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China (and some others).

another “Arch” charm

My guess is white. We already have blue and green as far as I remember, leaving white, red, and black.

card that makes you choose odd or even

Reprint of Extinction Event?

new artifact token called Munitions

Combat trick token? I doubt it does direct damage, but a combat trick (like tap+sac for +1/+0 until end of turn) seems possible.

card that lets you take control of an opponent

Definitely an Eldrazi card. New Emrakul?

card that grants an ability to Slivers

So a Sliver.

Edit since I got a chance to read the rest:

“If it’s not a creature, it becomes a 0/0 Robot artifact creature.”

New scissors card?

“You may play lands from your graveyard.”

Crucible of Worlds reprint would fit really well here.

“Artifact cards and red cards in your hand have”

… Warp X, where X is ??? I’m guessing.

“X is the number of differently named lands you control.”

Llurgoyf card probably, especially since it’s an elemental. Probably 2-3 mana?

Carjacking is going to mean something completely different with those Samsung car robots out in the wild.

Also, imagine going home after a vacation and your house is just gone. (Yes I can see that they prepared the ground first, and I think your neighbor’s house driving down the street would raise some flags)

But seriously, this is really impressive. Great job Samsung and Shanghai Construction No 2!

Any clue if it’s open source? That seems like a good opportunity to spread it further and maybe get external support for an Android port.

There are two good outcomes here: Musk gets in trouble for “threatening” lawmakers, or this bill dies.

There’s one great outcome: all of the above, and the party splits.

I can’t wait to see some Final Fantasy cards in standard now.

To be clear, not because I like FF or UB. I actually get pretty annoyed by UB. I just want to see some new decks get played.

Nothing beats Target’s Lorem Ipsum apparel. It definitely sent a message, and it wasn’t the Latin that people heard.

Counterspell feels like one of those cards that you’d think is legal but for some reason it’s not. With Historic’s current power level, it makes way more sense for it to be there now than when it was added to Arena with Strixhaven.

I’d love to see WOTC take the hammer to standard. It’d make it more fun for me at least.

I think my list is at minimum Monstrous Rage, Cori Steel-Cutter, Manifold Mouse, Stormchaser’s Talent. Following that:

• Either Omniscience or one of its support cards. GY hate and control are more viable in a slower format though.
• Either Callous Sell-Sword or Cacophony Scamp to reduce the consistency of the red fling deck, considering we’ll still have Turn Inside Out and some other support pieces. Remember, this was a pretty oppressive deck, and scamp rotates soon anyway. Sell-Sword does not rotate yet, so I can see them leaving it in.
• Possibly Up the Beanstalk. I’m mixed on this because the deck loses support soon, but it also restricts design space.
• Possibly Screaming Nemesis. I’m personally of the opinion that this single card negates the entire lifegain archetype and is largely unanswerable. I’m mixed on this though since I don’t think it’s too insane outside of that, just that it severely restricts what decks can exist in standard.

Decks I think will rise are the bounce deck, hopefully a goblin deck for red (instead of the BS we have now), maybe jeskai prowess(?), jeskai control, dimir control, and some reanimator strategies that weren’t as viable before. Boros tokens coming back could be interesting too.

DDR5-6000/CL28 should be fine. Make sure to enable the XMP/EXPO profile in your BIOS after installing it.

You can follow hardware reviewers like GamersNexus, LTT, HardwareUnboxed, etc if you want to stay up to date (which is what I do), or look at their content if you just want a review for a product you’re looking at.

It’s less of an issue now, but there were stability issues in the early days of DDR5. Memory instability can lead to a number of issues including being unable to boot the PC (failing to post), the PC crashing suddenly during use, applications crashing or behaving strangely, etc. Usually it’s a sign of memory going bad, but for DDR5 since it’s still relatively young it can also be a sign that the memory is just too fast.

Always check and verify that the RAM manufacturer has validated their RAM against your CPU.

Air cooling is sufficient to cool most consumer processors these days. Make sure to get a good cooler though. I remember Thermalright’s Peerless Assassin being well reviewed, but there may be even better (reasonably priced) options these days.

If you don’t care about price, Noctua’s air coolers are overkill but expensive, or an AIO could be an option too.

AIOs have the benefit of moving heat directly to your fans via fluid instead of heating up the case interior, but that usually doesn’t matter that much, especially outside of intense gaming.

Very few things need 64GB memory to compile, but some do. If you think you’ll be compiling web browsers or clang or something, then 64GB would be the right call.

Also, higher speeds of DDR5 can be unstable at higher capacities. If you’re going with 64GB or more of DDR5, I’d stick to speeds around 6000 (or less) and not focus too much on overclocking it. If you get a kit of 2x32GB (which you should rather than getting the sticks independently), then you’ll be fine. You won’t benefit as much from RAM speed anyway as opposed to capacity.

The latest round of “stuff I wasn’t informed would be installed for me” included enough software to switch me to Linux. I’m still dual booting during the transition, but moving fully over when I can.

I honestly used to love Windows too. Windows 10 was great, and 11 had problems but was still very usable on the happy path and came with some great improvements over time. These days, it’s just so full of bloatware. I just want my damn computer to be mine, and I’d hope an OS license that retails for $200 would be enough to get them to stop advertising to me and shoving shit down my throat but I guess not.

Word and Powerpoint are good too, but there’s some real competition there these days. I haven’t needed those on my personal PC in years though, so that’s never been a problem for me, and it’ll continue to not be a problem as long as that software continues to require a subscription.

We have wild ducks around us and it’s always fun to see them waddling with the ducklings across a walkway or through our neighborhood. They’re super friendly too and will walk right by you, though being wild I haven’t tried to approach any of them.

…dangerous online material is perpetuating the growing epidemic of violence against women and girls…

Serious question because I actually don’t know the answer, but is there a proven link between this kind of content and real violence? I would hope a person would know that strangling people is not okay and there’s such things as safe words/actions, but I’ve expected too much of society in the past.

I guess the “eternities” in question are the blind eternities?

This is why claims about security should always be backed by an audit. Someone will inevitably (rightfully) tear you a new hole if there’s any gaps.

Insert “good bot” comment here

You can see if a friend can run an inferencing server for you. Maybe someone you know can run Open WebUI or something?