Typically used to describe chemicals, or your ex girlfriend

Drill, impact, etc are pretty much necessary to have cordless. I agree with the corded stuff though. Need an angle grinder or sawzall? Get corded. Way more powerful too.

Chemically induced motivation. Just how I like need it

Not much these days

Homophobia? Did we read the same comment?

Username checks out.

As a certified electrician, this logic also works the other way. I wire things. I don’t know why your PC won’t boot. Yes your computer uses electricity, but this is not my professional forté.

If something is against “national interest” and your president is trying to become an autocrat, that means they can essentially pick and choose what national interest is. This should be setting off alarm bells in EVERYONE’S head as an obvious grab for power.

I’m not american, so I don’t have direct skin in the game, but everyone on both sides of the political spectrum who don’t self identify as fascist should be against this.

If you don’t interpret this as something extremely dangerous, you need to have a sit down and really think about the implications.

Is Michelle Obama’s penis in there?

I’ll bite. What’s the proof?

Did someone say Boogie Woogie?

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Has really nice “chill” sound track, sorta old timey

Bastion

Hades

Warhammer 40k: Mechanicus, if you wanna get really wild

I do too. I’m not blaming the weed. The OP said he had to stop smoking weed , I just agreed.

These daily doom saying threads on this website are pathetic. No more weed for you friend. Time to turn off the news and touch some grass.

It could also just be a bad match up, exacerbated by the fact that they likely did some high synergy upgrades. What you could do if you were so inclined is go to EDHREC, and look up your commander. It will show you high synergy cards and top picks, and it also gives you a price. The draw back to doing this is sort of what I touched on above, where one can really get lost in the weeds of doing upgrades. It also (IMO) makes your deck less “you” and kind of turns it into some generalized, optimized deck. The feeling of performing well with a deck you made with your own brain feels better than essentially scraping the deck list off a cheat sheet.

My preferred way of looking for cards is using the Scryfall advanced search, and looking up specific keywords for my deck. For example, if I have a green/white creature token generation deck, I would select green/white/colourless, set the colour identity to include any of the above colours, and use the Oracle text search “create a token”.

That way, everything that populated will be in at least one of the colours I’ve selected, and will show me everything with those specific 3 words in it. You can really find some fun stuff.

Another option instead of upgrading is maybe to look into getting another kind of deck. Having variety is always nice, but it’s really up to you which way you’d rather go.

Some of my best commander decks are my cheapest. It’s almost all about synergy.

However

There is a saying, that the most powerful card in Magic is the credit card. I mean, look at something like Counterspell vs Mana Drain. Same mana cost, except one is cheap ($$) and the other is super expensive, and Mana Drain is insanely good.

Your friend could just have a deck that naturally counters yours, but I think having a precon deck with $120 in upgrades over $20 in upgrades will definitely give them a leg up. The only real way to compete is try to optimize synergies, which often involves upping the value of the deck.

You can stop reading here if you want, as the rest is anecdotal.

After a few years of playing, my group eventually slowly increased the power of our decks with good pulls from packs, or buying high synergy singles. You can really get lost in the weeds of optimizing your deck, and it turned into a financial arms race, which feels bad. I talked to most of my play group about this, and a lot of them agreed that this was getting kind of “pay to win” for us, and we all hit the brakes a bit with our deck optimization. The nice thing with Commander when you are playing with 3+ people, is the game is sort of self balancing. One person has a great deck and starts dominating? Well now all the others can agree to gang up on them, which can be fun.

Some of the decks in my group are crazy good, but we try and be considerate to what the power levels of the rest of the group might be playing. I think the healthy option is to just open the conversation with your friends and let them know how you feel or think, which is what you’ve done.

Personally, I love the PDH format. Uncommon creature as your commander, common cards in the rest of the deck. You can still have a great time with a lower power deck, and everyone is roughly on the same playing field due to the power limitations of the cards. A deck for PDH would cost me $30-$40 CAD, and it plays mostly the same as EDH.

Also listen to that other dude in this thread that mentioned dental hygiene. That’s bangin’ advice.

Here’s my highly specific (hypocritical) advice:

Don’t take advice from Reddit or Lemmy on any important matter. You don’t know these people, and they don’t know you. Some people have good ideas. Most don’t. The ability to think for yourself and determine what’s best for you is the best skill you can have. A review from Lemmy or Reddit on a product is fine. Life advice from internet strangers is almost always garbage.

Here’s some more highly specific meta advice: Change your socks every day. What the fuck people…

The point stands. Vote with your wallet.