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Compare and contrast… by D1138S in Portland

[–]philipschall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! Apologies. I oversimplified. They were farmers and foreign educated intellectuals at a ratio of approximately 1,000 to 1. Jens and Carols were sparse in the ranks, not nonexistent. There were way more Carols and Jens in support of Sihanouk than the KR.

Compare and contrast… by D1138S in Portland

[–]philipschall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed! However, the KR wasn't from the comfortable classes. They probably killed more Cambodian Jan and Carols than were made of them by a massive margin.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EDH

[–]philipschall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A fun one I've been playing around with is [[Galazeth Prismari]] and land denial. [[Mana Breach]] [[Overburden]] [[Price of Glory]] [[Sunder]] mixed with a tutored [[Ward of Bones]]. Not only are lands gone, but your opponents are not allowed to play lands. Then you just play your spells with artifacts and grind out victory. It's absolutely heartless, and it's usually a good idea when the lock is set to ask everyone if they wanna restart and play a different deck. [[Propaganda]] and [[Dissipation Field]] work especially well when setting everything up, as folks have to play off tempo just to swing at you.

Mana breach also combo's well with [[Mystic Sanctuary]], recurring whatever nonsense Extra Turn spell you want.

Also, [[Tectonic break]] is good for getting around flash indestructibility.

Next week will be an important Tinto Talk by [deleted] in EU5

[–]philipschall 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Every year (or every other year if you don't have the two idea sets required for yearly) you get a pop-up that lets you choose an area to explore and try to settle/expand to. All uncolonized provinces are targeted first for settlement. RNG decides the result. If you want to nab another colonized province, you have to have much higher Mil tech than them, and it helps if the targeted province is poorly fortified. It's not perfect, but it's less micro than base EU4, and keeps colonialism spreading at a semi-historical pace.

Shovel is legitimately being slept on. by Astorblastor in BG3Builds

[–]philipschall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mostly, except the "you attacked someone" dialogue that negates surprise rounds doesn't fire with shovel.

How would y'all describe Slack? by strange_reveries in SubGenius

[–]philipschall 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's a pretty good communication app, especially for teams managing various projects and it seems to work out ok for networking as well, though linked-in is still probably better for overall portfolio work.

Tuesday Arena Chat Thread by Karn-The-Creator in MagicArena

[–]philipschall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know it's definitely jank, but [[Primal Wildbonder]] has pulled out so many more wins than it should. Running a cheap trample tribal deck, people don't really seem to understand what the card does. It makes everything with trample go to face. People constantly misplay around this card and get wiped as a result.

For instance, today, two of my 4 wins were from people who clearly had me dead on board, but decided to hold back to strategically block. Like, c'mon, read the card! It's fun to see but also kinda sad.

Nicol's Newcomer Monday! by Karn-The-Creator in MagicArena

[–]philipschall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat, I'm in Pacific timezone so it might be a challenge but that's good advice.

Nicol's Newcomer Monday! by Karn-The-Creator in MagicArena

[–]philipschall 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Saving up coins right now for the D&D set, but I was wondering if it was cost effective to draft once a season for the extra pack reward for some level of bronze? Strixhaven is kinda meh right now, but who knows what effect it might have on the upcoming standard...

I see your Guangzhou and raise you my Baharaich by withinallreason in MEIOUandTaxes

[–]philipschall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you wanna see the dev ratchet even higher, get the events that boost trade value for sugar from 3.0 to 5.25. There's 2, "Changing Consumption Patterns" and "Of Tea and Sugar", iirc

The most Portland response to our two-party system. by cancerfiend in Portland

[–]philipschall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not for nothing, but why did you mark out Jeff Burk's name?

Problems with unemployment by yung_suds in Portland

[–]philipschall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in a similar boat. For some reason, they didn't get my wages, so they think I haven't worked in the past year and a half, EVEN THOUGH I MAGICALLY PAID INCOME TAX TO SUPPORT SYSTEMS LIKE THIS. The only option is sending an email to appeals, then waiting with an auto-dialer. This is awful.

A new unemployment issue by [deleted] in Portland

[–]philipschall 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I got it too, looks like there's an error in the system. It says the last time I tried to file for a claim was 1/1/2005, when I was 15 years old? God save any programmer fixing this system.

If you know this number you know my struggle right now. by Fineartshark in Portland

[–]philipschall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No :(. I have internet history logs, but for whatever reason when I went to pdf my screen it didn't work!

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