I feel like if you make so much noise that they can hear it downstairs, you need to be more courteous. You live in an apartment building, not a frat house.
I don't think that being on your own is not so much the difficulty of performing all the chores as it is the difficulty of motivating yourself to keep doing them. The knowledge that every day for the rest of your life you have to make dinner, clean the dishes, tidy up, .... All after a full hard day's work.
There will be times when you have to work overtime, and still have that basket of laundry sitting there for you to do when you get home. Not to mention all the bills that came in that day. At first it was very demoralizing for me to pay bills. Living expenses plus taxes for one month is more than my discretionary spending for an entire year. After a while you just kind of accept it as a fact of life.
Based on my experiences in a very similar situation, I'm not sure this is really about school. In my case, they did not agree with some of my lifestyle choices at the time that they weren't supposed to know about, and they didn't want me to know that they knew, so they decided to nitpick every little other thing to take out their frustration on me. I don't know if a similar thing would apply to your situation or not, I just feel like it is unlikely that the root cause of why they are upset is because of school.
If you want to be a bum living out of a car and mooching off others to survive, go ahead, but don't pretend like you aren't being a bum. Homelessness is not a "lifestyle choice".
Right. If living in a car is so great, why aren't you doing it? Why isn't everyone doing it? I'll tell you why, because it's a horrible way to survive.
I have been homeless by choice twice before (three times if you count the brief time after moving to a new state before finding an apartment -- hotels are expensive), and am considering doing so again (more for spiritual reasons than anything else).
Not that it matters, but the only time I have been unemployed in my adult life was two weeks when I was moving to a new state. For about a year during school I had 2 part time jobs. So don't assume that everyone that is homeless is a "bum" mooching off of society. Even now I pay twice as much in taxes a month as I spend on myself.
I doubt you even end up saving any money. Once you factor in having to eat out all the time, having to wash all your clothes in laundromats, having to pay to bath and shower, paying for somewhere to get your mail, plus god forbid you get sick or hurt, you probably aren't coming out "ahead" in any sense of the word.
Living the high life, huh? Not to mention I don't want to imagine the germs and parasites one picks up when they eat out of garbage cans.
Seriously, being a homeless bum is not a "money saving technique".
Why would you have to eat out all the time if you were homeless? Ever heard of a camp stove? Also in my experience many public places have microwaves that you can use for free.
As far as showers, you can get a gym membership for ~$30 a month. And that's if there isn't a free community gym/other place with free showers.
The only mail I've ever needed to get is bills... and most bills can be tracked and paid electronically these days.
As far as food from dumpsters is concerned, it can be hit or miss. But sometimes the food can be quite good. It depends on whether that particular grocery store has an arrangement with a local food bank to donate nearly expired food.
You shouldn't let your experiences in the modern world govern your ideas of the kind of conditions that are livable for humans Homelessness in modern society is like a paradise compared to the conditions some of our ancestors lived in.
The problem with partnering with Amazon is that the good ones would still be bought up instantly. At least with the current distribution model, there is a chance you could walk into a store in a small town and find something.
Remember that price is a way of rationing a scarce good, not necessarily just to cover the cost of production + small profit. If WotC really wanted to enforce MSRP they would simply need to print enough to meet demand.
After reading a few of the wiki pages, I must say that I feel these people are saner and more enlightened than a lot of people that have no particular conviction about much of anything, and care little for improving themselves.
The idea of the "I forgive myself for..." mantra is to simultaneously recognize a flaw about yourself, and to recognize that the particular action is in the past and it can't stop you from doing better in the future. I feel this is very similar to the idea of "Confessing your sins" from various branches of Christianity (not trying to say that Christians are like these people, just saying that I think it is one similarity of potentially many).
If you guys would post links to the things you find particularly crazy, I would like to see it.
I see what you're trying to do with overgrow, but according to my understanding the permanent would retain all of its abilities. So if you enchant a flying creature with it, you would have a flying forest land.
This is my second thread for exploring transform design space for a set that I am designing. For more background, check out the original thread here.
I've pretty much already decided to bring back transform for my set, but I wanted some way to utilize it other than just a bunch of dinosaurs (INN and DKA had more than just werewolves, after all). I've also been looking for a way for hordes of 1/1's to be able to gain incremental advantage over a bunch of undercosted huge dinosaurs (see previous thread).
My proposal is to introduce another new transform mechanic:
Build X (Tap X untapped creatures you control, T: Transform ~. Play this ability only any time you could cast a Sorcery.)
The mechanic will primarily be on lands, but could potentially be on artifacts as well. The flavor is that the land represents a starting point for civilization -- providing the resources needed to survive (mana) as well as the place to put a building once it is no longer needed for agriculture/hunting (mana). At which time they can "Build" on it by tapping.
On to some examples:
Ruin
Land C
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Build 2
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Palace
Land C
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Barren Plain
Land U
~ ETB tapped.
T: Add W to your mana pool.
Build 4
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Drill Yard
Soldier creatures you control have vigilance.
W, T: Put a 1/1 human soldier creature token onto the battlefield.
City State
Land MR
City State enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Build 20
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Tower of Babel
Legendary Land
You win the game. This is Epic Struggle
I remember several times that MaRo took a bunch of cards from a set out of context to make them seem super powerful. Here's one for this:
"By popular demand, we've included a card that has no mana cost, and whos only text is 'You win the game.'" (assuming each face of a double sided card counts as a unique "card")
I didn't realize taxes raised, as I haven't gotten a paycheck yet... I think pretty soon I'm going to just stop looking at the deposit slips because of how depressing it is
Very interesting yet totally bizarre story. It's a shame that the good rares are warped while the junks are OK. There should be 9 rares but I only see 8, did you forget to write it in?
Back in my day, fat packs used to have 8 boosters instead of 9. And they came with this cool little book that listed all the cards in the set.
I don't know when they quit being 8, but that could explain it.
As for how the fatpack got there... maybe you mistook someone else' box for yours? That happens to me sometimes if we have the same fat pack box.
There will be times when you have to work overtime, and still have that basket of laundry sitting there for you to do when you get home. Not to mention all the bills that came in that day. At first it was very demoralizing for me to pay bills. Living expenses plus taxes for one month is more than my discretionary spending for an entire year. After a while you just kind of accept it as a fact of life.
I have been homeless by choice twice before (three times if you count the brief time after moving to a new state before finding an apartment -- hotels are expensive), and am considering doing so again (more for spiritual reasons than anything else).
Asceticism
Not that it matters, but the only time I have been unemployed in my adult life was two weeks when I was moving to a new state. For about a year during school I had 2 part time jobs. So don't assume that everyone that is homeless is a "bum" mooching off of society. Even now I pay twice as much in taxes a month as I spend on myself.
Why would you have to eat out all the time if you were homeless? Ever heard of a camp stove? Also in my experience many public places have microwaves that you can use for free.
As far as showers, you can get a gym membership for ~$30 a month. And that's if there isn't a free community gym/other place with free showers.
The only mail I've ever needed to get is bills... and most bills can be tracked and paid electronically these days.
As far as food from dumpsters is concerned, it can be hit or miss. But sometimes the food can be quite good. It depends on whether that particular grocery store has an arrangement with a local food bank to donate nearly expired food.
You shouldn't let your experiences in the modern world govern your ideas of the kind of conditions that are livable for humans
Remember that price is a way of rationing a scarce good, not necessarily just to cover the cost of production + small profit. If WotC really wanted to enforce MSRP they would simply need to print enough to meet demand.
The idea of the "I forgive myself for..." mantra is to simultaneously recognize a flaw about yourself, and to recognize that the particular action is in the past and it can't stop you from doing better in the future. I feel this is very similar to the idea of "Confessing your sins" from various branches of Christianity (not trying to say that Christians are like these people, just saying that I think it is one similarity of potentially many).
If you guys would post links to the things you find particularly crazy, I would like to see it.
Why not pull a beast within or path to exile variant?
3G
Instant
Destroy target permanent. It's controller may search his or her library for a basic land card and put it into play.
Also I think it's way undercosted. And the fact that it produces goblins without being red seems off.
This was the only card I saw any issue with.
I've pretty much already decided to bring back transform for my set, but I wanted some way to utilize it other than just a bunch of dinosaurs (INN and DKA had more than just werewolves, after all). I've also been looking for a way for hordes of 1/1's to be able to gain incremental advantage over a bunch of undercosted huge dinosaurs (see previous thread).
My proposal is to introduce another new transform mechanic:
Build X (Tap X untapped creatures you control, T: Transform ~. Play this ability only any time you could cast a Sorcery.)
The mechanic will primarily be on lands, but could potentially be on artifacts as well. The flavor is that the land represents a starting point for civilization -- providing the resources needed to survive (mana) as well as the place to put a building once it is no longer needed for agriculture/hunting (mana). At which time they can "Build" on it by tapping.
On to some examples:
Ruin
Land C
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Build 2
-----------------------
Palace
Land C
T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
Barren Plain
Land U
~ ETB tapped.
T: Add W to your mana pool.
Build 4
------------------------
Drill Yard
Soldier creatures you control have vigilance.
W, T: Put a 1/1 human soldier creature token onto the battlefield.
City State
Land MR
City State enters the battlefield tapped.
T: Add 1 to your mana pool.
Build 20
-------------------------
Tower of Babel
Legendary Land
You win the game.
This is Epic Struggle
I remember several times that MaRo took a bunch of cards from a set out of context to make them seem super powerful. Here's one for this:
"By popular demand, we've included a card that has no mana cost, and whos only text is 'You win the game.'" (assuming each face of a double sided card counts as a unique "card")
Back in my day, fat packs used to have 8 boosters instead of 9. And they came with this cool little book that listed all the cards in the set.
I don't know when they quit being 8, but that could explain it.
As for how the fatpack got there... maybe you mistook someone else' box for yours? That happens to me sometimes if we have the same fat pack box.