Give me your best skydiving puns
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One goes “wack… darn” while the other goes “darn… wack”
As the title says, I think Thieving Skydiver is a solid spec. It is already a great card IMO in EDH since it can come down and steal opponents artifacts. It's a 2-1 Flyer for 3 Mana that steals an opponent's Sol Ring, but it get's better with Ninjas.
What I have noticed since I put my Yuriko Deck together is that it interacts very nicely with the ninjutsu ability. It has inbuilt evasion since it can fly and with ninjutsu you can replay the Thieving Skydiver multiple times stealing a lot of stuff.
Cons: People don't like it when you steal their stuff, and it's hard for webcam play. Zendikar had a huge print run. It scales with the other players, if they play shitty stuff you can only steal shitty stuff.
Pros: The card is a really powerful effect for quite cheap (foils go for 1€) in EU. Nice with ninjas. Powerful in high and competitive games of EDH. It's a very fun card to play.
I already own some and think about getting some more, because it's nice and I think there could be more demand with the new ninjas. I also have seen that it is on an upward trend in the US atm. What are your thoughts on the card?
There has been a lots of talk about spending hours in tunnel to learn basic free fall skills. Like its requirement to go tunnel flying if tou start skydivingz
I’d like to hear the view of skydivers who has’t spent time in tunnel at all or just few minutes. How well did you progress? How are your free fall skills in general?
I'm here to talk about a Merfolk that's stolen my heart as much as it's stolen some pesky artifacts. That's [[Thieving Skydiver]]
Mana cost: 1U
Kicker X. X can't be 0. (You may pay an additional X as you cast this spell.) Flying When Thieving Skydiver enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, gain control of target artifact with converted mana cost X or less. If that artifact is an Equipment, attach it to Thieving Skydiver.
Card Type:Creature — Merfolk rogue
P / T:2 / 1
Pro's -2 drop to match our normal vial counter -2 Power -flyer -Can be kicked to steal any pesky artifact -If an equipment is stolen this way it gets equipped for FREE bypassing mana restrictions that normal non-equipment based decks don't have the free mana or care for.
Con's: -not a lord -1 toughness -no haste, token production, or card draw on it's own. -can't kick if vialed in
Why does this matter?
-we keep the artifact even if Thieving Skydiver is removed from the field!
-if it's an equipment we can obviously equip it back to another critter. Considering about half the equipment currently ran in modern provide protection from a certain color this has likelyhood of protecting the equipped creature. Besides giving us a boost to our beater most those equipments also provide a tertiary advantage on dealing damage(ping something, generate a token, card draw, etc..)
Best targets Sword of XYZ Hammer time Aether vial Expedition map Shadowspeer Amulet of vigor The list goes on but the point is almost all modern decks have a key artifact or two. FNM always has some jank and this is a good catch all for that as well.
Does it make the main board? I think in this meta, yes. Currently I'm running 2 in the main and a 3rd in the side.
How do you feel about our finned friend?
I just turned 20 today! As a gift I’m starting the process to go skydiving at Skydive Burnaby (Wainfleet, south of Niagara Falls).
If you live in the area, would you be open to hosting me for 1 night, 1 day+night, and 1 morning in Spring 2022? I love to cook and can make us healthy and delicious meals. I love film scores, indoor rock climbing, crocheting, and Christopher Nolan movies:D
Or if you’re from the GTA and planning to do a jump at Burnaby in Spring 2022 we could be travel buddies!
EDIT: By putting a hole in the parachutes with their claws
EDIT2: This is especially relevant for carnivore birds like vultures. Parachuting people are the perfect meal for them if only they realized how easy they are to kill.
Get ready for the grim, turgid hate of Coleman Francis in this week's DOTW, The Skydivers! Harry and Beth Rowe are an unhappy couple who run a skydiving business in Grey Hellscape, California. The sport is apparently wildly popular, but they've got money troubles, and Harry isn't helping with his affair with the most unflattering portrayal of a woman in an MST3K film since Attack of the Giant Leeches. If anything can be treated lovingly in the life-despising Francis film universe, it's skydiving, and it gets a lot of footage here, almost entirely too much. It certainly gets more attention than the acting or script did. Francis did spend more on this movie than he did his others, it seems, as this movie features two real songs, one performed live. It also has him doing what he loves most: extrajudicial killings. This is a mystifyingly cold film on its own, and probably worth a self loathing viewing all its own, but gets better with riffs.
Much more pleasant, or perky at least, is Why Study Industrial Arts, one of three "Why Study" films directed for Centron by Herk Harvey (Rifftrax did companion short Why Study Science in 2021). This short has a couple of presumably incredibly realistic high school boys debating what purpose taking shop class in this frantic modern world of businessmen and hot rods. The dialogue is cheesy, there's unsettling little pants, and some very rough transitions between dialogue and voice over, but honestly, it's a fair case for taking shop class, so good work there.
Now for the riffs, and there's a lot to digest. Despite the massive tonal disconnect between short and movie, the riffing holds pretty strong throughout, which is impressive. They lean hard into two things in the short: the potential for violent injury in shop class (not the most original joke thread, admittedly) and the idea that shop class is for those who aren't up to actual "thinking" education (not too original either). But they get decent riffs out of them, and good stuff outside of it, like a great introductory stretch in the short making the narrator's reverence for shop class a bit creepier than it needs to be.
In the movie, they find multiple threads to work, using the same crap Francis overuses but to actually good effect. There's tons for them to grab onto as well: the hair helmet of female lead Kevin Casey, the grotesque overuse of coffee references, more skydiving footage than Starfighters had refueling footage, and the relentlessly amateur performance
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18 year old Aelita, starting her 2010 summer holidays by performing a solo skydiving session at Orleans airfield where she was formerly trained by Marie Della Robbia, Odd's older sister who is a trainer at this club.
Happy and proud to have graduated at high school Kadic, Aelita enjoys the pleasure of making the jump of the angel while enjoying the last moments she has to spend with her mother at the Hermitage before enter university with Jeremy where they will reside together on campus.
Hi folks - bit of a weird question, but bear with me.
I'm talking about systems like these, where you have some sort of passive element that gets excited by a particular RF frequency, and that excitation is detectable. It looks like there's several different approaches, and I'm trying to order-of-magnitude reasonable values for range.
Context:
In skydiving, you always jump with a backup parachute, called your reserve. If your main parachute doesn't open properly or fails, there's a mechanism which quickly and cleanly detaches it from your harness to allow you to deploy your reserve and not die.
Unfortunately, this means that your main canopy is now drifting in the wind, and will land somewhere random based on altitude and wind patterns. Canopies are expensive ( thousands of dollars to replace), which leads to people sometimes delaying that cutaway to make it easier to find (thus increasing their risk). Even in the best case, you're spending hours/days walking through the woods trying to find your bit of fabric.
Some solutions exist where you can sew a GPS tag/transmitter into the canopy, but you need to remember to charge it and pay a subscription for the data plan. Cheaper than a new canopy, but still not great. So I was wondering if you could reasonably construct an entirely-passive system to help locate it.
My Question:
So let's say I wanted to sew some sort of RF tag to my canopy's container, with the idea of later shooting a beam of radio waves at it an listening for the response, allowing me to know the rough direction of where it landed. Do this at 2 points far enough apart, and you should have a pretty rough idea of where to look.
- Would something like this be able to work at long-distances? On the order of a mile+ if you used a beefy passive tag and enough transmission energy?
- Would trees/foliage/other stuff interfere significantly with this? Are there frequencies that would penetrate better?
- Is this an all-around stupid idea, or is it a workable concept?
Thanks in advance for your help/advice!
Oh, chute!
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For the Easter holidays 2008, Aelita and Yumi decided to take a PAC training to obtain the A certificate at Orleans airfield where they were formerly initiated by Marie Della Robbia, Odd's older sister.
The training lasted a week and went very well for the girls who have taken a keen interest in skydiving since their initiation jump on July 2, 2007 that they were eager to renew the experience.
Having successfully obtained their patent allowing them to perform jumps when they wish without the need of instructors to accompany or pay, Aelita and Yumi take the opportunity to spend a wonderful moment between girls while enjoying the joys of life now that Green Phoenix was dismantled by the CIA, that Aelita found her mother safe and sound now living at the Hermitage.
What's the difference between a bad golfer and a bad skydiver?
A bad golfer goes, Whack, Dang! A bad skydiver goes Dang! Whack!
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