Suspinded

I guess Reddit has decided it's time to do the regular Discourse to the wall that is the Reserve List. Social media is going to be insufferable the rest of this week.

They power crept Demonic Pact. 😭

Announcing "Yet Another Secret Lair" the same day they announce "Yet More Mainline Product Disruption" is either tone deaf, apathetic, or diversionary. Sadly I can't pin which ones.

If you cannot read our documentation: If your vibecode LLM cannot read our documentation: If you cannot operate with the available documentation like every other site/app has done for the last decade: You. Should. Not. Be. Making. An. App.

Good luck to SL super droppers today. I was mildly interested until FIAB got announced. All efforts are diverted to that plan.

Hearing rumors of latent UB reruns after regular reports of product delays and cancelations is not the best look. The fact they'll double dip rotated UB product and not something like Foundations is wild.

This is what happens when your "customers" aren't your buyers. There's a lot of random casuals that aren't going to know about this and get really disappointed when they find out on opening a pack. https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/updating-our-boosters-in-2027

Most notable god packs back in the day were Urza's Destiny packs that were all foil when foils were about 5-6 per box. Wild part was that errors like that were *BY THE BOX.*

I knew there was a good chance for bad beats from there being 3 echo pair slots in the pack, but my big cutoffs being one mythic and only red Samut are really irritating.

Why are echoed pairs numbered after lands?? Such a small thing to keep consistent that just gets mucked with because it can be.....

Conservatives are scared as fuck. I actually had some trust fund kid from a PAC try to come to my house and talk about voter fraud, looked like I was the only one they came to in my neighborhood, tells me they know somehow I don't vote like my neighbors. This is in rural Texas. Keep vigilant.

I almost pity Mitch after seeing the way he was paraded around yesterday. It's sad to see someone so devoid and lacking self worth or agency that he'd be OK being paraded around like a husk to prove he's alive rather than release the power that has enconsumed his entire identity.

Watching old killer Magic cards being reprinted into Standard to find they aren't the killers they used to be is the Magic equivalent of your parents using your teenage slang.

Depressing that Trump will be more likely to be DQed from a Magic tournament than prosecuted for the obvious bribery attempt last night.... the hell.

I specifically remember a story about a person in NYC trying to run over a Middle Eastern person walking across the street post 9/11 specifically because they were brown. People are sheep when herded.

maybe empower would be cool if it didnt have to be tacked onto the most milquetoast planeswalker ever made.... just card velocity, nothing else...

Am I losing my mind, or does literally every stupid fucking journalism outlet act like this is the first time Agent Orange has done this?? Outrage farming killed real journalism back in the alley. I will not be commenting further.

Looks like I'm going to #SCGCON next weekend. opportunities popped up that were hard to ignore. Not playing the Spotlight, way too out of practice, but maybe some side stuff or Commander games.

I keep pushing Anti-AI sentiment, and pro-AI people just keep reloading the gun for me. The petty revenge complex pro-Clankers have is astounding.

We used to have meetups forever ago. Better times.

We can finally put that #FGC hypothetical to rest. Riot Games themselves couldn't even make a Free 2 Play fighter that could sustain itself long term. F2P is not the gateway for Fighters some people touted years ago.

All the feelings about cards today. Less chuffed about the Standard card, but being gatekept by accessibility in some of this product is a joke

I know this will pop a very specific audience, and I'm ok if they're the only ones who get full enjoyment from this.

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

In new LGS Discord "We should record some commander games for advertising" me, with probably the most experience recording games:

Tech capitalists are quickly becoming the Pre-Revolution French Aristocracy.

These Star Trek spoilers today make me feel like this was in design during Thunder Junction design, before they realized too many tongue-in-cheek references hurt a set. These took me so far out of interest for this set. Just really missing the mark.

After going back to Threads until I could find a workaround to Bsky's jank age verification, Algorithmic Social Media is just oppressive echo chambers trying to invade everyone else's spaces. It's only a political echo chamber if the user curated it that way.

So far, 40% of the new cards in MBC either break fundamental construction rules or are illegal without Rule 0? Seems like a commander product that's very hostile to the constraints of the format in general. Hoping more of the new cards will float toward center.

Having to use a webfork to get back on here isn't ideal, but now I question why I enjoyed algorithmic social media at all. A week back on threads and I never want to touch it again.

I enjoy occasionally putting a bunch of cards into different stores to reaffirm my views on what matters when shipping. 9 vendors got orders from me for small shipments of cards. Dream Realm in Mesa AZ postmarked next business day and is the race winner because of it. Time to mailbox matters.

In FG news, another L for my library.

I don't like pack popping for certain things, but Jumpstart may let me get all the things at once. Going to hopefully find out romorrow.

This is very interesting timing, given Sony just ripped away movies from paying customers a few days ago.

So, its important to vote against Republicans even if you dont like or fully agree with the Dem candidate. I hope you see that by now. But its also important to hold Dem's feet to the fire and make fun of these absolute turds for how ineffective, weak, cowardly, and stupid they are.

Man, this new local scene is going to need some work. Had to carefully explain to someone about shuffling etiquitte after a scenario where Tragic Aarogance off Quintorius, Loremaster made it back under him in a turn cycle and the defense was, "I wouldn't cheat in casual."

My one observation with ManaPool : Vendors either send cards instantly, or almost a week after the order. There is no middle ground. 11 total orders through them so far: 5 postmarked 4+ days after the order 4 of them postmarked same day or day after. That is wildly disciplined volatility

This is why I've had to stay at rest in the face of everything. This was inevitability. It's the next step in the Nazi playbook.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

For those who need evergreen : Never EVER execute keystrokes you dont recognize. As someone who does, Win+R is a reflex "F That" reaction in all circumstances. (It's the shortcut to Run, a command line in windows)

Tbf, there has been a gap of sorts between Strixhaven and Marvel, but I can't help but feel this 700+ cards from an outside property as a weight that is dulling, rather than amplifying. Too much shit makes everything feel less special.

*Go to new place trying to start MTG events *Sit down to commander game *2 hours in *Player Emrakuls the person with the super strong board state *Decides the best thing to play out of their hand is.... Scrambleverse Me, already past planned leaving time:

I'm reviving the Magic Regionals tournament system with Nationals happening on the Lawn.

Can't jump in on the Cats SLD because product fatigue. Disappointing because I would be all over this if I had a break on set releases this year.