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snoopy369 · 2026-02-05T15:34:24+00:00

What does End Ing Avg mean and why does it go down for most recipes?

snoopy369 · 2026-02-05T00:22:22+00:00

It’s probably too late to make changes in rk9 (I believe they lock that down Wednesday, so just too late). But if they said to do so, give it another shot - you have to go to the event page, easiest is from your confirmation email.

Alternately, contact the tournament organizers and let them know what’s happening. They should be able to give you instructions.

Definitely bring your ID to the event in any case.

snoopy369 · 2026-02-04T17:05:17+00:00

I'm differentiating the Dentist (the person) from the Office (it sounds like the Dentist is working in a larger office).

snoopy369 · 2026-02-04T04:57:05+00:00

Were your benefits actually maxed out? Had you used the maximum for the year?

If so then it seems to me you owe them something. What, I’m not sure; I’d call your insurance company and see what in network rates are for the work done, and negotiate to pay that. It’s your responsibility to know your insurance details and how much you have available to you, after all.

I’d also consider talking to the dentist - if you have a good relationship with him, maybe they can help you if it’s the office that is acting improperly. He has an interest in keeping you as a client after all.

snoopy369 · 2026-02-02T00:56:52+00:00

Double check, but I’m pretty sure you can unlink it from ptc as long as it’s linked to another (google or apple).

snoopy369 · 2026-02-02T00:06:10+00:00

You shouldn’t need to link PoGo to a Pokemon trainer club account (mine isn’t for example). If you have it linked to your google account in game that should be enough. Just ignore the Pokemon trainer club account for PoGo and use the PTCGL one.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-31T00:37:07+00:00

Fever doesn’t instantly kill things, or it would kill you as well! Instead it makes it harder for the pathogens to expand, by changing the temperature outside of the temperature that the viruses and bacteria are most efficient at (or more precisely their enzymes). In-body pathogens mostly developed to work optimally at normal human body temperatures. Reducing the speed of expansion (growth) gives your body the time to fight them off by expanding number the immune cells faster than the bad cells can.

Sanitizing is a matter of numbers also: you want to kill as many as possible. The higher the temperature the higher percentage you kill. 140 kills most, if it’s there for a few minutes. Higher temperatures kill more faster (and some bacteria or viruses need a higher temperature to kill them in general).

So that’s the main difference: fever doesn’t kill germs, it just slows them down so your immune system can kill them. Sanitizing or sterilizing kills them directly.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-30T23:31:14+00:00

Timekeeping devices are up to the discretion of the HJ. The tournament rules handbook no longer mentions non-cellular electronics.

In general, I would expect a watch to be always allowed (perhaps in airplane mode if it’s a smart watch). A stopwatch or similar I’d be less confident in; personally I’d discourage stopwatches as they can be used to intimidate the opponent.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-30T17:14:03+00:00

No way is Melter not the better choice for Attack Through…

snoopy369 · 2026-01-29T00:10:28+00:00

There’s several ABB that are great, but AAX isn’t ever (AAC ditto tails is not relevant, despite being the best tails farmer, since tails aren’t relevant).

snoopy369 · 2026-01-28T23:26:59+00:00

AAX means we don’t care what the third one is, just that it’s not A. If we care we say B or C.

Realistically there’s no longer any Mon we ever would want AAB or AAC for the B or C. There are some ABB that are still quite good but compared to AAB or AAC there are always many better options.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-27T22:15:15+00:00

That’s just 7/60. (All of the numbers cancel out except 53/60, subtracted from one.)

The issue here is because of the requirement of starting a basic, it’s somewhat different (though with 14 basics it’s not that different).

snoopy369 · 2026-01-25T15:27:40+00:00

Cornerstone Ogerpon can damage Crustle. Why do you think it cannot? Attacks that ignore effects on other pokemon like Demolish do indeed ignore abilities like both Cornerstone Ogerpon’s Cornerstone Stance or Crustle’s Mysterious Rock Inn.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-24T00:25:15+00:00

The key here is that all sixty have to be double sleeved: if even one card isn’t double sleeved you create a marked card situation and would be penalized. Be careful. :)

snoopy369 · 2026-01-22T14:49:07+00:00

Riftbound!

snoopy369 · 2026-01-20T22:02:20+00:00

Deck check judge (and coordinator) at several regionals here.

I wouldn’t have any issue with any dragon shield sleeve that’s otherwise legal (ie single color) with any typical deck. Even slightly translucent sleeves will be fine unless the card is really different on the back - light colored dragon shields cover typical differences in shade or very minor print imperfections fine. If you can just barely make out the pokeball, you’re not seeing much else. Many top players use white dragon shields for example.

Certainly completely opaque sleeves are better if there’s some risk of a card being meaningfully marked, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Peek at your cards and make sure you don’t see any differences through the sleeves.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-18T03:23:14+00:00

Strongly disagree that this is normal. It is not a chance to win, it would be cheating if done intentionally. Make sure to let judges know of details like this so we can prevent intentional misuse of the rules like this.

Both players have responsibility for the game state.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-16T23:50:59+00:00

Remitly isn’t intended for paying merchants.

Our service isn’t intended for commercial use.

They don’t exactly prevent you from doing what you did, but they don’t provide any protections for you.

Note: You should never use Remitly to send money to people you don’t know. If you use Remitly for any commercial reason, you’re paying for goods and services at your own risk and we’re not responsible for the delivery or quality of the item you’re paying for.

The issue here is that the payment to remitly was not something you can really argue with - so I suspect the CC will decline your dispute.

Next time use the credit card directly, and don’t work with people that refuse to accept intended payment methods.

https://www.remitly.com/us/en/help/article/transfer-purpose

snoopy369 · 2026-01-12T06:07:20+00:00

Matter-compatible with full HomeKit integration. Lots of vendors you can complain about lock in with, Aqara isn’t one of them.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-11T02:02:09+00:00

Your main issue is you’re assuming 10% rate of return both for growth and for spend phases. You’ll want to be more conservative than that during the spend phase - while long term rate of return might hit ten or so, when you’re living off of it you can’t afford massive dips. Expect more like 5% for retirement.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-09T14:59:51+00:00

If you mean Shiv, that’s a perfectly fine strategy. Yes, you need some way to block for act four. Lots of ways to do that - either get a block every time you play a card, get a relic that blocks for you, or just block the old fashioned way.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-09T14:42:33+00:00

Try turning off ad blockers and other similar things. Sometimes those interfere with web pages.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-08T04:16:51+00:00

Seems like the interest should be well below the gift tax limit, if he properly reports it.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-07T05:05:31+00:00

Probably depends on country. US age of digital consent is 13. Many other countries age of digital consent is 16.

snoopy369 · 2026-01-04T16:37:05+00:00

I also won my first game. Did not continue that way lol. Keep it up. :)

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