u/JesseTheClassy

I'm of course talking about his presence in the new game mode Path to Doomsday: Infinity War. Though it's just one instance, I found a video where someone actually ranks rocket racoon as the best in the game.

Furthermore: Aside from just the opinion of one person, I'm seeing so many people in the comments feel the same way that he is just a lil guy who shreds the hell outta people.

The top comment literally says "I hate this gamemode rocket and mantis are immortal" lol. I myself am enjoying the mode a ton. Right as I hit send on this, finna go play some more. I guess I'll enjoy it while it lasts

The reference in question:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLrm7yab/

I didn't even scrub anything -- this is just after I lifted food off of it.

When i was at the grocery store, I found out someone tried to steal my bike. As a precaution, I always set my combination to a specific number when locking it so I know that if any number is changed, it was tampered with.

I saw it was tampered with when coming out of the store with a few things, and not 30 seconds later the security person lets me know someone was just messing with my bike and they seemed suspicious when he was approaching him. Luckily, I head to that store often so he knew it was my bike.

But yeah, I'm just irritated that someone tried that. I've already had my ebike stolen before, so this brings up those feelings and memories. Like the thing that sucks is working SO EFFING HARD for my money, only for someone to come take away one of the few joys I have.

So I was trying to figure out a good way to hang something like this that's cheap, lightweight, needs no drill, no ceiling stud, can be moved if needed, wasn't a hassle, and barely needed aligning.

I was scouring the internet for ideas, but each thing always had a caveat. Hanging wall panes were too expensive, and just curtains felt too cheap and not see-through. A wood slat vertical wall would take a lot of time to cut, would be heavy after the amount needed was added, and would require a stud. Wanted to try a DIY rope partition, but would require a lot of leveling, rope cutting, and spacing. Pre-made partitions are also pretty expensive, don't go to the edge of my ceiling, and don't flush in with the space.

Then, i started just looking for the fake plant stuff I'd want. One thing led to another, and I was looking into plant fencing (lattices). And that lead me to think about chicken wire/bird netting.

Why it's so good:

*Cheap

*Lightweight

*Can either be plastic or metal depending on the need

*Can easily pass light hanging decor like fake leaves or fairy lights through it

*Can be cut, and is EXTREMELY malleable

*Can be moved

*Can be secured using a small hole (I'm using two nails) or command strips/a strong adhesive because the material literally weights nothing.

*Due to it having so much ($8.99 for a 25 feet width pack), it can be as long ad you want.

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It could look a bit better at the top, but overall I'm happy. The bottom is secured with a wooden bean and zip ties pulling the net down to reach the floor.

The BIGGEST con is that this is something that is fragile, meaning if a kid runs into it say bye-bye. But if it will never be touched, it's a great solution

So I was trying to figure out a good way to hang something like this that's cheap, lightweight, needs no drill, no ceiling stud, can be moved if needed, wasn't a hassle, and barely needed aligning.

I was scouring the internet for ideas, but each thing always had a caveat. Hanging wall panes were too expensive, and just curtains felt too cheap and not see-through. A wood slat vertical wall would take a lot of time to cut, would be heavy after the amount needed was added, and would require a stud. Wanted to try a DIY rope partition, but would require a lot of leveling, rope cutting, and spacing. Pre-made partitions are also pretty expensive, don't go to the edge of my ceiling, and don't flush in with the space.

Then, i started just looking for the fake plant stuff I'd want. One thing led to another, and I was looking into plant fencing (lattices). And that lead me to think about chicken wire/bird netting.

Why it's so good:

*Cheap

*Lightweight

*Can either be plastic or metal depending on the need

*Can easily pass light hanging decor like fake leaves or fairy lights through it

*Can be cut, and is EXTREMELY malleable

*Can be moved

*Can be secured using a small hole (I'm using two nails) or command strips/a strong adhesive because the material literally weights nothing.

*Due to it having so much ($8.99 for a 25 feet width pack), it can be as long ad you want.

-----

It could look a bit better at the top, but overall I'm happy. The bottom is secured with a wooden bean and zip ties pulling the net down to reach the floor.

The BIGGEST con is that this is something that is fragile, meaning if a kid runs into it say bye-bye. But if it will never be touched, it's a great solution

So I was trying to figure out a good way to hang something like this that's cheap, lightweight, needs no drill, no ceiling stud, can be moved if needed, wasn't a hassle, and barely needed aligning.

I was scouring the internet for ideas, but each thing always had a caveat. Hanging wall panes were too expensive, and just curtains felt too cheap and not see-through. A wood slat vertical wall would take a lot of time to cut, would be heavy after the amount needed was added, and would require a stud. Wanted to try a DIY rope partition, but would require a lot of leveling, rope cutting, and spacing. Pre-made partitions are also pretty expensive, don't go to the edge of my ceiling, and don't flush in with the space.

Then, i started just looking for the fake plant stuff I'd want. One thing led to another, and I was looking into plant fencing (lattices). And that lead me to think about chicken wire/bird netting.

Why it's so good:

*Cheap

*Lightweight

*Can either be plastic or metal depending on the need

*Can easily pass light hanging decor like fake leaves or fairy lights through it

*Can be cut, and is EXTREMELY malleable

*Can be moved

*Can be secured using a small hole (I'm using two nails) or command strips/a strong adhesive because the material literally weights nothing.

*Due to it having so much ($8.99 for a 25 feet width pack), it can be as long ad you want.

-----

It could look a bit better at the top, but overall I'm happy. The bottom is secured with a wooden bean and zip ties pulling the net down to reach the floor.

The BIGGEST con is that this is something that is fragile, meaning if a kid runs into it say bye-bye. But if it will never be touched, it's a great solution

Hello once more 👋🏾 So I have mentioned recently that I am making fanmade Wizard101 x Magic The Gathering cards, and the last post I made was both meant to be as a teaser but also meant as some insight to the whole thing. I will be posting periodic updates to the entire concept and cards created.

Introducing the planeswalker cards! Each planeswalker will have traits of the current school abilities that will be showcased for the other cards that are being created. I guess I cant really mention these abilities on the cards without explaining them and how they will work so I will go ahead and explain these first, along with how each school’s identity works in the game as well as explain the thought process for each planeswalker card. Oh, and instead of using just the wizard city school professors, I thought pigswick academy could use some love so I threw in a couple of them as well. Oh, and why not have a twist of Malistaire in the mix too?

To begin: Each school will have their own unique charm, and I plan to make 7 different unique charm cards and tokens to match. Each charm for each school will do something different, which will also affect how each charm interacts with all elements of Magic the Gathering.

Fire: 

• For the fire school, the fire charm will make it to where dealing damage to a player (whether in combat or otherwise) will do an extra 1 damage per charm. Charms for this school will be harder to obtain quickly, but in exchange when damage is done it is meant to hurt (burn) everything! Fire in Wizard101 and the Red color in MTG both share this aspect of wanting to do damage quickly and make it hurt.
  • Dalia Falmea’s planeswalker showcases a unique emblem that if obtained, will start to chip away at all players directly, with fire charms amplifying this damage much further. This combined with other ways to hurl lots of damage over time will help make the fire school quite the fiery foe.

Life:

• For the life school, the life charm will make it to where any healing heals 1 additional, and the cards that follow will be based around the usual healing mechanic the white color MTG already has, but with both new limitations and new exploitations. Additionally, the green color in MTG has a lot of properties of land use, ramping, and big creatures. The life school will be sure to have a mix of both of these properties.
  • Moolinda Wu’s planeswalker showcases a general help to healing in general and activate triggers so that is the main showcase. However, considering the loyalty points to get the emblem is high, if it gets to the point that the player obtains it the threats to the board will be quite fearsome and difficult to deal with.

Storm:

• For the storm school, the storm charm will make it to where any instant or sorcery cards that do damage will deal 1 additional damage per charm OR increase power and toughness by certain degrees. The storm school in Wizard101 likes to hit HARD, so many cards will utilize storm charms to ensure that the hits that do go through do just that. This school, unlike the others, will use more charms than the rest to amplify the gains to an unfathomable degree.
  • Professor Thaddeus Price’s planeswalker seems quite weak, but as mentioned storm will already have numerous forms of charm generation and is mainly meant for spellslinging. However, the emblem is noticeably easier to gain after 3 turns if allowed. When obtained, large amounts of charms on top of creating huge creatures from these will turn the tide of battle.

Myth:

• For the myth school, the myth charm will increase the potency of spells cast by “assistants” they summon. Assistants are more known in Wizard101 as minions (there will be a further explanation below explaining why I named them this instead of minions). Assistants are the main mechanic for this school, utilizing abilities by rolling a D-dice (D10, 15, 20, etc) to simulate them casting a “spell” of their own. Long story short: Assistants each turn will be able to generate a ton of tokens, deal damage, and or have things placed on the battlefield seemingly out of thin air.
  • Professor Heironimus Bunch’s planeswalker will interact with the assistant abilities, and his loyalty increase trigger will be these assistants using their abilities. When obtaining his emblem, all assistants will double their abilities casts, thus doubling the mayhem.

Death:

• For the death school, the death charm heal the player 1 for each charm, for each instance of damage done. Death will also not be too reliant on its charms and wont generate too many, though the charms are a nice perk. The death school will instead focus on the typical MTG black color aspect of bringing things from graveyards, draining people of hp, and destroying cards at a whim. This is fitting because the death school in Wizard101 does most of this already.
  • Malistaire Drake’s planeswalker showcases the usual heal-and-deal aspect we know both games like. The biggest loyalty trigger ability makes it to where you can summon quite a bit of the undead on a whim, all while having a mechanic to help clear the board to pave way for an unruly demise to all.

Balance:

• For the balance school, the balance charm will be able to copy any school’s charm and create two of them. The balance school will be focused on colorless artifacts like MTG already has mechanics for. However, these colorless artifacts themselves will have the abilities to interact with other colors, and the artifact creatures will have opportunities to take on another color themselves to use the charms created. Additionally, just like in Wizard101 balance cards will have essentially a “price to pay, price to gain” aspect, almost like balancing out the scales or laws of equivalent exchange.
  • Alhazred’s planeswalker showcases a bit of the concept of exchanging things for gain. The card allows charm gain, creation of tokens, and their biggest loyalty ability comes at the cost of removing quite a bit of loyalty counters to completely take control of any other permanent an opponent controls. Only fate knows which way the scales will tip with this school.

Ice:

• For the ice school, I will start off by saying this one is the most challenging one to create. On paper it is simple, but as I want this to be a concept to be properly fleshed out I want to make sure the school really gets the praise it deserves. In Wizard101, the ice school is known for being tankier, as well as the potential of crowd control (freezing/stunning). Right now, the only MTG equivalent is the defender class, so I am currently working on that entire thought process and how this will end up playing out. So this will properly be shown in a future update, but for now I will be working on the other schools that I do have the concepts for.
  • Because of this, Lydia Greyrose is unfortunately not a proper card yet. I did finish the template for her and get a nice in-game image to use. It won't be too long before her -- and the power of ice -- shows their true brittle nature.

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Answers to questions, in case they are asked.

1 . Why Malistaire as the death school professor?:

Well Malistaire IS the death school professor. Keep in mind two things: One, though he is lovable, by Wizard101’s own lore Dworgyn in the death school is not the appointed professor but instead the assistant. The more powerful and awe inspiring necromancer is definitely Malistaire. The other thing to keep in mind is that planeswalkers in MTG represent a version of the people they are portraying, kind of like their “era” or their “alternate version/universe” variant. Though Malistaire falls to the hands of us in his defeat, this version still does have him as the professor. Plus, this makes it to where there is the potential for an alternate planeswalker card for Malistaire the Undead later on.  

2 . Why are myth minions called “Assistants” instead of minions?: So MTG already has minions in the game, and in any instance they are both the color of black and they are considered creature tokens. Considering minions from Wizard101 are of their own entity and cast their own spells, it wouldnt make sense to tie them in as creature tokens in MTG as tokens are meant to be quick monsters with no real special abilities or identity. I wanted an alternate name that was both fitting and allowed them to be actual entities with abilities that allow for summoning and doing other stuff (just like we do, as the player!)

3. Am I making a full fledged Magic The Gathering set for Wizard101?:

The short immediate answer is noooo. Magic the Gathering has way too many interactions and limitations for me to know them all and fit into this concept. There’s already likely some contradictions and clauses from the cards that I am making now that will make no sense in the MTG community and the decks. This, and a full set released from Wizards of the Coast use typically 290 to 300 cards across all colors. This version has 7 colors instead of 5, so taking the above number, averaging it out, and increasing it by an additional 2 colors, I would have to make up to 420 cards! This includes the creatures, instant/sorceries, planeswalkers, enchantment and artifacts… and that's not even including the special tokens for each. All that alone is quite a lot of time. This instead is meant to be like of like a powerpoint slideshow showing what “could” be possible. With this said, I am delving into quite a lot of research to create these concepts though from what I am reasonably able to do. I want to bring out a unique showcase of our favorite Wizard101 spells and put them in a new light as to what they could be. This, and it paves way for anyone who ever did want to take the plunge and try to at least have a nice baseline of where to begin. Ultimately I will be making about or at least 10 cards for each school to show off the mechanics I have in mind if they were to ever come to MTG, which is about 70 cards total still excluding token cards and lands.

4. Why don’t I use official proxy sites to help create the cards?:

Well I was initially going to, but then I realized i wanted more control of the certain new symbols that are being used to represent each school. This, and as you can see the cards I make, though similar to MTG, are clearly not an exact replica. I actually kinda want it to be obvious that these are fan made both to avoid literally any legal issues from both Kingsisle and Wizards of the coast and… well it has it’s own appeal. Think about it like a handmade good: It wont be perfect and have imperfections, but you know a lot of time was taken to do so. Aside from the artwork and logos, most of everything is being made from scratch from my end as replicas. The fonts are as close as they can be, but not the exact ones used by MTG. The spacing and other symbols themselves are close, but not exactly there. Again, I’d like to think it gives them their own unique flair based off of what I just mentioned a bit above. I take a good chunk of time thinking out which colors highlights the card or character themself, the image used (which a good chunk of these I am getting directly from in game), and the specific wording and text to apply.

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As for final notes, this really is quite a fun thing to work on. Though it is slow and tedious, I do enjoy seeing this come to life. That’s all for this update for now… the next time I have an update will finally be showcasing individual schools and the start of how each one will look like.

**Oh, and don’t the images I captured for Dalia and Moolinda look SO good?!?! Like slayyyyyyy

***Also, the current abilities, spell costs, loyalty counters, power and toughness are all subjected to change as this gets refined more.

Last week I made a custom magic the gathering card/w101 hybrid card for Medusa, which had elements of both games.

Though, there was feedback for it stating it would make sense to make it an actual magic the gathering card instead. And I thought "hmm... actually, why not?". But it's a bit tricky to imagine a single use spell from w101 as an actual playable creature that stays on the battlefield instead of disappearing like spells do in w101.

So all week, been working on proof of concept for fan made cards that will have their unique system, kind of like mtg already does when they release a set for a crossover.

There are many differences in both games, so ideally combining the two into one:

*Mtg only has 5 color types, where wizard101 has 7. W101 has pips, so creating a new archetype where you can tap certain lands for pips. Pips are used for casting most w101 spells, and also certain spells will use/generate pips for special abilities.

*Charms and wards will be individual-instance player auras. These are stackable that can mitigate or enhance a certain school's damage by a set percentage or flat rate (have decided).

*The school professors and certain other npcs will be the planeswalker cards.

*Pets will be their own thing, but that's still being thought out.

*Stun/stun shield will be introduced as a positive or negative player-based aura. If a stun goes through, then it skips the draw phase of a players turn for 2 rounds. Still working the kinks on that one, subjected to change.

There are more concepts, but fine tuning what I have so far right now. All this is fan made and just concept based on what a cross over would be like.

So far I have 17 cards made, being worked up in photoshop. The spell images are from wizard101 with lighting effects altered and/or particle effects added. So yeah, I'm showcasing at least 5 of them right now, and plan to make quite a few more before a full realized concept can be shown. If there is any additional feedback or suggestions, I'm down to hear it.

**Oh, and Mortis and Rigor is a play on the phrase "rigor mortis" lol. The power and toughness on Rigor is meant to be a not towards the date Halloween. This will likely be changed