My voting experience in OH was somewhere in between. I needed to provide my ID, verify my address, wait for the person to find my name in the book, tell another person my district and so on. Didn't take too much time since I went in at 7:15am. Kind of a shame I'm in such a worthless area, but I did my part with hopes that some of the people I voted for actually succeed.
I feel that a decent living wage should be defined as something where a single person, who is working 40 hours a week should be able to field essentials (housing, transportation, utilities, food, health care) and still have something left over that they could use to contribute to the economy in a recreational sense (or use for education/etc). People earning a decent living wage should not be working 60+ hours a week to afford these things (providing they're not overspending on lavish/extravagant versions). People should not be stuck in a rut where they can only spin their wheels while struggling to survive. Full time employees should be able to participate in the economy no matter what.
What each of those values means varies wildly from region to region though. My rent on my two bedroom apartment is $690/mo. I went out of my way to find the cheapest place I could in all of NE Ohio (without fear for safety). In NEO you pretty much are required to have a car. The bus lines are few and far between. If you work downtown, you could get a rapid pass but you still need to get to a rapid station (of which there are maybe 5 on the entire east side and none in the northeast). A person should be able to have a car out here. Someone in more urban areas may be able to roll with subway, train, etc. expenses, just like someone on the west side of CLE could too. As for recreational spending, this is necessary for morale. A person who is working full time should be able to treat themselves to a meal at a restaurant, movie, card night, bowling, something recreational to realize that they're not just working to live.
I also feel that maybe I live in a dream world where this could never happen, so I guess something as close to that as possible would be ideal.
I think completing the Krosan Verge lands while adding a new cycle of lands (ex: "Plains Island, etb tapped") would probably be best. That way, the new lands wouldn't be super expensive and they can be searched out for optimal mana fixing.
They could also do a cycle similar to Tranquil Thicket but do something like this:
Tranquil Friend Thicket
ETB tapped.
Add G to mana pool
Plainscycling G (G, Discard this card: Search for a plains card.)
Maybe you'd need to make it basic land because then you can just search out shocks/etc. But something like this would enable them to break new ground by only printing a good quantity of different lands.
Only had to cite one to disprove the assertion, I did that. I'm sorry Hack posted a study you agreed with, but ultimately is not very credible or constructive. Please do not ask me to cite stuff, if you cant defend the study.
Then why bother mentioning that you "could" cite a dozen more resources if you aren't willing to do so? You're the one trying to disprove the study. If you claim to have dozens of sources to disprove the study, why not just link them all at once and disprove the study beyond doubt ending this silly diversion?
So I am kind of excited to see how Season 2 plays out with the foundation that they laid in the finale. I was disappointed that my favorite character isn't returning, but hopefully they fill that void with some of the new guys.
I agree that it was oddly structured. I felt like the Elektra stuff was poorly executed and resulted in a kind of boring aspect of the season. Like you guys said, they did a very poor job of developing the whole story with the hand and why they were after Elektra, what any of anything that they were doing in NYC had to do with anything, and so on. It just seemed like a pretty poor story compared to what they did with Punisher and Kingpin last season. It almost seemed like they should have done another smaller plot instead of Elektra and used that for season 3, giving her time to properly develop like they did with Kingpin. Hopefully in the next season they can expand on Elektra more, but with the way this one ended it seems like it might be longer until we see her back.
I feel that Jon Bernthal was a really great Punisher and I feel that they could very easily spin him off into his own Punisher series (or at least a movie) if they wanted to. I am almost glad that they didn't have him completely join Elektra and Daredevil in that last fight scene and just did the cameo at the end. It was such a tease and I was waiting for it the entire time. When it finally came, I felt that it worked better than if they would have all been fighting together.
I'm also entertained that Kahedron above mentions that angle with Punisher tying Matt up on the rooftops and taping a gun to his hand. The stairwell fight scene that came after that was a gloriously amazing display. Probably my favorite of the season.
See this isn't entirely true. I want to play Legacy so I bought the cards. The only event that I can realistically attend is a proxy legacy night that just got nixed because of this. Now if I want to play, I can show up on Sunday night and hope that 8 people show up to fire the event or I can drive 1+ hour south and play in an event that will end around midnight on a weekday so I can show up to work on 4 hours sleep. It doesn't matter that the two or three of us who do own the cards for several decks bring them to share, because people still wont show. So now I can just playtest with the same 3 people that I already do, or just give up and cash out? Seems perfectly reasonable for someone who bought in.
It seems unreasonable to me. You bought the cards, but you didn't make sure you had a use for them first. Seems like a foolish move.
Seriously, people are so whiny about this. Your budget is not some sort of genetic disorder. You have the ability to earn more. If you really do not, then you have the ability to set realistic expectations of yourself. You shouldn't play cards you cannot afford just because you like them, you shouldn't download illegal music just because you like it, you shouldn't steal my car just because you like it, and you shouldn't sneak into the movies just because you like it. Not being able to afford something does not entitle you to it.
He had the use for the cards he bought up until this change- he could play in proxy tournaments. Was it foolish of him not to anticipate this move that WotC made out of the blue, upending years of precedent?
Not only that, but he bought the product and this decision rendered him unable to use it. If he bought music legally and wasn't able to listen to it, or bought a car legally with his hard earned cash and couldn't drive it, or bought a movie ticket and couldn't watch it, he'd have a very legitimate complaint indeed.
Oh believe me, I bought my cards with a use. I retired for a while and never cashed out so I had a good stock of $10 duals from 99-01. When I came back (08) I quickly realized that Legacy was the only format that I enjoyed and bought in further. At the time, I lived 30 min further south so I could get to events that would fire with reasonable quantities of people and not be home by 1-2am during the week. Hell the events I used to go to in that time were 4-5 rounds. Once moving up here, one of my friends opened a shop and started running events out here too (Northeast Cleveland area). There's good turnout but it's slowly started to dwindle as singles are harder to come by. The proxy legacy night was starting to revitalize the legacy scene here. We went from not being able to fire to having 12-16 people show up. So now the option that I guess we have is the three or four of us who have multiple decks can start renting/loaning them out and advertising this on facebook or something?
I understand that the Legacy scene is slowly dying because of supply and demand, but there is no reason to murder it in lesser populated areas like this. I could only imagine how awful it is for some of the people who live in more rural areas as this is a problem in my neighborhood and there are at least 10 shops that I can think of in an hour's drive of me. Now I can think of one that would reliably hold a legacy event and it's an hour drive (on a good day) away.
In the end, all this does for me is makes it much easier to quit again. Standard and Modern are both horrible, Limited is fun. Now all I see is a bunch of expensive cardboard that I may get to dust off once a month and no inspiration to continue purchasing.
Then it's like the PGA saying you can't you any type golf balls or clubs, you have to use these specific branded items that are stupidly expensive. And you have to buy them every year. They won't make them ever again, the balls and clubs will rotate out and be worthless.
How is this sustainable?
It's a god damn freaggin game! Let people play how they want to play. If it's a goddamn OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT, then yes, by all means - NO PROXIES. But for the rest of the 99% out there, let them play how they want to play. Why alienate everyone, from the players, to the stores?
Get their stupid head out of their asses. They already got a cash cow on their hands. Keep it up and piss your fan base and they'll have nothing left.
You adjust the game to your income level. You have to realize you don't get to do everything in life if you can't afford it. No one if forcing anyone to play anything. If you want to play, buy the cards. Simple. They aren't alienating everyone. All of their market research shows that the vast majority of players are kitchen table casual. One small change here won't hit the bottom line bad. That's like saying the PGA requiring you to buy equipment that is required at tournament levels will effect mini golf where the same requirement is not needed.
See this isn't entirely true. I want to play Legacy so I bought the cards. The only event that I can realistically attend is a proxy legacy night that just got nixed because of this. Now if I want to play, I can show up on Sunday night and hope that 8 people show up to fire the event or I can drive 1+ hour south and play in an event that will end around midnight on a weekday so I can show up to work on 4 hours sleep. It doesn't matter that the two or three of us who do own the cards for several decks bring them to share, because people still wont show. So now I can just playtest with the same 3 people that I already do, or just give up and cash out? Seems perfectly reasonable for someone who bought in.
It sounds like Bookcases are the best idea for what you're describing. I have one that I used to use to display my sealed stuff, but it was recently damaged in a move and hasn't been replaced. My buddy also has a bookcase in his living room that has all of his sealed stuff on display.
You can fit quite a bit of product on a standard 3 or 5 shelf bookcase. Mine was a 3 shelf and I stored 3 years of sealed commander boxes, a couple boosters, some sealed prerelease packs and a shelf full of fatpacks (probably about 20).
I feel that BFZ draft is the only thing that is keeping me interested in the set right now. I don't really like the cards that much, but drafting the set is a great time because of how many different ways you can draft and build. It's an incredibly rewarding experience. I think the only archetype I've built more than once in the 4 drafts I've done so far was WG allies and that's only because nobody was in it, so I was getting real late rewards for switching over. I've done RG landfall, WG and WGr allies and UG eldrazi tokens. There are so many options and ways to go that I don't know how you couldn't love it. My UG eldrazi could have just as easily became a UW flyer goodstuff kind of deck but From Beyond and some of the other green options kept me going for eldrazi. I haven't managed to win a draft yet, but the only one I didn't 2-1 was the WGr allies because of bad fixing and a slightly bad draft.
I've been on a pretty long break too, but the looks of BFZ were too much to keep me away. It certainly is a pretty awesome format. I've only gotten one draft in, as I'm also financially limited right now, but it's definitely something I plan on doing more of.
I hope to someday manage the 5CC Sene special in a draft, but I think the locals will stop me of that. I ended up going 2-1 with RG Landfall this week at FNM, losing a close one to a guy in WG allies and blowing out a UG Ramp and UB control(ish) deck. It was a fun draft, and very rewarding when picking up signals. I almost got trapped because the guy next to me was the UG Ramp guy and he was passing a ton of the red eldrazi stuff to enable something with a ton of Nettle Drones, Aggregates, and the like, but was taking all the Eldrazi spawners so I wouldn't really have been able to get that off the ground.
I haven't found the hondens to be too hot, but I did add mangara, the three eldrazi and linvala while making some changes. I dropped some of the mana dorks for a couple and replaced underwhelming guys like radiant archangel. What would you suggest to cut to try hondens?
Current deck is looking - noble hierarch (unable to be run anyway), birds of paradise, radiant, kataki(don't have one yet), rampant growth + kozilek, emrakul, ulamog, mangara and linvala
What each of those values means varies wildly from region to region though. My rent on my two bedroom apartment is $690/mo. I went out of my way to find the cheapest place I could in all of NE Ohio (without fear for safety). In NEO you pretty much are required to have a car. The bus lines are few and far between. If you work downtown, you could get a rapid pass but you still need to get to a rapid station (of which there are maybe 5 on the entire east side and none in the northeast). A person should be able to have a car out here. Someone in more urban areas may be able to roll with subway, train, etc. expenses, just like someone on the west side of CLE could too. As for recreational spending, this is necessary for morale. A person who is working full time should be able to treat themselves to a meal at a restaurant, movie, card night, bowling, something recreational to realize that they're not just working to live.
I also feel that maybe I live in a dream world where this could never happen, so I guess something as close to that as possible would be ideal.
Currently working as a Mobile Application Developer.
I feel more of my views and opinions were influenced in my pre-dev days when I was a McEmployee trying to pay for school.
They could also do a cycle similar to Tranquil Thicket but do something like this:
Tranquil Friend Thicket
ETB tapped.
Add G to mana pool
Plainscycling G (G, Discard this card: Search for a plains card.)
Maybe you'd need to make it basic land because then you can just search out shocks/etc. But something like this would enable them to break new ground by only printing a good quantity of different lands.
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Then why bother mentioning that you "could" cite a dozen more resources if you aren't willing to do so? You're the one trying to disprove the study. If you claim to have dozens of sources to disprove the study, why not just link them all at once and disprove the study beyond doubt ending this silly diversion?
I feel that Jon Bernthal was a really great Punisher and I feel that they could very easily spin him off into his own Punisher series (or at least a movie) if they wanted to. I am almost glad that they didn't have him completely join Elektra and Daredevil in that last fight scene and just did the cameo at the end. It was such a tease and I was waiting for it the entire time. When it finally came, I felt that it worked better than if they would have all been fighting together.
I'm also entertained that Kahedron above mentions that angle with Punisher tying Matt up on the rooftops and taping a gun to his hand. The stairwell fight scene that came after that was a gloriously amazing display. Probably my favorite of the season.
The fact that my favorite deck (Lands) wouldn't exist in this format would also hurt my chances to enjoy it.
Oh believe me, I bought my cards with a use. I retired for a while and never cashed out so I had a good stock of $10 duals from 99-01. When I came back (08) I quickly realized that Legacy was the only format that I enjoyed and bought in further. At the time, I lived 30 min further south so I could get to events that would fire with reasonable quantities of people and not be home by 1-2am during the week. Hell the events I used to go to in that time were 4-5 rounds. Once moving up here, one of my friends opened a shop and started running events out here too (Northeast Cleveland area). There's good turnout but it's slowly started to dwindle as singles are harder to come by. The proxy legacy night was starting to revitalize the legacy scene here. We went from not being able to fire to having 12-16 people show up. So now the option that I guess we have is the three or four of us who have multiple decks can start renting/loaning them out and advertising this on facebook or something?
I understand that the Legacy scene is slowly dying because of supply and demand, but there is no reason to murder it in lesser populated areas like this. I could only imagine how awful it is for some of the people who live in more rural areas as this is a problem in my neighborhood and there are at least 10 shops that I can think of in an hour's drive of me. Now I can think of one that would reliably hold a legacy event and it's an hour drive (on a good day) away.
In the end, all this does for me is makes it much easier to quit again. Standard and Modern are both horrible, Limited is fun. Now all I see is a bunch of expensive cardboard that I may get to dust off once a month and no inspiration to continue purchasing.
See this isn't entirely true. I want to play Legacy so I bought the cards. The only event that I can realistically attend is a proxy legacy night that just got nixed because of this. Now if I want to play, I can show up on Sunday night and hope that 8 people show up to fire the event or I can drive 1+ hour south and play in an event that will end around midnight on a weekday so I can show up to work on 4 hours sleep. It doesn't matter that the two or three of us who do own the cards for several decks bring them to share, because people still wont show. So now I can just playtest with the same 3 people that I already do, or just give up and cash out? Seems perfectly reasonable for someone who bought in.
You can fit quite a bit of product on a standard 3 or 5 shelf bookcase. Mine was a 3 shelf and I stored 3 years of sealed commander boxes, a couple boosters, some sealed prerelease packs and a shelf full of fatpacks (probably about 20).
I hope to someday manage the 5CC Sene special in a draft, but I think the locals will stop me of that. I ended up going 2-1 with RG Landfall this week at FNM, losing a close one to a guy in WG allies and blowing out a UG Ramp and UB control(ish) deck. It was a fun draft, and very rewarding when picking up signals. I almost got trapped because the guy next to me was the UG Ramp guy and he was passing a ton of the red eldrazi stuff to enable something with a ton of Nettle Drones, Aggregates, and the like, but was taking all the Eldrazi spawners so I wouldn't really have been able to get that off the ground.