My goal for Magic is to become world champion and then stop. I want the final of the world championship tournament to be the last game of Magic Cards I ever play.

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

Another gaming hot take: I hate mods on principle.

Few things make less sense to me than the number of people clamoring for a “remake” of Bloodborne. It already runs on PS5 and it still looks great. What’s the fucking point?

one thing that drives me insane about modern platforms is how many default to "3 months" or "1 year" instead of showing the actual date of a post, very frustrating

Fuck it, you do the math.

The concept of time dilation is one area of science where I’m still like “No, you guys are making this up.”

I've decided that Lorwyn Eclipsed draft is fun.

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

AI filmmaking is completely unserious. You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.

I hate this fucking game.

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

Spiderman pointing at spiderman dot jpg

I am annoyed by how good I’ve gotten at spotting The Volume.

I haven’t watched this new Duncan Egg show but from what I gather it’s basically A Knight’s Tale minus the 70s rock soundtrack.

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

I don't think an automated phone robot has EVER been helpful to me. None of them has ever resolved ANY issue I've had. I would literally rather wait on hold for an hour than try to get your fucking robot to undetstand me. Fuck your robot. Answer your goddamn telephone.

Post a banger that isn't in English. youtu.be/re2RFgSqhFo?...

I've decided that Lorwyn Eclipsed draft sucks.

Social media: "OMG I saw this video!" The news: "Today's top story: So there's this CRAZY VIDEO." Me: "Sounds interesting. Can I see the actual video?" The news: "Lol get fucked." Me: "Hmm. Google, can you help?" Google: "Kill yourself." Feels like this happens at least once a week.

I suspect having a room in my own house painted like this would do a lot to improve my mental health.

“burn the entire democracy down and start over” is an opinion equivalent to “apocalyptic times are good because the rapture is coming and I’ll go to heaven” in that it’s a way people give themselves permission to do none of the complex and difficult things that would make things a little better now

I think phone addiction is caused in part by the fact that rubbing your finger on a smooth piece of glass is really satisfying. It’s something about the texture of phone screens specifically.

not at a place of like i should call her not even i should text her but more like man it'd be nice to randomly run into her

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Jurassic Park lead me to believe that satellite phones would play a much larger role in my life.

When I am President I will make every website bring back square profile pictures.

One of my longstanding disagreements with the rules of written English is my belief that punctuation that's not in the thing you're quoting should be OUTSIDE the quation mark.

I suspect I'm what the kids call "neuron divergent".

"Enter the security code we sent you." No code received. Send again. Nothing. Send again. Nothing. Send again. Nothing. Several codes appear at once, none of them are correct. FUCK. YOU, VENMO.

I hate robots so fucking much.

You can spin "AI is amazing!" all you want. But the proof is in the pudding. Slop is called slop for a reason, hallucinations make info gathering worthless, and all for a price that isn't remotely profitable. Make a better product, Microsoft, and stop telling us to use your worthless shit. AI blows.

I want to be clear that when it comes to AI, I don't use it. Like at all. I've turned AI off on Google and Windows, haven't updated my iPhone to the latest model that has it, and don't even fuck around with it for fun. No chatbots. No solo D&D. Nothing. And my life is all the better for it.

Man I sure with people would ANSWER THE MOTHERFUCKING TELEPHONE.

I’ve long dreamed about a famous director saying this to me. Next dream: getting a director to say it regarding one of my scripts.

Facebook: Your high school classmate is on their second baby! Twitter: Single-sentence-paragrpaph essays about why Europe has supposedly gone to hell. Also, people being weird about TV shows. Linkedin: AI will replace you, and that's good. Bluesky: Anyone who posts on another website is a Nazi.

How the fuck does anyone who isn’t rich afford to find a place to live in LA nowadays?

Posts on Bluesky are tweets. Tweets are still tweets no matter which Twitter they’re posted on.

Finishing out the MKM flashback draft week with another fun one.

MKM draft is still fun.

I've decided that MKM draft is fun.

For some reason I believe that if Timothée Chalamet ever got into Magic the Gathering, he'd be top 8-ing Pro Tours within a year. He just has that drive.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE is so close to being perfect, it’s really frustrating.

I love when I can hit the "good game" emote and actually mean it.

If these dumb fucks don’t vote, why should anyone listen to them?

I wish Arena could show me the total amount of time my opponents have spent holding priority because they don’t realize they have a Fabled Passage or something up.

Ah yes, “/Users/dhoward/Downloads/ActorAwards_2026_Nominations_Cast-MotionPicture-Group.png”, my favorite movie of the year!

I’ve lost a good number of games of Magic Cards because my opponents took so long that by the time it was my turn again, I’d forgotten what I was doing.

I have maintained for a good fifteen years now that fandoms are, without exception, poison. Both to the media source of the fandom and to the fandom itself. Each year that passes only reinforces this conviction. You're only a fan. You do not own what you love.

Everyone on /r/Coffee finds it incomprehensible that someone could like coffee but not gardening.