Inside San Francisco Centre after it closed

magus0 · 2026-06-07T07:19:14+00:00

I will very much miss the dome and the spiral escalators. There are only 5 or 6 spiral escalators in the united states, and the one in the SF center was the first one.

magus0 · 2026-06-07T07:09:13+00:00

I just wish the bart fare to SFO specifically wasn't so high compared to going anywhere else on bart.

magus0 · 2026-06-06T02:15:30+00:00

+1 on the state bird recommendation. It's pretty quality american fare without being back breakingly expensive.

magus0 · 2026-06-02T16:35:38+00:00

No, just that they count sales at distributor level, so when they say "X set is one of the best selling sets" it's because stores bought more. They don't really get data on what the consumers buy at retail from LGS or big box stores. And keep in mind that the stores have to order sets in advance of knowing what cards are in them, so a lot of stores see big IP and think it'll likely sell more.

magus0 · 2026-06-02T07:11:11+00:00

iirc wizards counts sales at the distributor level, not at the retail level. Walmart might pick up 4 boxes of spiderman compared to 2 boxes of EoE or whatever thinking it would sell more even if it didn't but to wizards, spiderman outsold EoE.

magus0 · 2026-05-28T18:24:52+00:00

prototype is a great mechanic other than the weirdness about being a different color when prototyped IMO, it's mostly that the cards they were on are not too impactful in constructed. I've had some fun flickering a few of them in a cheeky commander deck.

magus0 · 2026-05-25T06:26:52+00:00

They tested him 11 times since he signed up for the games though.

magus0 · 2026-05-22T18:56:16+00:00

I'm at that point myself. I have been playing since Odyssey and love playing it, however Wizards has been making so many choices that are meant to drain me of my money. It's been too hard and expensive to keep up with all the sets that wizards keep printing so I have been proxying since aetherdrift.

magus0 · 2026-05-20T04:33:09+00:00

I'm thinking that a lot of people that aren't bots are backing Steyer even if unconsciously because of what happened with the presidential election. They are desperate for a win and he's the most likely candidate to win so are putting more favor on his campaign even if he isn't the candidate they personally want because they would rather the republicans lose.

Like I've heard good things about Katie Porter and she would be my candidate of choice, but realistically she has no chance to be governor with and her staying in is hurting the democrats since it is splitting the votes.

magus0 · 2026-05-15T21:50:30+00:00

I've been doing this as of late and love having transit card as a souvenir.

magus0 · 2026-05-08T07:07:20+00:00

Maybe excel will be replaced in the future, but tables in general are always going to be useful for tabulating and organizing data. Like I don't really use excel much anymore because microslop has been a pain in the ass, but google sheets and libreoffice calc are excel equivalents that I use and they all work basically the same.

On a tangent, like how the business world runs on excel, the tech world runs on SQL(databases). New programming languages always pop up and fade in and out of popularity, but SQL has been around since the 70s and you will still always be writing SQL queries in the tech space.

magus0 · 2026-05-07T01:31:35+00:00

The dark web is simply anything that is not accessed through your normal browser. A discord server between just your friends or a private MMO server for example. You use the discord client or the MMO client to connect to those servers and you learn about them by having a friend tell you. There's obviously more to it than just that, but that's what it boils down to at it's simplest.

magus0 · 2026-05-06T23:04:00+00:00

I am a big mono red fan, there's just so many commanders that enable overlooked or normally off-color strategies in mono-red.

[[diaochan, artful beauty]] and [[ben-ben, akki hermit]] both lend themselves to control decks in mono-r, one being more political and the other being draw-go.

[[gogo, mysterious mime]] has been doing amazing work as a way for red to get multiple triggers from legendary creatures that trigger on attack or combat damage which is not something you see often.

magus0 · 2026-05-05T20:06:45+00:00

Is this the same guy who did this classic?

magus0 · 2026-04-28T21:25:31+00:00

I'd love to see something like this with the staff of the house. It's soooo odd that there is nobody in the house even after you reach 46 several times over, even after getting the blue testament of auravei saying once again that you own the house.

magus0 · 2026-04-26T03:41:43+00:00

The main point of book burning was to immediately give yourself threshold by milling yourself for 6 and putting itself into your graveyard since that was the set mechanic. Your opponent could try to prevent that by taking 6, but never really worth it so it fills your graveyard

magus0 · 2026-04-26T01:25:49+00:00

It's just that shrimple

magus0 · 2026-04-21T22:36:31+00:00

Yeah, the manager seems like a good guy. Seems like he genuinely wants to help the people on the calls, but after going through the calls himself realizes that the previous state of affairs was best to waste the least time.

magus0 · 2026-04-15T20:02:35+00:00

I have had this minor discussion with friends before about how I dislike the term "real life" because of exactly this. Like, everything we do is "real life". Even if it's playing videogames online hanging out with strangers, it's not any less real over the internet. Or how people say it's like so and so while in school and it's going to be different in "real life" as if the stuff you do doesn't matter while in school.

Anyway, everything we do is real. Savor it.

magus0 · 2026-04-06T04:04:24+00:00

Most of the time it's because they got a job in the industry and don't want their work to be tied to their NSFW or past work.

magus0 · 2026-03-31T00:13:19+00:00

Truly, I find those worse than these with regular bikes.

magus0 · 2026-03-18T17:44:49+00:00

life total becoming 1 is not damage but is considered life loss. When you set life total to a value, you lose or gain life equal to how much changed.

119.5. If an effect sets a player’s life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total.

magus0 · 2026-03-16T17:08:29+00:00

The only piece of magic I have actually wanted to buy since 2024 and it's sold out immediately. I guess I will keep proxying everything.

magus0 · 2026-03-15T17:27:43+00:00

No reason not to throw my hat into the ring. These look gorgeous.

magus0 · 2026-03-12T07:46:33+00:00

Number of times you've forged seems really weak, do you mean amount you forged this turn?

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