Americans: We don't want to learn the metric system. Also Americans: I have no way of visualizing this number, so let's convert tree ice to golden retrievers.

"Trade up" challenges are really crass. I would go so far as letting your kid do it is bad parenting. The obsession with cardboard equity is already gross, but competitive panhandling for it is completely disgusting.

How is mentally cleanse when not working.

A disturbing part of game design is looking at a mechanic or design so good it makes you wonder how many decades of learning you will need before you can create something on that level.

Random super petty pet peeve, but the "O" in "OC is almost always redundant in context. "My OC" If it's not "O", then it's not "your" C! You can just say "character"! URGGLGLG

I happen to have contacts in most areas of the tabletop and collectibles industry. This unfortunately burdens me with information that's upsetting specifically to some pokemon collectors. Like, sorry dudes. I promise I'm not contributing to the fights at walmart and costco.

Why are you PH testing that werewolf what is this

My angels have so much energy and curiosity. I never look at them without being enchanted. They are quite aggressive, but the wide space, thick plants, and crystal water keep them very comfortable. They get along well.

My office baby.

Dear pokemon romhack creators: Backporting every modern mechanic is like watching titanic and saying "this should be updated so the characters have smart phones." It's a really lame take.

You know those novelty jelly beans that taste like mold and farts? AI has added that excitement to the old activity of copying and pasting random code you found.

I've played a ton of card games competitively, including control, for most of my life to establish BG for this take; "Counterspell" has been a net negative for the long term design of M;tG. The card should never have been printed, and that mechanic never a part of blue's identity. #magictcg

Bsky does something other socials haven't for a while. It provides little windows to see updates on normal people living, and not just people that are basically professional updators. Being heard shouldn't need to be a job that you aspire to.

That flow state when everything works first try. The idioms all make sense. Every line feels like a tetromino coming down for a full clear. And soon the module will become a black box containing magic elves that can handle any input.

I run into a lot of AI bros. They want exceptional qualities to become obsolete so that their mediocrity will be more valuable. Of course I repeatedly disappoint them. It's an advantage for me, though not a welcome one.

I'll never understand the snide bitterness old people have toward how young people connect with each other. They built the divided world that young people have to live in. Also maybe they do value tangible in person experiences, fogeys are just unaware because they are the ones disconnected.

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the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

I've kept a lot of fish and I think bettas are actually very fragile and frail fish. It saddens me how weak their genetics are and how small health problems or senescence can quickly cause them to suffer even with best possible husbandry. No pics. I dont want to show a dying pet. #fishkeeping

Imagine enjoying cooking good food and wanting to sell it, but you're competing with restaurants that feed you droplets of switch cartridge flavor for free in the hopes that you pay them to stop. This is what it's like to try to sell joy in a world that expects freemium mobile gaming.

Is there any data that supports gamified passive learning platforms work? I keep on seeing ads for things like "learn to be a software engineer playing this video game." And can't help but question that claim. Feels grifty to me.

Did they get the same team that made spider man to design the FF scene box cards? These cards don't make sense at all. #magictcg

My low stakes conspiracy theory. * Planeswalkers are a failed card type. * mtg rnd is very well aware that they are a failure if you read between the lines. * they cannot admit this for branding reasons. But they are very much kicking themselves internally over it. #magictcg

Before windows 11, it seemed like such a good idea to build my in house applications on excel. Now every bit of VBA I have feels like tech debt. Being a stable workplace application platform is just not something they do anymore, which is crazy to me.

When things are chill, I'm crumpling up bad idea after bad idea. Then, inspiration waited for a period of trajectory-changing crunch time to hit. Creativity almost feels like it wants to be my antagonist. Like it has the narrative sense to strike me at my weakest.

Freshwater angelfish, koi color strain. They respond way more to the world outside their box than any other fish I've kept. They study me more often than I look at them.

I do more creative work now that im sometimes doing 80 hour weeks than when I was unemployed and non functioning. Personal security and agency are necessary nutrients for creation. The lack of which starves our souls.

The problem with trying to design a card game is survivorship. If you take a random snapshot of a random tcg, the resulting game will very often be boring and not worth exploring. The art of intentionally making a card game that is presently good is relatively uncharted territory.

Yugioh players will swear up and down Edison is some timeless miracle of a format. Would they invest in a stand alone LCG comparable in depth and fun? I doubt it.

The tcg model is so wasteful, inefficient, and predatory. But I've never seen an LCG capture a comparable level of engagement. People identify themselves as <game> players, carry decks, and evangelize. Can this energy be separated from booster packs?

I suspect that for a significant percentage of competitive tcg matches, you could replace a player with a stockfish-level engine without changing the outcome of the game. No idea how to test this hypothesis, but it's something I believe.

Idea: keep capital punishment, but strictly reserve it for corporations. Willingly burn a woman with coffee? McDonald's gets executed. The company ceases to exist.

#mtgcommander #brackets Imagine for a moment you work at a coffee shop and ask "hot or cold?" And then they go into a tirade of "what is allowed in 'cold'? What is the temperature limit? How many degrees? You never specified. This is a useless question..." Those kinds of guys will never get it.

In food, media, anything really: I'm having trouble reconciling the dissonant ideas that "subjective preference is everything." And "quality exists." Like if I think ground ceiling tile flour covered in ketchup is inedible, but it turns out that's a regional dish, is anything even real 🤷‍♂️

"progress slop" examples: League of legends: frontloaded a competitive game with a pointless player level up. Digital tcgs: *gestures everything.* Counterexamples: Chess: you dont have to level up your fucking pieces. RTS: the tech tree scales per game, not per account.

Ah, this is easy. The game is trying to load the person's cultural food, but that table is empty. So it instead displays a bunch of junk data. Common glitch.

If a local police department assists ICE in kidnapping people, are they eventually going to be held criminally liable too? Accountability must happen. We can't bend the knee to fascism and police who assist are as culpable a anyone else.

Mandarinfish. Gorgeous creature that demands a heavy supply of live invertebrates to thrive.

I have so much respect for binding of isaac. It's an amazing jewel of a game. I just don't personally enjoy the idea of obscuring the consequences of your decisions to increase replays. I could just play it like a wiki game I guess. But that feels lame to me.

Oh cool. A new microdash/stance character.

Nuremberg trials for anybody who was a part of ice after the regime collapses.

"Immortal jellyfish" is a misnomer. What we are seeing is a relatively normal cnidarian lifecycle. By the same logic, all organisms are also immortal. Its just a pointless pop science miscommunication.

3e proudly built itself on awful ideas. 4e was the first and last attempt at a good system, but rpg players have bad taste. 5e is part bad ideas from 3e, and part good ideas from 4e that are slightly worse from obfuscation. This is my hill. Kill me on it.

The impact of wc3 was completely insane. * exposed millions of people to a somewhat flexible game engine for your project. * distribution/online play for your game. * birthed entire genres. * people were just straight up downloading scripts that ran arbitrary code written by 10 year olds.

Having "healer" or "support" as a required role in a competitive team game is a giant game industry monkey ladder experiment. Everybody knows it poisons matchmaking, your ability to tune attrition, social behavior, agency, balance... it's a cursed problem. "But that's just how things are done."

The president of the United States just called for the execution of his political opponents. We cannot normalize this. This is a moment for moral clarity.

"Would you read a book about..." "Would it be okay to make a game where..." "Would it be a good idea to..." Do not ever ask permission to have a vision.

If you treat creating as optional, the correct time to do it is never. Oh? You can't create? That's okay. Everybody that can create was the same way. I promise you that the works you crumple up look like magic to somebody that won't pick up a drafting pencil, regardless of your skill level.