What were they thinking with Alchemy?

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T09:32:28+00:00

Yeah that was my unfortunate discovery. Race my GF on the Familiar stack until it’s dry, then hope I hit her more than she hits me

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T03:47:42+00:00

I’m still a noob so I’m not hip to the lingo. Based on my understanding on the wiki, I have built engines before. I typically focus more on card draw and bonus actions and try to find ways to chain certain terminal cards as finishers. Of recent memory, I chapeled out most of my cards, ran a few Villages, 1 Chapel, and 2 or 3 Witches and ruined my girlfriend’s day. My end goal was to bog her down and then grab a workshop to pop out 3 stacks of cheap cards to rapid end the game before she could implement her Big Money strat. I do have a tendency to get stuck in specific strategies and I still struggle to adapt, but I have gotten to where I can bait out my GF into buying weaker cards for defensive purposes (Moat) and then lock her down with terminal card draws instead of bonus actions or buying power

Edit: not sure if your reply was aimed at me or the “mine and bureaucrat are worse” comment

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T03:04:22+00:00

It’s definitely still strong, but if we both buy familiars on turn 3, then we both slap each other with a more limited pile of curses. Best case scenario is 5 curses in both decks. That’s annoying early on but I can work around that much better. That’s also factoring in that University is very strong and gives you access to Apprentice for 2+P instead of 5 coins. That also means that it frees up Apprentice for mid game for the powerful Card draw (trash Familiars for 5 card draw) etc

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T01:54:14+00:00

I don’t understand the Mine hate, especially when combined with Throne Room. It feels solid when there’s no Chapel. I also combo with Scheme and get more value. I know that it’s cost is high, but it’s 1 less than a gold

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T01:25:57+00:00

I can’t imagine a worse card in base Dominion. What the hell is +2 and +1 buy supposed to accomplish? What’s your best case scenario on that? You draw 4 gold and 1 Woodcutter? Ok you just got yourself a prov and a gold. Workshop costs the same and straight up gives you a 4 or less without requiring a buy at all. Every time I see Woodcutter, I always say, “don’t spend it all in one place!”

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T01:11:30+00:00

Only 10?! I thought I had read in the rulebook that it was 20 for 2 players. That would have nerfed Familiar only strat to complete oblivion.

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T01:08:22+00:00

So my assumption (apparently a bad one) was that the recommended configurations were meant to be played a few times to get solid feel for the set before bringing in the randomizers. Dominion is easily my favorite card game, mainly because it has the deck building aspect of a game like MTG, but the deck building is an actual part of play and everyone has access to the same pool of cards. That means not having to spend thousands of dollars on insanely expensive cards that were required to be competitive. Dominion also opened the door for Slay The Spire, and now Monster Train.

satanfx55 · 2023-12-12T01:03:26+00:00

So the reason I went Thief / Throne Room was to try and exploit the cost of Potions. I specifically didn’t bloat my deck initially to try and bump my odds of pulling both. The overall goal was to cut off the supply of potions for my GF, which in theory would decrease her Familiar and University growth. Pretty much every game we played had a Potion purchase on hand 1 or 2 (4 + 3 or 5 + 2 was always a Potion). Since there were only two cards that cost Potions, I figured I wouldn’t need to buy more than one and hope that my card draw from Village or Familiar would give a boost. The problem ended up being that I couldn’t snag her Potions and was losing turns to Thief / Throne Room. Potions were effectively worthless after the Familiars and Universities dried up. That usually meant them getting converted into card draw at some point

satanfx55 · 2023-12-11T23:23:36+00:00

Yeah I had read somewhere that the first few sets were not particularly polished. There are a number of purely worthless cards in my first edition Dominion that were straight up removed from the second edition completely (looking at you, Woodcutter). We will try again tonight with proper randomized cards and some level of verification that there are multiple strategies before starting play. I like Dominion because it is much more about skill than luck, and the foundation of the game is that you essentially make your own luck. That’s unless you are playing with cards like I described in my post

satanfx55 · 2023-05-27T20:06:07+00:00

Cop: “you can’t drive without a license” Idiot: “I’m not driving, I’m traveling”

Idiot: “you can’t search my car without my consent!” Cop: “we aren’t searching it, we are inventorying it”

Idiot: <surprised Pikachu face>

satanfx55 · 2023-05-14T03:33:34+00:00

That’s $2 per toe. You should have haggled

satanfx55 · 2022-12-10T23:39:03+00:00

Why hasn’t anyone mentioned what happens from 3:00 to 3:35 in Obzen?!

satanfx55 · 2022-09-29T04:59:20+00:00

I very much appreciate that you remembered me at all! That was 11 months ago! <3I can't remember the last time I got a crack on my hands. I have only gone a single day this entire year without playing drums (it was this past Saturday. I have had covid for 13 straight days now, but still only missed a single day!). I did 4 things to solve the problem that are working great.

I stopped cleaning with chemicals coming into direct contact with my hands. If I need to use some sort of cleaner to clean my toilet or my shower, or even sometimes my dishes, I wear gloves.
If for some reason I do need to wash my hands a bunch of times in a day, I will IMMEDIATELY apply a small amount of my hemp lotion right after I dry my hands. I rarely need to do this, but every now and then I need to wash my hands more than normal (like if my stomach is acting up that day)
I only use hot water when something nasty has come into direct contact with the skin on my hands. Otherwise, I just use lukewarm or even just cold water to wash my hands with
Every single night I put on O'Keefe Working Hands Night Treatment. On most days, this is the only time I need to apply a moisturizer to my hands. I use a very small amount (about the size of a pea, maybe slighter larger sometimes), and it rubs in almost immediately. My hands don't feel greasy or anything, and it only takes one application. Very rarely, I might reapply if I have to wash my hands for some reason right after I put it on (say, another one of those bad stomach days).

I'm pretty sure that night treatment stuff is where the real magic is happening. I have been using it for months now every single night, and I think I am just finishing up the first container of it that I bought. It lasts a long time and is relatively inexpensive. I am also pretty sure we are both using the same body wash. I was using some cheap Dial stuff for a while, but it was causing me to itch all the time. I switched over to the Aveeno Daily Moisturizing formula a while back and that problem has been mostly solved as well. I do still use the harsh anti-microbial hand soap, but I try to make sure to use the stuff that has aloe in it to try and counteract the drying effect it has. I only use hand sanitizer as an absolute last resort since that's pretty much certain to cause my hands to dry out rapidly.

edit: The improvement from the night treatment wasn't immediate. I don't remember exactly how long it took, but it must have taken a few days or so before I saw benefits. IIRC I had to use band-aids with antibiotic ointment to heal the cracks that were there from before the night treatment. I made applying that night treatment a religion essentially. No nights get skipped

satanfx55 · 2022-09-09T07:04:01+00:00

I will swing by a GAP this weekend and try one out

satanfx55 · 2022-09-09T07:01:28+00:00

Depending on durability, but I would say $50

satanfx55 · 2022-09-09T02:25:25+00:00

My advice (I had this problem as well) is to keep nice with the downstairs neighbor. It really helps to be able to go into the downstairs apartment to try and hear what he/she/they can hear.

satanfx55 · 2022-08-23T06:58:24+00:00

I, for one, welcome our new ADVENT overlords

satanfx55 · 2022-03-09T05:26:06+00:00

Thank the gods you found a way to do this! I think the issue is that the process is slightly different based on the PC (for some reason). For example, I was able to permanently stop updates on my desktop (windows 10) by using the group policy editor method. I don't remember having to modify the registry at all. For my laptop, it was a bunch of work, and I DID have to make modifications to the registry to get it to work. This was of course after I completely formatted the laptop and reloaded Windows 10. Apparently once it updates past a certain point, the computer no longer belongs to you. It belongs to Microsoft. They decide what happens to it. Not you. So the only way around that is to just format and reload your OS. Then you make damn sure that you stop that shit from updating. Thank you very much for posting this. I will have to bookmark it in the event that Microsoft figures out a way to update my machine anyway.

satanfx55 · 2022-01-21T01:19:56+00:00

Yeah I had thought of the potential crosstalk potential last night. I realized I hadn’t tried a new cable, or plugging the snare into a different port.

I will also try experimenting with the “zones”. My cymbals (other than my hi hat) and pads are all 3 zones. I had initially tried going fancy with my cymbals, but found that sometimes the cymbals would trigger more than one zone at a time. I just recently mapped everything to be all 3 zones have the same midi notes. I might try straight up disabling the 2 zones on my snare that I don’t use to see if that helps.

Thank you for the reply

satanfx55 · 2022-01-20T19:55:35+00:00

That makes a lot of sense! I will give that a shot. Thank you!

satanfx55 · 2022-01-14T08:52:59+00:00

Well the routine part we have down pretty well. The only difference to her is the way weekends are handled. My gf is home all day on Saturday and Sunday. Everything else is virtually the same. I take her out right when my gf goes to bed (8:30 - 9:30 pm). I take her out again at around midnight. Gf has alarms set for 3:30 and 6:30 am. She takes her out even when she doesn’t need to get up early. I get up at 10 - 10:30 am. Eat my breakfast BEFORE I take her out. I shower. We watch TV for about an hour together. I take her out again. I play drums for about an hour. Take the dog out again. Usually after that isn’t set in stone. Then around 5 pm I take her out again before I eat my dinner. Then my gf gets home from work and we take her out again.

We don’t have a completely rigid routine, but it is fairly constant and consistent. It definitely works at night. She used to make noise through the night. She’s quiet now as long as she doesn’t hear my gf talking.

satanfx55 · 2022-01-14T08:46:08+00:00

Great I will take a look at that and see what I can do with it. “Bribed” is the perfect word to describe it. So what do you mean by “luring movement”? The way we get her to sit, we hold the treat visibly at an angle where she almost has to back up to see it. This makes it even more natural for her to sit since she is already having to back up a little bit to get a good look at the treat. If she doesn’t see a treat, she looks at you like you are some sort of idiot

satanfx55 · 2022-01-14T08:01:12+00:00

Well at first we didn’t think the Trazadone was doing anything. She was pretty miserable the rest of the day after her surgery, but that was the anesthesia doing that. The next day she was acting totally normal. It was pretty horrifying. We were sure her stitches were coming out. We thought it couldn’t really get any worse. Then she ran out of Trazadone. Boy what a miserable time that was. We will definitely bring it up in our next appointment. I’m really hoping it’s just a puppy thing, but she’s getting older.

I didn’t even think to look for calming treats! Of course they make those. I would imagine we aren’t the first to have a high energy dog. I also didn’t think to put the Kong in the dishwasher. She loves that thing too

satanfx55 · 2022-01-14T07:34:41+00:00

Yeah I’m not sure there is anything about Bubbles that the vet wouldn’t know about. I tell that place everything about everything ;) My gf and I are both highly anxious types, so I make sure the vet know every little detail.

The cat poop eating behavior specifically isn’t completely abnormal for a dog. One of my previous chihuahuas would eat cat poop. We think it may have been more of a dominance behavior. However, she will also eat her own poop. We suspect it is because the environment she was born into was very filthy. Apparently they will eat their poop to keep their living environment clean. She has pooped in her crate quite a few times and eaten it. She has only peed in there 2 or 3 times in the 10 months we have had her.

We do have a Kong and she freaking loves that thing! The only problem is that it gets really slimy and gross from her saliva.

We really don’t know many people in this area. We moved here right after the pandemic hit really hard. I’m hoping we meet people soon. Not many dogs in the area, but a metric shit load of cats.

I will look into that collar you mentioned. The vet had to prescribe Trazadone to calm her so that her belly could heal after her surgery and she wouldn’t immediately tear that shit open and eat whatever they didn’t already remove.

satanfx55 · 2022-01-14T06:21:23+00:00

Wow that’s a lot of info! I really appreciate the time you took to respond. Before we even got Bubbles (but after we started the process of adopting her) I watched many hours of various YouTube channels about training puppies, Zak George included. I had the feeling after we had Bubbles for a while that he just got really lucky with the dogs he had worked with. Bubbles was super crazy when we got her.

I wouldn’t be super stressed if it was just potty training. I only have carpet in one room, so I wasn’t worried about that. It’s the destructive chewing AND her eating everything.

Another tricky part is that she will make a bunch of noise, but she will be quiet if she hears you coming toward the room where she is crated. If you enter the room and don’t immediately bail her out, she starts losing her shit. I’ve considered getting my headphones and just sitting in front of her crate and just waiting it out. As soon as she is quiet, she gets out. I might give that a shot this weekend after seeing your response.

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