• 0 Posts
  • 23 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle


  • I never played the games but was able to pick up enough through context clues about what each group is all about and generally what’s going on. I do have lots of questions about the specifics of each group, but I’m hoping that in future episodes (I am only a few episodes in) and seasons they flesh things out a bit more to fill in some of the more mysterious aspects of the show.


  • maino82@lemmy.catoMTG@mtgzone.comWho is your favorite MTG artist?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    ·
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    Jeff Laubenstein is awesome and has done some great alters for me. He’s awesome to talk to at events.

    Dan Frazier will always hold a special place in my heart because I wrote to him and a bunch of other artists when I was 10 or 11 and he was the only one to write back and answer my questions.

    Victor Adame-Minguez did the art for Brutal Expulsion, which is a card that holds special significance for me.

    Howard Lyon does some really phenomenal work and he’s another person who is really great to talk to at events.

    Steve Argyle is an absolute madman when it comes to alters and sketches and he’s another really awesome dude to talk to at events. He’s so soft spoken and his artwork is so loud and I absolutely love that dichotomy.



  • maino82@lemmy.catoChat@beehaw.orgFavorite Charities?
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    6 months ago

    My local food bank is my favorite place to donate and volunteer at. My friend also works as a CASA so I donate to them as well (link is for the national organization, but they’re may be a local group you can donate to directly). Other than that, look around your area for local nonprofits. There are lots of local charities that work with kids, help solve local problems, etc that can always use some financial help. There are several organizations that you can go to if you want to vet and check on the charities to make sure they’re legit.




  • I use Plex. I have different libraries set up for movies, TV shows, educational videos, home videos, and during the pandemic it was great because my kids were doing dance class remotely, so I even set up a library so they could have all their dance class videos in one spot to practice their routines. I also organize my family photos there as well, which works out great to have those and the home videos all in one place. I can even give family members access to various libraries if they want to view family photos/videos, which has been handy as well.

    Lots of people swear by jellyfin, but I’ve had so much success with Plex that I haven’t bothered to check it out. It’s probably easy enough to get a server for each up and running and see which you prefer.







  • Attacking civilians is also plain and simple terrorism

    So we’re in agreement that this is essentially two terrorist states fighting each other? And the biggest losers in all of this will be the innocent Israeli and Palestinian citizens who just want to live their lives in peace. Meanwhile Hamas and the Israeli state get to go back and forth playing the their sick game of race-to-the-bottom-of-the-morality-barrel trying to blow each other to smithereens.



  • Can’t decide if I’m more excited for a Rabbit Unicorn or an Elemental Raccoon.

    For the Alpha creature type, a few possible interesting ones that would fit with the Wilds fairy tale theme might be:

    • Cockatrice
    • Pegasus
    • Paladin
    • Nymph
    • Basilisk

    There’s others like Goblins, Elves, Knights, Faeries, etc., but the ones above haven’t had (as far as I know) any draft support in the past, and I assume he means it’s a tribe that hasn’t gotten such support before. Who knows, though, maybe we’ll get Will-o-the-Wisp tribal!




  • Spiro’s letter complains about Meta hiring some of the many workers who were laid off or resigned from Twitter in the eight months since Musk bought the company.

    “Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees… these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in the letter to Zuckerberg. The workers, he alleged, “owe ongoing obligations to Twitter,” and many “have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices.”

    “We fired a bunch of people and you hired them to build the same thing they built for us! Not fair not fair!”