u/EkoNCynS

I keep experimenting with gemini monsters and I can't seem to find a way to make the deck 'work'. I try and use a mix of the chemicritter archetype and gemini ablation support but that doesn't seem to put them out fast enough or good enough compared to other decks. I tried the double summon spell cards, gemini trap hole, and other gemini generic support cards and those bricked too hard too often. I even tried using time-tearing morganite and that kinda worked but I felt nerfed because I couldn't run hand traps or if I did half the time they were useless since I already activated the card.

I don't think I can ever get this deck to work no matter what cards I try and swap out and I think that the Genesys format wouldn't do me a favor even if I could run a card like Ultimate Offering.

Has anyone ever seen a gemini deck work or does this archetype have no hope?

I'm strongly considering, and kinda convinced, to change my major to HVAC but I was wondering what I should do as far as school is considered.

Do I just apply to the local union and pray for the best? Do I change my major and stick to community college? Do I go to UTI?

I have been to the nearest UTI campus and they seem pretty ok, they had the teachers talk to me and everyone was generally really nice and they had a lot of options and resources for jobs right out of the program. Tuition was about 25k and a 9 month long course where I go there 5 days a week for 5 hours each day. Only thing that hasn't convinced me is that they are both a for profit school and have some rather conflicting reviews I've read it seems iffy.

I took all the CCNA classes at my local college and I passed them just fine but when it came to the actual test I froze up and failed spectacularly. I don't actually remember what I scored but it was a big fail. Now that I am a few weeks out of those classes I feel like I should try and take the test again but I don't know what path to try and take. I talked to my professor and he said that the cert isn't something that is required and that just passing the class is good enough. I want to believe him but something about everyone else having it vs me not having it rubs me the wrong way. I also feel like I just kinda breezed through the class and didn't really pick up on the fine details to actually explain what I learned and comprehend fully what I was taught. I can kinda set up a network and explain what happens where but the details are where I fail. It 100% feels like I wasted my time taking the classes since I don't feel like I learned and comprehended the material.

How do I correct this? Do I enroll in the classes again and take them under a different professor? Do I just take matters into my own hands and learn all the stuff from YouTube? I'm genuinely lost and I have no clue what to do at this point in my life. I'd like to get a networking career and start earning but I feel very hopeless right now.

Any details on what to study for, what practice tests to spam, and what to watch would be greatly appreciated. I desperately need someone to point me in the right direction so I can take this test and pass to put it on a resume and look better to employers!

What would you guys call Owlcat as far as studio size is concerned? I don't think it's a triple A studio since it's not as big as the huge flagship dev teams but I wouldn't call it indie since they must have a sizable dev team for them to crank out a game as good and complex as RT (I remember an article, IGN I think?, saying they'd want to do BG4 or help out with the development or something similar). Maybe single or double A? I know this is a stupid question but I'd like to use this as a reference point to judge other studios for future reference.

I recently, about 2ish seasons ago, decided to finally try my hand at ranked since I never really took it seriously. I only ever played til I got to silver way back in like season 6 just so my friends from back then couldn't call me bronze. It was really jarring but satisfying finally putting my hours of casual into ranked and seeing my rank go up. I got to emerald but I can't seem to get past emerald 3. I can get to maybe 30ish lp at the highest and then either tilt, get griefed, or some combination of both and go back to emerald 4 90 lp only to somehow get lucky enough to rank back up. Is there something I am not doing right at these higher ranks that could help me push to diamond? I don't think I'm roaming enough at lower levels to go help with shelly so I know there is stuff I can do but what else? Anything and everything will be greatly appreciated I just kinda wanna hit diamond and see where I go from there.

I played like trash

EDIT/UPDATE: Still getting throwers I don't know what I am doing wrong but this Briar is gold 1 and genuinely ran it down after cait didnt come to drag and both me and briar died as a result of doing it too slow. How is a gold player in emerald games? What is this matchmaking? This shouldn't even be a possibility

I've somewhat recently cancelled my spotify and have built up a collection of some CDs. I own roughly 100 or so and I have run into a problem. What is the best way to keep them stored? What is best way to grab a good amount, say 10ish, and mass move them? I want to be able to keep a good amount handy so I can use my Toyota's build in player to just go back to listening to music traditionally.
Right now I kinda defaulted to using caselogic binders to keep my collection all in one simple location. What are some of the pros and cons of doing it this way? Should I just keep them in their jewel cases? What about the CDs that I own without them should I just buy new jewel cases for them? I would like to keep these in as good as condition as I can for as long as I can since a few of them I paid a decent amount for. And before you comment no I am not keeping them in my car all day long, I take them out at the end of the day and bring the case back to my car whenever I am going on a drive which can be every day or every other day.

Any and all information is helpful!!!