Bud if its not feasible for you don’t do it then.

As I stated in my original comment, some people use readymade suites and pay for support, that is their perogative.

I find I do Better quality work when I build my own toolkit, and tie the tools together my way.

To borrow an example from my father in reference to working on cars:

Sure you can buy a mechanic’s toolbox that will have everything you need but those are cheap, mass produced tools desogned to fit the needs of the everyman. If you buy an empty toolbox instead you can fill it with the tools you use, then you can have higher quality tools for the things you actually do with them and not waste space on tools you don’t ever touch.

Use two tools if one doesn’t get the job done, is kind of my point here. Sure you can pay for the convenience of f360, or you can build your own toolkit. Its like 2-in-1 shampoo, if it does both things it probably isn’t the best at either of them.

Re: missing out

I’ve got friends who tell me they won’t switch to Linux because they want their anti-cheat games. I usually tell them if they took the time to learn their system they’d understand why they don’t want anto-cheat games.

In the last 20 years, I have not found a single piece of software (games excluded, i pay for art when payment is asked) that I, a regular person on the internet, have not been able to source a free open source alternative that while potentially equipped with a steep learning curve is often as good as if not Better than many corporate solutions once learned.

People can pay for pretty, super convenient UIs and proprietary solutions with support contracts if they want to, thats their perogative. I prefer to learn the software myself and if I hate the UI that much that I’d be willing to pay, its worth either just sitting down and making my own with pyside (its quick and easy, learning curve excluded) or paying a freelance dev to make one bespoke.

You can just do things. There’s no real rules.

Once I used some jewelry wire to connect pins from a vga port on my PC to pins on the svideo port on my tv. Worked fine. It was black and white but I had a display.

Edit: I think I just connected the sync and then put the luma signal oitput into the composite video signal input.

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Corporate suicide is so fun to watch when you’re not stuck using their products.

Confidence helps. For me it was changing schools at 14, being near people who didn’t know my shortcomings gave me the confidence to succeed at talking that 6 years of speech therapy couldn’t.

Nowadays when I’m mega nervous I still get tripped up by preglottal plosives like the Hard C in cat. I learned to speak alliteratively in those times because it makes me feel like I’m singing and I never stutter while I sing.

I know fascist flesh is vegan but still, that’s nasty don’t eat that you don’t know whats in it

I think he’s forcing through a stutter. Specifically I think he’s forcing through a stutter on hard vowels which begin without a preceding consonant. I have a similar specific impediment and while I’ve mostly worked through it sometimes when I’m nervous (like when recording) my voice will crack/squeak like that. Words that trigger it: I, Egg, international, Apple, Ypsilanti…

I also have triggers with words with too many consonant sounds at the start, like jump, which because of the shape of my mouth I form as DJhomp, the dj part shifting into a nearly unspoken H is tough for me.

I spent years in specific therapy, Nigel from NileRed talks like he has too.

I certainly hope so, the index was a promising piece of kit, never got the deck because I shouldn’t have access to my escapism simulators on mobile.

I’m so thrilled for a new steam controller. I was a huge fan of the original, I just wish it were built Better. I hope the new one is built well, I’m planning to purchase one as I think it will be a good controller for my flight sims

Perhaps it is the road that is the problem –Krishnamurti, probably

But like honestly though, I’ve seen on YouTube people funded almost entirely through commissions and patrons manage metallurgical feats previously considered impossible like the forge welding of titanium to steel. Imagine what they could do with even a fraction of Nvidia’s or OpenAI’s budget?

I once spent weeks dealing with a bizarre bug on my PC, couldn’t figure it out. When it persisted in a live environment I knew it was hardware.

I found a charred moth bridging two pins on my motherboard on an unused fan header, I think it was causing enough of a voltage drop to cause issues because I don’t see how a bridged fan header could cause issues otherwise

Tire repair kits have the tools to remove shrader valves from tires making them… Somewhat difficult to keep inflated.

Oh! Another thing!

Play blue. I know, everyone hates blue mages, but play blue. This will help you to learn how the stack functions, and allow you to learn to play on your opponents turn. Cards like Propaganda will discourage attacking you, and cards like Leyline of Anticipation gives all your stuff Flash, meaning you can use sorceries and enchantments to handle big combat stuff.

There is always a way out, you might just not have it in your deck. Playing blue will teach you to be cunning and tricksy, and teach you interactions that will help you turn the balance in your favor.

A fun one if you’re looking to learn weird interactions: This was a precon, you can probably still buy it as is. Swap the commander from “Mirko, Obsessive Theorist” over to “Lazav, the Multifarious” and you’ve got a super tricky card cloning deck capable of producing copies of legendaries legally. Play this a few times, cut the chaff, replace them with some mind-control cards in dimir and some Better mana rocks.

Is… Is he about to fuck those donuts?

Look, I primarily use e-waste for my computing. I’ll use whatever display server I want. You’ll pull X11 out of my cold, dead hands.

I realize my comment before wasn’t very informative:

I recommend picking a two color combo to build, and build into something. The goal for long games, especially when dealing with net-deckers, is to have a “Program” that you’re trying to run.

You should put all the functions you need for your deck to win in the deck, and have redundancy. I don’t play tutors personally, I think they take the fun out of the game, so instead I focus on making sure i have card advantage. This is handled (in my fave deck) with sac triggers that allow me to draw cards when I sac a creature (that creature then re-enters at the next end step as long as it has a 1/1 and my commander is out.

Watch your mana curve, you should never be in a situation where you can’t afford to play something that will improve your standing.

Make sure you have cards in hand, or access to cards. Some decks perform well when you’re hellbent, if you’re playing one of those it is ideal to have lots of graveyard recursion.

The biggest thing is pay attention. You won’t win every game, in fact you’ll probably lose most of them if you’re building your own decks. A self-made deck is an incremental thing, a living, ever-changing grimoire.

I have a deck I don’t play anymore because after 30 games it was tuned so well it isn’t fun. Having a billion 40/40 hydras on the board within 6 turns is boring. I keep it with me for arch-enemy games.