Yeah, she put the work in and had great results.

She had also been transitioning for some time before she came out, so you got to keep in mind there are years of progress between the pre and out video.

You start to run into the trope conservation of ninjutsu. Where a single ninja is a terrible threat, but a group of them splits the power of the single threat evenly.

I really like the work that Abigail Thorn does on Philosophy Tube. She has also been doing her channel long enough that you have her thoughts on transphobia before she transitioned, her coming out video, and one that covers her experiences with transitioning.

Pre: https://youtu.be/yCxqdhZkxCo?si=HFouWSyHF4NO4Oef

Coming out: https://youtu.be/AITRzvm0Xtg?si=wXENhhhc3-ce4lDS

Experience transitioning: https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?si=RrNue5Ffj-YB35EB

It’s like they wanted to use bisexual lighting while editing and then didn’t remove all the layering.

It definitely pairs better than vodka, but vodka is a staple in the liquor setups regardless of where we have a session.

Vodka is the typical option cause you can take it near, on the rocks, or used with a mixer. People know their limits at this point and can adjust safely.

As far a sushi we used to rotate getting takeout, but overtime we started to default to sushi. There tends to be enough variety to mix up the type of sushi each week, it keeps people from getting too full/hungry, and typically is contained enough to fit with all our play supplies.

My main crew typically goes with vodka and sushi on our biweekly session.

When we have a younger/new player we go with seltzer and mixed veg/fruit/nuts.

A wopping $8,675,309!

Bit sus that it went from a generic invite to a religious event after one text.

Sorry to hear your family are being buttheads. They at the least did you the favor of forecasting that they were going to be a buzz kill to hangout with.

I think it is a solid game. Sunk about 30 hours into it a few months ago, but life got busy and I what free time I’ve had I sunk into Pokemon infinite fusion.

If you want the gist of what it is like to play without sinking in the money “Real Civil Engineer” on YouTube has a Timberborn playlist with hours of content with him just fucking around. Unless you find your own way to build a narrative or make your own challenges you may find that you have done it all by around 60 to 80 hours of gameplay.

A steam deck with emudeck installed is definitely my favorite way to play older Nintendo games.

I just finished my first play through of Pokemon Conquest, and my partner enjoyed getting to replay Cruisin USA for the N64.

Fucking lol.

I fell off of keeping up with them after flying microtonal banana. They are a blast to see live, but when they drop 5 or so albums in a year there is no time for me to fully process everything they are doing.

I tend to do theater of the mind for probably two thirds of my play sessions.

In combat I use a folding dry erase grid, some coins and markers to whip a board. If I have time to do a bigger fight I might prep some verticality by hot gluing some cardboard together. Having the terrain being low cost and effort gives me the option of breaking it down mid combat.

So a while ago I was looking into metal coins for a portable DM kit. I ended up going with the following sets.

Character class double sided metal coins for about $42 or $3 a pop. This was the most expensive set since this would be what I handed out to the players each session. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1015859072/14-dnd-character-tokens-1-inch-dungeons

Some large coins for inspiration counters. $7.5 for the set of 6 or $1.25 a pop. https://www.etsy.com/listing/770748066/ancient-greek-themed-gaming-coins-jumbo

Smaller coins for tracking opponents. $7.5 for set of 15 or $0.50 a pop. https://www.etsy.com/listing/785742769/mythological-monsters-themed-gaming

And tiny tokens for tracking conditions or smaller enemies. $7.5 for set of 18 or about $.42 a pop. https://www.etsy.com/listing/785741109/mythological-monsters-themed-gaming

Those 4 sets fit compactly into a 2oz tin that came with some loose leaf tea. I was looking for general purpose, somewhat consistent art, durability, being compact. The biggest downside is that they can be heavy when all together.

I do like the artwork that you have for your sets, and the color choices makes things stand out well. For the price point you list on the wooden tokens I would hope to maybe see the bottoms have a plain white side that could work with dry erase markers. That might also let you use them to mark terrain/objects or use them in other game systems like creature tokens for Magic the Gathering.

This was definitely an interesting take on Hogaak.

Congrats Kaiyo!

Prices on eBay and tcgplayer look reasonable for the strixhaven commander decks.

Happy to help.

I wasn’t able to find a history functionality otherwise I would have replied a bit earlier. Those are different decks, and when I went to the next step I just copied the previous step and worked until I felt like I was changing my methods.

When I want to do an overhaul of an existing deck I’ll setup a private deck list in the event I want to restore that to how I enjoyed it.

I thought it might be helpful to show with a few list how I tackle things

I am pro proxies, so budget is not the biggest factor for me. My play group also tends to believe that it makes sense to play test a $40+ card that might only work in a specific deck before you buy one.

That said I tend to buy decks in batches, so I might start playing the deck when I hit 80% purchased, and then either use some proxies or fill it with some of my existing collection.

For this deck I wanted to design something I felt would play like the T-X terminator after rewatching Terminator 3 recently. I really like tappedout’s tools for play testing decks, so most of my deck smithing happens virtually on that site.

Step 1: Initial starting point:

Blocking out lands and picking commander.

Maybe a few cards that that might have come up in thought process.

The north star for the deck is the T-X terminator from Terminator 3. Initial thoughts for deck is I want to have vehicles, might do something with time manipulation, and will probably want to run blue removal instead of counterspell suite. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/t-x-terminator-cosima-step-1/?cb=1690509142

Step 2: Next we are tossing pasta at the wall to see what we can work with. Most vehicles that are viable, some animation effects, and utility/man lands. Basics are reduced to account for new lands.

Time effects are not settled yet. Looking at suspend, extra turns, and phasing as potential themes. Had a game where a commander was phased out by the ferris wheel attraction, and when they could no longer roll to visit attractions the creatures were permanently phased out. Could generate a similar lock with stasis and eon hub, but I think that might be losing the terminator theme too much.

Depending on the amount of vehicles cut it might be worth looking into mass creature bounce and wheel effects. Additionally polymorph could be used to sac a crewed vehicle to get one of the few creatures in the deck. May also need to look into token generation or alt win cons. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/t-x-terminator-cosima-step-2/?cb=1690596198

Step 3: Adding in some token generation as well as some alt win cons. Reducing creature count is more appealing, so will look at effects that make bodies or become creatures.

Also including some mass bounce effects to remove creatures before I crew my board.

Land base modified to include some budget thinning, and some utility lands that I enjoy using. Also some mana accelerants added.

Some pet cards added. Next phase is cutting room floor. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/t-x-terminator-cosima-step-3/?cb=1690598823

Step 4: Initial pulls are to decrease creatures since some good token generation was found, and animating effects are not as required. Not going creatureless, but did reduce the total.

Some sorcery speed bounce removed and getting to the harder point to make cuts.

Last cuts will be the final version of deck. Will be focusing on cmc and card types. Will not reduce more than 45 artifacts total in deck, but also will add a few artifact lands since those were missed on earlier passes of the deck. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/t-x-terminator-cosima-step-4/?cb=1690741625

Alpha build: The deck should now be at a point where I use tapped out to get some sample hands and see what the first 5 draws look like.

I’ll then think over the deck for a few weeks to see if there are any other adjustments before I start looking to buy the deck. https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/t-x-terminator-cosima-alpha-build/?cb=1690741611

I love using [[Cosima, God of the Voyage]] in a mutate deck. If you mutate her before you exile her each of the creatures mutated into her gets her delayed trigger, so you can end up netting a decent amount of card advantage.