markconfidant.bsky.social
Magic player, game designer, systems engineer. Actually dumb as a bag of rocks.
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There are many songs about Mondays, only a few about Tuesdays, and just the one about coming on Eileen.
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Clearly you’re playing ratdab and you had a gonti effect steal Minsk and Boo.
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I got to spend 69 treasures on a choco comet after drawing all but 2 cards in my deck. It was astounding.
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I think after any social thing with conflict there’s a natural tendency to beat yourself up. Everyone does it. Here, I don’t think it’s well founded. You did good.
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Idk dude just seems like he sucks. Crummy people can have panic attacks too, I guess. It seems to me like you did your level best in the moment and expecting a perfect response from yourself in a stressful, novel social situation seems like being super hard on yourself.
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I really like cardsphere and recommend it as a tool to use in the meantime.
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Hot take: these flicker tron lists would play sprout swarm over murmuring mystic if it weren’t an absolute nightmare to cast on mtgo.
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Needless to say this puts me in a good mood.
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10/10 would be great at any cost
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Yeah the one thing that the OP forgot to add is that this Clippy is a snitch.
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Ah yeahs, part of the “cycle with one card so nuts to the butts broken and the rest of the cards basically don’t exist” era of magic.
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This jabronis internal dialogue: “How much does a layperson know about law?”
“Well, obviously enough to cite penal codes, but no more than that”
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I’m on like an 80-20 SO-LLM split so I’m already probably around where you’re at. LLMs are better imo when you’re worse at asking what you wanna ask or when the docs won’t be helpful (already know em, they’re bad, or this is a prototype and you ain’t reading that shit for a rough draft)
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I think they’re anti-useful in ways that can outweigh their current usefulness. Making text that people need to learn and re-learn how to distinguish from human writing is a big time waste. I don’t see a time save that outweighs it.
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But, like, is ‘minorly improve the code writing process in some cases while introducing some risks’ massively useful? If so, why weren’t we this hyped about, like, linters?
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I use them for suggesting some debugging stuff for me or implementing a library sometimes, but it’s never copy paste. It’s, like, 75% what I want when I ask it right, which is faster than stack overflow but definitely still needs a double check.
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In terms of econometrics this is in the same funny/useful axis as the Waffle House Disaster Index.
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No worries man thanks for replying.
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Any chance you have any high tides I could borrow?
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Especially considering it’s worst big matchup, affinity, got slapped.
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Yeah, fast aggressive deck that ate no bans and can clown on mono red seems smart as a week 1 play.
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That density of terror is a worrying sign. We’ll see if it holds up.
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I’m just trying to explain why people feel that way. It seems like “hey if you feel like complaining, maybe quit magic” is an incurious way to think about people who share, like, 95% of the same hobby preferences as you. And “Ulgrotha is the same as Hatsune Miku” doesn’t seem like a real equivalent.
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Play a worse deck or play with cards you thematically don’t care for.
If a UB card is good and you don’t like its IP, that’s the machinery of the game pressuring you to optimize the fun out of it. It’s actually worse than in comics cause “understanding the lore better” is way more abstract.
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My point was that it’s something they haven’t opted into. If you’re a Red Hood reader and skip Batman Fortnite, it feels kinda bad to be made to care about a Batman Fortnite plot point. Similarly, if you don’t care for war hammer, it feels kinda bad to have that choice: (1/2)
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I think it’s the “keeping up with the joneses” of all the crossovers. Imagine if you had to read marvel vs dc because it affected the continuity. That’s what it can feel like when someone busts out astares in commander or something.
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@brennanleemulligan.bsky.social and @dilfosaur.bsky.social please be aware of the eternal gift that snilk has been. Thank you.
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I pogged my first Gog on Community I’m pretty sure.
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There was something where he was giving a speech and was like “I could say anything here and she would applaud” so she’s basically contracted herself out as a prop.
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My favorite Northernlion bit is that time he talked about Werner Hertzog roasting the fuck out of Timothy Treadwell.
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How’d the ghasts feel for fighting krarks? That’s in general what they’re there for right?
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How has the barely-jund version of scale with the ghasts been feeling relative to the older lists that were running a wildfire package?
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The Pat and Pat version of the show is pretty cool. I feel like Ced brought a warmth that I miss a lot but it still slaps.
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I wanna stress that that frustration is extremely reasonable. We forget that the bertoncinis of the world don’t just fuck over their opponents, they fuck over their playtest partners, trade partners, deck designers, article commissioners, and the like.
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Ok cool. Wasn’t trying to imply anything. Just trying to let you know in case the internet hate machine decides to get weird about this.
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Hey just so you know there are a lot of reasonably credible accusations that he’s doing the bertoncini style cheat of seemingly plausible GRVs and missed triggers for advantage.
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This looks like shivam and gav went to MagicFest: Grow House in a 2006 anti-drug PSA. And honestly that sounds like a pretty goated magicfest.
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Alfredo. Burrito. Ooooh I think it’s neato. A masala. Tamale. That would make me holla. Bibimbap, in Crunchwrap, in my heart that would slap.
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Instead of telling him to kill himself, maybe let’s just reply to him with pictures of shirtless old men instead? It’s funnier IMO.
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“Your microanalysis of this inane social interaction is cringe and passive aggressive” says the only person microanalyzing anything here
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Picasso went unappreciated in his time. I’d eat the hell out of your husbands masterwork.
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Absolute bs. I hope somebody finds an injection vulnerability in their front end and Bobby tables em.
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I would consider it a personal favor if you considered getting an ambulance chasing lawyer and trying to make the company pay you. As a former rideshare driver, your driver likely won’t be on the hook and you taking a tech corp for as much as you can is praxis.