Recent content by SirJames

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    MTG thread

    Yea a lot of the power of black lotus is because it can come down turn 1 and/or is a artifact. Having to pay 3 mana to turn something into a black lotus isn’t really a competitive play. For casual EDH sure. But too slow in modern and not powerful enough in legacy. Having said that, I think...
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    Investing General Discussion

    Total index fund, total bond market fund and total international fund. Adjust the percentages to your risk tolerance. I split evenly amongst the 3, but consider upping the bond amount if you are more conservative / shorter term investing. Also, I recommend everyone have a little play money...
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    MTG thread

    Pretty excited for Arena to be honest. Hearthstone with MTG cards is fine by me. I ended up selling my MTGO collection to Cardhoarder as well. Figured I would get out early before the rest of the casual players realize Arena will be all they need. I was "4th in line" friday morning to trade my...
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    MTG: Arena

    I'm pretty sure it won't be replacing MTGO aka Magic Online (unless it's a reskin or a mashup of Duels + MTGO ). If they do anything detrimental to the MTGO economy lots of people would flip their shit. They stated a while back that they wanted to ease players into the MTG world. That entry...
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    Tale of Toast

    Gameplay is king, if people can still play Ultima Online, Runescape, EQ, etc then if this game is solid content and mechanics wise, people (including me) will play. If you have a limited budget, concentrate on the game itself, you can always re-skin shit when you get popular.
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    MTG thread

    Yea I play MTGO, I just sold most of my standard money cards and rotated over to modern. Modern is so much more fun, the metagame is so diverse, the games move quicker and are much more interactive. I was playing a Blue Green home brew in standard ( Nissa, steward with counter spells and...
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    MTG thread

    So you were basically correct. Marvel wins the day overall and you can indeed slam 30 zombies into a deck and turn your cards sideways to win, even a pro tour. You whiffed on the Mardu, but that is just because everyone was ready for them. So standard is now who get a the first aetherworks...
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    MTG thread

    Can I bid on just the Homelands pack? If so, I will open at two dollars and fiddy cents.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    OK, server just came down. Backup being made and @Control will take over from there. Nothing lost, just probably a few hours of downtime here until Control can get thing back up. I'm available on Discord still (Sailfish) if server issues arise.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    Sorry about this guys. No data lost, just hit my limit on our Server (MS Azure). It will be back up Sunday. Longer term we are looking at alternative options.
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    Visions of Grandeur (making dad-servers great again!)

    If Control is willing to accept you guys (aka your characters) in some form or fashion, I would be happy to share it with him. I would also be happy to let him take over the server as well. Sorry guys, I just don't have time to manage the server. I know if I log in and say hi people will msg me...
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    How much income is enough?

    I was going to post the article that someone up top already. I think the question boils down to "How much do you need to not stress about money anymore?" If your an unhappy person, lotsa money not going to help that. If your a happy person, but making minimum wage, some extra income will help...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    angular-datatables I would be plugging DataTables into this thing, even if its a medium amount of work, will pay off.
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    EQemu - Nagafen's Lair (Reborn)

    I will wait for Jysin to reply here, but I changed time trash to have 25% less HP and 25% more minimum damage. They ran it today and looks like got to Phase4 before stopping for the day, so I will take that as a good sign. Also hopefully fixed some bugs with PoTimeB instances, it is now a...
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    Crowfall

    I guess that's better than just a Kickstarter, at least there's a small chance for some profit. But the company would have to go public or get bought out for big bucks. Consider this a game purchase with a $50 scratch ticket added on.