Looks like there's some interest, I might try out xMage in the next couple days, set up a server, and find a way to communicate with you folks and get back to you. We'll have to figure out some sort of a schedule as well as preferred formats. Commander seems to be the most divisive, so we might leave that one out to start. Pauper might be the best choice to start with since it seems more forgiving than many other formats.

If you have a preferred format leave a comment if you haven't.

That sounds absolutely batshit. Is 20 life usually enough? That sounds like it would be over fairly quickly.

I'm downloading xMage as we speak. Might try that since I remember Cockatrice to be super clunky. (I also can't get the cards to display easily)

I've been turn 1 killed before, I'm not scared.

Is there a better program to run multiplayer games than Cockatrice? I'm only aware of that and Magic Online (which costs money).

What is the gist of Prismatic? Draft might be fun if we want to limit power scaling.

2 does have its problems (like slag being a necessity), but the writing and the gunplay never once felt like a drag like during 3 and the pre-sequel. I'll probably pick up 4 when it comes out, but I'm hoping they do a serious overhaul of certain aspects of the game. Mainly, I'm just hoping they don't try to force the villain to be "funny" if they don't think they can pull it off, plus making it so you can actually tell what's going on on screen during higher levels. Way too much particle bloom.

I'm trying to finish up the Borderlands 3 DLCs, and then I'll probably take a break from gaming for awhile. I binged all 4 of the main games over the last few months and I'm super burned out by them. I probably had the most fun with 2 if I'm going to be honest. 3 was alright, but I chose to play as Moze which really stripped any of the difficulty away from the game. Still pretty fun despite its shortcomings though.

Is it your first Borderlands playthrough?

Is there a thriving music scene in the DPRK, and if so where can I go to hear some music that might not be found on the wikipedia page for the DPRK?

You can't declare a general strike.

https://old.reddit.com/r/referralcodes/top/?sort=top&t=all https://old.reddit.com/r/Referral/top/?sort=top&t=all https://old.reddit.com/r/Referrals/top/?sort=top&t=all These are the top subreddits for referral codes I think. There's lots of top level posts on there, but the "users online", as well as upvotes is extremely low, which makes me think that a lot of people are posting into the void. You could be right, but the lack of participation that I'm seeing gives me a bit of pause. Having it be more functional than a link dump might be beneficial.

As long as the original intention of "beer money" (eg: side cash through crowdwork is included). I don't know if a comm entirely filled with referral links would get many visitors.

Can you add a spoiler tag to this?

Please just ask your doctor. They aren't going to report you.

Well, it's not like he could make MTG any worse at this point, I guess.

I hate to ask, but how does one "break into" an industry like that?

I'd probably recommend estimating down to a few dollars on a good day instead of $5~$10.

Hmm, that has been my experience over the last year, but I just figured that was because I was doing most of my HITs after I got off work. I'll probably change that.

Lots of tasks are locked behind requirements of having 100's of accepted HITs already and I've noticed that its getting harder and harder to find short $0.01 tasks to pad. Its rare that the "you have to pass a test to qualify for these HITs" or "you have to request permission to work on these HITs" tasks actually have anybody on the other end to accept the test results or request for permission.

There is a way to find and take some of the qualification tests without having to contact anyone, but I was too lazy to actually find the link. I'll try to get that edited in a little later. I do agree that getting hundreds of approved HITs to really do anything is a steep ask, which is why I might include the names of some requestors that can help people get to that level. I think 500 approved HITs is where most requestors have their standard cutoff if they qual for that kind of thing at all.

About a 1/3 of the HITs on the first page just link off to other "survey" sites that loop you through an infinite series of survey qualifiers that rarely bring up an actual survey... and it will take longer to "get matched" with a survey than the mTurk HIT time limit. These do seem to use the same submitter's names so they can be avoided even though there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically filter them out.

That is part of the reason I never fuck with anything but academic surveys on there. You almost never get screened out of them, and they pay better than most other tasks. I'm sure there's a way to get consistent approvals on them, but I don't know what that is. Can you drop the names of a few requestors that you think might be beneficial to people (and are able to be accessed)?

It has been a while since I've come across HITs that seemed reasonable but the actual task was often impossible. There used to be a cargo ship company that would submit HITs to look at scans of Bills of Lading for some information... but about every second or third scan just wouldn't have the required information anywhere on the document (and the instructions were very explicit that the information MUST be found and it ALWAYS has a specific format). A chunk of my "rejections" were from this.

Sounds like p9r

I have to turn off all my "safe web browsing" extensions and my computer's VPN for mTurk to work. Though I've got a cellphone with a VPN service that works as a hotspot that doesn't make mTurk unhappy so long as I'm using a server in the USA, which is how I access the internet without trying to figure out a way to use the company's internet.

Has Amazon ever given you a hard time about the VPN? It was my understanding that they'd ban you for that.

I hear good things about furry porn too, but both of those things are a bit beyond my capacity artistically. Translation work might be good for that kind of thing too.

EDIT: I will add this into the guide.

Twice the 2008 Obama campaign for reference.