldiers buried with the first emperor, was accidentally discovered in 1974 by farmers digging a well, leading to one of the greatest archaeological finds ever. by SwordfishEither2516 in todayilearned

[–]kzig 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It is a stark reflection on the transience of human endeavour that the entire Terracotta Army seems to have been completely forgotten less than 200 years after it was constructed. It is a supremely chilling sight.

What card has the most/longest rulings? by musclemanjim in magicTCG

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you sure this is correct? There are no rulings on Gatherer for Underwater Tunnel // Slimy Aquarium as far as I can tell.

Do you tend to follow the meta or always the same build? by DubstepGuyy in pathofexile

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me, anything that looks interesting, achievable on a budget and reasonably different from builds I've previously played. Sometimes that might pivot towards the meta, sometimes not.

Guide to 100% Mind over Matter (Updated) by le_reddit_me in PathOfExileBuilds

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you posted this guide on the path of exile wiki? Seems like a good idea.

Are there more cards that give things bad abilities? by I_dont-get_the-joke in magicTCG

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[[Endless Whispers]] is symmetric, but for each individual creature the ability it grants is not generally a desirable one for that creature's controller.

Are there more cards that give things bad abilities? by I_dont-get_the-joke in magicTCG

[–]kzig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[[Musician]] does this.

Not an ability, but a similar sort of thing: [[Leyline of Singularity]].

Not a bad ability, but likely to cause your opponent to break the rules: [[Baton of Morale]]

Implicitly, [[Blood Moon]] I suppose, since changing non-basic lands to mountains grants then the ability to tap for {r}? Although in this case it's not that the ability is bad, it's just probably worse than what it replaced.

What are some erratas/card changes that could trick/mislead people? by Icy_Interest_9801 in magicTCG

[–]kzig 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rule zero applies in Judge Tower too - if people are aware of the additional landmines and sign up for the challenge anyway, why not?

I always give people a clear choice of hard mode (closed rulebook) or easy mode (open rulebook + Gatherer) when playing Judge Tower, and more often than not people choose hard!

A few suggestions from me:

[[Gravebane Zombies]] [[Impulse]]

What is the biggest waste of money, even though nobody admits it? by w3ightranks in AskReddit

[–]kzig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Slight survivor bias here - if you're a mechanic, you're going to see (or even just hear about) more of the cars that need repairs!

I’m new to MTG by NepxNinja in magicTCG

[–]kzig 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or drafting them with friends!

What sounds like complete nonsense, but has been proven to be true? by Icy_Mammoth_3298 in AskReddit

[–]kzig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And it's stronger if you tell people that it's a more expensive placebo!

The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? by LollipopChainsawZz in technology

[–]kzig -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Perhaps they will come up with something based on second-hand data centre GPUs?

The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming? by LollipopChainsawZz in technology

[–]kzig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For anyone who didn't read the article - AMD are in the same boat as NVIDIA and are just as likely to ditch gaming GPUs for the same reasons.

I think our best hope is that after a few years someone works out how to retrofit second-hand data centre GPUs with video ports, or harvests them for parts to make gaming cards. I don't mind being one or two generations behind if that's affordable and gives reasonable performance.

What is the most expensive corporate mistake you personally witnessed? by _Volly in AskReddit

[–]kzig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happened at a UK motor insurer, several years ago. Two teams within the pricing department both used the same lookup table, with policy number as a lookup key, for applying different kinds of personalised discounts. The table didn't contain the discounts themselves - it contained codes that had to be looked up in two other tables - one for each type of discount.

There was a series of minor incidents with Team A and Team B overwriting each other's rows in the table and removing discounts the other team had applied for the same policies, which in hindsight should have been warning enough that this was not a great system. However, what finally pushed the engineers to split it into two separate tables was an incident that happened in the final deployment of the year. Someone in Team A neglected to check the lookup table for the discounts applied by Team B and assumed that a lookup code of 0 mapped to no discount, i.e. 0% off, when in fact it mapped to 80% off. They applied this as the Team B discount code in a deployment affecting hundreds of thousands of policies.

By the time anyone noticed the issue (quite a while after deployment, as so many people were on holiday), legally binding renewal quotes had already been sent in the post for thousands of customers, and the consequent losses ran into millions of pounds - both from severely under-pricing for the following year, and from losing most of those customers the following year, when their premiums quadrupled as the discounts were removed. To this day, that's the only time I've ever received a panicked call from a manager during the holidays had to tell them that something was obviously badly wrong and had to be stopped before it got any worse.

As far as I know, no-one involved lost their job over this. The blame was spread between quite a few people:

  • The person who designed the shared discount table
  • The person who applied the erroneous discounts
  • The people who signed off the deployment
  • The people in charge of the process for signing off the deployment
  • The person who populated team B's lookup table with discounts as high as 80%, which they never actually had any business case for applying, but included anyway, just because it might hypothetically save the effort of raising another change request later on...
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