who wants to play some golden age (only super rares and up)

RIP daniel naroditsky. his chess content and sheer exuberance for the game is what got me interested in chess in the first place, many years ago. chess won’t be as fun without him around :(

faijitas time i like how fai and my pfp look like they’re having the times of their lives with the sizzlin fajitas

it's curious that there isn't a "to be revealed" PEN hero among the sage precons. they said PEN is instrumental to sage as a format, so you'd expect its heroes to be there, no? maybe they're hiding a precon or two for later, or maybe PEN isn't a normal set that's introducing a few new heroes?

my LL opinion is that there’s functionally nothing LSS can do to make it as popular as CC. everyone wants different things. some want literally no limits (not even krakens), others want a full-on book banning, a third section wants heroes banned, etc. and people don’t find the variance fun

i've been kinda getting into genesys format in ygo, where powerful cards have point values and decks have a point cap, and it's just making me YEARN for a fab point cap format. deckbuilding with a point cap feels so crunchy and fun

sometimes an rpg shows a class and says "they're a support class, they heal and provide buffs to allies," and it turns out it has exactly 1 buff that reduces damage taken slightly. that's just healing with extra steps. i want to give my friends damage and energy and cool stuff!!

i think a big reason why LSS is pushing LL, especially as a balanced competitive format and not just "broken fun times," is because they realized they just can't reasonably reprint/retrain LLed heroes at the speed people demand, and want to give these people a place to play lexi/iys/chane/etc.

Update from Judge Discord

i think my most hated UX design trend, at least recently, has been automatic pop-up menus. i have accidentally clicked on these menus so many times because my mouse happened to pass over something, and sent a message/emoji/called someone or whatever. i'm fine with, like, tooltips, but menus?? cmon

all this talk about passoids but what happened to being a niceoid. a respectoid

top 8d my only pq on boltyn, using @ellybird.bsky.social ‘s list! it was super fake since i got a bye AND a friend scoop who was already locked for t8 but i really liked the deck, v fun puzzle r1 oscilio loss r2 bye r3 gravy win r4 cindra win r5 friend scoop qf kassai loss

soft launching my improv career by yes-anding the police officer when they asked if i did it, wish me luck

the retail wow addon purge does not look good so far tbh. part of the reason i've stuck with wow for so long is because i can use addons to customize my experience exactly how i want it. it's tough to go to a game that doesn't allow this level of customization now, which will include this new expac

walk up to a tcg game, look at one of their hands, say "you have lethal btw," and watch them tank for 5 minutes to make sure you're just fucking with them

got my blowpipe! 280kc, pretty lucky :D

i remember seeing a band i love post that they released a new album recently. but i can't remember which band it was x.x guess i'll randomly discover it in 3 years

Whole lotta folks asking for the Pleiades decklist I played at World Premiere: Montreal. Thankfully, I thought ahead! 💜 www.tcgplayer.com/content/arti... #fabtcg

his apology and excuses just feel so hollow "i just really like terese nielsen's art and talking about jordan peterson on my alpha male tcg podcast with the guy who keeps talking about pink snatch and hating woke" the dude is a walking dogwhistle and his excuses are "i just didn't know :("

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

Thank you so much to LSS for this opportunity and for the community that supports us. We love you all🤍

Hey #fabtcg community. I started a Trans Lifeline fundraiser. I'm at work now, but I'll be doing giveaways related to this fundraiser with more info about it tomorrow! If you can donate, thank you so much! If not, no worries. Please share with a friend: give.translifeline.org/fundraiser/6...

Crazy that lss announced that sloopdoop was getting a creator grant in the same article that they celebrated perfect pitch for uplifting diversity...

@pitchperfectpod.bsky.social and @rainbowxpitch.bsky.social are pillars of the #FaBTCG community. They have put countless hours in and I'm so happy to see them being given recognition for their fantastic efforts. Thank you so much for all the incredible work youve done and continue to do 🥰

i have to assume that LSS just never heard about sloop's multiple transgressions. it was pretty well known in my circles, and people talked about it every spoiler season. i guess it didn't travel far enough? huge congrats to the other creators, the rest of them really deserved this!

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there should be an olympia spec that buffs an attack and gives it wager, winner equips an equipment card from their inventory

sad about the plume ban. i 100% believe the deck would have been miserable to play against with light up the leaves + plume so it's a totally reasonable ban, but plume was my favorite card in the deck, and a big reason i loved playing verdance. maybe it's a good enough combo of cards for LL?

7 kc araxxor fang, i'm not allowed to complain about my drops anymore

a friend of mine who's worked on a somewhat recent free multiplayer game says this about player feedback that I feel like is very astute hearing the feedback is frequently important but responding to it well almost never means just doing what the players say they want

was watching the new city the animation, and the little rich girl's voice was SOOO familiar but i couldn't place it. so i looked it up and it's the same va as mikuru from haruhi! and now i can't stop hearing mikuru, haha

won my one piece set 12 pre-release! we played with rainbow luffy and it was pretty fun. for a game that doesn't really design for the limited experience, it worked out decently well, very fundamentals focused

my friends and i have a running joke about my osrs luck, in that i keep getting really unlucky on the good stuff, and absurdly lucky on the purely cosmetic stuff e.g. like 3 pulls for an evil chicken outfit piece (1/300), 7 pulls for two dragonstone armor pieces (1/500 each), 1kc jad pet (1/100)

they should invent a hair claw that doesn't break if you play with it too much

twitch is letting people do "onboarding" to get twitch subs and bits but you cant be paid out from so twitch created a Spendable Balance that you can use to buy twitch subs and bits without ever getting a payout. this has diminishing returns and should be avoided at any cost

city the animation is such a delight, and the most recent episode is one of the most elaborate and head-spinning pieces of media i’ve seen in a looooong time. love it, this series will prob be a 10/10 for me for this episode alone

with all my extra time recently, i've hopped back into osrs. and because osrs is a deeply interwoven game, i decided to make this neat little flowchart/web to help visualize the grinds i'm looking to do. miro is such a nice website for these kinds of things

hi folks. my contract with blizzard has concluded and i am actively looking for work in the community and influencer marketing world here's the longer linkedin post version: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... happy to chat - dms are open!

I know I am but one voice in a chorus all yelling into the void but I want to remind folks that I am still open for freelance or short-term contract work! I'd love to help you design your game, whether it's on the narrative side or quests / mission design. Need journal text written? I'm your guy!

woah guys, i never noticed this about saltwater swell. look who's running the ship! this explains so much about its power level

server first aq40 tonight, finished in 1 hour 6 minutes and beat the next fastest prog on our server by 1 hour 5 minutes. there's nothing quite like these rusty, unpracticed progression speedruns, always a blast to do

chinese wow announced a special "raid rush" classic experience, wotlk era stuff with classic and tbc raids scaled to 80 with a weekly raid to run aaaand it's china exclusive >:( it sounds so fuckin cool but we aren't getting it. i hope blizz gives it to the rest of the world at some point

been playing a lot of old school runescape lately

growing up is finally learning to stop trying to correct people on the internet when they're horribly wrong and just go do something else with your precious time growing up is hard

shiba inu rooms continues to be incredible. the author is so good at pulling at your heart strings ;-;

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

played some league and hots for the first time in ages. in a league game, my lane opp said i must be a woman because “no man would need this many ganks” (this was after 2 ganks in 7 levels) in a hots game, i got called the n word for not healing when i was oom mobas will never change, huh

Why do we need to teach people this every single time a disaster hits a red state? “But they voted for—“ No. Nuh uh. Hush.

super slam looks really neat. i'm excited to see what pleiades does, and how lyath shakes out as 5 int with terrible cards. hopefully these guardians can shake off the perception of guardians just being hammer.dek and do some interesting things the brutes don't really interest me tho