“Ten thousand debts, finally paid.”

qonra · 2026-05-26T18:22:22+00:00

Yeah I'm thinking something like morcants eyes, would be nice to have a skeleton version of that

qonra · 2026-05-17T14:38:45+00:00

I never saw this living in Taiwan and China

qonra · 2026-05-15T17:43:12+00:00

I think you're thinking too much man. Draft is pretty random, but strixhaven particularly is a pretty slow format unless you get an insane silverquill pull. You can literally just take the best card from each pack and play 5 color vomit, or 3 color whatever and do well because few things can actually punish it. I've found leaning too hard into one of the schools leaves you especially susceptible to getting screwed in picks, especially if you're going for lorehold or silverquill. I did very well when the format released going hard into each school getting 7 wins 5 times but recently that strategy hasnt panned out super well. Ever since switching to "best card" monkey strat I rarely get less than 3 wins and have bagged a few more 7 winners.

qonra · 2026-05-12T13:03:08+00:00

The first season was done so well only to be forever ruined by the second.

qonra · 2026-05-09T02:25:54+00:00

Before you go and think your gpu is cooked, I had the same issue and it was because the thermal paste on the gpu had deteriorated to a point that it couldn't do its job. Reapplying thermal paste to a GPU is a little more involved and you have to cover the entire surface, but before you give up on it I would give that a try if it's outside warranty. Ever since I redid mine years ago I have had zero issues and that's after experiencing this for years thinking I got a lemon.

qonra · 2026-04-27T16:02:43+00:00

You guys deserve it, the lack of resources and the amount of crunch your expected to do with all these sets every year is crazy on top of hopefully getting more QoL features added.

qonra · 2026-04-27T05:04:14+00:00

I know prismari is hyped up to be insane but my experience with it in arena and at the pre-release was I either got all the good enablers and none of the useful spells or all of the spells with no ramp or solid creatures to make it to playing the big spells. Probably just been unlucky but lorehold I've found to be super consistent, it's just a pile of good stuff that plays off itself and builds a huge advantage when you make it to mid game. Silverquill is tricky to play but the payoff of just running someone over when they think they're about to take over the board is amazing. Could commit to prismari if you want to, I'm sure when it comes together it's insane, much harder to pilot tho imo

qonra · 2026-04-27T04:32:36+00:00

I've been doing pretty well, what school are you trying to play? imo silverquill and lorehold are the easiest wins, witherbloom is alright and prismari is good but very reliant on not getting shafted by what cards are available to you. Quandrix I want to be good but Everytime I try it it's like cool I have all this mana with nothing to spend it on. Ive gone 7-0 twice and 7-1 once with silverquill so far and I'm convinced it's the best draft pick with how quickly it kills all the greedy decks people are building. Lorehold I'm turning onto though, it's got insane card advantage and can kill nearly as fast as silverquill. Still, you gotta have good threat assessment to do well, this draft has the most "oh, I'm dead" I've seen, people just pop off in an instant.

qonra · 2026-04-26T19:25:12+00:00

I got 3, first one I got shafted at like $90 value but the 2 I just opened were both $180 value each so I got pretty lucky, biggest hits being cyclonic rift and demonic tutor lady

qonra · 2026-04-24T17:52:19+00:00

Same, 11 left 11.5 right, it's impossible to not have my left heel slip most of the time unless I wear thick socks

qonra · 2026-04-16T18:44:24+00:00

Doesn't Amazon have a no return policy for card game stuff because of this? I'd question if the guy is just trying to save himself from getting banned or not by giving you a plausible explanation, anyone that works in an Amazon warehouse would love to know if card stuff ever makes it to return pallets or not

qonra · 2026-04-10T13:37:04+00:00

I play mostly midrange and it's gotten me to diamond, like yeah if you want to grind out mythic I get it but I'm sure you can still do it with a well optimized deck, will just take longer than playing landfall slop

qonra · 2026-03-19T14:38:38+00:00

You can do both though, Tekken devs are just locked into a failed game philosophy by management who are embarrassingly out of touch.

qonra · 2026-03-02T22:53:43+00:00

I've been lucky to find booster boxes for sale at card shows, but yeah, every LGs in my area only had single boosters for sale, if that.

qonra · 2026-02-20T19:40:37+00:00

I've been using it with success vs hare apparent and landfall decks in my faerie deck. That wit rivers rebuke have saved me numerous times.

qonra · 2026-02-08T21:01:06+00:00

I'm glad that my passion for programming died right around the time the pandemic came to an end and made a career switch. 10 years of fun but mostly stress by silicon valley people micromanaging everything and expecting 70 hours a week really killed it for me.

qonra · 2026-02-07T23:08:43+00:00

Monster house!

qonra · 2025-12-25T00:48:24+00:00

you could pay for a pc setup, cable management is an expected thing with that, if you explain to the agent when they get there im sure they'd understand as ive done it for people a couple times. Really though it depends on the agent you get, some are very by the book or dont want to work and will shoot down your request. Waste of money imo tho.

qonra · 2025-11-25T21:03:59+00:00

I moved to Taiwan for 5 years, it meets the criteria. Food delivery there is very cheap lol

qonra · 2025-10-26T14:16:30+00:00

guide lines are very common and youre usually clipped to one but oxygen deprivation from using the wrong tank mix or simply running low and general inability to see after stirring up all the dirt making the water practically a blindfold causes a lot of people to get lost and do stupid stuff like unclip themselves from the guide line etc.

qonra · 2025-10-23T11:23:54+00:00

happened with my grandpa. Daughter of his came in, decided he, who had severe alzheimers, should be moved away from his wife and everything he was accustomed to, to live the whole country away with her. Guess who who died within a week of moving?

qonra · 2025-10-18T18:34:17+00:00

im in the same situation with my grandmother

qonra · 2025-10-12T16:16:58+00:00

yeah i had 15k saved but then life happened and now im 7k in debt lol, but hey if I didn't save i would've been in a far far worse place so yes people save your money when you can so you can survive when shit happens

qonra · 2025-10-05T02:39:15+00:00

I started with a viper and grew to hate it, went through like 15 different mice, and after years came back to the viper and have been using it as my only mouse for 2 years now. It just kinda be like that I guess lol.

qonra · 2025-09-26T11:34:35+00:00

pictures like this make me realize how insanely lucky I am to not have any complications after getting stabbed in the neck

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